Item: in the 1950s research was starting to suggest smoking cigarettes might be bad for you, so one company beefed up their filter with asbestos

Damn they didn't just use asbestos they used the worst asbestos

All these spells that tell me to go to a "quiet" place to preform magic, are exactly why I cast energy manipulation and spells while not in ideal conditions. If I need to cast something on the fly, I will in fact, be casting it no matter how loud or quiet, if others are around or not.

I do not just limit my casting to "ideal conditions."

Thanks google, you understand what I'm looking for. Shut the fuck up spells.

On the face of it, I want to just agree that it takes time to practice doing things in non-ideal conditions. But on the other hand, we're declaring "we can't cast a good spell in the middle of a packed train" to which I ask what the fuck a good spell is, and what the fuck does casting mean in these conditions to this particular person.

Does it mean having a crystal for your spell? Pocket crystal is here. Does it mean we need a fire source - well if the sun is out, we can use it, and we can use the lights from the train itself if need be. I don't recommend striking a match here. Do we need pen and paper? Easily done. Or energy manipulation, again we can do it.

How about spit? Voice? Thoughts, Visualization? etc.

All of these things are easy to do and take and cast in a non-ideal situation.

And yet. We're talking about beginners. Should I doubt a beginner's ability to understand how to do a magic spell in non-ideal conditions all the sudden? I feel I should not doubt them. I strongly think someone who is beginning to do spellwork could understand the theory behind specific spellwork and enact it even on a train.

Even tapping your heel can be a form of casting.

But you know, maybe it's just the oldbie in me that I feel this strongly is a mechanism for casting. And you may ask yourself, have I ever casted spells while on public transportation, and let me say - not only have I casted them before, I have casted them multiple times. So fear not, it's not impossible, hard, or difficult. You just need to understand what - TO YOU - casting is like and what "good spells" are.

All these spells that tell me to go to a "quiet" place to preform magic, are exactly why I cast energy manipulation and spells while not in ideal conditions. If I need to cast something on the fly, I will in fact, be casting it no matter how loud or quiet, if others are around or not.

I do not just limit my casting to "ideal conditions."

Thanks google, you understand what I'm looking for. Shut the fuck up spells.

Putting water in the sun makes sun water. Putting it in the moon makes moon water. I therefore would like to put forward burying it to make chthonic water

Boiled water

Firer

Water gathered from water sources

Water

Water that was left in a wide open space or in one of those cute little hangable planters

Airer

Water buried for a lunar cycle

Earther

This is my dirt water. I buried her at the roots of a tree for a lunar cycle. Her correspondences are root

mud

Put my water at the bottom of a deep deep cave to absorb correspondence of echoing stone but now it keeps whispering to me, what do

Washed my orange cat and collected some of the bath water. It now tells me to commit arson.

Made my water watch a horror movie

Made my water a little hot cocoa and set it on a cozy, snowy windowsill. Somehow still wants arson

Viktor just went from being some guy to my all time favourite Arcane character. Funniest possible direction they could’ve gone with him. Every fuck in his mind body soul was spent and gone when he emerged from that goop. Woke up purple from a near death experience and immediately dumped his situationship, quit his job, fucked off to the undercity wearing nothing but a blanket and then became the second coming of Christ on accident. King of protecting his peace. Imagine being that guy who tried to shank him. Some Czech twink with dick and balls hanging out starts glowing and then magically cleanses the poison from your body. I’d be on my knees worshipping him too man what a fucked up situation. Someone please get him some trousers

i wish all my mutuals who @ me in those tag games a very i swear i see it and i love being thought of even though i rarely if ever do them. i love you.

Teenagers are the future of the world and if we expect them to go to war to protect us, then they damn well better be allowed to be allowed in politics.

The same people that bitch that teenagers shouldn’t be involved in politics are the same ones that say teenagers don’t care about anything. You just want Teens to agree with you or to stfu.

