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Most of the “keep up the work after the protests have ended!”-type posts I’ve seen are mostly focused on like, reading Black authors and listening to Black voices and unlearning racism, and obviously all of that is absolutely vital - but no amount of individual self-reflection will be able to dismantle institutional systems of oppression. So I wanted to put together some resources for continuing to build a culture of noncompliance and resistance to the police and prison system even after things have calmed down

But first, be aware that the protests aren’t over. It’s June 29th and there are still events and actions being planned regularly across the nation, and they still need your participation and support. If you’re able, please keep your focus there; this list is for what can be done long-term outside of the protests

Know your rights. Giving the police any more information than you absolutely have to will never and can never benefit you or anyone else - positive evidence given to the police is regularly thrown out in court, whereas negative evidence will be used against you. Know what to say and what you have the right to refuse. You don’t have to answer any questions without a lawyer present, you don’t have to give the police access to your house or car unless they have a current warrant signed by a judge. They will try to intimidate you - learn your rights and don’t let up, don’t ever cooperate with the police

Don’t snitch. If you see someone breaking the law in a way that doesn’t hurt anybody, keep your mouth shut. If cops knock on your door asking you questions about your neighbors or anyone you know, don’t answer

Don’t call the cops. If you can solve the problem in a different way, do it. Cops have on multiple occasions murdered the people they were called to help (or bystanders) without provocation. Don’t be complicit in that. Learn how to handle situations as a community or with the help of qualified experts

When you see an interaction with the police happening, stop and observe. If necessary, film the interaction. Organize and work with groups such as Copwatch to observe the police and hold them accountable

Use proper opsec, especially if you’re involved with anything that might make you a target for the cops. Downloading Signal is a great simple place to start

Learn about jury nullification, and spread the word. When serving in a jury, you have the right to vote not guilty on a defendant that you believe did commit the crime but doesn’t deserve punishment for it. Don’t be complicit in unjust punishment

Refuse to do work for the police or prison system. Workers keep the world running and the state relies on our compliance to keep our neighbors under their thumb. We can shut it down

Continue to support bail funds, even for non-protesters. Cash bail is unjust, and people shouldn’t be in jail just because they can’t pay

Continue to support legal defense funds as well, such as that of the National Lawyers Guild

Write to prisoners, either by yourself or with groups such as the Anarchist Black Cross or Black And Pink, and organize/support books to prisons programs, commissary funds, reentry programs, and other forms of prisoner support

Organize and support community-run crisis response organizations like the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, Oregon or the Birmingham Peacemakers in my hometown

Here are some other organizations to join that are doing good work in this area:

Black Lives Matter is obviously a huge voice in racial justice right now. The list of “official” chapters on their website is very incomplete, though, so you may have better luck doing a web search for “[your area] black lives matter” (beware of fakes though)

Showing Up for Racial Justice is another very active and widespread racial justice network

Critical Resistance is a grassroots prison abolitionist organization founded by Angela Davis

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is another active prison abolitionist organization

The IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee works with prisoners to organize strikes, phone zaps, and other actions combating injustice in prisons

Again, the Anarchist Black Cross does great work supporting political prisoners through letter-writing and more. The link I’ve been including is to an unofficial federation of ABC groups, though - there may be a group in your area that’s not part of that federation, so a web search for “[your area] black cross” may be better

Black And Pink is a prison abolitionist organization focused on queer people and people living with HIV/AIDS

Antifascism is of course an important aspect of racial justice and community safety. See @antifainternational‘s guide to getting connected to your local antifascists - though, again, beware of fakes (the “antifa checker” accounts on fedbook and twitter can help)

The police state and prison industrial complex rely on the complicity and cooperation of all of us to function and be effective. By building a culture of noncompliance and active resistance, we can drastically reduce the state’s ability to oppress communities of color. Don’t let the struggle be forgotten with the changing of the news cycle - keep up the struggle until all are free!

Boosts and additional resources are very much appreciated!

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In which I word vomit about my FoM fic that I may actually someday post

I've been playing Fields of Mistria on and off, and of course the plot bunnies started forming and with the new update, I've started finishing plotting out the main storylines for my fic and decided to share it because I need to scream into the void instead of leaving it torturing me in my brain.

