#magical implements

[lailoken]

Hawthorn Root & Willow Shaft Wand — Custom Commission

This is a wand that I was custom-commisioned to craft on behalf of a client recently, using both Hawthorn wood and Willow wood. I share it here now, as an example of the sort of work I offer.

After locating and harvesting a suitable length of White Willow from the banks of the river that feeds our land, I then harvested a segment of root-wood from a dead Hawthorn tree I have access to. Next, I went about debarking, drying, shaping, and smoothing the two specimens of wood, before lightly staining the Hawthorn with an herbal pigment and then carving out part of the root-wood's core to allow for the insertion of the Willow shaft. Once that was done, I proceeded to permanently affix the two segments using a cold-welding epoxy and then sealed the whole piece using my Wisefool's Glaze (a ritually empowered wood varnish made using an array of potent arboreal resins.)

Though it was my first time crafting a wand in this way—using two different kinds of woods—I'm quite pleased with the ultimate result, and I believe it will serve my client well in the years to come.

I continue to take on commissions for a wide variety of Craft implements, and I am always honored and happy to be given such an opportunity. My pricing is reasonably flexible, and I'm always happy to work out things like payment plans when necesarry. If you would like to inquire about commissioning a custom piece, please feel free to reach out through tumblr messenger, or through the contact form on my webshop, Wending Wares Occult Parlor.

[wasyago]

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[standingappa]

headcannon that albus is a math genius he just never knew because they don’t teach fucking math at hogwarts

[bayetea]

a lot of people hate the hazel mist magic stuff and I won't deny that it was developed and implemented very weirdly but I actually really appreciate that it's partially connected to marie levesque who mind you summoned the lord of death/riches through her own powers. he didn't just meet her on the street and fall in love like other mortals parents she summoned a big three god to come directly to her (and then he fell for her afterwards). thusly it wasn't some late game add-on it was established very early in hoo that marie already had mystical powers of some kind based on new orleans gris-gris traditions and exploring that for hazel is pretty cool actually and makes sense! 👍

(also something something about frazel parallels where they both have special gifts that stem from their chinese/african heritage and not their godly fathers 😌)

for me the thing about it that sucks isn't that it's inherently bad or op as a lot of people seem to think (look me in the eyes and tell me that hazel is written on the page as more op than the likes of percy. rick limits her powers so much still even tho imo big three kids have a right to be op) it's that hazel's magic appears primarily tied to hecate and greek/roman mist magic instead of louisiana-haitian vodou influences (haitian vodou/louisiana voodoo are actual religions that have some key distinctions from each other, I'm just saying that rick could have drawn from either/both of them more when establishing hazel's powers). hecate mentioned marie explicitly when explaining why hazel has potential with magic but it's still pretty much all about nebulous greek/roman magic instead of new orleans-specific magic. let hazel levesque practice voodoo and cast hexes and work with spirits she deserves it (she is already a daughter of pluto so the connection to spirits should be there!!!)

[sphnyspinspin]

OMG, I’VE BEEN WANTING TO SHARE THIS AU FOR A MINUTE—

Meet my Magnificence Reforged AU Connie!

Though Scorponok only ever referred to her as Experiment: A9-2416 (usually in Decepticon dialect).

Her story is that Scorponok created her as an experiment to see what would happen if an organic was able to produce a set of chemicals that are deemed somewhat powerful, yet common, by organic standards but emphasized to a certain degree with the help of Cybertronian technology. Entirely inspired by the mere Earth-Human conceptual myth known as the—

Indomitable Human Spirit.

What Scorponok was able to take away from eight years of properly caring for the experiment is that these chemicals that fuel basic organic functioning can be utilized exponentially to a degree where a full grown one of these things could even rival some of Cybertron’s strongest warriors. Maybe even the galaxy’s toughest warriors wouldn’t be able to stand a chance.

It became labeled as Adrenalineregon.

(dope naming skills I know)

It turned out to be some crazy-powerful stuff once injected into a strong enough specimen.

Now why would Scorponok need to make something like this? Power? Recognition? Fun? All of the above honestly. But it’s also because in this Alternate Universe the Decepticons won the war for Cybertron, and Megatron has already built his perfect Decepticon Army to conquer the rest of the known universe, and he and the Grand Architect thought their Army of Tarn clones needed a little more pep-in-their-step.

You heard me. TARN. CLONE. ARMY.

(this isn’t a specifically cyberverse based timeline I just took the tarn army as inspo)

But what they didn’t expect was for the Tarn clones to go insane and turn on each other when being on mere drops of Adrenalineregon. Resulting in a mass extinction of Tarn Clones, with too many bodies to count, therefore being dropped on top of Scorpnok’s planet sized lab to remind him of the consequences of his actions.

EX: A9-2416 was, at the time, forever curious about the outside world, since she’s never been above the expansive laboratory planet’s surface. It always felt as if some unseen beings were trying to lead her to her escape every day since as long as she can remember. Small sign after small sign, guiding her to even bigger signs that kept getting her closer and closer to the way out. Of course, Scorponok always stopped her from getting too close.

A9-2416 always hated the amount of gruesome tests she had to do afterwards as punishment for misbehaving.

Until on her ninth birthday, A9-2416 finally made it to the exit, and Scorponok got exceptionally pissed off so much that in self-defense A9-2416 grabbed the nearest cannon she knew how to operate and blasted it through his spark. She cried a lot that day.

BUT HEY! Her life didn’t stay too depressing for long, because soon after she committed her very first act of murder, she became good buddies with the little voices in the walls that have been apparently guiding her throughout her life!

