gooseberry-n-lilac
lilac and gooseberries
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Karina's personal ramblings about whatever catches their fancy at the moment. Age: 33, pronouns: they/them. Folk witch, writer of stories.
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 5 hours ago
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 2 days ago
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 2 days ago
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Anointed my favorite necklace with protection oil, and decided to take this picture (bonus is my cat in the background lol). If it wasn't obvious yet, I'm a big fan of The Witcher ����
Also, I'm running low on protection oil, so I'm going to make a fresh batch soon. Ordered beeswax and jojoba oil as well as gooseberry fragrance oil, so expect a lot of witchy/crafty posts to come in the next couple days as I navigate the process of making balms and solid perfumes.
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 3 days ago
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heather for protection, chrysanthemum for loyalty, and aster for love [twitter]
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 3 days ago
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Happy birthday Joey Batey (still my favorite bard)!
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 4 days ago
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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 4 days ago
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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 5 days ago
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HAPPY NEW YEAR with The Witcher gay art. May we get a lot of gay art next year. ILU guys!!!
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 6 days ago
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Happy New Year to my dear followers and everyone else on this site!! 🥳
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 6 days ago
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Guys, I'm currently working on a Geraskier fanfic; it's set during the time Geralt spends in Brokilon after he fought Vilgefortz. It's mainly just m/m romance, nothing too explicit really. The question is, should I post it to AO3? Would any of you interested in reading it? I'm not sure how long it's gonna be, I just got the idea randomly and yeah I'm pretty much just winging it lol. It's mostly from Jaskier's point of view.
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 7 days ago
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“Don’t Work with Death!”
“Don’t work with death, because then you invite it into your house.”
Death is already in my house. Death is everywhere. Death is what decays the plant matter that feeds my garden. Death is what feeds the herbs I use in my spells, for each grows from what died before it.
Death is what feeds my family - death of plants, the death of animals. I would not disrespect the spirits of that which feeds us by ignoring their sacrifice. 
Death is the veil between my ancestors and myself, keeping them at rest and then acting as the gate for them to step into their next life.
When I do hospice work and sit with someone who is accepting their approaching death, I don’t tell them death is something to fear or avoid. I tell them death is the friend that walked beside them, every step of their life, maintaining the balance of the world, and waiting for them with open arms, to escort them to rebirth. 
“Don’t work with death!” 
I would not ignore life’s partner, not for arrogance or fear or ignorance. When I go to my own, I want to greet death with respect, acceptance, and gratitude. 
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 9 days ago
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One of the things that’s really struck me while rereading the Lord of the Rings–knowing much more about Tolkien than I did the last time I read it–is how individual a story it is.
We tend to think of it as a genre story now, I think–because it’s so good, and so unprecedented, that Tolkien accidentally inspired a whole new fantasy culture, which is kind of hilarious. Wanting to “write like Tolkien,” I think, is generally seen as “writing an Epic Fantasy Universe with invented races and geography and history and languages, world-saving quests and dragons and kings.” But… But…
Here’s the thing. I don’t think those elements are at all what make The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings so good. Because I’m realizing, as I did not realize when I was a kid, that Tolkien didn’t use those elements because they’re somehow inherently better than other things. He used them purely because they were what he liked and what he knew.
The Shire exists because he was an Englishman who partially grew up in, and loved, the British countryside, and Hobbits are born out of his very English, very traditionalist values. Tom Bombadil was one of his kids’ toys that he had already invented stories about and then incorporated into Middle-Earth. He wrote about elves and dwarves because he knew elves and dwarves from the old literature/mythology that he’d made his career. The Rohirrim are an expression of the ancient cultures he studied. There are a half-dozen invented languages in Middle-Earth because he was a linguist. The themes of war and loss and corruption were important to him, and were things he knew intimately, because of the point in history during which he lived; and all the morality of the stories, the grace and humility and hope-in-despair, was an expression of his Catholic faith. 
J. R. R. Tolkien created an incredible, beautiful, unparalleled world not specifically by writing about elves and dwarves and linguistics, but by embracing all of his strengths and loves and all the things he best understood, and writing about them with all of his skill and talent. The fact that those things happened to be elves and dwarves and linguistics is what makes Middle-Earth Middle-Earth; but it is not what makes Middle-Earth good.
What makes it good is that every element that went into it was an element J. R. R. Tolkien knew and loved and understood. He brought it out of his scholarship and hobbies and life experience and ideals, and he wrote the story no one else could have written… And did it so well that other people have been trying to write it ever since.
So… I think, if we really want to write like Tolkien (as I do), we shouldn’t specifically be trying to write like linguists, or historical experts, or veterans, or or or… We should try to write like people who’ve gathered all their favorite and most important things together, and are playing with the stuff those things are made of just for the joy of it. We need to write like ourselves.
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 10 days ago
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Nazis will never be welcome in paganism. They have no space in our communities, we will have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to nazis. You have no right to the cultures, gods and religions you hijack to spread your disgusting ideologies. You will find no refuge or comraderie amongst pagans.
Reblog to let nazis know they’re not welcome here.
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 13 days ago
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Guys it worked 😂
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Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 13 days ago
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Happy Holidays to everyone! 💜
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gooseberry-n-lilac · 15 days ago
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Guess what's brewing in my witch's cauldron... 😉
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