#kookie tarot

[adorastarot]

will 3d be successful?

Hi lovely anon! How are you? Thank you so much for sending in your ask and allowing me to dig a bit deeper into this!

♡ This reading has a follow-up reading for Ko-fi monthly members [view here] -How does JK feel about 3D?

Will 3D be successful?

Justice, 7 of swords, 9 of cups in reverse

The song will be successful because it’s JK’s, but if the question is “will the song be successful outside of the fanbase” then the answer is…not so much. I don’t know…people will definitely like the song, we will be able to tell that he worked hard on it - we know that he works hard on everything. There may be some shady characters involved in this or shady people that will end up surrounding him after the release of the song?! There’s just something off in this reading when it comes to the success of the song…

[thescribeoflostmemories]

Random Idea, what if

Pierro- the magician (1)

Dottore- High priest(ess)(2)

Columbina- The empress(3)

Capitano- Emperor(4?)

Pulcinella- Heirophant (5)

Scaramouch ??? - The lovers (6)

Sandrone- Chariot (7th)

La signora- Justice/strength(8)

pantalone- Hermit (9th)

Arlecchino- wheel of fortune (10)

childe- Justice/ strength (11)

What do you guys think???

[trashbinbackyard]

6 - The lovers

The Chained inn was the best place amidst the hustle and bustle of the bazaar to find privacy and sunlight. The fact that they also served fresh coffee and lokma was a bonus, but she wasn’t here to appreciate the locale or the offerings. She was waiting for someone, someone she hasn’t seen face to face in a decade.

Their dealings often led them away from each other, it wasn’t that sparsely they were separated for months at a time. But a decade… Time flew by so fast, sometimes it felt like the world around her moved at a faster pace than her, which must've been a side effect of her lived age. 

She hadn’t changed much, the white in her hair claims more space on her head, old pains flare up every now and then, she’s still the same image of a woman she was ten years ago. She had set up a house in Nia Vasileos, and continued her research with the help of two very esteemed institutions, or rather their archives, where she technically wasn’t allowed to go in, but no one needed to know.

She had gathered enough material to fill a journal with runes, excerpts and archaic texts in languages from before the rupture. She had been studying it all morning in preparation.

He should be here soon, she had left him ample clues and a time where to find her, he enjoyed the challenge, to keep that old brain of his working, and the prepare him for the task at hand. They’d need to search every nook and cranny of the city for whatever their patrons are looking for, and as cryptic as they always tend to be, they had little to go off on.

A familiar sense tingled in her brain, a touch of psionic energy she knew well.

"I missed you." His voice echoed in her head, he was near already if he could make the connection.

She lifted her eyes from her journal and scanned the room vigilantly. It was her turn to play. Now where was he…

He was stupidly good at hiding in plain sight, but luckily for her she had a knack for picking up on traces of magic. Their wedding bands were enchanted, and if he wished to sleep on the bed tonight he should be wearing it. 

Hints of magic floated in the inn, nothing yet quite as bright as she knew the ring would be. But then… His magic’s signature bright orange light shining through a black glove, on a hand holding a branch of amaranth. 

He had established a mind link announcing his presence, so she could reply back.

“I see you, you scoundrel. I’ve missed you too.” She thought warmly, turning her gaze back to her journal to find the right page. 

 His shadow crept on the table as he sat down beside her. He set the branch of amaranth on her tea plate and placed his hand on top of hers.

She closed her eyes and leaned her head on his shoulder. He smelled like oranges and cedarwood, just like she remembered.

“You’ve kept yourself busy,” there’s a hint of amusement in his voice

She merely hummed in response, suddenly oh-so-tired. She wanted to stay like this longer, her cheek on his soft wool coat, taking in him and the touch of his hand on hers. But they will have plenty of time to catch up later. Some matters she’s found were quite urgent and why she did call on him to join her here.

“There’s something over this city, I can feel the pull on the weave, something is here that is not supposed to,” she nodded towards the filled spread, a web of runes, names, titles, “I can’t make sense of this city, maybe you’ll be able to. And if you’ve missed high society… now's your chance to make use of that silver tongue of yours”.

“Aw, you need me to talk to people for you?”

She was never the social one, the ten years she spent mostly on her own, with only brief acquaintances to map  out her surroundings. She knew he would slip into the city’s hidden inner circles with ease.

“That. And to accompany me to an obelisk, there’s something carved on it that has made me bang my head against the stone for a while now. I'm sure it’ll lead somewhere, I need your fresh set of eyes.”

“What is this? Archmage Harrow unable to decipher a glyph? My, the world really did end.”

“You know what, to this day I think,I would not have considered partnering up with you in a past life, or if the circumstances didn’t force us, you’re insufferable”, she snapped and then paused, “Sometimes” she lifted her hand to pat him on the cheek, and scratched his stubble that he for sure groomed before coming here.

“Isn’t fate and chance funny like that”, he turns his head to look at her, “it’s a good thing we grew on each other yeah? Couldn’t think of a better person to be trapped with.”

She shot him a glaring side-eye, they’ve been through this already and by now she knows he’s merely joking.

“Aaand, couldn’t think of a better person to bless me with her arcane gifts…” he draws his sentence out.

She turned her head towards him and raised an eyebrow, challenging him to finish his thought. 

“...that will keep be unharmed and—”

“The obelisk,” she interrupted him and flipped her journal shut, sandwiching his fingers between the covers.

