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The sun and moon. [Dandelions]

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Just finished the cover for Wizard Punk Volume 2! Thanks to Ms. Grackle for being my hand model this time!

This volume might take a little longer to get out than the first one, which we slapped together in like a couple weeks. There's a lot going on right now. I'm sure you know, you're probably a person who's living though another round of unrepresented times, just like the rest of us.

Hey, but that means we can take our time on it, and if you've got ideas you want to submit or just casually talk at me in the comments or reblogs, that'll give us more time to turn it into a page.

Speaking of, we're reworking the whole zine from a single page 8 panel print out to a digest style 8.5 by 5.5 inch zine with multiple bound paged. That means we're not limited to 8 pages. We can do more or less or whatever! Probably going to aim for a min of 8, maybe a max of 16? I donno. I'm the only witch on the team that knows how to use a printer, so I guess I'll have to explain this to everyone and get their input. Probably just going to go with the flow.

And I'll go back and reformat the first zine in the same way so it prints better, but that's a slightly later problem. I hope Passer's picture survives the upscale... Huh... future problems indeed.

Anyway, I've got to finish a cargo manifest and send some messages before we take off, and it's already 5am and the captain will be a little disappointed if we're not ready to launch by 8ish... Are you still an early bird if you never sleep?

-Thrush

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I bought some iron on letters for another project, but decided my battle jacket needed an upgrade.

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Forgot to reblog this on here. You can read the whole zine on here now!

I was going to post this sooner, but I kept forgetting and getting tied up in other stuff. Here's the whole first zine!

You can also print it out on itch, but I think I'm going to rework it into a digest style zine with bigger pages, because some of the pages are a little hard to read when it's printed on one 8.5x11 page.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy. Let me know what you think of it so I can tell the other witches!

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My fantasy punk zine is complete! I don't even know what to say other than that was a lot of fun and a lot of work. I'll definitely be doing more.

If you read it (and please read it, I need validation) let me know what you think (please, I'm proud of it, nervous it's not good enough, and stressed no one will read it all at the same time)

Ok, anyway, I actually do need to go to sleep like 2 and a half hours ago, and I'm even less of a chronomancer irl.

Wizard Punk Vol.1 is finally done!

It was a lot more work than we planned, but our first zine is out now, free, on our Itch.io! If you think a punk zine written by a loose coven of witches and wizards from a fantasy realm sounds cool, you'll probably like it!

Probably going to post the whole thing on here later, but I got no time right now, and I'm not going to be around for like a week. Places to go and stuff to do. And none of the rest of the team knows how to use computers, so... Oh well, the digital reader on itch is pretty cool and there's a PDF on there if you really want to look at it in detail. Passer made some awesome are for his page, so it's worth full screening.

It would be cool to come back to some comments and feedback. I'll try to check when we land, but it's just the first zine of an unknown group of authors, so I'm not going to stress it. Anyway, I need to be asleep like 2 hours ago, and I am no chronomancer. Night all - Thrush

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That was a pretty good read, I gotta say

@friend-crow omw to give my mom your zine

(in case anyone wants a very cool zine)

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Wizard Punk Zine

So, as a little side project to keep my sanity, I'm making a zine based on fantasy RPG world underground punk culture. Specifically wizard punk culture. So far it's pretty fun. I'm writing some stuff about fictional band recommendations, tips on growing magical plants to feed and potion your community, call to arms regarding anti-royal protests and ways to keep yourself safe (which all may reflect irl protests and advice). I had to stop myself when I realized it's probably not a good idea to tell people how to cast "Gripping Flames" by dissolving forbidden parcel legumes in liquid ancient dragon bones. If you know, you know, and unfortunately distributing a zine that could be misconstrued as a thinly veiled recipe for napalm is probably something the govt would catch on to and not approve of. So I'm just going to not include that. But you get the spirit of what I'm going for. Not entirely sure what else I'm going to put in this. Probably some baking recipes for cookies and stuff. More community driven stuff. More fictional fantasy events based on irl stuff that's happening. Art, poety, etc. If anyone has any ideas, please, let me know. I've only ever gotten a couple punk zines irl before, and those where either very activism based, or art based, so I don't really know what else to include. Also activism, community and art/music are really the biggest parts of punk culture I'm involved in, so I don't have the experience to include more.

