#ace of pentangles

[smudgingpumpkins]

IMBOLC: 5-Card Tarot Spread

What have I been avoiding?

Card #1: The Death

The Death is nothing to fear. These days are slowly growing brighter, yet the frost and snow persist.

Do not avoid soon-to-come changes. You will be reborn; you will be renewed.

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How will I renew myself?

Card #2: The Ace of Pentangles

The New Year has dawned upon us - new beginnings emerge from the dead of winter.

Time is allowing you a reset. Good will come only if you let it.

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What do I need to let go of?

Card #3: The Judgement

The winter solstice had been a period of introspection, reflection, and absolution from the year past.

It is time to awaken and transform. Leave the past behind and experience the present moment.

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Where should I focus my new intentions?

Card #4: The Empress

Focus on nurturing yourself and others. The emerging springtime requires warmth and care.

This is a period of fertility; an era of self-healing.

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What is stirring within me that needs to be released?

Card #5: The Ace of Wands

New energies are arising. The days are slowly becoming warmer and more colorful.

You feel a sense of embrace; you feel both spiritually and creatively inspired.

[what-even-is-thiss]

how do tarot cards work?

Tarot cards were originally a type of playing cards but over the decades and centuries they’ve become more associated with fortune telling. But. Also a lot of people like me who don’t believe in fortune telling still use them as a sort of tool to think through personal problems from a different angle.

The way it works is there are 22 major arcana consisting of various symbols. The most famous ones are generally the magician, the death, the hanged man, the tower, and the wheel of fortune.

The minor arcana are structured more like traditional playing cards. The symbols are wands, swords, cups, and pentangles, each category having 14 cards ace through 10 and page, Queen, knight, and king. Each symbol is also associated with a traditional element. Wands with fire, cups with water, swords with air, and pentacles with earth.

Each individual card has a traditional meaning associated with it and a mirrored different meaning when the card is pulled upside down, called the reverse reading. A lot of tarot decks come with cheat sheets/little booklets giving summaries of the traditional meanings. You can also buy books that go more in depth if you want but it’s usually pretty simple.

For example, the magician is associated with making things happen, manifesting goals into realities, and noticing opportunities. If you pull him the right way up you might think where you need to be paying more attention in your life, think about how far your own creativity has gotten you, etc. If someone is reading the cards for you they might make a vague prediction based on what you’re asking about or guide you through your thinking process on it. Most tarot readings for fortune telling just use personality test logic and say things that probably most people are thinking about at most times. Everyone worries about money, everyone is tired, most ppl are bad at talking to their spouse, etc.

There’s a lot of different possible ways to read tarot cards but the most iconic and simplest is the three card layout. The first card has to do with your past, the middle your present, the third your future.

I just find tarot cards to be fun. Some people take them really seriously. I don’t. I just think they’re neat. If you wanna get started it’s a really low bar for entry. There’s a lot of really cool decks out there with really cool designs. Just get the one you like. I personally use a version of the Rider tarot deck which is the most common traditional design used in North America. The most popular in Europe is generally Tarot of Marseilles whose labels are in French.

[strangecloud]

My List of Favorite Obscure Songs

Feel free to tag how many you know.

Phideaux - Out of the Angry Planet

Wobbler - Five Rooms

Fairport Convention - Don't Reveal My Name

Nero's Day at Disneyland - Vengeance in Cloudland

Tiregrito - Jardim das Araucárias

Stan SB - The Process

Atomirotta - Älä pelkää

Khaled - El Arbi

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Road to Babylon

Big Blue Ball - Exit Through You

Strawbs - Witchwood

Graveyard - The Siren

Pentangle - Hunting Song

Lunatic Soul - The Passage

Pure Reason Revolution - He Tried to Show them Magic!

Djabe - Ace of Wands

Maria Bethânia - Rosa dos Ventos

KUNZITE - HALOHEAD

[hmgn3]

