#I’m white af so I haven’t had any experience with discrimination or anything like this but I believe it’s important to

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I haven’t seen anything about it on here yet so I’ll start

Remember today is national truth and reconciliation day! It’s about learning about what happened to indigenous peoples in residential schools, im Canadian so this is a big thing because we had a lot of residential school and the last one only shut down in 1996!

So remember to honour what happened to those indigenous people and to respect and treat everyone how you want to be treated, wear an orange shirt or pin a piece of leather to your clothing (that’s what we do here idk if it’s worldwide) every child matters! 

(Also if I said something incorrect pls correct me I’m a teenager and this is just what I know)

Edit: just realized I didn’t explain why, the indigenous children were kidnapped from their family’s, taken to catholic schools, and forced to assimilate with the white people, they wanted to erase their culture and make them Christian. These children experienced all forms of abuse and things children should never have to witness. If you want to learn more a google search can tell you a lot

[thehollowprince]

I find it qwhite interesting that adam driver and his blatant racism and Islamophobia (his whole reason to join the military) and daisy Ridley's "my experience is no different to John's" can get away with everything while john who says anything that is valid gets slaughtered it's annoying af and r*ylos can choke

Well that's just the typical scenario of white movie stars versus their POC (particularly black - I haven't seen any hate directed at Oscar) co-stars. Though I will admit that I've never heard Daisy say that about herself. Being a woman is hard, no doubt, but it's not really comparable to being black. And that's the big problem nowadays, once you think about it. Everyone's so concerned with comparing traumas and prejudices and discrimination that they don't stop and realize that such things shouldn't happen at all. It's not a competition and the fact that people are trying to make it one is a little concerning.

But back to the point here, it's just blatant racism. You see it all the time in fandom and now that I've noticed the pattern, I'm seeing it in real life, too. You go into any fandom where the source material involves a black or brown person, and no matter what (they could be a living saint) the fandom will find something horrible to say about them, will go out of their way to demonize them and point out how "horrible they really are".

Examples that come to mind are Finn (obviously), Scott McCall from Teen Wolf, Tyler Lockwood from The Vampire Diaries, Marcel Gerard from The Originals, etc. I'm not saying any of these characters were literal angels or anything, but they were good characters who cared about those around them, who went out of their way to protect people, who sacrificed for those they loved, where as if you look at their white counterparts (Kylo Ren, Peter Hale or Stiles Stilinski, Klaus Mikaelson, Damon Salvatore) they could literally be mass murderers who laugh in the faces of their victims when they die, but show one split second of them with tears in their eyes or of them seeing a puppy and not kicking it, and fandom will go out of their way to defend them against any kind of criticism, writing thesis-length metas about how "they're the real victim" or "they were forced to do it" and other excuses of that ilk.

I've seen those same arguments thrown at the actors in the real world. A good example here would be the R*ylos attacking John Boyega becauae he called out his disturbing their ship was and they started attacking him like they were freakin' Scientologists. They accused John of being obsessed with Daisy (the irony was lost on them) because of their friendship and because they can't seem to differentiate between fiction and reality, confusing his character's drive to find Rey as John stalking Daisy.

And on the flip side, we have people demanding that people say nicer things about Kylo Ren and Adam Driver, because "think of his feelings and how upset he would be if he saw that". Putting aside the fact that I'm almost 100% positive that celebrities aren't scouring Tumblr for posts about them, where's that attitude when they attack someone like John for stating his (incredibly valid and correct) opinion?

I saw recently, with the whole Johnny Depp nonsense, people crawling out of the woodwork to defend him as if they were lifelong friends. People going "poor Johnny", "he deserves so much better", and "he suffered so much" despite most of them having never even met the man. I watched in Twitter as these people had a meltdown and called Amber Heard the most horrible things based on a mysterious audio clip that came out of nowhere. It's the same thing we see in fandom. Based on the smallest piece of evidence, fans will make a mountain out of a molehill. Regardless of your position on that whole debate, that should be concerning how quickly people are willing to vilify someone else based on the smallest provocation.

