This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well
The more I learn about mycotoxin exposure the more I’m convinced that most haunted/possessed house stories are just houses with mold in the walls.
That shit’ll fry your brain.
Mold and other fungi. Ungrounded electricity. Food poisoning. Night terrors. Sleep paralysis. Sleep deprivation. The fact that when we don’t see a human face, muscles related to hearing tighten to be able to hear farther for threats. Minerals leaking into pipes.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is usually my go-to when people come to me asking for advice about a haunted house/being cursed, usually followed up by most of the above.
Like sorry if you thought my witch ass was just going to tell you to place a salt ring and burn some incense or w/e, but if you come to me telling me you’re seeing shit/got ill/your partner started acting weird when you moved into your new house, my witch ass is still going to tell you to check you’re not being poisoned by your surroundings before I jump to “you got ghosts in your veins.”
“yea but I’VE had a real ghost encounter, and it wasn’t mold!”
Didn’t say you didn’t chief. I’m just saying that a lot of the things people think of as hauntings is just the living hell that is home ownership and that it’s a good idea to make sure you’re not accidentally eating radon for breakfast in your basement apartment. Smart witches worth their salt circle know that.
Just a thing to add to the list of "Am I Being Haunted Or Do I Need A Home Inspection (you need a home inspection)” :
So a couple years back, a demon moved into my parent’s house.
Genuinely, this thing was Demonic. First indicator that something was off was the thumping and scratching in the ceiling and walls of all hours of the night, and an awful, arcid smell not quite as sulfurous, but significant'y worse than, brimstone. Then came the Hissing and Wailing and sudden propigation of severed animal heads all about the yard- mostly rabbits, but also rats, snakes, birds and even cats.
It was an awful thing, screeching and crawling around, scaring the dog, leaving severed heads around and the SMELL was absolutely vile. The worst possible combination of rancid meat and a gas station bathroom left unattended.
One night, the damn thing was close enough to the attic vents to see it’s eyes peering out onto the driveway, blood red and almost human-looking.
At which point we were finally able to put a name to the wretched thing:
All islands with hardwood or cedar trees have 1 tree with wasps and 1 tree that drops a piece of furniture.
I recommend you shake each tree while holding a net before chopping
them down or you risk getting stung and missing on that 2500 bells.
Every island has a chance to hold 1-2 fossils.
Every island has a chance to have a message bottle with a DIY recipe inside on the beach.
It
is likely that some of the rare islands are season locked. Let me know
if you happen to end up on the Tarantula island out of tarantula season,
or the Fin island out of fin fish season.
This guide is based on the game data discovered in the datamine, so it
should be 100% legit. If there are any errors, let me know.
candy desk . yeah I know you’re like “it would be stupid in a tv show if a senator famous for being a libertarian idiot whose ribs got broken in a fistfight over yard waste was infected with a virus from a one-in-a-century pandemic and continued to rifle around in the senate republican’s candy pile”. well sorry Sorkin but this is the real world and that’s just how it is
oh yeah because I forgot to mention, it was Rand Paul because of fucking course it was
so insulting to suggest this is an aaron sorkin plotline, when clearly armando ianucci has been orchestrating reality for some time now.
Republicans sticking to their guns and dying of plague would be great if they didn’t infect everyone else meanwhile.
TIL today- the Senate has a frigging candy desk. I’m filing this under “MORE REASONS TO BURN THE SENATE DOWN” I hope y’all know.
you know, I don’t actually mind the republicans having a candy desk (and to be clear, it is only for republicans; the democrats have their own candy desk that is paid for via a “candy fund” that everyone contributes money to because of course they fucking do). what I find hilarious is the republicans literally taking handouts, because unlike the democrats, they don’t pay for the candy stash; it’s all donated by various candy companies. the democrats have socialized candy, but the republicans have straight-up candy welfare.
AKA the short story included at the end of special Waterstones copies of Broken Homes, which most of the RoL fandom don’t have access to. I happen to have a copy of that edition, and (seeing as how it’s impossible for the majority of the fandom to access it in any other way) have typed it all up below. Please enjoy, let me know if there are any typos, and note that I do not own copyright etc to the following:
It has been brought to my attention (by the lovely @sixth-light) that I am the only member of the tiny fandom in possession of a copy of Whispers Under Ground with the Waterstones’ short story The Domestic. And since this is probably my favourite of all the ROL shorts I think it’s a crying shame that the rest of the tiny fandom hasn’t read it. so here, for your reading pleasure:
So as fans of the Rivers of London series will already know, Ben Aaronovitch gives Waterstones (a chain of bookstores in the UK) an exclusive short story for the first edition of each new novel.
This one is about Abigail, and fair warning it is deeply heart wrenching, and also explains so much about her. I know it certainly answers some of the questions I know many of us have had about her for a good while now.
So, for your reading pleasure: Favourite Uncle, by Ben Aaronovitch.
As many of you know Ben Aaronovitch used to work for Waterstone’s, a bookshop chain in the UK, and because he’s quite proud of having worked there (and they are proud of having once employed him, no seriously, every time I even look at one of his books in one of their shops a member of staff spontaneously appears to tell me “He used to work here you know!” If I had a pound for every time I’d heard that I could afford to buy the Folly) he gives Waterstone’s a special exclusive short story in the first run of every new Rivers of London book.
Obviously this is great for those of us who are UK fans.
It’s less great for those of you who are international fans. However in the spirit of International Magical Cooperation I managed to get my hands on my copy ever so slightly early and so I have here for your reading pleasure, the exclusive short story from False Value - A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Please note that this story contains mentions of sex and drugs and rock’n’roll
