#A Direct Look At My Practice

[brightgnosis]

Finished off my main oils that I use for my morning body blessings today (read: tweaked some more of the Essential Oil additions, then finally re-bottled some of each into the small stopper bottles so I can use them for my blessings again). Then I wound up cleaning my computer desk; I didn't realize how dusty it'd gotten since I got sick, so that's been fixed now!

I was thinking while doing it, though, that while I don't have the space for blending the Teas, Incenses, and Perfumes that I'd like to do ... I do have the space and materials for my Spiritual Oils. And I make enough of them for myself that it wouldn't be that difficult to scale my recipes up when I make them. And if I bottled them on an "as sold" basis, they wouldn't be hard to store because I wouldn't have to find the space for a million tiny bottles while I wait for them to be sold- just the mother jar.

So I'm thinking about maybe starting to try and sell my Spiritual Oils for a bit of income. It'd definitely not be some thing immediate (though I could probably sell a bit of the 2 Oils I do have made currently); they're not exactly quick concoctions by any means- plus I'd have to figure out how to make labels, etc (unless I just hand write everything like I've been doing). But it seems like something that's feasible to do while I live here, that's in line with what I want to do overall, eventually.

It's just a matter of, like ... Is anyone actually interested in them? Like, if I actually started to make them, would anyone (like y'all) actually buy them? Because there's so many companies already that sell Spiritual Oils, which are far more interesting than me- and far better at it. What on Earth would make you buy from me over someone else?

ETA: The oils I'd be making would be what I pretty much always make for myself. So that'd be a combination of my own proprietary blends (like those I was tinkering with finishing finally, above) — plus my takes on stuff out of Cunningham, Cabbot (I think), and Gardener's grimoires; Rankine's various translations; Schulke's formulas; etc ... Stuff I already make and tinker with anyways- just scaled up, and with more effort put in to provide a saleable product, rather than a personal use one (because that's what I have the room to store right now). And as usual, I'd probably grow most of my own herbs for them, too.

#Personal #2024 #Herbalism #Witchblr #Wiccablr #Paganblr #Ritual Oils #Spiritual Oils #Intention Oils #Spiritual Herbalism #Magical Herbalism #Ritual Herbalism #A Direct Look At My Practice #Religion & Magic #Magical Oil Experimentation #Green Witch #Green Witchcraft #Scent & Senses

[honeypupcakes]

some little doodles of an adopt i got from @dapper-lil-arts ! this is gonna be my token mermaidcore character i can feel it in my bones

tag list (link is to form):

@vampire-eros @verdantmeadows @darbysbarbie

#aaaaa im happy i got her im in love with this design ;O; #i went into this with basically no direction but i think i already have an idea on what i want her general Look to be #i wanted to do some lil sketches to feel out the design a little :) i gotta practice drawing bigger characters tho #ocs #my art

[gracefireheart]

Idk I just wanted to sketch Medic but as a partial demon or something

#I had a few other drawing ideas in mind for this. but I got too tired to do them #Like Spy putting Medic in a suit to look like a proper hellish demon. #Or Scout practicing drawing horns from different angles with the help of Medic #Or Heavy giving surprise kisses to Medic by angling his horns in the right direction. #So on and so forth. Maybe I'll draw some of these- or something else with partial demon Medic- in the future. or maybe not. idk lol #my art #Team Fortress 2 #TF2 Fanart #TF2 Medic #TF2 Engineer

[lesbiamano]

when he DARES glance at another girl

#persona 5 royal #persona 5 #goro akechi #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #shuake #LADIES if your man looks in the general direction of another woman do you shoot him or do you shoot him #jealousy is noooo joke #goro akechi is definitely very casual about this #i was like 'let me practice more dramatic lighting!' then goro akechi showed up on my screen

[reborrowing]

dust prince, part one

poll story! they were kind of a trend when tumblr first added the poll feature so now that the concept is dying I thought I'd give it a shot. we'll see how well I stay on top of this. (there may be some weirdness because I'm still not sure if I want "you" to be just the rogue or both adventurers. For today? Rogue.)

rough sketch of the you's

part 2 -

In the middle of a long and lonely road sits a tavern. It's been here longer than any one person can remember, some even say it's older than the kingdom that now claims these grounds.