[cissa-calls]

Reflecting on the scene of young Lilia in a gown the color of goldenrods in bloom and sunshine, racing to meet her teacher and begin learning what it is to be a witch. Learning what would have been the end, her end, was heartbreaking yet healing. She was full of anticipation and ambition and life, before the weight of prosecution, guilt for having predicted and watched her coven die, and having to bury her magic (once her source of power) became known. When she stays behind to trap the Salem Seven, she tells Jen with more love and conviction that she has spoken in the entire show:

“I loved being a witch”

Lilia finally realizes her path, steps and accepts what it means to know herself. To practice witchcraft, as proved in the trial by reading her own tarot instead of Billy’s, divination is not only more than kooky sector of the craft, but an act of her agency. An extension of herself. She can relinquish guilt and shame, but doesn’t grieve, despite only realizing this when her time seems to be running out. After all,

“The flow of time is an illusion”

When Lilia let go of the table in the trial room, falling in a gown evoking a character who represents all things good and dressed once again as a queen of cups, she is floating, flying. She is more than a batty woman. She is a cunning witch, and she always will be. So, while Death is guaranteed, it is not the end. That’s why the end of the episode is the earliest we see young Lilia. Her life is a tapestry, not a timeline. The cycle repeats and life goes on, as her mentor says:

“Let us begin.”

[agatharkn3ss]

Lilia's premonitions theory (contains spoilers)

Well, my brain has been in overdrive and I love puzzles so... "buckle up!"

If it's too long for you - you can jump straight into the last section titled "How does it all fit"... I really think there could be something there.

OTHER THEORIES

There have been many theories about Lilia's powers and her moments of visions. Some think it's just some loose wiring on most part, some think it's past traumatic events catching up with her, some think they are predictions of the future, some even went as far as suggesting that Lilia (loosely) predicts the last words of the next person who's going to die (based on the fact she said "Get off me!" in ep.2 and we hear Sharon shout "Don't touch me!" in ep.3). But we keep seeing more and more of Lilia's blips in ep.4, they make less sense to any of the above theories, so personally I am not sold on any of them.

There is also a possibility that her premonitions could just be linked to the events that follow - but the words aren't accurate because Lilia can't quite see the "full picture". So her screaming in her shop could be linked to Teen's reaction when Salem Seven attacked in that same episode. Or when she says "Alice, don't", we see Agatha pleading "Don't" with Rio.

BUT then I saw people discussing that maybe these are actually "misplaced" moments in time - from the future AND the past. And that they will make sense if they were said in the correct moment, but somehow got lost and sent to a different time. For example - when Lilia talks about the vampire by the campfire "You know, we really kind of hated each other in the beginning, but now..." then zones out. We could assume she's still talking about the vampire, but this pause could actually be easily filled with "I love you guys!" from the "botox" scene in ep.3, because she was actually touched by their campfire stories. Or when she shouts "Get off me" in ep.2, it could be taken right out of the ep.4 scene where she's burning on the floor, shouting "Get it off me!".

WHAT WE KNOW

All those theories got me mighty intrigued, so of course I made a list of all of Lilia's apparent 'blips' and tried to make sense of it! I believe there are two types of Lilia's visions - one where she has "wrong messages" and one where she exclaims names of tarot cards.

The tarot cards she mentioned so far:

Three of Pentacles - right after she wrote the coven names down

High Priestess - when she meets Jen at Agatha's house

Three of Swords - as Jen is trying to heal Teen

The "blips" are:

shouting and flailing her hands - when Agatha and Teen ask her to join the coven in ep.2

writing the coven names (same scene as above) - this is the only premonition where we see burst of power - the electricity flicker around her, the water boils and it all seems really intense.

shouting "Get off me!" and looking like she was pushing someone away - just before the witches begin summoning the Road

"I love you guys" - when Jen questions Sharon about her poison symptoms in ep.3

"Try to save Agatha" - when she and Agatha are searching for potion ingredients

"Which is it, am I wispy or am i kooky?" - when talking to Alice about her mum during the trial in ep.4

"Alice! Alice don't" - shortly after the one above

Zones out - during the campfire scene when she talks about the vampire scar

We also know that her Air trial will be all about tarot (confirmed by Patti herself) and the promos show Lilia in some sort of princess dress and tiara, Agatha as the green Wicked Witch of the West and Jen looking like the Evil Queen from Snow White but in the old hag form. This makes me think in her trial she will have to confront all those stereotypes about witches that she always said she hated so much. She will likely have to do a tarot reading too. There is also a room with ceiling full of swords that could fall down on them. And finally, in that same room there is a brief shot with her and Salem Seven, flowing mid-air.

One promo also shows one of Salem Seven (Vertigo) opening her mouth to release a swarm of cicadas (her spirit animal).

We know the witches slowly regain their powers once they passed their trial.

There is also this thing about Alice (I will need to make a separate post to explain this) - where my prediction is that in ep.5 she will try to protect the coven by attacking Agatha while she's in her "possessed" form. Unfortunately, Agatha will (willingly or not) completely syphon her powers and Alice will die.

HOW DOES IT ALL FIT?

Well. I think we will potentially get some answers during or after Lilia's trial, once she starts regaining her powers. I think Lilia will try to send a message to the witches in the past, but she will still be struggling with getting the times right.

I could almost see a scene where she sits at her crystal ball or does a tarot reading and talks, not realising that EVERYTHING she says is "sent out" without any filter.

Something like...

.........

Lilia is in a room with other witches, it is a high pressure situation because the Salem Seven are chasing them. Her task is to send the names of the witches to her past self so that Agatha can form her coven - they realised that without the list, they would've never gotten there. Maybe their existence or memory depends on it.

