Moodboard Prompts:

Hey guys, I finally got some stuff together to have a giveaway! As the summer drags on, I find myself longing for the crisp fall weather. I’m sure you feel the same!

The giveaway includes: - the two infinity scarves pictured - a CandleLite Pumpkin Nutmeg Candle (smells soooo good) - a Yankee Candle Trick or Treat tart - a tiny Candy Corn candle - a plain black mug and a box of Starbucks Marshmallow Hot Chocolate - two types of treats of your choice (within reason) Biscottis, candies, etc. (you don’t have to pick the ones pictured) - a cute candy corn jar for your treats!

Rules: you must be following me and you have to reblog this post. Feel free to reblog as many times as you want, just don’t spam your followers! I will ship anywhere in or out of the United States. You have to be comfortable giving me your address. The winner will be chosen randomly on August 31st, no giveaway blogs please!

Feel free to message me with any questions!

“We have to do what we’re told. Some fights, you can’t win. The powerful control the lives of the powerless. That’s the way the world works. It’s unjust and it’s unfair. But that’s just too damn bad. We have to shut up and accept it… Well, fuck that”

Captain Fantastic (2016) dir. Matt Ross

“X bodily fluid is just filtered blood!” buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).

Reblog if your blog is a safe space for:

•LGBT witches •Young witches •Old witches •Male witches •New witches •Experienced witches •POC witches •Disabled witches •Witches who discovered magick on their own •Witches for whom magick is a family/cultural tradition •Solitary witches •Witches in a coven •Witches who practice “dark” magick •Witches who practice “light” magick •Witches who practice a little bit of both •Witches who are religious •Witches who aren’t religious •Witches who do magick on a daily basis •Witches who just use a bit of magick now and then •All witches in general

Teach your children to respect animals and the world around them. Teach them that nature isn't their toy and that their actions have consequences. Teach them compassion for other beings and creatures.

In the same vein of cave paintings having children’s handprints higher than their height suggesting them being lifted up or sitting on the shoulders of adults, there’s footprints in Australia dating to the Ice Age showing a group of adults and children walking to a body a water, and one child breaking away from the group to seemingly skip in a wavy path until rejoining the group

This is like 20 thousand years ago! And the joy and happiness of going to water made this child playfully skip along! It’s universal! Dancing their way back to their family!

In a language we will never hear, a culture we’ll never know, with thoughts and ideas we can only imagine! There are millennia of untold moments of happiness, of human connection and warmth that are gone forever. But they still happened! Did that family even notice the tracks they left? How could they have known that that one day their impossibly distant descendants would be able to see the imprints they made?

Another set of tracks in the same area shows three men hunting a giant kangaroo, running at incredible speeds, but one of them had only one foot! They jumped along on one foot, every so often an imprint from a stick appearing. How did they lose their limb? An accident? A fight? A predator? Was it completely gone or maimed? Was it from birth? Either way this person was cared for by their family and was able to heal and participate fully in life! They most likely felt grief when their family member lost the use of their limb! Who cared for them? Who gave them the stick to help them walk? What kind of joy did their family feel when they made a recovery? Did someone shape and carve the stick? They certainly worked all of their other wooden tools, something as essential that would have been too.

This was during the ice age when Australia became a brutally cold, dry desert. Their entire food system had to change. By all indications it should have been a stark and difficult life of little resources. But no! They worked together! They looked after their wounded and sick! The speed that these hunters were running at was incredible and means they were well fed and healthy! A millennia of helping one another and caring for one another and all we can get are tiny glimpses of these moments did they catch the kangaroo did they laugh and congratulate each other when they did how happy were they to bring it back to their families I just

biggest betrayal is when it’s supposed to thunderstorm and it doesn’t

A very important talk

If you are American and use a period tracker app, download your data and delete it.

Consumer Reports

What Your Period Tracker App Knows About You

As period tracker apps grow in popularity, so do concerns about what happens to the very personal information they share. Consumer Reports e

Mother Jones

Meet abortion bans' new best friend: your phone

When it comes to reproductive rights, your digital trail matters more than you think.

"News coverage of digital forensics often celebrates its role in prosecuting serious felonies. But when it comes to reproductive rights, Conti-Cook says, the same tools “will be a powerful [asset] to police and prosecutors in a more criminalized landscape” for abortion seekers." [Mother Jones]

"Unlike medical records held by doctors and hospitals, the information collected by health-focused apps isn’t covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a 1996 federal law that limits where healthcare providers can share your health information.

That means health app makers are mostly free to do what they want with the data they collect. [...]

What’s more, even when your data is de-identified by removing identifiable information such as your name or email address, it can be combined with other information—such as your location, contacts, or unique identifiers in your phone—and traced back to you, research suggests." [Consumer Reports]

Twitter thread from user @nandoodles about men in adtech who want to sell your period app data to law enforcement:

If you don't think these people won't use your data against you, I advise you to reconsider in light of Texas's offering bounties. And that there's other states considering offering bounties and vigilantism as well.

I'm sorry, this is not fair and I know it's a pain in the ass to have to note all your info yourself in a journal, but it's better to NOT give these people another tool to exert control over the bodies of people possessing the potential (regardless of how remote) for pregnancy.

Also: support your local abortion funds. Cash is a more difficult trail to follow. https://abortionfunds.org/ways-to-give/