Sci-Fi concept: a Disco trapped in 1973, people can enter the Disco building at any time but if they try to leave they wind up in a time loop in 70s New York

It's considered a refuge by time criminals who use the Disco to escape from the time police

There are believed to be upwards of 573 people effected by the time distortion, they are unable to leave the island Manhattan, and could cause irreversible time line damage if the Disco loop breaks down. A believed 400 of the victims were from after the incident in 73 and therefore have advanced knowledge.

The NYPD's temporal unit has been alerted to these 400 deviants and has orders to eliminate the distriburbances before they can damage the timeline. 17 deviants have already been caught and eliminated, the others could begin the cause mayhem all across NYC at any moment

The Disco began playing anachronistic music approximately 17 days into the anomaly, Disco time. The anachronistic records include: Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, ABBA, Donna Summer, Pet Shop Boys, Kate Bush and Outkast. The NYPD has orders to raid the Disco and destroy these anachronistic records before they can be played for locals

It is believed that the Disco anomaly could put New York on a war footing if things keep devolving further towards paradox

20 NYPD temporal agents have been deployed to the Disco loop to find its source and shut it down, 18 of these agents were found dead in the Greenwich building by the end of the reset, the deviants are believed to be armed

The Disco flys 3 flags, the 8 stripe rainbow flag, the pink triangle and the progress pride flag on the street, all 3 are ahead of the era and must have been brought in, they have been declared a threat and have been removed by agents at the start of each loop to no avail

A fire started in the lower east side, an apartment building 12 story's high had been determined to be the location of the apartments used by 23 time deviants, and were supposed to be flushed out, they simply left the building and waited for the loop to reset before resigning their leases with the shady landlord like they have become accustomed to doing every day

A day in the life of a woman out of time

Of the employees of the disco, none are more interesting than Famien, Markus, Tallulah, Sacramento, and Rhys, the security team at the Disco. they have done it for the past 20 years since arriving after a bachelor party where Rhys' fiancé broke up with him and since then they haven't gotten any older. They were offered these jobs out of pity by the Disco owner and since then have had to protect it from the NYPD raids. 18 NYPD officers have found themselves dead during these raids. Sac, and Dami have an on again off again relationship and go on dates every 20 "days" to get out of the Disco, to stay sane the other 3 all began borrowing books from the library and leaving them in the Disco, both for themselves and the permanent guests.

Alex Jones is livestreaming rn and for the first and only time in my life it's appointment viewing. He got evicted from his studio mid-stream and they had to cover for him when he popped up in his "satellite studio" (a room in his house I assume) devoid of the Infowars branding. He's talking about how "tens of millions" of people have watched his final broadcast & you can literally see he has far less than a million viewers in the bottom corner (and this is on Twitter, which inflates views of videos ever since Elon had to convince people anyway gives a shit about Tucker Carlson's livestreams). He's currently whining that they chose not to sell his site back to him at auction, so he could keep doing the crimes that are why he was selling his website.

I didn't see this personally but he's apparently read out the Onion's announcement, which is a fake article by a fake corporation, out loud several times as if it was real. Anyway it should be noted how screwed he is, bc...

...while he can livestream under his own name, they own his warehouses of dubious supplements. He has nothing to sell but t-shirts protesting that his show is going down. Since Infowars was, first and foremost, a lifestyle brand, this leaves him, scientifically speaking, "totally fucked". He doesn't have ads, that's the only way he makes money

He just promised that he will "win the information war" which. You were sued into oblivion for lying about the parents of murdered children & lost your platform so hard you don't even have a studio anymore & your brand was seized by a rival to make fun of you. I didn't think the Infowar was a real thing you could lose, but I'm not sure there's a more definitive way to lose the information war. Anyway he's now ranting about fluoride

Magic for Recentering During Times of Conflict

Note: I am writing this immediately following the November 2024 election cycle, but this is not meant to be specific to this time. Nor am I inferring that magic can solve all of our problems. Please seek out help from a professional if you need it.

