I understand that ontologically, a baby sloth & a baby human r diff., ofc they are, but economically +in terms of passion & love, it feels the same 😭
Some ppl want to genuinely dedicate a LOT in order to have babies or even baby sloths in their lives …i like them but it‘s not crazy to want neither🥲✨

I‘m sry but it really feels like:
„Aww baby sloths are SO cute!“
„Omg right?? When are you planning to have your own? i can tell u my fave sloth supply shops!“
„Uh…I don‘t want to have them at home tho?“
„What?? But u said u loved baby sloths?“
„Yeah but…not THAT much. I wanna see them at the Zoo?“

F. Ex. I LOVE baby sloths or those chubby seals that slap their bellies, I do, but I wanna see them at dedicated times like during a Zoo visit – I don‘t wanna build a Zoo at home?
I‘m sorry, no shade to parents, but it‘s so exhausting having to explain over+over why being childfree is a true choice

I don‘t think it‘s weird for me to like baby anything cause the baby version of most things are cute ( baby goats, baby donkeys, baby snakes, baby sloths etc) but just cause I‘m a woman, it doesn‘t mean I wanna dedicate all my ressources to it. Do men have to explain why they want to stay childfree?

…huh, fun fact: Herakles/ Herkules musste mal zur Strafe für 3 Jahre als Sklave der Königin Omphalen von Lydien dienen, worin er Frauenkleider tragen & spinnend unter den Mägden tanzen musste. Daher …drag queen era hercules ist canon 😭 (S.122)

Aber viel Liebe für den witchy space 🫶💕

Glaube, es ist im Grunde eine Coping- und Ermächtigungspraxis (weswegen auch so viel mental illness kram rumschwirrt), die aber an sich auch eine Fokusumstellung der Alltagslinse zu einer verträumteren, sanfteren Perspektive ermöglicht …find‘s voll schön ;-;💕

I‘m noticing!! That this is exactly how anxiety sounds omg, that‘s so annoying 😭

I think the lenormand cards will be a good clarifier deck & I can‘t wait to learn more about that particular reading system

No ominous vague feeling of doom, just direct „you need to fix XYZ“, is what I imagine

Just wanted to say that your story specifically motivated me to listen to my inner(?) voices (idk i used to call them my ‚imaginary friends’ growing up) more intently & I‘m thankful for u sharing your moments of vulnerability so honestly in your essay. Really loved reading it 🫶

It really gave me a deep sense of „Wow, this was actually written for me, these are my sisters &mentors, this is kinfolk“ and I don‘t know how to properly put into words how powerful of a spell you all have casted with this book.
It‘s a devastatingly healing read lol I cried a lot, thank you, 10/10

Thank you for bringing us „Coven of the East“! 💕The diasporic experience is more often than not laced with feelings of displacement & loneliness, and this book really resonated & comforted at the same time – even more powerfully as a an anthology, giving space to so many different facets & voices