lazywitchling

[lazywitchling]

[lazywitchling]

Actually heres a question… do you have a signo around somewhere? Does the ink from the signo fit in the g2 body?

Odd question, but worst pen currently on the market? I trust your information/opinion.

the pilot g2 gel pen is my personal enemy. hard to find a shittier pen compared to how many people have been fooled into thinking it is even one of the better gel pens on the market. it is not even one of pilot's better gel pens. garbage ink with garbage with quality control with shitty misleading advertising campaigns.

[lazywitchling]

I really like the Zebra bLen a lot, it requires NO pressure to write, but the ink is nice and smooth without blobbing at all. It’s a slightly thicker pen barrel than usual which makes it easy to hold. It’s my second favorite gel pen.

Idk if it’s the barrel size that you like of the g2, but if it’s the rubber grip, there’s the Uni Signo with a gel grip. I have not tried this specific model myself, but I know the Signo ink and it’s very nice. I hear very good things about the gel grip, I just haven’t personally tried it.

There’s the Pentel EnerGel which might be the closest in terms of pen body style from what you’re used to with the g2, but I also know that people are pretty divided on whether they love or hate this pen. I’m kinda indifferent to it, but it’s worth checking out.

Now, my absolute favorite gel pen is the Uni One, because its ink is so dark and beautiful and it sits on the page so gorgeously and EVERY gel pen looks horribly faded to me now that I’m used to this one. BUT FULL DISCLOSURE: I don’t think you’d like this one very much. The barrel is very far from the g2 that you like, and I think it would end up being uncomfortable for you to hold. It’s a thinner barrel and very plastic-y. (Nevermind, it does have a rubber grip, I just misremembered my own favorite pen. But it's a THIN rubber grip, not very squishy at all.) I still have to shout it out because I love it, but I don’t think this one is it for you.

Odd question, but worst pen currently on the market? I trust your information/opinion.

the pilot g2 gel pen is my personal enemy. hard to find a shittier pen compared to how many people have been fooled into thinking it is even one of the better gel pens on the market. it is not even one of pilot's better gel pens. garbage ink with garbage with quality control with shitty misleading advertising campaigns.

[lazywitchling]

That's the one! I DID delete it, apparently! Thanks for finding it again! :D

I made an oil for attracting wealth and used a smidge of it on a product at work that I needed to sell quickly.

I sold about two and a half weeks worth in three days.

[lazywitchling]

No idea where that post went. I might have deleted it because people were being nasty at me about it? I don’t remember.

[lazywitchling]

Hey Chicken!

So, I’ve previously had luck with money spells, but it’s very much been a case of “borrowing against yourself.” The last one just raised my credit card limit, which was great at the time, but that’s definitely become a new problem. I’ll be looking for a new job soon, but in the meantime, I’m wondering if you have any ideas on drawing more customers to a business? Our customers also receive little hand towels that I add some orange oil* to for scent, so I’m wondering if there’s a way to enchant the hands to make them more generous and spend/tip more.

Anything you or followers can think of would be great!

*Something the business does, not something I just decided to subject people to.

We're back on this I think!

Imagine your financial life is a domain in a kingdom. You're the monarch. You order the domain to bring you more money. The workers of the domain will go about doing so in the way that gets you what you want, which requires the least amount of work for them.

Your needs as the monarch aren't super important to them. They've got their own lives to live. Your decree is fulfilled to the letter, and that's that.

The amount of available money was not the problem.

The main business in the financial domain is a beauty spa that can only accommodate 8 guests at a time. You order a decree that the workers must try to attract more guests. The line out the door is very long. The business makes no extra money. Cancelled appointments, tips reduced due to longer wait times, you name it - the amount of guests at the door was not the problem.

Probably what you actually wanted is something like infrastructure development so the financial domain expands and makes it possible to intake more money in a sustainable way.

