This is a good, detailed take. She’s not a scholar, just a witch doing her best. And this is more of an account of one person’s personal practice than a detailed, academic historical text. Still, I think she does a better job than most of what’s out there. As always (for anyone else out there following this thread) read with a grain of salt. Or a barrel of salt.

If you have good book recommendations, I think I speak for everyone lurking when I say please post them.

Closet Witch

Sylvaine

Frayle

Cellar Darling

Tristania

After Forever

Just to name a handful off the top of my head.

I think you’re right, but I have hope. I believe in us lemmings, lol.

Using reddit makes me feel bad. It’s full of such inflammatory rage bate. Even in the niche communities I was part of, there were multiple posts every day just stirring the pot. Lemmy right now reminds me of reddit in its early days, back when people were trying to have actual, meaningful discussions.

After the api-gate, I had a moment where I asked myself “what things have I actually learned on reddit that I otherwise wouldn’t have learned?” And the answer was nothing. Actual, helpful, insightful discussions just don’t get attention over there anymore. I get way more mileage out of my RSS feed than reddit.

I’ve found the tone here on Lemmy to be more positive and more informative. Don’t change, y’all.

I started self hosting my own RSS feed a few years ago, and I couldn’t live without it. It’s the best way to get timely info.

And then you can be the first one to post it on lemmy.

Be the change you want to see in the world. I’ve been on here since the api controversy. I’m done with Reddit for good now, after about 15 years. So now I’m going to try to drive activity on all the niche communities I want to see here.

The bristles are made from bundled pine needles. The handle is from a crepe myrtle tree. Basically, just a bunch of stuff I had laying around in my back yard lol.

Ex mormon here, and I had the same reaction. The shit that went on in that church is absolutely insane in retrospect. Like, it seemed “normal” at the time, but now looking back as an adult its all a bunch of “what the fuck” moments.

Like that one time I was a 15 year old kid, getting asked by a church elder if I looked at porn as a “purity test”. I have no idea how mormonism is even legal.