24-January 散財記録

02(tue) ・沼尾翔子 / Live at Ftarri - Lena (2023, CD) ・Moor Mother / Fetish Bones (2016, used LP) ・Kammerflimmer Kollektief / Hysteria (2000, used LP) ・Steve Waring / Albert A L'Envers - Le Stylo D'Einstein (1981, used 7inch) ・Galo Preto / Galo Preto (1981, used LP) ・Flor Du Xique Xique / O Canto Da Terra (1977, used LP) 03(wed) ・Svenska Folkjazzkvartetten / Folkjazz Anfaller (2022, used LP) ・ECD / 軽いハ���ミで (2005, used 12inch) ・Stock, Hausen & Walkman / Broccoli (1998, used 7inch) ・Eckard Koltermann & Kollégas / Umtriebe (1985, used LP) ・Raul De Souza / Colors (1975, used LP) ・Brass Ensemble of the Jazz and Classical Music Society / Music for Brass (1957, used LP) 07(sun) ・KUDU / I've Been Hit (2001, used 12inch) ・Amnesiac Godz & Country Teasers / Guided Missile Split Single (1999, used 7inch) ・Billie Holiday / A Portrait of Billie Holiday 1935~1942 (1979, used 2LP) ・浅川マキ / MAKI II (1971, used LP) 13(sat) ・Hochzeitskapelle & Japanese Friends / The Orchestra in the Sky (Kobe Recordings) (2023, 2LP) 18(thu) ・Sono / Hyperballad (2006, used 10inch) ・Kid Koala & Amon Tobin / Heavyweight Art Installation, Phase One: 1999 North American Tour, Live Painting Series (2000, used 7inch) 19(fri) ・Yves/Son/Ace / Unsung (2011, used LP) ・Kevin Shields / False Prophet (2006, used LP) ・It's a Blackbean and Placenta Christmas (1997, used LP) 20(sat) ・Aaron Joseph Russo / Baby Blue (2022, used 7inch) ・Project Mama Earth / Mama Earth (2017, used LP) ・Kammerflimmer Kollektief / Remixed Part 1 (2005, used 12inch) ・Nobukazu Takemura / Scope (1999, used LP) ・Algebra Spaghetti (A Children's Fantasypop Album) (1998, used LP) 22(sun) ・Kilder / Don't Hide (2021, used LP) ・Konono No. 1 & The Dead C / Split Series #18 (2005, used 12inch) ・Starving Artists Crew / Up Pops the Sac (2004, used 2LP) ・Ruins & Schlong / Ruins & Schlong (1994, used 7inch) ・Baby Laurence / Dancemaster (1976, used LP) ・The Pentangle / Light Flight (1973, used 7inch) ・Raymond Scott and His Orchestra / This Time With Strings (1957, used LP) ・Georges Jouvin Sa Trompette d'Or et Son Orchestre / Trumpet Fantasy (?, used 10inch) 25(thu) ・Thought Gang / Thought Gang (2018, used 2LP) 27(sat) ・Colophon / Spring (2002, used 10inch) ・Surfer's De Los Campeones / Checkered Flag (1963, used 10inch) 29(mon) ・Travel Through Time and Texture / Floating Bus Stop (2010, CD-R) ・water music (2006, CD) ・toreo sessions 5 2003.06.08 nanba bears / night in OSAKA (2003, CD-R) ・toreo sessions 6 2003.07.19 okayama pepperland / borzoi meets ju and taguti (2003, CD-R) ・Electric Ear / IIIIIII (?, CD-R) 30(tue) ・Pyrolator / Niemandsland (2022, used LP) ・Scout Niblett / It's Up to Emma (2013, used LP) ・Scout Niblett / The Calcination of Scout Niblett (2010, used LP)

[twwprompts]

Julie Hubble draws a tarot card (Ace of Wands: moment of recollection, prelude to creativity) and realises it's about Pippa Pentangle.

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[parrillayoung]

Quick, someone add Bernie Sander in these picture

(Or some other pics if you have)

[dustedmagazine]

Jennifer Kelly 2020: I’m done expecting next year to be better

Not to belabor the point, which has been covered everywhere, but 2020 sucked. My last live concert was on March 7th. It was 75 Dollar Bill in a beautiful reconfigured industrial space on the Amherst College campus, and I already had questions about whether I should be there or not. The show was worth it, absolutely riveting, and no one I know got sick from it, but a couple of weeks later, Amherst College shut down and then, basically, the world.

When I think about 2020, I think about bands that don’t fully make sense unless you see them live, and how, this year, no one got to see them live. I think about musicians who were barely making it before, now cut off from concert revenues and, in a lot of cases, day jobs at restaurants, coffee shops and bars. I think about six-digit medical bills from multi-week COVID-19 treatments, and how my insurance will only cut that to low five figures. I think about the constant spew of bile and nonsense, the willful destruction of American institutions and the persistent sense that we will never recover from any of this, and I look for refuge.

Most of the time in music. Because the music kept coming even when everything else shut down. Even the artists who were holding back for better conditions ended up releasing EVERY ALBUM ON EARTH starting about September 18th. There was always music, good music, interesting music, beautiful music, and while that doesn’t compensate for a terrible year, it was something.

Here are 10 albums I loved best from 2020, with links to reviews or other articles I’ve written about them.

