#hyperlink later

[audhdwitch]

spell log 9.23.2023 money jar

a slightly different version of a spell i've previously used for getting gig-based work, reworked to suit on-hand materials and to pull that part-time job i applied to recently.

materials:

jar

appropriate sigil + tools to write the sigil on the jar's lid

$2 bill

pouch (doesn't need to be fancy. this time i just used a folded up half of a paper towel secured with a rubber band)

rice

"hard work pays off" powder

coins

citrine

(optional) "spun gold"

steps:

gather materials and do whatever you gotta do to get settled and into your headspace. personally, the path to least resistance on this for me is getting high and throwing on my money draw playlist on spotify.

affix your sigil to the lid of the jar. my jar is awesome and has a chalkboard lid, so i just draw it on with chalk. if you don't have an awesome jar you can also just paint it on or draw it on a scrap of paper and affix it to the top with tape or something. set this aside.

fill your pouch with a bit of rice (seriously, you don't need a lot. maybe a few tbsp max) and sprinkle in some "hard work pays off" powder. secure the pouch however you see fit so that nothing falls out. set this aside, too.

optional: spin your gold, if you haven't already, and set that aside as well. (adapted from the lovely @breelandwalker, you can "spin gold" by methodically wrapping golden thread/embroidery floss/similar fiber around a spool or three, and tying it off. i had to look up how to do this and tbh i still am not sure i totally got it right, lol)

time to put stuff in the jar! i do it in a Particular Order to minimize the Bad Sensory sound of coins clinking against glass but honestly stuff can just Go In There. the order i do it in is: $2 bill, rice + powder pouch, pour spare change all in there (i always make a Big Deal of slowly pouring the coins in for the Vibes. the $2 bill and pouch going in first really helps muffle the sound). nestle that citrine in there; i have a lovely palm stone that always fits like a dream. optional: toss in those spun-gold spools now, if you have 'em.

close the jar and seal however you see fit. i wrap a little hand-woven thingy around it left over from the original iteration of this spell. set in a semi-prominent (or at least easily accessible) location and let it work its magic!

notes:

you can charge this spell over time by adding spare change.

when your jar gets full, grab some of those paper coin rolls and start rolling. deposit your full rolls, or use them to buy yourself a little treat. any coins leftover that didn't make a full roll go back in the jar to continue accumulating!

[meyhew]

i love spreadsheets i love categorization i love assigning colors to things i love sorting things into lists i love checkboxes i love organizational tools <3

[they-hermes]

only starscream would see the success of others as a threat to himself

[posthumanwanderings]

Phantasy Star Online (Sonic Team / Sega - Dreamcast - 2000)

[galaxyofstars]

honestly the debate about whether feyre was qualified or not to be high lady wouldn't be such a big deal if the story stopped trying to frame her as the best at everything. it's ok if the only reason she is initially made high lady was to make her rhys' equal in the sense that he does not hold more power over her, and technically, legally, cannot command her, or force her to do anything. she's his mate, so he feels comfortable doing that very early on into the relationship. it's a statement of his love and trust of her, or rather, his respect of her as her own person. but as @ofbreathandflame elaborates on here, it doesn't actually say anything about feyre herself, and to claim that she has done something to earn being high lady causes problems and conflict, because, well, she didn't. she didn't earn the title at all. there are qualities she possesses that may give her the potential to be a good leader, but she is not there already.

and then of course there's the problem that even if the story focused on rhys 'making feyre his equal', there's still confusion, because she fundamentally is not his equal. and it's never elaborated on because sjm can't without highlighting the contradictory nature of it all, but rhys did not arbitrarily become high lord because he earned the support and was sworn in. it's not clear when a high lord begins his reign officially, but it's implied that it starts when the magic 'chooses' them. the magic chose rhys, not feyre, and that fact will always mean that he holds some level of power over her. and that's a whole other topic with no real solution, but i don't think it would be as much as a problem if the story didn't try so hard to insist that that dynamic did not exist at all.

and to be clear im not trying to criticise or shit on feyre, this is more in defense of her than anything. girl deserves better than being lied to.

[thebeckster]

The Pumping Station

*rings the dinner bell* Y'all, come get your angst!

Polished up my little Sig's first encounter with Dark Jak fic. I hope you like it.

Jak's first hunting trip with Sig outside the city walls doesn't go exactly according to plan. Turns out keeping a lid on the dark monster inside you is harder when your life is in danger.

His legs gave out, muscles weak and burning, trembling with the effort of just holding his bones together. That was the worst it had ever been. He only remembered flashes, sensations, his body moving in ways it was not meant to. Doing things he was not meant to. It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Nobody was supposed to see… to know. It wasn’t just a secret, it was a death sentence. If anyone ever found out – Heavy footsteps approached. Jak looked up at Sig. The Wastelander loomed. His gun ready in his hands. Jak bowed his head, waiting for the killing blow. He didn't have the strength to run. Sig would make it quick, at least.

[raudart]

test post bc none of my image posts want to appear in the tags for some reason

i just want yall to see my wavewave art :[

[t-5seconds]

Chapter 11 of ITAOWOBTY is up!

[whspermy-name]

𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲..

