Okay, so I realized something today. I always see posts detailing the various correspondences of different types of water. Moon water, sun water, eclipse water, rain water, storm water, snow water, even *dew* water. Water from a lake, a river, an ocean, a stream, a brook. Even water collected from mist.
But y’all know what I haven’t seen?
Rainbow water.
So hold on to your seats yall because I’m about to take ya on a ride.
Rainbow water is something I use quite often in my craft. Why? Because it’s got so many uses! I use it for:
LBGTQ+ spells
Spells for positivity
Spells for luck
Spells for change
Spells for perserverance
Spells for hope
Spells for connection (I call them “bridge spells”)
Spells for happiness
Spells for creativity/imagination
Honestly, I have no idea why I haven’t seen rainbow water being mentioned before. It can’t be because it’s too difficult to collect because, y’all,
You can make your own rainbows. You don’t have to wait for one to show up in the sky.
Observe:
That right there is a bona fide rainbow that i created with nothing but a hose on the mist option and natural sunlight. Get yourself a pretty (or ugly) bottle with a wide mouth and you can very easily make your own rainbow water!
“But wait, Eiolrin, what if I don’t have a hose?”
Nothing to fear. I’ve got your back. You can also collect rainbow water by:
Shine a light through a prismatic crystal, then placing a bottle of regular water in the rainbow that’s created. Just like making sun/moon water! You don’t need to put it in the rainbow for more than maybe 1-5 minutes.
Get a plastic spray bottle that mists and spray the mist into natural sunlight until you find a rainbow. Hold bottle against the rainbow and *keep misting*.
Hell, you know what? Who needs an *actual* rainbow?
Draw a rainbow. Print out a picture of a picture of a rainbow. This rainbow is in my grimoire in the form of a magic circle (enchantment circle) and i’ve imbued it with the energy of a rainbow. I use this to make rainbow water sometimes.
So go forth and conquer, my lovelies! Be the witch/mage/occultist that uses rainbow water! Spread this around and make sure this is something that becomes a thing because in my opinion, rainbow water is just too useful to be ignored as a valid component in spells and other things.
As a bonus, here’s my rainbow water!
Perfect for iris devotees!! And sun/rainbow witches!!
Hey! I made new drawings of one of my favourite anime and I’m very happy with the results after all the time I spend on them, worth it. Hope you enjoy them!
Anyone else a huge fan or ex fan of Naruto and Black Butler? Those were my first fandoms as a young teen. Looking back boy oh boy, if they were to arise today I think half of tumblr would have an aneurism.
(I remember just searching naruto would bring up nothing but odd pairs like sasuke/itachi, sasuke/orochimaru etc. Lots of sasuke lol he was in everything I swear…. i need to rewatch it)
Controversial opinion, but ur allowed to like things that suck
Like, sometimes there are just shows or books that are so goddamn awful for any number of reasons… But ya still like ‘em somehow, and that’s fine
It’s not required to write a 20+ page essay defending why you enjoy something shitty, you can just… Enjoy shitty things
Not all content is made equally and you’re allowed to like things that are far from perfect
Like, just, “This show sucks, but I like it anyway” is a totally valid response
“It’s comforting,” is a legit answer.
“I like reading about clothes,” is a legit answer.
“it’s brain popcorn, and I don’t feel like delving into something deep,” is a legit answer.
“I’ve read it so many times I can basically recite it, and it relaxes me by being familiar,” is a legit answer.
You don’t need to justify your taste. Stop feeling guilty about liking things, or liking the “wrong” things. Life is hard and bleak right now, get fun where you can.
let’s see i will admit:
I like certain Nickelback songs, I even got a CD of theirs for Xmas I like Maroon 5 like a lot I love vocaloid I know cringe here and there but they are catchy songs I loved Naruto as a kid, and still do, like honestly first true fandom I like ASMR videos, like I play them in the background when I do things I love slime, love it
I honestly never grounded much though I mark it up from mw doing a loy of mental grounding since i was young. But i do have a tag “grounding” you can search!!
“rolls requiring skills that could not be readily found in the Asian community […] such as stunt men, dancers, and camel handlers”
You could literally only find white people to handle camels, not a single person of color, really?
You couldn’t find a single Arab person who could do Arab dance, REALLY?
Nobody? Nobody at all, R E A L L Y?
Disney has a crap ton of money and resources to throw at whatever they want and they can’t be bothered to get this one simple thing right. The live action remakes are cynical cash grabs and garbage anyway, but you would think they would have learned something from the pressure they got to hire actual Chinese people for the live action Mulan.
