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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery

@disasterqueer.bsky.social

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In a toxic relationship with the Cascadia Subduction Zone. 🌋🌊 Emergency management professional in WA State with a focus on tsunamis. Polytheist pagan, witch, writer. Agender, asexual, queer AF. She/they. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Views are my own. https://onlyfragments.com

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · Nov 13

Perennial "pinned" post until we actually have those here!

Here's stuff I like thinking/talking about:

🌊 natural hazards
🏳️‍🌈 queerness & identity
⚠️ emergency management
🕯️ paganism & spirituality
💀 death & mortality
🍄 environmentalism
📚 reading & writing
🎃 spooky witchy shit

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 9h

Whiteness.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 9h

You COULD do this with maps, of course! But my school didn't.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 9h

I mean... yes, I agree, but when the only thing you want kids to take away from a piece of literature is "prove you read it by accurately pinpointing where everyone lives on a map" you're not really setting them up to do critical analysis.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 14h

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 14h

Thank you, Washington!

We officially have a record breaking 1.6 million people participating in the Great Washington ShakeOut! This breaks last years’ number of 1.59 million participants.

Join us for the earthquake and tsunami drill at 10:16am, Oct. 16!

Shakeout.org/washington

a cartoon of a staircase with pictures of the simpsons on the wall and the words earthquake rumbling

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 15h

IT: This ticket is closed! :)

Me: No. No it isn't. You're still working on the issue.

**several months later**

IT: This ticket is closed! :)

Me: NO. It ISN'T. You're still working on the issue.

**several months later**

IT: This ticke--

Me: Just give me my broken laptop back.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, and the road everyone lived on in To Kill a Mocking Bird.

... My school was big on making sure we knew where literary characters were located geographically, I guess.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 15h

One of my favorite past times is comparing my public school experience to my wife's private school experience. Like, she was treated like SHIT as the resident Poor Kid™, but damn if she didn't actually learn helpful stuff. I learned how to make a map of the lake from The Great Gatsby.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't learn about the Pacific War part of WWII until a college class! It was just "Japan bombed Pearl Harbor" and nothing about what they did in Asia.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 1d

Functional Salmon Cannon would be such a good band name.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Right?? She's trying to protect her pack, and putting dinosaurs above people is, like, what Camp Fam is all about! Creepy Whisper Girl would have been such a good addition to the dynamic, too.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

She did love those raptors though. 😭💀

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

The demonization of men as an entire gender is so gross to me. I thought we were supposed to be AGAINST gender essentialism??

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Right?? I'm so interested to see how this season plays out - will it all be in Biosyn Valley? I can tell there will be overlap with JW Dominion, but how much? WILL WE SEE AN ANIMATED SAM NEILL??

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Final season of #JurassicWorldChaosTheory comes out in November! 😭 I am not ready to say goodbye to Camp Fam for a second time! #JWCT

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Jurassic World Chaos Theory | Season 4 Trailer | Netflix

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EJ Miller-Larson @ejmillerlarson.bsky.social · 2d

Today and every day, happy Indigenous Peoples Day
#art #illustration #indigenousart #lgbtq #queerart #comics #indigenouspeoplesday

Colorful illustration of a nonbinary Indigenous person in front of the US capitol building. They have a shaved hear, black jeans, and a leather jacket and boots in shades of yellow. A red handprint is painted over their mouth as they crouch in front of a bow of burning sage. The smoke from the sage wafts over the outlines of the capitol building that are drawn in white over a purple and pink background.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!!

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

I scored 100% agender too! 🔥

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Same 😭

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

The show Bitten is really good!

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

That's when it's freshest!

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

This is me every fucking week, and then my wife has to swoop in and cook dinner for me because I have zero plan beyond ".... yogurt? And maybe.... a..... fruit?"

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Me every time I try canned or otherwise not fresh coconut juice/water.

Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 3d

I will henceforth be referring to them as the Sunday Spookies, because it makes my anxiety more festive and seasonal.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 3d

For one of my seminary classes I had to make a vision board of how I imagine my future ministry. I'm not a fan of vision boards bc they're never aesthetically pleasing, so I made this collage. It represents the influence of the gods, ancestors, and deep time on my spirituality. #WitchSky #Chaplaincy

An art collage. In the background is a starry night sky filled with moons and planets. Beneath it is an ancient stone temple framed by white crystals. In the foreground is a leopard and a rattlesnake. A huge raven looms over all and stares directly at the viewer.

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