I know this is a radical position that will probably enrage people But hear me out: What if this thing we call autism is just the way some peoples’ brains work Not an illness. Not a brain injury. Not a defect. Some. Peoples’. Brains. Are. Different. And they don’t need to be fixed

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

I get why so many witches are Circe fans but don’t ignore her sister Pasiphae, who had at least one cult center where she was worshipped as a prophetic goddess and also did a curse on her husband to make him cum scorpions when he cheated on her.

Is it another Rapture today? Can I maybe look forward to not having to deal with Christian Nationalists as they all get whisked away? We should be so lucky.

I like to imagine soft tissue on dinosaurs that doesn’t show up in paleoart because we don’t have impressions of it. Like imagine a tyrannosaur with big flappy jowls, like absolute meat flaps that slap around every time it moves its head.

The sad truth is a lot of ppl just sort of don't have inviolate principles they'd be willing to die for, and in fact they think you and me are the weirdos for having them. And these are the people who run the government and most of the major institutions.

Hermes Psychpompos 💀🔮🪽🏺

I still can’t get over the fact that a lot of people think that it’s simply the wrong people being murdered and the wrong people being put in camps and if we murdered the right people and put the right people in camps everything would be good.

There’s just not enough trans women named Debbie. It’s a perfectly good name, get on it.

It’s scary, it’s dangerous, it’s hard, but it’s not hopeless. If your hope was in the government doing the right thing as a whole, it wasn’t founded on solid ground. Institutions will be corrupt, they will be cruel, and they will fail. You have to place that hope in other things.

Something else I want to point out here - DESPAIR IS A WEAPON OF THE ENEMY. They WANT us clear and afraid and miserable, because ONLY those circumstances allow fascism to thrive! When we spread doom, when we tell each other it’s hopeless, we are SERVING THEIR CAUSE.

My astrological solar return was last night and the chart speaks of victory over adversity, further reworking of career and how I carry myself in the world, and creative communication, all things I could use (I mean I’m tired of the reworking but I’m also used to it at this point).

Hey, do you like books? That's what I write. You should read mine, and give me money for them so I can spend the money on like food and that type of crap. Or whatever www.patreon.com/natalieirons...

Back before social media there was nonsense that “everybody knew” that would be passed down as deep wisdom and the thing is it annoys me more nowadays when I can tell you the name of the person on Tumblr who spread the bad idea in the first place.

Only been back on Bluesky for fifteen minutes and it is not less caustic and toxic than when I left, and I say this with full awareness that most scrolling social media is worse.

I am as far from Christian as you can get, I like to say that Jesus had plenty of chances but never made an impression, but I have a soft spot for Hildegard von Bingen and apparently it’s her special day so maybe I’ll light a candle for her and the Living Light. I just think she’s cool, really.

I wrote a pithy post about me struggling to write about Pagan stuff right now on account of a huge re-sorting that has been going on for me spiritually. My polytheist practice is still important to me; however I want it to be /right/ for me and it’s not right now. People took the post the wrong way

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

Social media is an extra-helly kind of hellhole today, isn’t it?

These are good folks who do good work, please help support them in it!

It’s not considered political violence to round up people and put them in concentration camps. It’s not considered political violence to fund ethnic cleansing and genocide. Very interesting what’s considered political violence and deemed unacceptable.

It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.

Rochester! 💪 I miss that city. Good job!

Yall need to stop writing science fiction. It’s giving people ideas. We have too many Torment Nexuses already, we don’t need any more.

Being trans is great, but it would nicer during a time when my mere existence is not a form of protest

i think most people understand by now how transition and abortion are fundamentally the same rights, but just to highlight: trans care shield laws function the same way as repro shield laws (often literally in the same statutory provisions), just as the legal attacks on both are cross-pollinated.

No matter who you are or what you do if you make an effort to accomplish things there will be useless people who have not done these things talking shit about you. Don’t let that hold you back. When they talk shit take comfort in knowing you did something while all they did was flap their gums.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

My appreciation for this app improved significantly when I stopped using the Discover function. Algorithm created feeds are bad for my brain, and sticking with stuff my follows share does mean I get exposed to new accounts to follow now and then.

I want liberation for everyone. Not just the people I like, the people who like me, or the people in my communities. I want free food and housing and healthcare and education and representation for EVERYONE. Human rights are for EVERYONE. And if you hate my guts, I want those things for you too.

#WitchSky #WitchMadness I'm really pleased with how this turned out

Cybele, Kybele. Goddess of #WitchMadness I picked up some finer carving knives. I need to sharpen them but they do excellent detail work. #WitchSky

o queen whom the drum delights! 💃🏻🦁🏔️🦁💃🏻

i’m not sure i’ve ever felt as seen as this

I realized today that if reading a book upset and hurt me as much as scrolling social media does regularly I simply would put that book down and not read it again.

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

The utter exhaustion of overwork required to just afford to live in America makes it so hard to resist fascism. Which is of course the point, and how we got here, and why they will just make it worse on us all. Which is yet another reason our message has to be around basic income, free housing etc.

If you’re complaining about how the younger generations are representing your liberatory movement, you’re wrong. They’re facing different issues and reacting to different problems. Partly because of you! That’s not bad, it’s natural.

Image of Kybele seated on a throne flanked by two lions, holding a pomegranate in one hand and a frame drum in the other. On the back is an image of two pine trees, like that found at her shrine in a temple of Aesclepius. sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1503... #Pagan #HelPol #QueerArtist #BSNM

I grew up with Kids in the Hall. This one hurts.

New Astro post on my blog!

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

I’m doing mostly astrology writing these days because the planets are always moving around and there’s always something to say about them and the state of the world and our hearts. I haven’t had as much to say about Paganism lately, and things have been shifting significantly for me spiritually.

The vibe I’m getting of the early part of the Saturn retrograde is the worst people you know having a bad day, and the unpleasant things holding you back getting slick and slimy and slippery and I hope I’m right cause I feel like we could all use some of that.

Sad to report that I’ve found no good times for Mercury Virgo talismans this Virgo season. One of these years I’ll get to make one. Mercury is combust pretty much the whole time, and while there’s a cazimi (which I still don’t know how to feel about re talismans) it’s opposite a very unhappy Saturn

When that motherfucker does finally bite it it’s going to be this era’s JFK or Princess Diana. People will be like “I remember where I was when I heard. Grocery store, Safeway, 15th and 8th. I broke into dance and dropped my groceries and didn’t even care.”

I mute or block people for this. Nobody wants to see hate spread everywhere. Certainly not the people being affected by it.

My Patrons will be happy to know I’m finally back on schedule with astrology posts; new horoscopes for September dropped today, and will be up on my public blog September 1st!

Fufluns - yes, *Fufluns* - was the Etruscan god of wine, happiness, growth, and health, equivalent to the god Dionysos. The male Etrusco-Latin votive bronze statuettes below wear ivy leaf wreaths on their heads and may represent the god’s priests. Or a Frisbee league. #BritishMuseum 🏺