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domesticwitch:

thewinterotter:

auspisstice:

auspisstice:

science side of tumblr why do all of us mentally ill ppl like storms so much

@revelationed said:
Rain/moving water has negative ions which cause a biochemical reaction that reduces stress. It’s the same reason people feel more at peace on beaches or by waterfalls. We spend most of our lives surrounded by positive ions created by electronics and recirculated air. A study by Columbia University showed that negative ions can have the same affect as antidepressants.

thank u science side of tumblr

ARE YOU SHITTING ME RIGHT NOW

All the more reason for me to start practicing weather magick. ☔⚡

This is all new to me! Thank you Tumblr.

After I bought my two big decks, I saw this listing on eBay. And I figured, what the heck? It’s about three bucks. It’s called either Destiny Tarot or Secret of Destiny Tarot, depending on which part of the box you read.

If the whole deck had been like the minor arcarna, I probably wouldn’t have bothered. They’re essentially pip cards. the pictures don’t mean anything. The whole suit of swords have swords, and the Ace, King, Queen, Knight and Page of Cups have cups, but none of the Wands or Pentacles have symbology. They’re just anime girls, not posed to be anything other than pictures of girls.

Why I bought this deck? The major arcana. The listing didn’t even have pictures of the whole deck, but those major cards I could see and identify? I loved. See The Hanged Man? How she’s hanging, but in a delicate cradle of roots or branches. And the Sun, Moon, and Star? The Star is my card. And I looked at that eBay listing with a picture of that tiny, spiral galaxy in a bottle… I bought the deck on the strength of that card alone.

As you can see, especially from my first post, it’s tiny! The cards are literally half the size of my Celtic Dragon Tarot. They’re significantly smaller than playing cards. The card stock is thin, but it feels nice and the printing is lovely quality. As you can see from the closeups, there’s a super subtle patterning of almost black on black like wallpaper behind all the images. And ignore the listing, this is a FULL 78 CARD DECK. Actually, it’s 80, because there are two cards with information on them of some kind, and a paper information booklet. No idea what they say, because they’re in Chinese, but comparing the page headers with the symbols on the cards made me able to sort out the major arcana, which, unlike the minor, didn’t have any English at all. The 22 cards, as far as I can tell are a standard Rider/Waite/Smith order, and range from fairly conventional depictions (Wheel of Fortune) to unconventional (Strength – Thor’s Hammer, The Chariot – a lightning charged snapping turtle with a clubbed tail).

Was it worth it? Absolutely. It was cheap. It’s portable. It’s got some lovely unconventional cards and it’s going to help me to learn how to identify my minor arcana just based on the suit and number rather than the pictures, and therefore interpret without that prompting. And as a bonus, they got to me about a month sooner than eBay thought they might. 🙂

So, replacing my teenage deck feels like coming home.

I just love watercolour art – I grew up reading the Alan Lee illustrated Lord of the Rings – and I also love decks that aren’t as focussed on people, because as a queer person, most decks I saw as a young person were incredibly heteronormative. I didn’t get that vibe from the Celtic Dragon Tarot. The fantasy art, the grounded earthiness of the pictures, felt a lot more like something that spoke to me than the traditional Rider/Waite/Smith decks or Angel cards that were pretty much all I could find otherwise in my town’s New Age shops in the ‘90s.

The minor arcana are just as lovely as the major, and the four suits have subtle elemental imagery woven in – wands/air, swords/fire, cups/water, and pentacles/earth. It feels like a really calming deck to me, and I have to admit that I like that the light colours will balance out against the two other decks, both of which are fairly dark.

I’m just so happy to have my deck back.

New decks! YAAAS

So, I ordered some decks.

The Celtic Dragon Tarot was my first deck. I was a teenager. I’ve forgotten whether it was a gift or I bought it myself. But I loved it, and it was one of the many things I lost that I thought was stored safely at my mother’s house. (It wasn’t.) So, I decided I needed to replace it. It’s anchored to a very specific time of my life.

The Wild Unknown Tarot spoke to my self as I am now. I clicked with it immediately. I knew I’d work well with it, even with it coming from the other side of the world, just having seen pictures.

