Saw this shared on FB. It covers counter-arguments for a lot of the most common pro-gun points you’ll see people raise. Long read, but very helpful.
Emoji Spell to give a boost in decreasing paranoia. 💙like to charge💙 🕯reblog to cast🕯
It hurts to say but I know what it feels, it's my story too. So if ANYONE of you needs to talk w/ someone about ANY issue, DM me 'cause I'm out here and I'm not moving until I know you are okay.
Today my mom told me that the way I stimmed embarrassed her because she said it “made me look autistic” but uh, I am autistic.
She prohibits me from discussing my diagnosis with anyone (I ignore this - I’m really open about my diagnosis at school and online) and not even my extended family knows. The one time that I brought it up, she told my family that I was lying.
Don’t teach your kids to be ashamed of their autism, or any other disability/disorder/illness that they may have. Trying to suppress it doesn’t make it go away. Trying to suppress it only hurts even more.
Once you help your kids know themselves and embrace themselves and all of their differences, you will help their world become a better place.
Please don’t teach your kids to be ashamed of their diagnosis. You can’t hide a part of them from the world for forever
What happens once you kill yourself? Because I'm ready to go.
You wanna know what happens once you kill yourself? Your mother comes home from work and finds her baby dead and she screams and runs over to you and tries to get you to wake up but you won’t and she keeps screaming and shaking you and her tears are dripping onto your face and your dad hears all the screaming and runs into the room and he can’t even speak because the child that he loved and the child that he watched grow up is gone forever and finally your little sister runs into the room to see what all the fuss is about and she sees you dead. The person she looked up to and loved. The person she bragged about to her friends, the person she wanted to be just like when she grew up, the person that made her feel safe. But she’s never really going to get to grow up and smile and laugh and love because she’ll always be consumed with this feeling of missing you. And now there’s something missing from your family and they can barely look at each other anymore because everything reminds them of you but you’re gone and hurts more than anything. and you think that your mom never cared because she was always busy and yelling at you to finish your homework and clean your room and forgot to say I love you sometimes but really, she loved you more than anything and she doesn’t leave the house anymore, she can’t even get out of bed and she’s getting thinner and thinner because it’s too hard to eat. Your father had to quit his job and he doesn’t sleep anymore, every time he closes his eyes he sees his baby dead, and the image never goes away no matter how much alcohol he drinks. And at school your best friend sees that your seat is empty and she gets this sick feeling in her stomach and that’s when she hears the announcement. You killed yourself. And suddenly she’s screaming and crying in the middle of class and no one even bothers comforting because they’re all busy sitting there staring at your empty seat with tears dripping down their cheeks and all she wants is for you to hug her and tell her it’s gonna be okay like you always did, but this time, you’re not there to do it, everything is dark now that you’re gone and her grades are slipping, she barely goes to school anymore and she ended up in hospital after taking too many pills because she wanted to see you again. the girls who used to make fun of the way you dressed feel their throats get tight, they don’t talk to each other anymore, they don’t talk to anyone, they’re all in therapy trying so hard not to blame themselves but nothing works. and your teacher who always gave you a hard time stares blankly at the wall, she quits her job a few days later. And then your boyfriend hears the news and he can’t breathe, he still calls you a lot just to hear your voice and he talks to you on facebook but you never message him back, he can’t fall in love again because every girl he meets reminds him of you, he’s never going to get over you, he loved you and he cries himself to sleep every night, hating himself and slicing his skin because he couldn’t save you and he’s never going to hold you in his arms or hear you laugh again. Now everyone who knew you, whether they were a big part of your life or someone you passed in the hallway a few times a week, they carry this aching feeling around inside them because you’re gone, and they miss you, and they don’t know why you left but it must’ve been their fault and they should’ve stopped you and they should’ve told you they loved you more and that feeling is never going to go away. And so you killed yourself
but you killed everyone else around you too.
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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”
This is a spell for sweet dreams, reblog to have sweet dreams 💖
I know you’re probably thinking “what the heck Delphie you just followed a bunch of people not to long ago!!!!!!!!!”
BUT, my dash is not displaying all the content I am longing for yet.
So, please witchblrs please like/reblog this if you are active, so I can find you!
Looking forward to starting a magickal new year :D
Like to charge. Reblog to cast. Love and light ✨
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Björk
On numerous occasions, Bjork has admitted interest in metaphysics and the occult in general. From a 1995 interview, “I think she took me to all the occult creatures of Iceland… I think I probably believe most of it, actually. I’ve got Pluto in a very important place, and that’s what I’m about. I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up. And kill it in the evening, which is a bit outrageous, but there you go.” This statement points to an interest in the occult, and of course the zodiac. Bjrok’s first band was on the British anarchist label, Crass Records. The band was called KUKL, which is the Icelandic word for “witchcraft.”
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Azealia Banks
Recently the “212” singer announced her practice of “brujería” (Spanish for witchcraft) and her bizarre nature made a bit more sense. That is until she posted a video on her Instagram revealing she had been sacrificing chickens in her closet! In December of 2016, Banks posted a video of her herself cleaning up what appeared to be blood and at least two dead chickens while wearing goggles. While literally no one is surprised by her interest in witchcraft, killing chickens is pretty extreme. In an interview with Broadly, she said that she got her interest in witchcraft from her mother who would practice “white table magic.“ “Real witches do real things,” Banks said. If by real she means slaughter birds from the comfort of her own home, then totally.