So, I was skimming through Season 3, and it occurred to me you could throw out most of it and nothing of value would be lost. Just start out with Sangwoo being nice to Bum, maybe one or two chapters at a fuck hotel, then in chapter 3 kill the uncle and go from there. Get straight to the creepy mom backstory, because I’m pretty sure that’s the whole point of this arc.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot.
I remember the editor describing the season as ‘maddening’, which makes sense if they were referring to the pacing (k, sorry that was mean).
Koogi said once in an interview that Killing stalking would be either 3 of 4 seasons long, and I wonder if her editor had persuaded her into doing the latter. Then when creating the 3rd arc, there wasn’t really enough content to create ~20 chapter, so certain scenes were stretched out and filler events were added in. Also with shorter chapters, there’s less room for multiple major events to fit into the same chapter, so they’re spread out over the weeks.
lDK, I feel like I’ve been waiting this entire season for things to ramp up, and when it finally does, the chapter ends. Like there’s some really good content this season (like when they went drinking and almost crashed into a truck), but every time I purchase a chapter, I question if I’m better off just looking at spoilers on tumblr.
I was one of the persons the editor told “next season will be mad” so it really hurts lol
As you said, the seasons has very good moments ( for example I really liked the uncle’s death, because it focused more on Bum’s reaction than in the murder itself) but all in all, nothing really relevant happened. At least, it seemed the uncle’s death could have been a game-changer for the plot ( we have seen a lot of character development in Bum) but then in chapter 51 they were back to Sangbum fluff as if 18 chapters never existed.
And even the flashback of Sangwoo’s past are mostly pointless. Differently from Bum’s flashbacks that changed in a relevant way the plot or their relationship – chapter 19 is the cause of Jieun’s death while the ones with the Uncle is season 2 were the catalyst of one of the most powerful chapter in the series – Sangwoo’s backstory didn’t add anything, especially because we have already known most of the information since the beginning ( Sangwoo’s abusive childhood, her mom was crazy, his trust issues) or we had figured in season 1 that his mommy issues were the reason he targeted girls with a beauty mark . Actually we’re even more confused because after two chapters and a half we still don’t know if the father was a 100% good man or a wolf in sheep clothes, or simple but important details as where the fuck is the small table that led to one the first bonding scene between Sangwoo and Bum.
Plus,
it’s not that the past is suddenly influencing Sangwoo’s actions now, and Bum doesn’t know anything about it.
I still love KS like the first day but this season has been a huge filler, I can’t wait for season 4 at this point
Yeah, there’s definitely been some great moments, but the unbearable tension from the first two seasons is gone. And I feel like the mom flashbacks would work better if Bum knew about them. Sangwoo was so chatty about his mom when Bum poisoned him, how come he doesn’t talk about it now?
I know previously I said it would take 30 minutes from start to finish, but this was my first straw besom, and it took roughly an hour to complete.
I’ll pass along some tips as I go along…(long post is long, sorry!)
First of all, do not use a handle that is not straight across. If the top part has an angle, or a point, you will run into problems later, like the end cracking when you put the broom together. Also, make sure the handle is not too long, that creates problems because you can’t reach when putting it together.
Combing out the straw grass took about 15-20 minutes. I strongly recommend doing all of your besom work outside, as it creates quite a mess! I honestly just used the cat brush for this, and it worked like a charm! Gather up small bundles in your hand and comb out the straw to remove leafy, and loose bits.
You’ll want a pail with some water in it to soak the straw in to soften it a bit, and this will also make it easier to work with. I used long, plastic zip-ties, twine, scissors, and a pail with some water. (I didn’t use the roll of green plastic covered wire, I just didn’t end up needing it!)
Next, divide your straw into two nice bundles, and while holding them, tap them onto a flat surface, like a tabletop to even them out. You want all the bristles to be flush on the bottom before tying them up.
Slide a zip tie under your bundle of straw.
And pull that baby TIGHT!
Now do that a few more times! TIGHT! Until you just can’t get the ties any tighter!
Once I started putting the besom together, I found I really didn’t need those last two. The handle just wasn’t going on, and the bundle was TOO tight at that point, so I had to cut them last minute.
At this point, if you wanted to simply use the bundle as it is, it would make a nice hand-held besom. You could just cut the ties close to the end, but not cutting the ties away. You leave them in place and cover them up. Just cut the ends off.
You hand-held besom would look like this…(minus the plastic ends, and nice photobomb by the cat brush in this one)
Almost to the end now! Top part of the handle will be on the ground, and while standing up, you want to take your bundle and try to get it centred over the pointy end of the handle.
Sorry, grainy photo. It’s hard to hold onto a besom and a phone camera at the same time.
