Top Five Pies: Chocolate pecan pie Coconut cream pie Tomato pie Key lime pie Peach pie ONLY IF made with fresh, in-season peaches - otherwise, apple.

Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 - Susanna Clarke, *Piranesi* One movie 🎥 - *Suspira* (2019, dir. Luca Guadagnino) One album 💿 - The Decemberists, *The Hazards of Love* One TV Show 📺 - *Russian Doll* (2019, 2022)

My grandmother gave me both *Jane Eyre* and *The Mists of Avalon* in my sixth grade year. (She didn't really know what she was giving me, with the latter, just "Oooh! Arthurian book from the women's perspective!") ...and the rest is, well, me.

We made a few different attempts at/iterations on *kykeon* as described in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. This is a thing I've been wanting to fuck around with for a goodly while - not as a scholar or even a reconstructionist, but as a sometimes-pedantic text-nerd. SO. 🧶

Beginning @thewordwitch.bsky.social 's *Queer Devotion* tonight, and I love that I'm reveling in the chapter on Aphrodite after spending the day thinking on last year's Pride month ritual dedicated to Kybele...and planning for this year's to Inanna.

The biscuits and gravy from a little place in the then-rundown downtown area of my hometown. The sausage had *permeated* the gravy, and it was worth getting up early to have it before school. I've never since had their equal.

Third night of having @thewordwitch.bsky.social 's Gay Marseille deck among my offerings when reading at @arcanadurham.bsky.social . Third night of saying, to myself and my clients, "I am so glad I have this deck, for this particular moment." (I hate that I need it. But I'm glad I have it.)

Today is Rejoicing In Witchy Shit Day! Both my armband from @satyrmagos.bsky.social and my linen GORGEOUSNESS from @morningwitch.com arrived today!

A collection of my basic, most-used tools. A collage icon I made for Kybele, for a Pride Month ritual in Her honor. Me, all garbed up, post-solstice ritual at the queer/lesbian tarot-themed bar where I read and do community ritual.

Hated list, first: Lord of the Flies, All Quiet on the Western Front, For Whom The Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth. I REALLY hated Hemingway, ok.

Gonna (non-traditionally) wassail some (non-apple) fruit trees tonight. Thinking of you and yours, @lissaharris.bsky.social . <3 Well may you bloom and well may you bear!

@rahaeli.bsky.social - IF you have time and energy, do you have any thoughts/resources on balancing the drying effect of antihistamines with caring for/increasing vocal strength and fluency? I remember you talking about your vocal training for theater, and thought you might have Opinions.

This homegrown version of a classic brought to you by my rain-swollen gals who were literally bursting with enthusiasm to be plucked.

List five things you wanted to be growing up: 1. Ballet dancer 2. Nurse (very short-lived) 3. Physical therapist (because ballet dancer was unlikely) 4. Professor of English Literature 5. Priestess of an ancient order

Now that I've dried my eyes and thoroughly blown my nose, I can tell y'all how wonderful, hilarious, painful, hot, and comforting @meakoopa.bsky.social 's *Dayspring* is. Or, I can't, really, there's too much to say. But it was one of those books that felt like it was written just for me.

This is one of my absolute favorite pieces of ritual tech, particularly for group rituals. It does what it says on the tin, every time - all the better if the participants have rattles/other hand percussion. It has also helped me think about how else to use high-energy call and response liturgy.

Did I *expect* my meeting with a local hospital chaplain re: resources for supporting pagan patients to result in being gifted a copy of this article? No. Am I thrilled about it? EXTREMELY.

Tell me where you were born using just one image of food. (My preference is a chipped ham with cheese and cheddar rounds, but I couldn't find a picture of that.)

My friend: Please send good vibes that I find my lost keys! Me, an utterly normal person: I am figuratively holding the baby Jesus hostage until St. Anthony helps you find your key.