So Lilia starts a tarot reading and begins "tuning in" to her memories, saying the names of the revealed cards out loud - "High Priestess" (she says it in a surprise voice as her vision suddenly flickers to the moment of meeting Jen), "Three of Swords" etc. Maybe one of other witches in the room starts antagonising her kookiness, so that she would just hurry up, because this is not working and Salem Seven are close. So Lilia responds in annoyance "Which is it, am I wispy or am I kooky?!" But then she realises she is standing in front of Alice from the fire trial (in spirit anyway, Lilia is still physically in the scary room). She exclaims in relief "Alice!" and realises this is also her chance to warn Alice so that she doesn't die. She begins saying "Alice, don't try to save Agatha!", but mid way through, her spirit gets transported to the first trial, searching for potion ingredients. So Alice only hears "Alice don't..." and Agatha hears "...try to save Agatha". At some point Lilia is transported to sitting in front of the campfire, reminiscing their stories. This is a fond memory so she starts saying "You know, we really kind of hated each other in the beginning, but now.." and before she can finish, she gets transported back to the "Huge tiny lies" house "...I love you guys".

Maybe at some point Salem Seven break their way into the tarot room and one of them attacks Lilia. She screams "Get off me!" and pushes them away (while her spirit is transported to the moment before they opened the Road). Vertigo releases her cicadas, flying around Lilia's head. She flails her hands and screams, while her spirit is inside her shop where Agatha and Teen just approach her. She realises she's close, focuses all her energy and channels her spirit to write the list of names herself. It takes enormous effort to stay focused on that one moment, hence the energy around her is bursting. She either doesn't have enough time to finish writing Rio's name or feels cheeky and draws a black heart instead. She finishes by revealing and naming the last tarot card: "Three of Pentacles". She completes the task, the End!

....

So..... What does everyone think?!!!!!!

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Exploring Lilia

Lilia as a character is fascinating, and her final episode was so much more beautifully emotionally charged than I was ready for.

Looking at the fourth trial, I wanted to understand what it meant for Lilia. Obviously the tarot cards were a test of her divination, but I was curious why the room made her and the others wear pop culture witch costumes. Plenty of people pointed out the symbolism of what each costume meant for each person, but it doesn't explain why these costumes were assigned for Lilia's trial specifically. Lilia was the most passionate about her distain for these caricatures, because they were based on inaccurate stereotypes and made witches look like a joke and a menace in the public eye.

Then it hit me; they're dressed like this because that's how they are viewed by others. Lilia's room is a reflection of external conceptions on who they are as people because of their power and culture. And in Lilia's case, the perception hits all too close to home.

"Guys, Lilia's being weird again!"

"By your prodding, Dory"

"Lilia, where do you go?"

Throughout the show, Lilia has been treated like a joke. She forgets everything, gets mistaken as senile, and she says funny things that never get taken seriously because that's just Lilia having another divination episode. She's seen as "kooky and wispy" because of her power, to the point where she believes herself to be a forgotten woman. An older woman who can't seem to get her head on straight. A joke. So what does her trial dress the coven up as? Caricatures, mockeries of their true nature. It's how the world views Lilia, and it's how Lilia has come to view herself.

But then there's a shift, a turning point in her story where rather than reject the trial's transformation, Lilia accepts it. When the pieces finally connect for her, she's still in that costume but it doesn't take away from her focus, her power. The costume becomes less a mockery and starts to look more beautiful and noble the longer Lilia wears it (which is how Glinda the Good was viewed in her story, gorgeous and regal). Lila embodies the spirit of Glinda the more she takes control of the situation and connects her flashes of memory to complete the trial. The costume no longer makes her look like a joke, because she makes it so.

For so long no one could understand Lilia because of her craft. She experiences time in its true form, not as a linear flow but as an ever-present existence of all that was and all that ever will be. For years this was her curse, a mortal in connection with the true form of time isn't meant to handle it well, but in that room she realizes her fractured existence isn't truly fractured, it's unbound. She has a gift, and it's one that she needs to work in tandem with, not against. Lilia unites the non-linear pieces to make herself whole, and for the first time in her life the dress finally fits.

It's the heartbreaking nature of the seer that the others will never fully understand what Lilia witnessed to save them, they'll always remember her in that costume without understanding why she was placed in it to begin with, but it's beautiful because she realized she didn't need to be understood fully by them or the world. She just needed to understand herself.

And when she dies, she's embraces herself fully. All that she is, the parts of her that are kooky and wispy, the parts of her sporadic and non-linear nature that she's hated herself for for so long; she embraces it. The joke and the costume are and have always been part of her, but that's no longer a bad thing. It's what she makes of it now, and no one can take that from her anymore.

Lilia Calderu dies in that dress, a remembered woman. Powerful, and whole. The witch she was always meant to be.

[riverssongs13]

First, let's just get this out of the way for I'm still seething about the storytelling mess that was Familiar By Thy Side (and parts of Darkest Hour). I want to appreciate the fact that this masterpiece of an episode is more than 10 minutes shorter than the previous one, which had so many unnecessary parts; this half hour of an emotional roller coaster ride has done so much more to progress the ENTIRE show's plot. We finally pieced the puzzle of Lilia's kookiness and her "jumps". We got so much more Teen lore from this than the Teen episode itself. We now have resolution to all the (previous) trials, Alice's… state, Rio's real identity, Jen's importance… We even dealt with the damned Salem Seven as a bonus. So many things happened but it was not overwhelming at all. If this were a suit I'd say it's bespoke indeed.

Now, what I truly loved about this episode is how it was able to paint a non-linear narrative with so much finesse, with each twist and turn taking us to different parts of a single timeline, without making it nauseating, all while pulling the threads to secure the stitches in place and make sure the seams are tight without it puckering. Like embroidery that adds patterns on different areas, we finally sew it all up to see the final tapestry.