Anyway, just felt like sharing what I was play with. Now I got to hit the hay. Got lots of work and stuff to do tomorrow.

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Gonna start new folklore that says black cats are only a bad omen if you don't pet them. All bad luck can be negated by being nice to the cat.

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Like to charge, reblog to cast

MANIFEST

MANIFEST

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Turning off anon, tired of spam bots

I'm getting like 10 a day at this point, so I'm going to turn it off for a bit. If you have question and really don't want it public, just say so in the ask or DM me.

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Came in second in the last tournament and won more art as my prize! Keiri is going to be an official card that only I have access to! Feels pretty awesome to be able to roll up to a game and pull out a unique card made just for me 😊

Look at my adorable little taser bug child! She came out perfect.

This whole thing has inspired me to take another swing at the card game I designed nearly a decade ago, and between working on making my video game and other life responsibilities I've been working on that. We'll see if it ends up being another link in the chain of good events. Crossing my fingers.

https://www.tumblr.com/scroll-of-thought/772711201071398912/good-things-will-happen-things-that-are-meant-to?source=share

did it work?

Honestly, I think it's fuckin working? Nothing I expected to happen has happened, but I've found myself in a really interesting and positive position. It's a weird one, but I've got a story to tell, and some stuff to show off at the end.

So out of the blue, about a month ago, my friend and business partner found a random card game posted on a random tiny facebook group that he's not even part of. He doesn't even go on facebook often, really only to check on his family, but as he scrolled to see his parent's recent post he saw it. Who knows what arcane algorithms the ol' Zuck is working with, but it looked neat and found the right audience, so he told me and we tried it out. Really fun strategy/roleplaying card game with a digimon-esk vibe.

From there were joined the discord to ask some questions on rules we didn't really understand, see if there was more content coming out, just hang out and see what's what.

Long story short, we've become fast friends with the solo dev of the game. He's a really cool guy, just making the game he wished existed, and putting 110% of his time and work into it. I have stayed up until sunrise just chatting with him about all kinds of junk, game design included.

So far he's commissioned me once to do a quick 3d model design of the interior of a building, which he's going to use as a perspective guide for illustrations in the game, and wants more when he has the funds. He also wants to commission my SO, Silver, to illustrate cards and other stuff for the game once he has funds, and even license some of the fanart she made for fun, so it'll be in the games rulebook.

I won the first official tournament of the game, which was a blast, and the prize was some art of one of my OCs as a character in his games world, and it came out awesome. So now I have art of a character I've been writing in my novel for years and that's awesome.

The community is really small, but passionate and full of cool people making and doing cool stuff. One of the fans does a weekly "pirate radio" show that covers upcoming events and content, 100% in character as if it were in world. I've been helping him with that where I can, having a lot of experience in audio editing and a huge library of sounds and music to pull from. Today the radio host realized he used to watch my youtube channel like 8 years ago, and that was an awesome small world kinda moment.

So generally, yeah I think it's working. I've made very peculiar connections with some cool people, earned a little money helping a cool project come to life, and found a fun game to play, all from a spur of the moment decision to try a game a friend saw a post that found him totally by chance.

Time to pay it forward! If a digimon meets punk skater RPG/card game sounds cool to you, check out CybrFate. Really fun game, awesome art, cool little community, I'm personally having a blast. Games free on Tabletop Simulator right now. Physical copies exist and are being printed and sold in batches as a presale thing. There's probably going to be a kickstarter soonish, once the guy making the game finishes prepping the massive expansion he wants to launch with it. I've seen him online at 8am working on it, the man does not sleep. And if it grows I'll probably get more commissions from him too, so win win. If it does really well he might hire me and my business partner to make a digital version of the game, or maybe some other game in the world, which would be a lot of fun.

Alright, below I'm posting art from the game.

Top picture is my OC, Robin. She's from the novel I've been working on for a couple years. You can read the first couple chapters here. Man, she came out so good. I'm super happy I won that.

First picture in the next row is my favorite starter, Buglit. After that we've just got an assortment of other cards and characters. Tons more on his instagram https://www.instagram.com/panlee37/

Robin's Buglit is named Keiri, and I did some work in blender to make her. I describe her as a Sticker Disaster 4 Year Old with a Taser. She calls herself the Princess of Stickers.

