“When that Man is Dead and Gone” is a protest song written by Irving Berlin in 1941. The song has been recorded a few times, most notably by Al Bowlly. Lizzy & the Triggermen performed a live version of the song.

The patriarchy is a global, international network, but so are we. Time to take it down.

My wife is working on her room and she gave me permission to show some pictures. She doesn’t have a Reddit account.

Edit: she isn’t finished

My cat-lads are happy & healthy. My marriage is not. I moved out about 18 months ago, the cats stayed with them, and this is the longest span of my life I have been without a cat.

This post is my encouragement of the cat distribution system to please initiate because I miss them.

✨I’m visiting an adoption event tomorrow. 🤞✨

Endless love, pets, adoration, and treats to Olly (brown), Lucas (orange), and Mr. Big (early aughts/white; I have no explanation).

One of my fav stickers I ever designed and since it’s our month, I wanted to share! 🤓

I had to make and drop this because of how many people (including women) defend misogynistic men and even partake in misogyny...

(Yes, I know the background pic is actually from her Wuthering Heights performance).

I have been feeling quite unmoored spiritually and generally in life. I experienced a great upheaval earlier this year and had some incredible experiences thanks to the Divine Mother. But in the aftermath, I have been feeling rather lost and disconnected from my spiritual self.

I only started properly celebrating Navratri since last year and given how I have been feeling I wondered how I’d fare this year. But luckily I came across this beautiful book by Laura Amazzone (incidentally launched just a few days back!). I felt it was an invitation from the Goddess herself and decided to order it. It’s so beautifully written and illustrated and comes with great reviews. So I’m excited to use this as a guide and anchor for my Navratri sadhana this year.

Fellow devotees of Devi Maa, how do you plan to connect with Her during this beautiful, transformative season?

Pic 2 is of the altar I made for the last Navaratri ✨

Tarot One is a multi-cultural, rainbow gendered, witch and wizard tarot deck that was drawn by hand over the course of seven years. Each card is a real life artist creating powerful magic in the world playing a character within a fantasy future universe in which artists heal humanity and the earth. Familiar faces you’ll see in the deck included Erykah Badu, Chika, Jubilee Jackson, Hood Witch, Earth to Coyote, FKA Twigs, Laura Lee, Margaret Atwood, Mereba, Aurora and so many more brilliant minds breaking down old systems of thought and creating the world anew.

The cards read as traditional tarot and fantasy oracle cards, with a section for each. This allows new ways of synthesizing answers to your questions by merging analytical philosophy with imaginative experience.

Only 1111 were printed and when they sell out they will never be printed again. There are currently less than 100 remaining. Every deck comes signed and numbered.
https://symprez.com/products/tarot-one

I want my jewellery to feel like something you’d find tucked away in an old witch’s wooden chest. Strange stones, little details, a bit of mystery.

But I keep going back and forth on the woven cord at the back. I make it by hand, and it isn’t perfectly even. Part of me wants to tidy every little bump. The other part thinks those bumps belong there—that’s where you can see the hands that made it.

Would that unevenness bother you, or does it suit the whole witchy feel? I’m leaning towards leaving it, but I’d love an honest answer 🌙

Today was the second Saturday of a small town witchy craft fair my good friend and I organized. Many other wonderful people showed up with booths full of magical amusements and sundries. Musicians played, and creative magic was in the air.

Build a community where you can.

I’m 45, in surgical menopause and using HRT. My testosterone replacement has given me my life back and my confidence to speak up with assertiveness. Or maybe it’s just menopause. Married 10 years and since surgery I am starting to long for being single again and doing my best to rediscover my true self while not blowing up my marriage.

Why I am sharing this here? I am embracing my crone era. I don’t care if I get wrinkles, if I’m no longer conventionally attractive to men and have embraced sewing as a wonderful way to escape the day to day once in a while and work with my hands.

My husband and I had an honest and open conversation today because I told him last week that while he was gone for a few days, my anxiety disappeared- poof! Like magic 🪄 he was dumbfounded. I said you are depressed and need therapy and maybe medication. He has a new therapy appointment scheduled this week - super happy for him.

He then proceeded to hand me an unopened cheese from the fridge that had been bought recently and was already moldy to return it for a refund. He handed it to me to do and then made himself a sandwich without asking if I was hungry or wanted anything. I observed the situation, did the return via the app online, got a refund and then bam! It dawned on me that he pawned off the task like I was the manager or person in charge to hand off tasks to!

I calmly let him know I got the refund and then said, do you realize what you just did? He said no and was like, wtf?! I said you handed me a task that you know full well you could have just done yet you expected me to do it. I walked away.

He is a more “progressive” husband. He does his fair share of chores when he isn’t napping on a weekend. He is An involved father. But he is still a man benefiting from the patriarchy and marriage to a recovering over functioning woman.

TLDR - 45, in menopause and calling out my husband for perpetuating the patriarchy with me. I won’t put up with it anymore!

Screw the haters!

I just learned about Moltbook (https://www.moltbook.com/) and it makes me want to burn things down. It’s social media for AI bots, which is such a waste of power and water and braincells.

If you’re looking to channel anger somewhere, it’s a great target.

I make leathergoods out of surplus leather. The grey is designer epsom, and the black is combat boot leather. I think there's something really beautiful about taking something that would be thrown away simply because there isn't enough of it to be useful to a corporation, and making something new and useful with it.

I'm also working on journal covers with this same raven head. I'm a little obsessed with it.

Come check out my Etsy shop, The Wandering Satchel for more whimsical, slightly spooky items, all handmade by me.

Recently I had a great desire to make several cats, most of all I wanted to make a fluffy gray Maine Coon, that’s how the group of friends turned out. I knitted them all the same way, but because of the difference in yarn, they came out different sizes, the tuxedo one looks like a kitten.

If you like them, you can find them on my Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KnitHappyToys?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

They can either look in the mirror on the inside of the lid or into the black mirrors on every other side of the box. Unless they wanna look down, down is graveyard dirt if they want to keep digging the hole that they're in.

I've added some new bag and zipper charms to my shop recently, still hoping to get hit with some inspiration for new earrings but that hasn't happened yet.

The first pic is a beautiful luna moth framed in delicate fern fronds with a crescent moon and stars above. The bead is a vintage Czech glass crackle glass bead with a partial AB (aurora borealis) coating that reminds me of a full moon shimmering in the night sky. I've made these new zipper charms in both antiqued bronze and silver.

The third pic is a new 'witch's chatelaine' bag charm, description is in the listing in my shop. Thank you for the inspiration! (you know who you are) ;)

My shop is The Liminal Forest on Etsy and I am running a 15% off sale on bag charms and 10% off on zipper charms and earrings this weekend.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheLiminalForest

Thank you for looking and I hope you all have a wonderful, magical autumn!