I Could Watch A Whole Spin Off Show Of A Young Baltasar Frías Arguing With Book Authors About The Horrible

”you will eat less than you desire but more than you deserve” is SUCH a banger of a line. I’ve been thinking about it for days

“The Sephiroth are also imagined as ten shells or casings around the innermost core of En Soph, the formless and ineffable centre of all being.

The Cabbalists called meditation on this Nothing-in-Everything, extrapolating from a verse in the Song of Solomon (6, 11), "Going down into the garden of nuts".

Shakespeare refers to this when he has Hamlet say, "O God! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space".

And Joyce in Finnegans Wake:

"Mark Time's Finist Joke.

Putting Allspace in a Notshall".

Image: Sephiroth scroll, Poland, 19th century.

From “Alchemy & Mysticism” by Alexander Roob (2011).

sylvia plath, doomsday

dare i say goncharov vibes. dare i say clock motif

has this been done yet

by choosing to stay in the cycle they broke the cycle btw. because the cycle relies on the unwillingness of its participants. “every time you find yourself here it’s because [your outie] chose to come back.” almost every time their outies brought them there it was against their will. but the outies weren’t going to bring them back this time. so they simply didn’t leave.

Hello! I've been struggling with how to depict and voice an eldritch horror entity. They are far removed from this universe, so I'm at a loss at how they would speak and act when interacting with a host/human. Can you help me and/or give me examples of what that might look like?

How to Give an Eldritch Horror Entity a Voice

-> feel free to edit and adjust pronouns as you see fit.

Emotionless Curiosity or Cruel Fascination

The entity may observe humans like a scientist would observe test subjects. It is not inherently evil, just so far removed that it doesn't comprehend pain or morality.

Example: "You break so easily. Such a soft mind, blistering with thoughts. Why do you weep?"

Example: "Fear. I recognize the shape of it now. Like heat in the bones."

Predator and Prey

The entity is aware of its power but it enjoys the chase. It is patient, and speaks low and slow to stretch out the dread.

Example: "I can hear your pulse like music. Louder now. Louder still."

Childlike and Curious

The entity is innocent and sounds sweet and playful, but does not understand the reality of what it is doing.

Example: "You're leaking! Why do you leak like that? Should I put it back in?"

Timeless Watcher

The entity speaks as if it has witnessed countless lives, deaths, and civilization. Everything the human feels is insignificant.

Example: "You are not the first to beg. The first was a king with gold in his mouth."

Curious but Growing Self Awareness

The entity is just beginning to understand language, humans, and itself.

Example: "Pain. You... do not like it."

Example: "Lonely. That is the word. I have never been lonely before you."

Foreign Language

The entity can't (or won't) use grammar like a human. It might communicate in fractured bursts, in symbols, in numbers, etc.

Example: "Lightlightdarkfolding--fold--fold--fleshwrongYES."

Example: "WE--I--MANY come through the not-between. Hello. Hello. Nothello."

Nonverbal Communication

The entity doesn't speak in the traditional sense. It communicates via dreams, hallucinations, physical sensations, etc. Words might appear as taste, as pain, or involuntary thoughts in the character's mind.

Example: She smelled salt and rotting roses. Then the message came: "Let me in."

Example: He tasted metal and heard weeping in the back of his mind.

I see people talk about wanting more platonic male-female friendships and honestly that’s just another thing Only Murders In The Building does right. Of course there’s Mabel and her guys. A multigenerational friendship we don’t get to see that often.

But I was actually thinking about Sazz and Charles’ friendship when I started this post. They’re best friends, they’re family, they compliment each other as actor and stunt double. I just really like their relationship. She’s a lesbian. She stole his ex. She helped him make friends. He gave her a shot when no one else would.

It’s so important.

Uranian Weather Magic ⛈

Uranus is known as the God of the Sky, making its planetary influence perfect for use in weather magic. In this post, I will be listing the correspondences of Uranus paired with the other planets and their associated meteorological phenomena. 

Uranus + Moon - drastic temperature changes 

Uranus + Sun - sunshine, scorching heat 

Uranus + Mercury - windstorms, tornados 

Uranus + Venus - humidity, overcast, clouds 

Uranus + Mars - dust storms 

Uranus + Jupiter - lightning storms

Uranus + Saturn - thunderstorms

Uranus + Neptune - hurricanes, heavy rain, mist, fog

Uranus + Pluto - snowstorms, hail, sleet 

These correspondences can be helpful to invoke or banish various types of weather. 

The image below shows various meteorological symbols that can be used as talismans or sigils based on the type of weather you are working with. 

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correspondences compiled from my personal grimoire

© 2024 ad-caelestia

The team not knowing the Believe poster was ripped as a metaphor for Ted always pretending everything is fine to Ted finally telling Michelle things aren’t fine I pipeline is filled with tears

If Dracula Daily is reading the travel blog of our good friend Jonathan, Voyage of the Nautilus is reading the diary of a 40 year old man writing about his crush (and the cool field trips his crush takes him on) in pink glitter gel pen while kicking his feet