Hi there! I'm a Oregonian named Josephine. I'm 33, trans lesbian, and poly. She/Her pronouns. Started HRT 10/03/2017. I'm a lonely mess and I'm just piecing myself back together. Cheers!
she looks like the secondary protagonist of a jane austen novel. spends a lot of time reading and is very close with her (also unmarried) female friends. 8/10
she’s a farmer’s daughter or a huntress. hair is impractically left down but when she aims her bow and arrow at you she’s too damn gorgeous. 7/10
looks like the one woman in the group of guys for an action movie. has a lot of impressive martial arts scenes with way too many cuts that leaves you feeling horny and disrespected at the same time. 6/10
she’s definitely an elder for the younger lgbts in minas tirith, and strong enough to beat the shit out of any homophobe, transphobe, etc. 8/10
these are the same picture. 4/10
she’s the younger sister of the main love interest, always knows what’s going on and ready to pop in with a witty comment. 7/10
would. 9/10
this looks like cate blanchett kind of? 6/10
based faceapp kept the beard. she’s mysterious and wise but she pulls you in all the same. 7/10
gollum looks like she attacks paparazzi on sight and would make eric andre break down on his own show. 6/10
When I was a student at Oxford, both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were lecturing there, Lewis magnificently and Tolkien badly and inaudibly, and the climate of opinion was such that people explained Lewis’s children’s books by saying ‘It’s his Christianity, you know,’ as if the books were the symptom of some disease, while of Tolkien they said he was wasting his time on hobbits when he should have been writing learned articles…
I imagine I caused Tolkien much grief by turning up to hear him lecture week after week, while he was trying to wrap his lectures up after a fortnight and get on with The Lord of the Rings (you could do that in those days, if you lacked an audience, and still get paid). I sat there obdurately despite all his mumbling and talking with his face pressed up to the blackboard, forcing him to go on expounding every week how you could start with a simple quest-narrative and, by gradually twitching elements as it went along, arrive at the complex and entirely different story of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale – a story that still contains the excitement of the quest-narrative that seeded it. What little I heard of all this was wholly fascinating.
in your first tip about the correspondence lists - do you mean it in a way of "make your own correspondence lists" or "look for correspondences outside of tumblr" or both? thank you (and all the tips are really great ^-^)
I mean: Don’t use correspondence lists, make your own. You have no idea where the correspondences are coming from, or how the author came to that conclusion. If you want to figure out what a plant does, try one of these:
-Divine about it. Pick a method with a lot of detail, see what it says. I like geomancy, the individual houses can give a lot of clues as to where the plant’s qualities lie.
-Ask the plant. Bring a pendulum and a board, commune with it, meditate on it.
-Find sourced folklore about it. There’s a reason why Mildred in the old folks home tells you her mom used bachelor’s buttons to get a husband. There’s a reason why it worked.
-I find information about the qualities of a plant is more likely to be true if it’s a detailed paragraph or two about one or two plants. Note the “more likely” here, use your judgement and confirm your information.
-Talk to experienced practitioners about specific plants. My friends and I will often dissect the qualities of one substance or another- Earlier we were discussing our personal experiences with lightning struck wood, and the differences between different species of trees when struck by lighting. Again, not foolproof, do your homework.
-Figure out which planet’s purview the plant falls under. No planet is exclusively under one planet or another, there’s a mix of influences, but usually one planet will be dominant. You can then assume you can use it for the same things you’d invoke the planet for. (There’s always going to be some wiggle room with this, though, so experimentation is gonna be necessary.) I like using this exerpt from Ritual Offerings by Aaron Lietch as a guideline.
Good luck, I hope you found this useful.
This is fantastic advice. Creating your own correspondences can be really fun and satisfying too.
I’ve been working on getting to know my ingredients by picking a tarot card each day, looking at what I see on the card, and selecting ingredients to match what I see. I’m not allowed to look up the card meaning or correspondence lists. It’s purely based on intuition and sometimes divination if I’m having a difficult time.
It has done way more for me as far as choosing ingredients for spells and forcing me to think creatively than any correspondence list or book on spells ever has.
Also, know the physical realities of whatever you’re forming correspondences for!
A plants habitat, growth habit, chemical constituents, medicinal use, cautions and contraindications, etc etc etc are all things you can use to form a relationship with the organism.
This goes for everything from a man-made object to stones, water, plants, animals, etc.
Excellent advice. You can use pre-made correspondences, but many of them are binary and gendered. Which worked fine before we all knew better.
Re-make those correspondences to suit your needs, and do research. Make up your own uses.
Some are being chased through Dimitrescu Castle because they are unwanted guests. The others are chased out of the exact opposite reason. Who would you prefer to be caught by? 😏
This is part one of a series of kissing scenes about our RE8 ladies. 🥰 And OH YES, I have even more of those up my sleeve! 😈 We’re talking Mother Miranda, Donna Beneviento, very likely more Alcina…. There’s more to come next Wednesday.
Until then, don’t mind the canon! And take care of yourselves. Lots of love! 💕