So, first off, instead of one player character there are three (mainly because I literally could not decide between March, Balor or Eiland so I gave each of them a chance)

Arietta (Ari): The "canon" character, an adventurer who took on (well, more like she was kind of forced to take it by Wilder, head of The Adventurer's Guild and basically her de-facto father after her actual father died years ago). Her father was also part of The Adventurer's Guild and so she's basically been in it since she was young. She's the oldest of the three (probably in her late twenties), generally level-headed but also likes to figure people out, which is why Balor intrigues her so much because man does he deflect a lot.

Rosette: Hailing from a noble family, her parents died in a fire when she was young which left her with scars and, because of her young age, she fell under the guardianship of her aunt and uncle until she was old enough. Said aunt and uncle proceeded to lock her away in their manor and isolated her from everyone, and then decided-in order to keep control over her and her inheritance-to marry her off to an older noble with a very sketchy past in regards to marriage and so she ran away and ended up finding her way to Mistria. She's in her mid-twenties, very stiff and awkward due to literally not having much human interaction outside of what her aunt and uncle allowed, and also has a bit of self-esteem issues from her scars caused by her dear aunt. Also does not get the best first impression of March. Tess: She's part of a non-canon group I made up called the Order of Alda, basically part religious order part scholarly tower (because if there's a adventurer's guild and a merchant's guild, why not a order that is supposed to be benevolent and charitable but probably has not so great morals?). She was left on the doorstep as a orphan, taken in as a novice with the expectation she would take her vows and become a full-fledged member when she's old enough to repay what was done for her. She ends up having a weird dream that leads her straight to Mistria, and is reluctantly assigned with investigating it especially with the weird earthquake that happened not too long enough. She's the baby of the bunch, just about to turn nineteen and is very bubbly and eager, also a bit naive in certain aspects and knowledgeable in others as she loved to sift through the various tomes the Order has (especially the forbidden ones) which very quickly allows her to form a bond with Eiland.

Basically the idea is while Ari is initially the one who is given the farm, the other two due to a certain meddling dragon (I say that with love) end up staying to help her out and all three of them kind of become Dragonsworn, which is very weird. Rosette also has to deal with the fact her uncle, aunt and especially her unwanted fiancé all want to find her and dear gods, why is March making her heart race? And Tess is struggling with the fact she's supposed to return to take her vows because, oh yeah, the Order expects its members and novices to be celibate and also does not look well on novices, especially ones who were raised in the Order, leaving it and also the Order kind of doesn't really like to talk about the dragons in Aldaria's past.

That's really just the basic outline without getting too in depth about potentially spoilery stuff. I have no idea if I'll even get to posting about it mainly, because I got a lot of other stuff I'm working on, but I wanted to word vomit so here it is.

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PARAPSYCHOLOGY

Disclaimer: This WIP can be considered to be set in an alternate history where the development of Parapsychology follows a different timeline than in the real world. As a result, the field has different figures and events which do not bare any resemblance to real-life counterparts.

Classified as the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena, those who study this field are known as parapsychologists.

History

While interest in the paranormal and psychic abilities began around the 1850s, what could be considered the first official studies and experiments began around 1879 when Dr. Henry David Sparks, a psychologist who came to Europe a year earlier due to a lack of academic jobs in America, met Lady Florence Ward, a psychic with mediumship and clairvoyant abilities, as both of them were separately investigating reported paranormal phenomena. The two of them were considered the first parapsychologists, as they travelled Europe and even America investigating and researching. While many claims they investigated were debunked, letters exchanged via Dr. Sparks and his sister, Alice Dodd, reveal that they also came across astounding proof of the paranormal that left Dr. Sparks shaken in his skepticism.

In 1881, The Paranormal Society of Research was founded by Dr. Sparks and Florence Ward as they believed that the paranormal and psychic abilities needed to be studied and researched extensively in order to truly understand it. Not able to create it solely by themselves, they were introduced to Abraham Kane, Eleanor Hatlen and G.M Seymore with the five of them becoming the first board of governors.

The Paranormal Society became famous for building Parapsychology to what it is today: founding psychic and paranormal research laboratories through the 1880s, mainly in England and America, before expanding slowly to the rest of Europe then the rest of the world. The British Journal of Parapsychology was created around this time, and Dr. Sparks would write his own book The Science of Parapsychology which is still used today as a textbook.

