Authority is brittle. It breaks. The day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Never give up and never concede in advance.

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

my kink is seeing fascists lose

Pagan Peer Counseling Learning Community is this Sunday April 12, 10am PT! Everyone is welcome! ⭐ 🍎 ⭐ houseofapples.org/learningcommunity #houseofapples #pagansky #witchsky #polytheist #peercounseling #skillbuilding #witch #heathen #community #personalgrowth #freeevents #onlineevents #counseling

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

New blog post: "Obscuring the Data: Noncompliance in an Age of Oppression" offers ideas from a pagan who works full-time in nonprofit crisis services on how individual members of our faith communities can contribute while doing the work they're already doing. houseofapples.org/blog/noncomp...

Get 'em while you can! During the month of April, grab something cozy for yourself and support our pagan education programs in the process: domestic violence, peer counseling training, and more. ❤️ bonfire.com/store/house-of-apples/ #Paganism #Polytheism #PeerCounseling

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Also, if you're in the Bay Area, I’ll be presenting a talk on the topic of Tattoo Magic, September 25, as part of the Adocentyn Research Library’s 2026 Speaker Series. Tickets and info at adocentynlibrary.org #pagansky #witchsky

This year, I'll be attending Mystic South to present on my favorite topic - ritual tattoos! Who will I see there? #pagansky #witchsky

It’s like they designed this game just for me

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Tomorrow! #pagansky #witchsky

Shoulder section of what will become a full Celtic/Pictish sleeve in blue tones. My favorite style to work in - all freehand-drawn on the body to fit the body’s form organically. For an SCA medievalist friend. #tattoo #celtictattoo

This recent piece is all hand-poked, a style I offer for client who want a more ancestral experience. Celtic spirals with upward reach in leading forms and downward reaching root networks. #tattoo #celtictattoo #handpoketattoo

A little piece from my flash, always a favorite! #tattoo

To whet our appetites for my forthcoming book, I've posted the Table of Contents in a blog post. So many juicy topics - can't wait to share this with you. #amwriting #tattoo #pagansky #witchsky www.bansheearts.com/blog/preview...

Starting soon in April, @houseofapples.bsky.social will be fundraising to fund our educational mission. You can get rad goodies and support DV training and certification, peer counseling education, and lots more!

For anyone curious, this is the brilliant Professor Yvonne Chireau, who talked about her role in "Sinners" here: religiondispatches.org/2025/04/24/i...

I’m excited to share this cover reveal for my upcoming new book: Ink & Blade, coming January 2027 from Llewellyn. I worked so hard on this and I’m really proud of what I’ve created. Can’t wait to share it with you all. Pre-orders opening later this year!

My friend Thorn writes cozy mystery novels when they’re not writing transformational spiritual guides. Sometimes a cozy mystery is just what you need. These involve clever Corgis who solve mysteries. You know you need some of that!!! On kickstarter now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tho...

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

New Jersey, I salute you. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

THE KEY TO THE DEAD DREAMING CITY HAS BEEN FOUND. SOON THE OLD ONES SHALL ARISE.

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

Any authors/artists feeling weird about doing self-promotion right now: I'm actually kind of begging you to bring some of your unique creation to my timeline. Not just as a distraction, but because art is a tool for building empathy--it's the way we learn to see the world through other eyes.

Our very own Natasha Sumner's book will be published next week by Princeton University Press! Heroes of the Gael traces the evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song over 1,400 years. You can pre-order now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

I don’t care at all about football but I watched Bad Bunny and it was lit. It was the most loving and joyful way to say “fuck the fascists, I love my people and you can’t make me stop.” Also Puerto Rico has been through a LOT and they deserve joy and reparations.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Historian on a podcast pointing out that the reason medieval Europe never came up with an effective answer to the lethality of Eurasian horse archers was bc of class stratification of political economy: archery was for peasants, horses were for rich knights. Biggest self-own of the millennium y/n?

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

I FINISHED, Y’ALL!!! It is 109,000 words and 5,000 of them are my ridiculously huge bibliography cause bitches love books #amwriting

Heya friends I’m in the last 2 weeks of a book revision deadline & social media doesn’t help productivity so I’m gonna be mostly offline till I’m out of book jail. Be good to each other, keep fighting the good fight & don’t let the fash get you down. We are gonna beat them. GLACIES DELENDA EST

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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Wake up babe, new Iron Age war carnyx just dropped www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

The energy I’m bringing into 2026

The compelling temptation to consume a load of these mushrooms in a ringfort on a moonlit night

Once a year a YouTuber should be knocked out in a public spectacle at the solstice. An offering to the gods.

I don't know who needs to hear this but withholding medicine from groups of people out of animus for their class is a UN textbook definition of genocide.

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy LOL Apt given my history with medieval armored combat

Fuck anyone who voted for or supported this. They are enemies of humanity. We don’t throw human rights to the wolves.

I don’t understand why none of these lists I’ve seen yet have featured an episode of Andor. The one with the funeral procession on Ferrix broke television for me, it was that good.

I know I beat this drum a lot. It's kind of the one true thing about me that I've always known even when on autopilot living the wrong life in the worst town. If you even kinda think you have it in you, Make Something. Anything. Create. It makes existing worth it.

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