#wanderingmind18

[witchcraftinred]

Ah I’d love a stitchomancy reading ❤️

From ‘The Golden Goose’:

“When he came to the forest the little old grey man met him likewise, and greeting him, said, ‘Give me a piece of your cake and a drink out of your bottle; I am so hungry and thirsty.’

Dummling answered, ‘I have only cinder-cake and sour beer; if that pleases you, we will sit down and eat.’

So they sat down, and when Dummling pulled out his cinder-cake, it was a fine sweet cake, and the sour beer had become good wine.”

I’m guessing this is about offerings, but the main takeaway is to give whatever you can to whoever approaches and you will be rewarded in kind. Thank you for asking for a reading, friend!

[thegrapeandthefig]

do you have any special autumn traditions? what are they? :3

Not really, tbh. My family isn’t religious so I also wasn’t raised into any specific tradition (eg. Hallow’s Eve), nor did we really do autumny stuff like mushroom foraging. As a child growing up in North America it meant Halloween, but I haven’t really celebrated it since I came back to Europe.  

To me autumn mostly means that we’re entering hot chocolate season, which is always something I’m looking forward to lol. 

[winebrightruby]

Hello, I hope your day is going great :) Just a curious question if you’re comfortable answering: are there any significance to your Belle icon? Her story is one of my favorites too. ❤️

Hi, I hope you’re having a good day too! The significance is purely personal: the animated Disney Beauty and the Beast was released when I was small and brunette and prone to walking and reading at the same time, and my dad just called me Belle and it all kinda spiraled from there. My sisters and I semi-joke about everyone having “their” Disney princess, the one that you vibe with and just love, and Belle is mine. (Rapunzel is my next-younger sister’s. Sister 3 hasn’t found hers yet. Youngest sister’s is Moana. Sometimes it takes a long time for “your” princess to emerge!)

Also it provides handy puns re “Southern belle”, which I appreciate. 

Thank you for your question.

[inquisitorhotpants]

Also, not an ask, but just wanna say that the wedding scene in the latest chapter of your fic is beautiful! I finally got around to read it and it’s lovely

Oh gosh, thank you so much! Designing a wedding ceremony for Sith was super fun. 

[iingezo]

Sketch commission for @wanderingmind18 !

[artpigeons]

Commission for @wanderingmind18 😁

[thecobaltchameleon]

Hello, may I request a one card tarot reading? What advice should I know for the near future? Thank you!

Samhain One Question-One Card Tarot Readings are now closed.Thanks to everyone who requested!

Hey there!

For you, I pulled 3 of Coins reversed.Some advice for the near future is not to go it alone. If you have any work, school, or family projects/events coming up, trying to do it all alone is going to make it a lot harder than it needs to be and you may actually drop the ball, so to speak, if you don’t have adequate support. Whether it is working as a team, you delegating, but remaining mostly in charge, or just having others to support you morally and emotionally, get some people to rally around you for the best success.

Blessings to you!

[malachitelibrary]

May I request a song associations reading? I'll be sure to review. Thank you so much!

I get a lotta violin vibes from u??? Particularly violin solo type stuff, and something in a minor key or with a bunch of flats. 

Chopin - Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor rings out to me. AGAIN couldn’t tell which version was more u so imma toss both. Like you’ve got the depth of the piano + violin but the....solo feel of the violin-only version? yeet

Bofa

Violin Solo this though the texture is a little too resiny/woody for u 

[elumish]

Hello! May I have some advice on would it be offensive if I choose to explicitly state that a character has brown skin and is from Southeast Asia but not specify their nationality? I want to include the character as there tend to not be as much positive attention towards darker SE Asians compared to lighter East Asians. (Pt1)

I'm also afraid it might give the implication that all Asians are the same etc, which is not want. It's just that her culture does not have a big part in the plot, but I've always envisioned her as a dark-skinned SE Asian and as a Thai person myself I would enjoy seeing representations of SE asians more, I just don't feel the need to go into that much detail about her culture or ethnicity. What do you think? Thank you so much! (pt2)

As a white person, I don’t really feel comfortable saying what would or not be offensive, but to me, it seems fine. There definitely needs to be more positivity for darker SE Asians, and it’s great that you’re doing that. Particularly if you don’t think her culture or ethnicity would have an impact the story, I think what you’re suggesting seems like it would work. Without knowing any more details about your story, I can’t really give any comments about what impact it may or may not have, but I trust your knowledge of your story.

My main suggestion would be to run this by sensitivity readers or sensitivity pre-readers (for before you write the whole thing), preferably of multiple SE Asian ethnicities to see if they spot or think of some issue that you’re going to run into. One thing to consider may be whether they were raised in SE Asia or are part of a diaspora community. Someone from a diaspora community will probably have a less strong tie to their ethnic background, particularly if they’re second or third generation or beyond, but I have to admit that I’m not familiar enough with the history of SE Asian diaspora communities to comment on it.

