#sage black

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The last high fire of the 2022 year is back home. I feel so proud of these pieces, and see where I want to go further in terms of vessel shape, surface texture, and grouping in 2023.

A ramen bowl, a planter, a serving bowl, a ringed vessel, a small bud vase, stacking plates, and other vessel explorations.

All were thrown with Stoneware 48 Clay and fired in Cone 10.

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ooc | Sage & Zach

[ 100% Sage ]

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ooc | Sage & Juniper

sage loves all of her sisters so much!!!! <333 

So, I feel like Sage def has the problem of being a helicopter mom w/o actually being a mom (#facepalm). She just likes to make sure her sisters are okay and wants to know what they are all up to b/c she’s so proud!!!!! Honestly, I do think she sort of slipped out of that habit a little bit back in NYC and got sucked into her business and stopped keeping such close tabs on them. Not that they never talked or anything, but it definitely wasn’t like how it used to be, you know??? 

Anyway, I feel like she has always given Juniper the most ~freedom of the girls b/c Hazel is the baby and Jasmine is ... Jasmine haha but she still keeps her eye on June b/c she’s so!!! trusting!!! and that def worried Sage back in NYC and honestly it worries her here even more since whoops! they are witches now and sage is supposed to head the coven now and sage can’t imagine that everyone is 100% on board with technically outsiders coming in and leading things when they didn’t even know they were witches until now!! Typically, Sage tends to consider everyone a friend until they prove otherwise, but I think she’s a little more guarded now than she once was and probably even more so on behalf of her sisters haha! 

But omg she’s so proud of June and v encouraging of her job working w/ Zach (although she keeps a close eye on him lol) and tbh she probably knew that June never quite liked the city life and hopes that she feels more at home here <333 

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Sage Runs Out of Counter Space (but don’t worry, everything’s fine) | Sage & June

The smell of melted butter and sugar filled the attic of the Black household. Although she wouldn’t admit it to you if you’d dare to even suggest such a thing to her, Sage felt as though she wasn’t quite in control of her own life.  Sage Black was always prepared for anything. Jasmine had once nicknamed her Mary Poppins trying to mock her for all of the things she carried around in her purse in case of emergencies. It was her sister’s way of calling her a loser, but that was lost on Sage who would always take that sort of foresight and caution as a compliment. But this? Nothing that had happened since they’d arrived had been part of the plan. 

There had been a huge appeal to the move at first glance: it would be a fresh start for all of them; a welcome change of pace from the crowds and constant energy of the city and, most of all, it would offer the Black sisters a way to reconnect with each other -- something they’d all sorely lacked since growing up. Sage had been enthusiastic about all of it. She’d only wished she could have had some idea of what really awaited them. 

Going more than thirty years believing that you are one thing and then, in an instant, finding out that not only is magic real, but that you are both a witch and next in line to lead a coven of witches had been, to put it lightly, a shock. The whole thing still seemed a little absurd, like the entire town had gotten together to play some sort of elaborate prank on all of them - as though they were trying to see just how gullible the out of town city folk really were. But the strangest part of all of it, was that it somehow felt right. Like she should had known this all along. 

It didn’t mean that learning magic was easy. 

Sage had always been an eager student. Super organized, driven - the sort of person who would start on projects the moment the teacher assigned them. She could make school look easy (even when it wasn’t) because she loved it. But this wasn’t like that at all. She wasn’t used to this: to feeling so under prepared for a task; so hopelessly under-qualified and experienced. She was a sorry excuse for a witch, let alone someone who was supposed to take over for their aunt. 

So she decided to deal with her problem like she dealt with any other she encountered: but ignoring her own feelings of inadequacy with aggressive optimism (fake it til you make it!) and throwing herself into other distractions which, today, meant making more cookies than she and her sisters (and possibly even all of the tenants in the entire Black house) could eat. 

It was in the middle of all of this that June had returned home from work. Sage brushed away a loose strand of hair with flour-coated fingers as she greeted her sister with a tone that suggested that nothing was wrong (Sage rarely admitted she was struggling to herself, but she would never show such weakness in front of her siblings). “Hey! How was your day! I’m making cookies. Um,” She  bit her lip, suddenly realizing that there was several batches on display - the last time she had made this many had been for a bake sale at Hazel’s school. “Wasn’t sure what kind our tenants like, so I made a bunch! Wanna lick the spoon?” 

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ooc | Sage & Maxim

so ... sage has a crush on maxim and tbh she haTES that she does!!!!! I mean, he’s her LAWYER and she’s his client and any romantic feelings are so!!!!! unprofessional!!!!!!!!! and against all rules hahaha and Sage hoping that Maxim might someday feel the same way honestly goes against everything Sage believes in hahaha #facepalm 

It does say that they are also friends? Which is probably how Sage’s feelings started to develop haha (honestly that is probably sage and peter’s fault haha you know 1 day they both came over to the black’s on business and stayed way later than planned going over documents and then sage made them dinner and maxim wanted to say no but peter didn’t want them to be rude and #whoops here we are) 

anyway, what does maxim think of sage/how does he treat her? i know he can be kind of crusty on the outside/100% BUSINESS???

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ooc | Sage & Finn

omg these two are best friends!!!!! so my first question ... do you think they became bffs before or after finn became a vamp? b/c I think that would have a pretty big impact on what kind of relationship they have since Finn’s def a little different now than he was before he died haha 

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ooc | Sage & Zinnia

Sage is so excited to get to know Zinnia!!!!!!! Honestly, family is suPER important to Sage and she hates that she never knew her cousin and is determined to make up for lost time and Zinnia definitely has an open invite to come over to the Black house anytime!!

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ooc | Sage & Hazel

Lauren!!! Sage adores Hazel so much!!!!!! tbh the #1 sign of this, is that Hazel can pull pranks whenever she likes and Sage will find them amusing instead of frustrating!!! (even when she’s in the middle of planning something!!!!!!!) And yeah, Sage is 100% guilty of spoiling Hazel. 

... but yeah she also looks @ all of her sisters and sees them all as kids still #facepalm. In Sage’s head, Hazel is more like 14 instead of 24 haha and I feel like she often forgets that Hazel is???? an adult?!?!?!??!?!? She she does like to keep tabs on her haha eSPECIALLY since Hazel loves to go out exploring and likes to hike in the woods and that always fREAKS sage out especially if she goes alone or w/ someone Sage doesn’t know that well haha and you know she’s calling/texting for updates and they don’t have great cell service and you know there’s been at least 1 unnecessary search party out for hazel already #facepalm (and idk if she knows about hazel getting lost a lot but she would freak!!! out if she did haha) 

ANYWAY, but besides being overprotective, she is also hugely supportive and is so!!!!!!! proud!!!!!! that Hazel is pursuing medicine and she knows how smart and capable she is and will always bake her lots of snacks and sweets for studying haha.