With one hand firmly on the bundle, and the other on the handle, legs apart, pound the handle on the ground, into the centre of the bundle, using a straight up and down spear-like motion. You’ll need to do that several times, until the bundle is firmly in place and shows zero signs of moving. This is where it is important to have a handle that is even and not on an angle. All this pounding on the ground will likely result in a broken handle, and a very sad Witch.
If you have done everything reasonably according to plan, your besom it assembled, and you can finish it off by wrapping twine over the ties to hide them.
In the end, it should look something like this…
Now you could leave it at that, of take the scissors and give the bristles a little haircut, like I did. It’s your besom, it’s up to you!
I really wanted a truly witchy looking broom, and I accomplished that with this besom. Now I just need to bless it.
If you’ve been following me for a while, or read my posts, you’ll know that I like a hands on approach to my craft, and feel it’s important to show others how with a little effort, you can honestly make your own items. That’s why this post is so long, so that you can see the steps involved, and that it’s really not that hard to do. All the supplies I had on hand already, so the cost to me was $0.00, except for the time to gather the grass, handle and to assemble it. Something like 5 hours. So when you see a besom and wonder why they are pricey, you know that at least 4 or 5 hours went into making that besom. If you need supplies, hit up Dollarama (or your local dollar store) for twine and zip-ties.
When I talked about straw-grass, it’s any kind of tall, straw-like grass that has gone to seed at the top. Wheat grass, or any tall grass similar to this…
It should have stalks that feel just like those on a corn-broom.
This was the fourth besom I have made, and just love making them!
I hope I’ve managed to pass along some helpful points on making a besom, and wish you all the best on your journey!
Posting again, for new followers, or in case you missed it earlier.
“Archieve of our Own” it is a fanfiction website. It is mature site mostly for writing different fictions. Sometimes its completely Original Work sometimes its not. It does have some rated M stuff but they are extremely strict on tagging.
The “issue” people are bringing up are things like how they don’t like teenage aus on there or intense porn such as gore. Honestly, the website itself is following American Laws and its completely run by donations and per people writing their own stuff. I think the whole drama around it is people who just need to learn not to go to a site they don’t like, learning how to not look under certain tags or simply just make sure they search works that are not rated Mature.
But that makes me a “bad person” apparently. I just don’t read stuff on there I don’t want to see. I don’t like gore porn or whatever its called so if I see it in the tags I don’t open the story. I think its a pretty easy thing to do personally.
This piece will be showing this Saturday at Santa Ana’s artwalk in the Lineage show at B-minus Studios and C J Sitton. If you are in the area please come by and see the exceptional artwork!
A missing dog was brought to us and he is so scared and whining. He’s a dachshund mix that is brown and black. The person who found him luckily is taking him to a vet to see if he is chipped. But if anyone is missing a dog in Portland let me know.
Here is a big masterpost of different types of baths for different types of witches! Use these baths before or after witchcraft to pump yourself up or to wind down. And you do not have to be any specific type of witch to use any of these baths. Any witch can use them.
Note: Many of these baths call for crystals. Research crystals before getting them wet. Many of them listed you should not put in water, instead keep them at the edge of your tub or near it.
Blue and white candles (optional- ocean scented ones)
Steps: Light your candles before filling the tub. Once you start filling the tub add your coconut oil, coconut water, sea salt and kelp powder. With your spoon stir clockwise to help mix in the powder, which can take a bit. The water should turn a faint green tint (the more kelp you add the greener it gets but also the stronger the smell gets). Line your tub’s edge with your sea glass, sea shells, and gemstones. Be sure not to let the gemstones fall in the water, especially if they are ones that can’t get wet. Get into your tub and enjoy.
Note: Kelp powder smells very strongly of kelp, it is a scent I personally like but a lot of people don’t. Air out your bathroom a bit after the bath to disperse the smell. Also if you do not wish to smell like kelp yourself, rinse off after your bath quickly.
Swamp Witch Bath
Kelp Powder (2 spoonfuls)
Clay or Bath Mud like Moor Mud (read label for how much to use)
Green and brown candles
Wooden Spoon
Snail shells, alligator teeth, rounded rocks and any green gemstones you may have
Optional- Moss if you have potted moss to keep on the edge of the tub (or a moss bathmat)
Steps: Light your candles then begin to fill your tub. Add in your kelp powder and the mud, using your wooden spoon stir clockwise to mix. Depending on the type of mud/clay you are using the water will either turn very green to a dark brown. Line your tub with your gemstones, rocks, teeth and snail shells. If you are bringing in a moss plant or other plants keep them near the tub. Get into the tub and relax, if your moss is a stepable type of moss and in reach you can rub your fingers in it as you relax.
