I reccomend reading the episode right before reading this, otherwise it might be a little confusing.
THESE NOTES WILL HAVE SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 146!!!
GENERAL NOTES:
SHE (paola) DOES IT AGAIN! A SMILE THAT'S NOT A SMILE
This is after Brenda almost calls her a "best friend"!!! Look at that smile not smile!!!!! is so good, Paola is really great when it comes to expressions
Jackson's reaction to having a bad day might be some kind of foreshadowing? Or early hints of his tendency to bottle up everything. He runs away and doesn't talk to anyone abt what happens to him, making him have a bad mood and being kind of grumpy later
Carol's reaction to being called "Carol" hints that Jackson goes back and forth with calling Carol and Frank "Tía" and "Tío".
Jackson's feeling so bad abt moving back to Kingsmont that he attribute HALLUCINATIONS to that. And I don't think he's told Carol and Frank how much moving back is affecting him. If the nightmares aren't actually due to his mom "haunting" him, then they are a sign of his anxiety towards the move. (btw, there's not a single scene or anything of Jackson recognising sth from his childhood or sth like that. Almost like it's left out on purpose)
I don't get how Carol & Frank didn't send Jackson to therapy the moment he said he yelled bc of an imaginary wet-floor sign
NOW there's no way to justify it; Exer's teasing Jackson with the sole reason to hurt him emotionally. What I find most crazy abt this is how much thought there's behind this time; Exer had to spy Jackson after school ended, wait for him to be alone in his room and make him see the wet-floor sign, exactly the same as the one he made Jackson have problems with hours ago.
Oh, and HUGE parentesis here; yeah, Exer can use his magic to spy on ppl. This is proven on episode 146:
Lucy is spying Jackson with the reflection on the water. We know she's spying him and not imagining him bc the image on the water has the same clothes as irl Jackson.
diary cameo just bc
Lucy is supposed to have the same magical abbilities as Exer, i. e. Exer can spy on ppl using his magic.
EXTRA NOTES:
Black aura around Pam, but for obvious reasons, is unrelated to anything else
Introducing water magic to everyday life is the easiest of all the elements!
While making tea, imagine putting good energy/intention into it and then drink it to have a good day! Afterwards (if you have time and skills) you can feel free to do divination, using leftover tea leaves.
While taking a bath/shower in the evening, imagine the water pouring onto you to be white/light in color and the water dripping off of you to be black/greyish color. I use it to cleanse myself of all the negative energy.
Looking into mirror as a divination is a very disturbing experience for me! Like, it’s effective, it can get weird though.
Water in a spray bottle can be used for space cleansing if you don’t wanna use incense all the time. Also it’s good for the indoor plants if you have any!
Washing dishes is another ritual of mine and it’s a good way to meditate. I just get lost in thought.
If you want to practice water magic, follow moon phases and use them to your advantage!
Water magic is not necessarily only gathering water and using it, but also perfoming spells or doing anything spiritual during specific weather conditions (ex.: raining, storm, snowing, hail stones).
TYPES OF WATER USED IN SPELLS:
Moon Water - great for all kinds of spells and craft! Moon water can have different abilities, all depending on during which moon phase we charged it in. The best water is the one charged during full moon or super moon as it is the most powerful.
Sun Water - keywords: positivity, strenght, happiness, courage, good health.
Rain Water - good for cleansing, meditation and relaxation. Keywords: growth, regeneration, cleansing, rest.
River Water - good for warding or spells with a clear goal as river water has a focused energy. Keywords: movement, action, flow.
Lake/Pond Water - I find it good for connecting with nature or animals. Could be used in animal magic. Keywords: wildness, nature, hidden, isolation.
Swamp/Mud Water - good for curses, hexes, binding, wishing someone bad health. Keywords: disease, dirty work, sticky, messy.
Sea Water - good for protection, banishing and any form of spell that needs powerful but calm energy. Keywords: vastness, life, fear.