1. Gunn-Truscinski — Soundkeeper (Three Lobed)

Soundkeeper by Gunn-Truscinski Duo

A gorgeous exploration of mood and tone, this double CD set includes two extended live cuts and ten more recorded just down the road in Easthampton, Massachusetts. (And I thought nothing ever happened up here.) “Pyramid Merchandise” punches the hardest, John Truscinski balancing rock solid beat keeping with abstracted sculptures of percussive experiment, while Gunn finds the sweetness and the growl in his blues-touched guitar sound. But “Ocean City” is pure lovely respite, with big rounded notes dropping slowly and with grace through wavering transparencies of sustained tone. Long, searching, “Soundkeeper” will rekindle your longing for live improvised music, while the closer “For Eddie Hazel” vibrates with supercharged intensity, the notes and the steady rhythm too bright and beautiful to look at straight on.

2. Six Organs of Admittance — Companion Rises (Drag City)

Companion Rises by Six Organs of Admittance

Chasny imbues the down-home with wonder and the inexplicable with natural grace in this album inspired by stargazing. The album’s name references the way Sirius appears close to Orion, and the rollicking “The Scout Is Here,” commemorates the appearance of the Oumuamua asteroid, but this is no squiggle-y space opera. The music is mainly made of clean, all-natural picking, blues bends, and rambling jangle, though ruptured, periodically, by rushing, whooshing, amplified electronic sounds. Warm, simple clarity is tipped with awe in finger-picked “Black Tea,” while mists and mysteries predominate in evanescent “Worn Down to the Light,” but the joy comes in the balance between the ordinary and the unknowable shimmering like stars in a black sky.

3. Gil Scott-Heron and Makaya McCraven — We’re New Again (XL Recordings)

When the estate of Gil Scott-Heron asked Chicago composer, percussionist and hip hop chopper Makaya McCraven to reimagine the artist’s last, most personal album, McCraven jumped at the chance to tackle its themes of black struggle, black family and perseverance. McCraven surrounded Scott-Heron’s words with shimmering, post-jazz arrangements that incorporated some of his father’s recordings (his dad is jazz drummer Stephen McCraven) in an ongoing tribute to the blood relatives who shape and equip young black men for a challenging world. The music is wonderful, very different from the original, spare, blues-based arrangements, but they open out the master’s words in an illuminating way. I like, especially, the hustling, shuffling movement of “New York Is Killing Me,” which summons the city’s energy as clearly as the feel of heat rising out of a subway grate in August.

4. Obnox — Savage Raygun (Ever/Never)

Savage Raygun by Obnox

Obnox’s psychedelic mayhem roars like a California wildfire, setting a torch to rock, soul, hip hop, jazz and punk with fuzz-crusted abandon. Icons like Hawkwind flare out and curl into white-hot ash, while even Neil Young’s lick from “Southern Man,” is consumed in the all-encompassing heat of Lamont Thomas’ onslaught (“Young Neezy”). A double album, Savage Raygun covers a lot of ground, but in such a kinetic rush that it seems like one entity that stretched from end to end.

5. Anjimile — Giver Taker (Father/Daughter)

Giver Taker by Anjimile

Anjimile sounds beautifully comfortable with their new vocal range in this second full-length, which follows a gender transition. Pitched low and warm, their voice effortlessly navigates subtle melodies, integrating complex, African-leaning rhythms into songs about love, identify, family friction and the possibility of redemption through embracing one’s authentic self.

6. Osees — Protean Threat (Castleface)

Protean Threat by Oh Sees

John Dwyer has fronted bands called The O.Cs., The Ohsees, Thee Ohsees and now just Osees, evolving from a one-man bedroom pop outfit to a gleefully slopping garage pop project to a droning, krautrocking motoric monster along the way. This newest iteration takes a little of this, a little of that, from the repertoire, putting Dwyer’s best Bo Diddley-esque stomper in years (“If I Had My Way”) next to a wiggy psychedelic freak bomb called “Toadstool” which is adjacent to the dub-scented, narcotic head trip called “Gong of Catastrophe.” The mix works because Dwyer and his band commit to all of it, sequentially and within tracks. It’s the best Osees in years, all the good things in one package.

7. Sam Amidon — S-T (Nonesuch)

As always, Amidon starts with traditional, mostly folk and blues material and, as always, he transforms it into something more adventurous, spiritual and faintly otherworldly. With Shahzad Ismaily and Antibalas’ Chris Vatalaro to back him up, he breaks down the unyielding contours of pre-modern banjo tunes and porch blues, finding steady drones and complex afro-beat syncopations in their steady melodies. You can hear “Cuckoo Bird” a million times in a million different voices and never hear it as luminous and open-ended as here.