You are a fragment of a heroic party, a once-refined rogue shadowing a proud barbarian as you limp back towards society. You're both relieved to see this shabby, familiar tavern as you make your way through the sparsely populated wetlands. While the two of you have put yourselves in much more dangerous situations, passing through the area in such small numbers has been unpleasant at best.

But inside, the tavern is warm and blessedly dry. A silver-haired halfling at the counter greets you, while an invisible set of hands continues working behind her. You dimly recognize her as the owner and remember she makes some fairly impressive potions, if you had the coin to burn. For now, you take the cheapest meal that’ll satisfy you and sit near the fire to bicker over what to do next, as if the two of you hadn’t already exhausted the topic over the last few days.

You’ve worked together for years as part of the same party but the de facto leader recently decided to retire. Your party continued to work without her, until this last job, where the other two bastards abandoned you mid-quest when they got offered a more lucrative opportunity. Now you’re left to either find replacements out here in the middle of nowhere or slink back home with nothing to show for your efforts.

The barbarian is sizing up the handful of other patrons present, discussing their potential with all the subtlety of a flaming brick through a window. It’s getting you both looks and you doubt any of them will want to work with the two of you at all. You’re about to interrupt and say so to your companion when the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Your well-honed senses were trying to get your conscious mind to pay attention to something important.

You look up to see shifting dust in the rafters just as something falls off one of the beams. You lean to get out of the way before you even identify the object. It lands in your soup with a yelp, splattering broth across the table.

It thrashes for a few seconds, trying to find its bearings. If the small scream wasn't enough to confirm it, you're now definitely sure this thing is alive, though you don't recognize what it is. As you look down at it, you would almost swear it's a sprite of some sort, though without their distinctive glow.

It's about the size of a mouse with the face of a person. He's too drenched and frantic for you to notice much else. He stares back at you with fear in his eyes as he pulls himself onto a sinking piece of bread.

taglist @da3dm @mottinthemainpot @whumpsday

#my writing #I don't have a Definite plot but I've got directions to go #lemme practice pants writing for a minute #also I should name these people huh #temp oc tag: rogue #temp oc tag: barbarian #temp oc tag: shana? #dust prince #may change title? I really hate names man #and oh my god im anxious about whether or not the choices are stupid isn't that weird? #like if I just write what we're doing that's fine but do the choices look ok?? am I stupid??? i hope not

[otaku553]

If I may, what are some of your brother's shit takes?

Ok honestly I exaggerate my brother’s takes aren’t that bad lmao and he’s not super opinionated,, I think.

My main gripe is that his least favorite character in the whole series is Tanjirou because he thinks Tanjirou is weak like,,,, my dude!! The entire point of Tanjirou is that he doesn’t have the natural born talent that Zenitsu and Inosuke have so he has to work hard to achieve a lot and yeah maybe they slightly lose sight of that in giving him the sun breathing ability but to begin with that’s more of a preserved legacy than something that he’s born with

Anyways he’s also a massive simp for Giyu and surprisingly?? I’m fine with that, giyu is not the worst character to simp for in demon slayer and it makes for funny ideas in ocs

#he looks all tall and cool but actually he’s the biggest little shit I know lmao #I kind of wish I knew him better because he was pretty distanced in middle and high school even though we’re about the same age #I’ll make a proper character sheet for shougen at some point but it’s a direct transliteration of my brother’s Chinese name #hes the strongest of the three Ebisu siblings because he’s the only one who irl practices martial arts #will probably give him a spear or some kind of polearm

[dol--blathanna]