So yeah, that wraps up this update. Some weird stuff seems to be falling into place. If anything, this may be a good example of how weird the path magic takes can be. Like, didn't see any of the past month happening. Hope that all answers your question!

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Update! It's kinda fuckin working!

Long post about it here

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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https://www.tumblr.com/scroll-of-thought/772711201071398912/good-things-will-happen-things-that-are-meant-to?source=share

did it work?

Honestly, I think it's fuckin working? Nothing I expected to happen has happened, but I've found myself in a really interesting and positive position. It's a weird one, but I've got a story to tell, and some stuff to show off at the end.

So out of the blue, about a month ago, my friend and business partner found a random card game posted on a random tiny facebook group that he's not even part of. He doesn't even go on facebook often, really only to check on his family, but as he scrolled to see his parent's recent post he saw it. Who knows what arcane algorithms the ol' Zuck is working with, but it looked neat and found the right audience, so he told me and we tried it out. Really fun strategy/roleplaying card game with a digimon-esk vibe.

From there were joined the discord to ask some questions on rules we didn't really understand, see if there was more content coming out, just hang out and see what's what.

Long story short, we've become fast friends with the solo dev of the game. He's a really cool guy, just making the game he wished existed, and putting 110% of his time and work into it. I have stayed up until sunrise just chatting with him about all kinds of junk, game design included.

So far he's commissioned me once to do a quick 3d model design of the interior of a building, which he's going to use as a perspective guide for illustrations in the game, and wants more when he has the funds. He also wants to commission my SO, Silver, to illustrate cards and other stuff for the game once he has funds, and even license some of the fanart she made for fun, so it'll be in the games rulebook.

I won the first official tournament of the game, which was a blast, and the prize was some art of one of my OCs as a character in his games world, and it came out awesome. So now I have art of a character I've been writing in my novel for years and that's awesome.

The community is really small, but passionate and full of cool people making and doing cool stuff. One of the fans does a weekly "pirate radio" show that covers upcoming events and content, 100% in character as if it were in world. I've been helping him with that where I can, having a lot of experience in audio editing and a huge library of sounds and music to pull from. Today the radio host realized he used to watch my youtube channel like 8 years ago, and that was an awesome small world kinda moment.

So generally, yeah I think it's working. I've made very peculiar connections with some cool people, earned a little money helping a cool project come to life, and found a fun game to play, all from a spur of the moment decision to try a game a friend saw a post that found him totally by chance.

Time to pay it forward! If a digimon meets punk skater RPG/card game sounds cool to you, check out CybrFate. Really fun game, awesome art, cool little community, I'm personally having a blast. Games free on Tabletop Simulator right now. Physical copies exist and are being printed and sold in batches as a presale thing. There's probably going to be a kickstarter soonish, once the guy making the game finishes prepping the massive expansion he wants to launch with it. I've seen him online at 8am working on it, the man does not sleep. And if it grows I'll probably get more commissions from him too, so win win. If it does really well he might hire me and my business partner to make a digital version of the game, or maybe some other game in the world, which would be a lot of fun.

Alright, below I'm posting art from the game.

Top picture is my OC, Robin. She's from the novel I've been working on for a couple years. You can read the first couple chapters here. Man, she came out so good. I'm super happy I won that.

First picture in the next row is my favorite starter, Buglit. After that we've just got an assortment of other cards and characters. Tons more on his instagram https://www.instagram.com/panlee37/

Robin's Buglit is named Keiri, and I did some work in blender to make her. I describe her as a Sticker Disaster 4 Year Old with a Taser. She calls herself the Princess of Stickers.

So yeah, that wraps up this update. Some weird stuff seems to be falling into place. If anything, this may be a good example of how weird the path magic takes can be. Like, didn't see any of the past month happening. Hope that all answers your question!

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I got the sexy result! I don't know how screwed my loved ones are, but...

Uh oh! You are now a were-animal! This means you become a human-sized animal hybrid with uncontrollable bloodlust every night!

