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ninasodiiva · 1 month ago

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what's next in your love life?⋆. 𐙚 ̊

PAC reading

hii babesss, i hope you're doing good and having a wonderful day! today i was in a romantic mood after binge watching pride and prejudice edits on tiktok (yass girl procrastinate your homework!) so to debut my blog im sharing with you this pac reading all about what's next in your love life. ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

how to choose a group:

take a deep breath and relax your body, look at all the pictures and pick the one you are the most drawn to, don't think about it to much. you might be attracted to the picture or the number. REMEMBER this is a general reading, take what resonates and leave what doesn't. nothing is set in stone. if you are not drawn to any of the pictures this might not be the reading for you loves. that said, let's get into it!

- group 1: pink rollers 🎀

as soon as I started the reading the song "Love Like You" from Steven Universe started playing on shuffle. and after laying the cards i noticed the synchronicity between the song and your reading so go listen to it! babes im going to be 100% honest... im feeling most of you feel stuck, like nothing happens and your love life is pretty much non existent and let me tell you why.

you still want your ex or past fling back. you are being extremely stubborn because you have romanticized them to death, you think that person is the one for you and trust me please... they are not. many cards regarding cheating and toxic patterns have come out and your spirit team and your higher self is asking you to let them go, they are not the one for you. i'm being shown a really codependent energy from you (for a few of you to the point of letting the other person dictate what to do with your life, friendships etc) it's like you don't believe yourself capable of making your own decisions and riding the wave of life. i'm being shown that picture of a dog begging for chocolate without knowing eating it can kill him. You have put this person on a pedestal and beg for they attention and love like a lost puppy, and it makes me really sad cause i see that you just want to feel appreciated, but babes please listen to me... that person is NOT for you, i'm feeling a really controlling energy from them. not all attention is good and deep down you know that this person uses you for their convenience, they have you when they feel like it and they're playing with you BAD. some of you could have grown in a family where no one paid attention to you, so subconsciously you feel in order to have love you have to earn it by pleasing others and letting them cross your boundaries... well (without sounding reckless) i feel you have no boundaries at all my loves and we have to work on that!!!

you have to listen to this song, specially the last part where she gives a small speech, you need to hear that ੈ✩‧₊˚

your next chapter of your love life might not be what you expect but it is most certainly what you NEED. you are entering this learning phase, where you will question your patterns in all aspects of your life but mostly romantic wise. it's a beautiful season in which the veil to your true self will be opened thanks to the self concept work you are doing (if you are not doing it, this is the sign to start, i don't want to see you like this no more). it's a time for learning valuable lessons that will align you with your own path, your true self and a true love. you are discovering what it means to love yourself, cause let's be real, nowadays putting a face mask and some candles it's considered "self love" but in reality it's about accepting yourself, the light and the dark, and knowing that you might not be the person you want to right now... but you possess the power to transform into the precious being that's hidden inside of you, scared to come out. journal your thoughts (write them for you be truthful with yourself), start that hobbie you have wanted to for a long time, call that friend/family member and ask for help, start being YOU babe.

your life is a movie be excited for it, sometimes your up sometimes you're down but that's the cycle of life. how lucky are we to feel emotions in the first place! be the master of your own fate, and give yourself grace while doing so babe 🩷

lots of love and strength, Nina 🦢୨୧⋆｡˚

group two: love letters 💌

my group two, welcome gorg!

well right away i have to say you have a beautiful energy, and you reading was so clear. so let's get into it.

my love what i heard is that right now you are embracing your single life on purpose, you are done with waiting for someone to come into your life, done with dealing with immature people who only disturb the peace and temple you built. i'm seeing you are a mix of charlotte and samantha from sex in the city and girl i love that for you! i see you literally shinning ✨ you are in your element. i'm hearing the song "aquamarine" by Addison Rae. "i'm not hiding anymore, i won't hide" and "the world is my oyster, and i'm the only girl", well listen to the complete song because it resonates 100%, OUUU PERIOD

thanks to that change in perspective your life is taking an exciting turn for the best!!! because you finally know your worth!!