And then she used the bad outfits to wipe out half the universe

#ok i will try to stop being mean about TWN i swear #it's just that i can't get these godawful costumes out of my head #like ok i don't get book accuracy i don't get yennefer treated fairly i don't get a good edge of the world i don't even get good aguaras #can i AT LEAST get good costumes???? #then lucinda broke into my house spat in my face and said no #and i know i'm being mean but it just sucks that the direction of the costumes and the style of the designer is one that i ABSOLUTELY HATE #and to top it all off there's no real cohesion with the outfits and the world #or even the outfits and the characters themselves #lucinda's interpretations and justifications behind the costumes is just one that i don't particularly like #like if there was good reasoning behind them but they weren't executed well then i wouldn't be as disappointed #or if the reasoning was stupid but the costumes actually looked good (or good enough to not completely break my immersion) #that would be at least something #but I get NEITHER #also shout out to two outfits that didn't make the cut: #the stupid fucking bright purple cloak while yennefer is on the run (does not fit in with the practicality of the narrative or character) #and the leaf/constellation (?) dress in 203 that looks like it's five seconds away from slipping off and flashing us all #it's a nice dress in isolation but for me at least really doesn't work with what's happening in the scene narratively or for yen's characte #anti twn #twn critique #twn critical #twn negativity #anti witcher netflix

[chadepitanga]

i really want to like new trek. but does it like me? would it do that to me if it did?

#where is my high budget for practical effects. why are the romulans ugly. what on earth is the cardassian redesign.... #bro you cant keep retconning species like this.... #stop trying to avoid 80s/90s art direction and colors too. no fucking starship looks like hospital w those white ass walls #throw in some funky decor. people are happy. we have replicators and money is dead. let them have colors #and stop making romulans ugly by the love of god they had a canon design #stick to it #star trek

[orcelito]

Crochet Update

Last night vs right now. The current progress on the maybe-scarf. I might just run out of yarn before I reach actual scarf length, but I'm curious what the full length of one of these yarn balls is. Kinda just getting a feel for it & all.

I Also bought a little book that teaches some crochet basics, and spent some time going through some more stitch styles. The above scarf is made with single stitches, and the following...

The half-double stitch

The double stitch

The treble stitch

Fuck the treble. The process for doing it was so different from the others, I Hated it. Maybe my hands being tired also doesn't help, but I am Grrrr at this one. Final product was okay at least.

These 3 little bitches took me 2 hours to make. Ugh.

#speculation nation #some of that was of course figuring out how to make them in the first place #following directions in a book can be a little challenging. but i got it. #there are more elaborate stitch styles in this book but im keeping to just the basics for now. #ive figured out how to add and remove stitch counts per rows #....partways to deal with my own fuckups lmao but itll be good to know for designs and whatever. #i looked ahead at how to switch yarns midway through and i wanna try that out at some point #maybe do like stripes or something. idk. just Some kind of practice ykno? #i need to experiment with empty space. currently still perplexed by that. but i'll figure it out. #considering i only started crocheting 2 days ago i think ive made remarkable progress. #it's just. fun!!! idk. i like it. and im looking forward to being able to Make Things. #beyond just. indefinite maybe-scarf lmaooo

[imflyingfish]

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#i have no idea how to respond to the whole qsmp situation right now #i mean. i dont watch it or interact with qsmp ITSELF #only the fans around it #I have made fanart for it but not really because i have any particular attachment to specific characters but just because #its a very good springboard for character design and inspiration #Im very involved with the fanbase though as the QSMPnews discord is one of my main discords #and I mainly use the fandom space as a way of practicing/getting into foreign languages #although i dont watch qsmp it still has impacted my life massively in the last year #this clusterfuck of project management is difficult to unravel and know what to do with #and its difficult to know exactly where to turn your attention #or who to blame #since theres so many levels of miscommunication that hasnt been helped by the sharing of it online #i think. even if QSMP doesn't survive #it would be ludicrous to state it as an inherently harmful server #since there has been an evident change in the minecraft gaming space because of it in multiculturalism. #heck IM direct proof of that as someone who does not reguarly engage with the server itself via streams #the fact that as a result of a 21 year old kid deciding to start a sever I can end up with a group of spanish speakers trying to explain #various concepts to me in my language while i respond in theirs is. insane #so do i think that the qsmp will survive? #um. look i dont see how it can. #I've never thought that it could #but i dont think that im going to demonise fans or avoid content relating to it #considering how integral the fanspaces around it are to me and my personal quest for language proficiency #however I will attempt to keep qsmp posts on my french/spanish blogs #well that was. long-winded #idk this is a very self-centred look into the qsmp and this whole situation #obviously I hope that the staff get paid but. I really have no idea where Quackity Studios might get that money from or how the #server should either end or continue

