Author: Madeira Darling

Madeira Darling is a snarky mystic, devout Satanist, serious Marxist, laughing dominatrix, and writer from San Fransisco where they live with their boyfriend in a house full of altars to their various demons.

Also my dog is a manipulative little shit

My parent’s dog Fiona is a dog aggressive but generally sweet Amstaff, and he’d intentionally piss her off when we were visiting over Thanksgiving (in sneaky ways by like sleeping in her bed or innocently playing with her toy) and she’d get aggressive and get put in her crate and he’d get all the attention.

Also when they’re playing outside and she has a toy he wants, he’ll roll over on his back so she comes to show him who’s boss, and then he’ll run off and grab the toy because he’s a sneaky little shit.

La Llorona in Juvenile Hall on JSTOR

this is SO interesting also The White Lady Of Elysian Park’s story and how it’s evolved since then (Now she’s often specifically a Pachuca murdered by WWII sailors) says a lot about… a lot of stuff.

It’s also really really REALLY heart wrenching and I don’t recommend you read it if you’re not in a space to deal with it right now (it has a lot of stuff that relates deeply to issues of class, race, and gender, and just like… I wish I could help and protect every “bad” teenage girl out there)

La Llorona in Juvenile Hall on JSTOR

You Know…

I find that when you include trans women in your analysis of stuff that’s supposedly only an issue for cis women you actually get a way more complete and nuanced picture of the shape of patriarchy.

Like reproductive coercion often including forcible sterilization of trans women (as well as other groups of women the patriarchy hates especially hard), and like I was just thinking about how things considered to be “initiations into womanhood” are often socially considered to be marked by blood (menarche, loss of virginity) and then I realized that gender confirmation surgery for trans women is discussed a lot more than it is for trans men and talked about in terms a great deal bloodier and more violent than it is for trans men and I just think that’s really interesting (obviously one does not need to experience menarche, bleed during the loss of one’s virginity or lose one’s virginity at all, or go through gender confirmation surgery to be a woman, it’s just that society seems to consider these to be things that are initiatory into womanhood) so like basically whenever I think about stuff that’s supposed to be associated with uteruses and what not… I think there’s pretty much always something that’s like socially analogous that trans women go through and we’re never going to get rid of patriarchy if we don’t acknowledge that.

Actually One Thing That Bugs Me About A Lot of Tumblr Witch-y Stuff In General is The Way They Focus Only On Correspondences

cartomancyfancies:

And pay no attention to the physical properties of a given ingredient a lot of the time, like I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen people telling you to put citrus oils or citrus juice in beauty spells and considering how absolutely AWFUL citrus is for the skin (citrus oils are also known to be particularly bad photosensitizers.) you really don’t want to use these in beauty spells that are applied to the skin in large areas.

Similarly, the thing with perfume the other day where it’s put in direct sunlight which is terrible for the perfume itself is just a great way to ruin your spell components.

Also I’ve seen more than a few tumblr witches recommend peppermint for an upset stomach which can be good (for gas, IBS and some other conditions) or bad (for acid reflux, or heart burn).

Basically, I wish tumblr witches would pay more attention to the physical properties of their ingredients as well as the metaphorical correspondences useful in sympathetic magic.  You need a synthesis of the two for a good spell.  Make sure you’re not harming what you’re trying to help and try using components in other ways if they turn out not to work well in a given context.

misscherrylikesthediscourse:

optimistic-pepperoni:

ugh this dude was wanting findom so I was like yeeeah quids in, but then it turns out what he actually wants is to be pimped out to bbc…um no fucking thank you, probably should mention that bit first eh dickhead??

“Make me your whore” clients are the best. Like I’m gonna risk a pimping charge and do all your admin work when nobody wants to pay to fuck a middle aged man in the first place???

I HATE THESE GUYS SO MUCH!

Also like “Dude the kind of guys you wanna get fucked by? Those are the kind of guys a guy like you has to pay”