8. James Elkington — Ever Roving Eye (Paradise of Bachelors)

James Elkington is always pressed for time, maybe because he works regularly for so many other people’s bands (Richard Thompson, Jeff Tweedy, Spencer Tweedy) and collaborates with others (Steve Gunn). And yet his second solo album brims with balm and solace; he finds time in the interstices between warm, jazz-scented, Pentangle-esque verses and intricate flurries of picked and strummed and electric guitar. Even “Nowhere Time,” which exhorts “It is time for you to move,” has an ease and calm to it, while “Moon Tempering” is as still and lovely as winter starlight. Ever-Roving Eye is an album that assures us we’ll get it all done somehow, but just stop for a minute and listen.

9. Jehnny Beth — To Love Is To Live (Arts & Crafts)

This riveting solo debut from the Savages frontperson is both quieter and more intense than her full-band compositions, juxtaposing incendiary spoken word with the hedonistic thump of the dance floor. Guests are varied—Joe Talbot of IDLES at one pole, the actor Cillian Murphy at the other—but the music never drifts from Jehnny Beth’s singular viewpoint. Compare her to PJ Harvey or Beth Gibbons or Bobby Gillespie as you will (I did), but this is her 100%, and there’s nothing else like it.

10. Cable Ties — Far Enough (Merge)

Far Enough by Cable Ties

Australia churns out quality punk bands like the Hershey factory makes kisses, and Cable Ties, formed in Melbourne by four young rebels, ranks as one of the best to surface here in America this year. “Tell Them Where to Go” is the money track here, all rust-crusted bass crunch and ragged estrogenated vocal energy. But let’s not put them in the “girl band” ghetto. As I said in my review, “The easy thing would be to compare McKechnie’s vibrato-zinging vocals with those of Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker or her verbal agility to Courtney Barnett, but the blunt force and agile violence of the music, brings to mind post-punk bands like the Wipers, Protomartyr and Eddy Current.”

Honorable mention

I also really enjoyed these albums in 2020.

Lewsberg — In this House (12XU)

Damien Jurado — What’s New Tomboy (Mamabird)

Bill Callahan — Gold Record (Drag City)

Mike Polizze — Long Lost Solace Find (Paradise of Bachelors)

Destroyer — Have We Met (Merge)

Decoy w/ Joe McPhee — AC/DC (otoROKU)

Thurston Moore — By the Fire (Daydream Library)

Tobin Sprout — Empty Horse (Fire)

FACS — Void Moments (Trouble in Mind)

Elkhorn — The Storm Sessions (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)  

Howling Hex — Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum)

Wendy Eisenberg — Auto (BaDaBing)

Xetas — The Cypher (12XU)

Califone — Echo Mine (Jealous Butcher)

Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers — Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe)

Shopping — All or Nothing (Fat Cat)

Bonny Light Horseman — S-T (37d03d)

Tashi Dorji — Stateless (Drag City)

The Slugs — Don’t Touch Me I’m Too Slimy (2214099 Records DK)

Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band — S-T (Dagonetti)

[hicsqueakfest]

Hicsqueak Fest Prompt List!

Hi all! Here’s the prompt list for Hicsqueak Fest! You can request up to 3 prompts at a time. Once you finish your fics/arts, you can come back for more! 

To claim your prompt, simply send an ask to @hicsqueakfest and copy/paste the prompt you want (you must have a tumblr username to do this). I will cross it off the list and put your name by it so it’s all yours. First come, first serve. Make sure you tell me if you’re claiming a FIC or ART prompt, because some of them are duplicates! 

Prompts are divided by FIC (sub categories: AU, AR, Gen, Smut, Lyrics/Quotes) and ART. 

HAPPY CLAIMING!

FIC

- Domestic Hicsqueak

- Hecate and Pippa are in an established relationship and see each other again after months apart. Could be smutty or domestic and cute.

- Hicsqueak first time. doesn't have to be sex (but it can be). It could be first time they do anything. Ie: ice skating together, first date, etc.

- Young Hicsqueak building staff/wand for Hecate to have more control over her magic and learning how to use it 

- Pippa and Hecate dancing

- Pippa already knows about the confinement in S1, how she deals with all the little ways Hecate makes excuses to not do things; and how she eventually reacts to Hecate telling her about the confinement.

- Pregnancy fic - Hecate pregnant. Pippa being the best. Mildred minding her own business.

- Single parent Pippa meets her child’s teacher Hecate @ohlookitstomorrowff

- Hicsqueak flying together on a broom

- Domestic Hicsqueak (I need a lot of that)

- A series of firsts with Pippa, after Hecate is set free

- Hecate is clueless about how attractive she is, and Pippa tries her best not to be jealous (but she so is)

- Hicsqueak as parents (interpret "parents" however you want)

- Going hunting

- Going fishing

- Visiting a planetarium together

- Hurt/Comfort. Mistress Broomhead remarks in front of Pippa that Hecate "continues to have poor taste in companions." Pippa asks Hecate what Broomhead meant by it, and Hecate has to make a choice whether or not to reveal the whole Indigo incident.