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Kate Bush
Everyone already knows this one, as Bush is very open with her love of the occult.Her 1993 album The Red Shoes is credited with being an occult retelling of a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale. One song from the album featured lyrics taken from the Lesser Banning Ritual of the Pentagram, a ceremonial ritual used in modern occultism. She also has a song titled “Waking the Witch” perhaps a reference to her own growing interest in the occult. She has stated about the song, “What fascinated me in doing that song was the idea of a witch-hunter hiding behind the priesthood, as a guise, and coming to get this woman who is not a witch, but he wants to make her so.” Her music paved the way for similar artists such as FKA Twigs and Grimes (who also has made the list), another possible musically talented witch.
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Stevie Nicks
The Fleetwood Mac singer has denied being a witch time and time again, but the denial itself is cause for speculation. Her song “Rhiannon” tells the story of an ancient Welsh witch goddess. The show American Horror Story: Coven asserts that Nicks is indeed a white witch while discussing the song.
Nicks even appeared on the show herself as a white witch, further cementing her witchcraft status. She has been seen wearing pagan inspired jewelry while performing and has also been quoted as saying, “I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.” While she denies being involved in witchcraft itself, she has mentioned that she dabbles in Goddess Worship.
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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez’s grandmother lives in Miami and has an affinity for the Caribbean form of witchcraft known as “santeria.” The claim is that Lopez’s grandmother does rituals, with and without Lopez herself, to help benefit her career.
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Grimes
Grimes refers to her musical style as “Witch House”, a subgenre of electronic music that uses occult and dark themes. The Witch House visual aesthetic can also be seen in her music videos. She claims the album “Visions” was created after performing a spell that required her to not sleep or eat for days and create the music with the effects of sleep deprivation.
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Fairuza Balk
The Craft is known for showing just how cool and trendy witches can be, but Fairuza Balk, one of the four main cast members, believes in Wicca in real life. Balk is openly pagan and at one time owned an occult pagan shop called Panpipes Magickal Marketplace, which claims to be the oldest occult store in the U.S. She purchased the shop in 1995 while working on The Craft but reportedly sold it in 2001.
Wicca, or Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary form of paganism. Wicca, as it is currently practiced, is still a fairly new religion, leaving a lot of room for interpretation and practice. Balk and her fellow cast members from The Craft may not have been practicing Wicca, but they definitely were witches. Balk’s character Nancy goes on quite the magic sparked rampage in that movie, while the real Balk sells scented candles online. She has been quoted with saying, “People don’t understand witchcraft, they just make fun of it, but is is something very sacred to me.”
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Daryl Hall
Who knew the blonde haired half of Hall & Oates was interested in witchcraft? “Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a solid six or seven years immersed in the Kabbala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions [and] ancient techniques for focusing the inner flame,” he said when interviewed by Penthouse in 1987. During this time he worked on an album with Robert Fripp of King Crimson called “Sacred Songs.” A track titled “ Without Tears” is based on the book Magick without Tears by Aleister Crowley.
The pop rock singer has also claimed to be related to Crowley and the great-grandson of a male witch. Many of Hall’s lyrics allude to his interest in esoteric magic but it seems that recently the singer has cooled off on his occult studies.
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Viggo Mortensen
Mortensen has claimed on several occasions to be a proud Pagan and openly shows his worship of Norse gods. He has several Pagan symbols tattooed on his body and always wears his necklace of Mjolnir and the Pagan cross.
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Yoko Ono
Ono has asserted on several occasions that she practices New Age Witchcraft. In a recent interview she is quoted saying:
“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I’m just bringing that out. Don’t be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.”
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Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
The creators of Led Zeppelin are both known occultists, Page perhaps being a bit more interested in Satanic magic than Plant, who has written dozens of songs based around Gaelic/Celtic Paganism, Druidism and Norse mythology.
In their unnamed album, each member of the band is assigned a sigil from the “Book of Signs”. Robert chose the the feather of Ma’at, the Egyptian goddess of justice and fairness, and is the emblem of a writer (ie song lyrics). It can be found in “The Sacred Symbols of Mu” by Colonel James Churchward. This is not a common symbol, but does turn up in Egyptian and Red Indian texts. Jimmy chose “Zoso”, which is a Saturnical symbol that has multiple meanings both astrological and demonic. It is mentioned in the Grand Grimoire and Aleister Crowley’s writings.
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Jayne Mansfield
Perhaps the biggest sex symbol of the 60s alongside Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield was actually a member of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan. LaVey had given her the title “High Priestess” of San Francisco’s Church of Satan and she was also rumored to have been in a relationship with LaVey.
Despite her Satanic practices, her family insisted she have a Methodist minister conduct her funeral ceremony.
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(Feel free to add any I may have forgotten!)
SHARE AND REBLOG. I have friends and relatives in Northern Italy and it is as catastrophic as it looks like, please intervene.
i never talk about these things but i can’t remain silent.
i know tumblr doesn’t give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside the “most popular ones” (such as the usa & england). it’s true, don’t lie to me. y’all don’t give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKING WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you say “pray for x”……
southern europe is burning.
my country is burning.
people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.
yesterday my country had 300 active fires.
people are losing EVERYTHING they own.
i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense it’s getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.
and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europe… what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we don’t ask for money, we don’t ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awareness… something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish.
i don’t know what to tell you. i’m angry. i’m frustrated. i’m disappointed. i feel like i’m screaming into the void. “a reblog does nothing” - you know that’s a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. y’all are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit we’ve been winning lately.
but hell, if the EU doesn’t give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?
again, i don’t know what to tell you so i’ll let the images speak for themselves:
An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete
Torneros de Jamuz, Spain
Duca, Croatia
A helicopter from Italy’s civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste
Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios
Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.
Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece
Portugal