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omg stars and raindrops by Seungmin! I love that song sm

I don't have Straykids mutuals either I think, but I'm still gonna put it out there

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Boutta put these into my incense holder and offer them to the dark lords.

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Spent all day worrying, stressing, being anxious and procrastinating, crashed out, somehow ended up with an entire written song plus melody at 11:30pm. I don't know how that happened but I'm gonna spend some time at the piano tomorrow to finish it. Have I mentioned I play the piano? Now I have. I took lessons for almost 10 years. Now I use my hardly earned skill to write songs about yearning and craving and religious trauma :)

Anyways, the song's about Lucifer *fake gasp*, he loves it.

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Witchcraft is not for everyone. Even if they're born into it. Even if it works for them for a while and then they realize it is the wrong path for them. As a witch, and an autistic one who struggles with putting myself in other people's shoes, I was confused to see people leaving witchcraft. It's all about personal power and self-discovery and englightenment. How could anyone turn away from that after having experienced the beauty of it?

But witchcraft isn't for everyone. No religion is for everyone. If it was, we wouldn't have true free will to choose. And that would be bad. This isn't gatekeeping. I am a strong defender of "anyone has the general potential to get into witchcraft if they're willing to put in the effort". It's just that it's not for everybody.

I watched a few videos of former witches, now turned Christian, giving their testimony. That was almost irritating to me at first, but the longer I thought about it, the more I realized I was doing to them in my head what so many religious people do when I tell them that I left Christianity.

I thought that they just "misunderstood" some parts of witchcraft. Or maybe, if they just abandoned this one particular harmful belief about witchcraft, they could have re-built their practices in a healthier way and realized that witchcraft was never evil, they just had misconceptions about it. But these are all things that religious people have said to me, too. And I knew that was bullshit.

So, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Witchcraft isn't for everyone. Witchcraft can potentially be harmful. I wouldn't know, because I haven't experienced it. But others have, and I'm not going to invalidate that. Mental flexibility and nuance is hard for me, but I want to challenge myself. I will keep engaging with beliefs that contradict mine. I will keep listening to people who believe that witchcraft is evil. Because I have nothing to justify, and they have nothing to justify. And as long as we stay respectful and allow each other to believe whatever we want, I shall not look down on them.

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Trans, but not in the sense that I transitioned from one gender to another. Trans in the sense that I transcend gender. I am beyond gender. I am a-gender. I may dwell in the reigns of gender as I please, but I am not bound by it's power, nor do I let it define me. I am the transphobe's worst nightmare. My pronouns are none. You don't deserve to address me.

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My best friend hung up a poster of his favorite kpop girl-group, Dreamcatcher, in his room. He told me that his family said they look like witches because they wear black dresses. He said it's so odd they think that.

I reminded him that "witches" have never been about witchcraft. "Witch" is just an excuse to demonize women. Women who don't fit into the narrative, the beauty standard or the status quo. Women were burned, not witches. And I'll forever remind people of that. They don't go after "bad women", they go after women. Period. Let's not romanticize witch trials.

Stop Romanticizing the Pyre By a witch who values her own survival.

“To burn the witch is to admit that magic exists.” Sounds poetic, doesn’t it? Cute little line. Trendy. Cryptic. But let’s be real—it's delusional.

You think that fire was about power? It wasn’t reverence. It wasn’t awe. It was fear. Misogyny. Religious paranoia dressed in righteousness and carrying a torch. It was obedience to a doctrine that saw anything different as dangerous. It was a world that couldn't handle a woman with knowledge, a healer with her own hands, a soul that didn't bow.

And now? Some want to take that same fire and say, “Look how divine we are. They feared us because we were powerful.” Excuse me?

You're comfortable dying in agony because it fits a narrative? You want to be divine so badly, you’ll let them murder you if it makes a point?

No.

You want reverence? Live. You want power? Keep breathing. Keep growing. Keep resisting. Keep being a thorn in the side of every system that ever wanted you silent.

Because I don’t need your martyrdom. I need your survival. I need your clarity. And I need you to stop mistaking execution for empowerment.

Burning the witch wasn’t a compliment. It was erasure.

And I refuse to go quietly into that fire just so someone else can call me a legend.

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i don't really interact much with paganblr, but I am 1000% certain of this: if you use an ai art generator to make so-called devotional art out of computer slop--- a computer which cannot think, cannot feel, certainly cannot worship--- furthermore slop which poisons and pollutes the very Earth that all pagans should hold dear--- if you use an ai art generator for devotional art, you are actually insulting the gods, the Earth, and all the ancestors

in short: pick up a fucking pencil and draw stuff yourself, the meanest and sloppiest stick figure surrounded by cartoon flowers is superior to any garbage that a machine spits out

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when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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If you're an ex-christian now pagan, I want you to know one thing. Your trauma is valid. And as much as "you don't believe this anymore now", don't let anyone tell you you can't talk about it. "Don't make your practice about another religion" only counts if you've been able to move on from that other religion. It does not count if said religion is still actively impacting your life on a daily basis.

I no longer believe in hell, but I'm still afraid of it because I've feared it all my life. My practice will show that.

