#my monthly spread

[realpokemon]

rotomblr: reblog with the worst injury you’ve ever gotten from a pokémon, wild or domestic

[waruemi]

preview for days 61-63 👯‍♂️✨ these will mark the end of month 2!

[asexualbookbird]

August feels. Blurry. The Thursday of the year. Of the summer? IT feels like the year. I managed to fill out my entire Summer Bingo Board for the library. I haven't heard back about winning any prizes, but I had fun and that's what counts. Bingo made me branch out of my comfort zone which was really neat. Can't say I'll do it more often, a comfort zone is comfortable, but I do enjoy reading something Different every now and then. Did some crafty things this month, which has been a lot of fun, and I've been Smart and Wise and started on holiday gifts so I'm not scrambling in December. It's called personal growth~

The Bone Season: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Samantha Shannon ⭐⭐ - I'm salty about this. Yes, it's an improvement, but it still sucks. The world and magic is so neat, but we're stuck with a plot Like That. Made me do an actual full review on goodreads and on tumblr if you want all the details.

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon ⭐⭐- I kept my original rating because honestly I felt the same as I did years ago. It's worse than the updated version, but it's the core of the novel that needs changing. Props to this one at least for making Paige asexual. I do not want to see this book on ace book lists ever again.

The Adventure Zone: The Suffering Game by The McElroys and Carey Pietsch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- One of the best installments so far. The art is AMAZING, I love the meta they're doing with Griffin and The Hunger, it was a little rushed and I'm bummed we aren't getting a full adaptation of The Stolen Century, but this is still right up there with Petals to the Metal for me!

The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - T Kingfisher has never written a bad novel to me, but this one did take me longer than her others to really click. The audio narrator had some inflections that didn't work for my brain, but once they went through the door, things got Weird and picked up. These two made so many stupid decisions, but it still felt in character! Big Stan Pines energy coming from that uncle.

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - For book bingo! Got me a square for Read Nonfiction, Read Something About The Environment, and Read Something You Found from Book Page (a magazine advertising new and upcoming books). AND it had a local connection. I learned a lot, it was really neat and didn't feel like I was reading a textbook. It was very engaging, and has me looking at grocery stores differently. It was hard to find, though, because Frostbite is a very common name in the urban fantasy romance genre.

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Oof. Very heavy, very creepy, very GOOD. Did not expect the many graphic dog deaths, but that was on me. Technically I WAS warned, my brain just didn't register "SGJ dogs are not safe" as "The dog dies in this one". The audio narrator was very good, but I had to listen to the opening a couple times to really get everything to click. It might've been easier had I" read it myself, but the cadence of the narrator really added to the story.

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox ⭐ - Wow when was the last time I had a true one star read. (Actually not too long ago. It was The Novice.) This wanted so badly to be The Haunting of Hill House, but if you want another book like Hill House, just read Starling House. We missed what actually happened in the book because the main character was losing her memory. If you want that, go read Harrow the Ninth. This was a mess and I hated it.

On that note, I need to read something to recharge my faith in books, so MURDERBOT TIME! That's my only reading plan for September, but now I'm feeling Rushed because the year is almost over and I still have about half of my reading goals list left. Whoops. I'd also like to at least attempt some of the Swordtember prompts, if not do all of them. That looks like a lot of fun! So! Onward we go!

[ghost-bxrd]

LOL I love the whole the whole batfamily but my favourite used to be Tim, I'm convinced your blog and writing is what changed my favourite to Jason XD

YESSSSSSSS! 💚💚💚💚💚 Come to the dark side, we’ve got Jason (content)!! 🧪🧪✨

[bujobby]

A little bit retro, a little bit classic~

August is upon us once again: everything has changed, nothing has changed. Keeping my fingers & toes crossed for better things to come this month ˖⁺‧₊˚✦

♬: Loose Garment - MUNA

[oodling-and-doodling]

1-8-24//july is over!!! i was on team seafoam in artfight this year. i could only attack people twice because i was busy. not much happened this month but it was good

rbs>likes

[wintersandolives]

posting my old bullet journal spreads to remind myself i can make art || day 7

[parklandcryptid-studies]

I'm so excited for the new year, I'm looking forward to going back to uni!

This month's theme is Alice in Wonderland, I'll post my weeklies at the end of each week!

[transdruid]

Reading Slots!

Following in @knightofhylia 's footsteps and opening monthly free tarot readings!

