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making stickers

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do you ever look at your url and think “i am so glad that i have this url. i deserve this url” 

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The Progressive Necromancers of America do not recommend reanimating anyone who was probably born looking like an overcooked potato. Reanimating potato monsters ALWAYS goes wrong: think before you reanimate!

the photos of prince philip leaving the hospital have my fucking yelling

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From the tiniest fungus controlling a dead ant using fungal strings, to the biblical necromancer imaged to have a stringy beard, every good necromancer has, in some way, strings. Nobody ever really talks about their strings, though. I, for one, think we should revive the conversation.

As we all know, strings have a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to: sewing dolls, drawing circles, making puppets where no suitable puppet is available, and of course, controlling said puppets. Undying fans of this blog of worms will know that I am actually not too experienced in most of those options, but I do actually have a lot of experience in controlling puppet bodies (seeing as I am the Thing of Worms).

I personally use metaphysical strings to control my puppet bodies, but there are some traditionalists who prefer to use physical strings: if you're a physical string user (curse you -- like, literally, I will curse you with undying death), then this post is for you.

To make this easier, the rest of this post will be formatted as "string, personal experience, recommended/not recommended"; in three thousand years, I haven't been able to perfect the magic of segues.

Basic Puppet Strings

I bought my first basic puppet strings at Mortimer's Corpses, Clocks and Crap in 1853, around when they were first released for general use by necromancers. It was honestly a downgrade from my at the time normal of plant root rope, but for my small-scale corpse puppeteering, it gets the body to the store.

I would recommend it only for small-scale corpse puppeteering!

Guitar Strings

Guitar strings as puppet strings is a fairly new idea. What I read on the liberal progressive necromancers forum (ncmc.ppnaos.nz/liberal) is that the whole guitar string trend came from vampire hippies, who then spread it to the necromancer cafes that they've recently been allowed to come into. That's unconfirmed, though.

I would recommend guitar strings for any puppet making attempts at resistance. Resistance is, unfortunately, a sign that the puppet has nurtured. (A nurtured puppet is, in essence, a puppet who you cared for so much that it came to life.) The metal strings redirect the life energy from the new walking corpse back into your dark heart, prolonging your control over the puppet.

I strongly recommend metaphysical strings, however, for ANYTHING. At all. Metaphysical strings are, in every aspect, better than physical strings. Only use physical strings if you are absolutely certain you can't use metaphysicals!

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This is currently an INCOMPLETE guide to necromancy strings. More strings will be added when I'm less busy, no strings attached -- I hope.