Autumnrainwitch - Eclectic Witch
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Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
internet's been real messy
we all probably need a break so have this cat
alr srs question. i want to name a new oc i have thats essentially a fantasy character. hes v much that soft looking outside but tsundere and a bit violent if that makes sense? anyway ive been searching and i came up w/ 舞英 (wǔyīng) and from what ive found it means dance; flower, blossom. i just want to check if thats accurate. i want a flowy flowery kinda name for him idk how to describe it. these are first names btw. i was also thinking 青蓮 (qīng lián) meaning blue, green, young; waterfall, lotus
A rare dagger for rituals, France, mid 19th century.
I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.
no matter the outcome of this election: organize, build local community, build strength in masses. elections aren't the only time politics happen, it also happens on the streets, in the community and by mutually supporting each other.
the way forward is together. we build power from the ground up. in the US and everywhere else in the world.
a better world is possible and we can start building it now, by ourselves. anarchism starts in the now.
hack the planet
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just *mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns-*