A rough code of standards for paranormal investigations was developed in the 1900s by Eleanor Hatlen, with support from Dr. Sparks, which would be changed over the years and became used not just by the Paranormal Society and those affiliated with it, but many independent investigators as well including Dr. Beltran and his protege, Dr. Javier Luna.

As much as the field gained prominence, however, in its early days especially it was plagued by scandal: there were many scams and frauds claiming psychic abilities (many of which were debunked by Dr. Sparks, to the ire of some later members of the Paranormal Society) and the abuse of psychics remained a hotly debated topic even into the later twentieth century.

Such treatment of psychics led to a push for a code of ethics, helped by other codes of ethics being developed around the same time for different fields of science, which was eventually created around 1954 though the code was re-advised many times over the years.

Outline

Those who study this field fall into one of the two main disciplines, though there are some who specialize in both:

Psionics

Parapsychologists who study this discipline are primarily focused on studying the abilities of psychics: how people develop psychic abilities, how to control them and the limits of these abilities. Many parapsychologists in this field are also psychics themselves.

This discipline has faced criticism in the past due to incidents where supposed psychics didn't actually have psychic powers and the researchers involved would fake data, or incidents where researchers would push psychics to the brink which would result in injury and death.

Paranormal Research and Investigation

Probably what most people think of when hearing about this field, parapsychologists in this discipline are focused on the study of the paranormal: ghosts, demons and the occurrence of hauntings. Unlike Psionics Researchers, whose work is mainly confined to a lab, Parapsychologists in Paranormal Research and Investigation will often conduct investigations, travelling to haunted locations to gather data. There are parapsychologists who focus on either research or investigation, though they often are trained in both areas as well.

Demonology is a sub-discipline of this, focused on the research into demons though practical knowledge in this field is scarce due to the rarity of demonic hauntings and possessions.

Terms and Concepts

A list of terms and concepts found within Parapsychology:

Base: The hub of any paranormal investigation, it is a secure area within a haunted location where equipment is stored and where the team will review evidence, collect findings and also acts as a place to rest or even sleep. In more dangerous investigations, it also acts as an area of protection.

Hauntings: The repeated manifestation of strange phenomena at a certain location. Hauntings can vary greatly from location to location, some might be continuous while others only start after a certain frame of time or even happen on an specific day. Hauntings are categorized into four main types: Residual, Intelligent, Poltergeist and Inhuman.

Lockdown: A lockdown generally only occurs in haunted locations that are abandoned or can otherwise be easily controlled. The investigation team will clear the area of any outside members, doing multiple sweeps to assure no one else is on the property.

Parapsychologist: A researcher who studies paranormal and/or psychic phenomena; they have at least earned their master's or doctorate in parapsychology, though they may have studied something else in their undergraduate studies.

Paranormal Investigator/Ghost Hunter: Despite common conception, not every paranormal investigator is a parapsychologist; many simply have a passion for the paranormal and chose to investigate without completing any of the studies, though they may use parapsychology research in their investigations.

Imprint: A term often used in the case of residual hauntings, referring to the leaving of a residue of a combination of energy and emotions related to an event such as death or even heartbreak. The imprint can shape the environment, for example making someone smell fire in the area if the death was fire-related or feeling anger from witnessing betrayal. 

Cycle: Referring to the evolution of a ghost and their behaviour change; not every ghost will change their behaviour, some may change after so many years have passed or after their haunt has been disturbed or altered in some ways. A cycle does not necessitate a change in the rating of a ghost, but a ghost can change their type throughout a cycle.

Client-Based: Used to refer to paranormal investigators who investigate a supposed haunting when asked to by a person or persons (the client). Usually are called because the hauntings are affecting the daily life, often resolved by helping or forcing the ghost(s) to move on, though there are cases where something about the property needs to be fixed to allow the dead and living to co-exist.

Location-Based: Refers to paranormal investigators who themselves choose where to investigate, usually going to places that are well-known. These investigations are usually more research focused, as most of the ghosts do not need to move on, instead used to gather more information on the paranormal and even can be used to test psychic abilities in the field.

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A table of contents for my Luna Paranormal Investigations WIP, will be updated as new things are added.