[brightgnosis]

The "Domestic Magics" and What It Means (To Me) To Be A Hearthkeeper

I’m a full time «NonTrad» Homemaker- primarily due to unfortunate health circumstance, which I've now turned into an accepted and celebrated life profession for myself.

Religiously, spiritually, and magically, the Home itself is considered a sacred space to me (the third most sacred- following the Temple in all its forms, then the Garden). And since I cannot actually have children myself, I personally view the community as a substitute, and therefore as an extension of my Hearth. Community building and education, and related activities, are therefore likewise considered further extensions of these practices by proxy.

I heavily practice the traditional magical arts of Cottagecraft, Hearthcraft, Kitchencraft, and Greencraft as they're understood within the Traditional NeoWiccan religion and framework as a result; I use the parallel phrases 'Domestic Witchcraft' and 'Domestic Magics' as an umbrella to refer to a wide variety of individual subsets of Witchcraft and their related spells and rituals within my practice.

'Domestic' is defined thus:

(General) Pertaining to the home, household, household affairs, or family.

(Of A person) Devoted to home life, family life, or household affairs.

'Domestic Witchcraft' is therefore any collection of spells or rituals which have a foundation in (or around)- or an effect on- the home, as well as one’s family and guests.

Within NeoPaganism these individual practices of Cottagecraft, Hearthcraft, Kitchencraft, and Greencraft are unfortunately incorrectly conflated into one system at times. Typically under the moniker of “Cottagecraft” (or sometimes "Hearthcraft" or "Hedge Witch") as a catch-all. Personally, however, I dislike this penchant greatly as I feel each category is itself a unique specialization.

There may be overlap between each group due to the nature of sharing the same domestic focus. But they are still distinct areas of magic and focus, each. Specializing in one does not assume specialization in the others by proxy. I define each of the 'Domestic Magics' individually as follows, for this reason:

➻ Cottagecraft: A denomnative form of Domestic Witchcraft which is focused around the (general) interior of the Home and its Household inhabitants. This may include activities and spells with a heavy influence on crafting and DIY, home protection, familial harmony, household finances, budget Witchcraft, and similar things.

➻ Kitchencraft: A denomnative form of Domestic Witchcraft which is focused in and around the Kitchen itself, as a separate entity from the home as a whole. This may include activities and spells with a heavy influence on cooking, baking, food, and similar things- especially for harmony, healing, etc; does not focus strictly to the household, but can also focus on one's community.

➻ Hearthcraft: A denomnative form of Domestic Witchcraft which is focused on the Hearth or Fireplace, as a separate entity from the home as a whole. This may include spells and activities with a heavy influence on fire, warmth, comfort, protection, and similar things- but in a manner different than Cottagecraft. Especially through the use of fiber-based arts and crafts (such as sewing, knitting, or embroidery [sic]), and Ancestor and Spiritwork; like Kitchencraft, it does not focus strictly to the household, but can also focus on one's community.

➻ Greencraft: A denomnative form of Domestic Witchcraft which is focused in and around the Yard or general (immediate) exterior of the Home. This may include spells and activities with a heavy influence on crystals and plants, Herbalism (magical, spiritual, medicinal, or otherwise), gardening and / or landscaping (magical, spiritual, medicinal, or otherwise), connection with Plant Spirit Allies and Land Spirits, general connection with Earth Energies, ecoregional and bioregional studies, and similar things- but does not include animals.

If I really need a catch-all term for simplicity’s sake, then I call them the “Domestic Magics” as a way to retain their individual definitions while still using a generalized, all encompassing term which is relevant to their shared realm of material focus. And I call myself a "Hearthkeeper", personally, as a practitioner with a heavy primary emphasis on all such forms of Domestic Magics (rather than someone who only practices one or two).