Dew Water - keywords: vulnerability, peace, refreshing, delicate, calm, waiting. Good for Fae communication or any creature that is elusive.
Storm Water - good for spells that needs a lot of power. Be warned though, it’s very different from the sea water; it’s uncontrolled, chaotic and doesn’t last long. There’s a lot of anger and destructive energy.
Ice/Snow Water - keywords: endings, change, patience, harmony, growth.
Cemetery Water - good for necromancy, of course. You can put some in a spray bottle and spray it in a room in which you want to communicate with the dead.
Well Water - keywords: wishing, domesticity, home, family, community. Could be good for communicating with spirits/creatures living near or in your house.
Fog/Mist - keywords: invisibility, mystery, hidden, blindness. Spells including ‘clouding someone’s judgement’, those in which you want to stay anonymous as much as you can or those who will slowly start working over time.
~*~FIRE~*~
Direction: South.
Time of the Day: Noon.
Season: Summer.
Colors: red, orange, yellow, gold.
Sense: Sight.
Cycle of Life: Youth.
Instruments: string instruments (guitar, violin etc.)
Plants: spices, strong-smelling, stinging or irritating the skin, resembles sun or fire, thrives in warm weather/sun/hot climate.
Animals: lion, tigers, cats, lizards, foxes, snakes, scorpions, coyote.
Places: hot climate, bedroom, hot springs, volcanoes, desert.
It’s not as easy to introduce fire to everyday life as it was with water but it’s not impossible!
The easiest thing to do is to use fire/heat in baking/cooking/grilling. For me, the fire is all about protection and destruction (sometimes cleansing but it’s cleansing by destructive force) so by using it, we get rid of all the bad stuff inside of us.
Sun is the ultimate ally to fire magic and so are stars! Sun brings us life and happiness but it also makes us sweat like pigs so, for me, it’s still cleansing by destruction. Meditation during star gazing is great and I feel like spending time with someone under starry night sky is the best thing to deepen the connection! It’s also good to just talk out loud to either a deity or a spirit guide.
I find all physical sports to be fire-related but dancing is the biggest one! Sweating, lots of energy but also fun is a great way to connect to your inner fire. Sports involving adrenaline are also fire-y.
The most common way to practice fire magick is to burn stuff. Incense, paper, bay leaves. It’s good for manifestation, protection or banishing.
In general, be careful with fire. I find the safest option is to just use candles. Down below, there’s not many examples of how to use different types in spells but I included keywords so you can decide on your own if it speaks to you or if you want to try it at all.
TYPES OF FIRE USED IN SPELLS:
Bonfire - keywords: friendship, community peace, happiness, fun.
Candle Flame - generally good for everything and commonly used. The main type of fire magick.
Burning Flame - it could be small burning flame (aka candle flame) or when you take specific things (like your ex’s things) and burn them in a big pile to move on/banish them. All depends on the intention.
Match’s Flame - keywords: elusive, short-lasting, quick. Can be used in any types of spells or even divination. We light the match and wait for it to burn. If it doesn’t then the spell won’t work/the answer is no, etc. I’ll elaborate in a different post.
Not much I can say about air magic but I’ll try my hardest.
Air is a very elusive element so there are no actual material uses.
As you can see in ‘Ritual Forms’ I listed some examples of how I see practicing air magic which is mostly through music (but also painting/drawing!). It’s all the things that require your brain and focus.
However, there are some actual spiritual option for all the folks that wants to practice air magick.
Follow atmospheric conditions and perform spells accordingly. Spend time outside and focus on the wind surrounding you.
Work with birds! There is a form of divination called crow counting.
There’s a lot of types of air divination like shuffling songs, throwing stuff, by pendulum or Nephomancy (by clouds). There’s a whole wikipedia page about that!
~*~EARTH~*~
Direction: North.
Time of the Day: Midnight.
Season: Winter.
Colors: green, brown, black.
Sense: Touch.
Cycle of Life: Advanced Age.
Instruments: drums.
Plants: all plants, mushrooms, moss.
