Wicked Words

Paula Nortin on IG. New witch, old bookworm. I analyse characters, plots and worlds. Plenty of fantasy, quotes, tea and cats.

[wickedwinterwillow]

[wickedwinterwillow]

Therapist: What is keeping you up at night these days?

Me: How, just HOW does Old Virginia money sounds like!?

[wickedwinterwillow]

We all know there is plenty of character development across The Raven Cycle but, can we please appreciate this humongous moment courtesy of Mr. Adam Parrish?

One of Adam's best known and more core traits is how careful he is with resources. He knows how much he owns to the cent, he multitasks, he wishes for an hour of sleep. And then in Call Down the Hawk we get THIS.

Harvard to Virginia is eight hours by car, Eight. Hours. And. Then. Back. Again. This pumpkin has not only matured enough to dedicate copious amounts of time and energy to something he enjoys but he is in a position to do so.

He has gone from saving the world in between jobs and wanting " to be awake when my eyes are open" to having so much time and security to pull this trick and still go "I'm awake. I promise. I'm very awake." As someone who is equally careful with my own resources I can't help but fall in love and shed a proud tear with this moment. Excuse me while I go get myself a Harvard tshirt to support my boi.

[wickedwinterwillow]

Okay people, I am ready.

I have read The Raven Cycle and I am ready to become a full memeber of this fandom family. It took me a moment, because coming from TSR it's like going from your bathtub to the Ocean. But I am ready, so hit me with all your dead kings and your live Gangseys, and pynch and latin and trees and Blue and Henry mis-quotes and afternoon drinks on tarot readings.

[wickedwinterwillow]

The first time I visited Keith's wordl I had to go through the ice portal. Which turned out to be less intellectually exciting and more painful that I had hoped for, but beggars can't be choosers and I hadn't crossed the world to whine about transport trifles

[tradcraft]

[anthonybrxdgerton]

Article 13 has been approved by EU. It’s worse than Net Neutrality has ever been. I don’t even know if we will have any access to Tumblr, Pinterest, Ao3 or even Instagram. Memes are probably dead, just like reactions, fanfictions and gifsets. Everyone in EU is in danger that they will not have access to their favorite sites. But I haven’t seen a SINGLE post about it on my dash because Americans doesn’t give a damn.

[ah-finally]

Also, I’m in Europe and ngl, had no idea this was even an article up for debate let alone it being fucking passed.

[unknownpoliticalobject]

Don’t panic! This was expected at this stage and it is only the beginning. If you are a European and feel passionate about this, please keep on reading and help!

So what has happened so far … the Commission has drafted up a long overdue copyright reform. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2016_280 It contains a lot of good, and some bad: mainly Article 11 and 13.

This was put forward as a whole to the European Parlament, where it was voted down on the 5th of July 2018

This meant, this will not go through the fast way, and will be subject to scrutiny and change. 

The Commission made some alterations https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2016_280 and put it forward again. If Parlament would have voted it down again, it probably would have meant back to the drawing board, but most people (including me) agree that Europe does need copyright reform, so on the second vote it passed the first step:

So what happens now? 

This will now go into what is called the Trilogue, where Commission, Parlament and representatives of all national governments will sit together to make alterations until everybody is happy implementing the regulation.

This means we can now influence this via our MEPs and our National Government!

If countries that are red your government is likely to support Article 13.

What to do now?

There are a lot of organisations that organise actions against article 13. Check out their websites and get in touch with your MEP or local government and let them know you are unhappy about this.

https://www.saveyourinternet.eu/ 

https://epicenter.works/

https://www.changecopyright.org/

https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/

… and many many more, just google to find one in your country.

Also, as @asthesea-breezehitsmylungs pointed out, a lot of people are not aware of this going on. So make them aware! Share the memes and point them to the petitions. And don’t just complain how shit this is, get in touch with your politicians!

[ilyone]

Reblogging for the more positive stance and call to action. This is not the moment to panic, although article 13 and 11 are scary. But the final law is not approved yet, and so far MPE’s have shown to be influenced by the amount of messages. I received several responses from MPE’s who voted for the law but are pushing for strong limits to these laws to make sure that while it protects copyrights, it will also allow fan creation, memes and parody. So let’s make sure the word spread, and that the version of the law that get accepted in several months is one that WON’T destroy the internet as we know it. 

[aangarchy]

THERE NOW YALL KNOW

[wickedwinterwillow]

I went for a walk near the forest with my partner and there is this field next to it where a farmer was struggling to calm his horse.My partner asked "What's gotten into him"

"November is coming" I shrugged as if this was the most obvious of the things and left him there, puzzled. There is this one book he should read.

[wickedwinterwillow]

To all the writers

Any word to describe that feeling of despair trying to choose between writting the fantasy series is plaguing you, the crime novels your mama would be proud of or the strictly-under-pseudonym steamy romance that would actually pay your bills??