The first months spread will be:

Spiritually Stuck

Spiritual blockage

Cause of blockage

How to overcome it

I will be using my new Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tarot (written by Casey Gilly, illustrated by Karl James Mountford)

If you'd like a reading, shoot me an ask! (If the ask box is closed, I'm working on catching up, check back later)

Previous Readings can be found here

If you want something more complex, or personalized, DM me for paid reading rates :)

*all free readings will be posted! Because they are unpaid, they act as a portfolio :)

[abomination-unto-nuggan]

My Pride-themed spread for June (and a fabulous walrus friend).

(Edit for clarity - Czerwiec means June in Polish)

I had a lot of fun doing this (and photographing it).

The title font is by Helen Colebrook.

[sakurajournals]

Felt like this one was fine without additional stickers..

Actually got my September Bujo spread done on time, and just before our family holiday!

[starsbegantofall]

Check out my August bullet journal layout at my blog here!

I'm pretty happy with this layout even though I noticed some mistakes now (didn't finish the background behind Princess Vivi). I included a bunch of stickers, stamps and washi tape from the Log Pose One Piece planner project which included such gorgeous art that finally got a chance to shine here.

[rayne-the-neutrois-nerd]

Out of curiosity, what kind of rituals do you do when it comes to reading your tarot cards? Cleansing, how you read/interpret them? Do you document your readings? I've been reading tarot for a little while but it's always just a fun little side thing where I shuffle cards, pull them, and use the book the deck came with to interpret them as best as possible. I do occasionally cleanse them, too, but I'm curious about your rituals?

Okay so one thing about me is that I suck at regularly cleansing my tools with like, other things. I know I should probably smoke cleanse them with some incense or moonlight or whatever, but I also have 15 decks total and man that's a lot of work and I also do not have the windowsill space for it. I also have... cats that like to jump up into said windowsills and will 100% knock them down.

Usually I just cleanse as I use them. My method is just putting them back in order and then doing a big shuffle. I do this weird way of shuffling that I made up because my hands are too small to shuffle normally. I'll include a video... gif... or something below but basically I like, hold them in one hand, loosely bring up cards with two fingers on my other, and keep doing that, switching between putting them right side and reversed into pile until I'm left with one card. I put it to the side. Then I pick up the big pile again and repeat. I only do this when getting them shuffled around when they're in order. It's time intensive but it puts that intention of "okay, be shuffled and ready for use" into it.

Heres a really bad video of me doing this:

I mostly just document my monthly readings because I've been lacking on keeping up my tarot practice, but if it's a big spread that I do, I'll usually at least write it on a piece of loose paper with the cards I drew, what the cards mean, and then a little like, summary of me piecing it all together.

With interpretations and meanings I do a few different things. I have a doc with like, a big mish-mash of all the meanings and such that I've read in books, online, etc. It's mostly just keywords though, but it's good if the deck I'm using didn't have a guidebook or if I think said guidebook sucks (I have one that has a sheet of paper that I absolutely hate the interpretations of). Usually though, I start by reading the guidebook that comes with the deck I'm using and that's the meaning I usually go with, though sometimes I don't feel the meanings really fit. Then I look at my big list of keywords and see if any of those really stand out to me for the card in the position in the spread. And if that doesn't work, or if my intuition is really screaming at me, I'll just look at the card, look at the imagery, take into account the suit, number, etc, and then see what words pop up then. Maybe it's a color that stands out and I'll think of words that work with that color, or its the mood on the figures face, etc.

Here, lemme do an example. This is the official D&D Tarot Deck licensed by WOTC (I bought it before I knew all the drama)

It's a shitty picture but this is this decks version of the 4 of Swords. The card is usually associated with rest and recouperation and I think this deck really shows this well in the D&D setting. They look like a group of travellers who are taking a short rest, which is perfect imagery for the card. I'd look at this and think "Okay for this part of the spread, imagine taking a short rest from it. Let a couple of those spell slots come back." Or if it's in a placement of things to avoid, it could mean be weary of resting for too long and getting too stagnant.

[bujobby]

Octobers of old 🍁🤎🎃🖤 cover pages 2019-2022

This month has gone by so quickly, only five days left until the spookiest time of the year ✨️

[oodling-and-doodling]

1-5-24//april was a nice month. i celebrated four years of knowing i'm transgender, i finished my second year of college, and i got myself some nice clothes

rbs>likes

[shadowydoes]

🍓march’s theme: strawberry🍓