The whole fandom has definitely theorised all about how Lilia's weird "inserts" are connected, each episode giving us more pieces to make sense of. But of course it feels infinitely better seeing it ourselves, and how they make up a whole linear timeline in Lilia's mind-POV, while Agatha and the gang are left confused with the breadcrumbs of phrases left for them at different intervals. I absolutely loved how this time discrepancy was used. No more boring-ass unnecessary flashbacks filled with drivel. This time, the past is completely enmeshed with the present, and is used to decide on what's needed to be done to get the desirable future outcome.

This "time is non-linear, it exists simultaneously at all points" phenomenon has certainly been used in countless other media (Fringe and its Observers come to mind), but I love how actively Lilia used it. Her being in that tea-leaf reading lesson held so much significance to her as a Trial Subject, as a Coven Member, and as an Individual Witch. Her time in the gazebo reminds me of The Time Traveller's Wife; existing in all the times, getting sent and pulled back and sent again.

That gazebo was both her prison and her escape. Being stuck in that place made her think her life is a rigid series of unfortunate events, and she can't do anything but be helpless in the face of tragedies that befall everyone she ever cares about. Having had the power to see the future yet be unable to prevent her original coven's death perpetuated her self-depreciation, thus she spent 450-ish years giving in to the usual witchy tropes and misconceptions (the palm reading and tarot tents and the minor scams here and there, but a girl's got bills, ya know), even if it hurts her in the process.

So then, prison AND escape, right? Being tethered to that specific point in time, with her mentor guiding her path to self-rediscovery, was crucial to Lilia's ability to escape her shackles, because she needed to realise she put the shackles on herself. Having a powerful but dangerous gift and being actively afraid of it is quite the self-fulfilling prophecy of doom. You're scared so you stop using it altogether but then you can't control it so all that suppression does more harm than good (looking at you, Charles. What you did to Jean was cowardice. Also, hello? Elsa??). Lilia exclaiming "I was bad at tea leaves" at her literal first day of training might just have been the reason why she spent her life believing she's bad at it. She planted the very idea in her brain (Inception? lol).

This whole forward and back travel from the Road to the Gazebo is instrumental to Lilia coming to terms with the idea that time for her does not move in a straight line. Her confession to Jen, paired with her mentor's wise words, makes her admit that she does, in fact, have a problem. First step to recovery and all that. This then leads to her unravelling the next layer of her issues, which is death to all she holds dear. Granted, she has seen so much death within her lifetime. 450 years of life would do that to you. Something she cannot possibly control.

But that's the thing, isn't it? She was never supposed to control anything. Her job as a Trial Subject, a Coven Member, and an Individual Witch is to SEE. See the trial with the eyes of 450 years simultaneously happening, the heart of someone who wants to protect her coven, and the power of a witch who can walk through the threads of time's tapestry. Once she sees that, and once she accepts that Death is not a Bad Thing, and once she lets go of control, the pieces started to fall into place.

Which then makes her SEE that she's the Traveller. This tarot reading is about her, and she has been sprinkling the answers throughout her timeline, waiting to be plucked by the Awakened Calderu of Now. Give credence to who she is, and her power that Must Not Be Feared. Recognition that she needs her Coven in order to succeed. Acceptance for what she has lost along the way. Welcoming the path ahead no matter where it leads her. Embracing heartbreak, sorrow, and grief. Undertaking miraculous transformation. And finally, the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning.

How fitting is it that we see the start and realise it was actually the end? The fall, initially thought as something dangerous, was in fact just part of the journey. Death, once feared, now embraced like an old friend. Something that perpetuates the cycle. The past, shrouded in darkness, now illuminating the path ahead.

So now we see, she wasn't actually falling. If you ask me, she was flying. Flying to that gazebo in a garden somewhere in Sicily, 450 years ago, about to start her very first lesson in reading tea leaves. Her mentor saying, "Let us begin", and her ultimately saying, "I loved being a witch".

[tooswcctx]

"You know I love you, Sutton, but here's the thing. I had to cancel a reading to haul my ass over here to make sure you were okay and now you don't want to talk about it?" Freya lifted her brows as she sat forward, giving her a pointed look. "I'm here...tell me what the fuck is going on? Or you know I'll resort to trying to figure it out. myself and we know how that will go."

status: open m/f/nb muse: sutton moore- bisexual- onlyfans creator/ wild child connection: anything, go wild, assume the best/worst.

'i’m not sober enough to talk about this right now. '

[utterlyvertigo]

Down the Witches Road…

The Coven Chapter

Lilia Caledru: Divination

Lilia was well aware of Cassandra’s existence prior to walking the road, and they get along swimmingly. Cassandra really likes Lilia’s company, in all of her kooky glory. As she has done with other coven members, Lilia mentions a tarot card upon meeting Cassandra. This tarot card is the Ace of Cups. Lilia and Cassandra have had a brief interaction before the show, but only via the internet, seeing as Cassandra owns a pair of Lilia’s leggings.

Jennifer Kale: Potions

Jennifer is the only coven member who has any sort of distrust when it comes to Cassandra. This stems from her knowledge of Nicholas Scratch being sacrificed for the Darkhold. Teen takes his query regarding Cassandra to Jen, who has to admit she doesn’t know how Cassandra was created, if she knows anything about her brother, or her intentions. Cassandra thinks Jen is pretty mouthy and very insensitive with her words, but attempts to keep amicable. This went to hell when Jen suggested punishing Agatha for real, Cassandra was the only person who refused to hurt Agatha and leave her with Evanora. Jen blames Cassandra for the death of her coven sister.