Introduction

WIP Tag

Character Introductions

Maren Holovko

Dr. Javier Luna

Beatriz Aguilar

Felix Estrada

Phoebe Winters

Victor Baptiste

Noel Martin

Callan Turner

Worldbuilding

Ghosts

-> Obsessions

Ghost Types: Visitant, Looper, Wight, Shade, Poltergeist, Doppelganger, Bogey, Wraith, Phantom

Psychics

The Paranormal Society of Research

Parapsychology

Misc

WTW Events

Incorrect Quotes

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Psychics

Psychics are people with the unique ability to alter or observe reality in ways that most normal people can't.

Many psychics begin to show their abilities as children, though there is a link between hormones and psychic abilities expressing themselves as many psychics first develop their abilities while going through puberty and there has been instances of psychic abilities either appearing or growing in power during pregnancy, with the psychic abilities also believed to be passed down to the child being carried in the womb.

History of Psychics

For most of history, psychics were viewed with fear and distrust due to superstition believing their abilities were magic, granted to them by demons and many were shunned or even killed.

It wasn't until the 1850s that people began researching the nature of psychic abilities, though there was still much unknown about them, and then in 1881 the Paranormal Society of Research was founded by Dr. Henry David Sparks and Florence Ward (a psychic herself) which led to more research being done into psychic abilities and there was a shift in the perception of psychics from beings of evil to admired celebrities. However, this shift wasn't entirely a positive thing, as there were many sham psychics that popped up which led to psychics facing suspicion of their abilities and for psychics with actual abilities, there was an unfortunate risk of them being abused and manipulated for their abilities, often pushed to their limits and becoming injured or dead by overuse.

It was in 1928, with genetics being better understood, that Dr. Amelia Everett who was a British parapsychologist with a background in genetics, began looking into the idea that psychic abilities were related to genetics. Enlisting the help of Corinne St. Laurent, a French Canadian psychic who had the power of retrocognition the two discovered that both Corinne's mother and grandmother had the same ability as Corinne, and found more female relatives in her history that possibly might have the ability though they also found instances of the ability skipping a generation, especially if a daughter only had sons as she found psychic abilities appearing far more prominently in girls than boys. Dr. Everett determined the appearance of psychic abilities was the result of a recessive gene, though she also found instances of psychic abilities appearing in people with no previous ancestors showing such an ability. Later studies would theorize that psychic abilities could go dormant through an atavism (in which an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost) perhaps as a method of self-preservation and would appear through moments of high stress.

Psychic Abilities

Psychic abilities are put into two main categories: receptive (meaning the ability presents itself internally with no external evidence) and projective (the ability presents itself in the physical world with external abilities). While most abilities only fall under one category, a few fall into both categories.

Telekinesis (classification: projective): The ability to manipulate matter with your mind, the most common variation of this is the ability to move objects or people, however there are sub-types related to the manipulation of elements such as fire, water, etc. One of the more common psychic abilities and easily the most dangerous, especially if a psychic becomes emotional. Psychics with this ability are called Telekinetic, Pyrokinetics etc.

Astral Projection (classification: receptive): The ability to separate your spirit from your body, allowing you to enter the astral plane. Psychics with this ability can also enter people’s dreams or minds in order to communicate with them. Using this ability however puts one’s body into an comatose state, leaving you vulnerable to attacks.

Empathy (classification: receptive and projective): One of only two abilities to be classified as both categories, it is the ability to sense and understand another’s emotions, as well as even manipulate a person’s emotions to make them feel a certain way or share another person’s emotions with them. Psychics with this ability are called Empaths. Telepathy (classification: receptive and projective): The other ability classified as both categories, Telepathy is one of the most powerful abilities along with Telekinesis. This ability allows one to not only read another’s mind (at its most powerful, without them even knowing) as well as communicate with them mentally. More skilled psychics with this ability can outright control a person and even modify or erase memories, making them one of the more feared psychics. Psychics with this ability are called Telepaths.