So much of fandom things that being racist is just shouting slurs and things like that, when in reality it's a lot of these microaggressions that we see involving passing over the POC lead in favor of a white side character or villain, or ignoring every horrible thing said white characters have done because the actors are pretty and they want to bone them.

Its sad.

I would love to just enjoy the movies and shows and comics that I get without having to fight a wave of people that are committed to ignoring any kind of problem the media has, but we're not at that point yet.

[trinkets-and-spirits]

Gettin’ to Know Me. 😉

Rules: Tag 5 witches you wish to get to know better. Repost—do not reblog.

How old are you? — 16. Whoa, shocking, right?

What do you go by? — Free, or Eph. I’m cool with either one.

How long have you been practising witchcraft? — I started practising witchcraft in February 2017, so a little under one year. However, I’ve been a strong believer of the Pagan Paths for a little while longer; as I’ve been following Norse Paganism since March 2016, but I’ve only recently started witchcraft. c:

What type of witchcraft do you specialise in? — Hmm, I’d probably say Hedge Witchcraft & Divination; as my path was built up onto the Hedge after I kept experiencing over-exposure to the other side, and I wanted to learn how to keep myself from being scared upon waking up & seeing the dead in my room. And divination, I’ve always been the sort to experience very specific Deja vu whilst asleep or lost in thought; but I never remembered it until doing the act, as any sorta typical Deja vu moment would do, until I had a very specific thought about one of my best friends—and low & behold, she experienced the thought detail for detail only a week or two later. So! Instead of freaking out alone, I took it upon myself to learn the beautiful art of divination; specifically dream & tarot. c:

What aspect of witchcraft are you best at? — Well, as stated above; I have an uncanny amount of luck with Hedge Witchcraft & Divination. However, I’ve noticed that I’m specifically fortunate with blessings; sigils; and warding magick. Crystals and anything to do with accent herbs or plants, too. I dunno, honestly.

What is a big goal you are working towards/have already achieved? — Hmm, I guess my big goal is to learn as much about witchcraft and the different paths that I can; for personal benefit, and to help teach others about the craft. And I’m not being specific about new/baby witchlings out there; I want to be able to express knowledge to those who are a little bit sceptical, or towards those who downright hate on witchcraft & practitioners, due to the old stories of Salem. Not that I believe that my word alone will change their frightened minds, but still! I’d love to learn all about witchcraft, because I find it interesting; and want to. c:

Who do you worship? If you worship anyone at all? — Well, I follow Norse & Celtic Paganism; though I do happen to follow Norse Paganism, predominantly, and I do believe in each & every single God/Goddess/Other of both religions. However, I tend to sit beneath Loki’s Hearth; and focus & follow on his teaching.

What’s your aesthetic? — Nature; trees, forest wildlife, owls, mountains, lakes. Although I’m a big fan of cemeteries & graveyards, too! I love reblogging scenes from cemeteries, or of singular graves in a beautiful scenery, or something! :3

What are some of your favourite smells? — Hmm...I really love the smell of firewood being burnt; or coal fires; or log burners. It just has one of those smells to it that makes me feel all happy & cosy, and I love passing by fields where the farmers are burning wood, or houses where someone has a fire going. Like yas.

Do you collect anything? — Jars, books, crystals, jewellery, owl ornaments, and plants. Although! I’ve recently started working on building a bone collection, for different practises that I have yet to dabble with directly, because...bones! c:

What are your favourite tools of witchcraft? — Crystals, tarot cards, sigils, and herbs. Sea salt mixed with some water is also a favourite, and incense! c: 

What’s a non-witchcraft pet peeve of yours? — Noisy eaters, or people moving my shit two inches to the side. Like, you’re ruining my aesthetic, stop it. Or, people who are just loud for no fucking reason; which makes it difficult to live in a bungalow with my mother...because she does all of these things. -_-

What’s a witchcraft pet peeve? — Well, I know I’m gonna get a lot of hate for this one: but I really hate the witches who try to make white witches feel like scum, in comparison to POC witches. I’m not talking about the witches who try to give everyone a fair chance to be recognised; and that book document going about where only POC witches are allowed to add their spells? I think that’s gr8. However, there’re certain witches on this site who behave as though white witches should be throwing down their hats, and proclaiming they’re bad people; specifically because of their skin tone—not because of anything they have very specific control over, like an argument that took a turn b/c they chose to let it. :/

