The Crafts: Wixes, Spells, and the Weaponized Placebo Effect

Particular types of mint? Because I'd love for some spearmint or peppermint occasionally, but I remember we had a strain of pineapple and apple mints in the garden in colorado that were absolute bastards if they weren't in direct sunlight like the peppermint. We were all going "????????" over that one. (pineapple mint tastes gross to me but it smells like heaven.)

 

"Chocolate" mint is divine if you can find it

 

God dammit now I want to involve my stupid shitty crap worldbuilding for a fanfic I will never finish in pop culture paganism bullshit. God.

Dammit.

Damn everyone.

 

Catnip is a kind of mint, idk how well it'll do with minimal sun but if you manage it you can use it to distract kitty!

 

i want to grow chocolate mint. and chocolate cosmos someday when ive the sun *u* but sadly kitty has 0 interest in catnip and other catlike interests.

 

I see you liking my suffering. LOVING IT EVEN. Oh no now I am remembering dumb nsfw homestuck musings I had about homestuck paganism. FUCK.

Spoiler: BEHOLD. PERVERSION.

For the curious I was super horny one day and as my mind often does I thought about Porrim. Because that is just what I do when hard apparently. And I was like "But how could this somehow be related to religion. Think on Porrim. The goddess of bombass sex. Clearly."

 

i hate everyone

 

<3 it's very interesting tbh and Porrim would make a great goddess of romance and sexuality

 

Stupid sexy Porrim.

 

She's totally on the same level as Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte, and Freya. (As long as we're talking about badass goddesses prominently associated with sex.)

It's okay, Aondeug. She made me say things I thought I never would about a fictional character, too.

Spoiler

"I want to be pinned against a wall by her," "She can bend me over anytime," etc.

Also I think there are several kinds of fern that do well with indoor light? They're adapted for forest floors and all.

 

whoever was asking about plants-- I've never attempted to grow catmint indoors, but it grows wild where I live and seems to like the shade. Worth a try?

 

Gods. I mean I say that about other people and such too. But with Porrim.

MAN.

Just. Man.

 

I've found a pretty good starting point for my alchemical-symbol system with the Seven Spiritual Metals. I ultimately want more than just seven, but you gotta start somewhere, right?

All the hagiography of gold as Literally Perfection is kinda weird for me, considering how much gold-as-corrupting-influence symbolism I'm used to. Probably treat it as a "perfection isn't real and fixating on it too much will destroy you" indicator, since it's likely a mistake to treat any sign as always Good or always Bad.

 

I will have to look into this myself, because I love seven part systems, apparently. Though I might mess with it myself and do something with seven common glass colorants instead...

 

*resists urge to sperg about my larp character Gold Mc Goldy Gold, who is literally 100% a tarot/alchemy joke*

 

Tell ussssssss :3

 

So her name is Ophira Aurum (Gold and Gold respectively in different languages. lol) Her 'codename' is Resch like the hebrew letter, as this is the letter associated with the tarot card "The Sun", which is associated with, duh, the sun, which is the 'planet' used to symbolize gold (and the philosopher's stone). Her demeanor is "Sunny" (I'm not even kidding) which is 100% a mask, but, it counts.
Her family heraldry is a fishtailed wolf devouring grapes, which in symbology both points at her parents (a poison-maker, symbolized by the wolf/antimony and an alchemist, symbolized by the grapes/fermentation) as well as literally translates to "The Philosopher's stone is achieved through the method of Fermentation" or something like that I forgot the details.
Her backstory and everything is more or less circling around the fact that her dad wants to make the philosopher's stone to make HER immortal which scares her to death (bad jokes lol) and is the sole reason why she sometimes sets research notes of other people on fire.

 

This is fantastic, though.

I mean, I have no room to talk, I made a RWBY OC named Royal Guinevere Bishop as a rainbow joke (RWBY characters are mostly named after colors).

 

that is a pretty great concept.
I think the most fun thing about Resch is that nobody grasps the depth of research hole I fell down when writing her concept. Because she seems really... Trope-y in natura? At first glance she seems to 100% be the manic pixie dream girl/cute-clumsy-enthusiastic pupil to a friend's bomb-maker character. To the point where literally EVERYONE assumes they are secretly dating. Heck she calls him "Meisterchen" (cutesy diminutive of Master) and constantly talks super high pitched because she just really aggressively pretends to be harmless.
So yeah people underestimate her :U

 

Made a sigil for Phoebe. Wrote it on a bay leaf (for wishes) in green (for healing) and burnt it in my back yard with one hell of a personal/professional sacrifice.

Here's hoping it helps tip the scales in her favor.