Colorfully Dark

warnings: swearing, alcohol mentions, mild suggestive for some lmao

notes: if anyone has any brainrots or hcs pls send them :)

characters: almost everyone, male & female

y/n: xiao, I beg of you. Please, PLEASE go to the doctor.

xiao: Hey, I'm sorry. Is this OUR stab wound?

y/n: My future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized.  thoma: *steps on a caterpillar and proceeds to drop to their knees and sob while apologizing profusely*  y/n: That one. I want that one.

Hu tao: I’m going to hell.  y/n: Probably.  Hu tao: I'll pick you up?  y/n: *nodding* Carpool.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

The jar: * breaks *

The salt and glitter: * spills into the soil *

The soil: * becomes infertile *

Plant: * dies *

Some animal: * gets hurt on the broken glass *

Another animal: *chokes on the lid ring *

The nature spirits: "what the actual fuck"

from abell 2218 by eric gamalinda, published in amigo warfare: poems

- when shuffling, pay attention to the cards that fall out of the deck. sometimes they have a special message for you.

- questions aren't always necessary when reading. letting the cards tell you what they need to helps to develop your intuition, and the relationship between you and your deck (or the spirit you are working with, depending on how you divine information).

- when reading with multiple cards (i.e. as a spread), try and string the cards together rather than interpreting them by their individual meanings:

recurring suits, themes, symbols, and numbers

proportions of suits and uprights vs. reversals

position of the cards (e.g. if people are present in the cards, where are they looking?)

colours of the cards (e.g. do any of the cards stand out more than the rest?)

- although each card has a core meaning, different decks with different art could emanate different "flavours" of the core meaning.

Idk if y'all can handle this. Are you ready? It's life-changing. Absolutely unreal.

⭐fuck around & find out⭐

No, really. Research only gets you so far, and will eventually start muddying the water beyond comprehension because no two practitioners are the same. Get your hands dirty, cut your teeth into a spell, take notes, and figure it out.

We act like having a Master's Degree worth of research is so critical to development, that you can't start until you know everything.

You'll never know everything, so congratulations. You'll learn daily, which is BEAUTFUL! AND SACRED! AND NECESSARY TO EVOLVE AS A HUMAN!

Stop lingering at the edge of the firelight; leap into the flames."

So I'm a single father of a 10 year old girl. One day about 3 years ago she comes upto me and decides that she wants to put my crystals into colour order. This was the start of something that I never thought would happen. Today she has her own crystal collection thats bigger than mine with several books on the subject aswell as a fascination with star signs and she's starting to ask questions about Sabbats and the moon and other things witchy related. Now Iv never actually talked to her about the fact that I'm a witch cause her mother is the type of person who would go out of her way to not let her have things like crystals and such if she thought it had a deeper meaning like witchcraft. (Her mother is the most closed minded person iv met and is the kind of person to make someone feel bad about their beliefs).

Last weekend she was asking me about the sabbats and festivals and I taught her what I knew. Thinking on this It inspired me to do more low-key things with her if shes interested, that might one day grow into her own practice.

Now I'm not really one for doing original content cause I'm not sure how it will be received with been a male witch but I figured I'd give it ago and share with everyone in hopes that other pagans/witches who are parents find it useful.

Now I know no one's situation is exactly the same and all kids are different so some ideas may need to be tweaked a little.

Below is a list of activities and subjects I feel are good staring points.

Activities and subjects

🐝Wildlife watching

🕷️Animals and their meanings

🌲Nature walks

🍄Foraging for herbs and teaching them what is okay to pick and what is not (dangerous, endangered etc)

🌱Growing flowers/plants.

🌳Tree and plant identification

🌼Making flower crowns

☀️Watching the sun set/sun rise

🌕Full moon watching (Aslong as it's not cutting into their bedtime)

🌙 Moon phases and other lunar events.

⭐Star gazing

♎ Zodiac/Star signs and birth charts

🟣 Colour correspondences

💧The Elements

🍁The seasons

☸️The wheel of the year

🌧️Collecting rain water or spring water

🧚🏼‍♂️Local history and folklore

🌬️Meditation

🌿Herbs and spices

🍞Baking (Not really a Witch activity but if done for a sabbat or maybe combined with some herbal magick and intention)

🍂🐚Collecting things from your local natural areas. (Acorns sticks and leaves from wooded areas. Shells and pebbles from the beach etc.

These are just a few things off of the top of my head. Feel free to add something if you reblog or comment.