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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 8m

"Go on, do it" sure sounds like enthusiastic consent to me; he really shouldn't have led her on like that if he wasn't prepared to follow through 🤷 Blue petrol cans is a very real condition, after all.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1h

"What are you gonna do, set me on fire?"

Woman doused friend in fuel, set him alight for misogynistic comment, court hears

Her anger then flared when Mr Loader told her she should stay in the kitchen making scones where she belonged, and not to go drinking with boys.

She left the table where they were drinking to collect a five-litre container of petrol from her garage, and poured it on Mr Loader before waving around her lighter.

Mr Loader said, "Go on, do it," before Walpole set him on fire.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 8m

"Go on, do it" sure sounds like enthusiastic consent to me; he really shouldn't have led her on like that if he wasn't prepared to follow through 🤷 Blue petrol cans is a very real condition, after all.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 16m

I did but my Keyboard for Being Normal got recalled smh 😔

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 33m

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 1h

Oh my god someone pulled the entire channel of old Grand Sumo Archives and now I can't watch any, I'm going to [REDACTED]

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 9h

It's not going well for me so I would recommend not doing so 😭

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 10h

Glass of bathwater 😭

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently so. I have been included on no starter packs other than the ones I was already on so I've noticed nothing at all 🤷

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah honestly the more I think about this, I could write a massive essay on the implications of different actions lmao

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway I think I would be inclined to keep the bean in some sort of charm bag to hold with me, perhaps?

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 17h

Nope, you didn't miss anything; that's the whole spell. This is an issue in witchcraft honestly, like you could bring an entire forum to its knees from infighting if you ask questions like "in candle magic, should I blow out the candle, snuff it out, or let it burn down?" Everyone's traditions vary.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 17h

It's a lot to deal with!!

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 17h

@billhookunion.beanyear.com are there bean cultivars specific to Slavic nations? This is a book on Slavic witchcraft and I'm curious to know whether there's a particular bean that might have been favored or more easy to source.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 17h

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 17h

Y'all. Y'ALL.

I found BEAN MAGIC!

One of two photos of a love charm spell using beans. This comes from the book "Slavic Witchcraft" by Natasha Helvin. The text reads as follows:

"To charm a woman you like, take two ripe beans from one pod. When you come to the house of your beloved, hide one of the beans in her bed. Wait for midnight, and knowing that the person you love has alrwady gone to bed, put the second bean into your mouth and say in your mind:

'As two beans together grew,
Washed in the same dew,
Fed by the same land,
Enjoyed one and only sun,
Same is now -- we should be one,
This one feeling we should share,
Happiness enjoy as a pair.'"

The second of two photos of a love charm spell using beans. This comes from the book "Slavic Witchcraft" by Natasha Helvin. The text reads as follows:

"If you do not have the opportunity to visit said lady's house, carry these two beans with you at all times, and when you meet the one to whom all your feelings and thoughts are directed, silently put one of the beans in her pocket. Put the other bean in your mouth and say the previous spell in your mind. If even this is not possible for you, bury one bean on a road where your beloved walks every day, and at the moment when she steps over the talisman you made, perform the steps mentioned above."

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 18h

I totally understand the need to mourn, and I don't think it detracts from your accomplishments at all; there's plenty of space for both emotions. Also, I am so proud of you for persisting at this that I could bust my buttons. You're DOING THE DAMN THING 😭💜

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 19h

I think about this a lot, especially as things just get even more batshit, people seem very reluctant to read or analyze things for authenticity, and whatever societal niceties we still had rapidly evaporate

Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · Nov 20

Honestly I think everyone's just Like This™️ now bc of repeated COVID infections. I'm not kidding. I genuinely believe that in the next 5-10 years we're gonna find out that the real issue with COVID is that it gets in the body, takes one look at the frontal lobe, and goes "hold my beer".

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 19h

I just need y'all to know I have been watching this 1-10 times a day every day since it was posted

imtiredthatisall @imtiredthatisall.lol · 9d

i feel like we need this today, well i do.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 19h

Even back then there were two kinds of us kids: those who internalized such lessons to do better by others and those who let it etch aggression & resentment into their psyche in the shape of a cudgel to wield against people they were taught to see as lesser. Solipsism evolved to hatred.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 20h

I think about him a lot; if I live to be 100 I'll never forget the impotent fury on his face at being made to consider that other people around him might view as hurtful/oppressive something he'd been conditioned to see as benign/unimportant, that racism exists outside of slurs & physical violence.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 20h

I remember my Media Studies class gave us the White Privilege checklist and there was one Young Repub-type dude who had a complete melty about the part on bandaids, like he just refused to accept they were designed to blend into white skin more easily than darker skin. I'd bet money he was at Jan 6.

Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 21h

I WAS FUCKING THERE. As long as I live, I'll never forget. Violent Republican bullies don't just spring fully-formed out of nowhere like Athena emerging from the forehead of Zeus and any of y'all pretending otherwise are either liars or rubes.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 21h

Amanda Marcotte has sucked ass for a staggering amount of time and I don't know how she manages to linger on as some paragon of intellectual thought

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 21h

I WAS FUCKING THERE. As long as I live, I'll never forget. Violent Republican bullies don't just spring fully-formed out of nowhere like Athena emerging from the forehead of Zeus and any of y'all pretending otherwise are either liars or rubes.

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Swamp Witch 🍂🍁 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social · 21h

My parents threatened to institutionalize my sister for ripping their Bush Cheney '04 sign out of the lawn. I was regularly violently threatened by my classmates for being a "Satanist" (Wiccan), then a "liberal" & a queer from 2001-2003. Folks really think they can whitewash this away, huh?

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