witchofkeys:

A little about me, as promised: 
Hello new followers and welcome! Thank you for following my blog! 

My name is Kate, or Keys if you like, I am 28 years old and was born/raised/and am currently living in Alabama. I am a cis-female demisexual and married to a wonderful and understanding catholic man for going on two years, though we’ve been together for 11 years this year. I am a practicing eclectic witch, diviner, and pagan with a devotion to Cernunnos, though I do work with a few others from varying pantheons. Questions on any of these topics are always welcome. (Questions on our inter-faith marriage is also quite alright!)

This blog was created in 2012 and became a dedicated witchcraft and paganism blog within a year of that time. I have been actively practicing for four years now, though I can remember being drawn to pop culture witches and mythology for most of my life. 

Anything else you might need may be found in my About The Witch and FAQ pages (which probably need updating eventually). If you don’t see your query covered please feel free to drop an ask my way! Anon is always on and I love to hear from y’all! 

A small note: I am a born and raised Southerner and I do use terms such as “dear”, “hun”, “sweetie”, and “darling” as gender neutral terms of endearment. If this offends or bothers you please let me know and I will endeavor to use stop using them with you. If you send  Anons, though, it’s more likely than not that I will call you one of these terms. Please know that they are meant in kindness and inclusion to make you feel more comfortable and if they do the opposite please let me know.

Thank you for following! If you have any questions or just want to say hey, please feel free!

Only 15 away from my next follower milestone!

witchofkeys:

Excitement!

I’m considering offering free one (1) card tarot readings for awhile one day once I reach my goal of 2,000 followers! Let’s see if I can reach it by the time I get back from vacation on September 2nd!

Please reblog if you like or direct some people my way!

Maybe send an ask if you follow after seeing the post (anon is fine) and let me know where you saw it? Just for fun and a shout out, of course!

How’s that sound? 😁💜

Only 11 more to go! Thanks so much to those that have followed so far!

(HOW DID YOU SURVIVE?) they ask.

how much did they have you bleed;
how long did they make you suffer;
how low did they force you down;
how dark did they tint your dreams?

     —until you had their blood glistening on your teeth;
     —until your suffering paled in comparison to their own;
     —until it was their throats pinned under your boot;
     —until you learned to enjoy the sounds of screams.

                                                          (I DIDN’T.) you reply.

to defeat monsters: become the greater monster | m.a.w (via dvoyd)

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

howtodreamofdragons:

vajeentambourine:

Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.

Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.

Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.

Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.

I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.

Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.

But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

Me af

please don’t ever think that no one cares about you

deliciouslycookingrpgideas:

servicek9s:

croatoan-the-line:

empty-faygo-bottle:

shroom-goddess:

a-real-archaeopteryx:

I work in an ER and we see suicides all the time. And we get at least 3 suicidal ideations a night. We all care about you. I promise, we do. A team of complete strangers who have worked 3+ 12 hour shifts this week who are being screamed at all day and night and probably haven’t had lunch and trust me, we still love you and care about you.

We had a 16 year old patient last night who we couldn’t save. We were in that room with this patient for over an hour, we did everything we could.
And let me tell you, we all cried. The EMT’s, the nurses, the doctor. We all huddled together in the doctors dictation room and cried.

I went through the rest of my shift with smudged mascara and tracks on my cheeks.

I remember the names of all the patients that have taken their lives on my shifts.

I remember squeezing the hands, smoothing the hair, kissing the foreheads, and wiping away the blood and the vomit of every patient that has left me too soon.

I can still see every face that I have zipped into a body bag.

Trust me, someone cares about you. You have never met them yet. You don’t ever think about them. They are never remembered when you talk about heroes and role models.

But someone loves you.

damn….

This made me cry

When I was in hospital being seen to, being bandaged and sedated and surrounded by medical staff, my family was ignoring my calls, my friends hadn’t cared to check in. I felt terrified and hopeless and so very unimportant that it was taking everything it had in me to not drink the cleaning products left nearby by one of the cleaners, to make sure I finished the job properly.

There was a nurse though, who came into my room with a soft smile, who held my hand, who took away the bottles when she noticed me watching them for too long. There was a nurse that plugged in my phone to charge in case my family called back, that took away the bloody cloths the paramedics had left me with, that helped me put my hair up when it was sticking to my tear streaked face, because my arms were too sore to do it myself.

There was a nurse that saved my life twice in one night, who made me feel that I was worth being looked after, and her name was Emma and she was the most beautiful person I’ve met.

Months later, I was visiting my mother at the same hospital whilst she was incapacitated with back concerns. Whilst I sat and watched my mum sleeping, a nurse approached to check up on her. She met my gaze and she smiled immediately, face lit with recognition, and she said “oh my gosh, hey! How are you doing?”

People definitely do care about us even if we don’t think they do, and to the original poster?

Your faces are never forgotten either.

You’re more than heroes to me.

Im not crying you are 

Yeah I am

K E Y S. Letters please ^_^

Oh, you are a clever one! 😂

K. Have you ever watched a full length pornographic movie?
~ Nah, I never understood why they were so long anyways. Like first few minutes and you’re done, so why are they so long?! Anyways, no.

E. If you could live and be healthy without sleeping or eating/drinking, which would you cut out of your life?
~ That’s so hard! I love food, but sleep is wonderful too. Ugh! I think I’d forego sleep. I could get a lot done if I didn’t have to sleep anymore.

Y. Do looks mean anything to you? Don’t lie, could you fall in love with someone you thought was ugly?
~ Honestly, looks do matter. *shrug*

S. Would you rather be the only person in the world that can read minds or have everyone else in the world be able to read minds except for your own?
~ 🤔 I think everyone should be able to read minds, but not my own, but only for a finite amount of time. The amount of upheaval in the world would be staggering, I think.

Thanks for asking, hun. 💜

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