Again, however: This has nothing to do with Hedgecraft. Hedgecraft is a form of witchcraft that deals with Spirits and the boundary between plains (ours and the Otherworld)- including, depending on the practitioner, practices such as the use of ritual Entheogens, ritual transformation, Skinchanging, and other actions. It is more closely allied with Traditional Witchcraft than it is Wicca and NeoWicca, and the Eclectic NeoPaganism that masquerades as such.

I am also a Hedge Witch. Hedge Witchcraft does not have anything to do with my Domestic Practice.

This account is run by a Dual Faith «(Converting) Masorti Jew + Traditional NeoWiccan» & «Ancestral Folk Magic Practitioner» with 20+ years of experience as a practicing Pagan and Witch. If that bothers you, don't interact.

#Personal #2023 #A Direct Look At My Practice #Kitchen Witchcraft #Kitchen Witch #Cottage Witchcraft #Cottage Witch #Green Witchcraft #Green Witch #Domestic Witchcraft #Domestic Witch #Hearth Witchcraft #Hearth Witch #Hedge Witchcraft #Hedge Witch #Religion & Magic #Homemaker #Homemaking #Housewife #NonTrad Housewife #NonTrad Homemaker #NonTrad Homemaking

[castielsparkle]

wip image from earlier of a now finished practice drawing but. i rlly liked it at this stage<33 its of my special line cook babygirl cas becayse im unwell all of a sudden about him . thanks💙

#cas.txt #my linecook cas softlaunch #cas.wip #cas.art #the finished drawing looks so very different it ended up Uh #not in the direction i anticipated whatso ever #its ok tho it was for practice and i got practice ^_^ #castiel #cas #spn #art #sorry im mentally ill it will never change amen

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

made myself look stupid for getting confused during baseball but it all evens out because I just played ping pong with the guy I like for like an hour

#this is so embarrassing bc I have one mutual who knows exactly who I'm talking about #but like.... his smile is so so nice #anyway the baseball story is WILD bc it was with a Wiffle ball set skfndkfns #and it's like... all the older leaders kept trying to direct me?? but it was in an echoey gym and I couldn't figure it out #and I kept making dumb mistakes #and whenever I would turn around the one older guy my dad is friends with who practically hauled me up a mountain one time #kept giving me Knowing looks and trying to encourage me #and I just felt... very dumb #but the ping pong was good. it was really good #Lu rambles #anyway it's lights out now for the youth group sleepover so I'm gonna listen to a podcast and try to sleep

[backpackofposts]

Similar to how the Minecraft cave spider is slightly smaller than the average spider model, I think glow squids should have a smaller model than the normal squid

#Which makes sense too since a lot of bioluminescent squids are smaller than your traditional/more common squid #and I just think it would be a fun little detail #like the squid having a smaller size would change absolutely none of its mechanics it’s purely aesthetic #like there are so many non-functional that were originally in Minecraft #that I find it funny when Mojang tries to claim they couldn’t add something because it wasn’t practical or realistic #cough cough fireflies cough like dude you made ocelots completely obsolete when making cats a different animal #my beef with Mojang is simple: they haven’t been updating the game they have been revamping and re-branding it #nether update? no fuck no! they added a lot of new Contant but they did not improve upon any pre-existing elements #but what about the zombie Pigman weren’t they updated? no they were replaced by something inspired by them #with a zombie version to calm the crowd. #because if they’re their own species now with their own spawning structures then who the fuck do the nether fortress is belong to!? #The nether update added a lot of things that were inspired off of pre-existing things in the nether but none of them are direct improvements #for example the nether wart forest would you are unable to get nether wart from #The new soul sand valley is interesting but I wish your soul Sand actually looked like it had souls in it like the classic stuff #and I think the new sand could be improved upon if you made it look like there were hands of the souls #because I always thought you walked slowly on soul Sand because the souls were trying to drag you down with them✨ #it’s funny how much Minecraft is treated like a Game for all ages because when you really look at it I think it’s actually quite dark #but take what I say with a pinch of salt because I’m just rambling and this post was originally about squids #glow squid #minecraft glow squid #bioluminescent squid #bioluminescent #Minecraft #squid #Minecraft squid #bioluminescence #caves and cliffs #minecraft nether