Spouse and I were looking at excursions for the trip we're taking (gods willing) later in spring. Me: Oooh, this one about Jewish culture in Prague looks good! Spouse: *reserves it without question* 1/2

10 (musical) artists to get to know me: The Watersons The Doors The Indigo Girls Azam Ali/Vas/Niyaz The Decemberists Florence + the Machine Songs:Ohia Dead Can Dance Patti Smith CSNY (And so, so many more)

Seriously playful mythopoeic bacchant (aspiring)

My stickers from @unknownbinaries.bsky.social arrived (bottom left and top right), and I'm really delighted with them. The quote from *The Invisibles*, in particular, is important to me.

This is not particularly flirty, but I enjoyed the silliness of it. I am, here, demonstrating the use of an oft-overlooked tool in the practice of Kitchen Witchery: Þe Olde Wande ov Carrotte.

There are many poems I love, more that I like, and more still that I can appreciate. But there are a few that I carry, in their entirety, in my head and heart. One of them is "Love Is Not All (Sonnet XXX)" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's late in the season for first fruits, and SUPER late for figs, but please don't tell that to my new little fig tree. I'm so deeply delighted by how gorgeous this fruit is.

There are SO many, from C.S. Lewis (I KNOW, but once a Queen in Narnia, etc.) to the fanfic writer whose work left me much better prepared to be a good friend and support to my plural friends, when I eventually met them. But I think I wanna talk a little bit about Sierra Simone.

Ritual outfit from a few days ago - but I was *very* happy with it.

Carmen Maria Machado: “Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror”

Introduce yourself with three books you love: (Novel version - impossible to choose ONLY three, etc.) *Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Brontë *Till We Have Faces* by C.S. Lewis *Spear* by Nicola Griffith

It's overcast and cool (by my locale's standards), so it's clearly Soup Season. I get so excited every time I get to pop out into the front yard for fresh herbs.

Friday reminder that: - you deserve pleasure today - the call to freedom is never an individual call and -when we love, we survive need a sermon about it (featuring some Janelle Monae exegesis)? @solomonmissouri.bsky.social's got you check out "Reframing Sex" on Patreon (no sub req!)

Performance reviews are *brutal* for everyone, apparently. Also, in the post-Toast world, I am deeply grateful to still have Daniel Lavery writing humor. www.thestopgap.net/do-you-think...

I do not remember the last time I had a Large, Ugly Cry over a book like I recently had over *Wrath Goddess Sing*. I'm full of questions I'd like to pelt the author with, but more than that I'm really grateful to both the author and audiobook narrator for ripping my heart wide open.

When one's profession is, in part at least, 'diviner', this is about as professional as it (currently) gets.

Finished? I think? I'm pretty proud of how this came out, even if the shape leaves something to be desired. I know how I'd fix it, if I tried it again, but I'm pretty content with it as it is, for now. Please excuse my eternal clutter.

@lissaharris.bsky.social It's a relief to me that you sealion about being the swordfighting consultant on Gideon, because I DEFINITELY tell everyone about that very fact, at the slightest chance.

Ok, this is more soup witch than herb witch, but my front yard made this, and I'm ridiculously thrilled.

Second attempt at a liknon - I like this one mostly better than my first attempt. The construction's better, even if the shape of the flatter part is less flared and therefore less pleasing, so far.

This is a whole thing, and something that's both near and dear to my heart...aaand tells you a goodly bit about me. So there I was, fresh out of high school, summer before college in upper East TN. One of the churches I was attending was doing a Chronicles of Narnia Bible Study that summer. 1/?

It's too early for this kind of callout. ...she says, desperately attempting to ignore her list of probably-manageable tasks.

I watch a fair amount of horror (in recent years - I'm latecomer!), but I think Chuck Tingle's *Camp Damascus* is probably the first proper horror novel I've ever read. I enjoyed and appreciated so many things about it - not the least of which was the way the depiction of the church rang so true 1/2

Ok, I've been really enjoying Ariana Serpentine's *Sacred Gender* - and then I got to this bit, and stopped cold. It's so *obvious*, except that...I don't *think* about this with deities I'm uncomfortable with. FINE. I suppose I'll Deliberately Examine Things. Including Myself.

OnlyJoys, and I hope you enjoy enthusiastic yelling about queerness in myth and folklore, fucked-up folksongs, and eroticizing the shit that scares me.

Gotta write on the first page of the journal, I suppose. So, here it is. We return, and begin again.