Crafting the Witch

@craftingthewitch.bsky.social

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Just here to scream into the void. Sometimes I make things. She/they. Pagan witch. Autistic w/ a double scoop of C-PTSD.

An inexpensive sewing kit and spool of purple thread are being stored in a Royal Dansk Danish butter cookie tin.
Portrait of the artist as a smitten brunette with a streak of grey, rose gold colored pearls and a rose print dress, and a golden taupe shrug.
In front of a coffee table cluttered with incense, a glass of water, and a journal, the photographer holds open a fresh journal page in a book already full of tabs and page markers. Handwritten at the top of the page in purple ink are the words "Liber Resh vel Helios"
The edge of a grove of trees in midsummer leaf, with a gorgeous blue sky behind with a few white wisps of cloud, and a touch of freshly mowed lawn in front.
A huge overstuffed brown leather armchair with a black cat lounging on the seat like "of course this whole thing is MY chair"
Placed outdoors next to a door and leaning against a chair, this two-foot-tall octagonal-shaped painting seems like an optical illusion in the space: a brilliant cut faceted octagonal gemstone, primarily in green with flashes of violet and gold.
An idyllic sanctuary yard in the woods, with spring sunshine, inviting patio furniture, dappled shade, and chainsaws running in the background.
A bacon, lettuce, and cheese sandwich on multigrain bread on a paper plate.
A clipped post from a thread about MIT research into a particular flavor of LLM induced psychosis, posted by ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode (uncertain which platform it was originally posted to): 1. They call it delusional spiraling. You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not real. And you cannot tell it is happening. UCSF psychiatrist Keith Sakata hospitalized 12 patients in 2025 for psychosis linked to chat bot use. 42 state attorneys general sent a formal letter demanding action. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI.
View of a lap. In one hand, a red game controller. Wrapped around that hand, hugging the arm and headbutting the forearm, a black cat.
There is a vinyl bumper decal on a white car that is probably trying to say "with god all things are possible" but the layout - in Papyrus font of many sizes - seems to say "With Gthings od All Possible are". Maybe.
A carved wooden token sitting on a laptop keyboard next to a purple pen. In the center is an acorn with a spiral on the shell, surrounded by rays of light. A taproom emerges and turns into a serpent coiling Below, and a seedling sprouts to reach for the cord Above. The overall token shape is reminiscent of a sunflower seed or an egg.
Sitting on a laptop keyboard next to a purple gel pen: a wooden token with an acorn rayed in splendor. The taproot is a serpent, and a seedling sprout is rising from the top. The design is very lightly scorched into the surface of the smooth wood
The little replica Roman sailboat from before is festooned with crepe paper and roses. Little paper boats full of wishes have been loaded as cargo and are floating as an honor guard around the boat. People in the room are snacking on cookies and cleaning up crepe paper and rose petals.
A model Roman boat on a cart in the foreground, a white altar with a blue and gold winged sun in the background, a scattering of chairs in a semicircle in a multipurpose room with grey drapes.
A terra cotta colored air dry clay bowl resting in a nest of aluminum foil, inscribed with a spiraling inscription around a misshapen figure in the center.
A blue ceramic bowl of chicken tikka masala, next to a plate of truly impressive rustic grilled cheese sandwiches
A shorthaired black cat looms toward the camera, whiskers forward and pupils slightly wide in anticipation. In the background on a TV tray, there's another plate of food, but this cat has learned to grift the person, not the plate.
Five pewter pendants are scattered artfully on barnwood alongside crystals and peacock sword feathers. The pendants are designed like art nouveau peacock eye feathers, with a sturdy looking ring bail and enamelled in bright colors.
A dark brown pie seethe underneath a ring of fluffy badly piped frosting. The candied ginger covers the worst of the piping sins. In the background: a killer cranberry chutney for the samosa pie.
A rosemary apple pie under a layer of streusel waits next to a glass of red wine
A sunshine yellow lemon tart, with a wee sample removed.
A chaotic table of small plates, wineglasses, reddi whip, and pies. There's a golden yellow custard pie with nutmeg and maple, and a streusel topped cherry pie. And a cake carrier holding brownies and darkly spiced cupcakes with white frosting.
A half moon shaped hand pie oozes beef gravy at the top of the plate, the bottom half of the plate is a half demolished slice of samosa pie overflowing with potatoes and peas and spices.
A whitetail buck with a nice rack (of antlers) stands in the leafy grass at the edge of a deciduous forest in autumn.
A tray of what might have started as 9 cookies, but has melted into one large tray of goo. The powdered sugar one might expect to form a crackle crust on the cookies is sort of looking like icebergs disappearing into a climate crisis.
A plush black cat is kneading and nesting into a plush black blanket. It's just a rolling ocean of black fur with some eyes and whiskers peering out. The background of the room has beige carpet and a cable management problem.
A shattered yellow plastic ruler on a green grid of a cutting mat for crafting. The ruler has broken right through the words "non-shatter" printed in all caps on the ruler.
An angled view of a blackboard with chalk lines and ticks laying out the bottom, where "Gaia Community dot org" has been painted on in a bright blue.
A field planted and mowed by Stan Herd to make a huge earthworks mural visible from the air: Within a ring that says "To our neighbors, our friends, our allies... Viva Mexico", a portrait in profile of a beautiful Mexican indigenous woman with dark hair and eyes, laurels at her brow, and a gold and green earring.
