#sigil tutorial

[crestfallenwitch]

This is a really easy way I've found to make sigils. I recommend engaging in meditation/prayer/manifestation/intention setting, which ever feels most applicable to you, while creating or before/after creating your sigil to put your full intent into the sigil you create. ✨️🤌

[4ng3lics]

HOW I MADE THIS CYBER/METALHEART ART IN BLENDER 3D

ADD SOME CIRCLES

Add some circles and begin sketching out how you'd want your piece to look.

ADD YOUR METABALLS

Use to circle sketch to draw out where your metaballs will go. (trust the process...)

SCULPT

Convert the metaballs into a mesh. And play around with these main tools (below)

To smooth/

To shorten/

To sharpen the edges/

YOUR MATERIAL NODE

Very basic. Change the color to your liking.

ADD YOUR LIGHTING

Add your HDRI. Add some cameras and light. Render.

good luck (:

[fraterzigmund]

Art-Magic Tutorial: How to Make a Sigil

My first YouTube video showing how I make sigils! Please share, like, and subscribe!

Making my YouTube debut with a video tutorial on how I make sigils. You can watch me design a sigil from scratch and then paint it onto a tiny little canvas. Will be talking about the metaphysics of sigils next week!

[apiswitchcraft]

book recommendations pt. 1

i read,,, a lot of books. and with a special interest in this shit that means i have a considerable amount of books that are just witchcraft/paganism related. ofc, not all of these are going to be the Best options out there, i know that it's much better to get your information from a primary/secondary source or academic study, but i'm working with what i have and what i know how to get access to. if you have any recommendations or addendums to these, let me know! i'd love to hear what yall have to say.

THE WITCHY BOOKS

sigil craft: teaches you the basics of creating your own sigils using existing imagery, alphabets, and your own creativity

encyclopedia of magical herbs: honestly just a great resource to have for any witch. i'd say any herbal magic book is a must have for a witch

don't wanna buy the book? here's a great alternative!

crystal, gem and metal magic: another must have imo!! i prefer this book to the crystal bible because that book/those books spend a long time on chakras, whereas this book is more concerned with things like astrological associations and cultural contexts

don't wanna buy the book? here's a post i made that has some basics

enchanted tea time: love this book, it was honestly such a good find. tbh though, i wish there was more clear warnings about some of the ingredients, and some of the recipes like the lucid dreaming ones could have a more thought out presentation

don't wanna buy the book? here's a post i made that's similar

the complete book of incense, oils and brews: another great book by scott cunningham (honestly i had no idea how much of a shill i was for him until now), but it's probably not a must-have, especially if you're not very crafty or already have an herbal grimoire and a good youtube tutorial

guided tarot: it is so important to me to have a book like this, because no matter how many little guidebooks and online guides i looked through, NONE were as detailed and accurate as this. i personally prefer this book the most out of all that i've seen, although it could have more information on reversed cards tbh. i prefer this book to seventy-eight degrees of wisdom cause that book has some weird overlapping ideas of qabbalah, although i do recognize it's very well written and thought provoking

just some good spellbooks!

[witch-of-snow-and-stars]

How to Make a Charm Necklace Magic-Style

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So in a recent post I talked about having a set of charms that I wear whenever I leave the house. I thought it might be a fun tutorial to detail how someone could make a similar thing for themselves! The post is a long one, so the rest of the guide is under the cut!

Step 1: Lay out all of your perspective charms and see what speaks to you and what you might want to put together. When you're choosing pieces, try to think of your goal and intent while you're putting your charms together (i.e. mine is for general day-to-day so I mostly focus the charms around safety, ease of way, and good fortune. Tailor yours to what you need). You don't have to make a necklace, just make sure that whatever you're attaching your charms to and the jump ring(s) connecting everything are sturdy enough to hold the charms' weight.

I have a 'main' components and 'auxiliary' components with the main components being the anchor points and foundation of what I'm working towards (i.e. I have my locket with sigils and my key charms as main components and I'll switch out the other parts as desired). Listed below are some ideas for options that you can combine, but use whatever feels best to you:

Lockets- I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that a locket is part of your configuration. You can fit a slip of paper with spells/sigils written on it AND if it's a scent locket you can add a bit of fabric with a perfume oil or a spell oil that would be safe to wear (check the spell oil ingredients if you're going to use a spell oil).

Bottle/Vial Charm Pendants- these are really good for wearable spell jars (you'd just have to careful about breaking them). You can buy pre-made bottle spell charms (there are a lot of options available) OR you can buy a vial pendant and do a working of your own choosing depending on your preferences/needs (there are also many options for empty vial charms you can buy). You could also keep spell powders/dusts in a vial charm (also usable for on-the-go workings).

Crystal Pendants- If you are someone who utilizes crystals in your practice, having some complementary crystals or crystals that you tend to favor can really add a kick.

Religious pendants/charms- Pentacles/crosses/saint pendants/deity pendants/etc. are all good options for this sort of configuration if they're something that features in your practice or you have a specific figure you want to invoke.

Symbol/Icon charms- similarly to the option above, charms that have animals/flowers/symbols/ whatever else you may want to invoke the properties/help of can be a good addition as well

Bells- bells have traditionally been used in different cultures for sound cleansing and to ward off negative spirits/entities. If that's something you might want (and are ok with making some noise) adding a bell might be a nice touch.

Keys- keys are useful magically for unblocking roads, gaining access, and invoking magic/energy relating to crossroads. Keys/key charms can be pretty easy to get too, so it might be worth trying to have one in your configuration.

