I’m watching Kitchen Nightmares and I realized I’m basically Gordon Ramsey when I’m in someone’s space and they’re complaining about bad energy, like
“When was the last time these crystals were charged?”
“Do you not cleanse your space? Look at all this spiritual build up! Don’t you dare tell me you cleansed this!”
“Malachite next to carnelian? No wonder you can’t sleep and you’re eating everything you noodle!”
you’ll kill someone
This is amazing. Mind if I add one?
If I hear one more white light witch suggest this over pills I swear to god!
i’m crying gordon ramsay is my favorite
But seriously, stop hex shaming you wombats! 😂
this is the best post
Every time I see this it gets better
CLEANSE YOUR SPACE, YOU FUCKING NOODLE.
The real official sacred laws of witchcraft
DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT medicine-shame ANYONE.
“But I’m a healer and–”
You’re not a doctor or psychiatrist. You can have you’re own opinion, but you are not qualified to prescribe anything, also, no one asked for your opinion on pharmaceuticals.
“But those medications are artificial, natural–”
Alchemists were the doctors, chemists, and pharmacists of their day. Today’s doctors and other professionals that can prescribe are just their professional descendants.
“But that’s not magic–”
So what? Does every part of your life need to revolve around magic? It would be awesome, but, unfortunately, not everyone can make a living out of it. And if you don’t think that being able to see the world with a clear head after months or years (in many cases including mine) of the only thing I can describe as a filter of haze, then I don’t know what is. It’s like going your whole life only able to see things as blurry shapes, and then, one day, you get glasses. Plus, how can you do magic if you’re unable to focus and think clearly? That can lead to some bad results.
“You just need to see the good in the world–”
I see the good in the world, its just better with my damn medication!
Bottom line: medication is magic. Just a physical form.
Part of me wants to shift the entirety of Magical Fantasy Adventure Land into the normal world instead of splitting it into a separate realm.
Part of me is still annoyed that this fucker still doesn’t have a proper title. Or at least something that sounds better as a place holder.
it’s called Mafalia. that’s your world’s name. ‘MAH-FAR-lee-uh’.
That actually sounds really good as a world name. I’m curious to know where that came from?
it’s the acronym. “Magical Fantasy Adventure Land”-ia becomes MaFAL-ia: Mafalia.
i always find if you need a placeholder name for something, write it out and make up an acronym, adding and removing letters or vowels if need be.
for example:
“The House Where Clio Fell in Love With Him”
“The HouseWhereClioFellinLoveWithHim”
“THoWeCliFiLWH”
“ThrowecliFiLWH”
“ThrowecliffiLWH”
“ThrowecliffiLWH”
“Throwecliffe”
“Thrawecliffe”
hence ‘the house where Clio fell in love with him’ becomes ‘Thrawecliffe House’. what’s a ‘thraw’? i don’t know. is it on a cliff? maybe; that’s an author’s preogative.
suddenly the name of the house itself throws up new questions which an author in answering goes off down a rabbit hole of worldbuilding.
Holy fuck. That is absolutely amazing advice.
Thank you so much!!!!!
As someone who regularly smashes words together for humorous purposes, I’m appalled I’ve never thought to use it in my writing. Bless you.
good advice
My favourite example of this is Dragon Age. The setting is called Thedas, which comes from calling it “the Dragon Age setting” in development! TheDragon Age Setting The DAS Thedas
And if you can do anagrams, similar things work for fake races, too. Demons become Medon, humans become Mahnus, dragons become Gadorn.
Tweet from @nathaniroberts: “So many white people refuse to acknowledge racist statements because they believe the intent of the white speaker is more important than the impact on the hearers of color.”
This will work, I used to be a recruiter. Recruiters don’t got time to read every single resume they see, they look for keywords, find what they want, Call and do a preliminary interview. That’s it lol
This is amazing
Omg!!!
Boosting this!
AMAZING 😀
I will remember this tip!
I have no idea if this works at all, but I don’t see how it could hurt. I’m all about resume cheat codes. Here’s some more advice:
being half native, i am beyond tired of this reoccurring theme. for all of you cryptid fans, the wendigo, thunderbirds, skinwalkers, etc. are NOT cryptids. they are a part of indigenous culture and are spirits/entities, and not anything like mothman. they are religious and cultural folklore, despite the fact that cryptozoologists try to classify them as cryptids.
also, do not associate any non-indigenous oc’s with ANY spirits from native culture and folklore, as it is very insensitive (i.e. kylo ren wendigo, named “rendigo”) to the culture and considered white-washing. our culture, practices, and religion has already been stretched far and thin over the years. be respectful please.
Hey guys, I know you aren’t used to seeing posts like this from us, but just a reminder to be respectful about what gets called a cryptid! We don’t accept any submissions with skinwalkers, wendigos, or thunderbirds. If anyone sees any cryptids on this page that make them uncomfortable or that they feel are appropriating any particular cultural folklore for a joke, let me know and I will delete the post and make sure that I correct the issue going forward. Thanks!!
I want to add this Twitter thread for supplemental reading on why calling indigenous religions and elements of them “myths and legends” is inappropriate as well, since it seems sort of relevant
Excerpt:
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I often get asked by teachers to provide lists of “myths and legends” of Indigenous peoples to incorporate into lessons and units. This always makes me wince.
Usually this is a unit with “myths and legends” from around the world, and teachers want to include something local. That’s good, I like the desire there. But there’s a real problem with labeling our specific stories as “myths and legends”.
Myths and legends aren’t real. But more than this, what is “myth” or “legend” and what is respected as “true”?
In Alberta we have a publicly funded Catholic school system. Do you think they teach the Catholic religion as “myths and legends”?
And even in the Public school system, which was once Protestant but is now supposedly secular…do you think that teachers have a “myths and legends” unit that includes the birth of Jesus? Or is it more likely we’re going to see stories about Greek gods and such?
It’s not at all the case that I want Indigenous creation stories, or our sacred stories, to be treated like religious texts.
I truly believe that organized religion, particularly Christianity (which is a de facto state religion in Canada and the U.S., let’s be honest here) is incommensurable with Indigenous spirituality.
Also, these words I’m using in English, “sacred”, “spiritual”, “myth”, “religion”… none of these words properly express the Cree concepts I’m thinking of. So much misunderstanding happens because folks try to interpret what they know nothing about (our spiritual beliefs)…
through the lens of European understandings of spirit/sacred/religion/etc. Anyway.
I don’t want schools acting like Indigenous folks want our beliefs to be treated like Christian beliefs.
But I do need educators to think about how they are framing our stories, how they are delegitimized as real knowledge from the get-go by labeling them myths and legends. So much about these stories is completely missed when they are presented as a fun fantasy yarn.“
(Métis lawyer, author, activist from manitow-sâkahikan or “Lac Ste. Anne” in Alberta)
She continues on in the thread to explain further, including suggestions and points of growth. I highly recommend reading the rest of the thread for those who haven’t already. It’s only been up 6 days and I’ve recommended reading it to folks in several conversations since.
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