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

@Deresto i feel like it would probably get along with my Night Vale deck, damn.

 

I feel like a lot of decks are just constantly sighing at us, honestly. And going "yes, you silly human" with varying degrees of snark.

 

There's nothing practical I can do about the political situation but I want to direct my frustration into a curse. Would it be a bad idea to start out with cursing, since I've never done anything else wixy?

 

An example of witchcraft markup on Cool Rocks.

like I don't know the running price for tourmaline and that is a pretty big chunk, but the other two I could get at a rock show for at MOST eight bucks and probably more like six. and I doubt that tourm chunk is worth $20 on its own, much less the ~35 the non-sale price asks for.

This is why I am CONSTANTLY saying, buy from geology people, not witchcraft people.

 

where do you go to buy from geology people if you do not have rock shows

 

If you're near a major city, most of them have at least one rock show that rotates through once or twice a year - this is the one that covers most of the west coast that I usually buy from.

Failing that, look around online? I wouldn't absolutely trust amazon or ebay but there's a few reputable shops even in those. Focus on stuff offered for jewelry makers, too, beads are a GREAT way to get small samples.

Museums (of the natural history sort) might also be good, and there's probably a small rock shop closer to you than you might think, I know there's like three in the Tacoma general area alone. Also if your local colleges have any kind of geology courses/programs, might be worth shooting the professors of those an email if you've got talking-to-strangers spoons.

 

Oh, I also got my Apatite-in-matrix chunk from a rockseller at a music festival, so like... basically just keep your eyes open because that shit is everywhere.

 

Also, try googling "[your region and/or city] mineralogical society"-- a lot of them will have annual auctions and/or shows for funding purposes, if you don't mind waiting for those to roll around, and also will fund local rockfinding expeditions/field trips if you've got outdoorsing and people spoons!

 

I might be able to do one or two. I don't want to make any firm committments because my work/health/motivation may get in the way, but it seems like a fun project.

 

anyone have ghost advice? my friend thinks her apartment is haunted, and I don't wanna tell her to use my family's method of dealing with ghosts (which is to threaten them with a shotgun.)

 

Would it be appropriately curse-like if I wrote the names of people I hate in the corner of my rats' cage where they poop?

 

are you dean winchester

 

I'm the younger sibling, so no.

 

salt in one hand, sage in the other, shake each three times at the entity while telling it to fuck off. repeat three times while herding it in the direction of the door.

'S what I did for the thing that was bothering my housemate.

 

Yell at it and tell it to leave. Alternatively give it things like cookies, milk, and weird shiny things. Sain the house afterward. Sain it at least once a year. Saining involves walking around the home in a SUNWISE motion three times and sprinkling water on everything, especially windows, doors, and vents. Alternatively you can burn things and use smoke for the saining.

 

Also gain a positive relationship with your house spirits by feeding them and giving them trinkets regularly. They are good men, the homedudes.

 

thanks dudes :)
have sent her advice

 

you didn't deny being a Winchester though....YOU MUST BE SAM

 

Think I'm too short for that XD

 

I was gonna say then youre adam but theyre all fucking giants