This might be a Hot Take for Wylan but:
Wylan still being uncomfortable in the Wesper house as it still once was a place for his trauma, and naturally would still have days where he cannot enter a certain room or he wants to be anywhere else but there. Yes it’s his house, yes Jesper is there to help him, but it’s still the location of his abuse and trauma so naturally he won’t just magically heal from all that.
On that note— stop pushing aside of Wylan’s trauma and abuse and issues and angst by just saying, “Jesper will protect him!” That invalidates Wylan’s trauma and severely reduces Jesper in the Wesper relationship. You can’t just suddenly become healed because of one person— and you also can’t expect one person to just protect another from their trauma. That’s unrealistic and unfair and creates an unbalanced relationship. Yes, Jesper can help and be a source of comfort and a major boost for Wylan, but the way people always talk as if Jesper somehow heals the years of abuse Wylan endured.
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yesterday a guy at irl critique group whose stuff i Really Really Like was critiquing this week's piece, and as part of his critique, he just straight-up said "okay, this is nitpicky and only because i keep writing fantasy stuff about healing myself, but there's a line here about this healing magic making this girl 'whole' and 'as she was meant to be' that reads...... really ableist." & the guy who wrote it was like "oh wow, you're right and that completely blew past me, thanks" & noted it down.
& i was sitting there trying not to visibly perk my ears like a dog like. SORRY TO BE SO SURPRISED I KNOW I'M BEING BIASED AND CONDESCENDING AS HELL. HEY. YOU KNOW THE WORD ABLEISM???
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look I get the impulse but saying “witches are magic doctors” and “wizards are magic engineers/researchers” is just not correct. Witches have never been just ‘magic doctors’, they aren’t treated as solely ‘magic doctors’ in popular media or historically and deciding the word that’s historically associated with women is the one that focuses on ‘healing’ and the one that’s historically used for men is “engineering/academia’ is, hm. Actually pretty gendered. Pretty bad actually!
We cannot erase historical context around “witch” or “wizard” by assigning random, very gendered qualities to the terminology. That does not, in fact, destroy the gendered connotations. That enforces them. Just let all kinds of people/characters be witches if they want and all kinds of people/characters be wizards if they want, and don’t enforce assigning qualities to either of them, gendered or otherwise. Everybody is just magic and can do whatever they want. It’s just words. It’s fine.
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"A Ukrainian ceremony in which an egg was used to cure fever has been documented. A Babka rolled an egg over a patients body and then broke it into water. The cure was said to be guaranteed if the healer was able to discern the cause of a fear by interpreting the egg-white formations (Podolinskii 1879, 186). In other descriptions, an egg was rolled over an inflicted person and thrown to dogs to eat (Chubinskii 1872, 42, 131)."
The Word And Wax: A Medical Folk Ritual Among Ukrainians in Alberta by Rena Jeanne Hanchuk
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Imagine it all being as simple as coming together as a whole consciousness, putting aside everything that we have been taught and thought we knew as reality- to begin feeling ourselves inward again. An appreciation of the elements holding their ground, the nature giving life and warmth to this planet and a recognition of the human vessel that is intertwined and apart of the growth. Exuding your light from within and rebirthing as one again with the earths consciousness as a whole. Taking a moment to recognize the inner worth capable of healing ourselves and the planet. I think that would be nice. - Flora
Natures Elements🌿
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in other news I maybe get to do a class on catullus manuscripts/textual transmission so as you can imagine I'm vibrating out of my skin
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Three years ago, someone drew my attention to something that was more than painful and, at the same time, a release for me. We talked about loyalty.
He said that people who have no idea of loyalty deserve each other. I said that there aren't many people who know what this word actually means.
His answer to that was this:
"You don't know either otherwise you'd be more loyal to yourself than to everyone else." I was fu*king speechless.
And I was speechless, 'cause he hit the bull's eye. I couldn't have been more grateful for this little sentence - it opened my eyes and I realized that it was more important to show me understanding and patience first and it's more important to stand up for myself, to protect myself and to demand the respect that I "deserve". He taught me so much about self-love. He always said I shouldn't give thanks to him, but always to myself that I understand things and can act upon it. He corrected me when I said, "If people don't want to stay, they can leave." It was healthier to say, "People who don't stay have no place in my life - close the door." Always number one. Always the top priority. Always me first.
Sounds narcissistic or ego, doesn't it? In part, it is. But actually its healthy self-love and indeed a little narcissism with good empathic behaviour. And that's why I'm grateful for myself that I could open up myself to someone like him, 'cause he made me think otherwise, let me take a deeper and wider look, a real and very special one and just because he was so different than me and at the same time my mirror that helped me grow. And even if he doesn't want a "thank you," I'm forever grateful for this connection. Forever.
You're always in my prayers.
thepoeticshawty
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