Alice Wu Gulliver: Protection

Alice gets along amazingly with Cassandra. Unlike Jen, or Lilia, Alice was totally unaware Agatha ever had a child, and is pleasantly surprised to see that Cassandra isn’t a total psychopath, like Agatha. In Alice’s trial, Cassandra dons a black jumpsuit similar to classic ABBA and she plays the violin. Alice also invites Cassandra to sit with her during the campfire scene at the end of episode 4. She was beyond devastated when Alice died, she screamed and sobbed.

Billy Maximoff/"Teen": Familiar

Teen/Billy is seen as a little brother by Cassandra, seeing as she’s noticed Agatha’s growing soft spot for the boy. The two of them are very friendly with one another, as they are around the same age, or at least they appear to be. Where the Maximoff children were made of chaos magic, which made their aging rapid, Cassandra is made of Lady Death’s magic, which slows her aging by quite a bit. Billy blasted her into the mud first, as she went to protect Agatha.

Mrs Hart Sharon: Dead (I’m not sorry)

Everyone loves Mrs Hart, Cassandra included. Alice and Teen break the news that she passed and Cassandra, unlike Agatha, is actually really shaken up by it, and briefly pays her respects.

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I was gonna wait, but you can have it now x

[lostcryptids]

movies rus and i watched on vacation: - antrum (first of like 4 demon movies we watched, best one out of all of them. though it was just ok. not amazing, not terrible like some people reviewed it to be) - pearl (really good. really liked this one. not as much as X but it also stands on its own and was a lot of fun) - last night with the devil (TERRIBLE!! TERRIBLE POOPY SHIT!!) - bodies bodies bodies (actually way better than i was expecting. we watched it because i thought it would be dumb tiktok shit but it was actually worth a watch and the story was good) - crawl (kooky crazy gator movie, more like a dinosaur movie with the way the gators acted. silly and fun) - creepshow 3 (pretty horrible but i've seen worse. some really funny scenes. not even creepshow a little but not the worst anthology) - fangs (hardly a movie. only thing that made it worth watching was one of the actors being named Whip Hubley so we just laughed at his name for like half the runtime) - tarot (bad. really bad. really stupid. really a waste. love saves the day. stupid ass movie) - alien: romulus (liked it more than i thought! all the characters were awful in various ways but i liked the story and the new xenomorph human hybrid! totally a movie you need to see in theaters and not at home. it was a good theater experience) - it follow (very mixed on this. i like the concept but i think a lot of things were weak....had some great parts at the beginning but begins to fall apart near the end. a lot to unpack with this one though) - ITALIAN STALLION/PARTY AT KITTY AND STUDS (the infamous stallone porno. not a movie really so i don't think i even rate it as such. a bunch of random naked people rolling around on the floor for most of the runtime, but we get to see stallone's dick and balls!!!!!! and that's all that matters!)

[haankkyy]

They're Creepy and They're Kooky

I am genuinely so impressed with this pack! 2 sim days in and I am so engrossed in the gameplay and those tarot cards and the painting of them are my new obsession

[starkdirewolflove]

Agatha All Along Lilia

Lilia is a really interesting character and you have to listen closely to the things she says cos they end up being clues for future episodes. And whenever something dark is about to happen/happening she names a tarot card.

Three of Pentacles: teamwork, collaboration, learning, implementation.

Three of Swords: a fundamentally sorrowful experience.

Knight of Wands: challenge, determination, foreign travel, leadership, unpredictability and a willingness to take on challenges.

The Tower Reversed: a resistance to personal transformation. It signifies a reluctance to embrace change willingly. (Said to William Kaplan before he died and Billy Maximoff took over his body).

And it was Lilia that put the sigil on William/Billy which is why she put a black heart 🖤 on the coven list since she couldn’t use his name (I really did think the heart was Rio).

Stuff Lilia has said:

High Priestess (to Jen).

Get off me.

I love you guys.

Try to save Agatha.

Which is it? Am I wispy or am I kooky?

Alice. Alice, don’t.

You know we really kind of hated each other in the beginning, but now….

[gaykarstaagforever]

I've never liked James Bond movies, other than like two of the Pierce Brosnan ones, and only now because of nostalgia. They're boring when chases aren't happening and too long and his gadgets are unjustifiably impossible and the villains are idiots with stupid schemes, and no one ever just shoots the bastard, leaving him to constantly get out of situations by deus ex machina or blind luck. I don't know what people want from these movies, what makes the "good" ones good or the "bad" ones bad, or why anyone is invested in any of this.

That said, I just watched what is, to me now, the one genuinely good Bond movie: 1973's Live and Let Die.

Bond fights a technologically-advanced drug-dealing voodoo pimp / Caribbean island dictaror, whose evil plan involves giving away a billion dollars of heroin for free. And this plan also involves him somehow successfully killing like 4 secret agents, plus, oh yeah, voodoo and tarot magicks are probably actually real?

This feels like white people mistakenly deciding they know enough about Black people in 1973 to make a movie about their world, and it is exactly as problematic and insane as you'd expect. And I loved every minute of it.

Such gleeful stupidity, done with such a straight face, is a beauty to behold. There is also a 10 minute sequence that is just Smokey and the Bandit, complete with a fat racist idiot Southern sheriff and incompetant Louisiana state police, who get their cars completely destroyed in slapstick comedy wrecks where people crash off ramps into bogs but no one ever gets hurt.

...Except this came out 5 years before Smokey and the Bandit, and maybe the same weekend as the similar White Lightning, so I have no idea who was stealing what from whom. I guess 1973 was just the year to start making fun of Southern law enforcement with funny car accidents.

I'm not complaining. I love this crap. It's just such a specific thing for multiple creatives to seize on at exactly the same moment. I suppose art, like voodoo, is endlessly mysterious.

I got the impression this movie is a critical pariah and was a flop, but neither is true. It made tons of money, and while people in general didn't and don't like Roger Moore as Bond, it seems most people enjoyed the frenetic weirdness going on here.

