#tw: atrocities

[buggywiththefolkmagic]

Saw your book post and I think you've confused a few things...

You seem to mix up Hoodoo and Vodou a lot. They are not the same. Hoodoo is not a closed practice nor religion. It's just fking weird and poser-ish if someone claims it without ever growing up in the culture for it. But many Hoodoo practioners will tell you their practice is not closed. Vodou/Santeria is closed.

Also saying to be careful not to fall into Hoodoo while doing Conjure... you know rootwork is similar across all cultures right? This just feels like a gatekeeping statement and prevents people from really digging into their folkwork by making them constantly worried they're appropriating.

The thing with smudging: you make no mention of which kind of smudging is closed. You just said it generally, which is a bit ridiculous. Burning herbs for the sake of energy and cleansing is not inherently a Native Indigenous practice. Bayabas, or guava leaves, have been used in the Philippines pre-colonialism. Frankenincense in Europe and Old Christianity. Ti Leaves in Hawaii. Rose in Ancient Rome, and Blue Lotus in Ancient Egypt. As a latina, and as half of one myself🇨🇺, we both know our people love to use incense at altars. SAGE, particularly white sage, is where the line is drawn. Same with palo santo. I agree with your points, but I think you need to be specific if you're being critical.

Much love from 🇵🇭✨️

Hello there anon! I see you sent another ask apologizing for assuming I was Latina, and you're quite forgiven! I am as they say white as white can be.

As a white person I went to an American BIPOC friend of mine in order to answer all of this as honestly as I possibly could. Hoodoo by means of origin IS a closed practice. It's roots come from Ghana and was created in America as a very specific response to slavery. Both Hoodoo and Vodu are tribal/family based, and both require a initiation of sorts through community in order to practice them. Vodu's roots are in Haiti, and through community, enslavement, and initiation needed through the "family" as some groups of Vodu practioners call themselves, are required therefore it is also closed. I shall include some links below to help with the distinction of Hoodoo and Vodu and why they are both closed practices/religions. Hoodoo could be considered a religion in Louisiana specifically due to it's usage there and sometimes it's blending with Vodu. https://medium.com/@empressnaima/my-hoodoo-initiation-5086e375e378 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(spirituality) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/magic-matters/2021/11/10 https://brizomagazine.com/2020/06/15/the-appropriation-of-magic-how-white-people-demonised-voodoo/ Now that I've cleared up through BIPOC voices/history/links on why Hoodoo is in fact closed...let me address the specific comment of

"You know rootwork is similar across all cultures right? This just feels like a gatekeeping statement and prevents people from really digging into their folkwork by making them constantly worried they're appropriating." Rootwork in of itself is a Hoodoo term iirc, but I may be wrong on that front. As for worrying about appropriation...white people SHOULD BE worried about appropriating. Hell currently in America we still through simply social climate and judicial systems are failing our BIPOC/Indigenous communities.

As a folk worker who has some herbalism that stems from Cherokee and Creek peoples I am so beyond careful to make sure my practice is not appropriating from them. White people demolished them, slaughtered them, and took away their homes and sacred spaces, hell, we stole and demolished their LANGUAGE. And you're telling me I don't need to worry about taking anything else from them? The best option is to contact the people you believe is being appropriated from and just...asking them. Wild concept I know. Make friends that are not from your station! Send emails and letters to community leaders in these appropriated cultures in an honest and respectful way to see if what you're studying is appropriated. A good example of this was I found recently an ancestor of mine worked closely with what she called "Grandmama Spider". Grandmother Spider is a Cherokee creation deity. Referencing the above horrors and terrors us white folk did and are still doing to the Cherokee people...I will not be following in her footsteps. Individuals like Cat/Catherin Yronwode has perpetrated that Hoodoo is open, and has caused catastrophic issues with her large standing in the American Folk Magic world. A link to an open letter about Cat Yronwode and her severe appropriation/dismissal of the real history of New Orleans Voodoo being "fake" and "not a slave based religion" is here: https://conjureart.blogspot.com/2013/10/open-letter-to-cat-yronwode-and-lucky.html I don't want to pick on any specific religions/groups of people but all you have to do is read through ONE "witchcraft for beginners" book written in America or England and find at least two stolen items from Indigenous Americans AND the BIPOC/Black community. It's THAT common. Totems and Spirit Animals? Not entirely Indigenous but the ones these authors are teaching about ARE. The same goes for the word smudging, when I mention a book has smudging in it I am talking about white sage. White Americans love to use their white sage with an illegal owl feather and a shell to hold their bundle of sage in. The word smudging in of itself comes from the 15th to 16th century Germanic language and was actually talking about using smoke to rid a home or building of insect infestations. The word we SHOULD be using for cleansing with smoke should simply be...smoke cleansing. It avoids the person reading from having to guess if it's appropriated or not.