Financial sphere expansion spells can be worked with planetary magic:

Venus can strengthen the channels through which you receive things

Saturn can expand the boundaries of domains, pushing out the borders of your kingdom

It can be worked with elemental magic:

Earth to build 'vaults' to increase your carrying capacity of actual cash ("credit" is just words on a page, there are no gold coins - much less storage space required)

UPG - basil and clove greatly assist with building 'vaults' to expand your capacity to hold onto wealth

Water to increase flow

It can be worked with fiber magic:

Tye knots in a cord, each knot being a 'vault', or an expansion in your financial domain - imagine a witch's ladder which is a series of boons gifted to the denizens of your financial domain.

Symapthetic magic to mend holes in clothing and linens, as you do so "sewing up" holes in your vaults that allow coins to spill out.

Spirits can also assist you:

Assign a governor to your financial domain, to ensure expansion and growth is towards an increase of actual wealth, and to lock down attempts at accounting trickery that make it seem like your money has increased, when it has not.

Assign an agent to your financial domain to oversee special projects and bring reports back to you.

I have no ideas for an increased customer spell off the top of my head, that I am able to share with others.

[lazywitchling]

Modern Folk Magic Challenge: Premade Supermarket Spells!

Let's do something fun, why not!

Grocery store correspondences are common. Salt, sugar, lemons, black pepper, beef heart? No problem! With a little creativity, most any spell ingredient you need can be found at the grocery store.

But what about all the other stuff that isn't produce, spices, or from the butcher counter?

Coconut flavored sparkling water. Double-stuffed mint Oreos. Marie Calender's Meatloaf and Gravy frozen dinners. Fat-free vanilla and honey Greek yogurt snackers.

Think of the potential!

What if we all grabbed a readily available and affordable pre-made* grocery store item in our area, and wrote a spell who's only** ingredient is that item?

I think it could be tons of fun (and inspiring) to see how people take mass-produced supermarket items and use them as the basis for spells.

Pre-Made*

The challenge is to take any grocery store item which combines two or more things into a pre-packaged or pre-mixed item.

What are the 'things'? It's up to you!

Coconut flavor + sparkling water. It's the flavoring plus the bubbles!

Chocolate cookies + mint creme filling

Meatloaf + gravy

Vanilla flavoring + honey + Greek yogurt

Caramel flavor + powdered pudding mix

Pretend that every aspect of the object is a correspondence, and find any item which to you is a combination of two or more correspondences.

The Only Ingredient**

In many spellcrafting games, spell components are considered to be separate from ingredients. Maybe to you, a tea light or a threaded needle aren't spell ingredients so much as they are tools that help you cast a type of spell.

For this challenge, strive to make the supermarket object the only ingredient of the spell, whatever that means to you.

Imagine if you could say to someone, "I have a spell for that! And the only thing you need is Fruit Gushers."

A Spell

Write a spell that uses your supermarket object as the only ingredient.

Not just correspondences for that item! The challenge is to write a whole spell that someone could cast.

The spell can be for any purpose you want.

Share with us your thought process! Why did you choose that object, and why did you combine it with those magical actions?

Tag your contribution as #Supermarket Spell so we can all find each other!

It doesn't have to be food!

Nor does it really have to be obtained from a grocery store. Here are the ideas that inspired me for this project:

Mass-produced items that combine two or more "correspondences"

Commonplace, affordable

A normal part of household groceries (not having to sneak something exotic or unusual inside)

Finding ways to do magic with pantry goods that aren't classical herbal correspondences

Here are other questions I anticipate people might ask:

Do I have to use the whole package? No!

Are things technically from the produce/spice/meat aisles okay? Yes!

Does it technically have to be a 'spell'? I think things like devotional or offering rituals, or other acts of magic which you don't feel are 'spells', are fine to contribute! I would be fascinated to see people's reasoning for why they chose certain items for non-spell acts of magic.