Minty, Felix, orr Finley here ☆⌒(ゝ。∂)!! transmasc + genderfluid . he/they preferred, she/her is okay ♡ 26/1 is my birthday. ⋆

prev. @minty-bubblegum ☆ just some guy ☆ now a full-time father and a divorced middle aged man ☆ part time floyd lover ☆ 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒍𝒐���

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[nebbychan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52357495/chapters/162940420

New chapter’s out come get y’all juice

[they-hermes]

trying to make a logo for funsies but i forgot how much i hate fucking graphic design

[posthumanwanderings]

Cy Girls (TAKARA / Konami - PS2 - 2004)

[stealchain]

it my birthday

[princessofxianle]

#feng xin meta

...is now a searchable tag on my blog fyi 🧡

[bottombatch]

Fanfic Writer Questions

thanks for the tag @optiwashere!

If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged! But here is one more for the road: @collegeoflore

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Apparently I have 20? That's news to me lol. I would have guessed like 10 to 12. I've used this AO3 account for a while, I guess.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

62,119 words, according to the statistics.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently, only Baldur's Gate 3. Before that I was writing lightcanon for League of Legends.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. And They Were Roommates

2. To Muzzle a Gith

3. Misfit and Nomad

4. I Thought About You

5. Workouts in a Winter Hellscape

Damn. Some of these are callbacks.. Not too surprised, though. These either have popular ships or popular fandoms. LoL lightcanon in 1, 3, and 4 make sense to me, even if I'm embarrassed by the writing in them. Continually shocked by To Muzzle a Gith. I guess Shadowzel is that popular? I don't know. I have so little desire to write for them again and the writing in it makes me cringe, tbh. Same with #5 LMAO. You couldn't pay me enough to reread the fics I wrote in highschool.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes, always! Well. If someone comments on something really old I might not? But only because im scared they'll ask me to update it lmao. But in general, yes! I love talking and hearing what people liked!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

If I'm including the 20 QOTD Challenge fic (and i am because this is my post), I'd have to give it to Nerves, ch19 of that challenge. I mean, its a flashback scene about killing a childhood friend (and maybe lover) for a crumb of an uncaring goddess' attention.

It's pretty much the only piece of angst I've written that doesn't have some overtone of hope to it. I'm hoping to work it into my act 1 rewrite because I like it so much.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

To me, its Savoring Seconds from the challenge. It's bittersweet but after everything those two have been through... It's the happiest I can envision them ever being. Maybe that's just my bias tho :P

8. Do you get hate on fics?

No? Do most people get hate on fics? I haven't had anything of the sort. Hard to imagine what that would even be like..

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, I do. Outside of To Muzzle a Gith, I think I write pretty tame stuff? More emotional than anything.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

A Common Song was really the only crossover, but even then.. it was really just a League of Legends fic with a cyberpunk2077 au. It had some good ideas tho.. maybe I'll return to it some day.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I've noticed?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not really. I've helped with brainstorming before but that's really all.

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

This.. is tough. I change fandoms too often for something like this 😭 If I had to pick a bg3 ship... Laz/Karlach. Is it cheating to say my OC ship? Probably. But fuck you, its MY post. I've cried multiple times on the bus just thinking about these two, no one else had quite the strangle hold on me. (I was thinking abt Karlach's funeral btw).

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

A Common Song. I was cooking on some of those ideas but I was FAR too ambitious lmao

16. What are your writing strengths?

I'm... Not totally sure, to be honest. Its hard to read your own stuff and see what's uniquely strong. If you have any thoughts, please let me know!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I don't think my writing has much rhythm to it. I'd like to work on that. Also my grammar is shoddy at best. English classes were always my lowest grades :,)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

For fantasy languages I think it's fun! It can add a lot of depth and creates a lot of insight to a characters culture. Dabbling with Drowic for example was a lot of fun.

But like, a real language? Naw. I don't know any other languages so unless it was a phrase I knew a character said in canon.. I wouldn't want to risk a shoddy google translate.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Uh. It was either Invader Zim, Mass Effect, or SAO? I'm not totally sure. This would have predated AO3, when I was in middle school or something. I've tried to find those fics but I think they're genuinely lost.

Probably for the best lol.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Currently, it is Snowfall. Once I post it, I think it'll be the act 1 rewrite.

[birthbystarburn]

k/nlist that it took me a full year to put on this blog thumbs up emoji . not my full list and i will probably forget to update it but I Tried

condensed list (relevance/importance order(ish?)) [tag]:

ventus (kingdom hearts) [v]

genji (overwatch) [gametag]

winter soldier (mcu) [m*rvel problems]

rinzler (tron legacy) [primary source torment nexus tag]

[gunchase] <- you are going to have to read the posts

076/abel (scp) [scptag]

cloud (ff7) [go back to your own game]

ienzo (kingdom hearts) [xtag]

mara (tron uprising but crazy canon divergence) [u******g stuff]

noncanon reality bender (scp) [scptag]

[**** **** hell timeline] <- dont worry about it haha

a mekhanite ?? (scp) [scptag]

2x noncanon employees (lobotomy corp)

noncanon kid (the blackout club)

theres more but this is the important stuff slash stuff that actually counts lol

shit ive got something going on with that i cant figure out:

cultsim/book of hours [go in the winter] <- beat both games still no idea who it is

ff16 [go back to your own game part 2] <- i know whats happening but we r not unpacking that right now

the boys [no thanks (temp tag)] <- I DONT WANT TO and might just be marvel bleedover

theme park related thing which ive forgotten my tag for. i know whats going on but the fandom is 20 people and the timeline is nonsense anyway

anything else is under [tag later]

uuhhh uhh i forgot ill add more later