One of the deep truths that I have uncovered in my life is that when I am unbalanced (emotionally, physically, spiritually), I am of no use to myself or to others. When something rocks me to the core of my being as this election has, I need to feel all of the feels first and foremost. Then, I need to find a way to move on from the immediate (VERY VALID) emotional turmoil so that I don't get stuck in a pattern of rumination or pathological catastrophizing.

These are some of the ways that I do so. This list is not meant to be exhaustive and, of course, I do not expect every one of these to work for everyone. That is okay and expected. I'm also not including medical, psychological, or court-based interventions because I am not a doctor or a lawyer. Some of these tips are purely magical in nature and some are what I would call magic adjacent - they are mundane actions that are cleansing in nature.

I want to reiterate here that if you are still dealing with your emotions stage of things right now, that is completely okay. This isn't meant to rush anyone through this process. We are all different people with different needs. It's also okay (and probably expected) that all of these things listed above won't work for all people - after all, they are things that work for me, specifically.

You need to find out what works for you. If don't know where to start right now, I hope this gave you some ideas. And, as always, if there's a method of getting through the hard shit that you'd like to add to this, please do! We could all use some new ideas for the hard road ahead.

vehicular manslaughter chappell roan be like you can hit a hundred boys with cars

entomologist chappell roan be like you can keep a hundred bugs in jars

nasa scientist chappell roan be like you can put a hundred probes on mars

rapper chappell roan be like you can spit a hundred fire bars

russian revolutionary chappell roan be like you can overthrow a hundred czars

scandinavian chappell roan be like you can fuck a hundred guys named lars

polish chappell be like you can eat a hundred bowls of barszcz

Had a conversation with a housemate earlier and I want to reiterate this on the internet. Speaking as a disabled person, who’s been Officially Disabled on paper for more than a decade: I literally do not give two shits if those twits who are taking horse dewormer - the ones seriously damaging their health longterm, what with the risk of blindness and organ damage and all - end up going on disability or receiving public assistance. They should still receive disability benefits if they qualify for them. “It taxes an already stressed system-” Yeah, you know why it’s stressed? Because rich people don’t pay their taxes. We could fund these programs a dozen times over if we actually made it a priority, as a society, to take care of people. And maybe, I don’t know, bought fewer tanks. People still deserve to eat and have housing. We don’t let people starve in the streets because they made bad choices. (Besides, what about those kids whose parents are COVID deniers, or feeding them vetrinary drugs? Do they “deserve” to suffer their whole lives because their parents are assholes?) Once we open that door to “Oh it’s their own fault they’re disabled, so why should society pay for it?” it VERY QUICKLY becomes “Well, it’s your fault for being fat*. Or “You must not have been eating right, so you deserve it.”  Or “It’s your fault for not trying yoga”. Or “This treatment didn’t work for you, so you must have been doing it wrong”.

*This isn’t an academic exercise. The city I live in has a policy that if your disability is due to alcoholism, drug abuse, or “obesity”, you can’t qualify for a reduced fare transit pass, or paratransit services. Do you know how easy it is to spin something into not qualifying for benefits? “Well they’re fat, so the pain must be their own fault.” even if it’s a matter of “Bad knees run in my family, and being in pain all the time makes it really difficult to exercise”. Who gives a shit why it happened? They’re suffering, and access to better transportation would make them suffer less. Actually, if someone’s an alcoholic or addict, I probably want them to have MORE access to public transit? Drunk driving is bad. We don’t give people more reasons to deny people help. I literally do not give even a single, solitary fuck if a million people who “brought it on themselves” get help. Any focus on “BUT THE UNDESERVING-” is an attempt to con you into policing poor people and disabled people more.

See also, “I’m going to dance/shit/cheer/etc.on the graves” of people you don’t like.  They’re not excluded from sympathy, empathy or help.

