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Different types of water and their magickal uses:

Sea water: good for curse/hex breaking, cleansing, healing, banishing and protection spells.

Dew water: beauty, love and fertility spells, as well as delicate magick. Also Good for Fae work.

Storm water: is great for spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strength, confidence, charge, motivation and force. It’s known for strengthening spells. Also good for curses.

Snow water: Spells and rituals that focus on purity, endings and change, as well as slow working spells.

River water: Good for creating changes, moving on and letting go of negativity, warding and focusing energy.

Rain water: Very multi-purpose, but specifically great for growth and rebirth spells. Great for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time.

Spring water: Growth, holy water, cleansing, protection, prosperity

Moon water: Depending on the moon phase it was created in, it can have different properties.

Sun Water: protection, healing, clairvoyance, courage, strength, prosperity, luck, self-love, cleansing and creativity.

Swamp Water: Used for banishing and binding.

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Blocking agathario shippers who hate on Wiccan is my new pastime. You’re going to hate cause a character who has been a popular queer hero in Marvel for almost 20 years gets attention and is finally in the MCU? A character that queer people have wanted to see on screen since the MCU started and before you decided to watch AAA cause you heard about your ship being a thing? Using some pretty problematic rhetoric when discussing him in a way that makes you come across just like the incels out there? Ignoring why his inclusion is such a momentous thing for queer people? Goodbye.

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

this is modern art

One of the things I love about Buffy is that it presents knowledge and research as an absolutely vital part of the process of world saveage. So much of the show is dedicated to the characters sitting around doing research. And that’s pretty rare. Usually if research is a plot device in these kind of shows, it happens off screen. Which does kind of make sense on a storytelling level - it’s not usually that interesting to watch people look stuff up. But I really like that BtVS finds a way to make it interesting, not only because it leads to a lot of great group scenes, but also because it foregrounds the value of educating oneself about something before engaging with it. Which, you know, is an excellent value to foreground.

This post was very much inspired by this tweet.

“I don’t get invested in petty fandom discourse since I’m an adult with a job” have you ever heard of work life balance.

this sculpture is from 2011 by artist sara swink

cats have been bothering humans since at least 2011

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

on their clit like morse code

"S.O.S. we're going down"

fuck dont be funnier than me on my own post

No stop that

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uhh?

In 1947, an British flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile reported their status over Morse code as "ETA SANTIAGO 17.45 HRS STENDEC". That last word is nonsense, so the tower asked for clarification. They repeated: STENDEC. STENDEC.

They were never heard from again. 11 people vanished, apparently along with their plane, and the only clue is that last word.

And no one knows what the fuck "STENDEC" means.

;-;

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

how dare you say we piss on the poor

all hail the 1 million note Piss Post

HE INVENTED FREE WILL AND THEN HE USED IT TO FALL IN LOVE DO YOU UNDERSTAND. THIS IS TEXTUALLY ACCURATE TO THE SHOW.

SUPERNATURAL REALLY SAID THAT NON-COMPLIANT LOVE IS THE ONLY THING THAT'S REAL IN ALL THE MULTIVERSES.

the problem with everyone becoming a reviewer and essayist now is that, plainly and gently, a lot of these people are not smart enough for the position

actually what really fucks me up is that if chuck is the writer and the winchesters are his favorite story, ie. the story that the universes he creates revolve around fulfilling, then castiel's part in the story was to raise dean. just that. chuck says every other version of cas continued to obey, and we know that cas was originally meant to be written out of the show (presumably killed?). so in chuck's version he was no longer relevant to the story.

so castiel as a character was both, meta-narratively and in-universe, created specifically for the purpose of raising dean winchester. he was always created *for* dean. he exists because of dean.