I no longer believe in giving all the credit away for things I achieved, but I still do it subconsciously because it's what I learned is the correct way to act towards a deity. My practice will be impacted by that.

I am no longer Christian, but Christians live in my home—or rather me in theirs—and have a huge impact on how I'm able to live out my own beliefs and my life in general. My practice will involve that.

This isn't your free pass to throw hate or sit in your self-loathing about how bad everything is and how every Christian has it out for you. What I'm saying is, if something's impacting you, you have the right to talk about it. You can digest it at your own pace. Your practice can quite literally be about unlearning old beliefs and practices. That is okay.

I love you pagans who are still stuck dealing with religious trauma. It takes years to heal such a thing and you're welcome in pagan spaces. You're allowed to talk about it. Even if others are already sick of it. As long as religions continue to torment and traumatize people, we will talk about it and deal with the scars it left behind.

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Yesterday, Lucifer came to me in a vision. He appeared as a dog-wolf-being. He spoke to me after I had finished copying a poem I had written for him earlier that day. In that poem, I expressed some of my fears and that I still feel bound to the idea of having to "worship" him in order to earn or deserve his help & love and that I felt pathetic for still fearing abandonment from him. Despite never having a reason for it.

When I was done, he came to me and licked over my face and chin affectionately (just this week I spent a lot of time with my friend's dog, so I guess he adjusted lol). He said to me "I love you like a dog. Like a loyal dog loves it's owner." I joked, "aren't you more my owner than the other way around?" And he replied "I only own you as much as you own me."

I thought about that for a moment and then told him "you don't own me, though." He smiled at that and seemed pleased with my answer. "Maybe love isn't about owning each other, then?" He said. "Maybe it's all about letting the other free—free to leave. And over years and years, to see, that throughout all of the highs and lows, they choose to stay."

That made me kind of emotional. And I started crying and he took me into his arms. Idk where he grew them suddenly from his dog body, but I wasn't gonna question it. If you've ever been hugged by Lucifer, you know how good that feels.

So, the moral of the story is, if you struggle with abandonment issues, and you feel like you keep testing your deity's patience, they likely aren't as annoyed by your need for safety and reassurance than you think they are. If you feel like you owe your deity, or you give them more credit than you know you should, or you still fear divine punishment even though you no longer believe these things, your deity will understand. Especially if it's Lucifer.

I've found that being honest about my fears has brought me a lot in my relationship with him. Especially when it's something about Lucifer, he appreciates to hear about it always.

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Today I wanted to give you a message Lucifer gave to me today.

It does not matter if you think I do not care about the topic you are explaining to me. It does not matter if you think I am bored by you. It does not matter if you think I don't care about anything you say, even if you talk nonsense, or Christianity, or a crush you had for a week, or what you had for lunch, or this new philosophical reflection that has been troubling your mind for months.

None of that matters, because it is not true. I want to hear your words, I want to hear your thoughts and questions. You are very dear to me, and I care for whatever troubles you, even if you think it is very stupid. It is not, I am sure.

Reach out to me when you are scared, when you are happy, when you are bored, when you are sad, when you feel too much, too little, or nothing at all. I want to hear you.

It does not matter if I care about the topic. If you care about it, I care because you do. If it makes you think, I care. If it makes you feel, I care. If you need to talk, then I need to talk, too.

Talk, my dear, because I will hear you.

That's it. Had a talk with him today and I felt this could be important for someone out there.

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happy autism awareness day to all the girls who had “ friends” growing up who were actually bullying them . to the girls who always sat alone in the grass and wondered why nobody wanted to talk . to the girls who spoke to animals like they were listening . to the girls who created a little world in their room . to the girls who always felt ashamed for how deeply they love things and how passionately they enjoyed media . to the girls who covered their ears when they were overwhelmed by everything . to the girls who carrying a special thing around to feel safe . to the girls who never understood what they did wrong to feel so lonely . to the girls who were diagnosed later in life because they weren’t little boys who liked trains. you are so special and beautiful and you’re not worse for it, you love deeply and that is so wonderful please never try to push that down . I LOVE YOU !!!!!

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saying “i want him” about the character but not in a romantic or sexual way . i just Require him i need to Obtain him

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"aros can still date!!": boring. tired. overused. frequently used to make aros look more palatable and acceptable to amatonormative society.

"alloros can still stay single!!": fresh. new. exciting. hearing it could change many people's lives for the better regardless of romantic orientation

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hey guys do the allos know that they can have qprs too? like do they know that being alloromantic doesn't mean they can't choose to be in a qpr anyway? because qprs aren't "romance-lite" for aros, they're an entirely separate kind of relationship that anyone can have. you can do this with fictional characters too. you can put characters that aren't aroace or are even canonically dating in qprs with each other just because you think that would be a cool way to play with their dynamic. it's actually very cool and you totally should.

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Do y'all ever think that Lord Lucifer has daddy issues from when God abandoned him and cast him down to earth? From when his creator told him he was being selfish for thinking he deserved something? From when he fell and was all alone and away from everything he knew?

Idk about y'all but I think Lucifer is a toxic dad survivor. Maybe that's why we click so well.