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Turning off anon, tired of spam bots

I'm getting like 10 a day at this point, so I'm going to turn it off for a bit. If you have question and really don't want it public, just say so in the ask or DM me.

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Came in second in the last tournament and won more art as my prize! Keiri is going to be an official card that only I have access to! Feels pretty awesome to be able to roll up to a game and pull out a unique card made just for me 😊

Look at my adorable little taser bug child! She came out perfect.

This whole thing has inspired me to take another swing at the card game I designed nearly a decade ago, and between working on making my video game and other life responsibilities I've been working on that. We'll see if it ends up being another link in the chain of good events. Crossing my fingers.

https://www.tumblr.com/scroll-of-thought/772711201071398912/good-things-will-happen-things-that-are-meant-to?source=share

did it work?

Honestly, I think it's fuckin working? Nothing I expected to happen has happened, but I've found myself in a really interesting and positive position. It's a weird one, but I've got a story to tell, and some stuff to show off at the end.

So out of the blue, about a month ago, my friend and business partner found a random card game posted on a random tiny facebook group that he's not even part of. He doesn't even go on facebook often, really only to check on his family, but as he scrolled to see his parent's recent post he saw it. Who knows what arcane algorithms the ol' Zuck is working with, but it looked neat and found the right audience, so he told me and we tried it out. Really fun strategy/roleplaying card game with a digimon-esk vibe.

From there were joined the discord to ask some questions on rules we didn't really understand, see if there was more content coming out, just hang out and see what's what.

Long story short, we've become fast friends with the solo dev of the game. He's a really cool guy, just making the game he wished existed, and putting 110% of his time and work into it. I have stayed up until sunrise just chatting with him about all kinds of junk, game design included.

So far he's commissioned me once to do a quick 3d model design of the interior of a building, which he's going to use as a perspective guide for illustrations in the game, and wants more when he has the funds. He also wants to commission my SO, Silver, to illustrate cards and other stuff for the game once he has funds, and even license some of the fanart she made for fun, so it'll be in the games rulebook.

I won the first official tournament of the game, which was a blast, and the prize was some art of one of my OCs as a character in his games world, and it came out awesome. So now I have art of a character I've been writing in my novel for years and that's awesome.

The community is really small, but passionate and full of cool people making and doing cool stuff. One of the fans does a weekly "pirate radio" show that covers upcoming events and content, 100% in character as if it were in world. I've been helping him with that where I can, having a lot of experience in audio editing and a huge library of sounds and music to pull from. Today the radio host realized he used to watch my youtube channel like 8 years ago, and that was an awesome small world kinda moment.

So generally, yeah I think it's working. I've made very peculiar connections with some cool people, earned a little money helping a cool project come to life, and found a fun game to play, all from a spur of the moment decision to try a game a friend saw a post that found him totally by chance.

Time to pay it forward! If a digimon meets punk skater RPG/card game sounds cool to you, check out CybrFate. Really fun game, awesome art, cool little community, I'm personally having a blast. Games free on Tabletop Simulator right now. Physical copies exist and are being printed and sold in batches as a presale thing. There's probably going to be a kickstarter soonish, once the guy making the game finishes prepping the massive expansion he wants to launch with it. I've seen him online at 8am working on it, the man does not sleep. And if it grows I'll probably get more commissions from him too, so win win. If it does really well he might hire me and my business partner to make a digital version of the game, or maybe some other game in the world, which would be a lot of fun.

Alright, below I'm posting art from the game.

Top picture is my OC, Robin. She's from the novel I've been working on for a couple years. You can read the first couple chapters here. Man, she came out so good. I'm super happy I won that.

First picture in the next row is my favorite starter, Buglit. After that we've just got an assortment of other cards and characters. Tons more on his instagram https://www.instagram.com/panlee37/

Robin's Buglit is named Keiri, and I did some work in blender to make her. I describe her as a Sticker Disaster 4 Year Old with a Taser. She calls herself the Princess of Stickers.

So yeah, that wraps up this update. Some weird stuff seems to be falling into place. If anything, this may be a good example of how weird the path magic takes can be. Like, didn't see any of the past month happening. Hope that all answers your question!

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Update! It's kinda fuckin working!

Long post about it here

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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https://www.tumblr.com/scroll-of-thought/772711201071398912/good-things-will-happen-things-that-are-meant-to?source=share

did it work?

