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Need a little help paying rent.

Edit: 1/7/25 I still might need a little help. Getting food is difficult atm and I have hospital bills..

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Oklahoma is attempting to pass a bill that would ban explicit romance novels. Authors, narrators, and sellers could all face fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in jail for each instance.

If you live in OK, call your representative and tell them this bill should not be allowed to pass.

This is likely a test case. Republicans will try to pass it in OK and if it passes other states will likely try to pass similar laws.

In the meantime, get physical copies of books you like. Download those pdfs. Archive your AO3 stories and keep them on a physical hard drive. (Storing those files in the cloud could be problematic in the future as the company managing the cloud service can see what your files are)

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I made a bunch of dried citrus garland and ornaments this year, and if you’re looking for low-budget high-impact gift ideas for the holiday season, I cannot recommend this enough. I have had nearly all of my aunts reach out to ask me for these already.

All you do is take oranges (and grapefruit, in my case, but you could use any citrus fruit, lemon and limes included. You could also do slices of apple or other fruits, but they don’t dry as pretty) and cut them into slim, even slices. Blot the slices as dry as you can get them with paper towel, then lay them flat on drying racks, if you have them, or cookie sheets if you don’t. The cookie sheets will take longer, but will probably produce flatter slices at the end. If you want to, you can take cloves and push them into the slices before you dry them; the oranges should contract around them and hold them in place.

Put these into the oven at 200-220 degrees F (93 C), and bake for at least 4 hours. Check them hourly; it may take up to 7 hours, depending on the thickness of your slices and oven air circulation. Take them out when they no longer feel wet or sticky to the touch. 

A 5 lb bag of navel oranges was enough to garland most of this tree. All you need for that is a thick needle and some string (DMC embroidery floss works well, and is less than a dollar a skein at walmart and other chain stores). You just tie off the first orange, and then use the needle to go in and out each slice near the edges. If you’re making ornaments, check your local dollar store for bits of ribbon, jingle bells, beads or whatever else seems good to you. A hot glue gun is helpful but not necessary; all the ornaments here are just tied together. 

I have plenty of herbs drying in my cupboard, so I also used some sprigs of rosemary and lavender, plus cinnamon sticks, cloves, and allspice. Rosemary is easy to find as live plants in the grocery section, and you can trim some off without killing the plant (and then you have i n f i n i t e  r o s e m a r y). Get creative!

These smell fantastic, and should last multiple seasons if they’re dried allll the way and stored in airtight containers. (I chucked some of the odd bits into my mulling spices, which is lovely.) They’re a very old method of decorating and look beautiful even when they’re not perfect. If you’ve made these before, I’d love to see what you made!

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Spell Project: Day 14 Ten (make up)

Okay listen, I wasn't intending on doing a llewellyn spell a day for this one, I was intending on pulling out my Tarot Card book and finding a 10 card spell for this spell today. But I was doing some testing on their search mechanism (which isn't very amazing btw), and found this particular spell using the April 10 as the find for ten.

I have to say, this is got a bunch of things I love. Firstly, the multiple layers of safety pin lore about different ways to use this. In case you didn't know, protecting ones children is a big part of different kinds of magic. I don't always post about that kind of magic (children, fertility, etc) because I don't seek those spells out because I am not interested in the topic. But when I find spells like this there are a lot of them.

In fact, it's just a very big cultural thing to protect your family as a whole, but especially your children by putting things on or in the clothes that they wear day to day. So this is really a good spell that reflects a more modernized item.

I feel I saw somewhere that the Safety pin got coopted out of what it was originally supposed to be symbolizing. But it's important to recognize that folks may still see those things culturally as an idea for safety. So that is also a nice way to say, you can become a passive protective amulet for your entire community by creating something like this as well as yourself. Which I really enjoy that idea.

I also think the beaded safety pin is a great idea - however.

However.

I want you to look me dead in my eye okay, dead, the whole "this bead means this" and "this color bead means that" reminds me so strongly of those christian bracelet things that people make.

This is what I mean -^ this is what it reminds me of.

So I would caution greatly that you don't rely on the color symbolism as the entire spell enchantment if it reminds you of these kinds of beaded bracelets. Instead you can use another style where you use multiple safety pins and create a separate symbol (so for instance, a shield in the levels of the bead work). You can also build structures if you wanted to keep them at home as an enchanted item over a wearable one, here's just some examples from etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/market/safety_pin_bead_art

But the thing you might be asking yourself does plastic hold enchantment well. It depends. So you could just enchant the safety pin itself. I would do just a general cleanse and blessing on all the bead I'm working with if I was going to do this. But you could also make beads yourself either out of polymer clay OR regular clay or even wood if you have the tools to carve them out. You could seek out natural material as well if you're comfortable but they may be a lot more expensive and time consuming to find the right kind of beads you want to work with.

Alternatives to this is also wrapping the safety pin in thread, so you can enchant it that way. Or you could make the bead pattern and have specifically charms breaking up the beads, so you can in fact, have metal if you prefer to enchant metals over plastics.

It's like not a problem for me though what you enchant. Plastic can be a little less stable once you put a spell in it, that's been my experience that I've had shit just snap. But I've also had quartz break, splinter, and shatter under the weight of my spellwork. So it might be an operational error on my part.

Anyway, I love the idea, and I am really happy to have found this particular spell.

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Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

This only takes a few minutes!

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This is my favorite section of this baking book i recently bought

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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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i cant think of any joke to make but this image is really funy

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I DID IT. I FINALLY DID IT. THE BUG TAROT DECK IS COMPLETE!!!

🐛🦋🐞🪲🦟🪳🐜🦗🕷️🪰🕸️

y’all this took FIVE MONTHS…… almost a whole half a year…. it felt like it took just forever tbh but now it’s over… and READY TO BE MADE 💗💗💗

unfortunately I am poor and can’t make these without support- BUT if you like supporting queer disabled artists, and getting a cool hand drawn tarot deck out of it (and maybe some cool extras? I’m still working out what those might be!) I am running a Kickstarter project for these launching on September 24th!!

reward tiers include:

- $1-$39 just for support!

- $40 for a Major Arcana only set (22 cards)

- $50 for a Major + Minor Arcana set (full 78 cards)

- $75 for a full 78 card set WITH SILVER GILDED CARD EDGES!!

I also made a short video! it’s a little amateurish but hey it works well enough, and you can see the themes for the minor arcana in it!

link to the kickstarter!! we’ll be launching on the 24th but you can follow it now to be notified!!

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I hope this shows a little more clearly how the oil lamp in Prometheus's base works.

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