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If you are a witch who writes (all witches)

Okay so lately I’ve been thinking of incorporating magic into the written aspect of the craft. Which I personally call scribe magic. Cuz it sounds cooler and Imma fight you if you don’t agree. So here goes.

Mundane Magic 101:

1. Draw a sigil of productivity, activate it, and draw it on the inside of your laptop/tablet sleeve for, ya guessed it, productivity. Cuz we all know what happens when notifications are turned on.

2. Charge your pens on a new moon, cuz ya know new moon is when the space is most fertile to set new intentions and bring them to fruition.

3. Charge a clear quartz (amethyst works as well) with the intention of filtering away distractions and keep it with you, either in your pencil pouch or as a piece of jewellery on you.

4. Charge a lapis lazuli with the intention of taking away your predispositions when you are researching to keep your bias from interfering with the bigger picture.

5. When you are actually working scribe magic, like writing down your intentions in letters of manifestations, write them with a feather quill, ink charged with charisma, notebook charged with the spirit of the hustle and go to town on your desires.

6. If you are drink any beverage when researching, just sit with the cup in your hands for a couple seconds and visualize this: healthy green rays infusing the drink, making it all the more efficient at taking away your exhaustion and replacing it with vigor.

7. If you wear spectacles, charge them on a full moon to retain clarity in thought.

8. If you are gonna study at your home, light a yellow candle and keep some sage or rosemary tea handy to help you concentrate. Alternatively, you could light sage incense cones near your desk to banish negative energy and negative thoughts. You could also hang rosemary to dry near your study nook. Rosemary has been used in memory spells historically.

9. If you tend to get anxious while studying, or are having trouble finding answers and coming to a cohesive conclusion in a research paper, drink vervain tea. It brings good luck, purification of thoughts and the druids believed it could open any lock. So ya know, exploit the vervain.

10. I like to keep a few leaves of rosemary in my pencil pouch and a sprig of it in my general research notebook. You could do that too.

11. Make rose water, bottle it, splash some in your eyes when you feel stuck or exhausted or hopeless about a project.

12. In my corner of the world, we wear kajal or surma everyday. If you are from the Indian Subcontinent or Middle East, enchant your kajal or surma, and whenever you feel high strung or like you are having having a whiteout, ya know when you just keep staring at just that one paragraph and you been doing it for the past half hour, apply a fresh coat of kajal or surma to your eyes to freshen up.

13. Drink Lemonade. Or listen to it. Cuz when nothing works, there’s always lemonade.

Again, this is by no means an exhaustive list, feel free to add your own ideas!

-Radha

i’m steal homestuck

do you have any thoughts on trans girl jake? i thought their narrative and character arc on being specialized by the others, and being comfortable about themself will wrap up nicely with them ending up as a transgirl!! it defies what people expects of them, and breaks them out of the traditional idealized reoccurring masculinity theme (which jake was obviously uncomfortable with)

(what follows is my personal thoughts, i’m not laying down the word of God, i just have Thots on Jake English ALSO THIS IS A PRETTY LONG POST? IM SORRY. i promise i will include pics.)

Jake English is a gender mimic. He’s the ‘raised by wolves’ trope, except instead of literally being raised by dog like Grandpa Harley he had a few years with Jade and then mostly nothing but the monsters at lusii island and a crap-ton of escapist media. He’s used to having a full playing field where he can indulge in unquestioned fantasy, and that comes in the form of his Indiana + Croft sexy 2000′s hero persona that is comfortable for him (and its worthy of note how one is Peak masculinity and the other is Peak femme fatale) until he has to really interact with real people with Expectations and Biases.

This is where i need to talk about the alphas. It’s nearly impossible to talk about Jake without talking about how he adapts around other people, specially the ones that he truly gives a shit about. Jake selectively picks the opinions that matter to him, and these are mostly what the other alphas think. (Compare to how he speaks over Erisol, jesters around Caliborn, and mostly pumps his own self pity with Tavrosprite for compliments- If you don’t want to count the epilogues scene he has with Davekat which mostly boils down to “you might have a point, but i’m loyal to jane, so you’ll have to really convince me of politics.”)

What holds him back from dating Dirk is Jane’s opinion, and What Jane Could Think (which is in no way jane’s fault, just his overthinking) because unlike dirk’s high octane masculinity, she’s the pillar of sitcom normalcy in his life. She lives in the real world, mostly removed from the bullshit the rest of the alphas are in, and she’s written to be the ideal generic romcom youth living a perfectly picture worthy life. The disastrous conversation where Jane denies her feelings is prompted by Jake finding confirmation she’s into him via Roxy- and he immediately grows nervous of that meaning she wouldn’t “approve” him going any other way, or that it’d be weird for a boy like him. And he needs to be sure before anything else- and also every step of the way, which will eventually exhaust her because its a load of bullshit and not her responsibility. It’s not that he doesn’t want to, it’s more that he’s afraid what others will think if he wants.

