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Large Daemons (Golden Compass)

I wonder how people with larger Daemons get around in everyday life. Anyone want to consider the possibilities with me? I’m talking things horse sized and above. I imagine some aspects of life (walking through a university with many rooms, for example,) might be hard. What /is/ the distance limit a daemon can be from it’s owner?  I imagine some people could become drivers for horse carts and such if their daemons were horses. Or could they? would a horse daemon pull a cart? would the crush of people make it too risky for an accidental brush against someone?

I saw the best thing on twitter today and no one else is freaking? Ok Can I just pretend this is canon?? Because YES to this headcanon.

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Baneful Magic Masterpost

***I understand that cursing is a controversial topic for some people. I don't believe in the threefold's law or whatnot, so such things aren't a concern for me. I do, however, advise you to only curse someone who truly deserves it. Curses are meant to be permanent and difficult to break, while hexes aren't nearly as potent. Do with that knowledge what you will. Intense spells will be marked with "***".***

Curses (long-term, usually permanent)

"Supernatural Soul Eater" curse***

"Red Heart" curse

"Gentle Curse" curse

"Hekatean Witchcraft Curse" curse

"From This Pain, I Will Rise" curse

"Blood Rain" tied with protection↓***

"Curse For Protection" tied with blood rain↑***

"Drown In Your Horrors" curse

"To Sink A Sailor" curse

"Curses For Empathy" curse

"My Pain To Yours" curse

"Beauty & The Beast" curse

"Your Joy Will Turn To Ashes" curse***

"Your True Nature Revealed" curse

"Releasing The Hounds" curse***

"The Curse Of Arrows" curse

"Lollipop Curse" curse

"Anon Hate" curse

"Sickness Killer" curse

"A Bellyful Of Stones" curse

"Bind & Break" curse***

"Forget Me Not" curse

"Did You Miss Me?" curse***

"Dragon Fire" curse

"Headless Horseman" curse

"Only A Memory" curse

"Hurricane Curse" curse***

"Let Loose Your Crimson Arrow" curse

"Hypnotic Flame" curse

"Drown In Your Guilt" curse***

"Stomp Out The Bastard" curse

"Duress" curse

"Essence Extraction" curse

"Red In Your Ledger" curse

"Sin Collector" curse

"The Ferryman's Curse" curse

"An Ancient Greek Curse" curse

"Knitting Curse" curse

Hexes (short-term, usually temporary)

"The Seven Stings" hex

"The Lemon Hex" hex

"Coffin Hex" hex***

"Curse Alternative" hex

"Hex Bramble" hex

"Black-Out" hex

"Burse Your Bubble" hex

"Year Long" hex***

"Ants Nest" hex

"By All Means, Panty Away" hex

"Hazy Smog" hex

"Hexing In A Pinch" hex

"Hexball" hex

"Revenge On Cheaters" hex

"The Singularity" hex

"Frostburn" hex

"Mess With A Witch" hex***

"Bring About Consequences" hex

"Riddle Of Lightning" hex

Jars, Charms, & Pouches

"Jar Of Consequences" jar hex

"Feel The Pain You've Caused Me" sigil

"To Banish & Bind: For Abusers" jar curse

"Wither & Rot" jar curse***

"Your Hatred Is Your Own" jar curse

"Revenge Curse Cage" jar curse***

"Box Of Terror" box curse***

"Catcall Hex Stone" hex charm

"Begone Neighbors" jar hex

"All Purpose Curse Powder" curse powder

Removals, Reversals, & Protection

"Curse Removal & Reversal" spell

"The Healing Pool: Cursebreaker" spell

"Mild & Spicy Cursebreaker Powders" powder

"To Stop Someone From Casting On You" spell

"Return To Sender Spells" spell

"Curse Removing Wash" spell

"To Reverse A Spell" spell

"Curse Removal/Protection" spell

"Decoy For Protection Purposes" spell

"Protection From Curses" spell

"Curse Decoy" spell

"Substitute Spell" spell

"Witch Bottle" jar spell

"Blackthorn Reversing Spell" spell

"Break A Curse Candle Spell" spell

"Curse-breaking, Purifying, Protective Witch Jar" jar spell

"To Destroy A Curse" spell

"Hex & Curse-breaking" info

"Hex-breaker Candle" spell

Information

"Curses vs. Hexes: What's The Difference?" info

"So You Think You've Been Cursed" info

"Signs You May Have Been Cursed/Hexed" info

"Object Cursing" info

"Ways To Protect Yourself While Casting" info

"Jinxes, Hexes, & Curses" info & spells

"Lessons Learnt From A Hex" info

"Curse Correspondences UPG" info

"Cursing101" info

"So You Just Did A Big Curse...Now What?" info

"Foxen's List Of Baneful Ingredients" info

"Nasty Shit To Put In Curse Jars" info

"Something To Consider Before You Curse" info

"Taglocks" info

Evolution Series: A Selection of Seals

Seals, sea lions and walruses, also known as pinnipeds, are incredible animals living in the border between land and sea. They are relatives of weasels and bears, and in some ancestors the resemblance is uncanny.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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The Little Merman

