As promised, a better look at my new prosperity & abundance altar.
~sparrowqueen ♥
(via fuckyeahaltars)
(Source: somethingsouth, via and-the-little-one-said)
This is a visual representation of some things I’m looking forward to this spring, sort of as a mental exercise, and to let anything that’s paying attention take a look.
The main chunk of cards is my looking forward to green growing things and getting to work in the garden again. The Kangaskhan and Ducklett are our ducklings that will hatch in six days. The cluster of fox pokémon and a Meowth are cards that have come up in readings as representing whatever spirits were getting my attention — adding those cards is just a nod, really.
The little cup and plate are a new thing I started on Valentine’s day. When I feel like it I leave out some water and a treat for whatever wants it, they can take what they want, and I get to eat the rest in the morning. There’s a note under the plate.
In the back are a silver box, my soda bottle candleholders, my cast iron candleholder, the cast iron pan I burn things in, a salt dish, wax scraps, and one of the warding stones that’re hidden around my room.
Is this…. is this an altar with Pokémon cards?
My heart.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can conduct spells that can do god knows what.
—Ian Kelley (via swaglakecity)
ahaha i can’t believe i found this oh my god i made this in august like right before my birthday when i was freaking out that i wasn’t thinking about feminism complexly enough and now that i was turning 18 it was time to grow up wow i don’t even know
What if gun control laws were like abortion laws?
What if gun rights were regulated like abortion rights? Here’s a list of just some of the hoops you’d have to jump through before you could own a gun:
- Only one store in the entire state would sell guns. (See: Mississippi, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming for states with only one abortion provider.)
- You’d have to fill out an enormous personal background check including intrusive personal information that has nothing to do with your ability to own or use a gun. Then you’d have to wait at least 72 hours and come back to the store. (Remember, it’s the only one in the state. You better hope you don’t live on the other side of Wyoming.)
- Upon your return, you’d have to sit through intensive mandatory counseling. Your counselor, regardless of his personal beliefs, would have to tell you that gun ownership is actually a bad idea, and that it would negatively effect your mental health to own a gun. (This, despite there being no scientific evidence to support the claim.)
- Next, you’d sit through a gruesome movie showing the actual aftermath of domestic gun crimes. You’d see people with half a head. You’d see dead children in their beds. You’d see the bloody aftermath of a school shooting. You’d be shown statistic after statistic warning you that you’d be contributing to this morally degenerate sanctioning of murder.
- If you lived in Virginia, you’d have to come back (again) for an invasive and uncomfortable fMRI (which costs around $300 out of your pocket) to ensure your honesty in answering all the background check information and your intentions to use your gun responsibly. (This was as close as I could get to the invasive transvaginal procedure included in the recently passed Virginia bill.)
- Oh… and if you were married, your spouse might have to sign off on your gun ownership.
(via rabbleprochoice)
Most people on food stamps work full time. They work full time but they don’t have enough money to pay for food for their kids. So really, in some ways, food stamps are about a business subsidy because it allows low wage business workers to… feed their families and continue working. But we call it charity, or the Republicans call it charity. They want to cut food stamps so badly that every church, synagogue, mosque, house of worship in the United States—every single one—[would] have to raise an additional $50,000 every year for ten years to replace what he wants to cut. It’s not gonna happen. It’s not gonna work.
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Sister Simone Campbell [x]
I like how she articulates the simple financial impossibility of religious organizations being able to replace government aid. I’d like to add that, of course, there are so many people who have trouble receiving aid from religious institutions because they’re LGBT and/or non-religious or have a fraught relationship to religion… aid is a human right—and, as she points out, a business subsidy as well as a subsidy to food companies—which people should be able to receive in a secular setting.
(via mswyrr)
(via better-humans)