what's next for you in your love life is options, attention and fun!! your energy rn is so magnetic and hypnotic, you're someone i would like to be friends with. you are expanding your horizons maybe traveling (doesn't have to) but i see you so so SO abundant. your social life is improving a lot, like i see you receiving TONS of attention cause you are feeling yourself (yass girl). you ended a cycle of desperation for love and you're now sitting on your throne enjoying the view. expect new friendships, new options, new flings (if that's what you're into). people will be startstruck with you it's insane. nonetheless it's important for you not to take this time for granted and stay true to yourself, stay strong in your boundaries and be careful with the options you are given, not all of them are for you make sure to use your intuition and discernment.

now i'm also seeing for my babes that are interested in relationship only a possible suitor coming in as a result of all the options you are getting, he is one of them. he could be a water sign (doesn't have to), a really empathetic and gentle person full of passion and honestly very very romantic. i see him watching you from afar. the attraction here is REALLY high and although i'm not being shown much information i do see commitment here. spirit is being secretive about this person, you don't need to know much right now let it be a surprise!

babes i'm so so excited and happy for you, you deserve this after a long hermit period. enjoy the spotlight!!! let me know how things unfold and please keep shining like your doing now 🪄🤍

lots of love, Nina 🦢୨୧⋆｡˚

group three: heart locket 🔒💗

hi my loves, welcome to your group! let's dive in.

babes right now you are in a healing period, i have a feeling you know that already and you're totally embracing it. that is good, don't resist it <3 i feel you moved on from a situation or person that left you hopeless and heartbroken, i know how hard sitting with those feelings is and to that i have to give you your flowers for the work you are doing in healing and building yourself back up! your strength is admirable, but your spirit team is here asking you to slow tf down lol.

you see, healing it's not linear and although that perseverance of yours is a gift, it's harming you more than helping you rn. you are not a problem that needs fixing, and my loves i feel you are carrying TONS of burdens by constantly wanting to heal.

the next chapter you are stepping into is asking you to slow down, be present and FEEL your emotions, don't analyze them. spirit is saying that by doing so you will notice the signs they are sending you and the advice they want you to take to help you at this time. babes you are like a chicken without head running around confused, like you're running out of time?? give yourself grace, slow down, breathe please 🤍 divine timing is at play here, trying to heal faster won't bring you your next love tomorrow.

remember that no matter what age you are, you're still that little kid you once where, that child is inside you hearing all those thoughts. imagine they are in front of you, how would you take care of them? ☁️ spirit is saying this chapter is very much needed, you have to love yourself TRULY cause why wouldn't you? there is NO reason not to love yourself love, you are protected spiritually, the only thing your spirit team wants you to do rn is to REST, slow down, take time out and feel your emotions. they have it all under control, let go of control issues and trust them pls 💌

something about family issues is showing up here so that might resonate to someone, also they are asking you to be open minded when it comes to love (don't worry you will end up with your true match).

my loves that's is everything, i feel your pain because i've been there and i promise you that the advice spirit is giving you will help you! take time to smell the roses 🌹 love is everywhere, and im not trying to sound cliche, i understand the frustration of wanting to experience love! but you will never feel it they way you are meant to if you don't have that love for yourself. OMG i was hearing the song "get free" by Lana del Rey and it played right away whatttt. that's definitely a song you need to listen to.

lots of love, Nina 🦢୨୧⋆｡˚

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alicelufenia · 3 months ago

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Book 4 finished, and wow do I have thoughts

I gotta say, when I started I did not expect Akua "Doom of Liesse" Sahelian to be one of my favorite characters, but damn. Dying was by far the best thing to happen to her character development!

So now Cat's got Diabolist's soul on a leash, and the dynamic between the two is immediately so fascinating, with Catherine obviously hating her guts yet can't help but find her advice and knowledge useful, and in turn Akua is playing up her new role to the hilt, showing just how useful she can be while shamelessly flirting and planning to inevitably slip the leash (and boy will we get to that). I imagine the shippers were having a field day, but remember that Catherine has a strict "don't invade Callow" stipulation on who she takes to bed, much less "don't turn a whole city into undead cannon fodder". But I get it, Cat did rip her heart out when she killed her, and Akua does now love to call Cat pet names like "my heart", it's also just fascinating to see how Cat is able to override Akua's free will with a thought, and more so to see how often she doesn't exploit this to torment her (not that Akua gives any sign the torture does anything, except as a sign of what she should be doing to stay useful)