Honestly, I think it's fuckin working? Nothing I expected to happen has happened, but I've found myself in a really interesting and positive position. It's a weird one, but I've got a story to tell, and some stuff to show off at the end.

So out of the blue, about a month ago, my friend and business partner found a random card game posted on a random tiny facebook group that he's not even part of. He doesn't even go on facebook often, really only to check on his family, but as he scrolled to see his parent's recent post he saw it. Who knows what arcane algorithms the ol' Zuck is working with, but it looked neat and found the right audience, so he told me and we tried it out. Really fun strategy/roleplaying card game with a digimon-esk vibe.

From there were joined the discord to ask some questions on rules we didn't really understand, see if there was more content coming out, just hang out and see what's what.

Long story short, we've become fast friends with the solo dev of the game. He's a really cool guy, just making the game he wished existed, and putting 110% of his time and work into it. I have stayed up until sunrise just chatting with him about all kinds of junk, game design included.

So far he's commissioned me once to do a quick 3d model design of the interior of a building, which he's going to use as a perspective guide for illustrations in the game, and wants more when he has the funds. He also wants to commission my SO, Silver, to illustrate cards and other stuff for the game once he has funds, and even license some of the fanart she made for fun, so it'll be in the games rulebook.

I won the first official tournament of the game, which was a blast, and the prize was some art of one of my OCs as a character in his games world, and it came out awesome. So now I have art of a character I've been writing in my novel for years and that's awesome.

The community is really small, but passionate and full of cool people making and doing cool stuff. One of the fans does a weekly "pirate radio" show that covers upcoming events and content, 100% in character as if it were in world. I've been helping him with that where I can, having a lot of experience in audio editing and a huge library of sounds and music to pull from. Today the radio host realized he used to watch my youtube channel like 8 years ago, and that was an awesome small world kinda moment.

So generally, yeah I think it's working. I've made very peculiar connections with some cool people, earned a little money helping a cool project come to life, and found a fun game to play, all from a spur of the moment decision to try a game a friend saw a post that found him totally by chance.

Time to pay it forward! If a digimon meets punk skater RPG/card game sounds cool to you, check out CybrFate. Really fun game, awesome art, cool little community, I'm personally having a blast. Games free on Tabletop Simulator right now. Physical copies exist and are being printed and sold in batches as a presale thing. There's probably going to be a kickstarter soonish, once the guy making the game finishes prepping the massive expansion he wants to launch with it. I've seen him online at 8am working on it, the man does not sleep. And if it grows I'll probably get more commissions from him too, so win win. If it does really well he might hire me and my business partner to make a digital version of the game, or maybe some other game in the world, which would be a lot of fun.

Alright, below I'm posting art from the game.

Top picture is my OC, Robin. She's from the novel I've been working on for a couple years. You can read the first couple chapters here. Man, she came out so good. I'm super happy I won that.

First picture in the next row is my favorite starter, Buglit. After that we've just got an assortment of other cards and characters. Tons more on his instagram https://www.instagram.com/panlee37/

Robin's Buglit is named Keiri, and I did some work in blender to make her. I describe her as a Sticker Disaster 4 Year Old with a Taser. She calls herself the Princess of Stickers.

So yeah, that wraps up this update. Some weird stuff seems to be falling into place. If anything, this may be a good example of how weird the path magic takes can be. Like, didn't see any of the past month happening. Hope that all answers your question!

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I got the sexy result! I don't know how screwed my loved ones are, but...

Uh oh! You are now a were-animal! This means you become a human-sized animal hybrid with uncontrollable bloodlust every night!

Spin this wheel to get your species

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just a little guy

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i like playing lots of video games like skyrim and stuff. im also a witch who loves enchanting things. i was thinking of combining the two and making some enchantments heavily based off of magic items in video games. this sounded like something you mightve done before or enjoy the thought of, so, have you done something like this before? if so, whats been the coolest one you came up with? id love to hear about it, both because theyre topics i find interesting and because i might take some ideas for inspiration for my own projects 👀

Oh yeah, this is right up my alley. The name Scroll of Thought came from the fantasy rpg concept of a scroll of [insert spell]. Also I'm a witch, gamer, indie game dev, and huge nerd. I was also a youtuber for a few years and I've got like 100+ episodes of modded skyrim. The whole channel was largely fantasy based. So yeah, right up my alley.