Having said all of that I guess all of this boils down to one thing: Listen to the voices of the cultures first. If they say something's appropriated? Stop. If they say it's closed? Stop. I have no authority on anything at all, but if I can speak up just once and give others a platform to say, "Hey this is kinda fucked up" I will. It's the least I as a white person can do.

#witchblr #appalachian folk magic #folk magic #buggy answers #tw: slavery #tw: appropriation #tw: atrocities #Whew this one took a while.

[sampomain]

i think he should be allowed to commit murder alongside his scamming endeavors

#ponk art #tw blood #honkai star rail #sampo #sampo koski #i need him to be evil and bloody and commit atrocities #beating your faves up bloody and bruised who #my faves are the ones who do the beating ‼️💥‼️💥

[cowboyscarters]

JENNIE Pink Venom Concept Teaser

#blackpinknet #femaleidolsedit #femaleidol #blackpink #jennie #flashing tw #ji* #i* #userfairy #useroro #not les gifs les plus atroces de ma vie

[bringthekaos]

On a more serious note i remember taking a screenshot of each time Viktor is like. *Looking* at the Hexcore and. Man. Stop looking at it as if its your wife or like your drug. Its scary. Please return to being normal. I can’t believe Jayce never noticed how concerning it was

I truly believe, had he not been forced into politics against his will, and was spending his usual amount of time in the lab, Jayce would have noticed. I feel like the “are you sure this is safe” line was even hinting at his worry about the risks Viktor was taking with the Hexcore.

I also think that whatever this influence is that the Hexcore is exuding onto Viktor (whether it’s the Void or not)… it’s sentient. It knows it needs to keep itself secret if it wants to continue to put its feelers in Viktor’s psyche, and as such, I feel like it started to manipulate Viktor’s behavior. Viktor already had a tendency to pull away from people when he was struggling (“he disappeared. He does that sometimes”), so it wouldn’t have been that much of a stretch for this habit to get worse without people around him noticing (especially in the wake of his terminal diagnosis—everyone has a different reaction to a terminal diagnosis, and sometimes solitude is one of them. Jayce may have wanted to respect that. And that’s a slippery slope, with no right answer—do you force yourself into someone’s personal life when they don’t want you there? Do you leave them alone, even when it’s clear they’re hurting and could use the support? I can understand how they end up in a sort of stalemate, because everyone is afraid of encroaching on boundaries.)

But the sad truth is that Viktor’s desperation to save himself is what drove him to these extreme measures, and even without the Hexcore’s influence, that desperation would still be there. The Hexcore was his hope, and I understand how hope—even when flawed—can be addicting. At that point, there would have been no going back to “being normal,” because either way he’d suffer. He truly is backed into a corner, and the inevitable snarling, gnashing, lashing-out rage at the injustice is yet to come, I think.

