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My new book, The Mysterious Misfortune of Molly O'Malley is free all this week. Please support me by signal boosting, downloading or even reading it. Honest reviews are also massively appreciated!!

I'm also taking a deep dive into some of the lore of the world this week with Which type of Witch are you.

Today, we're taking a closer look at Teller Witches!

Your soul is deeply connected to the magic in the world around you, this means you can use it’s energy to cast magic inside yourself, giving yourself visions. You are even able to manifest manipulations of fate.

In the City of Astrovale, powerful Tellers might become advisors to the wealthy or perhaps famous entertainment magicians - they find any way they can use fortune-telling and the chance of fate to affect their own, and others, destinies.

oh my god! it’s finally done! mane six redesigns!  i’ve been working on this piece since about april but ONLY as a destresser! this canvas was on lock unless i really needed to just space out and draw some funny horses :,) bunch of misc notes under the cut because if you can’t tell these 6 live in my head

Which type of witch are you?

Will - Summon power from within yourself to cast spells on the things and people around you

Your soul burns with power, and you can use this magic to cast spells outwardly, such as flinging fireballs from your fingertips.

Diviner - Summon power from the world around you to cast spells on the things and people around you

Your connection with natural magic in the world around you means you can channel its energy to cast magic outwardly, this means you can summon earthquakes and change the flow of water.

Apoths - Summon power from the world around you to cast spells within the things and people around you

Your connection with natural magic in the world around you means you can harness its energy within potions and tinctures. This allows you to cast magic inwardly both on yourself and others you choose. For example you can make a healing potion for your friends or a cursed tincture for your foes.

Teller - Summon power from within yourself to cast spells within the things and people around you

Your soul is deeply connected to the magic in the world around you, this means you can use its energy to cast magic inside yourself, giving yourself visions. You are even able to manifest manipulations of fate.

Ask me if you want to know more about any type of Witch!

Which type of witch are you?

Will - Summon power from within yourself to cast spells on the things and people around you

Your soul burns with power, and you can use this magic to cast spells outwardly, such as flinging fireballs from your fingertips.

Diviner - Summon power from the world around you to cast spells on the things and people around you

Your connection with natural magic in the world around you means you can channel its energy to cast magic outwardly, this means you can summon earthquakes and change the flow of water.

Apoths - Summon power from the world around you to cast spells within the things and people around you

Your connection with natural magic in the world around you means you can harness its energy within potions and tinctures. This allows you to cast magic inwardly both on yourself and others you choose. For example you can make a healing potion for your friends or a cursed tincture for your foes.

Teller - Summon power from within yourself to cast spells within the things and people around you

Your soul is deeply connected to the magic in the world around you, this means you can use its energy to cast magic inside yourself, giving yourself visions. You are even able to manifest manipulations of fate.

Ask me if you want to know more about any type of Witch!

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But what in the stars is a Spydeer?

They're quite fantastic creatures, if a touch on the spooky side! They start life as tiny as your little finger nail. Many in the city of Astrovale are short lived - surviving for only a few years or so... But others, out in the wilds of the Echowoods, can live for hundreds of years, shedding their carapace each winter and growing larger with each cycle.

Shed skins have been found out in the wilderness towering up to 13 ft tall.

Live Spydeer are shy, and relatively harmless while small. Larger Spydeer can be dangerous predators, and will catch a wide variety of prey. Some witches are known to have befriended and tamed young Spydeer, and great Diviner Witches of legend are said to have formed a strong enough bond over many years to ride them.

What do you think? Would you try to befriend a Spydeer, or would you be running in the other direction as quickly as you could? :p

Molly the teenage witch lives in Astrovale with many Spydeer and other mysterious creatures. Find out more if you dare!

Scissor Wizard and Paper Wizard

But what in the stars is a Spydeer?

They're quite fantastic creatures, if a touch on the spooky side! They start life as tiny as your little finger nail. Many in the city of Astrovale are short lived - surviving for only a few years or so... But others, out in the wilds of the Echowoods, can live for hundreds of years, shedding their carapace each winter and growing larger with each cycle.

Shed skins have been found out in the wilderness towering up to 13 ft tall.

Live Spydeer are shy, and relatively harmless while small. Larger Spydeer can be dangerous predators, and will catch a wide variety of prey. Some witches are known to have befriended and tamed young Spydeer, and great Diviner Witches of legend are said to have formed a strong enough bond over many years to ride them.

What do you think? Would you try to befriend a Spydeer, or would you be running in the other direction as quickly as you could? :p

Molly the teenage witch lives in Astrovale with many Spydeer and other mysterious creatures. Find out more if you dare!

2. The New Yorker article is a really good read.

3. I'm in love with this picture from said New Yorker article. Dude on the left is a Big Mood.

The far right kind of honed in on Brigitte (queen in pink) as the object of all their ire, and the moment she saw that happening she kind of seized on it. Brigitte is AFAB, nonbinary, and asexual out of drag (these are all things she’s very public about, I’m not outing her). She knew that a right wing hate movement that is obsessed with portraying drag as something sexual done by pedophilic gay men wouldn’t know how to deal with her. So she stepped up and basically was like “you want to make me the face of this? Fine. I’ll use that opportunity to show every single one of you how wrong and ridiculous you are.” And it’s been such a curve ball for them, it’s been working. They don’t know what to do with an AFAB queen. She ruins all of their arguments. They don’t know how to write their laws in a way that excludes her from doing drag without being so broad it excludes literally half the population of Texas from existing, and that’s what is a huge part of these laws not holding water. She also has been pretty tirelessly doing a lot of very public activism, and was the only individual drag performer part of the suit against the state of Texas.

It hasn’t been easy for her, because obviously being a public figure like this means getting a lot of hate. But it’s also cool as hell. And leads to hilarious moments like the fucking Daily Mail writing bullshit like “Bandit CLAIMS she was born a woman” and her literal biological mother being like “so as an authority who was indeed there…”

Here's an extract from the book where we meet Berkia for the first time...

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Berkia was Ana's Auraide. Ana, of course, manifested her Auraide early, right before she turned nine. She'd won a flame-casting competition, and just like that, Berkia burst forth. Auraides are born of the magic of the witch they belong to. They serve as an extension of that witch's magic glamour and strengthen their witches’ powers. It was fitting that Ana's Auraide was a glorious phoenix. Ana ushered Molly through the door. Berkia gave a shrill cry, flapped her wings, and transformed. Molly was always awestruck by Berkia's transformation. All Auraides transformed, of course—but Berkia’s was something special to witness. She burst into flame and flung herself toward Ana, wrapping her form all around Ana’s body. Berkia's choice of form when composed like this was a beautiful golden gown. The long garment Berkia became was imbued with fiery magic, and while wearing her Auraide like this, Ana’s already strong Will powers blossomed into an inferno. The glittering train of the gown splayed out behind Ana, and the front of it looked ablaze, adorned with glittering jewels and feathers in all shades of red, orange, yellow gold, and white. It was remarkable in every single way. The graceful sleeves and tight-fitting bodice only made Ana look more imposing. Molly’s heart ached with envy whenever she saw Ana wearing Berkia like this.

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