Note: Like the sea witch bath, you may want to air out the bathroom after your bath. This bath will smell much stronger of kelp and you may want to shower afterwards to avoid smelling strongly of kelp. You may have to rinse your tub to rid of mud used.
Forest Witch Bath
Pine Needles
Pinecones
Pine essential oil (2 drops)
3 bags of green or black tea
Green sachet
Mint
Cedar Chips
Green Candles (optional- tree or plant scented ones)
Steps: Light your candles and begin filling your tub. In you sachet add 1 part cedar chips and 1 part mint. Tie it shut and add to your bath as it fills. You may then add the pine needles to float freely or you may add them in a sachet as well. Add your two drops of pine oil once the tub is half filled to ensure it is well diluted in the bath. Add your tea bags into the water, line your tub with the pinecones and get in.
Note: essential oils can be harsh on certain skins, dilute the oil with a carrier oil and test on your skin to see if it affects you. If your skin is too sensitive for pine oil omit it from the spell.
Floral Witch Bath
Rose petals
Lavender
Chamomile
Meadow sweet/Sweet grass
Rosemary
Pink and/or Green sachets
Pink Candles
Rose Quartz and Milky Quartz
Floral scented candles or incense of choice
Steps: In your sachet(s) add your lavender, chamomile, meadow sweet/sweet grass and rosemary. Light your candles and incense. Once you begin filling your tub add your sachets, once tub is half filled add your Rose petals. Line your tub with your quartz and get in to enjoy.
Storm Witch Bath
Rain or Storm Water
Thunder/Lightning Charged Water
Acorns or Acorn caps
Black tea (2-5 bags)
Gray Candles
Sounds of rain, storms, and/or drums
Steps: Light your candles as your tub fills. Add in your charged water and rain/storm water as the tub fills. Add in your black tea bags. Line your tub with the acorns or acorn caps. On a laptop, tablet, or phone that is a safe distance from the tub, begin playing your sounds of choice. Get into your bath and enjoy.
Steps: As your tub fills add in your moon water. In your sachet add 1 part lemongrass, 2 part marigold, and 1 part mugwort; add it to the filling tub along with your tea. Line your tub with the crystals and metals you have available. Once the tub is nearly filled add in bay leaves. Soak and relax.
Sachet of Coffee Grounds (freshly used or never used)
Device to Play Music
Steps: Begin filling your tub. Add in the amount of epsom salts you usually use as well as your bubble bath. Drop in your sachet of coffee grounds when the tub is still filling. Sprinkle in your glitter onto the bubbles once the tub is about half filled. Start your music and line your tub with your quartz. Soak and enjoy yourself.
Tech Witch Bath
3 bags of black tea
Fairy lights, lamps, night lights, etc
LED Candles
Sachet of color of choice
Oatmeal/Oats
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
Music Playing Device
Steps: set up your lights and LED candles as you wish. Be sure none of the wires are near the tub or where water will be, be safe! If you can turn off the main lights. Don’t do this if you can’t see well enough to move about safely! Begin filling your tub and add your tea. In your sachet add your oatmeal and add it to the bath. Start playing your music and get into your bath and enjoy.
Death Witch Bath
¼th cup olive oil
2 spoonfuls of Salt (or more if desired)
Purified, bottled or moon water (at least 1 cup)
White Sachet
Rosemary
White candles
Myrrh, Frankincense, Jasmine, Chamomile, or Sage Incense
Obsidian, Jet, Onyx, Fire Agate and/or Garnet
Steps: Light your candles and incense; fill your sachet with rosemary. Begin filling your tub and add in your water, oil, salt and sachet. Let it fill to about half way before lining tub with your gemstones. Get in and soak and enjoy.
Stellar/Cosmic Witch Bath
Cosmetic/Bath/Body safe glitter in colors of choice
Star Anise
White Sachet
Basil
Chammomile
Orange peels/slices or Lemon peels/slices
Goldstone (blue, green, purple, etc)
Purple, white and blue candles
Steps: Light your candles before you begin to fill your tub. In your sachet add your Basil and Chamomile (about 1 part each). Add in your sachet and star anise as the tub fills. Add your glitters of choice to the water as well and until it glitters the amount you desire. Line your tub with the goldstone. Add your citrus peels or slices before you get in. Relax and enjoy your bath.
Note: Due to glitter you may have to rinse the tub after your bath.
