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ergiinmiddleearth:

  • STEM witches who are working to find new and cheaper ways to source and grow crystals.
  • STEM witches who are working to preserve and replenish the populations of plants that are endangered by overharvesting thanks to booming New Age industries.
  • STEM witches who work late into the night and morning, warming their hands with a teacup as they mull over problem sets.
  • STEM witches who aren’t content with vague ~*spiritual*~ explanations and do the research to learn whether or not a correlation is a causation.
  • STEM witches who know that the actual mechanics of the universe are far more beautiful and complex than anything dreamed up by an author with two animals and a metal in their name. 

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  • STEM witches who understand that astrology and alchemy were building blocks for the hard sciences we have now, and were an attempt to empirically understand and make sense of the world…but were sadly co-opted by charlatans. 
  • STEM witches who work on the double-blind tests that protect people from over-priced and ineffective “alternative treatments”.
  • STEM witches who are researching weather patterns and climate change.
  • STEM witches who apply game theory or psychology or political analysis to divination methods.
  • STEM witches who know that much of what they do would be considered “witchcraft” in the past, but that doesn’t make it any less magical. They can have guaranteed lightning at their fingertips.
  • STEM witches who always always ask “how” and “why.”
  • STEM witches who grin when the word “skeptic” is spat like an insult at them.
  • STEM witches who are developing accessibility technologies.
  • STEM witches who are inspired by the past, but not bound to its machinery and logic.
  • STEM witches who will one day be the ones making “unknown forces” into life-changing technology. 

STEM witches~