Other meaningful charms: as it says on the tin, if it's important to you or you want to keep it on you, try it out in your configuration see if it will work well with it. In the picture above of my own pendant collection alongside more standard pieces there's an antique pen knife that can be worn as a pendant. Put whatever you want on these configurations is my point.

Tip! Some pendants like the pendant on the right have a paste/textured back that you can write on. If that's something you'd want to do, aim for something that looks like the pendant on the right. It's a solid way to hide sigil magic in your jewelry.

Step 2: Prepare the individual charms that you're going to be putting together. Clean/cleanse* everything appropriately (use mundane and magical methods), get sigils written out, anoint anything that you want to anoint, charge/enchant anything that needs it- whatever workings you need to do to the individual components of your charm necklace, do them now.

*If you're using metal pieces (especially if they're old/antique) there's a decent chance you may need to clean those pieces periodically with a metal cleaner/polish. When you clean the metal, do maintenance work for the rest of the configuration by charging/re-enchanting the other charms.

Step 3: Put your charms together and test out your configuration. Sometimes things won't work together as well together or a different component will work better in your configuration.

Ending Notes & Tips

If you put something like this on an object, make sure you focus on how you need/want to effect the object. Like, I have another variation of this on a chain on my bag, and that working is more focused on security and being unobtrusive more than anything else.

Generally I would consider how fragile your individual charms/items are and how likely breakages are to occur. You don't want to be scattering any broken glass/sharp bits and you definitely don't want to cut yourself on anything in the event of any broken charms.

Other considerations should be if individual parts are safe to wear. As previously mentioned, select for spell oils that are safe to wear and for crystal pendants that won't interact with water/skin oils/body products (i.e. selenite melts in water and pyrite will create sulfuric acid when exposed to water). Basically make sure that having this on your skin isn't going to cause any problems for you.

It can be a a good idea to change up individual charms in your configuration to tweak things to your daily needs. Using my usual configuration as an example, I'll switch out my crystal pendants or other charms if I have specific needs/events for a day (like maybe if I'm traveling I'd add more protection/safe travel oriented charms or if I had a date on I'd choose one of my love/attraction charms).

I hope this gave you some ideas for your own practice, thanks for reading💜

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[mulchmouth]

I've got big feels, which means it's time to go full cringe and post magic on main.

Sigils for Trans Magic

I made all of these runes from the intention written above. If you aren't sure how to use sigils there are many tutorials, but here is an overview of what I do.

Feel free to use and distribute these however you want, just don't get money involved.

And screw it, if you have an idea for sigil to help queer folks who are hurting right now feel free to suggest one.

[elminx]

Elminx's Long-Form Lemonade for Sweet Cleansing

If you've been hanging out for more than a hot minute, you have probably caught on to a secret about my kitchen witching: it's not the NUMBER of ingredients you enchant; it's how you enchant them. For the purposes of witching, I prefer simple recipes (ingredient-wise) that have a bit of oomph to them. Do you need to stir a pot for 45 minutes straight? (see also my french onion soup recipe) What about starting a vinegar infusion that needs to be shaken every day?

This, as the saying goes, is where the magic is made. At least, for me.

So, imagine my surprise when my friends introduced me to a long-form way of making lemonade. Rather than simply juicing the lemons and adding some sugar and water - you combine the sugar and lemon peels and let them sit for some time to release the lemon's essential oils.

Not only does it make a superior lemonade (can confirm!), but it immediately had my magic wheels turning.

The goal is to make lemonade that will sweetly cleanse you of what ails you. This spell can easily be adapted to add specifiers—see the end of this post for more details.

As always, I will not tell you how to do YOUR magic. This is a technique, not a magic tutorial.

The Basics: When Life Gives You Lemons

Lemons have a long history of use as a cleansing agent. Cunningham's infamous green book lists them as a feminine plant, under the purview of water and the moon and used for the powers of "longevity, purification, love, friendship." (for what that's worth) From an herbal energetic perspective - lemons are considered to be cooling - they are used in the summer to cool hot termperatures and applied to the sick to help bring down fevers. Citric acid is also a bladder stimulant, which we will be making use of for the purposes of our potion-making.

What we associate with lemon as the "cleaning agent" is believed to come from limonene, a terpene found in the peels of most citrus fruits that is both antiviral and antibacterial. Lemonene is used in many cleaners that you can buy on the market but can also be extracted directly from the fruit, as we will do in this recipe.

The Technique

This standard high-end bartender technique makes wonderful, complex sour mixes that can absolutely make the perfect cocktail. Rather than extracting the limonene from the citrus using alcohol or vinegar, we use sugar.

This technique is called oleo-saccharum, which means "oil-sugar" - you are using sugar to draw the essential oils out of the lemon peels, making a natural (no heat) syrup. Note here: this syrup can be used on its own for all sorts of syrupy needs - you could stop the preparation here if you don't love lemonade.

This can be done on the fly (an hour or so), but I highly suggest letting this sit for 12-24 hours for the full effect.

The Recipe

You will need:

5-6 lemons, the best-looking ones you can find

1 1/4 cups sugar

Filter Water (to taste)

Peeler, citrus juicer, optional

Additional magical flavoring, optional

Become better acquainted with your lemons. For the purposes of this recipe, I do this by holding them, talking to them about what I want from them (general or specific cleansing), and rolling them across a hard surface. This last part helps to separate the peel from the pith, which will help you cut away the peel in the next step. Because we intentionally try to release the limonene compounds in this recipe, you may wish to begin by carving your lemon at this step (BEFORE you peel). You could carve your intentions, your name, the names of the people you are looking to cleanse, or any cleansing runes or sigils that you use in your craft.