But he’s never direct about it. He just brings things up and lets people get their own opinions from it- because he’s REALLY passive about conflict and he’d rather solve things with the least amount of struggle possible, always. He just needs confirmation. And then comes this bit:

I read this bit of text in 2 ways: 1) Jake realizing pretty soon that his attractions aren’t limited to gender. & 2) Jake realizing pretty soon that gender is just a big ole scam, and that he couldn’t care less if it weren’t for outside perception of him. It’s just another performance!

Jake’s ongoing theme is that he hates being perceived (be it sexually, mentally, personally, in the sense that he abhors judgement and objectification and is afraid of being known) just as much as he gets by freely by allowing others to project whatever they want onto him- and he’s not bound to complying unless it’s shit he enjoys. He’s an indulgence chamber. He doesn’t want to be bound by rules or expectations partly because he’s sort of a lukewarm coward and partly because he thrives in contradiction. And all that sounds pretty dandy, but it doesn’t means he’s exempt from anxiety of what others think of him every step of the way and what that means to his projected image. Brain Ghost Dirk is part dirk splinter, part jake constantly asking himself ‘what would dirk do?’ because he thinks he’s not capable on his own.

and its where we get my favorite line:

“i dont WANNA be a man and i dont WANNA punch her in the face!” Maybe 2000′s action heroes who shoot first and ask questions later are, generally, sort of pretty stupid? And his fantasy can only go so far before it becomes something all too real he doesn’t want to be a part of? THIS is the line. I’ve already written about this bit before, in how Jake’s sexuality and the denial of his agency over it are traditionally a feminine narrative applied to a character desperately trying to be the quirky male lead of an adventure story, and it’s one of my favorite things ive written on jake. ( http:// twitter. com/hulknaps/ status/1130124233613500416 with no spaces so tonglr doesnt kill this post, or click on the ‘twitter’ link on my bio, it’ll lead you to it) He really wants to be both. He doesn’t want to be forced to choose or to subscribe to one extreme. He wants his cake and he’s going to fucking eat it, too.

The crockertier Jane/Jake scene encapsulates everything jake wants to project, Indiana & Croft, and spins it on its head: he would rather die than be the big man hero and hurt jane (and he does die for it, later) & becoming the femme fatale means giving up what little agency he has for other people’s eyecandy benefits. and maybe that really fucking sucks? He loves these concepts but he also really hates the reality of them? That’s the concept of Jake.

But despite all that, he’s generally comfortable with his masculinity to the point of neutrality unless somebody else brings up The Norms and how he’s betraying them by not being the definition of a cishet dude. All the alphas have a very tricky relationship with gender performance, and they rely on notions of eachother. ( https ://twitter. com/hulknaps/ status/1133205821024800769?s=20 ) But Jake relies on the alphas to define him based on the moment. He adapts to different people in different ways. he switches often, because the persona he’s constructed is not solidly him, just one of many detachable masks of convenience. the aspect of transformation or characters with chameleon features is all over his intro page too, even if it starts as a red herring that he might be lord english.

Just count how many references you can make to alter-egos, transformations, ‘avatars’, multiple personalities or forms in this one page. i’ll make some of them easy: Mystique, Ghost rider, Hulk, his beloved Avatar, all rely on the concept of having fluid forms. Two of them are also blue ladies! did you know there’s a blue hulk and he’s a goofy jock? i’m going offtopic, but you grasp the idea.

I’m utterly subscribed to the idea of Jake being GNC/nonbinary/genderfluid or simply slapping a big ‘agender’ on it. I give dirk shit for always running from the gay label out of fear, but jake sort of does this too, relying strongly on not being defined and doing whatever feels best at the moment. It also fits his aspect and denizen, but those are more abstract references.

and since i dont know how to better end this bit of meta, here’s a little section of Mystique, blue lady extraordinary and one of his beloved characters. make of it what you will.

#jake

Oh hey I'm on Waterfall now. I'm going to keep this blog up for reference/memories and such. And who knows I might even use it again some day. But ya I actually got pageofspace on waterfall (heck ya. I wanted it on here but someone snagged it way before this blog was made). I haven't postes much but expect that to have waaaaay more content and activity than here. I'll be sure to follow back :D

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Important update on my life. I'm a parent now. I have a baby. I've been singing "Im a member of the midnight crew" to him. Because I will always be Spades Slick. Anyway I'm going to fuck off again.

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