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Writing Reference: The "Magical" Properties of Oils
Courage: Cedar, Musk, Rose Geranium
Fertility: Musk, Vervain
Friendships: Stephanotis, Sweetpea
Happiness: Apple Blossom, Sweetpea, Tuberose
Harmony: Basil, Gardenia, Lilac, Narcissus
Healing: Carnation, Eucalyptus, Gardenia, Lotus, Myrrh, Narcissus, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Violet
Hex-breaking: Bergamot, Myrrh, Rose Geranium, Rosemary, Rue, Vetivert
Love: Clove, Gardenia, Jasmine, Orris, Plumeria, Rose, Sweetpea
Luck: Cinnamon, Cypress, Lotus
Lust: Cinnamon, Clove, Musk, Vanilla
Magnetic—to Attract Men: Ambergris, Ginger, Gardenia, Jasmine, Lavender, Musk, Neroli, Tonka
Magnetic—to Attract Women: Bay, Civet, Musk, Patchouly, Stephanotis, Vetivert, Violet
Meditation: Acacia, Hyacinth, Jasmine, Magnolia, Myrrh, Nutmeg
Mental Powers: Honeysuckle, Lilac, Rosemary
Money: Almond, Bayberry, Bergamot, Honeysuckle, Mint, Patchouly, Pine, Vervain
Peace: Benzoin, Cumin, Gardenia, Hyacinth, Magnolia, Rose, Tuberose
Power: Carnation, Rosemary, Vanilla
Protection: Cypress, Myrrh, Patchouly, Rose Geranium, Rosemary, Rue, Violet, Wisteria
Psychic Powers: Acacia, Anise, Cassia, Heliotrope, Lemongrass, Lilac, Mimosa, Nutmeg, Sandalwood, Tuberose
Purification: Acacia, Cinnamon, Clove, Frankincense, Jasmine, Lavender, Myrrh, Olive, Sandalwood
Sleep: Lavender, Narcissus
Spirituality: Heliotrope, Lotus, Magnolia, Sandalwood
Excerpt from Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs More: Writing Notes & References
NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.
Reblog to give your followers each their own sword.
Me reading another person's writing: Oh they missed a period there, no worries mistakes happen :) Three adjectives in a sentence? Adverbs for days? No worries I love descriptions and this story is fire.
Me seeing the same thing in my work: Wow am I illiterate? Am I actually ok? Who the actual fuck told me I can write so I can go and curse their entire family for the time it took for me to carefully craft this GARBAGE.
knight symbolism in chronic pain save me. armor metaphors for the unseen weight on your limbs. hidden wounds you must hide from your companions. the soft groans when you try to get to your feet. collapsing as soon as the door shuts behind them. knowing that you have to get up, you must get up — you have to be brave and strong for them but god does it hurt. craving the touch of the beloved on your forehead while you see them in dreams. wounded knight symbolism in chronic illness save me save me please
Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?
“When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”
— Carl R. Rogers
A vampire has worked at the local 7-11 for the past 5 decades. No one has the heart to slay them—partly because they're a good employee, but mostly because they think the vampire is doing a "great job" hiding their vampirism (they're really not).
doing something beautiful, something healing, something harmless is my revenge to the world.
in a situation where everything seems to be sick, harmed, evil to the core, doing something good, even if it's a small thing, might be empowering.
don't act against.
act for.
If your garden is destroyed by fire, don't rush to put out every candle.
it won't make a difference.
planting a new garden will.
Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.
The thing people miss about medieval smells and lighting a lot of time is the fact that everything is fire powered. All their heat and all their light. Now I don't know if you have ever been to a place where all you have had is fire but it smells. It smells strong. The smell of fire will pretty much drown out most other scents. So it is likely you wouldn't always smell the person next to you, especially if the wood was wet and made a lot of smoke. You are going to stink like it for days even under modern circumstances where we bathe more regularly and also don't have to continually do this. Don't get me wrong, a city stink will still out stink it with the sheet amount of poop, but it is perfectly okay to imagine a medieval bar where everything just smells smoky.
This fire effect is also why you can always find shady corners in taverns. They didn't have high ceilings. They had some torches/candles/fireplace in a low ceilinged room. It is crazily easy for a pickpocket or anyone to just linger in there, especially once people have been drinking, and just not be noticed. Sure your eyes adjust, but everyone has different night vision and it all depends on how rich of a place you are at as to how much fire is available. Maybe if you are lucky it is a full moon.
reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube
D&D campaign consisting entirely of anime trope episodes like the beach episode or the hot springs episode.
It’s still a dungeon crawl.
kaiju
Details from La Lune’s Debut Runway Show
everything eats and is eaten
Any time I catch myself thinking it's weirdly specific that stories involving the beheading game were an entire genre of medieval literature, I remind myself that the TV Tropes page for media where the cast get shrunk really small and go inside someone's body in a tiny submarine is at the time of this posting nearly 300 entries long
They warmed my hearts.
I think perhaps my hottest radfem take is that gay men are not our allies. Not wanting to have sex with women does not make them less dangerous than men who sexualize us, it makes them arguably worse.
Gay men use women’s bodies as “performance art” with drag. They colonize black women’s language as their own. They insidiously occupy our spaces under the guise of safety because they claim they have no interest in us sexually, and yet ignore our boundaries when we exclude men from certain activities or places. And they behave as if being gay absolves them of their role in oppressive systems, especially if they are white.
Gay men do not stand for women, even for lesbian women. They stand for themselves, because they are men, and as such will always value class solidarity with other men above women’s liberation.
My essential argument is that men will be men, regardless of their sexuality. Do not allow gay men to claim innocence when their interest in women is exploitative instead of predatory.
being a girl is nothing but craving for sweets, love and holding a claymore in your hands all the time
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something