Spin this wheel to get your species

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just a little guy

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i like playing lots of video games like skyrim and stuff. im also a witch who loves enchanting things. i was thinking of combining the two and making some enchantments heavily based off of magic items in video games. this sounded like something you mightve done before or enjoy the thought of, so, have you done something like this before? if so, whats been the coolest one you came up with? id love to hear about it, both because theyre topics i find interesting and because i might take some ideas for inspiration for my own projects 👀

Oh yeah, this is right up my alley. The name Scroll of Thought came from the fantasy rpg concept of a scroll of [insert spell]. Also I'm a witch, gamer, indie game dev, and huge nerd. I was also a youtuber for a few years and I've got like 100+ episodes of modded skyrim. The whole channel was largely fantasy based. So yeah, right up my alley.

That being said, my style of enchanting isn't really based on anything game related. I developed it through years of reading various witchcraft books and blogs, experimenting with my spellcraft, and figuring out what works for me. I have realized that some game developers over the ages have had similar ideas and coincidentally figured out some similar systems for their games, probably drawing from similar inspiration as I did for my actual practice.

Basically that's a long winded way of saying "oh yeah, this is totally a thing you can do. I've done a handful of things that should be video game enchantments/spells in the past"

My style of enchantment is heavily symbolism based. A good example of that, I used to do a lot of sword fighting as a teenager. I broke A LOT of wooden swords, and every time I did I'd realize there was something specific I focused on while using that waster or boken or whatever it was. Like, I learned a lot of parrying and defensive stances with one of my early wooden swords, so when it inevitably shattered I took a piece of the wood and carved it into a charm with protection in mind. I did that for most of my swords, internalizing what I learned with them or what they seemed to excel at into a physical object. Just having that charm, I feel like the the memory of that sword is working it's way back into my 36 year old muscles.

Another fun project I'm currently working on is rings based on the souls games. I have the exact ring that the Silvercat Ring in dark souls 2 was based on. It's actually only a slightly rare antique ring. Unfortunately it got lost in a move, but it's around here somewhere.

I have not tried to enchant it for reduced fall damage, but I mean, can't hurt, right? If I find it, I'm going to design a spell to do that.

The big ones I'm working on is the Serpent Rings from the souls games. I am so disappointed, I found an exact Covetous Silver Serpent Ring (because the design is also based on a real antique ring) but I couldn't afford it at the time and the jeweler retired around the start of covid.

So I've taken it upon myself to make other serpent rings in the spirit of those rings. If you haven't played the souls games, the silver serpent ring gives you 10% more souls (exp/currency) when equipped, and the gold serpent ring gives x2 to rare drops chances.

Taking these as templates I've made two new ones, based on the rings I've found and how I found them.

On the left is my newly made Steel Serpent ring. I found it while traveling and finding a neat new place to explore. It increases the chances of discovering new adventures, even in places you've been before.

On the right is the Brass Serpent ring. It was given to me by a friend, the milliner who made my favorite hat. So it's purpose is to increase the chance of friendly encounters and making new friends.

The process of enchanting these was pretty simple. Cleansed them of any residual energy they encountered before I found them, while clearly keeping the thought of what they represented in my mind. Made a sigil that described and represented that thought and the new job the ring had. burned the sigil and mixed the ash with water and then transferred the sigil to the ring by rubbing the paste into the ring with my fingers, polishing it. The important concept in this form of enchanting via sigil, is that the sigil is never destroyed, it only changes shape from a thought, to a symbol on paper, to a polishing paste, to a ring. The sigil is the ring, just n a different form than how it started, in my mind.

I'm trying to think of any other video game-like enchantments I've done, or that you could do. Oh, an obvious one is something to fight and threaten spirits. I've got heaps of enchanted blades for dealing with malevolent spirits. All my enchantments for them are usually ritual based and incorporate traditionally apotropaic materials, like herbs and stuff, but you could totally silver a blade by rubbing it with old coins or sterling silver jewelry.

The nice part of enchanting is that you can put pretty much any spell into a physical object, so the limits become your imagination and a little bit the reality that enchantments in games are always going to be cooler than the spells we can actually do irl.

I'm sure there's other stuff I can't think of, but I can't think of them right now. If you think of any cool ideas, let me know! Thanks for the ask anon! Super interesting thing to think about for a couple hours when I should have been working 😅

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