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Caroline Nelson (detail)

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Get to know me asks 🌟

Witch edition

🌙 astrology sign?

💎 favorite crystal?

🔮 favorite form of divination?

🧘🏿‍♀️ do you look up to a guru/psychic/spiritual leader?

🧚🏻‍♀️ have you had any paranormal experiences?

🌞 are you working with a deity?

📿 describe your altar

🕯️do you have a favorite spell/ritual?

🧿 what persuaded you to start practicing?

🧝🏻‍♀️ what kind of witch are you?

🌟 are you currently manifesting anything?

🔢 do you see angel numbers?

👽 do you channel spirits/interdimensional beings?

🌀 have you had spiritual experiences under the influence?

🙏🏼 what puts you in a spiritual mood?

👁️ what are your psychic/intuitive abilities?

📌 have you ever hexed anyone?

🎶 do you chant or listen to meditation music?

🌎 what’s most profound experience spiritually?

🌑 have you experienced a “dark night of the soul” for witchcraft? How did you get back into it?

🐺 do most people know about your craft, or do you keep it a secret?

🌐 are you into spiritual conspiracies?

🐉 what are your thoughts on cryptids/magical animals?

🕊️ are you a religious witch?

🗝️ have you ever manipulated a situation to your favor using witchcraft?

🪦 do you contact your ancestors?

🫧 what’s your favorite method of cleansing?

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"Luce…I chose us."

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(but i am sorry)

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Æthelflæd in The Last Kingdom 2x08

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"When this is over, and it will be, we will fix it, I won’t go back to it Mitchell, I refuse. This isn’t the life I want, it never was. Right now it’s what I have to do, but when it isn’t, when we’ve won -"

And she kisses them, fiercely, passionately, with every fiber of her being poured into their heat. When the kiss is broken, she only backed an inch to ask,

"Yes?"

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What texts would you recommend to develop the sort of general knowledge needed to write something like your economic development plans? I am currently trying to write a setting which has a few major reformist leaders with big plans, and it would really help to know a bit more about how to come up with a workable economic development plan for a fantasy region - I really admired your work on the subject, and thought you were the person to ask.

This is a great question!

Something I've discussed before wrt economic development, is the need to avoid presentism as much as possible. So I've always taken as a central limiter of my economic development proposals that they have to fit within the boundaries of what was known/technologically feasible during the Late Middle Ages through to the Early Modern period.

In this fashion, I try to avoid the Connecticut Yankeee in King Arthur's Court scenario where all of the sudden steam engines appear hundreds of years early out of nowhere - because we shouldn't be assuming that economic development is some teleological process that has to go through the same stages as Western European economic development did in our timeline. The result is that I got really into reading about the Commercial Revolution and the technologies that drove economic development during that period - hence why I became obsessed about canal-building, because canals were a key technology that the Early Modern nation-state used to create and reshape markets.

So here is a meta-list of books I'd recommend on economic development in the Middle Ages through the Early Modern period:

books about medieval and Renaissance governments.

William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis, Lawrence Goodwyn's The Populist Moment, and Will and Wong's Nourish the People on the making and remaking and regulating of agricultural markets.

books about Medieval and Renaissance urban development.

books about medieval guilds.

Robert S. Lopez' Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

Joseph Gies' Merchants and Moneymen: the Commercial Revolution.

Pamela Smith, Paul Findlen ed. Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe.

Ralph Davis' A Commercial Revolution.

Anthony Burton's The Canal Pioneers and The Canal Builders.

John Blair ed. Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England.

A.E.J Morris, History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolution.

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She's woven into me. Don't you understand how one can be absolutely connected with somebody like that?

Iris Murdoch, from 'The Sea, the Sea'

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gtkm meme » [2/?] characters  » Anne Bonny (Black Sails) 

↳ “If we don’t try something they ain’t expecting, then we’re all fucking dead.”

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‘cause i’ll breathe when they try to suffocate me, don’t you underestimate me.

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Are you really…. not supposed to…. describe what your characters are wearing….

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EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER … :: Maeve & Damocles Faye

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Skandar Keynes [Edmund] + Smiling | requested by snickertydoodle

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BURN YOUR KINGDOM DOWN | a mix for the iron throne, the battling kings and queens, the ghost-fraught soldiers, and the lost children of westeros.

i. seven devils - florence + the machine | ii. sorrow - the national | iii. hero - regina spektor | iv. no one would riot for less - bright eyes | v. timshel - mumford & sons | vi. blackbird - evan rachel wood | vii. fallen - imagine dragons | viii. exile vilify - the national | ix. blood to gold - boy and bear | x. youth - daughter | xi. the wolves - ben howard | xii. mother of dragons [instrumental] - ramin djawadi

[listen here]

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will you tolerate this?

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