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I'm curious about something.

I am a practicing pagan and have been for years now. My question tho is how did other witches find their craft?

For me, I was a very young girl stuck in a very Christian environment yet somehow I got my hands on a kids' book on fairy magic. It had simple spells in it, songs to call fairies, how to make rose water and fairy cakes, that sort of thing. It was lovely tho and made me far happier than anything else I had studied. Later in my teens I actually met some adult witches how were happy to teach me a few things and I was fully decided on my path a few years later.

I'm curious about other people's stories and would love to hear them if you're willing to share.

Blessed be 🦋

#pagan #wicca #Witch #Greenwitch #fairy witch #questions #the craft

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The only thing i miss about highschool is the old piano tucked away behind rows and rows of books in the library.

It was out of tune and had been at the school in one room or another for as long as i could remember but it wasnt until senior year that i got to play it really. The area it was in was surrounded on one side by windows overlooking the little kids' playground so after school i would hear them playing and having a grand time. The library was normally empty and bc i knew the librarian well, she let me stay after she had locked up. I would practice there for what felt like hours, though i only learned a few songs.

There's something so magical about going to the school's rundown library after a lonely day of frustrating classes to that old piano. The one i knew since i was so small, just as beat up and out of tune as I was. To play Claire de Lune or something from Undertale, or just to play something pretty. To hear the aftercare kids laugh and play, only to leave once my songs were through as their parents had picked them up.

God i miss that piano.

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GUESS WHOS GETTING ANTIDEPRESSANTS FINALLY!!!

#thank god #mental health

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Tonight's session was shit!

Dm's spotify got hacked so while he was futsin with it the rest of us started memeing... for like an hour. And we didn't even get to fight the big baddy promised last week!! Not to mention, a monster we did manage to fight had the equivalent to one of my abilities that the Dm nerfed, but!!!! The monster's ability wasn't nerfed bc he said they "weren't the same ability." Bitch huh??? They do the same thing?????

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Octopath is/was slept on.

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More often than not I've found, there's a wonderful sense of peace that comes from the last song on a vinyl record. The world fills with such a silence afterwards thats incredibly nostalgic and peaceful but also suspence filled. It's like your ears are seeking out the next notes but all that follows is quiet. Like the soft end of a world.

#vinyl #records #music

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I talked to nerd today about the stuff weighing on my mind. I've been questioning if I truly love him or not. This is my first true relationship and all of it happened really fast. He told me he liked me a week after meeting me, tried to kiss me on the first date after I said I didn't know what to think, and is often a bit pushy about intamacy. I was confused I think and after a week or so maybe more of feeling terrible and questioning I finally came to him and spilt everything. I cried a lot, he did too. Promises were made to be better. I feel better now and he's not nearly as worried. Today was a good day

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Alright, so.

A lot has been deleted, soon even more will be until this blog will be nothing but my own thoughts starting from this post. I’m doing this bc this blog and the content thereof haven’t been serving me in anyway for a good 2 years or so now. Fact of the matter is, I’m not ok, I don’t want to burden others so imma just scream into the void here. Please pardon my dust

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A group of Mexican veterinarians posed with Pokémon and OMG it’s too cute.

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This one was a little bit more challenging to do than I thought it would be – and that was mostly in all the detail (RIP) ,as well as figuring out ways to adapt a Klimt-esque look to Howl. It was really tempting to put him in his pink jacket since it lends itself to rectangular form so well. However I just had to go and make things difficult for myself… because I love his transformed version!

Based on Klimts ‘The Kiss’ (1907-1908)

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Bed Making Time: 5-7 Minutes

Storenvy | Redbubble | Ko-fi | Patreon

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くコ: 彡 くコ: 彡くコ: 彡くコ: 彡くコ: 彡くコ: 彡

Reblog those rainbow gay squids and something good will happen to you

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Three of the best characters to come outta the South Pacific! 🏄

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Sunset paints the fur in flames.

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For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

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“Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me - you could never have won. It’s not your fault.”

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due to personal reasons im evil now