#arcane #arcane viktor #Viktor arcane #terminal illness #terminal illness mention #TW: terminal illness #sad thinking about Viktor hours on this Sunday morning #let it be known: idc what atrocities he commits #number one Viktor apologist right here #asks #ace answers

[margridarnauds]

Mallathalra Symryvvin | Lolth-Sworn Drow (Szarkai) | Gloomstalker Ranger/Assassin Rogue | Urchin | Neutral Evil

#bg3 tav #tav bg3 #bg3edit #bg3 #drow tav #baldur's gate 3 #gamingedit #dailygaming #miyku #userimogen #useravallachs #flashing tw #kitrye's sister who commits atrocities and loves her wife #also RIP to me who realized that most of my Malla vids are on my PC (away for the war) #my gifs #oc: mallathalra

[lemonlilypufftangerine]

I've wanted to remake this meme ever since i finished The Adventure of the Runaway Room (疾走する密室の冒険)/DGS 1-3.

I laughed so hard when i first saw that cutscene. He looked like he couldn't give less of a damn except that he had to have it cleaned up by the next trial.

Me: Sir, a man is burning alive in there.

BVZ: Can't believe he did that to me personally, now i have to order maids here to clean up his mess.

Sorry i cant find the original post, just my screenshot.

#This isn't to say Mcgonnal didn't deserve it at the end of the day #Not onlh for how it came to be his untimely demise but also for being a billionaire lite #Committing atrocities but donating to charities #Creating jobs in said atrocities #Tgaac #The great ace attorney #Dgs #dai gyakuten saiban #The Adventure of the Runaway Room (疾走する密室の冒険) #death mention tw #barok van zieks #Miles Edgeworth #Aai1 #tgaac spoilers #dgs spoilers

[fansids]

Shadow of the King Macaque is so fun.

He's my skrunkly now.

#bitches be like 'I can fix him' #Yeah? well I can make him SO MUCH worse #The atrocities are part of him. And I've decided they're funny #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #six eared macaque #shadow of the king au #myart #sketches #tw gore

[byler-alarmist]

If your support of Palestine includes apologizing for SA on the part of Hamas, you'd better block me before I come for your ass

#there is no justification for SA. ever. #you can't rape someone in self defense #raping someone won't liberate one's homeland #and don't fucking whataboutism me about IDF #i am saying that it's never justified no matter with which group the perpetrator is affiliated #i am seeing some very rancid takes and rape apologism in the tag that's making me sick #and before you try to come for me #i am for ending apartheid #i lament the civilian casualties no matter whose they are #and to ppl saying the recent hamas atrocities upon israeli civilians are 'fake': fuuuucckkk you #i'm going to keep my commebts here to a minimum #because the conflict is complex and my thoughts on it can't adequately be condensed into tags #i juat don't want to aee callous treatment of SA for any reason #tw sa mention #tw sa

[yunnshui]

normal night in the loser dorm

#im convinced jun will literally see kohaku murder someone in front of him and hed be like haha cool stuntman sakura kun :) #ya got me real good even the fake blood smells like real blood haha! #he will not believe that his emotional support Pink Thing is capable of atrocities. and if she is well thats just everyone elses fault #enstars #jun sazanami #kohaku oukawa #not ship #tw: blood #also real fans will know that hiyori is actually sleeping in juns bed rn and he gotta sleep on the couch again today #yunndraws

[talos-stims]

ATROCITY EXHIBITION

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#talos stimboards #stimboard #stim #album stimboard #atrocity exhibition #danny brown #purple stim #purple #black #glow #neon #glitch tw #glitch #city #night #dark #voidcore #hands free #streets #cars #lights

[starmakesart]

Unsteady Hands [AU where Leo meets with Yuri one last time before the final fusion and has a few choice words for his 'son'. It doesn't go over well.]

