#reading tea leaves

[mrsmothmom]

y'all: reading tea leave is easy the tea leaves:

[moral-terpitude]

Finding an answer about reading tea leaves shouldn't be this complex but google isn't giving me what I want, so, if anyone knows anything about reading tea leaves, can you tell me:

If someone is going to have their tea leaves read, do they need to pour their own tea, or can someone else pour the tea for them?

I only ask if its a particularly "superstitious" part of the practice, because, my good friend only told me after the fact that you should be gifted your first deck of tarot cards, not purchase them for yourself.

[tragicc]

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[autumncozy]

By olga.nikolaaenko

[lilylove612]

Something about fall is so nice

[tippenfunkaport]

I like to headcanon that Melog is just the biggest busybody. It's been bored and alone on a dead planet for decades with no one to talk to, the mundane day to day drama of other people is such a novelty to it, it can't get enough. Plus it can become invisible and doesn't have a great grasp of privacy so it's forever listening in on conversations and generally getting way too invested in everyone's personal business.

Which means Catra, to her vast dismay, knows everyone's secrets. She would really REALLY rather not and has tried to teach Melog about boundaries but the creature does what it wants. But it means that sometimes she finds out about some misunderstanding or missed connection going on that is so downright stupid that it's just going to drive her nuts if she lets it continue so she begrudgingly has to insert herself into this drama to match-make or clear up an argument literally just so she doesn't have to hear about it anymore.

Which means, to her absolute horror she gets this reputation of being near psychic, so good at resolving personal drama that people come to her with their problems no matter how she tries to deter them and meanwhile it's really because Tealog over here is addicted to gossip.

[life-spire]

@ lilartsy.psd

[purplink8]

Can I be real for a second? I don't think L giving a foot massage to Light was very in-character of him. Like manga!L would've totally scoffed at how pathetic anime!L appeared when he did that.

I like the rain scene bc it's really pretty (also Light MOANS bc of L? *sighs* yeah i ship lawlight) but I'm always so ?? at anime!L's behavior? The anime made L way too melancholic and y'know self-deprecating kinda guy. In contrast, manga!L (whom I love to death) is so so confident in doing what he's doing and has the time of his life during the Kira case as he's intellectually challenged (by Light) as he figures out the case little by little.

I don't get where the anime creators got the idea that L is a very sad character who cares about justice so much so that he's actually Justice itself? Manga!L enjoys solving cases. I'm not saying that L doesn't care about justice at all- just that he cares more about winning.

So, the anime creators looked at a character who cares about winning (& his own ego) than everything else and decided to... make him give a foot massage to his nemesis (surprise surprise bible symbolism featuring L as Jesus *🤮* coming up) apparently due to accepting Light's (boy's first debut as Judas) 'betrayal' how can there be betrayal when there was no trust between them in the first place and saying "It is the least I can do to atone for my sins"...

The only way I could've made a little sense of this is if L was mocking Kira with that line but the anime just had to go above & beyond to make it (L's actions) seem too genuine for that to be true. which is. so. FRUSTRATING

Manga!L wouldn't have done anything like that. Not even ironically (he'd have thought it to be below him for pretending to be accepting his defeat mockingly to Kira). Even Manga!L's not enough of a bastard to try to compare himself with Jesus (and just after knowing (god knows how) that he's going to die)- like that's too stupid omg: even for a mockery.

Does he actually think that Light would pick up on the (him as Jesus) symbolism and be like 'oh no! L is too noble like Jesus to die by my betrayal i'm such a bad judas how come i NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE'... and decide to spare L's life? Or embrace his inner Judas like the bad bitch he is and finish L for that godawful mockery of Jesus?

Whenever I think about Anime!Light's in-character reaction I crack up as it would be smth like 'wow this guy who graduated summa cum laude from torture university is pretending to be Jesus? lol what a real piece of work. would've expected better from you L: so pathetic lmao i hope rem kills you soon i'm so done with you rn- rip 💀'

Manga!L (if he knew he were going to die (don't know how that's possible in the anime; still we're talking about how the anime creators seem to see L as Jesus so ~anything is possible~) that is) would never go 'guess i'll die' accept his defeat offering a foot massage to his enemy and inwardly throw a pity party being all "… It'll be lonely, won't it?" GIRL you were the one going on & about how you'd EXECUTE Kira once you catch him on live tv (also saying that you'd bring Kira's head to the task force) I REALLY doubt you'd feel lonely if either one of you were to die- that (killing each other) was the point!!

Manga!L is a selfish character: he values his victory above all else so the anime making him accept defeat that easily + gracefully doesn't sit well with me.

[mrsmothmom]

alrighty, she's done! what do you see? 👁️👁️

[mixelation]

I think the book club sub plot should just be Tori attempting a series of increasingly complicated social manipulations on the members and failing. Her biggest obstacles are minakushi are too nice and supportive.

see i like this but ALSO tori has to succeed sometimes. potential rules:

tori can get anyone to show up to book club at least once. this can be pushed to absolutely absurd limits, like bringing the shinigami or orochimaru or edo tensei!characters

tori can pre-empt and prevent fights, and also convince characters to accept whoever happens to be at book club that day

she can't convince anyone to quit. some might quit because book club is insane..... but she can't do it on purpose

she doesn't have control over people's opinions/inter-personal relationships beyond getting them to participate in the book club. i.e., she can moderate an argument but she can't get those people to get along

no one likes tori's writing or story ideas. even the good ones

[starrynightsxo]

"take it like a good girl"

take yourself and get GONE, girl. thank you and goodnight.

[stargirlbosss]

What do you mean your favorite thing isn't reading a good book with a hot cup of tea in your hands while the smell of autumn fills the room? What are you? Straight?

[autumncozy]

Cozy autumn nook on a rainy night! 🍁

[candles-crystals-cauldrons]

Tasseomancy

I'm planning on also doing some kind of booklet that I can easily slip in and out of my grimoire of different tea leaf symbols and their meanings