That being said, my style of enchanting isn't really based on anything game related. I developed it through years of reading various witchcraft books and blogs, experimenting with my spellcraft, and figuring out what works for me. I have realized that some game developers over the ages have had similar ideas and coincidentally figured out some similar systems for their games, probably drawing from similar inspiration as I did for my actual practice.

Basically that's a long winded way of saying "oh yeah, this is totally a thing you can do. I've done a handful of things that should be video game enchantments/spells in the past"

My style of enchantment is heavily symbolism based. A good example of that, I used to do a lot of sword fighting as a teenager. I broke A LOT of wooden swords, and every time I did I'd realize there was something specific I focused on while using that waster or boken or whatever it was. Like, I learned a lot of parrying and defensive stances with one of my early wooden swords, so when it inevitably shattered I took a piece of the wood and carved it into a charm with protection in mind. I did that for most of my swords, internalizing what I learned with them or what they seemed to excel at into a physical object. Just having that charm, I feel like the the memory of that sword is working it's way back into my 36 year old muscles.

Another fun project I'm currently working on is rings based on the souls games. I have the exact ring that the Silvercat Ring in dark souls 2 was based on. It's actually only a slightly rare antique ring. Unfortunately it got lost in a move, but it's around here somewhere.

I have not tried to enchant it for reduced fall damage, but I mean, can't hurt, right? If I find it, I'm going to design a spell to do that.

The big ones I'm working on is the Serpent Rings from the souls games. I am so disappointed, I found an exact Covetous Silver Serpent Ring (because the design is also based on a real antique ring) but I couldn't afford it at the time and the jeweler retired around the start of covid.

So I've taken it upon myself to make other serpent rings in the spirit of those rings. If you haven't played the souls games, the silver serpent ring gives you 10% more souls (exp/currency) when equipped, and the gold serpent ring gives x2 to rare drops chances.

Taking these as templates I've made two new ones, based on the rings I've found and how I found them.

On the left is my newly made Steel Serpent ring. I found it while traveling and finding a neat new place to explore. It increases the chances of discovering new adventures, even in places you've been before.

On the right is the Brass Serpent ring. It was given to me by a friend, the milliner who made my favorite hat. So it's purpose is to increase the chance of friendly encounters and making new friends.

The process of enchanting these was pretty simple. Cleansed them of any residual energy they encountered before I found them, while clearly keeping the thought of what they represented in my mind. Made a sigil that described and represented that thought and the new job the ring had. burned the sigil and mixed the ash with water and then transferred the sigil to the ring by rubbing the paste into the ring with my fingers, polishing it. The important concept in this form of enchanting via sigil, is that the sigil is never destroyed, it only changes shape from a thought, to a symbol on paper, to a polishing paste, to a ring. The sigil is the ring, just n a different form than how it started, in my mind.

I'm trying to think of any other video game-like enchantments I've done, or that you could do. Oh, an obvious one is something to fight and threaten spirits. I've got heaps of enchanted blades for dealing with malevolent spirits. All my enchantments for them are usually ritual based and incorporate traditionally apotropaic materials, like herbs and stuff, but you could totally silver a blade by rubbing it with old coins or sterling silver jewelry.

The nice part of enchanting is that you can put pretty much any spell into a physical object, so the limits become your imagination and a little bit the reality that enchantments in games are always going to be cooler than the spells we can actually do irl.

I'm sure there's other stuff I can't think of, but I can't think of them right now. If you think of any cool ideas, let me know! Thanks for the ask anon! Super interesting thing to think about for a couple hours when I should have been working 😅

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https://twitter.com/coff33detective/status/1271463582312673281

“make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session.”

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Dark + Ghost humanoid! Let's go! One of my favorite ghost pokemon!

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

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Lots of important information in this post, regardless of the current political shitstorm

A Reminder to my U.S. Witches -

Whether you're a private practitioner or a witchy business owner, it is now more important than ever to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

Wicca as a religion is officially protected by Freedom of Religion under the First Amendment. This extends somewhat to other less organized pagan religions as well as the general state of Being A Witch, which is also protected by Freedom of Speech.

But we must remember that this only protects you from PROSECUTION, not PERSECUTION.

You have the legal right to present as a pagan or witch in public spaces and technically you cannot be discriminated against in the workplace for such things. However, we all know how that kind of bigotry disguises itself and the way things are going, resources for reporting and resolving such grievances may soon be in short supply.