Animals: dogs, wolves, insects, cow, horse, bull.
Places: forest, meadow, park, kitchen, basement, caves, canyon, mines.
Ritual Tools: rocks, crystals, leaves, herbs, seeds, flowers, dirt, coins, food, wood, cards, books.
Ritual Forms: cooking, baking, gardening, handmade stuff, walks in the nature, spending time with animals, offerings, cleaning the house/nature.
Ritual Types: divination, enchanting, grounding, binding, animal magic, leaving the old behind.
MAGICK NOTES:
Practicing earth magick is really easy. It’s all about grounding, nature work, animals and using your two hands.
The most recognizable form of earth magick is kitchen and animal magick!
I find earth magic to be the most peaceful but isolated and unburdened magick of all! It minds its own business, it just want to be left alone and do whatever it does the best. It’s my favourite!
There’s not much to say because I think earth magick is pretty self-explanatory.
TYPES OF EARTH USED IN SPELLS:
Ashes - it all depends on what we burnt. Sage ashes are good for protection/cleansing, bay leaves ashes for wishing/manifesting. In case of paper ashes it depends on what we used the paper for/what was written on it.
Cemetery Dirt - necromancy again!
Regular Dirt - can be used in spell involving banishing, letting go, unbinding, manifestation.
Used Tea Leaves - if we made the intention, then the usage of the leaves depend on the intention! If not, then we might focus on the type of tea we drank. The leaves are also good for divination.
Destroyed Crystals (in small particles) - depends on the crystal!
Ashes From The Bonfire - or so called wood ashes. Can be used in spells involving cleansing/banishing/letting go/unbinding.
It seems to me that the word “deance” is a word that forms a protective object or is a protective kind of magic! When Barbara uses it, she gives Akko knee pads and a helmet, and when Amanda uses it, she softens the dragon’s teeth with a big flower.
I reccomend reading the episode right before reading this, so it makes a little more sense
THESE NOTES WILL HAVE SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 146!!!
GENERAL NOTES:
Still haunted by the idea of Exer with a beard to this day
Exer lets out a sigh before starting to practising flirting. Maybe related to wanting to win Brenda again and putting up an act.
It's really surprising how different Exer acts now to how he acts in the latest episodes
Appreciation moment for the different body types Paola draws even for bg characters!!!
I wonder if Norman knows about the rat incident in Jeremy's locker (I'm talking abt the rat in the locker)
Here we can see what everyone but Exer and Jackson see when Exer uses his magic. I wonder if he consciously makes ppl not see what actually happens? Bc is one thing if they don't see the green mist, but what about the tied shoelaces? Did they just keep walking without untying them or did Exer untie them for them? (IMG 1: episode 1. IMG 2: episode 2)
EXTRA NOTES:
First time ever there's a (slight) chromatic aberration. And is Jackson staring at Exer from Exer's POV
There's a black aura in the same scene as the previous episode, but sth interesting happens: the aura is there when Jackson is staring at Exer, the when Exer looks back it's gone, and then appears again
I reccomend reading the episode right before reading this, so it makes a little more sense
THESE NOTES WILL HAVE SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 146!!!
GENERAL NOTES:
I can't be the only native Spanish speaker who gets annoyed when Paola randomly skips the opening exclamation/question marks (¡¿)
Ik that Jackson "froze up" when he saw Exer but there was no green anything, so I don't think Exer makes him "freeze up". This is not the last time he does this and the way his mind goes elsewhere to the point he doesn't hear his surroundings is odd. This must be a sign of something. Probably dissociation? Maybe (I'm nothing close to a psychologist and I don't want to assume anything)
Jackson says a bunch of stuff he likes to do but it's never shown later in the comic. Probably because it's not relevant to the story, but maybe Jackson couldn't find time to do his hobbies due to school + ig magical bullying drains the inspiration to do anything
NOW exer is starting to get jealous. In the previous episode he was just setting boundaries (sth like "this is MY girl, new kid"), now he is starting to see Jackson as some kind of competition of popularity
Exer can read other people's minds??