I literally just reblogged this and @ilarual just reblogged it from me but ffs these tags:

#and here's the super insane thing that I've never been able to stop thinking about #if you were to pick a moment in early season 4 at which Cas would ideally have *exited* the story when would it be? #I guess you could simply have him just not show up anymore after 04.03 but that's boring #if you're going to actually write him out i.e. he ''does what he's told'' as Chuck said in Unity and then has a character exit #at what point does that happen? #I'll tell you when: it's 04.10 Heaven & Hell #Alastair has Cas on the ground and is attacking him. this is a moment for Cas to either be exorcised back to Heaven #and simply not be a part of the story anymore#(though still available to bring back in a different vessel in later seasons if Chuck needs a familiar angel) #or potentially just killed off right then and there to make the threat of Alastair that much more imposing #if Cas was gonna be written off that's the moment it would have happened #but that didn't happen and you know why? #because Dean Winchester picked up a crowbar and beat Alastair off him #Dean took up arms against his abuser specifically to save Cas from someone who terrifies him and with whom he has history #and that's the moment that Cas's place in the story becomes... not cemented but certainly more clear #just this little nothing-moment in Heaven & Hell when they weren't even on the same side that Dean stepped in and saved him anyway

#Cas was brought into the story specifically to serve Dean's narrative.... but Dean was the one who intervened and got him to STAY #Chuck brought Cas into things to get himself out of the corner he was written into but Dean got Cas to STAY in the narrative #by lending a helping hand when he really didn't have to #he CHOSE Cas. even with Cas on the opposite side of a conflict and even with the whole POINT of their strategy being #''let Heaven and Hell duke it out and we humans stay out of the way'' #Dean still decided involving himself and saving Cas was more important #and THAT is what butterfly-effects into everything else that happens: Dean chose to save Cas and it mattered

*sobbing and wailing and taking a picture and the flash is going off in my own face* yeah

#people tend to quote the ‘if nothing we do matters’ speech in relation to fave angel-verse monologues  #but honestly i prefer this one  #the idea that to want to keep something that’s precious to you forever unchanged (either an object or event or for example life)  #and to want it to be forever the same for you  #is horrific  #HORRIFIC  #and the analogy of a held note - no matter how beautiful - being just noise unless it changes and ends  #and that change and loss and ending of things is not just a useful part of beauty but absolutely integral  #for the beauty to even exist#and to prolong and freeze something unchanging that you don’t want to ‘lose’ is to lose it irrevocably

“This is what Shakespeare would have wanted.”

“Shakespeare wouldn’t have wanted this.”

No! You’re both wrong! Shakespeare wanted one thing and one thing only. To sell tickets.

If people spend money at the Globe theatre and don’t steal his bones then his ghost is happy

“Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.”

Shakespeare’s actual grave. He put a curse on anyone that tries to touch his bones. That’s what Shakespeare wants. Buy tickets and don’t touch his bones.

[image description: a photo of shakespeare’s grave with the plaque transcribed above]

“Buy my stuff and leave me alone”- every writer’s creed

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I know people see me as an animator and artist but I almost went into the genetics field and it continues to be a huge interest of mine so I will NOT stand for Alphafold slander so here comes my UHM actually-- UHM ACTUALLY the Nobel prize for physics was given to the developers (one being David Baker, an extremely prolific and influential biochemical engineer who I don't have time to gush about) of AlphaFold, a revolutionary and incredibly advanced computer learning program that can predict the shape of proteins, and thus their function, based on sequences alone, which, I'm not sure if people know, but has been a pipedream within the biochemical engineering field for like 40 years.

In theory, you could use this program alter and reverse engineer proteins and effectively make anything you want AND the program can even predict the mechanisms of said proteins in a way that rivals actual testing, meaning we could have a future where animal testing isn't needed.

Some are even hoping that this program can be used to solve the antibiotic resistance crisis, the microplastics crisis, and make vaccines more accurate and faster.

So, no, it is not bad that the Nobel price went to the developers of this potentially revolutionary program.

I may kid around on tumblr a lot, but I have a bachelor's in Biology and a Doctorate of Pharmacy. Protein folding was some of the stuff that would most break students brains. Even just the phrase "now flip the chair" for simple basic ring structures gives me a mini moment. THIS is the kind of thing AI should be used for - analytics and quantitative- Not generative (scraping artwork off the web and making an amalgamation). It's something that could potentially solve sooo many problems related to health and healthcare for folks.