Clairvoyance (classification: receptive): Also called ESP, it is one of the more common psychic abilities with several other abilities falling under its umbrella. It is the ability to gain information about an object, person, place or event beyond normal means. A psychic with this ability might have a vision of what has already happened or is about to happen (Retrocognition and Precognition) or may see a location far away from them that they shouldn’t be able to see even with the help of technology (Remote Viewing). They may also be able to tell what has happened to a person or object by reading them through touch or find a person by touching something that has belonged to them (Psychometry). Many psychics only show one of these abilities, but others might display some or all of these abilities though they can cause a great strain. Psychics with this ability are called Clairvoyants as a broad term, though other terms are used if their ability is more specialized (Seer for those with Retrocognition or Precognition). Mediumship (classification: receptive): The ability to perceive and communicate with both ghosts who walk on the mortal plane and those who have moved on to the afterlife. One of the more unique psychics, as many of them show abilities associated with clairvoyance but only limited to the dead i.e a medium might only sense the emotions of the dead. They can channel ghosts by offering their bodies as a temporary host, though it can be risky as the ghosts may refuse to leave. Powerful psychics with this ability can even repel or banish ghosts from an area, either temporarily or permanently. Psychics with this ability are called mediums.

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So, did not expect to have to make this post, but for those not aware: a user by the name of nyuuzyou decided to do an unauthorized scrape of art and writing from several different websites including A03 to HuggingFace (which is basically a machine learning (AI) website that people upload databases, applications and models). Two posts have been made about this, one by a moderator of the r/A03 reddit community and one by another user both of which I'll link here:

Reddit - The heart of the internet

Reddit - The heart of the internet

From what I've been able to gleam from comments on the threads, the datasets were created by processing works with IDs from 1 to 63,200,000 that are publicly accessible. Further comments clarified that means everything up to I believe March of this year that isn't archive locked could be included in this dataset (I'm not 100% sure about this, but that is what I've gathered). My fanfics are all likely part of this dataset, as they have not been archive-locked.

The dataset that was uploaded to HuggingFace has been disabled due to people issuing DMCAs (though the user is counter-claiming) but he has also uploaded the datasets to modelscope and datafish which are a China and Russia site respectively. More information can be found on PaperDemon including how to claim DMCA for your own work here. As for me, I chose to keep my fics not archive-locked even after the first attempts because I still wanted guests to be able to enjoy them, but after this I am going to be archive-locking all my works so you will require an account to access and comment on them. If you see this post, maybe reblog it and others like to spread the word because this should not be okay.

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The Paranormal Society of Research

-> "Founded in 1881, The Paranormal Society of Research (often abbreviated to PSR or simply called The Paranormal Society) remains the primary organization dedicated to research and investigation about claims of paranormal and psychic phenomena. It has its own teams of investigators to conduct investigations, as well as provides funding to approved external individual investigations and investigation agencies, and provides research into the nature of psychic abilities as well as offers guidance to psychics in understanding and controlling their abilities." <-

Founded by Dr. Henry David Sparks, a psychologist and known skeptic, and Florence Ward, daughter of Lord Ward and a medium and clairvoyant who had been working together since 1979 in travelling Europe and America investigating claims of paranormal phenomena. While many of their findings debunked such claims, they did also find astounding proof of psychic abilities and paranormal activity that left even Dr. Sparks questioning his own beliefs.

They would later be joined by Abraham Kane, a German telekinetic and telepath who became the founder of the Kane family of psychics as well as Florence Ward's eventual husband, Eleanor Hatlen, a physics researcher and early suffragette and G.M Seymore who was a well-known American businessman with an interest in the occult who provided much of the early funding. These five would form the first PSR Council, though there was speculation of tensions within the group due to Kane's desire to take credit and be in control of the organization among other reasons.

The Society would be plagued by many scandals throughout the years, relating to accusations of fraud by members of the organization that was swept under the rug and abuse of genuine psychics who were often pushed to the brink, which would often times result in injury or death.

In modern times, while a non-profit organization, it wields a lot of influence within the parapsychology community in regards to its research and funding. Many critics, however, argue it now doesn't care as much about the dead or the living, focusing more on profit than anything else and has a habit of playing favourites or blacklisting its opponents.

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Ghosts

-> "Ghosts are those who have died, but cannot move on for various reasons: love, revenge or simply not realizing they have died. Some ghosts are tied to their place of death, metaphorically and perhaps literally chained to it while others roam freely; other ghosts may be tied to an object of sentimental value, and thus they follow the object.