Carefully peel your lemon. You want to get as little pith (white parts) as possible, as they don't taste good. Take your time here. Really breathe in the scents of the lemon during this. This is the first part of the cleansing process - you are incidentally cleaning yourself and your kitchen as you do this part of the spell. Lean into this. It smells amazing. Revel in it. Think about how it reminds you of everything being shiny and clean as a child. Lemons ARE cleansing - really feel into this here. We won't use the rest of the lemon until tomorrow; you can juice it here or store it overnight in an air-tight container)

Add your lemon peels and the sugar to a mixing bowl and thoroughly massage the sugar into the lemon peels. This should take some time - think fives of minutes at least. You want to do this until you can feel the change in consistency in the sugar - try to incorporate all of the sugar with all of the lemons. Remember, sugar is inherently sweetening, and lemons are inherently cleansing - you combine these two elements here to make a sweet, cleansing spell. Let the smell of it clean out your nose and your sinuses. This is the meat of your spellcasting - you are working your spell into your ingredients. Talk to it. Use your energy. Pray over it. You will know when this step is complete.

Cover your bowl and let it sit at room temperature overnight or for up to 24 hours. The longer this extracts, the more intense the flavor in the finished product. In a pinch, give it an hour, but I suggest waiting at least 8-10 for the best effect.

The next morning, add 2 cups boiling water to your lemon paste and stir until it has thoroughly combined - this is a great place to reinforce your magic from the day beforehand. (This version had the addition of some freshly picked sour cherries which gives its red color)

6. When this has cooled, add the lemon juice and additional water to taste. I personally put this in a half-gallon ball jar and filled it with water, and then my partner and I further diluted it from there.

7. Drink and enjoy. For an extra cleansing effect, consider that part of the act of citrus is that of a urinary stimulant - it will make you pee. Think about how peeing removes things from your life. Remove what needs cleansing. Your spell is complete.

This spell is as simple as that but it can be dressed up in some many different outfits with very little effort. Do you know a flavor (remember, all edibles here) with the right magic associations to add to this spell?

Add some blackberries at the infusion stage for good old-fashioned hedge witch protection. If you really need something out, you could experiment with infusing some jalapeno after you've made the lemonade (tread with a lot of care here...). I've worked with lavender and hibiscus here for calming, cool energies. I recently added a cup of sour cherries to Step 3 for a love-cleansing effect.

There are two ways you can add flavors to this spell: you can mix your flavor in during the sugaring phase, or you can do a secondary infusion after your lemonade has been made. Use your best judgment here - fruits can go in with the citrus peels for sure, but herbs and other more "tea like" ingredients might be better steeped afterward.

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm eager to use some of my savory kitchen herbs the next time I near to clear out my money flows.

Or alternatively, use it as the first step in a witchy cocktail (my go-to, as you know). This lemonade makes an exquisite base for a margarita—for a bougie twist, use white Patron and some Chambord; you will not be disappointed.

This is almost a blank slate - sweet cleansing could be used for anything you put your mind to.

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[mavyunivrse]

┊͙ 𝓘nduce ℒucidity ☽˚.⋆

This is a dream/lucid dream sachet tutorial!

*** This is not needed to shift or become lucid in your dreams. Only a tool there for you to use if you’re interested.

This is a revamp post from my tiktok @/mavyunivrse

My Masterlist | Click Here

One.

Pick something to store your items. Coloured mesh/muslin bag, cloth, or even a jar.

** purple is associated with astral projection, spirituality, healing, meditation

** blue is associated with communication, sleep, wisdom, patience

** white is associated with purity, balance, truth, guidance, hope, spirituality

Two.

Now you’re picking your herbs & spices.

(A a cheap way to get them is from tea bags)

𖤐 Protection:

Salt, rosemary, star anise, cinnamon, basil, dill, clove, mint, calendula, fennel seed, mullein, angelica root, black pepper, feverfew, nettle,

☾ Sleep & Tranquility :

Lavender, chamomile, thyme, pennyroyal, lemon balm, poppy seed, valerian root, yarrow, skullcap

࿔ Dreams & Dream Recall:

Peppermint, jasmine, thyme, catnip, st. johns wort

♧ Lucidity:

Mugwort, blue lotus, passionflower, damiana, nutmeg

+ Add:

Rose petals—relaxation, psychic abilities

Orange peel—success, action, purification

Hibiscus—attract prophetic dreams, passion

Bay leaf—success, manifestation, wisdom

Sigils

Essential oils

Paper with affirmations/intentions

Crystals (I have colour coordinated posts in my masterlist of crystal properties)

You don’t everything, this is solely a loose guide. Use whatever accessible to you <3

Three.

Gather what you’re using and cleanse them via incense smoke, sound, water, etc.

Each time you put something into your vessel, say what they’re being used for. Examples:

“Lavender to put me into a deep sleep.”

“Star anise to keep me protected in my dreams and as I sleep.”

“Mugwort to send me into vivid, lucid dreams.”

“Clear quartz to amplify my intentions and herbs, or to aid me in manifesting shifting realities.”

Four.

That’s all! Keep it under your pillow, nightstand, anywhere near your bed. Sweet dreams ☁️💤

– ℳ

[kitconnor]

recently, a lot of people have been losing their gifs to reposters, whether that be a whole set stolen or just one gif taken for a textpost. which leads to a lot of us turning towards watermarks to not lose our work. it's not everyone's first choice, particularly because of aesthetics, but it's the best way to keep what you own.

of course, it might seem silly to do a whole "tutorial" on watermarks, but there's a lot of different ways to watermark in a subtle way that still protects your work. i've also seen a lot of people incredibly hesitant to move to watermarks because they believe it marrs their work, which may be true, but there are definitely ways around that. anyway, let's begin !

