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Cinderella / Jasmine / Ariel / Snow White

my favorite of the disney live actions ♡

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​i’m such a fake idgafer everything bothers me tbh

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Stevie Nicks, Philadelphia, 1978. Photo by Steve Joester.

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I've discovered something exciting about the way my magic functions! For context, my current belief system incorporates both animism and microcosmic thinking. Sort of like this : "everything has a spirit, and even though spirits are projections of my unconscious mind, that's okay because I am the universe staring at it's reflection and choosing to be whole."

So every tool of mine has an entity attached, usually molded and awakened by me- similar to the creation of a thoughtform. And in order to benefit from their aid, I feed them. What hit me today, and inspired this post, was the method by which I feed each of them. The enchanted cup that drives away headaches, sour stomachs, anxiety, etc, has a tiny cat-spirit that drinks the cream I put in the tea; her reward for hunting down these ailments is to eat them like the vermin they are. The shrine to the entity of Knowledge I work with is laden with to-be-read books, which I read out of as part of its sacrifices- and its benefits include helping me to learn and more easily comprehend what I read.

The amulet that houses a glamour-weaving demonic eye is fed by compliments given while wearing it.

In other words, what charges the magic is directly benefitted by the magic itself- so doing a better job means getting more out of the deal, for both me and the tool-spirits in question. My process is basically creating intentionally self-fulfilling prophecies and waiting. This is the kind of tech thing that I think @windvexer and @creature-wizard would go crazy for, so adding mentions just in case.

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Poverty IS a policy choice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Two stunning winners ✨️

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Priorities.

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Another Kremlin policy to kill Americans put in place by MAGA traitors.

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The Princess Bride is such a funny book to read after ONLY seeing the movie. Like Goldman made up a fake author from a fake country and proceeded to write the book as an abridged version of what the fake author wrote... and then he proceeds to add in notes to the "abridged version" mentioning all the boring world building stuff he skipped because it was boring.

Like shout out to William Goldman, man really did make an entire book that is just "the cool scenes you thought of in your head" and then made up a fake author to abridge so he doesn't have to connect them.

And it slaps

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it's a well-known secret among time travelers that you can just do whatever you want to genghis khan and it won't affect history at all. just last week i visited late 12th century mongolia to do a Hot Ones-style interview with him and someone had already given him a PBR baseball cap and a steam deck- the butterfly effect has that name for a reason but temüjin's destiny is just so firmly rooted that no amount of interference could possibly change it. dude absolutely kills it at Crypt of the Necrodancer

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not naming names but some of you are genuinely really good people and i hope that you get everything your heart wants and needs

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Bug Crossing 🐛

I got the idea for this piece on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!

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Has science gone too far

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the inherent romance of literally everything when you’re a sentimental bitch