#it magic

(The page in question.)

Hmmmm okay! The basics are this: witches in White Noise are specifically magic users that require material items to do spells. There are literally no rules to what those items are, though, it just largely depends on the person.

A place most witches start is with the normal things like candles and herbs and so on, but a lot of them start picking items that they resonate with for one reason or another. It could be just something they see as like themselves (maybe someone who’s really impetuous or passionate uses fire a lot) or something they just happen to really like, or something that to their mind makes it easy to express the meaning of a spell.

Ink (or paint or chalk or whatever) would be a pretty obvious choice for the last one. An ink-witch is just a witch that writes or draws their spells instead of, I dunno, making hoops of wire and dried flowers like Minnie does. Doing spells as a tattoo seems like a logical conclusion to this.

There’s no rules to what a written spell has to look like, either, as I’ve mentioned. Teige’s tattoo doesn’t have any inherent magical properties, but now that I’ve finally got to the page it shows up on:

Teige’s mom’s friend is a witch and a middle school science teacher. The coil’s for energy (stylized after a heating element like you’d see on a stovetop) and the symbols are literally just the molecular structure of estrogen becoming testosterone. There’s nothing inherently magical about either thing, just they mean something to the witch who designed the spell.

yeah cranberry juice can b rly astringent (imean like..horrible n mouth-drying?? u know that thing?) so mb thats a problem if u got cheap-ish juice?