This was Moore replacing Connery, who set the iconic 1960s Bond bar. Like, hostility to anything new and different was inevitable. I don't feel strongly about Connery's Bond either way, because a lot of those movies are impossibly slow and his charm doesn't redeem them. So I like Moore here. He seems like he's still figuring out how to do the character his way, but that is also inevitable. But he's drool and wry and unflappable, and any lack of charm is fine, considering the movie is far more about jumping from one ridiculous situation to another at a break-neck pace. Bond is really just along for the kooky ride, and Moore manages that.

I love the cars and the costumes. This is peak early 70s, so everything is big and bright primary colors, from the cars to the collars and neckties, to the platform shoes and afro wigs. All the suits have vests. VESTS! The villain dresses his henchmen in bright bluejeans with scarlet polo shirts tucked in. They look like Target associates went rogue. It's beautiful.

Any more analysis of the plot than I've already offered is pointless, because this is a Bond movie. So even at peak wannabe-Blaxploitation goofiness, he's still boldly walking into obvious traps, inappropriately trying to trick certainly-evil women into sleeping with him, and solving every problem with a gimmick watch and desperate flailing that somehow knocks people out.

I don't know why anyone bothers setting elaborate traps for him. Just send a guy to pick him up. He'll know exactly that you've done that and get in the car anyway. That happens twice in this movie! And the same guy is driving!

The watch in this one has an industrial-strength magnet in it, and also the face spins and acts like a tiny buzzsaw. And, fine. That's the right kind of stupid. But how the hell does all that work on tiny watch batteries? I can't forget about that, which is why Bond movies aren't for me. And it makes Bond look bad, because anyone with that watch could probably do exactly what he does. ...Except probably the thing where he uses the magnet to undo the zipper on a woman's dress. That's very specifically a Bond thing, the cheeky predator.

But he's not the only incompetent gadabout, here. Most of the story takes place in the US, and he's working with the CIA. And they are AT LEAST as bad at everything as he is. But they don't have magic watches, so I guess that's why they keep getting stabbed, and poisoned by voodoo snakes, and have to call him in, to do whatever the hell this is:

Jane Seymour is also here. She is a possibly biracial? tarot witch who has virgin powers, and is owned by the Black villain. She gets manhandled and molested all the time, especially by Bond, and his deflowering of her is a major plot point.

As I said before, there are some problematic things going on here.

But the whole affair is so earnestly cheesy and high-energy that it's hard to find fault. They were going for schlock, and they schlocked it. James gets cornered by a hundred people doing a deadly swamp voodoo ritual that involves human sacrifice and a magic robot, and after some of them charge him with machetes, he responds by blindly firing into the crowd and murdering a bunch of them. This culminates with him getting captured by the villain for like the third time, and the guy acts like all this was just part of his plan.

Then Bond wrestles with him a little near a shark tank, but kills him with a Looney Tunes device. 1960s Batman showed more restraint than this. The Austin Powers movies barely referenced this one, because it is already a parody of spy movies. It is a thing of messy, stupid brilliance.

If you don't like Bond movies, this is the Bond movie for you. Everyone can get a laugh out of this, even if they're only laughing at it.

(Also the theme is the best Bond theme ever, but everyone already knows that. It opens the movie with naked women dancing around flaming skulls. That alone probably makes it the best Bond movie.)

[403tarot]

Hello, could you please also do a reading on taehyungs current love life lile you did with kookie please and thank you? 👀💜

KIM TAEHYUNG'S CURRENT LOVE LIFE — 07.23

based on tarot. take everything with a grain of salt.

before starting this reading, i would like to emphasize a few things: firstly, i believe and even made some posts (1 & 2) stating that taehyung was in a relationship with jennie (BLACKPINK). however, in my reading to check who from BTS was in a relationship, taehyung appeared as single.

in a later reading to check his energy, i noticed that taehyung was expecting to resolve things with a special person for him by the end of this month of july. the person had feminine energy, although i didn't share this information in the reading, as i thought it was better to leave it open to interpretation.

i obviously don't know taehyung or jennie, nor am i a fan of either of them. everything i say is based on tarot readings and nothing else. keep that in mind. this being said, let's proceed.

is taehyung in a relationship?

it's... complicated. i would say that he and jennie are taking a break in their relationship, but they are not exactly separated. when i investigated the potential breakup in the general reading about BTS relationships, i saw that they had a chance to get back together, depending on how things unfold until the end of the month.

between taehyung and Jennie, there's a sense of disagreement, but also regret and perhaps a bit of hurt. i see that taehyung is feeling distressed and anxious to resolve the issues they are facing. he sees a lot of potential in his relationship with jennie, enjoys being with her, and how she makes him feel. he feels that if he completely abandons this relationship now, he will be leaving behind a great opportunity to be happy.

as for jennie, she is much more emotionally withdrawn than taehyung. i would say her emotional state regarding this relationship is becoming very unstable. she cares deeply for taehyung, but she thinks taking this relationship further requires a very exhausting effort. although she enjoys being with taehyung, the difficulty of keeping this relationship afloat is weighing heavily on her. she feels like she's on a tightrope.

the prediction for their relationship in the next 15 days suggests that they probably won't make much progress in reconciliation and will remain in this state. one word to define the situation from the cards would be "stagnant."

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[agatharkn3ss]

This is how Lilia's trial and visions will happen (I think) - Spoilers

TLDR: Lilia will read tarot as her trial and that's how she sends all those messages to her past self (jump to "THE VISIONS" section for the most interesting part).