[wickedwinterwillow]

Everything dead deserves to be honored

[raecupcake-blog]

"When Shelley's corpse washed ashore, a friend identified it by a copy of Keats's 1820 volume in the coat pocket, which he knew Shelley had taken with him. Then, after cremation in which Shelley's heart, hardened by calcium, did not burn, this same friend snatched it from the embers and presented it to Mary Shelley, who kept it thereafter in her desk, wrapped in a copy of 'Adonais."

Here’s your morbid literary fact of the day.

[voidbat]

jesus christ, i will never be this goth.

[katrinastratford]

Mary Shelley’s father taught her to spell her name by taking her to the graveyard and having her trace the letters on her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s gravestone.

NO ONE will ever be as goth.

[closet-lunatic-deactivated20170]

didnt she also have sex on said grave

[mankillercalledbunny]

She lost her virginity on her mother’s grave yes

[violent-darts]

… that’s it we can all go home, peak goth was achieved before we even started.

[jstor]

JSTOR confirms it: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3177447

[optimysticals]

Mary Freaking Shelley is None More Goth personified.

[flapper-queen]

@mama-germany Achieve maximum goth

[nyokoko]

@saarebitch

[gothiccharmschool]

If I fail to reblog this, assume I’m stuck in my crypt, and someone needs to come help me.

[gehayi]

She also wrote a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel focusing on the extinction of the human race and the meaninglessness of existence. In 1826.

Oh, and this isn’t especially goth, but my God, I respect her for this:

In 1827, Mary Shelley was party to a scheme that enabled her friend Isabel Robinson and Isabel’s lover, Mary Diana Dods, who wrote under the name David Lyndsay, to embark on a life together in France as man and wife.[126][note 13] With the help of  [American actor John Howard] Payne, whom she kept in the dark about the details, Mary Shelley obtained false passports for the couple.[127]

[ceridwens-cauldron]

The more I learn about Mary Shelley the more I love her

[monsieurenjlolras]

I mean makes sense that she was supportive of her non-straight friends because like she and her husband had an open relation ships and he definitely slept with other men (Lord Byron) and there’s a decent chance that Mary Shelley may have at the very least kissed other women

[almanacp]

So she was an LGBT ally icon as well as the Mother of Science Fiction. Adding her to my list of heroes.

(also @garrettauthor sorry I keep tagging you, but I feel you’d like this.)

[garrettauthor]

Oh my god do I ever like this.

[wickedwinterwillow]

Old sins cast long shadows

[wickedwinterwillow]

So RTTE just finished

Heart: I N E E D to go out to the fandom and talk about all these feels

Brain: Wait, Waiiiiit. I havent finished processing all of this

[ineffectualdemon]

What people think writing is like: careful planning and thought out plotlines

What writing is actually like: being possessed by an idea that you are constantly arguing with

[shades-of-orange]

I have never seen such an accurate description of writing in my life

[thecultoflexithewulf]

Elemental Metaphysical Correspondences

The energies of the elements have many different metaphysical correspondences that can be invoked through working with those elements. By bringing fire, water, air, and earth energies into certain situations you will be able to strengthen aspects of that situation by allowing the elements to be present. This can be good to empower yourself ,or you’re working when you need a specific energy to be brought into your life.

Metaphysical Correspondences Of Fire:

Passion, Creativity, Banishment, Aggression, Purification, Destruction, Strength, Exorcism Protection, Empowerment, Manifestation, Authority, Will, Action, Consumption, Wild, Illumination, Power, Courage, Energy, Sex, Masculinity, Yang, and much, much more.

Metaphysical Correspondences Of Water:

Calmness, Sensitiveness, Subconscious, Dreams, Life, Intuition, Healing, Cleanse, Death, Rebirth, loving, Emotions, Astral travel, Astral Projection, Relationships, Transformation, Change, Absorption, Trance State, Reflection, Sensitive, Psychic, Fertility, Femininity, Yin, and much, much more.

Metaphysical Correspondences Of Air:

Intelligence, Wisdom, Unity, Clarity, The Mind, Inspiration, Communication, Freedom, Discernment, Memory, Instruction, Logic, Movement, Visualizaton, New Beginnings, Travel, Focused, Awareness, Mindfulness, Masculinity, Yang, and much, much more.

Metaphysical Correspondences Of Earth:

Grounding, Centering, Balance, Harmony, Stability, Nurturing, Nature, Prosperity, Money, Wealth, Physicality, Ancestors, Structure, Abundance, Employment, Fertility, Strength, Growth, Death, Rebirth, femininity, yin and much, much more.

[studyingisfortheweekend-blog]

Alternatives for 25 overused words in writing

1. Interesting- note worthy; thought-provoking; fascinating; attracting; appealing; attention-grabbing; captivating; gripping; invigorating; engrossing; engaging; electrifying.  

2. Beautiful- striking; stunning; magnificent; lovely; charming; gorgeous; radiant; dazzling.

3. Good- acceptable, wonderful, exceptional; positive; brilliant; first-rate; notable; stellar; favorable; superb; marvellous; prime.

4. Bad- awful; lousy; poor; unacceptable; crummy; dreadful; rough; inferior; substandard; atrocious; appalling; dreadful; defective.

