Tori the Kitchen Witch

Genderfluid, They/Them-- Learning how to be a person instead of a walking mirror/echo.

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

So...my mom kind of made a total 180? I haven't talked to her for years, and next thing I know, my sister is telling me about the community-oriented LGBTQ+ safe space plant store she opened that also sells crystals and stuff?! 🤯😵‍💫

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

I've been struggling to find the words about Manhunt, but I think I found the core of my feelings about it: it's honest. That book tells the fucking truth. It's dressed in a post-apocalyptic setting, but you can see our reality so very clearly.

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

This is one of the reasons I loved the book. Any of those tidier endings would have felt...wrong. I know it's fiction, and you can make whatever reality you want, but the rest of it is such a raw (and beautiful) wound, you can't just slap a bandaid on it, you know?

[Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable]

A lot of readers get upset that the characters in MANHUNT don't cure the virus or beat the bad guys for good or come up with a way for the human race to keep procreating safely. I get a lot of "why do these people want to keep living?"

What do you think it's like to be queer?

[Chelsea Gaither; cohost/@cwgaither @CWGaither]

Sometimes I wonder if the shadowy government groups like the CIA/NSA ever play "Writer or murderer" when they find a questionable search history.

"Hey George, I think we got another one. 'Ways to dispose of a body', followed by 'how to make acid'."

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

That fucking gut-punch moment I forgot my exes made a "household" Insta (🤮), but there it fucking is, displaying pics of my old room being redone and absolutely no one giving a crap about how the vacancy just "magically" opened up. 🙄😒
Fuck. Them.

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@JanetteKirchner I actually taught myself to write backwards when I was in high school! My penmanship isn't particularly neat, but it's actually better backwards once you flip the page over and read it as normal. 🤣

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

Okay, one of my absolute favourite storytelling tropes in TTRPGs is the self-generated rumor mill, where you pick some detail about your character's life/backstory and change it whenever someone asks. I fucking love doing that.

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@HyperfocusBren They look sooooo soft. 🥰

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@prufrocke I love this phase in cutting/growing hair! It is the Time of Perfect Bedhead(™️).😌🥰

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@HillaryMonahan So. Much. Worse. 😭

I get paranoid, unreasonably irritable, and my RSD has a freaking hair trigger.

My current gyno put me on an antidepressant (something no other doctor has ever offered me before), and it's helping SO MUCH. 🥹

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@SpychalaM @KameronHurley That is the book I fantasize about hurling at misogynists. Best case, they open it up and are wowed/horrified; worst case, they get a concussion (Oh noooo).

I am currently working through The Burning God by @kuangrf. Pacing myself because I'm not ready for the end. 😭

[René Brooks | Black Girl, Lost Keys @blkgirllostkeys]

Enjoying your life is not a reward for having your housework done.

[halcy | moved! 🦋 @halcy_online]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @AletheaKontis]

It’s that last one. Always.

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@anlachabhacach @lindsayfickas My Christian school threw a harvest fest as a Halloween alternative, and they allowed Bible-related costumes.

I dressed as Lazarus. That was 20 years ago, and I STILL can't believe my mom let me do that. 🤣

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@zencoffeebreak @lindsayfickas Possible theories: diversity on screen, Spanish vocab, some Christians get weird about puppets?, controversial guests, general paranoia about secular children's programs...

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@morgankbell @lindsayfickas One teacher at my Christian middle school said it was because Pokémon = "pocket monsters," and monsters = demons.

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

@Camivette @lindsayfickas I babysat for a family with kids that went to the same Christian school I did, and I had to assure them that the bowing in my tkd class wasn't an act of idolatry and promise that I used the meditation time for prayer.

[Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @AletheaKontis]

The kids are all right. ❤️

[Tori the Kitchen Witch @VictoriaSilenus]

Me on dating app: I'm a cute little eclectic Pagan observing the Winter Solstice!
Chatting Partner: Cool. Tell me more!
Me: Well, I like to think about the Why of practices because of Exvangelical trauma. Isn't Christian supremacy insidious and scary?
Me:...🤦🏽‍♀️ Crap.

[Jessie Earl @jessiegender]

*All artists screw up; great artists grow up.