#yuri (arc v) #joeri #yugioh arc v #arc v spoilers #yugioh #tw: blood #tw: implied violence #tw: emotional abuse #if you spent your whole life doing atrocities for a parental figure just for them to call you a monster #how would you feel? #it's easy to forget he's fourteen in cannon sometimes #starmakesart #unsteady hands au

[transgenderfivepebbles]

I can't believe I haven't seen anyone do this yet

#lobotomy corporation #bloodborne #lobcorp spoilers #ayin #gehrman the first hunter #tw implied suicide #<- because maria and bloodbath but i'm not bothering to tag them #two dudes who committed atrocities with their girl best friend #(said girl best friend kills herself afterward to which dude responds by making an artificial replica of her whom he promptly abandons) #also they're both probably gay for their colleague or something idk #yeah. send post

[lexyscross]

I just saw a tweet (and no one correcting them) calling William Afton a p*do as if it were canon, and I just...

NEVER in canon has that ever been even remotely implied. William is a horrid monster, but he isn't Freddy fucking Kruger!

#YES he committed atrocities but he didn't commit the WORST atrocity!! 🙄 #william afton #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf fandom bs #txt #tw: csa mention

[samaspic31]

You can’t make this shit up you click on an article about how hamas hostages were treated (for the sake of checking yourself on bias and with the intention to verify it with multiple sources) and the headline will be « return from the horrors of hamas » and then the text is actually « they treated me rather well just didn’t have much food and i was in danger due to Israeli airstrikes” You know the shit the government claims necessary to rescue them. This world is bullshit

#sam speaks #idk what to tw this #let me know if it needs one. #the buas im media reporting is staggerring. the lack kf context. the misleading headlines. the biased picking. #oh yikes i typed hamas in the search bar and ‘’free palestine from Hamas’’ came up how fucking disgusting liberation has to come from within #anyways did you know people are incredibly politically shortsighted and bad at grasping scopes of violence and bias #(just in case yeah october 7 was an atrocity it must be understood as retaliation against colonialism tho) #the nyt article about a very moderately left newspaper going ‘’youre just jealous israel is successful (at war crimes ? sir)’’ FROM A FORMER #EMPLOYEE talk about bias broke me #also wikipedia constantly listing israeli deaths before and continuously giving credit to baseless accusations of antisemitism towards any #thing palestinian or even sympathetic. or even not violently against. sigh #also did you know the uk ambassador’s most ‘’progressive’’ stance ? that israel needs to ‘’harness the economic potential of its arab #community too’’ #im turning into the joker

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

I dont think I'll finish the full thing, but here have an accidently de-horrored alt mark

Mark!! He has a little flower crown-

#asks are neat #super cool fan stuff #alt mark #blood tw #it’s. such a nice art style- #little guy. don’t worry about the atrocities he’s committed

[whiskeysorrows]

Genocide at the Night Market//Won’t You Bet on Losing Dogs? by Patroclus Minh

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“Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”

Michael Knowles, Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

6 March 2023

Below the charcoaled pit, beside the cast-iron cages

cleaving man and animal, you take your seat

by the ring. Watch as they bind a crass

collar to a losing beast, it’s starved frame

weighed down by decades of criss-crossed scars

collapses on an evian bottle. The arena howls.

Its breath, shallow and jagged, pants. Canines gnaw

on plastic. What a stupid bitch, they laugh. Too bad

it won’t live long. Diatribes fling, every word polished 

and sharpened. The dog was polished and sharpened, its

body put on display; the scent of its own piss rises and 

declares it brute and savage, declares it lesser. 

You named it necessity, named it Greater Good. What

rabid creature need be allowed to infect your women

and children? What hell-sent defier of God do not

deserve the coin placed on their rape and torture?

The rifle fires. Bright lanterns illuminates eager

faces and it tears and tears and tears. You pass

over the money and stand. Wailing words lost 

to Soho night — time to forget your bet on losing dogs. 

/End ID]

#poem structure is loosely based on dr gregory stanton's 10 stages of genocide #i fell into a rabid hole of human atrocities about two years ago & this is basically a creative comparison of the past & the present #in honour of the transphobes keen on removing my human rights #trans poets on tumblr #trans rage #vent poetry #ventcore #tw violent imagery #tw genocide mention #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #poetry #patroclus minh