I have written about Lilia a few times before because I think she's a crucial character in the show, so I'll try to put it all together here into a single post. I believe Lilia is literally the Fate of the coven - she sewn the sigil on Billy and she's going to sew the coven circle together (as per ballad lyrics "Circle sewn with Fate"). She even runs a sewing "side hustle" Lilia's Leggings. So I think her episode is going to be epic and sad at the same time. I think this is the one addressing that "Time slip" hint in ep.1.

I believe Lilia's "blips" fall into two categories - "tarot cards" and actual "messages".

When she says a name of the tarot cards out loud, it has two consequences - 1) is that she clearly alludes to the MEANINGS of the cards, but also 2) notice how they always look like the exact scene she is referring to. So the tarot cards images become what Lilia sees as Fate. She even seals them with her sigil sign in the lower right corner.

The tarot cards she mentioned so far (card meanings from biddytarot.com):

Three of Pentacles - right after she wrote the coven names down (ep.2) - the card looks like the summoning circle scene from Agatha's basement - you can even notice Billy being included there. Card meaning: UPRIGHT: Teamwork, collaboration, learning, implementation. REVERSED: Disharmony, misalignment, working alone.

High Priestess - when she meets Jen at Agatha's house and says it almost surprised (ep.2) - Jen happened to be standing in front of a painting in a way that looked like she had rays coming out of her head. Card meaning: UPRIGHT: Intuition, Sacred Knowledge, The Divine Feminine, Subconscious mind. REVERSED: Guardian of the Subconscious mind, Teacher of sacred knowledge.

Three of Swords - as Jen is trying to heal Billy (ep.4) - they are on a PURPLE road, in the WOODS, and Agatha is standing in that pose, holding Billy's head. Card meaning: UPRIGHT: Heartbreak, emotional pain, sorrow, grief, hurt. REVERSED: Negative self-talk, releasing pain, optimism, forgiveness

Knight of Wands - as Alice blasts Agatha (ep.5) - the Knight has the same stance as Alice in that moment. Card meaning: UPRIGHT: Energy, passion, inspired action, adventure, impulsiveness. REVERSED: Passion project, haste, scattered energy, delays, frustration

The Tower [reversed] - during palm reading for William Kaplan (ep.6) Card meaning: UPRIGHT: Sudden change, upheaval, chaos, revelation, awakening. REVERSED: Personal transformation, fear of change, averting disaster

The remaining cards are:

Death - the relevant scene probably comes in episode 8,but Lilia sees it as she finally recognises Rio? Card meaning: UPRIGHT: Change, Transformation, Transition, Ending. REVERSED: On a verge of a meaningful change, Opportunity to embrace change, Massive personal transformation

Queen of Cups and the Tower - the scene will probably come in this episode 7 as flashback to Lilia's youth. Card meaning: UPRIGHT: Compassionate, caring, emotionally stable, intuitive, in flow. REVERSED: Inner feelings, self-care, self-love, co-dependency.

Now Lilia's message "blips" are:

shouting and flailing her hands - when Agatha and Teen ask her to join the coven in ep.2

writing the coven names (same scene as above) - this is the one premonition where we see big bursts of power - the electricity flicker around her, the water boils and it all seems really intense.

shouting "Get off me!" and looking like she was pushing someone away - just before the witches begin summoning the Road in ep.2

"I love you guys" - when Jen questions Sharon about her poison symptoms in ep.3

"Try to save Agatha" - when she and Agatha are searching for potion ingredients in ep.3

"Which is it, am I wispy or am i kooky?" - when talking to Alice about her mum during the trial in ep.4

"Alice! Alice don't" - shortly after the one above

"You know, we really kind of hated each other in the beginning, but now....[Zones out]" - during the campfire scene when she seemingly talks about the vampire scar in ep.4

"I hated this the first time!" - when there are loud, uncomfortable noises at the start of the trial in ep.5. (HOWEVER, I am not 100% convinced this is an actual blip - I felt this was more of a shout out to ep.4 where they also experienced loud, uncomfortable music. It was only Billy who pointed out that "Lilia was being weird again". And yes, if he is able to read her mind, then maybe it was an actual "blip". Or maybe a red herring. )

the palm reading scene and casting the sigil in ep.6. Notice the light was flickering again.

So, with all that in mind, I believe her trial will be something like this:

We know Lilia is the oldest witch in the coven and has lived for some 450 years, through many tragedies and the many ways the women were persecuted. She is also always so vocal about the negative stereotypes that surround witches - she mentions poisoning apples, green skin, broomsticks, talking to goats etc. And in this episode we see that Lilia will be dressed as Glinda (the Good witch), Agatha will be Elphaba (the Wicked witch), Jen looks like the Evil Queen from the Snow White, but in her old hag form and Billy is Maleficent. And even the "yellow" road feels like a call-back to the Wizard of Oz.

So it looks like Lilia, by being the good witch, will need to confront those negative stereotypes about witches yet again. I believe her test will be a tarot reading. Lilia's powers are that she can "read people" and "read time" (ep.5). We also know she was chased out of villages for "accurately predicting tragedies" and I think as an empath, she hates that part of her powers. But through this trial she will also understand that she actually has the power to predict something good and control the outcome, maybe even be able to prevent a tragedy that has already happened in the past.

From the promo material I believe her trial will take place in a tower and that Salem Seven will somehow be able to enter the trial room. There will also be swords sticking out of the ceiling, threatening to fall down and serving as a timer. It's interesting that one of Agatha's posters brings the elements together. The poster imitates the cover of "the Crucible" - a play about the Salem witch trials. So not only another nod to prosecuting witches, but also to the Salem Seven themselves. The elements of the poster also include the swords and the motif of the thread of Fate and how it controls everyone.

