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what's this I hear about someone hexing the moon

Lmfao omg Dusty are you ready for this?

Okay, so, the witch community on tiktok (otherwise known as witchtok) was in an uproar last week because a coven of li’l babby witches was claiming that they got together to cast a hex on the moon.

I’ll give you a second to recover from that donkey bray laughter.

Better? Okay, let’s continue.

Witchtok was fureeking owt. Ppl were claiming Artemis (you know, the goddess?) was injured and in pain, and Apollo (her twin brother) was pissed and going to rain vengeance on the earth.

(Just as an aside: pretty much every polytheistic culture has a deity who’s tied to the moon, idk why it was only the Hellenic pantheon these ppl were concerned with.)

((Just kidding I know exactly why))

So you’ve got all these baby witchtok witches shitting their striped tights because the coven responsible was threatening to hex the sun next and kill Apollo, while all us crones are just laughing at the idea that a fucking untrained mortal could even pretend to have the power to harm the Theoi, let alone a fucking Olympian.

And then in the end, guess what. Guess.

You’ll never guess, I’ll tell you.

It was fake.

SURPRISE!

The coven of li’l babby witches? Not a coven at all. Not even witches. They made it up for funsies to taunt witchtok into freaking out (mission accomplished) and trigger other witches into talking about how the moon being hexed has negatively affected spellwork and auras or whatever, so that they could then reveal the whole thing was fake and thus “prove” that witchcraft is a bunch of made up bullshit.

And the reason they decided to fake-hex the moon is because a few weeks ago they fake-hexed the fae but no one paid attention.

And that’s what you missed on witchtok.

[yujachachacha]

The end result of my impromptu trip to Venice Beach! Click for captions~

(Context: In a recent Aqours Club video report, the girls were split into 3 teams and given 30 minutes to buy souvenirs at the Venice Beach Boardwalk with $30. They ended up signing their chosen items for merch purposes, but as a SoCal native I figured I’d just go and get the items myself.)

Explanation under the cut because I got waaaay too detailed about this stuff.

1. Look at all this merch I whaled on! I love Shukashuu so much that I bought 6 of her shirts! ᕙ(˵ ಠ ਊ ಠ ˵)ᕗ

…okay, I actually only own 1 of each item (shirt, shot glass, figurine). The rest are for friends. :^)

Fun fact: I only realized after I got home that the merch I picked out was all second-year stuff, haha.

Shukashuu’s blue shirt seems to be popular, as there weren’t any medium sizes available. The quality is actually pretty good - it’s 100% cotton and was soft and comfortable when I tried on the S size. Not really worth the $8.99 price tag IMO for such a basic design (the color is really pretty, but IDK how that would fare after going through a washing machine), but the “3 shirts for $19.99” deal made it a bit easier to stomach.

As for Anchan’s shot glass, that costs $3.99 (RIP Anchan bought it for 6 bucks apparently) and is totally not worth it. It’s slightly larger than average-sized with frosted glass, and the design on it actually consists of stickers that are already peeling/fading. It’s plastered with the words “venice beach”, “los angeles”, and “california”, along with pictures of colorful dots, hearts, various summer motifs, sports, and…a marijuana leaf. I have no idea what possessed Anchan to buy this, dear lord. She at least had to know what the item itself was used for, since it’s a common souvenir item that she’s probably seen often in her travels, plus Anchan’s recently become legally able to drink (since 2016 in Japan, and since February of this year for the US lol), so…actually, I’m just gonna stop myself here before I start implying that Anchan is totally a bro who enjoys taking shots like a champ whoops too late ε=┌(;･_･)┘.

But as for the design…Anchan, why? Why this specific glass out of all of the other cute ones you could’ve picked? Like, I’m not sure if the Aqours girls knew, but for me (a SoCal native who attended college in Grassachusetts MA and thus doubly familiar with the smell of pot), certain areas in the Boardwalk reeked of marijuana. Did Anchan think that the pot leaf on the shot glass was a palm tree? Did she not get a good look at the shot glass before she bought it? Or was she fully aware that a marijuana-patterned shot glass would become Aqours signed merch and was like, “lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it’s just a part of american culture, nbd~”

The “Little Rikyako” is exactly how I remembered it from the Aqours Club report - a hilariously fucked-up-looking figurine. The figurines appear to be all hand-painted, which probably explains the exorbitant $9 price tag for an item that’s barely the length of my ring finger (and I have small hands). I’d never go out and buy it on my own, but I was so amused by how amused King and Aikyan were by the little figurine that I ended up caving. The eyes do certainly remind me of Rikyako’s art. :3c

2. The mural that Arisha, Shukashuu, and Ainya took pictures in front of in the Aqours Club video! I could only take this lame selfie instead of replicating Shukashuu’s pose because I went on this pilgrimage by myself, but I’m hoping to make a return trip someday.

You might notice that I wrote a location on the caption for that pic. I’ve actually written a guide for finding all the places the Aqours girls stopped by at Venice Beach Boardwalk because apparently I’m frighteningly good at figuring out the locations _(:3 」∠)_. I unfortunately couldn’t find the Fureek merchant (the guy who sold Furirin a rainbow fluff tree for a fraction of the original price after she begged him to “GIBU MII DISCOUNT”), so I’m kinda on the fence about whether I should publish it just yet. I mean, I did figure out where his stall was located in the video, but I kinda want to meet the guy myself.

If anyone’s curious about my pilgrimage, feel free to ask me anything about it~ Though, I might answer a lot of questions if I published the guide…hm…

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JUNGLE FEVER by Fureek

Los Angeles based, Isaac Parra AKA Fureek has customised this BEAST! taking RESTORE Popsoda “JUNGLE FEVER” sofubi figure and gave him a coat any wild stallion would like. We’re impressed with Isaac custom and thanks to JPK a fellow artist pointing out Isaac’s creation.  Issac went as far as studying Tiger pattens so he can get…

JUNGLE FEVER by Fureek was originally published on The Toy Chronicle