- Miss Bat catches Hecate and Pippa out of bed past curfew, but instead of punishing them, she just mercilessly teases them about it for the rest of term.

- Gardening together

- Comparing stories of the weirdest stuff they confiscated from students

- Playing poker

- “Have you done this before?" @hovercraft79

- Forehead kisses

- Adventuring to find rare ingredients for Hecate's experiments that the school can't afford @cliotheproclaimer

- Visiting Pentangle's Academy for the first time

- Candlelight supper

- Hecate introducing Star to Pippa

- Playing Mario Kart

- Pippa shows Hecate all the video games she's confiscated from her students, one of which is Skyrim. (I bet Hecate would be a closet GTA5 player after)

- Ethel saw their first kiss and is about to cause havoc

- Playing billiards

- They have a fight at Cackle's and Pippa leaves but Hecate chases her and slams into the barrier and falls off her broom and that's how Pippa finds out about the confinement @allthosegaywitches    

- What if Hecate encounters [a siren] and it takes the form of the person she desires most and Pippa is there to save her or vice versa

- There was a post not too long ago where it was discussed that its possible many girls had crushes on Hecate. So my prompt is: Pippa keeps them unknowingly all away from her Hiccup and years later at a reunion Hecate realized how many girls liked her while Pippa realizes how she really feels about Hecate.

- "I was afraid of what you'd think of me." @maybegarbo

- A fic about/involving musical harmony as a chant method - how did Pippa come to decide this was a better way of doing it, for example? (either gen or shippy)

- Hicsqueak picnic

- Pregnancy fic because there’s not enough of those... Bonus if Hecate is the pregnant one

- Fake dating

- Hicsqueak discovering their favorite ways to snuggle

- Pentangle's academy is under attack Pippa is struggling against the enemy but Hecate comes to protect and save her wife (and the academy)

- Pippa is injured/sick and Hecate takes care of her @cliotheproclaimer

- Hicsqueak wedding

- End of year, the graduating girls play pranks on the teachers and this year someone magicked a mariachi band to follow Hecate around ALL DAY and every time she vanishes them they just reappear with one more band mate

- Staff party at the end of the year Pippa is invited too; Hecate doesn't like those parties and so never shows up but since this year Pippa is going she might go as well too

- Mildred yelling, "Ethel, if you don't stop being a homophobe, DuRIng PRide mONth, then I will yeet you out the window!!!" @firesofthestars

- Fist fight

- Hecate visits Pentangle's

- Going to festivals together

- The first time Hecate sleeps outside of Cackle's, in Pippa's bed. She knows this is where she belongs.

- Hecate gets sick, Pippa takes care of her

- Accidental magic. Something silly preferable to angsty, but if angst calls to you then by all means. For example: the reason Hecate is nicknamed Hiccup is because accidental magic gave her a case of uncontrollable hiccups. that sort of thing.

- Going to conferences together

- Hicsqueak. Pippa asks Hecate why she didn't lift the confinement spell when she (Hecate) was the acting headmistress (mid season 2)

- Hicsqueak in the aftermath of s3, emphasis on Hecate dealing with her trauma and figuring out how to have a healthy relationship

- Hecate as Pippa's "knight in shining armour" (can be non-magical or magical and from gen to smutty, whatever you make of it). Basically the classic damsel-in-distress-scenario with a badass Hecate coming to the rescue. If swordfighting could be included, that would be awesome!  @well-met-and-good-day-to-you-sir

- AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED

- Broomstick racing

- Fake Married trope! 

- Smoking weed together

- Touring witch colleges together/touring the country together

- Camping in the forest (the one surrounding Cackle's or any other)

- Getting drunk together for the first time

- Cuddles

- Pippa-centric, missing Hecate through the years @emiline-northeto

- Hecate-centric, missing Pippa through the years

- After Hecate and Pippa reconcile, their familiars aren’t quite sure how they feel about it.

- Hicsqueak conference fic

- Hicsqueak day at the beach

- Young!Hicsqueak - Hecate lied to Pippa about what happened to Indigo 

- "I don't think I ever stopped waiting for you."

- Pippa has always known about Hecate’s confinement and the hurt over the broomstick display came from her belief that Hecate didn’t have enough faith in them.

- Pippa finds out about Hecate’s confinement - and not from her.

- Fic where Hecate reconnects with her parents after the confinement is over - with Pippa’s support, of course.