Now, look back to The Tower tarot card - roughly, it could also stand for "sudden, disruptive revelation" - kind of like Lilia's 'blips'. Notice on that card there are people in black in the air (Salem Seven?), blasts of electricity and a blue crown falling off the top of the tower. I am not clear how Billy's crown will fit into this though.

So I think Lilia will be doing her tarot reading, slowly uncovering cards and saying their names out loud. This will take her back to the moments in the past that she associates with the meaning but the visual image will become the scenes as explained above. She will realise she can not only transport her spirit into those moment but also be heard, so that she will be able to send messages to the coven in the past - the "blips" that we've seen throughout the episodes. But she might not be able to control it as well as she thinks yet, and some messages will be broken in two, while some will be unintended "unfiltered" things she just says to people in the trial room.

As Fate she will be able to see what could happen if they never walk the Witches Road. She will realise she is the one who has to put the coven together and so she will need to send her past self the list of the witches names. In this, she will also see William's Kaplan death and realise she was the one who has to put the sigil on him, to hide him from Death collecting him - this in turn will allow Billy Maximoff to enter the body and save him.

THE VISIONS

The messages could be in any order really, but I feel each blip can be explained:

As she's tapping into her subconscious mind, the reading could be starting with "High Priestess" [card 2 in the list above] - and she sounds surprised because it is as if she was actually standing back in Agatha's room - the realisation is only now slowly dawning on her.

Maybe one of other witches that are in the trial room with her (Jen in response to the High Priestess?) starts antagonising Lilia's kookiness, because they want her to just hurry up or don't understand what's happening yet. So Lilia, just as she reveals the next card "Knight of Wands", then responds to Jen in annoyance "Which is it, am I wispy or am I kooky?!" [blip 6] (btw, "wispy" also has a nice connection to Air, so I can see this word being used in the episode before because it's Air trial).

But then, as she says this, Lilia realises she is standing in front of Alice from the fire trial (in spirit anyway, Lilia is still physically in the scary room). She exclaims in relief "Alice!" and realises Alice can actually hear her. So this is Lilia's chance to warn her about the events of Agatha's trial. She begins saying "Alice, don't try to save Agatha!", but mid way through, her spirit gets transported to the first trial in ep.3, searching for potion ingredients. So Alice only hears "Alice don't..." [blip 7] and Agatha hears "...try to save Agatha" [blip 5].

At some point Salem Seven break their way into the tarot room and Vertigo releases her cicadas, flying around Lilia's head. She flails her hands and screams, while her spirit is inside her shop where Agatha and Teen just approach her [blip 1].

She eventually discovers her own card - "Queen of Cups". She transports herself into her past and we get her backstory.

But then we get repeat of her nightmare from ep.3 - Lilia uncovers the "Death" card. She sees the death figure approaching her maestra. But with that, the figure comes into light and she finally recognises it's Rio.

The pain of her memories leads her straight to "Three of Swords", momentarily finding the scene where Jen is healing Billy. She realises death was there all along.

She has the revelation that Rio - Death - has been after Billy all along - "The Tower Reversed". The lights flicker. She finds herself in her tent, in front of William Kaplan. [blip 10] She sees his life split in two and puts a sigil on him to protect him from Death.

But with the "tower reversed", the whole room is literally reversed - the ceiling with swords is now floor and Lilia and Salem Seven find themselves drifting towards the blades in the air. One of the Salem bumps into Lilia as they fall and she shouts "Get off me!" [blip 3] as pushes them away (while her spirit is transported to the moment before they opened the Road).

She realises she doesn't have much time left, she knows what the next card is, even though it's floating in the air. She focuses all her energy and channels her spirit to write the list of names herself [blip 2]. It takes enormous effort to stay focused on that one moment, hence the energy around her is bursting. (this could also explain the bolts of lightning on the tower card). She finishes by revealing and naming the last tarot card: "Three of Pentacles".

Finally, as she drifts towards the deadly swords, Lilia, relieved she completed her task, is transported to sitting in front of the campfire with the other witches (ep.4), reminiscing their stories. This is a fond memory so she starts saying "You know, we really kind of hated each other in the beginning, but now.." [blip 8] and before she can finish, she gets transported back to the "Huge tiny lies" house "...I love you guys" [blip 4]. And with that, she dies...

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Phew. You got this far. So - what do you think?

Bonus: I think there are rumours we will finally hear Patti sing and unleash her full potential.

[eclipsewarrior101]

Miss Lady Rose and the home for forgotten and abandoned toys characters information

Here at The Estate, there are a number of unique residents here. Let’s introduce you to them

Lady Rose. The Mistress and caretaker of the toys. She is mysterious, kind and stern. A strange aura surrounds her. She knows all her children’s wants and needs and will do anything to keep them safe.

Tack. With his long stretched out arms and legs and his kooky smile. Tack is a mix between a clown and a ragdoll. He can communicate but it’s kinda rough. He’s super sweet but he has demons

Andy & Ann. Revamps of the original Raggedy Ann/Andy dolls. While Andy is timid and wary, Ann is tougher and very protective. They always stay together. Fair warning…Never make Ann made or separate them

Odin: quiet. A stitched up teddy bear. Mysterious and seemingly knowing of the unknown. With his crystals and tarot cards he seems to speak to think air?

Cosette: A beautiful, cracked marionette doll. Stern, quiet. Wants perfection. She practices her ballerina dance despite her wobbly legs. She also sews

Toby: A goofy, timid kind hearted scarecrow. A kind hearted guy who wants to help others despite being clumsy. Has a burn scar on his side of his face.

Now that we have introduced you to them all, you are free to ask them questions.

But…be careful how far you want answers. And be careful…sone of my children are not what they seem.