Most ghosts are harmless, merely trying to accomplish whatever unfinished business traps them on the mortal plane before moving on. Others, however, have far more dangerous intentions and some only want to inflict harm and suffering upon those who still live.

Ghosts can come in many different forms, and to properly classify these types and their threats, the Heller scale was created by Dr. Bennett Heller as a way of ranking ghost types and has since become the primary method of classification used by parapsychology experts and students <-

There are nine different types of ghosts, each with their own specific characteristics and traits: Wight, Visitant, Looper, Shade, Poltergeist, Doppelganger, Bogey, Wraith and Phantom.

In addition to the types of ghosts, each individual ghost is assessed on their threat level using the Heller Scale, divided into three main levels: Tame, Moderate and High Risk.

Tame Ghosts

Calm, mainly friendly ghosts that don't pose a threat to the living. They're mainly haunting because they're trapped, by their deaths or events that happened around their deaths and merely need a guiding hand to move on.

Moderate Ghosts

Ghosts who may have been trapped for a long time and have started to experience a change in their behaviour or suffered a violent death, can easily turn violent if their obsession is threatened. These ghosts can still be reasoned with, but depending on their emotional state, may have to be exorcised.

High Risk Ghosts

Ghosts who have either been trapped for so long they've forgotten who they are or who have become so fueled by anger they seek nothing but to cause harm. They can also be ghosts who committed great wrongs in life and, as punishment, have become trapped on the mortal. The most dangerous kind of ghosts, ones who must be exorcised or otherwise forced off the mortal plane.

Certain ghost types are more prone to be one level over the others, for example Visitants are mainly only Tame types, however ghosts can switch from one level to the next if they're angered or their haunting is interrupted or disturbed in any way, a Wight for example can switch from Tame to Moderate or even High Risk if what they're protecting is threatened in any way.

Assessing both a ghost's type and level is crucial, in order to properly conduct an investigation and reach a satisfactory conclusion for both the dead and the living.

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Edit 03/28/25

So I've gone ahead and edited this post, because I liked the idea of using the Heller Scale as this kind of assessment rather than putting each type of ghost into one specific category, instead having it as levels of threat that can cause a ghost type to change their behaviour depending on the threat level they are.

I will go through and update the actual ghost posts, eventually.

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WTW POWER PROMPTS - DAY #3: MECHANICS

An excerpt from Introduction to the Classification of Psychic Abilities by Dr. Amelia Everett ->

Psychic abilities are divided into two main categories: receptive (meaning the ability presents itself internally with no external evidence) and projective (the ability presents itself in the physical world with external evidence) though some abilities fall into both categories. In terms of inheritance, generally children will inherit the abilities of their psychic parent, however there have been cases of psychics having their abilities evolve i.e a psychic with precognition develops the ability of retrocognition and vice versa. A psychic's ability can grow over time, becoming stronger though it can also diminish in power, particularly if a psychic chooses to suppress their ability though so far no cases of a psychic ability vanishing have been witnessed. Known Psychic Abilities are as follows: Telekinesis (classification: projective): The ability to manipulate matter with your mind, the most common variation of this is the ability to move objects or people, however there are sub-types related to the manipulation of elements such as fire, water, etc. One of the more common psychic abilities and easily the most dangerous, especially if a psychic becomes emotional. Psychics with this ability are called Telekinetics. Astral Projection (classification: receptive): The ability to separate your spirit from your body, allowing you to enter the astral plane. Psychics with this ability can also enter people's dreams or minds in order to communicate with them. Using this ability however puts one's body into an comatose state, leaving you vulnerable to attacks.

Empathy (classification: receptive and projective): One of only two abilities to be classified as both categories, it is the ability to sense and understand another's emotions, as well as even manipulate a person's emotions to make them feel a certain way or share another person's emotions with them. Psychics with this ability are called Empaths. Telepathy (classification: receptive and projective): The other ability classified as both categories, Telepathy is one of the most powerful abilities along with Telekinesis. This ability allows one to not only read another's mind (at its most powerful, without them even knowing) as well as communicate with them mentally. More skilled psychics with this ability can outright control a person and even modify or erase memories, making them one of the more feared psychics. Psychics with this ability are called Telepaths.