Oh, no, I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding me here. I already have a menu and celebratory playlist planned for when That Orange Motherfucker dies.

It’s totally fine to be happy when someone who’s causing harm dies. I’m saying that denying people real, concrete help - such as disability benefits, or SNAP, or whatever -  because they’re a “bad” person - isn’t okay and DEFINITELY will harm people beyond your intended target.

Saying “Well you overdosed on veterinary medicine and wrecked your health, so why should taxpayers pay for it?” will, ABSOLUTELY, 100% be used for “Well, you’re fat, so it’s your fault that you’re sick (even if whatever illness you have is UTTERLY unrelated to your weight) so we won’t provide benefits“. Or “Well you have an invisible/difficult to diagnose illness, so we think you’re making it up”. Or “You say you did X treatment and it didn’t work, so it must be your fault”.  Or even, in a few years, “Oh so you took the horse dewormer because you were a minor child at the time and your parent made you take it and now it’s cause ongoing health problems. Well, that sounds like it was your fault too, so we’re denying you help.” There’s a federal law that bans people with felony drug convictions from receiving food stamps. Because they’re “bad” people. (Nevermind that they still have to eat.)  “Punishing” people for perceived “immoral” behavior by taking away their basic needs is cruel, and it doesn’t work. Look. Quite honestly, I’d like to dropkick some of these people into the sun. They’ve certainly made it clear that my life, as a disabled person, is worthless to them. But we don’t leave people to starve in the street just because they’re terrible.

i don't care how uncomfortable you are around cis men, queer cis men still need places to go, and sometimes, those spaces will be shared with yours. disabled and neurodivergent queer men and queer men of color especially need a place to go. the queer community isn't the "fuck cis men" community. that is the rad fem community. if you think cis men and people who read as cis men are inherently "too scary" or shouldn't be allowed in queer spaces, you joined the wrong community.

additionally: hi, trans woman here. who gets called a cis man by the queers around me pretty consistently. literally no matter what im wearing or doing or what my makeup, nails, clothes look like. trans girls will come up to me and compliment my partner for having such a gnc cis boyfriend. just wanted to say: well i cant say that but im gonna say: dont do this shit.

also it becomes real fucking clear after a while of this that its not even "cis men bad" in their heads, its "anyone im not attracted to is bad" and theyre only attracted to skinny white femme. cis men bad is just a "progressive" label for pushing white supremacist ideals.

not to fucking mention how "cis men bad" forces trans men who could be mistaken for cis to disclose their trans identity. which a cis guy could just lie about anyway so like. whats the end game here are we gonna start doing genital checks or can we all just settle the fuck down and believe that if somebody showed up to the queer event they prolly belong there and its none of our fucking business why

okay last thing, sorta unrelated, but if u never dated a woman with a beard then i think ur a loser and beneath contempt. okay i love you byyyyye

thank you so much for this addition- this is exactly what i was implying when i said that people who "read" as cis men also need safe spaces to go and should never have to disclose their trans or cis status in order to be able to find safety. this mentality disproportionately affects trans women and trans men. this affects trans people way more than it does cis people- people project their idea of what a cis man "looks like" on to whoever they want to without discretion. you summed it up perfectly. thank you

Concepts of thoughts and prayers for him

It is honestly darkly funny how a lot of these people went "masks off" and then are confused when people don't like what they're seeing. "I'm finally free to say what I really think!" Okay, and no one wants to be around you! Free speech does not mean free of consequences

One of my favorite genres of insane Terminally Online Right Wing posting is *sees a pretty woman* "I am a gay pedophile"

not even allowed to keep adolescent sex slaves anymore. because of woke

The guy who shot Bin Laden branching out on this phenomenon a bit by directing his sexual desires towards actual young men

And he doubled down on it!

not even allowed to keep a harem of adolescent sex slaves and eat human flesh anymore. because of woke

No one asked for your take on this Human Pet Guy