You also have the right to own and operate a pagan-oriented or witchcraft-related business, provided that you obey all applicable tax codes and consumer protection laws. (This is why we have to mark so many of our goods and services as "For Entertainment Purposes Only," and I strongly suggest updating your disclaimers to include additional language if need be.)

Again, as we've seen, this doesn't always protect business owners from harassment or help them with seeking reparations if there's trouble. But it's important to know, as more and more "proclamations" roll out from the "new management," that executive orders do not immediately or fundamentally change the law.

This is nowhere near a comprehensive explanation of the constitutional rights and laws applicable to witches and pagans currently living in the United States. I urge everyone to familiarize themselves with all applicable laws in their area which deal with public gatherings, small businesses, consumer protection, public transit, loitering, search & seizure / "stop & frisk," and anything related to being detained by law enforcement for any reason.

Familiarize yourself also with social and legal resources in your area, just in case you or someone you know needs them. Talk to the elders in your local LGBTQ organizations as well - we've been there before.

Most importantly, build links and relationships with trusted people around you, whether it's your neighbors or your colleagues or like-minded people in the community. We all need to be looking out for each other and the more we know, the better we can protect ourselves, our homes, our livelihoods, our communities, and our rights.

(If anyone has any applicable links or information, PLEASE add them in comments and reblogs.)

Stay safe!

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I don't even fuckin know. Like, it's January 2025 and the "good things" are kinda hard to see though all the trash fires. But it's only been a couple weeks, I'm gonna give it a little more time.

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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Here's the whole short film. I remember watching this years ago and man, it hit about the same in 2016.

A big part of this film is to remember how fascists will try to divide and other you, split everyone into smaller, easier to defeat groups. They'll pick minorities to drive out or assimilate, and that will weaken the whole of the country, so they can find another bite to take.

The fact that this is 80 fucking years ago but still just as relevant is terrifying.

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It's way too late and I don't have the time nor brain to make an actual witchy comment on this, but I approve of everything going on in these tags. Sometimes you just need to introduce a spirit to a problem and be like "we'll give you stuff if you help us out with this" and sometimes the spirits like "cool, I like bones".

energy policy would be much better if we still had a tradition of animal sacrifice I think. people would be way more chill about nuclear energy if they could see a large and proud bull being ritually sacrificed every month or so at the base of the cooling towers to keep the plant safe

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"Time is money" goes both ways, and for me that's what DIY fashion is all about. I wouldn't splurge batshit amounts of money for flashy big brand fast fashion even if I had the funds for it, but as I set my own work schedules, I'm occasionally free to take two days off from work to use 4 euros' worth of thrift shop materials to turn my own old shoes into something that Killstar would sell for 115€.

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Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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Personally my catch all term for getting rid of an unwanted spirit is "Banishing" but a lot of these terms are more specific to ways to do something. I've got a list of loose definitions! Cleansing - Cleaning an area of spiritual influence, energy, and/or literal spirits. Often uses a material like smoke, water, or even mundane cleaning supplies, but can be done ritualistically or symbolically as well.

Warding - The act of creating areas that spirits cannot enter or influence. This can be in the form of spiritual barriers, areas of influence around a spell, or physical thresholds. This is more preventative that actively removing a spirit, although with some creative thinking you could lock a spirit away with wards.

Protecting - Similar to wards, but most often used in the context of personal protection. This is usually something you do or carry to affect your immediate area, close by target or your own person. Repeating a chant, wearing an amulet, performing a ritual are all protecting.

Cord Cutting - Severing the connections you might have with a spirit or taglock a spirit may use to connect to you. This is also preventative most of the time, as it prevents the spirit from finding or following you in the first place.

Healing - In the context of removing spirits, you can use spiritual healing magic to heal an area or person being troubled by a spirit in attempts to make that place or thing less hospitable or attractive to the spirit, and thus driving it away.

Conjuring - This is more the act of bringing a spirit to you, than it is repelling them. Though again, with some creative thinking you could do things like conjure a spirit away from where you are, in order to make it lost or simply put it outside of your wards.

Binding - Setting limitations on something. In a literal sense, you can bind a spirit to a location like you would tie someone up with a rope. Symbolically you could bind a spirits actions, disallowing it from coming near you, harming you, or really anything you can think of. Binding is also used on non-spirits as a blanket term of setting limitations.

Road opening isn't something I know anything about, so I'm leaving that out.

Everything I've defined here is only loosely defined, even in my own practice. If you know me, I'm big on out of the box thinking and terms are usually only good at conveying a surface idea.