Clairvoyance (classification: receptive): Also called ESP, it is one of the more common psychic abilities with several other abilities falling under its umbrella. It is the ability to gain information about an object, person, place or event beyond normal means. A psychic with this ability might have a vision of what has already happened or is about to happen (Retrocognition and Precognition) or may see a location far away from them that they shouldn't be able to see even with the help of technology (Remote Viewing). They may also be able to tell what has happened to a person or object by reading them through touch or find a person by touching something that has belonged to them (Psychometry). Many psychics only show one of these abilities, but others might display some or all of these abilities though they can cause a great strain. Psychics with this ability are called Clairvoyants as a broad term, though other terms are used if their ability is more specialized (Seer for those with Retrocognition or Precognition). Mediumship (classification: receptive): The ability to perceive and communicate with both ghosts who walk on the mortal plane and those who have moved on to the afterlife. One of the more unique psychics, as many of them show abilities associated with clairvoyance but only limited to the dead i.e a medium might only sense the emotions of the dead. They can channel ghosts by offering their bodies as a temporary host, though it can be risky as the ghosts may refuse to leave. Powerful psychics with this ability can even repel or banish ghosts from an area, either temporarily or permanently. Psychics with this ability are called mediums.

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From the book What are Psychics? by Dr. Amelia Everett ->

Psychics are people with the unique ability to alter or observe reality in ways that most normal people can't. Psychic abilities are believed to be the result of a recessive gene, which only shows when two copies of the gene are present. There is also evidence that psychic abilities can skip a generation, for example if a psychic's grandmother was a psychic who married a non-psychic, the psychic's mother never showed any abilities then the psychic developed their grandmother's abilities. However, it is theorized that people with no clear line of psychic ancestry are able to gain psychic abilities particularly in a moment of high stress such as dying and coming back to life, through an atavism (where an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost). Further theories speculate the gene may have gone dormant to protect the psychic and their descendants from prosecution during the days where psychics were viewed as either witches or demons, but nothing conclusive has been proven. In addition, it is believed that women and girls are far more likely to develop psychic abilities, indeed in studies performed it was found that daughters and granddaughters of psychics were more likely to receive their parent or grandparent's psychic abilities than sons and grandsons were.

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An excerpt from Understanding Psychics : A Look at Psychic Abilities from Magic to Genetics by Corinne St. Laurent ->

"It is unknown when, exactly, the first psychic was recorded though many historians suspect it might have been when humans started walking the earth, what is known is that psychics as we now know them were not recorded as such in early historical records. Instead they were called witches, demons etc as their abilities were attributed to magic and superstition drew people to fear them, shun and shame them and even kill them. There are countless records of people claiming to speak to the dead, of being plagued by visions or knowing things they shouldn't. Whether or not these are all true cannot be confirmed, as no research into psychic abilities exists before the 1850s. With a rising fascination for ghosts and the supernatural, it created interest in psychic abilities that could interact with this world and early studies and experiments started to be conducted into these psychic abilities, starting the field that would become known as Parapsychology..."

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Obsessions

-> "In the early days of parapsychology, one question was constantly being asked: why do some ghosts haunt and others don't? When some people die, their spirit is more than content to move on but others remain on the mortal plane and some even become attached to people, rather than places.

Eventually, as more investigations were conducted and research was done, a parapsychologist named Dr. Irma Hatlen developed the idea that ghosts who haunt do so because of something driving them, what she dubbed obsessions" <-

Obsessions are the driving force of a ghost's haunting; not all ghosts have obsessions, visitants for example rarely have obsessions as they merely visit from the spirit world for a short time before leaving.

Obsessions range from the mundane to the dangerous, a ghost can develop an obsession with their favourite chair for example and might haunt because their chair was removed from its original spot while other ghosts have an obsession with their murder, wanting justice in order to move on.

Ghosts can also develop an obsession over time and the obsession can grow, for example a person is murdered and their murderer is never caught, their ghost becomes trapped and as they remain stuck on the mortal plane, they develop an obsession over their murder and, after remaining dormant, start to haunt.

The most common way for a parapsychologist or psychic to get a ghost to move on is to find out a ghost's obsession and how to solve it: getting justice for a ghost will help a ghost who is obsessed with their murder move on, finding and burying the body of a ghost that never received a proper burial helps a ghost that is obsessed over their lack of a proper burial move on etc.