[gouinisme]

last 2 journals + next 1

#they're all pretty different styles i like that #been trying to have more fun with my journals #wait nvm i did have a journal between the eye one and the sticker one but it was completely uncustomized and didn't last long #so we'll ignore that #i also fully didn't journal for like 2 weeks bc i had done the sketch for my new journal but didn't feel like painting it #and i didnt wanna write in a black plain journal again #that feels too functional and not.. like.. it doesnt encourage me to get creative with it #anyways #turns out i had some metallic pens hiding somewhere so i used that #been feeling in a wolfy mood #i'm sad with how scuffed the stickers on my previous journal #which extra sucks cuz the letters are from bumper stickers what do you mean they're the least durable stickers i had #but oh well they were free anyways. and it kinda looks cool gives it a more well worn feel #makes the three ish months i spent carrying it around with me everywhere visible so that's nice #i really like my journals i like journaling so much #like my journals are not aesthetic whatsoever they're very practical and chaotic but i like that about them #i feel like journaling like. placebo relieves the pressure in my brain #i do not have an internal monologue i have an internal cacophony it's like a fucking assemblée générale in there #so writing it all down is very soothing to my brain and painful to my wrists #it just feels like writing is the only time my thoughts can be interpreted and even if they're going in a thousand directions they're still #easier to follow than just. thinking #and then i can surround my thoughts with doodles and receipts and shit #or a strand of my own hair #that is something that is actually in one of the journals pictured abov #anyways why am i ranting down here i've got a new journal to fill #you know what i'm tagging this #journaling #cuz i think my journals are cute and ppl should see them i'm really proud of them #even though a lot of this is stickers i still feel like it looks real cute #doodles

[kris-mage-fics]

I was tagged in this post ages ago by Yuki (@yuuugay) planned on doing it, forgot, then couldn't find it again, then finally found it the other day! So after that journey, I thought I should actually do it! Anyways, here's closeish to what I look like irl. Well, not the hair, I'm currently in dire need of a haircut. Here's the picrew I used, it's probably my favorite one because there are so many options! All the colors are slightly off from my own coloring, but I don't think I can get any closer with any picrew I've seen. (The one Yuki used is very cute. But I struggling to find hair that looked close to mine, and I feel like short hair and glasses are the two things that people notice about me first.)

Not tagging anyone because the heat has fried my brain. But feel free to consider yourself tagged if you'd like to do it too!

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The first is what I look like when out, and the second is when I'm home and my partner just told a bad joke. If it's really bad I'll throw in an epic eyeroll along with the face, lol! Under the cut is a little rant about my hair taking it's sweet time to go gray. Yes, you read that right, and yes I'm salty about it!

Ever since I was a little kid I knew I'd have pretty gray hair, because most of my older family members do. And a lot of people in my family start graying quite young, late teens to early twenties is pretty common. I didn't find my first gray until I was in my late twenties and I was so excited! I could finally start looking forward to the pretty gray hair I've always known I'd have. It has been over a decade and my hair still isn't even 5% gray! What's up with that? Apparently it's too much to ask that I have a head of sparkly silvery-white hair! No offense to my brown hair, it's a nice cool-toned medium brown, but it's kinda basic. But my gray hair is so pretty and actually sparkles and I want more of it! For all the shit my body puts me through you'd think it could at least give me this, lol!

#no one asked for that rant but I was in a mood I guess lol #yes I'm pretty much that pale - my face looks a smidge darker because I have a hint of a tan and mild rosacea #not that I can really tan (or want to because skin cancer isn't a fun time) #but even a little bit of time outside and I'll get a faint tan and then burn not long after that if I'm in direct sunlight lol #am I practically a vampire with how much I avoid direct sunlight? yes #fun with picrews #tag game