Witch Tip

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if you’re writing an Irish character from Dublin city

- they’re not a farmer. Farmers tend to live in more rural counties, especially in the west of Ireland.

- a Dublin accent isn’t the Irish brogue that always appears in American movies. Listen to an interview with Brendan Gleeson or Colin Farrel. They’re Dublin accents.

- Dublin is not just one city. There are 24 areas, all just called Dublin One, Dublin Two, and so on. One and Two are the North and South of the city center. From then on, it’s mainly residential. Dublin Four has its own socio-economic identity, seen as very ‘posh’. The accent from here is also distinguishable from other accents in Dublin. 

- public transportation has various forms; buses, the Dart, the Luas, and commuters. Buses go all over. The Dart is the localized train that runs from North to South. The Luas is more specialized regarding destination. Commuters go out of Dublin to other cities, mainly Galway, Newry, Rosslare Europort, and Sligo. 

- there are three main train stations with Dublin city; Connolly (biggest one), Pearse (nicest one), and Heuston. 

- there’s one airport with two terminals, just called Dublin airport. there’s no train line out there. everyone is mad about this.

- taxis are incredibly expensive, so no one really gets them. Leap cards are our version of metro cards.

- there is no subway! unlike America, Ireland doesn’t have a subway system anywhere (yet)

- unlike a lot of American cities, Dublin does not have a grid layout. It was not planned, it grew. Therefore if you were not raised there, good luck finding your way around. There’s hundreds of shortcuts but only natives would really know them well (like cutting through Trinity College to get to Pearse Station instead of walking all the way around).

- there’s three main colleges; Trinity College, University College Dublin (UCD) and Dublin City University (DCU). Trinity is the most central. UCD is a pain in the ass to get to. 

- the nicest park to go to is Stephen’s Green. the biggest park is Phoenix Park. it’s the largest enclosed park in Europe, is twice the size of Central Park, and is bigger than all of London’s parks put together. this is where Dublin Zoo is, and concerts are usually held in the park over summer. 

- no Dublin natives go to Temple Bar. It’s ridiculously overpriced and always overflowing with tourists. Must Avoid on Saint Patrick’s Day (which is shortened to Paddy’s Day, not Patty’s Day).

- the legal drinking age is 18. most people start around 16. buying cigarettes is only allowed at 18, but smoking them isn’t really illegal below this. it’s just really, really bad. And as an Irish person, I have to admit we do drink a lot. We drink for anything; weddings, funerals, anniversaries of any kind, drinking will be involved. 

- we do not call every bar a pub. only certain bars are pubs. they must have friendly, chatty, old bartenders, a slightly run-down air, a darker-than-necessary interior, and old framed photos of Guinness ads or ads for cigarettes from donkey’s years ago to be considered a pub. “let’s go to the pub” = casual drinks. “let’s go out!” = let’s get absolutely hammered.

- if an Irish person asks you “how are you?”, you reply. If an Irish person says “how’s it going?” you do not have to reply. this is just a very casual way of saying ‘hello’. no one says top o’ the morning to ya. NO ONE.

- complaining about the weather is Irish culture. doesn’t matter what weather. it’s rainy. it’s too hot. it’s too cold. it’s too windy. doesn’t matter. but in the end, we’ll always miss the rain. 

idek if people write irish characters a lot, but jesus, seeing American directors and/or actors absolutely butcher Irish accents/backgrounds is unbearable (see: Helena Bonham Carter in Ocean’s 8, or Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You. Unforgivable.) if you’re just having fun writing, then go ahead, but if you want to have a realisitic irish person in your story, hopefully this’ll help! :)

Portrait of a Young Woman, Jean-Etienne Liotard 

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer 

just a heads-up for those of you (like me) who have triggers surrounding animal harm/death, PETA has released a youtube ad with sounds of owls screaming in agony and goes into graphic descriptions of ‘mutilation’ and death. it’s unskippable. 

if you see a black screen with audiowaves on it or hear owls/johns hopkins, get out of there

I just think it’s really interesting that once I became more visibly Jewish- wearing a tichel or kippah on a daily basis, wearing my hamsa, learning Yiddish- I was immediately faced with (misdirected) transmisogyny- being called transmisogynistic specific slurs, being followed and harrassed off buses, being followed and watched in women’s bathrooms, etc.

It goes to show that transmisogynists and terfs base their ideas on what womanhood is on a white, European, racist, antisemetic, patriarchal caricature of womanhood, and not actual womanhood, which is intrisic to each women, normal or cis.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is - we’re here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.“

Let’s all get up and move around a bit right now… or at least dance.

- from an interview by David Brancaccio, NOW (PBS)

New Year’s Spell *:･ﾟ✧

This spell is to start the year with a fresh look on things and to take away whatever old things are still lurking in your life, it’s a cleanse for you and your space and a lot of good wishes for you!! Keep in your mind your particular goals for the next year for better results.

You can take advantage of the full moon in january 1st to make this spell even better ☆

**Let the candles consume themselves even if it takes days of turning them on and off.

*For closet witches it can be just an incense or a candle around the room and a sweep to a clot or piece of paper that you can throw away from your house. And just gather 12 seeds in a circle while you are doing the spell and leave them near your door for the year*･.｡

This is insanely cool

Just a little comic.

ALL BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY! no more underfunded libraries

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