- Hecate's favourite colour is pink 

- "You're an idiot" 

- Wedding fic 

- Baby fic 

- After the s3 finale, Hecate discovers the world with Pippa by her side 

- 5 trips Hecate and Pippa take together 

- 5 things Hecate wore that weren't her standard black dress @maybegarbo

- 5 times Pippa tapped Hecate's nose after Spelling Bee (bonus, but not obligatory: and one time Hecate tapped Pippa's) @shafeferi 

- 5 times Hecate and Pippa almost kissed (and one time they did) 

- Pippa gets abducted and Hecate loses it and tries to find her 

- Heat-of-the-moment kissing 

- Either of them gets implicated in a crime and there's ample evidence against them, so they go on the run, but the other is fiercely on their side and helps them any way they can / goes on the run with them 

- Coming out 

- Ace!Hecate @amillionmillionvoices

- Pippa is on the brink of getting married, and Hecate is heartbroken but doesn't think it's her place to say anything 

- One year, seven months, three weeks and two days  @ephemeral-winter

- 5 sunsets they saw together 

- "Ask me to marry you again" 

- Emotional scars 

- Morning routine 

- One day in the life 

- Hecate is bored in a meeting and decides to text Pippa on her maglet, Pippa texts back immediately 

- Pippa is ill, Hecate takes care of her and/or vice versa 

AU

- Doctor Who AU

- Persuasion (Jane Austen Novel) AU

- AU where they're Sirens and they have to deal with Odysseus. Or even about when Demeter gave the Sirens wings to search for Persephone

- MERMAIDS!

- Pirates

- AU in the Harlots universe @concreteangel1221

- Space commanders (Star Trek/Star Wars)

- Crime syndicate

- Street racers

- An AU where they go to Woodstock '69

- Middle earth

- Hecate lives above a bar, and is always angry about the noise. Pippa, the proprietor, has something to say about that. 

- Westeros

- Titanic AU, except there was enough room on the door! 

- Notting Hill AU

- Skyrim

- Witch in the Woods AU: Hecate does Pippa a favor, in exchange for her first-born child. But when Pippa shows up, distraught, 15 years later with a baby, Hecate wants no part of it.  @merricatsgarden

- Georgian Era

- Bus drivers (bus driver... what bus driver?)

- Stealing a car together (au)

- Dragon trainer. Pippa is gifted a dragon and needs someone to help her train and handle it. Enter Hecate Hardbroom, the Dragon Whisperer.

- Detective AU (potentially a bit humorous, a la Tommy & Tuppence or Psych, for example)

- Hecate is a college professor and Pippa is an older student returning to get her degree and the two fall in love

- Fluffy Harry Potter au where Hecate frequents nocturne ally for potions ingredients.

- Hicsqueak Victorian au

- Flirting / UST

- Heatwave

- Business woman/bakery or tea show owner AU

- Library AU @hovercraft79

- Medical AU

- Teacher/parent au @thegeneralisalive 

- Potions shop / magical pharmacy / similar au

- Soulmate au

- Spies / secret agents au

- Space au

- Princesses AU

AR (Alternate Reality) 

- AU: the thirty years of separation didn't happen, what are their life like now? (Living together, happily married, children?) @captaintangledmess

- Hecate's ~25 years old, she is given one day out of Cackles, what does she do? (Run to Pippa + drama ensues? Go somewhere else? Try to get Pippas help and they live happily ever after?)

- A canon-divergance AU where Pippa does end up with Ada's job in s2 and they have to work as a team. Lots of angst material there

- Pre-Spelling Bee and ignoring the whole stupid s3 confinement plot. Hecate and Pippa run into each other over the years at events, conferences, etc. @pellucidthings

- Hecate gives up her magic to restore the founding stone at the end of s2 @amillionmillionvoices

- AU where Hecate DOES show up to the broomstick waterskiing display, but someone sabotages her broom, and she crashes. Lots of #feelings and Hicsqueak hurt/comfort

- Tattooed!Hecate AU where Pippa has no idea that almost every inch of her is inked until she undresses her for the first time... @maybemoira / MauraMae

- AU where Hecate’s ‘confinement’ is because she’s a werewolf. @maybemoira

Gen

- Gen-Hecate, she discovers she has a sister 

- Hecate tutoring Mildred without being prompted or ordered to do so.

- Hecate supporting Maud during a difficult time @marvelousmadmadammim

- How Pippa came to found her school 

- Dimity being a friend to Hecate after the events of s3

- Dimity and Pippa becoming friends at a staff party or conference 

- A student comes out to Hecate, and she has to figure out how to handle it/how much to reveal about her own life

- 5 people Pippa came out to over the years (bonus + 1 she didn’t) @shafeferi 

Lyrics/Quotes

- Bastille's song JOY. Either take a line or just the song in general

- ‘But I'm on my way back home / It's been hard to be away’ (Dying Day- Brandi Carlile.)

