#dealing with dead people

[breelandwalker]

I wonder sometimes how witches who insist that unwarded home are just open season for spirits must view non-witchy homes. Like do they think that these places are just riddled with ghosts and spirits and bad energy because no one is regularly cleansing or casting protective spells?

I wonder if it's something that crosses their minds or if they reflect on the broader implications of the idea that an unwarded home is automatically going to attract spirits and whatnot. Or maybe they don't think about the concept outside of witchcraft-related applications, I don't know.

Moreover, I wonder where they're getting these ideas and whether it's all just influenced by ghost shows and the plethora of Warren Bullshit that floats about the community.

No shade or anything, it's just something I think about whenever these conversations come up.

[resvarie]

inevitable anders dragon age qifrey wha cover redraw

[dcxdpdabbles]

Bruce: I want to let you know that I am entirely on board with welcoming Danny Fenton into this family.

Tim: You want to adopt my friend Danny?

Bruce: No, I don't want to adopt your special friend. I'm talking about the other way to join a family.

Tim.: Ohhhhh. He's your illegitimate son.

Bruce: No, he is not.

Tim: Well, if he wasn't born into the family and you're not adopting him, how else would he join?

Bruce: I mean, it's more of a union of families. Do you get what I'm saying?

Tim: Oh! You mean you want me to have him sign a business contract!

Bruce: No! I mean-

Alfred: Master Bruce! We agree to let Master Tim figure this out on his own! He's in a critical stage of life, and he needs. His. Own. Space!

Bruce: But-but he's not connecting the dots! It's fusterating to watch!

Tim: OH! you mean marriage!

Bruce relieved: YES! You get it!

Tim side eyeing him: Bruce...Danny is too young for you.

Bruce: You do NOT get it.

Tim: Hmmmm oh! *Snaps fingers* You want him to marry one of your kids! I could introduce him to Jay but the thought....makes me angry. So I won't.

Bruce: Why? Why would that make you angry?

Tim thinking: Cause I don't want Danny dating any my siblings. I want him to......

Bruce: Yes?

Tim: I want him to be happy forever! *Runs off* I will make sure he never dates someone who will break his heart as his best friend. It's my duty!

Bruce: *Muffled screams of frustration into nearby pillow*

Alfred: Now you know how I felt when you used to bring Mister Dent around.

Bruce: This is terrible. How did you handle it?

Alfred: I suffered until you figured it out sometime in your twenties.

Bruce: It's going to take that long!?

[daisukemouthwashin]

my prediction is that muu will not be doing so hot this trial

[technically-human]

okay now please doodle Charles and Edwin’s wedding. Also love your art it’s so cute and loveable in a way

Sherwani for Charles and morning dress for Edwin, yay

ko-fi

And you get a little headcanon/concept

At some point during their friendship, way before Port Townsend, Charles mentioned the tradition of wearing gold at weddings. He did so in a sad sort of way, as he had seen the pictures from his parents wedding, and knew her mum had not been allowed to wear a lehenga nor many gold accessories.

Maybe, as these things are meant to bring happiness to the couple, he mentions that as a child he believed his parents marriage would have been happier if she wore those things.

Edwin starts to collect gold items. He doesn't analyze the reason, but if a case offers gold as payment? Edwin is taking it. Charles thinks nothing of it, it's just one of Edwin's quirks.

After his revelations in Port Townsend, Edwin will eventually realize a few things regarding his gold rush.

And they will have a lot of gold jewlery for their wedding day!

[deadpoets]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[melody-busez]

props to John Doe for being the only character I know of who just casually performed necromancy. he straight up resuscitated Arthur from the witch and they barely mentioned it again. no "came back wrong" trope, Arthur came back completely normal (or, well, as normal as he was before) and in true malevolent fashion he just got back to his feet and walked it off. pop off icon

[vaguely-concerned]

just had the thought 'in the end the most important thing varric taught rook was how to make a home for, with, and in other people' and then I had to go lie down on the floor and clutch at my head in unceasing agony for a few hours, as you may well imagine. hawke and the kirkwall crew........ in the end you kind of saved the world a bit in the most characteristically indirect and chaotic of ways. not by anything in particular that you did or achieved or accomplished (lmao imagine!), but just by -- having existed, and by the love that was always there, despite it all, in all its imperfections, even when no one was saved by it in the end. you're not here right now and you're not quite haunting the narrative but I hear your voices bickering and arguing and laughing from the other room. (and so, I think, does varric. all the time.)

'did you think you mattered, hawke? did you think anything you ever did mattered?' yeah actually, varric says with da2 and keeps saying through the series. you were here. and I loved you. and as it turns out that mattered more than almost anything in the world, no matter how long it lasted or how fucked up it was at the time or what else happens, because varric manages to pass that feeling, that intangible... home, that echo of you all as you were together, that love, hopefully the best parts of it, on to someone else for them to bring with them on their journey, with their family. and maybe the world will be kinder this time. you never know. merrill's line of 'Everything affects everything. We were born, a bunch of things happened, and now we're in a mess with our friends.' varric's greatest fear of becoming his parents. even through the wreck and the ruin of the world, ghosts upon ghosts upon ghosts of love -- malcolm hawke, who we never even see, but his life touched hawke's and hawke's touched varric's and varric's touched rook's and rook is passing it on to the family they're creating. the unbroken legacy of love shines through in ways that are stronger and stranger than any magic. help

[breelandwalker]

Ghost-Be-Gone Powder

Intent: To banishing interloping spirits.

Ingredients:

2 pt Angelica Root

2 pt Basil (any type)

1 pt White Oak Bark

1 pt White Willow Bark

1⁄2 pt Bloodroot**

1⁄2 pt Black Salt

1⁄2 pt Sandalwood (if desired)

Note: Powdered versions of most herbs are available online. I recommend Starwest Botanicals and Penn Herbs for quality products at reasonable prices. Also, if you can get your hands on a good electric spice grinder, you can make your own powder from dried herb products.