And honestly, I was surprised to see this not be a complete deal breaker for Thief, but not only has Vivienne gotten somewhat more pragmatic, it's clear Cat has gone to great lengths to earn her trust by basically giving the other Callowan girl the means to kill her, as contingency (so many contingencies in this part). Last time I did say how much I loved oaths, well now that Cat is basically full fae, AND commands all the power of the (former) Winter Court, oaths now are mortally binding to her, which is very fun when Akua does get loose and take over Cat's body and is then forced to pluck her eye out (it grows back now) but even has a bit of fun "playing hero" when she has to act like Cat on the battlefield. And boy, more on that later too.

As full Winter, Cat doesn't have a Name anymore, but if anything this feels like the peak of her power, she's basically invincible and can regrow anything lost instantly, she just gets crazier and "more Fae" as she uses the power, which honestly is pretty fascinating. There's been some disturbing behavior changes in her ever since book 3 when she gained the power of Winter. She's become just as reliant on stories as the fae, and so now the plot becomes an exercise in "how far is Cat willing to go to achieve her story?" Hint: pretty damn far.

I haven't been commenting on the goings on in the south much, but honestly a couple of books in I've decided I really like the tonal shift of everything down there with the League, especially the Tyrant and Most Resistant to the Call Named ever, Hierarch! Refuse to take a stand, live on the street, give no ruling and have that have a disproportionately large effect on policy! YASS KING give us NOTHING. My money's still on him having the biggest impact later on however, as so far the only time he's willingly called upon his Name was to tell the Bard to get out, and it worked?? They're playing Lord of the Rings in Callow/Praes, Game of Thrones in Procer, meanwhile down in the Free Cities it's Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I mean, mostly, there was that nasty business where Black and the Calamities were there to fight White Knight's party, and poor Sabah got killed :( and that was last book, which I completely forgot to mention. The Calamities are having a bad time in this book.

Other major point, the Crusade is in full force, and the most interesting part of that is how its political inevitability, combined with Cat taking the throne setting off alarms, and her attempts to negotiate peace with the heroes accompanying the first army of Crusaders runs face first into her tendency to break what's in front of her. Grey Pilgrim is an interesting figure, who's motivation is hard to pin down at first. He seems open to negotiating peace with Cat, but only if she abdicates, which she doesn't want to do cause Callow is held together by duct tape and a dreamAnd then when her said tendency to break stuff forces the crusaders to actually negotiate retreat, he basically (according to Cat) tries to trap her into a "redemption arc", because those usually end in the villain's death. Well played Pilgrim. Fortunately what winds up playing out for Cat is, possibly that, but definitely not how anyone thought it would go, but I really should talk about Hierophant and how much I underappreciated him earlier.

First, I love how he's one of the earliest companions Cat picks up who is entirely on board cause she takes him interesting places and he's become friends with the other Woe. Pairing Masego, who is Ace/Aro as hell and definitely on the spectrum, with Archer, the flirtiest drunkest murderhobo ever, was just a perfect move, I love their friendship!

He has such a bitter sweet reunion with his fathers though, after discovering his incubus papa was around during the time before the Dead King rose up, which leads to I think the biggest twist I did not see coming, but looking back it makes total sense, that being Catherine died at Second Liesse, and the "Sovereign of Winter" didn't just take over her soul, but has basically replaced her. Which uh, goes a long way to explain her behavior changes, but also if you go back and read, you see the exact point when she breaks the binding that lets Winter flood her soul and body, and her heart stops, and it feels to her like she died, but then didn't die. Is the Cat after Liesse a different person from the one who died now, or if, because she sees herself as Cat, and everyone else does, does it really matter if she just never fully died, or if she died and then had basically a botched necromancy to keep a copy of her with her memories going?

I think it matters in one potentially big way, and it's possibly the one line that haunts Cat throughout the book; at one point the Pilgrim says that her presence as a villain ruling a Good kingdom makes her a corrupting force, and everyone she knows will be twisted by her Evil. And slowly Cat starts questioning if this is true, when even mild mannered nobles on her council are considering strategies using her mantle that would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths, but "better if it's Proceran deaths", when even Cat herself refuses to use such a strategy because she wants to minimize deaths!