WATERMARK 1: URL/TRACKED TAG

the most common watermark for people is usually 'thisismyurl.tumblr.com', 'thisismyurl | tumblr', 'thisismyurl' - at least, this is assumed for most people as the best way to watermark.

but if you're like me and constantly want to change your url, you know that there's a good chance a watermark on a gif 3 months ago could be completely different to one now. this is why people are turning to tracking tags.

tracked tags change less frequently, if at all. it's smaller, which makes it more subtle. if you want to go the extra mile like me, you can create a blog under your tracked tag (eg. i track tuserlucie) which means you can reblog anything with your watermark to the blog, showing that it is yours.

placement is key though ! here's 3 different ways you can place it.

NOTE: opacity has not been altered on any of these. depending on how it looks with your gif, opacity looks best at 10-30%.

Font settings: Momcake, thin, 10pt, #ededed.

each of these placements have different advantages.

the first placement (top left) is the one i personally use. it's centered right on the middle but not too high up.

the second placement (top right) is probably the most popular. corners mean people can kind of tuck the watermark away where it doesn't seem obvious. the fourth (bottom right) effectively does the same.

the third placement (bottom left) is 100% the most effective. it sits in a point exactly where it's noticeable, making it less desirable for reposters. on the right opacity too, you hardly notice it.

WATERMARK 2: ICONS/SIGILS

this is an idea that i've seen used mostly by nik @cal-kestis , but is a great and creative way to do it !

an icon or sigil makes your gif totally unique to you. and it's something cute on there which is different to having to put text on there.

(i've put it in orange for the purpose of seeing it)

but you can see here, it doesn't need to be anything special. i've just used an oval shape plus the initials of my url and that's it !

but a sigil can be anything. it doesn't need to have text; it could just be an image. it could just be your icon. either way, it's a cute little alternative to using text.

here's the different options that i preference in action.

SIGIL - bottom right corner

URL - bottom middle

TRACKED TAG - face/body

RESOURCES

here's some resources to use if you want to start watermarking !

FONTS:

Momcake (this one was used throughout all the text watermarks !) Cocogoose Lemon milk Bebas Quicksand PSD

you can access a psd of editable watermarks here.

[sakuratintedsunrise]

── ⟢ ・⸝⸝ 🪻

Spiritual safety in the digital spheres, a quick note on digital wards, the importance of not leaving taglocks around and how to protect yourself.

In an ideal world, this would not be needed, however its known that those who practice any form of spirituality often fall into the traps of envy, comparison and letting the wounded ego drive to attempt bindings, jinxes, hexes and even curses.

The options for dealing with that are to either

A: not be in these communities

B: learn to protect yourself.

This post covers some ideas for how to do option B, below are a set of digital wards and how to incorporate them:

Sigils.

Using sigils is a common practice for protection and chaos magic, an easy way to do so is create a digital sigil, layer it into your profile picture and/or banner at low opacity and merge the layers.

The benefits to this is that once made the sigil does not run out of energy, the energy consumed to keep your electronics alive and your profile visible in the interwebs directly fuels the sigil. This is ideal for when you feel specific people are targeting you, in servers or on public blogging spaces such as this platform.

Custom statuses, mostly applicable to discord.

A simple enchantment against magic, harm and ill will does wonders, and applies to all who view or interact with your profile in any way. So long as the status is visible.

Enchantments in posts and bios

This, in my opinion, is the ideal one. Putting a poetic enchantment in your bio weaves it into the coding of your profiles, making it an integral part of the taglock should anyone attempt to use it to target you.

However, if you want to really secure yourself. Make your username and online placebo name enchanted as well, highly recommended and works wonders!

Locking your phone

Phones, much like anything with a reflective surface, are portals for spirits and energies.

To spiritually lock your phone is to not allow anything to view you, your spirit or your energies through it. There are several ways to do so, I recommend using the same method as mirror locking coupled with an enchanted lockscreen for extra safety.

Now, for a few general safety tips courtesy of yours truly:

Dont leave taglocks behind, any connections to your spirit and self should be temporary.

Dont vent about present magical/spiritual problems in public servers. I get it, its appealing, but its also an opportunity for people to fuck with you.

Dont overextend, dont overhelp, and do not make oaths and bindings in digital text unless you are 100% sure of it. Unlike paper written ones which can be removed from existence by different means, digital ones exist forever.

Ultimately, you need to have a presence of do not fuck with me, there should be an energy around you of if someone fucks around they will find out. Dont be afraid to speak with confidence, dont be afraid of making your wards baneful and let them bite back and create mayhem in the lives of those who try you.

That would be all for now, future elaborations, tutorials etc for each method may happen if requested.

[chic-beyond-the-wall-oc-acct]

Royona Clegane's personal sigil

(ty pinterest for the scorpion tutorial)

I stayed pretty true with this one because despite Ona being pretty soft she does still have a tough bite. And the Clegane sigil is one of my favorites anyway because I feel like it's one of those that are practical when it comes to marking your men and things like that... So... 👍

[fangbangerghoul]

Logan from My Time at Sandrock

My fanart I have worked on this past week. Also trying new signature for art, I really like the feel and look of this new sigil. Finally sat down and watched some art tutorial videos which definitely helped with how I colored this piece! I still can't get over the fact that it had taken me about 300 hours of game play for Logan to move back to sandrock.

