5/16: The Friday Five

+ an invite to join a secret, spicy club!! 🌶️

May 16, 2025

What’s up, swimmers?!

I’m harnessing the overall 3 energy of today, 05/16/2025, to pop out of an intense Summer House and Southern Charm hobbit hole—two shows I will NOT be recommending today, this is more of a sacred confession between close friends—and write some words to you! That being said, I think I am dumber than before I started binging the above, so we’re starting off slow with a long-overdue favorite: The Friday Five!

If you’re newer around these parts, on Fridays, we talk about what’s getting us through the week! And 2025 continues to shock and awe, so these quick lists are like group therapy. Together, we will curate, cope, and continue!

ICYMI:

🗓️: Week #20: May 12-18 - It’s Mary Oliver week!
📔: The month is halfway over!? Check in with May 2025: The Junk Journal
🌀: SPIRALING THROUGH THE WISDOM YEAR w/ Meg Jones Wall
🎧: Catch up on Call Your Coven - Coven Convo: Building Spiritual Community

THE FRIDAY FIVE 🖐️

Here’s what’s gotten me through this wacky week:

SMUT CLUB — The internet’s hottest (secret, so-far) club is SMUT CLUB, a monthly, donation-based, virtual offering, hosted by me - bee, with a percentage redistributed to the Sex Workers Outreach Project, Los Angeles (SWOP LA) or other aligned actions, mutual aid funds, or organizations. We’ve had three meetings so far, and we are gearing up for a really smutty summer! Save the dates for June 19th and July 17th! Prompts, practices, and playlists are offered, as well as recommendations for spicy reads! And as long as everyone's cool about it, there will continue to be instructions for remaining camera-off or anonymous sent with the meeting link. There is also a fun and feral Discord server, for those who (come to at least one meeting and) want an extension of the club! Fill out the below form to get on the list!
JOIN US! SMUT CLUB 4 LYFE!
Ellipsus — Ever since G**gle started scanning Docs, suppressing writers, and selling us out to AI, I’ve been looking for another place to host drafts I want share with betas or cheer-readers! No writing software is perfect, but Ellipsus has been ticking some boxes for me. It’s free to use and has a clear anti-generative AI stance, and is made by nerds, for nerds, with an emphasis on fic writing—I haven’t used it myself, but they even export to AO3—but geared towards all kinds of collaborative creativity. And you can share links to your documents for people without an account to read/view, so depending on your needs, not everyone on your “team” has to make the platform switch! I’d love to talk to some other Ellipsus users, so if that’s you, leave me a comment.
A Two-fer: Becoming My Childhood Crush & My Creative Laboratory — On Call Your Coven, we have a saying: OUR JOYS ARE FEW! But optimism is just in my nature, so I’m trying to make the most of my current shit sandwich by really leaning into joy where it’s available. First, by cutting my hair to look like my childhood crush: 90’s Leo DiCaprio (Devon Sawa, a Hanson brother, etc.) before The Big Shed. Can’t wait to emulate a similar-era’d Meg Ryan if it grows back curly after chemo! Of course my hair, and Stacey’s, have been added to my altar (which I now think might be more of a shrine to Hekate?), which has revived my most magical room. As far as the IRS is concerned, I have a home office. But between us, what I really have is a creative laboratory. All of my babies, pups, books and WIPs (works-in-progress), hang out in there, and it’s doubles as our guest room, so it’s grown into an energetic amalgamation of all that is loving and sacred to me!
Know Your Lucky Numbers: How you can use Numerology to pick the right days to carry out your plans — This 1978 edition of Globe Mini Mag was sent to be my a beloved friend and cherished subscriber, and it’s SO COOL I LOVE IT SO MUCH. The introduction talks about Julius Caeser using numerology successfully in war strategy, which I’d never heard before, and I also loved the archetype names it gave each of the numbers (listed below). It’s rooted in Pythagorean theory, so the calculations were familiar, but it also read me for filth when it said my ideal careers range from circus performer to financial consultant! What a fun time capsule, I can’t wait to work with it more.

1 - The Explorer, 2 - The Partner, 3 - The Creator, 4 - The Builder, 5 - The Writer, 6 - The Instructor, 7 - The Prophet, 8 - The Manager, 9 - The Philosopher
LOOK ABOUT YOU: A Book of Ordinary Prayers by Cody Cook-Parrott — While I may have kept SMUT CLUB under some wraps, it’s no secret that I love the artist and person that is Cody Cook-Parrott. So when a treasured bestie sent me a care package with a gift card, and Cody ran a sale on their newest prayer book, it was clear this was a divine facilitation to bring me my new favorite everyday tool. The prayers are gentle and expansive, and have already brought me easy presence and pleasurable embodiment, which are holy states of being these days. Anyway, grab a copy and snag some stickers while you’re at it! I sure did :)

Here’s a taste: May 16 — Come forth to the page with your worries and fears, your pains and sorrows, your joys and elations. Put these words on the page so you may both forget them and remember them. Shed what is no longer serving you and ask god to replace it with something in better alignment. Amen, you know?