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protection spell

A simple spell to ward off danger from a loved one.

What You Need:

A white candle

Pen and paper

Something that belongs to the person you are trying to protect (optional, but highly recommended

The Spell:

Light your candle and write the name of the intended person on the paper.

Focus on that person as you chant:

Dancing flame in front of me Keep this person safe as can be Protect (her/him/them) from any harm Keep (her/him/them) safe, keep (her/him/them) warm

Put the paper to the flame. Envision the warmth from the flame protecting the intended person, like a forcefield from harm.

If you have an object of theirs, hold it to you as the paper burns, breathing your energy into it.

Once the paper has burned completely, blow out your flame, and thank it for its warmth.

You may reblog, but please do not repost.

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Life can be so wonderful (2007), dir. Osamu Minorikawa

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LORA MATHIS

‘If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It’ by @lora-mathis;

original photos and edit

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books to read while Autumn is reigning

a warm cuppa in your hands, sitting near the window, enjoying the rain

with a sprinkle of amour

The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks

The Collector by John Fowles

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

with a dash of existential crisis

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

with a pinch of dark academia

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Maurice by E. M. Forster

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

with a side of je ne sais quoi

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

under the covers, with a flashlight in your hands, in the middle of the night

Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Metamorphosis & Other Stories by Franz Kafka

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*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.

#reminder

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Fucked up Short Stories

Links:

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

The Landlady by Roald Dahl

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Guts by Chuck Palahniuk

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

No is Yes by Paul Jennings

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Urusula K. LeGuin

A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The Strap Box Flyer Paul Jennings

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

To Build a Fire by Jack London

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

A Company of Laughing Faces by Nadine Gordimer

The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross

Note: some of these are really fucked up. Others might be fucked up in racist/sexist/homophobic ways due to when it was written/views of the author.

Reader Discretion is Advised.

#lmao we're reading some of these for our literature analysis

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consolation

throwing up so hard right now

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i’ve decided to carry some undying hope with me every day. as a treat

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what they dont tell you about growing up as a very lonely little girl is that you grow up and still a part of you remains that very lonely little girl

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i think at some point in life you are going to have to grapple with the fact that nobody is going to just perfectly fit into your idea of them, and nobody is going to slot into your life without any uncomfortable bumps or rubbing of edges, and nobody is going to follow the script you want them to follow or thought they would follow because the people around you, shockingly, are not cardboard cutouts. at some point in life you WILL need to face the, surprisingly, real and messy interiority of other people. and you are going to have to learn to grant them the same nuance, agency and consideration you grant yourself, or want to be granted. and you are going to have to learn to make grace an important factor in what you say and what you assume about others bc i guarantee there is no shortage of grace being offered to you at some point in your life, and not in some transactional sense either but bc it is not that difficult to pause for literally 2 mintues and give people the space to be human and then just....move on with your life.

like i dont think it can be pointed out enough that responding and reacting are two very different things and it's a kindness to your future self to actually learn the difference.

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vintage heels from sororité vintage

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I once believed that I am all knowing, that I knew what love truly meant, but as it turns out. I am simply rediscovering its multiple faces everyday. Love is a calm word and to be the center of it is to live in its peaceful simplicity. I know a mothers love for a child and a sisters love. I am also familiar with love incorporated with unhuman beings, the love we are able to give and nurture with animals or things. I haven't experience a lovers love, though I am a witness to multiple love stories and to have witness those have opened my eyes to a dimension of difference. I am a hopeless romatic, I grew fond of love and even the idea of knowing who is my the one. The curiosity to memorize and gather the definitions and mechanism of what love truly is — I have a desire to devour all of it. I am also a simple girl and I don't like when people don't make a choice for themselves, I hold people in such high pedestal that I want them to always choose the best in everything. I don't fancy trivial and simple worries like; what should I order? Who should I invite over? Should I pursue this or that? I dislike hearing them. I would watch or read and be engrossed with the dilemma that a main character faces that I get affected and my stable emotions are disturbed, it makes me wanna go in there and tell her to make a choice. What I fail to understand sometimes in everything I stood for is that choices are either good or bad, but it ends. Let me tell you a story about a spy and an agent, they work together inside an office, a taskforce they call it. The guy is a nerd, so smart, cute, loving, awkward, and very good in computer. The girl is brave, independent, strong willed, principled and scared. He loved her first and she loved him, and even though she tries to give an equal amount of love, she just can't. Not because she's mean, although she is at times, but because the guy is such a sweetheart that he is brimming with love. It came to a point where the girl is being hunted by her previous employer and she has to disappear because contract killers will come for her no matter what, the guy with so much love for her wanted to disappear with her, but in the end they both made choices to which they believe would give each other solace. But I know that the reason behind those choices is the cause of how they were conditioned and taught to love. The girl with principles thought that she would never let the guy so madly in love with her lose the chance to ever be given the same intensity of love, she thinks its unfair and I agree, while the guy made a choice to be with her which ever part of the earth, it was his choice to love her, stick with her even and it was her choice to love him, but to let him go. The truth is, I love you deeply that I want to know all the ways to love you, I wanna love you in all forms because I like choosing you and then I wonder, "what can you do for me?" your answer is what I think lacks to my quest to find out what love truly is.

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girl breakfast lunch dinner supper brunch etc

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IF THE ROUTINE NO LONGER SERVES, YOU MUST ALTER THE PATTERN, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? YOUR LIFE STARTS WITH YOU

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U can grieve and still live life. U can miss loving someone and love others. You can hold onto the good moments and simultaneously the bad moments. You can take the learning from a person you let go off and use it for the better. You can love someone and they may not be the right person. You can wish someone the best and love them from a distance. You can think fondly of someone and never talk to them again.. mysteries of the world…

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Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"

Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective

Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities

Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona

we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name

MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Envy

The Commodification of Black Athletes

The Lies Of The Lighthouse

The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity

Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Time Loop Nihilism

How Bisexuality Changed Video Games

The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

The True Horror Of Midsommar

a few more -

You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)

Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History

It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY

Adaptation.

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕

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— February by Margaret Atwood