Ricky and Marty are a reference to Rick and Morty btw
The scene of Ricky and Marty shows that Jackson is not the only one who is a victim of Exer's bully magic. Exer's been harassing Ricky and Marty even before the start of the comic, as shown in Pam's flashback (IMG: Episode 42)
(and ik that it some people might say "they deserve it" or "they had it coming" but bullying is NEVER justified. I'll definitely make some "analysis" or sth later abt this)
Also, Exer is clearly testing how much Jackson can see. And probably also teasing him. Though the most surprising thing for me abt this is how Exer is acting while doing this; he is looking at Rick and Mary but is clear that he's listening and paying attention to what Jackson is doing bc he keeps a poker face until Jackson starts panicking, then he laughs in a mocking way (and probably laughs abt Jackson and not R&M)
I wonder if Exer consciously made Jackson think it was his fault at the beggining or just a coincidence. Bc Exer looking at Jackson before playing with R&M makes me lean to the former.
Hello, I'm Present Jack and I'll add some things Past Jack missed that I think are interesting:
I think Exer purposefully made his eyes green and made like a mist around him to tease Jackson later. In Episodes 1-2, only his irises are glowing green and there's no green mist (just the greenish aura), but this time it was much more exaggerated:
I think Exer did this to reduce Jackson's suspicious of him; he denies what Jackson's saying in such a natural way that it really seems like Jackson's the one losing it. In fact, I think the whole thing was pre-meditated (Teasing R&M, taking Jackson's schedule) to put up that act. Which would link to Episode 2's first scene: Exer practicing to put up an act
EXTRA NOTES:
There's a green mist around Jackson before Rick and Marty start getting bullied by magic. But again, must be a narrative way of keeping new readers confused.
Times Jackson has "frozen up": 2 (both related to Exer, but none seemed due to his magic)
Also I forgot to mention it before, but there's a chromatic aberration in the title
There's also a green mist in the flashback of the previous episode
There's a black aura when Jackson's seeing what's happening to R&M
I was wondering, how did you come up with made up spells in your LWA fics?
Ohhhhh! So glad you asked! I had a lot of fun making up spells and magic words in my fics so far!
Unless it’s a spell we already know about from the show (like “murowa” or “tia frerye”) I just made up words based on prefixes and connotations in some cases (like in my current Dianakko fic, but the chapters containing those words are not released yet~)
In A Witch’s Confession, I made up spells by rearranging letters of the corresponding English words. For example the Paper Levitation spell was “Leva perpa tah-te”. Literally “perpa” is the letters of “paper” rearranged, and “leva” and “tah-te” is “levetate”.
Then for the Reveal Hidden Text spell, I had Akko explain it herself: I made the magical words for ink be “Tenwa Per” which are the rearranged letters of “pen water” (aka ink, because I thought “pen water" sounded cooler than “ink”, and it’s also easier to rearrange 8 letters instead of 3). And “to reveal” is “seloc sid” again rearranged letters for the word “Disclose”. Therefore “Seloc sid Tenwa Per Perpa” is “to disclose the pen water (ink) on a sheet of paper”.
Then in my fic Back To Back I used a different method and had the spells be based off a combination of English and Japanese words. The words “Raea Odorae” is a made-up combo of the English word “ray” (of light) and the Japanese word for “dance” which is “odori”. So “Raea Odorae” in my mind is “To make the rays of lights (sprites) dance”.
So yeah I basically either combined English and Japanese words or rearranged letters in most cases!
I'm kinda torn on using it as it's AI. My job is very stressful with incidents and supporting 13 clients across two buildings as well as dealing with repairs and external services. We've had a lot of police interactions recently
I did test it out, and it will save me hours of typing. Even if the client doesn't give consent for our conversation to be recorded, I can read my handwritten notes after, and it types it for me
I might do the later as I feel a bit awkward recording my conversation with the client but if I do, it makes it more natural as I don't need to write or type anything
