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personal work Axe

Sungryun Park

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Davriel Cane, Rogue Shadow Mage - Planeswalker Concept by Rebecca On https://www.artstation.com/artwork/AqolKW

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Is Klothys' mechanic to exile cards from graveyard something like preventing necromancy, therefore the avoidance of the inevitability of Fate?

The graveyard is a place where things can still happen to a card. By exiling things, she ensures their fate is what she has decided.

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Character interactions I crave

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hades explaining that he’s the god of the dead, not the god of death

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Does Klothys decides the fate of individuals from birth or does she merely enforces that things will happen the way they were premedited? Like, the Triad Of Fates decides when someone will be born and die and the good and bad things that will happen in their lives (with the approval of Klothys) while Klothys makes sure that things will happen that way?

We talked a little about this with James Wyatt on @thevorthoscast, and Klothys is about the cosmic natural order of destiny as opposed to the individualized concept of fate.

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https://www.gunjap.net/site/?p=374131

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Every time we as the player visit a new set and buy cards we're basically doing the same thing. Planeswalking and adding pages to our personal spell books. The contents of the first pack I open in every set is where I imagine I've arrived on the plane and what I've encounter for the first time.

If I was a planewalker, I’d be like Narset, just travelling around buying books

I really like Narset as a character and wish we got to see more of her.

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Do you have any thoughts on cycling flavor? Utilizing the memory of one spell to recall another one?

This question comes up every time we have a cycling set. I go into it a little more below, but bottom line it falls in the same flavor as any other looting mechanic.

https://vorthosjay.tumblr.com/post/159832398116/is-there-any-flavor-explanation-for-cycling

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;_; gorgeous

C A R P E N † E R   B R U † ↳ † u r b o  k i l l e r

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Blood Machines (2019) Directed by Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard

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Would love to see the actual film. The YouTube short was gorgeous.

†  B L O O D  M A C H I N E S  † The Cosmic Opera directed by Seth Ickerman music by Carpenter Brut

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At the close of the Age of Fire, all lands meet at the end of the earth… 

My Desert Pyromancer Zoey(Dark Souls game series) cosplay by me

Ph by Rina

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I am embarrassed to admit this, but: I have performed many renunciations, even petitioned the Devil and land spirits for initiation (if violent, so be it: I am desperate for freedom) -- I am always left relatively unchanged. I have tried to write over my reality to alter my deepest self, and I always fall back into this self-destructive state of mediocrity, inertia, perfectionism. My birthday is very soon, and I want to end this once and for all. How might I make this time different?

Here’s the thing: initiation does not suddenly make you into a super witch. To initiate is to start something. You start on the path, and on the path you learn to be your true self and follow your will.

Further: you can’t force spirit initiation. You either are ready for it, or you’re not. And if you’re not, then you either go crazy or die. If you are ready, then it will happen. You might get called out to the woods and be greeted by a beautiful woman who takes you under a hill, or you might be whisked away from your bed, or during meditation you might be ravaged by spirits who pick you apart, clean you, and put you back together again. Or! The spirits might lead you to a teacher who will safely guide you through the process so those types of things don’t happen.

Witchcraft teaches you to really look at yourself and dig deep down and take out that deepest self you’re trying to alter. Why are you trying to alter it? To fit some sort of paradigm? No, accept yourself in all your parts, good and bad. Stand before the mirror and delight in your -whole- self. That’s power. Is there poison inside you? Transmute it. Is there pain? Turn it into art. Is there grief? Hug yourself and love more.

I’m learning myself -still- (and I’ve been doing this shit for almost 15 fucking years) that all this inner work is -hard-. And it isn’t about erasing those parts of ourselves we don’t happen to like, it’s about living them, loving them, and transmuting them for our own use. Why do they call the spirit lover devil, succubus, incubus, shadow? Because that is the part of ourselves that is beautiful, beastial, evil, dark, sexual, powerful, ecstatic, and soul sucking. It’s the part of ourselves that if we lock away, comes to bite us, and to bite other people from neglect. But it is also the part that if we accept and make love to, we can have power. We can be masters of our fate.

One of my mentors gives me a ritual to do. He says: Take a glass of water, and pour into it all your worries, your pain, your troubles, your anger. Pray to God to become whole in yourself. The water shines with Light. Breathe. Now drink it all. Drink all of it back into yourself. Be whole. Do this every day.

When I do it, I feel light, and happy. I smile unconsciously, and the fog clears.

We try so hard to erase ourselves. Fight the shadow. Fight the evil. Lock it away. Get rid of it. I say, dance with the Devil. Dance with Him, make love to Him, wrestle with Him, put Him on a leash, let Him tie you up, fly with Him.

I’ve been getting so many questions lately about how to contact the witch god. They want something visceral to happen to them. They want a man in black to appear in full manifestation before them. But that isn’t what happens all the time. Sometimes the Devil appears as yourself. And for many this confuses them, and they try different methods, but the same thing keeps happening. They see themselves. A flawed self. Saying they’re not good enough for this. They can’t be a witch. It’s not real.

They don’t realize that that -is- Him. He doesn’t have to look grotesque to scare you away. Sometimes he just shows you You: ugly and flawed.

The gods wear masks so that we can perceive them as they need to be perceived. Those masks are usually just mirrors.

That was a long post, and I apologize. I guess I had a lot to say because I feel you. I’m right in the same boat. The Work is hard. That’s why it is called work.

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Hey I have a question for you about Amaterasu-sama, i dont think I can put a proper kamidana for her because my family is christian, would she be mad? Im trying making not so suspisious kamidana but if it's not like lets say yours (or similar) would she be angry?

Absolutely not! For the longest time I didn’t have a proper kamidana; I didn’t obtain one until I moved to Japan. I find that while many of the kami are materialistic, it’s less in a sense that they WANT material things and more that they get EXCITED whenever you give them anything.

I used to just have a pot of tea out for Ami-sama. Then I got bowls for water, rice, and salt (no alcohol allowed on my college campus). Eventually I got a mirror (it was a makeup mirror) and some candles (which were also illegal in my dorm). Honestly, it was more for my piece of mind than it was for Hers. She’s happy with whatever worship you can offer her.