It happens more obviously with Thief, who is gradually losing her Named powers (she's much weaker and her hair is growing when normally Named develop their fixed look and keep the) and also is displaying signs of depression, and doubt as to whether she chose the right side.

Except it's ODD. Everything she says and does is understandable in the moment, but looking back you can see a clear shift that started after Cat got her mantle. Like okay, it's understandable that she'd be wary of Hakram; he fought and beat her when Viv was with the Lone Swordsman, and threatened her in her own seat of her power at the thieves guild just before she officially joined up. A few months after that she's still wary, but is more confident, basically fronting around him when all the Woe are hanging out. Now, a year later and they are working together in Laure running the kingdom, but now Thief is TERRIFIED of him. And then to prove to her that she can trust him, he goes so far as to CUT OFF HIS NECROMANCY SKELETON HAND. IN FRONT OF HER. Which was extreme, but also really weird!

I'm thinking this might be more the influence of Cat's growing fae nature rather than the narrative making her allies worse, but we'll have to wait come book 5 to see if everyone can chill the fuck out!

I don't have much to say about the gang's trip to Keter (except that amnesia mystery was neat and never underestimate Malicia), but Cat, Akua and Indrani's drow adventures? Here we go!

So as is obvious to anyone who knows me, big drow fan here. So I was fascinated to see what the Guide version was like. And it turned out to be heavily involved, basically an empire in ruin, and a people forced to fight amongst themselves for a limited magical resource. Heck the chapter that introduces them has for its epithet a Dread Emperor who literally invented the pyramid scheme, and that's basically drow culture. Still as backstabbing as you remember them from Forgotten Realms, except here they've been blasted back to the stone age, and live in heavily segmented tribes where they're constantly fighting over Night; kill another drow, take their Night, and you gain their power and knowledge.

The whole sequence where Cat builds her, let's be honest, drow slave army using the convincing argument of "swear an oath to me or die", is actually surprisingly long and drawn out, but we do learn a lot about them—I think it's interesting that all the drow are genderless in their society (or what counts as one). Of all the sequences where it's obvious Akua is succeeding at corrupting Cat, this probably takes the cake; sure, she gets the idea once they make it into the Everdark (you have no idea how often I misread that as Underdark, it was almost every time!) to "rescue" the drow from being genocided by the dwarves, but she was totally there for an army, and she's just strongarming one (while killing a LOT of drow herself) along the way to the final confrontation with the Priestess(s) of Night.

The payoff is amazing though. First, Indrani and Catherine sleep together! Which, I don't see it going too further, but they both needed it. But most important, human Cat's back! Which I guess. Disproves Warlock's theory that she's a different person, if she can go back to being human (lame leg and all) And it's so cool how you can immediately tell it's her old self, more snarky and actually still has a moral compass. She's legit horrified at what she did to the drow. And, we see mortal Catherine going back on a lot of what Fae Catherine said earlier and in book 3. Her gambit to get out of judgement is, the crab bucket dilemma; when all we do is fight each other, no one gets out of the bucket, so we should try working together instead!

And then she dies... again? But is now completely free of the mantle of Winter, and in exchange is now the new Priestess of Night.

So, yay Catherine, Mother of the Drow! Perhaps? It's very unclear. We literally leave Cat off with the lines "in pain, and gloriously mortal", which is quite a way to describe it. And, it looks like her goal to negotiate the drow out of the Everdark, and into a war with the Dead King without binding oaths, might actually work? The dwarves seem willing to listen at least.

Personally, I always thought the parts of the story where Cat has a lame leg were some of the most interesting moments, so I appreciate the depower. Even if it seems to happen every other book.

So, seems the war with the Dead King is going to be the focus for next book. Hoping Cat abdicates too, mortal Cat really thought becoming queen was a bad idea. Thinking we might be going back to a more principled Cat? Either way, it seems like she's gotten her humanity back (that was stolen by the mantle) time will tell whether her actions play out.

On to book 5!

#a practical guide to evil #spoilers #book 4 spoilers #queue

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