Like, I’m sorry to all those tumblr witches who think that white people should be treated like scum, because our ancestors (and present assholes) treated POC like scum; but I don’t agree with you. And I’m not a straight white cis girl who is racist & privileged, so the fuck outta here with those anon hate comments; I’m fully for #BlackLivesMatter & the support for POC that has been rocketing recently, but I just don’t agree with the treatment that y’all are giving white folk. I mean, I’ve seen literal posts where witches are demanding that their followers don’t buy from small businesses (such as those on Etsy, etc.) if they’re run by white people, because “POC are more important.” Like sure, Barbara; but deliberately attempting to ruin people’s passions? That’s not a way to help the movement for equality go forwards; it’s discriminative in it’s own way, ya walnut.

Sorry, I went off on a rant. xD But might as well be detailed, so that I have something to reference, when all of the haters come & claim that I was shoving my opinion down their throats. I hope I was respectful as possible with my opinion, bc I honestly know that a lot of witches I follow are cool beans about white people & such; or at least don’t flat out try to run people outta business, and I really just wanted to state my opinion that my biggest pet peeves are the witches who try to ruin lives and slap “POC” onto it to make it seem justified. c:

Good advice not relating to witchcraft that you can give? — Okay, so there’s this Welsh folktale that I’ve been told since I was a little girl; called Gelert. It’s a very fascinating story, and I would recommend anyone to go read it, tbh. Anyway, it’s a story about this loyal dog to the Prince Llewellyn; who protects the Prince’s baby from a wolf that has been terrorising the countryside for the past couple of months, whilst his beloved owner is out hunting for the same creature. Llewellyn returns; and sees the room of his baby destroyed, blood on the blanket that had been in the crib, the baby missing—and Gelert laying on the floor, soaked with blood. Immediately, Llewellyn loses his shit & decapitates Gelert, without taking a moment to look around; and then...he hears his baby crying. He rounds the side of the tipped over crib, and finds his kid; and the body of a wolf mangled to pieces, and Llewellyn realises his mistake of decapitating Gelert, but now it’s too late, and his mistakes haunt him for the rest of his days. He buried his most trustworthy companion, and placed a stone on his grave, and blah blah.

Anyway, my advice is to keep a level head in situations that you might find emotionally distressful. Don’t act on your first emotion, because you might end up causing more hurt than relief. Look at the situation; look at every possible angle, and once you’ve done that, make a decision that will benefit everyone. c:

Do you have any good advice pertaining to witchcraft that you can give?— Not really. The only advice I can hand is to question everything; never give up on researching things, even if you stumble across a blog that seems to be legit AF with their fancy spells & recipes, always double check; always triple check; check until you’re 100% certain that the magic you’re thinking of performing isn’t harmful towards you or your surroundings. Also, don’t allow others to declare to you what makes a real witch, or any of that shit; we’re all individuals—so own it.

Do you have a familiar? — Yes, I do! n w n My deceased cat was my beloved familiar when he was alive, and it would seem that he’s not straying too far into the afterlife, as he is often with me in both energies & spirit; I’ve bumped into him on the other side, too. He’s such a brilliant cat, and I’m so blessed to have him as my familiar; he’s always there for me, and offers me guidance & protection. c:

Altar? — Not yet! Since I recently moved from my old house, I had to take down the starts of my altar back there, and I haven’t had time to start building it up. ; - ; However, I’m planning to start building it up over the Christmas break, because I feel unsettled without a visible representation of my worship in my bedroom. :c

I was tagged by @insert-a-catchy-name-here — thank you for tagging me, dear!

In turn, I’ll tag the following people — @lunaesteria, @eyeliner-of-cups, @orriculum, @onyxmagik, and @maddiviner...because y’all are honestly the only blog names I remember straight off the top of my head. xD Plus, I do wanna see this lil tag catch on, because I think it’s pretty sweet. c: x