[primreaperstuff]

My Gravity Falls Warframe Headcanons

Thinking more about my other post where I drew comparisons between Wally and Bill, I decided to come up with how the cast of Gravity Falls would play the game Warframe! (It's a free-to-play-but-not-fee-to-pay looter shooter for PC and consoles. You kill everything and understand the concept of love lol). Spoilers for the Second Dream, the Sacrifice-- pretty much everything lol.

In this world, "H16h V0l7463" (actually a team of people headed by Amir Beckett) is the developer of Warframe, which is absolutely not based off of an alternate timeline where the cloning project that resulted in several boy bands, including Sev'ral Timez, accidentally produced eldritch horrors. That would be Totally Weird™️!

Soos's screen name is ShackFan2000 (mastery rank 30, legendary rank 5). He's been playing the game since it was in closed beta, and currently maintains a cross-save on the PC and Switch (his screen name on Switch used to be ShackFan2000butigotaswitchdude). He remembers when the game had raids and a dash meter, when pets could die, and can recount the Great Octavia Grind like it was yesterday. He mains Oberon Prime, who he is convinced will rise again someday, but also loves playing as Loki Prime and Volt Prime. His fashion-frame skills aren't great-- he tends to overdo it with colors and attachments. He likes going into relays and randomly gifting newbies boosters and Orokin Reactors/Catalysts. He will also sometimes find players grinding for a specific frame and buy it for them. He runs the clan "RAD DAWG CENTRAL" which also includes Melody, Wendy, Ford, Dipper, and Mabel.

In recent years, Soos got his wife Melody into the game too, so they regularly play it together on audio chat. Her screen name is MeatCuteBentoPanda, she has a mastery rank of 3, and she mains Mag. She's asked him not to buy her frames, since she wants to earn them herself, but did reluctantly accept a gift of Equinox from him. She doesn't usually change her frames' appearance.

Soos tried to get Stan into the game when it went public, but Stan (screen name "KingNJ1967") doesn't really get it. He can loot and even shoot things in real life, and it's not really that fun, so why put it in a game? He never got past the tutorial mission on his own account and has a mastery rank of 1. But Stan does watch Soos play and sometimes designs Soos's Warframes-- you can tell a Stanframe apart from a Soosframe by its extensive use of golds and reds, insistence on using the Kiteer ephemera, as well as a better grasp of color theory overall. He also adores the Drifter, shouting some variant of "He's basically me! In a way!" whenever the Drifter shows up. Absolutely did not ever get into a Gravity Falls weirdness situation where he met the Drifter in Duviri and played Komi with them while chatting about family and sacrifices with them, no siree. ;)

Soos had better luck with Ford (screen name: "6Shooter"), although it took several years and an overhauled gameplay system for Ford to really get into it. His mastery rank is 16. He mains Revenant Prime and enjoys min-maxing everything, keeping up to date with all the latest meta builds and weapons and blathering about his stats to anybody who will listen. His secret shames are that his actual favorite frame is Limbo and he loves to use the Stug. He recalls a couple of dimensions that reminded him of the game's universe, and even one where everybody had a Narmer veil on (he didn't even realize it was sinister since all the anti-Bill stuff he was packing at the time made him basically immune to the veils' effects-- he nicknamed it the Tacky Headpiece Dimension and was promptly driven out by that dimension's Ballas for that). He colors all his frames either black or white. He vehemently hates the Perrin Sequence, as its logo is a triangle and he interpreted that as Bill worship. If you enter with a yellow sigil from the Perrin Sequence, he will find you and make you endure Host Navigation. He also thinks Loid is cute.

Wendy (screen name: "maglet00816") is a casual player. Her mastery rank is 10. Although she called herself a Maglet, she can usually be found fishing or mining as Ivara. She's not in a rush to finish the story, and likes chilling in blue/purple Fortuna too much to start the New War questline.

Mabel (screen name: "GLITTERPIG618!!!") got into the game independently of Soos several years after the events of the show, and she got Dipper into it too. Her mastery rank is 18. She mains Garuda, but also loves to rotate between Valkyr, Khora, and Voruna. She was despondent for a few days when she accidentally killed her Kubrow Waddles and now only runs with Sentinels (even though the whole affection/health mechanic thing has since been patched out). She gives Soos a run for his money in terms of garish Warframes with way too many attachments, and poses them frequently. She loved that dating sim thing with the Hex and has seduced all of them. She has a crush on Aoi Morohoshi and Albrecht Entrati, and writes fluff shipping Ordis with Cy as well as unhinged toxic yaoi between Nef Anyo and Parvos Granum.

Dipper (screen name: "number1mysterysolver") started playing some time after Mabel got into the game. He primarily plays on Xbox, but maintains a cross-save on PC too. His mastery rank is 15. He mains Excalibur, but has grown to appreciate Citrine, Volt, and Xaku. Sometimes goes on Solo missions on Pluto as Gauss just to bonk into All of the Walls. Vehemently denies finding Citrine, Yareli, and Wisp cute. He currently maintains a conspiracy board on Warframe lore and writes about his theories and speculations for the game. He claims not to care about appearances but his Warframes are always decked out in nice-looking, professional gear. He is online friends with Pacifica and plays with her and Mabel a lot, but neither Pacifica nor Dipper realizes that the other plays the game nor will they confess it to each other. Mabel has figured it out and wants to see how long it'll take for the shoe to drop for these two. He has a Kuva Lich working on his Railjack named Bopp Bipp.

