aka how to subtly cleanse your workspace without your coworkers noticing
In no particular order; repeat as needed and as meetings allow.
Go outside. Feel the sun on your face. Find a rock. Any rock. Even an ugly rock (there are no ugly rocks). Scream ENLIGHTENED, DIVINE, BLESSED etc at it inside your head until it feels warmer and maybe glows a lil. Take it to your desk. This is now your magic rock. Hold it whenever you need magic. Recharge in sun as needed (both yourself and the rock).
If your thoughts start to race, imagine your mind is a beautiful, serene pond and your thoughts are koi. Don’t let your thoughts swim faster than koi. It will mess up the screensaver.
Blast a Florence + The Machine song as loud as you want (while still being a courteous coworker). Any song is fine, they are all Easy-Bake exorcisms.
Drink more water. That helps on the inside.
Get a plant. Any living plant. An air plant is fine. Plants eat bad vibes. It’s science.
Back with the misc form designs, Glissandix! The sound form. Info on it below!
Glissandix is the forme of Sound and to get it you have to essentially recite any spell for a reason not related to study or practice in a perfect intonation, as if you’re turning it into a song. It’s a hard form to get because it requires a lot of vocal training and control, not to mention finding oneself in the situation where they would get it, but it offers a boost on all voiced spells and sound-based magic in general. This affects the Winx in different ways if they were to get it - Stella and Aisha have proper formal voice training in their role as princesses, so they have a greater vocal control than most others. Bloom lacks this, but because she can sing decently well she wouldn’t have as hard of a time as Flora and Tecna would, as neither of them are really used to speaking a certain way that isn’t their natural tone and have their own issues with speaking out in general (neither are particularly shy, but Flora’s someone that lets her actions do the talking and Tecna doesn’t see a point to it). Obviously Musa’s the one best suited for the form, as the literal Fairy of Music, and as such gets the eye aura effect.
Outside of that, design talk! We DO have a canonical music-related transformation - Magic Rock from the S8 comics, but. well. look at it.
you understand lmao. IT DID TAKE STELLA’S BOOTS but that’s about it really. Also they used this form to fight ghosts sabotaging a concert? that they later decided to crash and play in it? it was weird.
ANYWAYS, what I actually used as a design guideline was their NUMEROUS concert outfits across the series, primarily their S5, S8 and Winx In Concert looks. You can tell from which I stole their hairstyles from!
An unifying aspect across all of them were cropped jackets or vests, belts and boots, which are very present in the final design. I added assymetry details, mesh clothing, and a VOCALOID2-style bell sleeve, because we stan Vocaloid in this household still even if I haven’t kept up with it in almost 9 years. The wings are styled after both feathers and piano keys.
Magic Rock Fantasma IPA (Picked up at a M&S Food in Oxford, UK). A 3 of 4. More resin and earthy notes than I was expecting, which provides a nice backdrop to quite a bit of the expected tropical fruit and orange citrus. The body tastes relatively normal and not gluten-free, which is nice.
Beauty? What is beauty? Why is beauty?
Who can tell me what beauty is? Who can make me listen to their explanation? Who wants to listen to mine? Because...
Is beauty supposed to make you fall in love? Is beauty supposed to make you gap in surprise? Is beauty supposed to make you want to own it? So...
Should beauty be kept behind security glass? Should beauty be shared with everybody? Should beauty be agreed by a whole mob? But...
Is beauty understood? Is beauty coveted? Is beauty abstract? Can beauty be suggestive? Can beauty be loathsome? Can beauty be intellectual? As...
Who can create beauty? Who can consume beauty? Who can ignore beauty? Thus...
What is the best question for beauty? What is the right word for beauty? What the f* is this, beauty?
Bah, I'm rambling. Just bring me a good English craft beer from Magic Rock, let it be full of bitter citrus zest like this High Wire Grapefruit, and send me to Tate Modern in London to find the Big Answer to all these questions, or maybe discover some more.