If you don't have premade powdered herbs, grind each ingredient separately to produce fine powder. Sieve the material through a mesh strainer into a collection dish; this removes the larger unground pieces and gives you cleaner powdered herb. (Pro-Tip: Putting a funnel under the mesh strainer reduces lost material and makes collection much easier.)

Combine the component powders in the collection dish, mix well, and bottle immediately. Label with the name, date, and ingredients for future reference.

Use in magics intended to remove troublesome spirits from your home. Sprinkle in the corners of each room, and across thresholds and windowsills to banish unwanted spirits and prevent their return.

Cast a few pinches of Ghost-Be-Gone Powder out your front door or on your doorstep after performing a home cleansing or banishing ritual to help keep your home free of uninvited spirits. Keep a bottle of the powder in troublesome areas to help reduce problems with mild to moderate hauntings and make any spirits who wander in easier to remove. Including the powder in regular cleansing rituals also helps to keep out all but the most determined metaphysical pests.

Add a small amount of Sandalwood or your preferred incense powder to create a burnable mix for smoke-cleansing purposes. Be sure to ventilate your home well after censing as part of a spell or ritual. (Censing or heavy smoke-cleansing are not recommended for homes with pets, small children, or persons with respiratory ailments. Always let caution and common sense prevail when planning your workings.)

-adapted from Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils, (c) 2017 by Bree NicGarran

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[herenya-writes]

hello i am once again thinking about clones and the impossibly complicated feelings they (Cody) must have around Jango Fett. that's Prime. and most of it's going under a cut because there are a grand total of two people in this world who give a shit about any of this but my brain would not let me rest until it existed on the screen

that's the guy. the one so perfectly forged for war and your life purpose that they made a million just like him. he is literally everything you could ever want, hope, dream, aspire, strive, bleed bleed bleed to be.

he's not your dad because dads are something that people have, and you're not really a person. you were born from a tube alongside hundreds of the same face but sometimes you look up through the windows and you see your face reflected back, older. kinder? distant. too distant to matter.

he's not your dad and you aren't a person, but you could have been. you know you could have been because little Boba Fett is a person. he has a name, first and last. he has a dad. he looks just like you but he is better. worthier. loved.

firmly in headcanon territory here but maybe Prime isn't just a distant figure for you. maybe he's the first person who you told your name to. maybe he taught you how to throw a punch. maybe he beat you bloody and raw and you silently thanked him for it because every time you fell you rose more perfect, more whole, more like him. maybe there were moments when you thought that maybe you were a person because he looked at you with a kind of sadness that can only come when someone loses someone they love.

and yet.

one day Prime leaves. you go back to training, to molding your hand to the shape of a blaster's grip and your body to the shape of a GAR-issued cot. you fight and learn and bleed and salute and march and train and you are everything the Kaminoans promised and more. Prime might have forged himself in the heat of battle time and again, but you have improved on the old formula. you cannot surpass Prime (he is a person, and you are not) but you know your hands are faster and your heart beats stronger.

and then comes the red dust of a distant campaign. maybe you weren't there. maybe you were on the other side of the planet or stuck behind rain-blasted walls parsecs away. but whether or not you saw doesn't change the truth (you need to be a person to be a witness) that Prime chose the other side. you, for whom loyalty to the Republic comes before all else, learn that the man whose face you wear did not choose to stand beside you.

between one breath and the next that will never come, a Jedi with a sword straight from legends (from flash modules) separates Jango Fett's head from his shoulders and Prime dies. ignoble.

a week later you salute your Jedi. crisp. clean. perfect. loyalty in your blood and the thump of a thousand synchronous footsteps rattling your sternum.

what is the legend of Prime? what does it mean that you never say his name? at night, if you dream, do you dream of the buzz of plasma over your skin? or the impact of a blaster, unerringly aimed at your own weathered face?

[suspicious-scarecrow]

2022 Cagney doodle

[spacedlexi]

"sounds nice... having a partner"

[soup-child]

The fact that Adaine "i don't know if im asexual im 15" Abernant and Riz "why is everyone so horny im definately aroace" Gukgak both being in the same show is incredibly important to me

[l0vely-w0undss]

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

I am well aware of the content on my page, but I hope it is very clear where I stand as a victim of CSA.

I hope any other survivors that follow me know that they are seen here, and that surviving sometimes doesn’t look pretty, but what matters is that you are still here.

Life gets better, and you deserve the peace you will eventually have.

Know you are loved, always.

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

there are one billion more important things to be annoyed about but also. what do people think 'amadeo had a skill' is referring to. like genuinely what. did you cover your ears and hum during the Louvre monologue. like a SIGNIFICANT part of his backstory is that he's good at sex and good at making his partners feel good, it was actually Really Important for him to be good at that if he wanted to survive. and that doesn't get negated by him being evil (which he is). like--okay, whatever, actually. aargh. moving on.

[alexwilltellyouthings]

*walking around in my house talking loudly to myself* but also we have to consider they likely felt jealous of each other before, charles even recognizes edwin's jealously immediately when crystal is there, so during the whole season not only charles probably assumes edwin's jealously is platonic as it had always been, but also reassures him multiple times he's still the priority and that helps edwin warm up to crystal and not see her as a too much of a threat, EVEN after knowing they kissed, because the important thing is being sure of his place beside charles.

also that probably means charles may even know that what he felt towards monty was jealously but, then again, platonic, because why would it be romantic? how do you know the difference really between that and the fear of being left out, which is exactly what monty was doing to him? *gestures frantically*