Fire Witch Bath
Red Sachet
Red, Orange, and white candles
¼th cup sunflower seed oil
Rosemary
Cloves
Marigold
2 drops red food coloring
Carnelian, citrine, lava stone, fire agate and/or red jasper
Steps: Light your candles before you begin filling your tub. In the sachet add your rosemary, cloves and marigold. Add the sachet and sunflower oil as the tub fills. Line your tub with the crystals and stones you have available. Once the tub is nearly filled add 2 drops of food coloring (or more if you want a more intense color). Get in and enjoy.
Note: food coloring shouldn’t stain your tub unless you use large amounts.
Water Witch Bath
Rain Water
Purified or Bottled Water
Moon Water
Cucumber cut into slices
Blue Sachet
Jasmine
Lemon Balm
Catnip
Aqua Aura Quartz, Moonstone, Blue Lace Agate, Lapis Lazuli, and/or Pearl
Steps: Begin filling your tub. Add in your waters as it fills. In your sachet add in your jasmine, lemon balm, and catnip. Add in your sachet. As the tub fills line your tub with your gemstones and crystals. Once tub is about half filled add your cucumber slices and get in to enjoy.
Earth Witch Bath
Moor Mud
Agate, Jasper, Jet, and Quartz
Salt of your choice
1 cup oats/oatmeal
Brown or Green Sachet
Sage Incense
Steps: Light your incense before filling your tub. As the tub fills, add in your mud to the amount it states on package. If needed use a spoon to stir it clockwise to mix. Add in your salt. In your sachet add your oats before dropping it into bath as well. Line your tub with your gemstones before getting in.
Note: Due to mud you may have to rinse or clean bath afterwards.
Steps: Set up your sound playing device to play the sounds you desire to listen to. Light your candles and incense before you start filling your tub. In your sachet add your cilantro, lavender, rosemary, mint and dandelion. Place your feathers near your tub but where they won’t get wet and ruined. Line your tub with gemstones and add in your sachet. Get into your tub and enjoy.
Solar Witch Bath
Gold and Orange Candles
Marigold Tea (2-5 bags)
Black Tea (1 bag)
Orange slices or peels
1 drop of a citrus essential oil
Sunstone
Steps: Light your candles before filling your tub. As your tub fills add in your teas and one drop essential oil. Place our sunstone near your tub or about the rim. Once tub is about half filled add in your orange slices/peels and get in. Soak and enjoy.
Note: essential oils can be harsh on certain skins, dilute the oil with a carrier oil and test on your skin to see if it affects you. If your skin is too sensitive for the oil omit it from the spell.
Lunar Witch Bath
Moon Water
Jasmine Tea (4 bags)
White and Silver Candles
Amethyst and Moonstone
Silver or White Sachet
Mugwort
Anise
Steps: Light your candles before filling your tub. As your tub fills add your jasmine tea bags. In your sachet add 1 part mugwort and 2 parts anise before adding it to the tub as well as pouring in your moon water. Line the tub with amethyst and moonstone before getting into the water and enjoying.
Special thanks to @cosmic-witch and @death-witch-envy for helping with my research for the Stellar Witch Bath and the Death Witch Bath. Thank you both very much for helping out~
If you’re using glitter, please make sure to get biodegradable glitter: most glitter brands are made using PET film and are basically glam microplastics.
Yep thank you for the links! And yes most cosmetic glitter is made out of seaweed which is the one I recommended the most in the post, so it is safe for body use and water use!
I personally think it is >-> simply because it is fun and I feel you can also use some of the halloween vibe to get som good samhain decorations like pumpkins!
4d printing is not a thing we cannot access dimensions higher than the third
The 4th dimension is time. Here, an object is printed in 3 dimensions but is constructed so that the stresses and strains in the material that occur when interacting with some environment it is in (such as water), will cause it to move in a predicted way. So it is 4D printed. This isn’t the only research group studying this. It is what it has been called for a few years now.
Lady, early check in is available only if there are rooms clean. It is nearly 3 hours before check in. Check out just ended 10 minutes ago. your room is not cleaned, there are no other rooms of this type cleaned. throwing a fit and going up to your coworkers to loudly claim that “this lady” is “not letting you in your room” is ridiculous. Thank you for looking like an idiot to the point my manager had to come out and tell you to your face you were ridiculous and being childish.
Cloaked Birds is a five-card spread about a toxic person in your life. This person could be Family, Friends, Lovers, Co-workers, etc. Sometimes You can’t really tell how toxic someone really is. This spread can be used in any form of divination. You do not have to follow the set placements if you feel they are stronger in another form. Stay safe and rid yourself of toxic people in your life.
(Image Description: A square box with an image of birds flying around. In the middle in another black square with five white boxes to signify cards. In the cards are the numbers one through five. Above the boxes are the words, “Cloaked Birds. Wasteland-Magic.” In a separate photo, it has the description of each card. )
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