Pacifica (screen name: "sodwlqxpsdc-caeser") has been playing since the game was made available to the public. Her mastery rank is 29. She hid her enjoyment of the game from her parents and the public for years. Now if her parents ask, she's only in it for the fashion frames and opportunity to flex her expensive gear on broke Tenno. In reality, though her Warframes are always well-designed, she loves the story for its themes of redemption and love conquering the odds. She used to main Loki, but nowadays prefers Gara and Cyte-09. Her knowledge of the meta rivals Ford's. She is one of the few players to regularly go into the Conclave.

Old Man McGucket found out about the game and had to be stopped before he made a functional replica of Chroma Prime out of scrap metal for a State of the Union speech. Once randomly mentioned that Dominus Thrax still owes him money and walked away, never elaborating and having forgotten that he said it shortly after.

Robbie (screen name: "bloodSKULLviolence") used to play Warframe occasionally. Then he got the Hex missions started and his father Greg Valentino laughed, cheerfully revealing that he offered to produce music for On-lyne a long time ago but was turned down, and saying that the game is proof that they missed out on so much fun by not picking him for a music producer (He wonders if he'd have been more successful if he'd called himself "Gregory V" rather than "Greggy V"). Robbie put down the controller, turned off his Playstation, and never played Warframe again. He got to mastery rank 13 before he quit and used to main Ash.

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Welcome to Darling DIY's #1!

Are you creatively inclined? Do you identify as a yandere or darling? Do you just like giving gifts? This is for you! Darling DIY's will be a mini series I'm doing of fun arts and crafts projects for any obsessive lover.

If that interests you please click read more! And if you want to see more later on, reblog, comment, like, and share! I put a lot of work into these posts.

Credit to Roman from @theycantfwroman for help with some of these ideas. Go check them out!

Personalized Poppets

This is a DIY I have personally done and was the starting point of My Goddess being my muse. It's a doll meant to represent that person, and you can fill it with herbs, or other symbolic charms to help fully embody your beloved. You can use it in spiritual practices, place it on your shrine, or simply just make a plush of your beloved! You can get cheap fabric and basic sewing supplies from Dollar Tree which is the material I used, but you can make poppets from a variety of materials. Feel free to get creative with it.

Poppet Ideas:

Make a fabric doll with herbs inside for protection, so your beloved is safe thanks to you!

Make a mosaic stone of them and place it in the garden, to bless your plants.

Make them into a marketable plush! Just kidding. But seriously. Just make them into a really cute plush. This is especially nice for long distance relationships for cuddling potential.

Make them a custom painted doll, from an old monster high doll, and sew them tons of outfits. Dress up doll of your beloved achieved! I wont tell if you put them in silly outfits you've always wanted to see them in but they would never let you put them in :)

Make popsicle stick poppets of your beloved's exes and burn them!

Victorian Hair Art

The Victorians were obsessed with death and mourning. and this was born from those practices. However, they also simply did this for people they loved! Linked below will be a DIY article explaining it better than I ever could. You can also use brushed out yarn for this if you have no way to obtain enough of your beloved's hair for this.

Tutorial One Tutorial Two Article One Article Two

Pressed Flowers Portrait

What it says on the tin! Get some flowers that you associate with you and your beloved and press it! TL;DR to pressed flowers, place them in between sheets of parchment paper, and then place it between two heavy flat objects. Most commonly done using books, but there are flower presses sold specifically for this. Leave it for a few months, and once they're flat and dried out place it in a glass frame and display them.

Pressed Flower Ideas:

Grow the flowers yourself! Make it a long haul project to grow the flowers then press them then frame them.

Place other paper goods in the frame to signify certain events! Did you buy your beloved a bouquet and take them to dinner? Frame the bouquet and the receipt. Did you go out to a park and then see a movie? Pick some of the flowers and dry them out, then display with your movie tickets! Has your beloved literally EVER picked you a flower and given it to you? You better be pressing it.

When you and your beloved get married (if you want to get married obviously lol) preserve some of the wedding flowers with a wedding invite as a nice wedding memento

Press a small flower and cover it in resin, make a small resin necklace out of it for your beloved!

Hand Print Art

This is an idea I got from a pinterest post I got where you and your beloved place both your hands on a canvas overlapping like below:

However there's a variety of alternative things you can do with this to give it a more obsessive spin!

Hand Art Ideas:

Paint a sigil on the canvas before painting the background, then cover it up! This sigil can be anything but I prefer a binding sigil that represents something like "We are forever bound together"

Do thumb prints instead in the shape of a heart! More individualized and love themed.

This can be done with multiple people if you're polyam! And you don't have to pick these very gendered colors either.

You guys therians? Use stamps representing your chosen animals paw.

Scented Paper Flower Bouquet

There's tons of tutorials and ways to make paper flowers, but make sure to scent these guys with a signature scent! This can be anything from a scent that reminds you of an event, a specific date, or your darling's own cologne or perfume.

Scented Paper Flower Bouquet Ideas:

Have your darling buy you a scent for a specific date. Give them the paper flowers scented with the same scent after the date as a memento of the night.

Choose a scent based on the season you met them! Scents have seasons attached to them, and a quick google will explain what scent is what but here's a quick guide breaking it down! I personally am a big cologne nut, and my most notable scent is my bourbon cologne I wore in the winter the first time I met My Goddess in person and I scent nearly everything I give Her with it.

Make the flowers out of fabric, and turn it into a patch of any size! The fabric will hold the scent for longer, and now it's wearable!