5. Look- glance; fixate; observe; stare; gaze; peer; scan; watch; study; browse; eye; glimpse; review; inspect.

6. Nice- lovely; superior; pleasant; satisfying; delightful; likeable; agreeable; correct; adequate; swell; fair; okay; approved.

7. Very- extremely; exceedingly; exceptionally; immensely; tremendously; abundantly; particularly; remarkably.

8. Fine- satisfactory; worthy; respectable; exquisite; suitable; well; imposing; decent; admirable; praise-worthy; decent.

9. Happy- cheerful; delighted; pleased; content; amused; thrilled; elated; thrilled; ecstatic; on cloud 9. 

10. Really- genuinely; truly; honestly; actually; undoubtedly; certainly; remarkably; incredibly; downright; unquestionably; extremely.

11. Sad- miserable; gloomy; devastated; down at heard; distraught; distressed; dispirited; sorrowful; downcast; feeling blue; desolate.

12. Big- massive; huge; giant; gigantic; enormous; large; colossal; immense; bulky; tremendous; hefty; sizable; extensive; great; substantial. 

13. Shocked- taken aback; lost for words; flabbergasted; staggered; outraged; astonished; astounded; stunned; speechless; appalled.

14. Small- tiny; petite; mini; miniature; microscopic; minuscule; compact; pocket-sized; cramped; puny; undersized; limited; meager; modest; minute; pint-sized. 

15. Angry- irate; enraged; touchy; cross; resentful; indignant; infuriated; wound-up; worked-up; seething; raging; heated; bitter; bad-tempered; offended; frustrated. 

16. Know- understand; comprehend; realize; learn; perceive; recognize; grasp; sense.

17. Change- alter; transform; replace; diversify; adjust; adapt; modify; remodel; vary; evolve; transfigure; redesign; refashion; advance; transition; shift; adjustment.

18. Old- aged; ancient; matured; elderly; senior; veteran; decrepit; seasoned; venerable; past one’s prime; doddering; senile.

19. Think- ponder; reflect; conceive; imagine; contemplate; consider; determine; realize; visualize; guess/assume; conclude; envision. 

20. Funny- comical; ludicrous; amusing; droll; entertaining; absurd; hilarious; silly; whimsical; hysterical; joking; witty; facetious; slapstick; side-splitting; knee-slapping.

21. Go- move; proceed; advance; progress; travel; walk; journey; depart; exit; flee; make one’s way; clear out; get underway.

22. Give- grant; donate; hand-out; present; provide; deliver; hand over; offer; award; bestow; supply with; contribute to; send; entrust.

23. Get- acquire; obtain; receive; gain; earn; gather; collect; buy; purchase; attain; score; secure; take possession of; grab.

24. Easy- effortless; simple; clear; smooth; straightforward; uncomplicated; painless; accessible; apparent; basic; plain; child’s play; facile; elementary; cinch. 

25. Fast- agile; brisk; rapid; nimble; swift; accelerated; fleeting; high-speed; active; dashing; winged; hurried; turbo. 

[wxtches-energies]

For beginner witches ✨

Learn the phases of the moon and what each phase contributes for you. Also, search up “tonight’s moon phase” and it’ll tell you what moon is there that night and tell you when to expect other phases!

PHASE CORRESPONDENCES •full moon: love magick, charging, healing, banishing, cleansing, clarity •Waxing gibbous: motivation, attraction, success, good health •Dark/new moon: deconstructive magick, curses, banishing, soul searching, divination •waning crescent: balance, success, attaining wisdom, atonement, illness •last quarter: breaking bad habits, relinquishing, breaking curses, banishing •waning gibbous: relinquishing, undoing bindings, cleansing, undoing curses •Waxing crescent: constructive magick, attraction, wealth/success, luck & friendship

Use this for magick and making moon water. To make moon water you simply put some water under the moon, it’s okay if it’s cloudy, and you only need to put it out for an hour or more. Store it in a dark space.

Sun water: for ego, dignity, power, pride, self confidence and leader ship Just leave water under the sun and store in a light/open area.

SIGILS : https://wxtches-energies.tumblr.com/post/161188398036/the-sigil-wheel-is-a-really-good-method-decide

Candles! : buy them from the dollar store , it’s much cheaper there. I have a few witchy shops in my city as well and candles can be 60 cents each! Here’s a post for candle colour correspondences:

https://wxtches-energies.tumblr.com/post/162447536196/candle-color-correspondences

What type of witch are you? : Here’s a master post and it’s HUGE on types of witches with a detailed description:

https://wxtches-energies.tumblr.com/post/162495405231/lavenderwhisps-witch-types-master-post-jan-2016

No material spells: Here’s a few one word spells to get you started! :

https://wxtches-energies.tumblr.com/post/162295744726/one-word-spells

Secret witches master post:

https://wxtches-energies.tumblr.com/post/162517634026/master-post-for-secret-witches

Importance of salt in witchcraft:

https://wxtches-energies.tumblr.com/post/162295813361/the-importance-of-salt-in-witchcraft

How to cast a circle (many methods) :

https://wxtches-energies.tumblr.com/post/162283941001/a-pagan-path-now-that-ive-begun-working-more