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imagine watching this wholesome show and coming away thinking, ah yes, this is BAD it’s all a NEFARIOUS PLOT

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Weekly reminder that it's not okay to illegally download and distribute free copies of recently-published books from a niche market where the authors depend directly on monthly royalties to pay their bills.

Books are a luxury and if you can't afford a title, save your pennies or check out a copy from your local library. There are plenty of free resources and public domain texts available in the meantime.

It's worth mentioning that plenty of authors in the witchcraft and pagan markets make a point of providing free resources and advice to the community on a regular basis, myself included. To take that information and then turn around and steal from us on top of it is not only petty, it's cruel, especially considering the financial hardship we're all facing in the current economy.

Download overpriced textbooks and public domain titles, not witch books.

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13 Artists ‘Rewild’ the City Streets for the 2023 Nuart Aberdeen Festival

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Every Month

Virtually every month of my adult life I have the same worries and fears. How the fuck will I pay this? I try and step away and look at things from a practical perspective. Be objective and calm. I have a roof, heat. food. Calm down. Then. There they are. The harsh reality of how I will make it work. Unreasonable, reasonable...does it even matter? No.

I have the added guilt of being disabled and not looking disabled. It is so fun! I need to use the placard, still do and need to get another, yet people love to assume. I wonder, could they have not been kinder and told me about the stroke lurking? Or the cancer? Maybe the fractured hip that was written off as me getting older at the age of 36. Hip pain may occur, but not what I was complaining about. The cyst in breast that was cancer. As I feared and complained at my annuals. Too young! It's not cancer.

The Spin Doctors (a band for any young readers ha ha) had a fantastic song after which I was dubbed...Come on Elder Millenials, Gen X, you know it! "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong. " I wasn't nearly that bratty, but being a girl with opinions, at a young age was frowned upon. Frankly, I owned that. Fine. You think I can't be wrong? I will show you I am not. To have the confidence I did back then. An amazing and wonderful thing that adults seem to want to quash. I am so glad that isn't as popular now. Treating young women like idiots, boys like full blown men. She's, He's and They's. That's a good start. Humanize everyone. I simply cannot imagine that Gen Z will tolerate the way we treat the elderly now for themselves and thank goodness for that. Queer, Elderly, disabled, women POC the most, all othered. Ready for an equalizer. Dare I say, it might have started with that Goriilla, poor Harambe, let it continue with the reflection we get during this pandemic.

#spin doctors #analog #rambles #budget #writing #spilled thoughts

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I feel stifled. If I write the wrong thing, or say the wrong thing, punishment will reign down on me. It's a silly thought that happens when you get older, I think. Fear of consequences that likely don't exist. What if my ex sees this? And uses it against me in some way. That's the truth. The real fear. How, even after all this time, I am worried he will find a way to punish me for leaving. Real, or imagined, it's haunting. I want to shake it. Shake his phantom. Scream at this cowardly version of myself. My thoughts wander. Trace the grooves of memory, back to my braver days. When I feared no man, and the world could go fuck itself for all I cared. I reach for her, and see glimmers of that bravery. I know she lives.

#brave girls

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saint laurent fall 2021 men’s earrings

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“i no longer trust the older version of me because who i am now deserves more loyalty than any other version of myself i have ever been.”

— iambrillyant

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Writing this so

I dont forget

I was happier before innocent before we met.

I walked in the door, barely 13

You were 23 and felt safe, a friend to me

A big silly grin and lots of praise

My naive and underdeveloped body not yet knowing a grown embrace

The story would continue for years and year to come, leaving me confused, ashamed, alone, and feeling numb. I cannot regret what I survived, my past is so painful, I'm hated and despised. I know now what you did was seriously fucked up. Im 41 and Sapphic and hope you know I hope you fucking rot

#survivor #this has probably been done before #over40

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The Love Witch (2016) dir. Anna Biller

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I fit my high school best friend in a suitcase way smaller than this when crossing the border between Laos and Vietnam, so I’m pretty sure I can figure this out.

Annie Murphy as Alexis Rose in Schitt’s Creek Season Six

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There’s no need to be happy all the time- in fact, I don’t think any of us can be! Let’s be able to rest and feel our whole range of emotions without guilt. ☁️💛

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