#Supermarket Spell

[lazywitchling]

Imagine that your kid is friends with the child of one of those beige/clean eating/holistic/influencer moms, and the first time you take that kid to McDonald’s and their little mind is blown because they didn’t know food could taste like that. They don’t even know about the full expanse of culinary possibility, but they’ve been eating gluten free non dairy raw water for so long that a chicken nugget rocks their entire world.

The pilot g2 is that chicken nugget.

Odd question, but worst pen currently on the market? I trust your information/opinion.

the pilot g2 gel pen is my personal enemy. hard to find a shittier pen compared to how many people have been fooled into thinking it is even one of the better gel pens on the market. it is not even one of pilot's better gel pens. garbage ink with garbage with quality control with shitty misleading advertising campaigns.

[lazywitchling]

by Pallas Athena

[lazywitchling]

They redid the old elements photoshoot, oh my nostalgic heart 😭🩵🤍🩵🤍

I bought a CD with cash today like it’s 1999.

[lazywitchling]

I bought a CD with cash today like it’s 1999.

[lazywitchling]

I’m sitting here watching my dashboard turn into an argument where “maybe there’s some nuance to this” gets shut down with “no there’s not and you’re stupid”, the No Nuance version gets reblogged between the bloggers with a lot of followers, and anyone who agrees with the “maybe nuance” person doesn’t step in because we don’t want to wound up dragged into the town square and humiliated too. Not only that, but I also find myself going “Well shit, why do I keep telling myself to post more when this is what happens? I should just go back to talking privately with my friends.”

And then people are like “oh no, why isn’t witchblr as active as it used to be?”

[lazywitchling]

by rubenramsc

[lazywitchling]

Looking at designer handbags online just to make myself angry. This is somehow enjoyable.

[points at one] This is a square with a shoulder strap on it. It's not even lined. I could make this with like $10 of craft supplies. It's $2,900.

[lazywitchling]

Look, I’m not a camping expert (I am in fact an extreme indoor cat), but seeing pictures of Gemma Gary out in the woods, surrounded by dry leaves, an open fire that does NOT appear to be in any kind of dug trench right in front of her mere inches away from the dry leaves… I have a right to be nervous about that, right?

[lazywitchling]

user chicken this has been driving me crazy. if the east is air then SURELY the west is earth. right. *right*???

I place fire in the east, earth in the south, water in the west, and air in the north.

It doesn't matter what path you take to find these elemental heartlands, because they are fairy roads.

Elemental Earth is not in any direction. You can't access it by traveling physically east. Yet it is true that it can be accessed if you search for it in any one direction for long enough. The key is finding how to get there for yourself.

The fairy road to Elemental Earth does not lead to a destination that is south of anyone. Or west, or north, or east of anyone.

It is a road that may begin no matter where you are standing, and no matter which direction you travel in, you may arrive at Elemental Earth.

The trick of it is that you are the one who has got to traverse it, and learn to open it up, and to call things up and down it. You are the cartographer exploring the roads. They are not *unique* to you, you do not make them up, they are not dependent on your whims: but it will be true nonetheless that if you are unable to discover Elemental Earth by traveling West, then you may arrive at your desired destination by traveling East.

If a group or tradition have already explored and documented these roads, do as they advise: if you are on your own, follow your heart.

The pacific ocean is to the west of me. That made a lot of sense. The sun rises in the east. I went from there. I was nice to every old woman I met and I saved ants nests from stones and rescued fish from reeds, and then one day no matter where I was standing a road started at my feet, and no matter where Elemental Earth was I found it by going South.

Now I'm so good at finding Elemental Earth to the south that I think if I tried to find it by going North, I'd learn a lot of new lessons and the spirits and powers and lessons would change. So it's not whims, it's not dependent on you, they are outside of you:

But they're fairy roads. So they can go in any direction and lead to the same destination.

If you can't find them where you're standing, they intersect as crossroads in the center of every Circle. Call the Circle first and it makes calling the roads much easier.

[lazywitchling]

If I could choose to bring one person back to life, it would be Dr Atkins

so that I could kill the fucker myself.