#yarb

[hellsitegenetics]

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Closest match: Heterocephalus glaber genome assembly, chromosome: 16 Common name: Naked mole-rat

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WIP. Pretty sure I invented a new music genre today so I get to name it. I am calling it yarble-core. It yarbles. To make yarble-core you need to make it yarble.

[tastylemonbread]

its funny that aiden fills the role of the heel because hes objectively the most normal of the four of them

[kathybluecaller]

Flipping flapjacks I’m a year old tup tup!!! (+1 day)

Yesterday, November 19th, marks the day I ran into this wonderful band through the Starlight Brigade music video. Can’t put into words how many good memories I’ve been making since! Ranging from it being another thing to bond over with friends and family, seeing them perform live, to even meeting new people. Their music and the community people have built is just so welcoming, funky, and positive! Couldn’t have asked for a better band to call my favorite

[sugarcoww]

heart eyes for Aiden

[aimwigs]

i think this oneshot is gonna wind up around 10k long oneshot nation is back

[cottagewhores]

“foreskin in the house!”

[livefromtheyard]

deals are the best, especially big ones like that!! i’m so close to getting the patreon….i want the advice show + dcom one and actually be able to get merch whenever that happens. now with a tier offering possible pins which i’m a huge collector of im even closer. when they announce merch again i’ll probs surrender - 📏

PINS??? i had no idea...... they love gay people. it'll also be like $15 max which will be new for them lol ���� also i just took these pictures of the moon on my phone (while struggling to keep my dog who was pulling me everywhere from going into the street) so u can have them for free (so generous) because these yard bitches aren't posting shit rn 🌕

[tastylemonbread]

slimeIRL - Tax The Homeless (2024)

Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor (1979)

[bobrman]

the make out scene between patrick and art in challengers except it’s nick and aiden

[ex-furry]

i've always seen zac oyama on my dash but i really hadn't Actually thought abt him in so long and i'm realizing that it's just bc i didn't understand what dropout was

[tastylemonbread]

YARD BOYS

[urbestestwindgod]

ugh FINE. but promise me youll keep them safe? they have short limbs and little bodies and no awareness of strangers or danger

Uhhhhh.... wisdom saga was supercalifragilisticexpialodocious....

Anyways, more Aeolus (+Ody)

Ib: @gigizetz

[buggywiththefolkmagic]

Appalachian Witchcraft for Beginners: Review

This is: Appalachian Witchcraft for Beginners: The History, Remedies, and Spells of a Rich Folk Magic Tradition by Auburn Lily

Rating: 2/10

Pros: Some information presented is correct, like the information on “ingredients” isn’t too bad if not a super small amount of them, she mentioned red clay which a lot of books seem to forget exists. And this book’s aesthetics? 10/10 for the illustration work, colors, fonts! I also appreciated the insistence that you help the land as much as possible, as well as the land’s original inhabitants and to give Indigenous voices space. 

Cons: There is so much I was so disappointed by. First off let’s get this out of the way: The author in her bio on her own website auburnlily.com claims she is a starseed. I have a LOT of personal feelings about the Starseed movement and how it damages the progress of mental health and getting help and medication for said mental disorders. But this should have been the first major red flag that this book would not be what it says on the cover.

A lot of my problems are as follows:

Most folk workers don’t use the same three or four ingredients…in this case:

Peppermint. Rose. Essential Oils. Crystals, usually citrine or black tourmaline. 

Actually we tend to not use crystals at all unless we’ve adapted them into our practice ourselves…the old folk didn’t have pretty rocks to use they got at the New Age store in the town square, alright? 

A LOT of this information is definitely tinged in a new age and modern light. The correspondences for the days of the week mentions “The Goddess” which we don’t…deal with??? At all??

Another example:

Grannies used to use the bible and ‘faith healing’ to avoid persecution from their community.

Absolutely not! She mentioned the witch trials a minimum of 6 times, which (ahaha good pun) almost made me roll my eyes into the back of my head, then I read the bible to avoid persecution part and almost burned the book on the spot.

Faith healing is NOT a cop out. 

It was the way things WERE. Were there hexers? Yes. Were they given a wide berth sometimes? Also yes. But they also had their place in the community! The hexer in my family, Flossie, was respected with some fear, but she was also the person who scorned lovers and cheated on spouses went to. When the police were hounding moonshiners a few came to her for cop go away works. 

The author also insinuates that Yarb Doctors were held in higher regard because they didn’t use faith/and or gender may have had a point in that. I dunno what yarb doctors and grannies she talked to but men were not allowed in the birthing room, that was a Granny’s responsibility and by god they did it well. You never backtalked a Granny, they were and are the backbones of their communities. 

Now that I’m off that soapbox, the author also seems to believe that meditation, third eyes, astrology in a modern way, and crystals are critical for Appalachian witchcraft which is stupidly incorrect. Her recipe for floor wash is hogwash and far too simple and small, her candle color correspondences are laughable…especially that little line on Orange: “Helps with menstrual cramps.” If that was the case no straight woman in Tennessee would get cramps because they all wear orange at least once a week for their team. 

She only uses Hoodoo like…3 times which is better than most authors so I supposed that’s progress? But the author also hates baneful work and makes mention of that fact numerous times.

The author also has quite a few love spells mentioned, and weirdly enough…a lot of her ingredients in OTHER spells are also the same ingredients in her love spells. How strange. 

My final and most damning gripe, the author seems to believe that stereotypes make for amazing offerings to the ancestors. In particular…the Irish would appreciate offerings of potatoes. You have to be kidding me.

Overall: Yet another new age witch trying to make folk magic look far more complicated and fluffy than it is. I hated this so much. I didn't even touch the "Open the healing channel" and "Reparative Visualization" "SPELLS" she includes which sounds like absolute woowoo.

Proof of some of these claims are below: 

[sugarcoww]

sweetest photo of nick and joshman 🫶

[aimwigs]

the jet lag rabbit hole is real i’m afraid