- Interpret the poem "One-Act Play In Which Not All Problems Can Be Solved, & Not All Problems Are Problems, But Even So, Some Are" by Dalton Day, for Hicsqueak in light of S3, especially the bit that goes "ME: I have hands. You said you are scared of things like hands. Are you scared of my hands? YOU: Yes. ME: You have hands, too. Are you scared of your hands? YOU: Yes. ME: What if we traded hands?"

- Take the poem "One-Act Play In Which We Float Facedown In the Center Of A Lake, A Position Known As The Dead Man's Float" by Dalton Day as your starting point. Make me cry.

- Baby take me outside / kiss me in the moonlight / i just want you to touch me / i don't wanna waste no time (léon - surround me)

- I am no good at goodbyes / i never was and i don't know why / tell me, tell me that it was love / that it was real, remember all / that you have me if you still want me / baby, i'm no good at goodbyes / i never was and i don't know why (léon - no goodbyes)

- Want You Back by HAIM

- Supercut by Lorde

- ‘Will you lie here for me?’ (Lizzie)

- ‘She’s seen the pain that comes with your displeasure’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Maybe some day I’ll walk in the open’ (Lizzie)

- ‘They tried to keep me down, but I said no’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Let me tell you losing is not a game I play’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I sit here in the darkness, waiting for the light’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I know I got ‘em beat’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Watch me fly away’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Maybe some day I’ll walk in the open’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Maybe some day we’ll tell the world’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Into your wildest dreams I’ll fly’ (Lizzie)

- ‘You’ll see my face in every night sky’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Lock away your secrets, lock away my life’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I was a trembling child’ (Lizzie)

- ‘But now I see my troubled soul reflected’ (Lizzie)

- ‘What I don’t see can never hurt me’ (Lizzie)

- ‘But I’m more afraid to stay’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Settle cozy dark as sleep’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I want to sleep with my eyes half open’ (Lizzie)

- ‘You didn’t choose what side you’re on’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I’m standing looking forward in the dark’ (Lizzie)

- ‘It’s just us girls’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Don’t let them see how the fire burns’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Who told you that?!’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Will you bite through the skin to the sweet truth within?’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Will you stay?’ (Lizzie)

- ‘In every room a prisoner of a long silent war’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Sometimes you say the words, but this is not love’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I know if I stay here longer it’s gonna turn out bad’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Would you let me comfort you, if you knew?’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I can barely breath tonight’ (Lizzie)

- ‘A secrets just a lie’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Every night I dream of you’ (Lizzie)

- ‘The violence of freedom’ (Lizzie)

- ‘My silver wings are pinioned with green gold’ (Lizzie)

- ‘I feel myself disintegrating’ (Lizzie)

- ‘Oh that I had wings like a dove’ (Lizzie)

Smut/NC17

- Pippa persuading and watching Hecate touch herself

- Hecate’s first visit to an “adult” toy store with Pippa as an equally wide-eyed guide.

- Pippa telling Hecate all the dirty things she wants to do to her

- Hicsqueak smut, not first time, they're both happy and confident in their sexuality and relationship

- Dom!Hecate has Pippa in "detention" 

- Cuddle sex

- Angry sex

- Kisses/hugging/sexy times

- Pippa buying lingerie for Hecate and telling her how much she'd love for her to wear it // she does

- Hecate’s first time

- Hecate stripping for Pippa, feat. a nervous Hecate and a reassuring Pippa who has Hecate on her lap as soon as she can.

- Pippa calling Hecate "Good girl", Hecate calling Pippa "Miss Pentangle" during sex.

- 5 times hecate went down on Pippa

- "I hate this dress." / "then take it off me."

- Dom!Pippa telling Hecate when she can/can't cum - up to you if Hecate does or doesn't do as shes told.

ART

- Kisses! Sweet, passionate, you name it, any kiss. but Hicsqueak art of kisses would be really nice.

- Doctor Who AU

- MERMAIDS!

- Pirates @kayryn

- Space commanders (Star Trek/Star Wars)

- Crime syndicate

- Hecate stripping for Pippa, feat. a nervous Hecate and a reassuring Pippa who has Hecate on her lap as soon as she can.

- Street racers

- Middle earth

- Westeros @kayryn

- Pippa and Hecate dancing.

- Skyrim

- Georgian Era @kayryn

- Bus drivers (bus driver... what bus driver?)

- Cooking a full English breakfast together

- Afternoon tea @merricatsgarden

- Hecate's first trip to the beach, with Pippa

- Sunbathing

- "I don't think I ever stopped waiting for you."

