Word Witch Angie's Cottage

Video game dev/retro-gaming, Sinolinguistics, Touhou/anime/anime-styled art, tabletop games, Alice in Wonderland/fairy tales, modern witchcraft, and old music. I make Touhou surf rock (東方サーフロック). Born Nov 1995. Nose drumming. See my "Expect 2 see" page for more about me. Feel free to chat. Ask for Discord. https://linktr.ee/tzetsienghwaang

[9ofspades]

It seems we grammarians have lost the war… my phone tried to correct my use of “data are” today.

I will continue to fight for this lost cause (‘datum’ is the singular of ‘data’!!!!), but I know in my heart that it is already over 😔

[shogikappa]

Got some new lip gloss today. Ready to start witching again

[shogikappa]

Ping on bun icon

Ping on bun icon drawn on the 2026 Bun Festival (包山) as part of the celebration.

The bun carnival is held annually in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, and has origins in being offerings to drive away a plague and pirates. Today, it is most famous for the "bun scrambling contest" where contestants climb atop bun towers to try to snatch the highest-scoring buns before time runs out.

Have a happy Bun Day!

[shogikappa]

Anti-insomnia potpourri jar

Been suffering from very bad insomnia for a good number of nights now and it's impacting my physical health. As part of trying to get over insomnia I'm trying this insomnia jar. I already have a good sleep spell jar previously so this will be distinct and on the practical side. Basically a minimal lavender potpourri that I plan to unscrew every night

[shogikappa]

Lol it's 5am and I haven't managed to get any sleep so I daresay the insomnia's been the worst after I made this

[shogikappa]

Anti-insomnia potpourri jar

Been suffering from very bad insomnia for a good number of nights now and it's impacting my physical health. As part of trying to get over insomnia I'm trying this insomnia jar. I already have a good sleep spell jar previously so this will be distinct and on the practical side. Basically a minimal lavender potpourri that I plan to unscrew every night

[barbaricjester]

"please" is a funny word. Out loud parenthesis tone tag we've deemed as manners. What if we changed it to "pleading" or "begging". Or requesting i guess for

"Can I get your help with something, pleading and begging?"

"I'll get the steak entree, request."

[shogikappa]

i always figured it was just short for "if it pleases you" but translated instead as "if you please" (from french s'il vous plaît) rather than the regular English form and over time it got shortened to "please", because otherwise I never understood why the word "please" would be used in that context.

[shogikappa]

Virtual Walpurgis Night/Night on Bald Mountain sabbat mod

[crimsonwing]

Let the fires of Beltane bring you fortune.

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Que te traigan fortuna los fuegos de Beltane.

[shogikappa]

Walpurgis Night/Beltane/立夏 spellwork

So I'm doing a bit of a triple celebration for these 2 days. This altar is divided into roughly 3 corners. There's Walpurgis Night on the right hand side, Beltane on the top left, and 立夏 (Láp Há) on the bottom left.

The main focus though is on Walpurgis Night's ritual for health. Long story short, I've always been overworried thinking I'm sick when it turns out I'm not, and for a month I've been trying to convince myself I'm overworried over nothing again, when it turned out I actually have something I need to see a doctor about. In stark contrast to my previous jars, this Walpurgis Night jar has no real "calm down" element, but rather suggests that I take action (carnelian), though I should take the wise actions (sage), for good to come to me (dandelion). The extra pink salt is for some self-love and protection, and the plum flower is a substitute for the mayflower for Beltane.

A quick description of the rest of the stuff, from corner to corner:

- Nine tailed fox (self-love for Beltane)

- Fairy dust jar (the Fae, Beltane)

- Cauldron (witches' Sabbath, WN/Beltane)

- Plum garland (May wreath, May Day)

- Haw flakes (snack for May Day)

- Milhouette deck (Walpurgis Night game; I chose not to do a divination for this)

- Sea jar for Láp Há, a day celebrating the start of summer (I know it's ironic that WN celebrates spring), hoping that it won't get too hot for my bad skin

[gothicgreenery]

In the purple swamp.

[shogikappa]

Strength in solitude jar.Primary goal: to make my days fulfilling instead of "waiting for each day to end".

Includes:

- Himalayan pink salt (self-love)

- lapis lazuli (make smart decisions)

- carnelian (enjoy things I like)

- orange craft bits (happiness and courage)

- dandelion (strength; main ingredient)

- chamomile (happiness)

[shogikappa]

btw any of you have Signal or Element? 2 of my friends left discord for these platforms so I got these just to stay in touch with them but I only have 1 friend on each of these platforms to talk to so I'd kinda like to add more people on them to incentivize myself not to forget about those platforms

[shogikappa]

Real reason witches can't fly on brooms is cause there will be laws against it

[shogikappa]

My internet and websites not working while it's 3am is probably a sign I should go to sleep rather than stay up

[shogikappa]

Calming spell at the witch's workshop

[shogikappa]

I close my eyes and with my wand, I cast a spell of mental peace on myself.

[shogikappa]

My Ostara jar and altar 2026

The whole Ostara celebration feels very rushed. By the time I had known when Ostara was I only had 2 days to prepare (St Patrick's Day coming right before), and some of the materials would only get fully ready after Ostara is over. On top of that, Spring is no longer something I look forward to due to how hot the winter has been and spring is only going to get hotter. Plus, I had no real goals for Spring as I had already made several jars not too long ago. I find that certain Ostara activities like spring cleaning were already stuff I had done for Lunar New Year, so overall, Ostara is something I felt rather rushed about and with no real goals, despite me trying to hype myself up about it. Nonetheless, I decided to try to make a jar for it with some generic wishes to try to get into the mood, after already changing my lock screen and keyboard. The lemon scented sachet I normally keep next to the mini altar but I put it on the jars to make it easy to stay in frame.

Ingredients for my Ostara/Spring Equinox jar include:

- Grass bits

- Pastel coloured crystals (light blue, magenta, yellow)

- Imitation hare's tail grass (fertility, and to go beyond my limits, mad as a March hare)

- Butterfly beads

- Fairy dust (Fairy of the Spring Breeze, wishing that the spring breeze would make the heat not that unbearable)

- Dough Ostara eggs

- Lemon craft bits

- Rhinestones in cyan, red, pink, yellow

- Sunflower petals (the sun, happiness/strength)

- Peach blossom (as a springtime flower; for the pastel colours)