However, as ghosts remain stuck over longer periods of time, even they might forget the obsession that's keeping them there, which makes it trickier to figure out why they remain. And in the most extreme cases, a ghost's obsession can twist them into a being of rage that even if their obsession is solved, they cannot attain true peace and must be dispensed of in other ways...

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Phoebe: Rely on your natural instincts!

Victor: My natural instincts are to panic!

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What kind of idiot would do this? Me, I realize, I'm the fool

Victor, probably while being left alone at base

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Luna: What if I go up there, and you stay down here, and we turn our lights off, and we see if we hear anything?

Felix: ...What if you go fuck yourself? How about that?

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2024 Writing Round Up

Hello all!

As this year comes to a close, I thought I would give a little bit of a writing round up as to what I've done and what I hope to do in the new year in terms of my writing (both fandom and original).

I'm going to divide this up into different sections to make things a bit easier:

Fanfics

In term of my fanfics, I've run into the same problem as I have every other year, being I keep getting plot bunnies which distract me from my current WIPs 😆, but I have actually started two (three if you count my other secret project that isn't really associated with this account) fanfic projects that I have not started posting yet, because I plan to finish at least a chunk of it before I start posting it.

The first fanfic project is Central Magic, which I actually started in Nov of 2023 which is a FMA Sabrina the Teenager Witch AU series I planned to start posting in October, but ultimately decided not to as I got very busy and wasn't able to finish it so I will likely start posting it (hopefully) this upcoming October. In terms of word count (excluding the two parts I haven't finished writing), this project has a word count of 80,705 words with the average word count being around 10,088 and that's also excluding the edits I still have to do for some parts and the two parts that have not been finished yet. The total parts for the first season will be 10, with the parts that are over 10k being split being into smaller parts.

The second fanfic project is more recent, which is The Holloway Legacy that started because I saw an edit of Rafael Barba from Law & Order: SVU, I started to watch the seasons he was in and it just blew up from there. It is a Rafael Barba x OC fanfic series that will go from Seasons 14-23 following the Holloway sisters and their relationships with Barba and the rest of the SVU throughout the seasons, with canon divergence starting at the very end of Season 14. As of right now, the project is sitting at 20,988 words and I'm sure that count will grow as I finish the rest of the 14th season. I don't know when I will be posting this fic, though I do know I will probably cross-post it on both A03 and Wattpad.

In total, that means I have written a total of 101, 693 words combined for these projects, and if you add in the other word counts of my other fanfics that are published, that brings the total up to over 150k words which makes me feel rather accomplished considering how draining real life has been in terms of keeping me away from writing.

Original Works

In terms of my original WIPs, my writing is definitely less than my fanfics which is likely influenced by real life being tiring, and when I get the energy to write, I tend to focus on my fanfics but I do hope to start working on my original WIPs more in the new year.

With that in mind, for my original WIPs:

With a Spark of Magic

My first WIP I started posting about, and probably the one I've made the most progress on as it is currently sitting at 27,052 words.

But it's also the one that has changed the most, and the one I haven't really touched this year for a variety of reasons related to real life. I'm not 100% sure if I will continue it as it is, I might adapt it into another story or re-use the concepts but I'm still uncertain about.

Deadly Crown and Luna Paranormal Investigations

I'm grouping these together as I've made about the same amount of progress on them (that being, I'm still on chapter one of both).

Deadly Crown is currently sitting at 1535 words and Luna Paranormal Investigations is at 2260 words.

Luna Paranormal Investigations is probably the WIP I plan to work on the most in the new year, as I really find myself resonating with it.

Looking into 2025

Going forward into 2025, I hope to write more of my original WIPs, (perhaps even adapting elements of my older WIPs together) while still working on my fanfics and hopefully getting the two fanfic projects I mentioned above posted.

With that in mind, my writing goals for 2025:

Work more on Luna Paranormal Investigations

Revisit With a Spark of Magic and Deadly Crown (maybe even merge the two concepts together?🤔)

Finish Central Magic and The Holloway Legacy, at least the first parts.

2024 has certainly been a year, and 2025 is probably going to be equally so, but I do wish every single one of you happy holidays and a hopeful new year.

Best wishes,

Lizzy <3

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I'm going to be so pissed off if we die

Maren, done with everyone and everything