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this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

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GRIMORE IDEAS

Start a lunar or dream diary. 

Write spells. 

Astrology meanings. 

Write and record rituals 

Tarot meanings. 

Magickal correspondences. 

Your natal chart info. 

Herb names, uses, and/or properties. 

Info about deities and entities. 

Crystals names, uses, and/or properties. 

Magickal food recipes. 

Faeries. 

Meditation techniques. 

Full moon names. 

How to use a pendulum.

Wheel of the Year. 

Essential oil uses. 

How to scry.

Maiden, Mother, and Crone. 

The Elements. 

History of witchcraft. 

The difference between jinxes, hexes, and curses. 

Morning and night rituals. 

How to celebrate Sabbats. 

Types of salt and their properties. 

Moon phases and their corresponding meanings. 

Types of divination. 

Planet correspondences. 

Candle colour meanings. 

How to draw and/or cast runes and sigils. 

Tools of the craft. 

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Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; ‘The Company of Wolves’

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Tamsyn Muir's synopsis of her novel, "Gideon the Ninth"

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Some of my favorite lines from The Last Unicorn

"Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces, to call you once by your name."

"Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you."

"It's a very rare person who's taken for who he really is."

"My dear, you deserve the services of a great wizard, but I'm afraid you'll have settle for the aid of a second rate pick pocket."

"Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention."

"And you? You have no regrets, as I do?" "I can never regret. I can feel sorrow, but it's not the same thing."

One of my favorite conversations:

Unicorn: "You may come with me, if you like, though I wish you'd asked for some other reward for freeing me." Shmendrick: "Well, I thought about it. But you could never have granted my true wish." Unicorn: "No. I cannot turn you into something you are not. I cannot turn you into a true magician." Schmendrick: "That's alright, don't worry about it." Unicorn: "I'm not."

"She's the last unicorn in the world." "It would be the last unicorn in the world that came to Molly Grue."

"The magic chose the shape, not I. I am a bearer, I am a bearer, I am a dwelling!" "You are an idiot!"

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Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.

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Photos from the Globe and Mail on upcoming releases I might look up:

- Latitudes by Jean McNeil

- The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

- The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

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When it comes to booktok and whatever’s low brow and popular that people denigrate, I just think that I certainly can’t throw any stones since I read slashy webnovels (some machine translated ones at that) and fanfic.

My baseline of coherent writing and appropriate pacing is low. Some of them are definitely better written than others. But a lot of the webnovels rely on a good translator.

They can be very trope heavy, full of literal stock characters and power fantasies, not even explicit for the most part, and focused on what people love, which from my reading is face-slapping, fame and fortune, and yummy food. I can’t get enough of them.

I try to balance my reading with different genres of books like poetry, mysteries and non-fiction. I even read a classic once in a while (the vestiges of the lit major in me) But I am mostly just here for the dopamine hits.

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From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:

Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.

Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.

Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.

Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily

Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don't obscure the view!

If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.

Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom

Edit: I also have this post on budgeting with ADHD + feel free to check my tags, coz I am trying to remember to tag as needed for this stuff. :)

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that Diana Wynne Jones interview where she’s like “I don’t understand why so many girls are into Howl, it must be because they want the challenge of fixing him” is so optimistic, like DWJ’s out here hoping I at least want to make him a more functional person as if “rogue academic turned melodramatic fashion disaster whose social skills Do Not live up to his own hype” is not a perfectly valid thing to be attracted to 

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book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

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To The Person Who Was Sitting Near Me On The Train - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is out Nov 7th and is available to pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky