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Prologue to The Wanderer’s Debt

O child.

O fool.

You grew, and I watched.

Once a beating heart in one city, you shall become a phantom in another.

You gave me everything, and for what?

For love? For freedom? For forgiveness?

There is no love for you, nor freedom, nor forgiveness.

There is only the hum of strings tied around your neck, strings I pluck like an instrument singing your fate.

We have much work, you and I, O Wanderer, and I’m afraid you will not survive.

And you,

My false offspring,

The slumbering one—

You are out of your depth, out of time.

The clock ticks down, down, down for her, yet you are timeless.

There is no escaping your fate, a fate of loss, a fate of pain.

Death is all there is behind you,

And death is all there is before you.

You will lose everything before the end, before the fragments of this shattered dream come to a head.

Try not to lose your head.

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a friendly reminder to pagans & witches:

it is okay if you weren't productive today.

it is okay if you didn't do any spellwork.

it is okay if you didn't pray.

it is okay if you didn't offer something to your deities.

it is okay if you didn't learn anything new.

it is okay if you didn't feel like doing something related to your craft.

it is okay if you didn't have any motivation to do anything.

it is okay.

your path is yours and it should make you comfortable.

perhaps you had planned many things to do, perhaps you wanted to learn more, perhaps you wished for some time alone with your deities; or perhaps you were looking forward to something else.

it is okay if you couldn't do it — whether you weren't feeling well, you had other things to do or you just didn't want to.

your practice should be something that is useful and helpful, something which you should benefit from. take this into account when you are in your spiritual space <3

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i’m going to mcfucking loose it

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too good not to share lol

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Not to keep reliving trauma on main, but I'm getting weird deja vu from where my health was a few years ago and where it's at now. And most of it is revolving around Good Omens.

In May of 2019, we genuinely thought I was dying because I was dying. My organs were in the process of shutting down because my red blood cells were prematurely self-destructing and damaging my kidneys in the process, and I was rapidly coming to terms with the fact that I might not survive much longer. I'd fought the good fight, and I'd lost. Mostly due to medical neglect. And I was mad about a lot of things, but do you know what I remember from the traumatic blur I'm left with?

"I'm going to be so pissed if I die before Good Omens comes out."

I'd waited 20+ years at that point for something like a tv adaptation of Good Omens. Ever since I was a child and my dad read the book to me, and I fell in love with it. And here I was, mere weeks away from the TV release and on the verge of death.

Then like a miracle, a miracle that hinged on human compassion and a doctor being willing to listen to me, I was saved. Dragged back from the jaws of death by a relentless hematology department that refused to give up on me and ultimately saved my life. And a week later, I got to watch Good Omens propped up in my own bed, still weak, still ill, with my heart stuttering in my chest every time I laughed. And I remember thinking, "I did it. I got to see it."

That it's now it's 2023 and my health has tanked again. My organs are rebelling against me and no one seems to know why. But yet again, a few weeks before Good Omens is set to release, I find a doctor who listens to me and is doing all he can to help. Striving with the grim kind of determination that can only come from a place of compassion and care. Like my world is worth saving, and not just his.

Which is rather fitting, I think.

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hey hi hello can you reblog this if you’re a trans-inclusive witchcraft or paganism blog i am fighting for my LIFE out here

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Human beings b like. *sits and stares peacefully at a fire* *sits and stares peacefully at the ocean* *sits and stares peacefully at a sleeping animal*

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May Lord Apollon reach you even in the darkest of times, and help guide you back to his sunlight

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Listen Here. Yeah, You. I Have Something To Tell You.

I need to talk about the book I’m writing so badly but everyone I know is asleep or dead(?) and I hear Tumblr is cool about writing and stuff.

it’s got lesbians and big guns and magic and shenanigans.

I hear that sells like hot cakes here. Come take a bite.

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listen to the wind blow btw. and also watch the sun rise

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Cupid and Psyche for June 🌿🩷🦋

Here is Cupid and Psyche relaxing in nature and being in love🧡 I've not drawn these two before, but they've always had a special spot in my heart ever since I first heard their myth as a child. It's one of the few Greek myths that actually has a happy ending!

Patrons in June will be receiving digital downloads, wallpapers, prints, and stickers of this illustration 🧡 Patreon.com/flaroh

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Little Rituals

Not every rituals needs to be complex and long. This year, I’ve started a ritual of praying in the morning when I open my living room blinds. My prayer goes like this:

Good morning great gods and goddesses above, below, and in between. Good morning Zeus Good morning Sophrosyne Good morning Khione (etc for whoever I wish to greet) May you bless me this day, and may my actions honor you. Khaire!

It’s not much, but a small daily reminder of the gods’ presence in my life has brought a lot of meaning every day.

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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

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