THE LOSTBOT BOTBOTS!!

(lol I’m nowhere near finished with every Lost Bot design, I just wanted to finish these couple few and make this post for the AU)

MEET THE LOST BOTS CLAN OF THE BOTBOTS!

They’ve been trapped on Scorponok’s Lab-planet-tory (im so funny) for decades along with the other Botbots who remained in hiding. But this clan was the only one brave enough to get anywhere near Scorponok’s main stomping grounds. What they didn’t expect to find was some weird sentient purple meat-potato in a makeshift industrial cradle. Turns out it was just a baby. And that baby turned out to be A9-2416. Who soon became known as Connie.

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After A9-2416 escaped the inner dwellings of the lab and joined the Lost Bots on their little side quests up on the surface, she later changed her name to Constance, hence her more well-known nickname being Connie. The name change was suggested by her Botbot friends who knew a bit about Earth human culture and used their knowledge to help Connie have the most happy and carefree life that she could ask for.

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Also the TEG Lost Light crew is there because I’m still obsessed with that fic 👍✨

@deepfriedhopesanddreams @viewer-of-many @celestite-caroline @asmoteeth @novafire-is-thinking @dragonsgirl572 @autistic-fool-with-ideas @mysticfoxdesigns @hyp3rfixation-h3ll

[itslilacmoon]

myosostis hexsquad in their college years live rent free in my mind,,, they're so silly goofy together. everyone is having a great time trust me

[girlbob-boypants]

S3 is such an interesting part of gw2 cause it feature some of my favorite and most hated moments

[ludcake]

Hey hot take in the middle of class but like. Yes, ASOIAF's magic has direct links and imagery to blood. Yes, some things run over generations. Yes, we see certain traits crop up in families over and over.

However.

I beg that you PLEASE consider that this does not make supremacist, eugenic thinking valid, canon or justified. It does not justify Targ incest. It does not mean that Valyrians are better or exclusively able to ride dragons. It does not mean that you should think of it as an epic Crusader Kings game play where the characters should be marrying specific families due to magic or superior genes.

The blood isn't about genetics - it's about sacrifice. It's life. It's about taking it, and giving it. I'm not a big Stannis fan but his quote about a sacrifice must be felt, otherwise it is no true sacrifice is very meaningful - King's blood is important not because Kings have special blood, but because people see power in kings, because they cast a shadow. Mance Rayder isn't secretly Valyrian, but Mel still wanted to use his baby.

The generational magic, to me, has more to do with reocurring stories and patterns, which we might learn a lot about from Bran, than anything else. Bran is every Brandon and all that.

Please, I am on my knees, shut up about special genes and magic blood and special families. Targaryen blood purity doctrine isn't actually true.

[toxicxsugarxart]

It’s @wdtajn time again!

Encanto x Madoka Magica because I’m deranged. I drew the whole triplet gang (because the more frilly outfits the better) and I made up a backstory about young Alma making a deal with Kyubey and her wish being that her children would get magical girl powers too when they turn 15. I don’t know if that’s allowed, to wish for other people to become magical, but it would provide a loophole for Bruno becoming magical in a no-boys-allowed magic system. I was too invested in the idea by the time I remembered that detail. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it, but I hope people enjoy this silliness.

[sysig]

Getting closer, getting really close now I swear (Patreon)

[kesbeacon]

All the images from my Arcane Implements generator for Blades in the Dark!

[lailoken]

My husband made me yet another amazing piece of Ritual Pottery—this time in the form of a Labyrinth Stone.

Next, I will ritually smoke the clay with an assortment of precious materials—such as Ghost Pipe, Snake Skin, Thorn Apple, and Bee Comb—before anointing the piece with my personally developed Wisefool's Oil and allowing it to bask overnight beneath the silver rays of the Full Moon. Thereafter, I will utilize it in Hedge-Crossing rites.

(While photographing, a spider walked onto the Labyrinth Stone, and I was lucky enough to capture the moment by chance!)

[alexbutrandomthoughts]

Frieren's magic system is brilliant in it's simplicity and i cannot get enough of it. Istg i haven't been this invested in magic system since nen.

[darthbecky726]

I watched return to oz last night and I went in completely blind, I didn't know anything about it going in......

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE HEAD ROOM GOOD LORD

[thewatercolours]

Podfic: "Captive Crown" by GerbilofTriumph

A shabby narration of GerbilofTriumph's excellent King's Quest fanfiction, "Captive Crown," complete with outrageous attempts at accents and enough bloopers to start a drinking game (with um, raisin juice. There are too many goofs for the real stuff.) This wonderful fiction, full of courage, nightmares, and healing, is gratefully recorded and shared with permission of the author, @gerbiloftriumph. Go check out her awesome creative blog.

All seven chapters are available at the link above, but if you just feel like listening to the first chapter while you scroll, voila:

Original text here:

[reading-stains]

Land of Spirits - Case Files

Welp, I don't think they're even poetry prompts anymore (which is what I'd meant them to be), they're more like prompted conceptual writing that is sometimes poetry, sometimes short stories, and sometimes a "creative experience" of sorts.

So anyway, I'm sending it late because I needed to format it, but this is my entry for @nosebleedclub's prompt 12, "Land of spirits" and it's clear I didn't get creative with my own titling.

Hope whoever reads this enjoys!

PREMISE: You're given a set of files on data from veterans that have gone through the Land of Spirits. You hope to learn a little from what you're going to face. Oh, and there's some strange notes from a 'seer' at the bottom, but you don't really get what they mean.

So anyway, there you have it. Hope you stick to the non-combatant ones for today, they seem pretty nice.