A laptop open to an image editing app, with a peacock pendant in focus on the screen. In the foreground, interposed between the POV and the laptop, the back of a black cat's head, pointy little ears oriented toward the screen. There cannot be much space between the user and the screen, but the cat has crammed himself in there nonetheless. Not pictured: relentless purring.
A brown toad sits on a rainy patch of driveway alongside a few brown fallen leaves. He's about four inches long, and nearly spherical, dwarfing the acorn by his front foot.
A patch of Midwestern forest. A house with an overgrown deck nestles in the lower right corner with a little shrine on the driveway. In the lower left you can see a hammock and chair under the trees. Mostly you just see a wall of green towering trees.
A black cat lays on a red rug in a sunbeam that covers him and the white tile floor beyond. He is looking at the viewer and his fur shines dark brown where the sunlight hits it.
A mural of the Independence ave bridge in the Kansas City metro area. In the painting, the underpass has sprouted eyes, teeth, and a tongue, while a hand comes out from behind a pillar to push a truck labeled "lucky 13" into the hungry toothy maw, right under the bright yellow "12 ft 0 in" warning sign.
Drawing of a ram skull, white and brown chalk on black paper, 2016
The flag of the United Federation of Planets from Star Trek. White on a field of dark blue, stylized laurel leaves flank two circles surrounding a field of stars.
A grainy and compressed looking screenshot of what looks like a tumblr post that says "like to charge, reblog to cast" in rainbow letters on a pale pink background with text-art "sparkles" before and after the words.
A whiteboard that says, in all caps, from top to bottom: Ritualist Facilitator Participant Attendee Obstacle Antagonist
A hand painted jar for incense, the constellation on the side, the Great Bear in silhouette on the top.
Midwestern woods in early summer, right as the sun is setting and turning things golden. Oak, walnut, and pawpaw trees tower over a small deck chair and hammock in the lower right. The sky is blue where you can see it through the canopy.
Screenshot from 1973 The Wicker Man. Just a bunch of happy people singing songs together celebrating one of their holidays.
Still life in front of a Dollar General in the midwest: a maga hat and a mini of vodka, both crushed, both empty.
A black cat is sprawled on his back in a most undignified manner. The belly fur is floofy and inviting and with this particular cat, not a trap!
A manuscript illustration of Krishna and Arjuna talking in a chariot pulled by two horses (artist unknown from the British Library's collection). There are numbered spots for six cards around the illustration: 1. on the wheel of the chariot 2. on the horses, the animal instincts, drives, and appetites (this one has a plus sign next to it) 3. by Arjuna, the rational mind 4. by Krishna, the guiding divine consciousness 5. the landscape ahead of the horses 6. the ground before the horses' hooves.
A pencil drawing of two horses standing together (1816) by Jean Bernard (1775-1883). [Original from the Rijks Museum.] There are numbered places to lay cards over the image: 1. over the horses' heads 2. on the horses' back, where a saddle would go 3. over the horses' belly and reproductive parts 4. ahead of where the horses are facing 5. on the ground near their hooves
A black cat, caught in mid-yawn or mid-yellow, is superimposed over a background of neverending "aaaaaaaaaaaa"
A terracotta incantation bowl drying after being roughly shaped and inscribed. There's a weird lil demon dude in the center, and the inscription spirals out from the center.
A shorthair black cat in a harness that looks like a grey hoodie with kitty skulls and crossbones, poses amid autumn leaves.
A cybertruck with an after-market paintjob parked under a tree on a city street in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The paint job is a patchwork of angular shapes in medium to dark shades of grey that manages to look like a compromise between low-res camouflage and the reflective crystalline pattern of galvanized steel.
A post saying: "Things will be much worse under Trump" is a generic, parroted phrase meaning "I don't care what Biden is currently doing to support the genocide of Palestinians"
A team of four obvious villains. Front and center is Delilah, a pale and gothy half-elf necromancer with long black hair with dark purple highlights, flanked on the left by Parrdva, a half-orc barbarian who has taken the "tiger heart" theme too far with orange skin, black striped tiger tattoos, and an orange-and-black striped deadhawk. On the right is La Sirene, a marid-colored tiefling dressed like a bellydancer at a mermaid themed saloon, with an imp hovering behind one shoulder. In the back is the white-haired high elven vampire intern Astarion. They're all in coordinated outfits of black, dark purple, dark teal, and navy blue. They are standing on a bare area of grey rock and iron oxide rich dirt, with patches of grass and weeds among the boulders behind them, in bright sunshine. Standing together, they look like a reason to have the Justice League on speed-dial.
Half of a spinach cheese and mushroom pie in a tin, with a spoon full of a dark glaze resting in the tin
A lattice crust plum pie, where the filling has kinda bubbled over the crust and out of the pie and onto the baking tray
A black cat among fall leaves and the last straggly bits of grass. He is wearing a black harness covered in cute kitty-face skull-and crossbones with a heather grey hood on it. He's looking to the right of the camera, facing the golden hour light that makes his eyes shine bright yellow.
On a scroungy drawing board, an octagonal board is being painted to look like an emerald. It's mostly a flat green but some of the facets are getting filled in with colors and depth.