Learn flower language. If you're gonna make paper flowers give them meaning! Quick breakdown guide to flower language here.

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NMTDaily: Makeup Tutorial feat. A Special Guest!

- Real interesting time to be watching this episode right now. Someone gave me the feedback that it’s kind of cool that I’m so behind on my liveblog because it means you all get to read them and look back on older episodes through the lens of the ones NMTDaily is currently on. I’m really understanding that with this episode.

- Hero is a little angel. Using “sneaky filming techniques”… like hiding a totally different video in the bloopers for this video, mayhaps?

- Claudio is here! He’s the special guest.

- “Dear Claudio” and “my boyfriend does my makeup” - the Hero/Claudio relationship has gone to the next level of official.

- Tea is a love language in this series. Claudio coming in with tea for Hero because he’s trying to impress her is a direct parallel to a later scene where Ben has already made Beatrice tea and they’re sitting in his room with their cups as he tries to comfort her.

- Hero and Claudio’s mugs are plain block colors, showing that they don’t really know each other at all, in comparison to the fact that the mug Ben will choose for Bea is Game of Thrones themed and is her favorite GoT family crest. Because he does know her. (I don’t know GoT well enough to be sure which one, or if they’re even called family crests. Sigils? Anyway.)

- (Also, I can’t remember, is “everyone deserves tea” a Hero line, or is it a Jane Bennett from the LBD line? It could go either way. Kind of the same character archetype, different font with those two.)

- Hero and Claudio are very blushy and nervous around each other. There is no easy rapport- this is still big emotional surface-level crush territory.

- “Just gonna admire the artwork in progress” The first of many subtle lines that show how Claudio sees Hero as a prize, a pretty thing to look at and possess.

- We’re also doing some light reinforcement of heterosexual gender roles: the man is utterly clueless about makeup while the woman knows exactly how to apply fifty different products. Claudio is okay with looking like an idiot in this video because he’s a guy, he isn’t supposed to know anything about makeup. If anyone else made Claudio look foolish regarding any other topic, we would see the sullen, angry side of him come out.

- Fun fact: ya girl is exactly as clueless as Claudio, I wouldn’t have known that wasn’t foundation without the footnote Hero puts onscreen. Or without reading the packaging. Gender roles are fake! I know I could do nicer makeup than Claudio, though, lol.

- Yeah, letting someone who has never done mascara before near your eye with a mascara wand is some scary shit. This shows just how much Hero trusts Claudio.

- “ya wanna know how I got these scars?” I mean, Claudio actively invoking The Joker is extremely on the nose, but it does count as foreshadowing his villainy, so I will mention it. The smiles he causes Hero to smile now will turn painful soon enough.

- Also! Remember that at the costume party, Benedick is Batman. Ben is Batman, and Claudio is Joker.

- Hero kisses Claudio on the cheek, leaving a lipstick stain, and he deadass says “jokes on you, now I look like a ladies’ man”. Because it’s perfectly okay for him to BE a ladies’ man, to show interest in other girls. Men get to do that. It is not okay for Hero to even be implied by a third party to be showing interest in other guys, because women must be perfectly faithful or branded sluts.

- The eyeliner! He writes his name on her cheek. The most direct, on-the-nose statement of Claudio’s view of Hero. “Now people know who you belong to.” Who you belong to. Spine-chilling.

- Hero is right to punch him for that. Interesting that he apologizes for saying it.

- Just the genuine fear on her face about seeing her makeup look, though. And the “Claudio, what have you done to me?” Said in laughter, in a moment of happiness, but also a totally valid line for her to say again later in a much more devastated way. (She doesn’t say it again later, but she could.)

- It IS very sweet that he won’t let her say she looks like a monster, that he keeps telling her how pretty she is and kisses her forehead.

- “The fact that you’d still kiss me now says a lot for our relationship” No, Hero, your boyfriend still liking you when you’re looking goofy is the bare minimum! He should!

- “Your turn” and all she does is put guyliner on him. The minimum level of makeup to not be embarrassing, to still allow him to think he looks sexy. Claudio’s masculinity must be maintained. He does have lipstick on in the following close-up shots, but that could be from kissing her, so plausible deniability.

- “Maybe you could do my makeup for my 16th?” *dun dun DUNNN*

- Hero is back, looking lovely again. She’s going to post outtakes.

- Beatrice is predictably disgusted both by this video and the prospect of outtakes, giving Hero a reason to post the outtakes on Ursula’s channel. Handy.

- “I’m sure one day even you yourself will watch that video” Says Hero, thinking to herself that one day Bea will see how her friends played matchmaker for her and Benedick, and she’ll be happy about it. Very optimistic, Hero. (She also does just mean ‘someday you’ll be in love like this and you won’t think it’s gross.’)

- Beatrice and Hero edited this video together, because Hero knew Bea would hate it, and she needed Bea to swear never to watch the makeup bloopers video. The plan moves along swimmingly…

- In the comment section, Benedick himself is plugging his own response video, “Disgusted” by dropping a link with “that was so disgusting! watch my video if you agree!” I love the character comments.

- If I didn’t know this was a Much Ado retelling, I’d think Ben needs to learn boundaries. The girls already told you to leave them alone, their comment section is not the place to plug your channel, mister. As it is, though, it just screams “hey Beatrice, I thought the makeup video was disgusting too, just like you did! Notice me! Pay attention to me!” This nerd. So obvious. And he genuinely doesn’t even know he’s doing this. Wild. It’s also great that Hero and Bea’s response is to completely ignore him, lol.