[thegrapeandthefig]

Hi, do you have information on Ancient Greek religious jewelry or tools? I’ve been looking into whether they have any sort of amulets or rosary, and the closest thing I found is the kompoloi which is not religiously used. Do you have any pointers? Thanks! And I hope you’re doing well :)

Hi! Sorry for taking 12 hours to answer, life’s been wild lately. 

The main difficulty here is to identify what a religious piece of jewelry is. You could consider 3 categories: offerings, good fortune tokens and magical amulets. 

The problem is that when jewelry is discovered through excavations in temples or other places of cult, it is nearly impossible to determine if it had any deeper religious meaning or use beyond the act of offering something of value. I will be writing a full post about jewelry as offerings at some point in the following weeks, but I can already say that a lot of scholarly interpretation for those lie somewhere among of the lines of jewelry being an offering given mainly to feminine deities and that hold a certain link towards women and their daily lives. 

If we stray a bit away from classical Greece, we can address the case of roman and hellenistic snake rings, which served as protection from evil. The reason why it naturally comes to mind for me is that I’ve worn one for several years, like this very fine bracelet from Pompeii, currently in the British Museum. 

Apparently, those were most often worn by children and young/unmarried women. Considering the importance of snake imagery, there are many ways to explain the protective properties of such jewelry, from your usual agathos daimon to an Asklepian protection against ills. The religious meaning can thus be varied depending on the wearer and their intention. 

Finally, there’s the whole magical amulets can of worms. Again, we’re straying away from classical Greece. If you’re familar with the PGM, its associations and such, then you probably know about them. In more ways then one, it’s also hard to really define their use, and especially, the distinction between religious and magical, if there even is one. If you want to dig on this side, I really recommend you use the Campbell Bonner database. 

I do not know of any historical mention of something ressembling a rosary or komboloi in a religious setting. I have two kombolois, both of which I’ve had since my teens. One means more than the other and I’d be lying if I said I don’t think it brings me some kind of luck. But I definitely do not use it in my religious practice nor do I think it’s linked to it. 

[inquisitorhotpants]

Hi, hope you’re doing well! A while ago you mentioned that you were working on a treatise of the Sith Code by Darth Nox and a treatise on strategy by Darth Marr. Are you still working on those WIPs? They sound really interesting and a snippet of them would be awesome!

My WIP list continually shames me.  xD  Sometimes I feel like the proverbial saying “all hat, no cattle,” because i have all these IDEAS and never seem to end up with anything substantial lmao. But I still have my notes all bookmarked for Marr’s, and I ... have to find my notebook with all my notes for Nox’s. I know I have it, but I have a truly ridiculous number of notebooks and I just have to figure out which one it is, lmao. 

So, hopefully Soon(tm).  :D

[luciferaseluciferin]

Hi! Not sure if this has been asked before yet, but if you don't mind me asking, have you been to art school or are you self-taught? Your style looks very distinctive and professional!

Little of column A, little of column B? I have an AA that was for Multimedia and Web Design (so a weird mix of audio and video editing, plus graphic design and web design), and a BFA in Production Animation (which was mostly focused on 3D modeling and animation). Plus just drawing in some fashion for myself since elementary school. Most of my self teaching is just beating my head against a rock until something works, and taking cues from artists that I like.

[grimoirxc]

Hello! I just saw your d&d sigils and they are wonderful. Out of curiosity, do you also watch Critical Role (the d&d stream show)? And do you accept requests or commissions?

I try to, but I don’t get very far because of how long they are. I do, however, regularly listen to Heroes & Halfwits, and have been trying to get into The Adventure Zone. 

And yes! Requests are for single simple sigils for personal use, and commissions are for multiple requests, elaborate sigils, or as tattoo designs.

[deafaq]

Hello! I'm an aspiring writer, and for one of my stories I want to write a fantasy about a bard whose music acts as a hearing aid for a moderately deaf person. Would this be considered offensive? Thank you so much!

Well, seeing as music is sound and deafness deals with not hearing that sound... I would say to stay away from that line of action. You could have a bard whose music is magical and creates a mist person who signs the songs they sing? This still allows others to understand the songs but in a much more accepted way. 

Anyone else have suggestions?

mod m

[earthytarot]

Hello! May I have a general reading on what should I know about the next couple of weeks? Thank you so much :)

The card I drew was the Nine of Arrows - Dedication (inverted). I believe that in the upcoming weeks you will experience a change in heart. This could show its face in many ways. I believe you might lose interest in a hobby or activity you once enjoyed, or give up on a dream. Do not lose hope though, this will create an empty space that the universe will fill with new things.

[brotherkashaw]

Hello! I just discovered and fell in love with your critical role poem about a list of monsters vex had met. I want to ask where did you get the inspiration to write that? Is there a poem or a poet that inspired you? Thank you! :)

Hi!!  Thank you so so much! 

Yes, actually, but maybe not what you’d expect: two of my friends write similar poetry for the AH fandom & otherwise, and a lot of it takes list form.

Helen, or p-ercolating (especially this one)

Adrian, or slaughtervoid (especially this one)

Check out their stuff if you like mine; you don’t have to be into AH (the poems very rarely directly reference people) to enjoy the incredible stuff they write.