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Recommended magic, folklore, myths, witchcraft and occult books,/ tools and resources:

A Witch's Guide to Fetch Work: Rituals, Spells, & Practices by Blake Malliway (highly recommend Crossed Crow Books Publisher)

The Morrigan: Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might by Courtney Weber

The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck by Kim Krans

Sigil Craft by Lia Taylor

Ensouling the Effigy: The Witch's Arte of Enspirited Objects by Matthew Venus

Magicka by Carlota Santos (Such a gorgeous book would make a great gift for a witchy friend)

The Runes by J. Hamburger

Six Ways by Aidan Wachter

Call of the Morrigan by Stephanie Woodfield and Karen Storminger (This deck is a amazing and the guidebook is full of spellwork and rituals that include the cards)

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

*I am mainly keeping this list for myself to add to as I am building my own little magic school library this year, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know :)

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stuckinapril

How soul sucking to feel like you have to restrain yourself in a romantic relationship for fear of being judged as being too much or a simp and stuck in a loop of mutual self restraint. God, people bore me. I get bored just watching other people's mediocre relationships unfold sometimes. Like how tf do these people do it? I was not built for a milquetoast relationship.

Looking around me it seems like people want a mediocre relationship to have the label and as a security blanket in life —they don't actually want to be in love. Because to me, there's no such thing as a laid back, chill, easy going person in love. A person who is actually into you isn't going to be laid back, chill or easy going about it because being in love makes people do crazy things and isn't rational. Love should be all consuming and emotionally taxing but also completely inspiring and exhilarating. It should make you feel invincible and delusional at the same time. Inspire you to suddenly build an extension on your home for no reason or take up cliff diving. You should feel completely insane when you are in love and start doing things completely out of character, losing sleep, taking strange risks, wearing ridiculous outfits, missing flights because you stayed too long in bed.

Love is about relinquishing control. If I am in a relationship, I want to feel a lot of things for that person and get butterflies when I see their name on my phone. If my world isn't flipped on its head by his very existence and I don't feel fireworks inside me when he walks into a room....I am not interested. The sight of him should feel like lightning striking me and cause a complete emotional meltdown. And I should welcome this rollercoaster of emotions. I should have fever dreams about him when he's away for a weekend. I should wear his shirts because they smell like him.

I don't care what a piece of paper says about us together, I don't care about our shared investment portfolio, or if my parents would like to see me with a nice responsible normal man. I really could gaf less what other people think. I'm here to feel things, not tick boxes. Love isn't a business arrangement or a bureaucratic nightmare. It's a creative endeavour. Something you do purely for the thrill of feeling alive with another person.

I want someone who unabashedly adores me and adds 100 songs to our shared playlists and sends me 100 messages a day if they want to and likes being on the phone for eight hours and is highly expressive and emotional. And vice versa. I want to be intense and passionate and mutually obsessed with a man. And when things end, we should both be devastated and bawling our eyes out on our knees. Otherwise, what the fuck is even the point? I have actually never had a relationship in my entire life that wasn't like this and I don't plan to. I don't care if I'm 103 years old, I ain't settling for some mediocre bs.

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annaxmalina

[11jun17] 227\365 (phone, laser prints, charcoal, collage)

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It cannot be normal how much Earl Grey tea I drink. Like three cups a day seems like a lot...but it's my favourite thing in the world and ever since I quit smoking and coffee a few years ago, it has been my crutch. Something about the warm citrusy goodness of bergamot that I am completely obsessed with.

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annaxmalina

p a p e r . . . . . . . + weeks old painting water with sedimented gold acrylics

mhbcr

Don’t use AI to write. Use childhood trauma like a real poet.

roserosette

New Year's Adventures of Masha and Vitya, 1975, Igor Usov and Gennadi Kazansky

wiedzma

Calendar of Slavic Fairy Tales is a series of experimental miniatures inspired by old beliefs. First episode is called Weles

A new project from Bui sisters - five minutes well spent

ymutate

Hiroo Isono

urgetocreate

Hirō Isono (Japanese 1945-2013), Acrylic on canvas

renditi0ns

Lightning storm last night

My new favourite thing to do is buy people's self-published or independently published books. This is where the ideas really are at if you really know where to look. Some life changing stuff in some of the rare gems you can find where it's a regular person writing about something they deeply care about without the pressure of marketing the book as a product. Remove the sales pitch and you just have the art of writing left.

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