- Swimming

- Swimming in a moonlit pond/pool. @merricatsgarden

- Stargazing

-  Adult Hecate standing between Pippa and some idiot man/Headbroom trying to hurt her

- Want You Back by HAIM

- Supercut by Lorde

- Forehead kisses

- Hicsqueak kissing under the mistletoe (I know it's not really that time of the year sorry)

- Hicsqueak wedding

- Hicsqueak flying together on a broom

[bonnissance]

Hicsqueak + 41!

‘YOU DID WHAT?!’

‘Let Mildred clean the storage cupboard,’ Pippa says with half a shrug, her hands relaxed in her lap as she sits before the mirror. ‘It was half a term away from a pigsty and I thought it would be a good opportunity for her to familiarise herself with next years ingredients, let her start catching up a bit earlier so she wouldn’t be so far behind when classes start again.’

Hecate pinches the bridge of her nose, headache forming behind her eyes.

This is exactly the kind of trouble Hecate knew was going to happen, once Cackle’s agreed to a student exchange of sorts, to send a representative from each year to Pentangle’s, and vice versa, and Mildred Hubble of all people had aced the test Dimity had set to chose the most appropriate student.

But had anyone listened to her?

No, of course not.

They never do.

But, at least now Pippa would know what Hecate is talking about whenever she began to rant and rage and worry about the most chaotic energy their school had ever seen. At least now Pippa would understand.

Surely?

‘She did a marvellous job,’ Pippa says, beaming.

Or maybe not.

part (ii) (iii)

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Pippa Pentangle, head of her year, ace athlete, excels in all studies, pretends to be bad at potions so she can convince that aloof genius and loner , Hecate Hardbroom, to spend time with her being Pippas tutor.

[anamneseverge]

✵ — THE PRECIPICE NARROWS, ENVOYS.

It’s time to announce the results of this month’s activity check! Under the cut is a list of characters who were dropped this activity check. If you're seeing your muse on the list, it means that you were either unable to make activity or didn't turn in an activity form at all. 

Please remember that Anamnese Verge is still in the midst of a member freeze! Dropped characters can be reapplied as usual by members, however: this is only if you have at least one other character in the group. If your only character was dropped this month, we unfortunately will not be able to accept new apps from you until the end of our member freeze. We still do not have an estimated date in mind for that—keep an eye on our Twitter for future updates. As always, applying dropped characters is on a first come, first serve basis. 

Additionally, we have updated the password on our RULES page.

Ace Attorney

Trucy Wright

Arknights

Ch’en

Hoshiguma

Bang Dream! Girls Band Party

Kaoru Seta

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Usagi Tsukino

Bleach

Sarugaki Hiyori

Blood Blockade Battlefront

Edith (OC)

Castlevania

Vlad “Dracula” Tepes

Critical Role

Caleb Widogast

Danganronpa

Ibuki Mioda

Miu Iruma

DC Comics

Jonathan Crane

Dragon Age

Marian Hawke

Dragonball

Broly

Fate/

Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov (Caster)

Jeanne D’arc (Alter)

Olgamarie Animusphere

Final Fantasy

Aranea Highwind

Fordola rem Lupis

Ignis Scientia

Fire Emblem

Ike

Dorothea Arnault

Ghost of Tsushima

Jin Sakai

Granblue Fantasy

Gran

Lucilius

Hotline Miami

Biker

Hunter x Hunter

Kurapika

Hypnosis Microphone

Ramuda Amemura

iDOLiSH7

Banri Ogami

Momose Sunohara

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Trish Una

Kamen Rider

Aruto Hiden

Kingdom Hearts

Mara (OC)

Literary Stray Dogs

Chuuya Nakahara

Miraculous Ladybug & Chat Noir

Adrien Agreste (Chat Noir)

My Hero Academia

Himiko Toga

Original Characters

Enyo Megalos

Nocturne Avila

Pac Man

Orson

Persona

Kasumi Yoshizawa

Minako Arisato

Yusuke Kitagawa

Promare

Galo Thymos

Promise of Wizard

Bradley Bain

Cain

Mithra

Nero Turner

Oz

Snow

RWBY

Nora Valkyrie

Pyrrha Nikos

Salem

Summer Rose

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

Fumi Yumeoji

Super Mario Bros.

Luigi Mario

Mario Mario

Tales of Berseria

Eizen

Twisted Wonderland

Azul Ashengrotto

Floyd Leech

Lilia Vanrouge

Malleus Draconia

Vil Schoenheit

Undertale

Chara

Vanitas no Carte

Vanitas

Worst Witch

Pippa Pentangle

Your Turn to Die

Joe Tazuna

Zero Escape

Carlos