And then there was the tiny deck I impulse-bought from eBay for like, $3. 🙂

So far, just the tiny deck and the Celtic Dragon Tarot have arrived. So here are some pics! (I hit Tumblr’s image limit trying to post the detailed deck pics, so I’m going to post those separately.)

jabberwockypie:

PTSD is your brain trying to make sure you DON’T DIE.

Humans are really good at adapting so that we don’t die.  That’s kind of our whole *THING*.  We adapt.

If something BAD and SCARY and DANGEROUS happens, your brain tries to teach you to react better next time.  If the Bad Scary Dangerous thing happens a lot, that’s reinforcing it.  With CPTSD, the Bad Scary Dangerous thing happened often enough and frequently enough that your whole psyche developed around it.

You learn to notice the tiny things that signal the Bad Scary Dangerous Thing might happen – even if you don’t consciously know that you know that – so that you are braced to react and defend yourself.  They become triggers so that you are primed to respond.

Hypervigilance? Better to panic unnecessarily than to get dead because you didn’t recognize a threat in time, right?  It’s uncomfortable and a waste of energy but you’re not dead.

Nightmares about the Bad Thing?  Dreams are PRACTICE.  You are trying to learn how to react better or faster or more effectively next time.

Avoidance? Dissociating is better than just completely breaking and shutting down entirely.

The thing is, even if you are not in that situation anymore, your brain did not get the memo.  It is trying! But it takes a lot of work to convince it that “No really, it is safe now!”

I guess what I’m saying is cut yourself some slack.  You are doing your best and you’re not dead. ❤

Back atcha, sweetie. You said it better than me, and you need to hear it from someone besides yourself. (I know I do.)

wendigocanada:

holahydra:

I need to talk about the fact that Bucky’s still got his right hand 100% free and could be punching Spider Man into next Tuesday already. But he still stood frozen, looking shocked as all fucks and lemme tell you right now that that was not because someone’s managed to block his metal fist because lbr the metal arm was never unstoppable before, especially when super-enhanced/-equipped people are involved – so basically he doesn’t take that punch cus he’s actually just now able to hear the other guy’s voice and it clicks that this is just a fucking k i d

#THANK YOU SOMEBODY FOR SAYING THIS OTHER THAN ME#LIKE THANK FUCKING CHRIST SOMEBODY REMEMBERS THAT THIS IS A GUY WHO STOOD UP FOR ITTY BITTY STEVE SINCE CHILDHOOD#AND NOW HE HEARS THIS ITTY BITTY VOICE AND IS LIKE#FUCK IT’S A BABBY I CANNOT HIT THE BABBY HE IS SMOL WHY IS HE OUT RISKING HIS LIFE WHERE IS HIS GUARDIAN RN#WHY IS HE NOT IN SCHOOL FFS

Those tags. ^^

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

a quick reminder, not that there are many people who’ll see this:

sometimes someone won’t reblog a post that says something like “reblog if X matters to you” or “if you won’t reblog this bc it doesn’t fit your blog, unfollow me” or similar posts because the post is guilt tripping and they know that sort of thing either a) sets off their own anxiety, or b) sets off the anxiety of people following them.  Or because it’s a social media post that they are actually under no obligation to share even if they agree with it.

obviously there are certain issues, like when someone reblogs a lot of social justice stuff from you but never anything about one particular topic (i see this a lot with posts about antisemitism, from a lot of the jumblr people i follow), but in general, don’t assume someone is taking some sort of stance just because they didn’t reblog one particular post.

this psa brought to you by i don’t mind when the blogs i follow reblog stuff like that, but i almost never will bc i know it sets off people’s anxiety and i disagree with the guilt tripping tone most of them take.

I wrote a meta post on this very topic HERE in February about why these kinds of guilt and shaming comments are harmful, and why I won’t reblog posts containing them.

Excite

So two of the three decks I ordered arrived this morning! The Celtic Dragon Tarot (replacement for the first deck I had when I was a teenager that got destroyed) and a super cheap tiny deck from China bought on eBay called Destiny Tarot/Secret of Destiny Tarot. They’re both lovely, and I’ve taken a bunch of pictures that I’ll post later. So happy! Now I’m just waiting on the one that is brand new to me and speaks to my adult soul, The Wild Unknown Tarot.