The artist of the “Rider-Waite” Tarot deck was a woc named Pamela Colman Smith, also nicknamed “Pixie,” and it’s so weird to me how it’s not more colloquially known as the Waite-Smith deck since Rider was just the publisher. I will now only be referring to it as such.
@Bookwormyofbend A gorgeous teal accompanies her flight down the stairs, flowing as water, or silk, or cockroaches towards the depths below. Follow the path she took, it will not be a pleasant way, but it shall be the safest.
We huddle about the embers of summer, seeing such sights in the turning of the seasons. I am afraid and there is so much I cannot do, but in that fear and powerlessness, a moment of insight.
And I may share it with you, if you wish.
@mirriammeredith A click, a skip, and with a splash, no one sees it disappear beneath the water's surface. We do not see the slow, graceful descent. We do not see the things that find it upon the water's floor. We do not see the fascination it evokes.
@zoevflach The string wraps tighter about the finger, stretching out and fraying into its individual fibers in the way the spider's web may catch prey. With a single curl of your twine ring, what curiosity may fall within the web's grasp?
@finnelseed The bold little wren lies dead, dead, dead in the grass. What a complete relaxation is decay, what a relieving sigh. Even the king of birds deserves a rest, and the raiment of their slumber shall be the wind on their bones, with a crown of grass blades.
@nonbinarybutler He lives in the slap of a sneaker upon the concrete, the cracks in the crumbling brick wall, the growth of moss down the old lead pipe. A pavement pariah, quietly gathering the small unobservables of the city for their meager uses.
Hey California friends!! I just voted NO on this BS recall. There’s an absolute clown car of MAGA whackjobs on the ballot who will turn California into Florida if we don’t stop them!
Your ballots in the mail! Vote today!! You have until the 14th! 🗳
Help gurl, gurl help, I am once more daydreaming of being whisked away to a white picket fenced house to live out my days as a trophy housewife and I can’t stop
Do I have any CHICAGO friends that would be willing to house my two best friends in the whole world for a night in early august on their way to move to Boston???