- We’ll also see in upcoming videos that Ben’s comment is a reflection of his insecurity about losing Claudio as a friend now that he has a girlfriend.

- Plus, the comment linking his video lets Hero know that Ben has also taken the bait and will not be watching the bloopers video either.

- In the rest of the comment section: many people gushing about how adorable Hero and Claudio are, some people doing so with a tinge of sadness because they know what’s coming, praise for how natural the acting feels in this and all the episodes, and folks picking up on the hints of Claudio’s possessiveness.

- Mooble1325 hits the nail on the head with “they strike the right balance between making him sweet enough that hero would believably like him and already showing that touch of possessiveness that John plays on so well”

- There’s even a comment saying Hero/Claudio are cuter than Jane/Bing! It was always very interesting to compare and contrast different LIWs to each other, I love that.

- Someone also compared Claudio to the youtuber Jim Chapman, and I had to think very hard before remembering who that is. I think there’s a slight blond-white-dude resemblance, it just trips me out to remember how many youtubers I’ve forgotten existed over the years.

- Hero in the video description urging us again to watch the makeup bloopers, you won’t regret it! This will be plot-important! The game is afoot!

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It's in the Cards: Chapter One Excerpt

(It's in the Cards is an adult rom-com with speculative elements. Please note: this is a draft and is subject to change!)

Elliott Beck was getting good at lying.

When it came to lies, the devil was in the details, and nothing taught them details like managing Betsey’s Metaphysical Boutique on Ocean Avenue. They lied about candles for rituals, which customers could learn by purchasing beautiful spellbooks. They lied about herbs and sigils and crystals, sometimes giving multiple explanations for the same item within a single shopping day. Of course they used the spell jars! In fact, they’d used one that week to cleanse their apartment of negative energy! They wouldn’t mention that the “negative energy” was actually the smell of stale weed from their downstairs neighbors, but that was fine. People who came to Betsey’s weren’t interested in reality, anyway.

In the back of the narrow shop, Elliott sat in the corner they’d designated specifically for tarot readings. For customers, they’d provided a sofa strategically covered with blankets to hide its concerning stains. For themself, they’d found a wooden chair that was gorgeous to look at and hell to sit on. It was far from the elaborate setup they’d originally envisioned, but Betsey had only given them so much space in the already-cramped shop. What she hadn’t given them was a budget.

But the furniture didn’t matter, because they could wow customers with their most beautiful set piece: themself. Presently, they wore a purple button down dotted with shimmering stars. Mismatched earrings, a gold sun and moon, dangled from their ears. God, they hated the earrings. Elliott’s fingers knocked into them whenever they re-tousled their chin-length shag of blond hair.

“I love your earrings,” their current customer said. She was dressed for the beach, a shoulder bag of towels sitting on the floor beside her flip-flopped feet. “And I love your cards! What a pretty color.”

“Thanks! We have plenty of decks for sale!” None like Elliott’s, though. They should’ve flaunted a deck from the shop, but instead, they used the Dungeons and Dragons themed deck they’d bought for themself as a housewarming gift. The backs of the cards were a shimmering purple, a twenty-sided die in the center of each. The faces featured items from the game—adventurers, monsters, weapons—illustrated similar to a Rider-Waite deck. When they’d tried to explain the references to Betsey, they’d ended up trapped in an hour-long lecture about the history of tarot art.

“I might look around later,” the woman said in a way that meant she wouldn’t. “I was supposed to meet my family at the beach, but of course, none of them showed up on time. I thought this would be a fun way to wait instead of cooking in the sun!”

Probably a smart idea, considering she was the same shade of pasty white as Elliott, who’d sometimes get burnt in the time it took them to walk from their car to the shop. They placed a hand on their tip jar, as if to say, please look at my tip jar. It was actually a tip mug shaped to look like a fat orange cat, the handle made from its black-striped tail. This particular cat’s name was Norman, the unofficial mascot of Garfield Beach who the locals called Not Garfield as a nod to the town’s not-copyright infringement. On Not Garfield’s round belly, Elliott had taped a small sign: Tips appreciated - ELLIOTT BECK, they/them, cash or Venmo!

They began to shuffle. “Is there anything specific you’d like me to consider when I read your cards?”

“Nope! You’re the expert!”

They were glad she thought so, considering they’d only just started offering tarot readings a few weeks ago. “Then for your three-card spread, the first card will reflect your past, the second, your present, and the third, your future.” At least, that was one technique they’d learned while watching tarot YouTube tutorials while cooking. They set the deck on the table and spread the cards in an arc.

The woman reached forward. “Do I pick?”

“No.” They weren’t eager to have people’s hands on their personal deck…or their personal anything for that matter. “I’ll do all the touching. So, let’s start with your past.”

They flipped a card: The Eight of Wands.

“Ah,” they said.

“What does it show?” the woman asked.

Elliott wasn’t sure, because for the life of them, they couldn't remember what the Eight of Wands meant. Usually, the illustrations helped them remember meanings, but this one looked like a bunch of ambiguous sticks. Taking a deep breath, Elliott bobbed their head, hoping they appeared lost in thought. They didn’t need to provide a perfect interpretation—tarot was less about memorization and more about helping people gain insight into their lives. That was the advice given by someone with an unrepeatable username on Reddit, and Elliott intended to follow it.

“Wands are good,” they remembered. “But…sometimes, you can have too much of a good thing. It looks like you’ve recently had a lot on your plate.”

She wrinkled her nose. “I did do a ton of laundry before leaving to come here.”

“And besides that?”

“Well, there were dishes too.”

Elliott nodded calmly, internally screaming.