“I don’t know when/ I don’t know how/ But I know something’s starting right now/ Watch and you’ll see/ Someday I’ll be/ Part of Your World.”

yes, i'm a witch

Yes, I'm a witch, I'm a bitch I don't care what you say My voice is real, my voice is truth I don't fit in your ways

I'm not gonna die for you You might as well face the truth I'm gonna stick around For quite awhile

Greek Gods 101: Poseidon

Poseidon is a god of the sea, earthquakes, floods, drought, and horses. Excluding the universal offerings, some common offerings include:

Seashells

Sea Water

Sand

Depictions or Imagery of Horses

Rope

Ship Depictions or Imagery

Driftwood

Depictions or Imagery of Tridents

Depictions or Imagery of Anchors

For devotional acts, some activities that can be done for him include:

Going Swimming

Riding a Horse

Going on a Boat

Visiting a Beach

Fishing

Drinking Water

Keeping and Raising Fish or Other Sea Animals

Cleaning Up Polluted Waterways

Visiting an Aquarium

He is celebrated in 3 Athenian holidays:

Skira

Theseia

Poseidea

I’m re-reading The Amber Spyglass and I’m once again struck by how good a villain Marisa Coulter is. A terrible person but such a complex character.

In the cave, her duality is so obvious: while drugging Lyra with force and in such a cruel way, she’ll be tender, kiss a lock of her hair, sing a lullaby to her even though she’s never done it before and doesn’t even know the words, try to soothe her, use endearing terms. Afterwards torturing and tearing a bat apart in frustration over the situation - directing her anger towards a smaller creature, then sulking and anguishing about the fact that her daughter hates her and won’t forgive her for all her actions, and she knows it.

At the same time she has this twisted idea that she is keeping Lyra safe by keeping her asleep, and her intention is genuine in that aspect - she isn’t wrong. She’ll feed her and wash her and protect her while being so self-serving and ignoring Lyra’s wishes. But she is hell-bent on not letting anyone hurt her daughter again.

It’s also so heartbreaking that Lyra is calling out for literally anyone but her biological parents to save her, mostly some of her found parents, Iorek and Serafina. Even in her tormented sleep, she doesn’t accept Mrs. Coulter no matter how tender she tries to be.

Meta/Document Fic: Daemons and settling

(I don’t know, guys. This thing just happened and demanded to be written. Excerpt from a college student’s sociology paper on daemon settlement.)

(Un)settled: An analysis of atypical patterns of daemon morphic fluidity

The ‘standard’ pattern of morphic fluidity in daemons is a bell curve[1], punctuated by the long tail of settled adulthood. The brief window of infant stability, transitioning to the rapid-fire shifts of childhood peaking around age ten, before slowly dropping to a stable set of preferred shapes and ending with settlement into a final adult form by the point of legal adulthood.

There is no public conception of non-traditional settlement except as a stigma, a moral failing. Non-traditional settlement is pathologized, treated as a sign of mental illness at best, moral depravity at worst. [2] This refusal to teach or consider other settlement patterns leaves many of the most vulnerable members of society out in the cold.

In this essay, I will discuss the most common alternate settlement patterns: delayed settlement, precocious settlement, two-stage settlement, long-phase polymorphic settlement, short-phase polymorphic settlement, traumatic resettlement, and traumatic unsettling.

Delayed and precocious settlement are both recognized medical conditions, akin to disorders related to puberty and development. [3] Two-stage settlement, polymorphic settlement, and trauma-based settlement patterns meanwhile fall under the umbrella of psychiatric disorders. [4]

Delayed settlement is defined medically as any daemon settlement after the age of sixteen, but is not considered ‘serious’ unless a daemon remains unsettled past the age of majority. The oldest recorded settling was Bazhenov Vyacheslav|Emiliya at 39 years old. [5]

Precocious settlement, on the opposite end of the spectrum, is daemon settlement before age thirteen.[6] Precocious settlement is most diagnosed in boys, despite studies [7] which suggest girls are three times as likely to settle precociously than boys are. The youngest recorded settlement was Faraji Shabani|Jahaira at five years old. [8]

Two-stage settlement, also known as ‘false settling’, is defined by the DSM-5 as ‘periods of involuntary quasi-settlement, where a daemon is morphically stable for a minimum of six months’.[9] The DSM-5 definition is not without controversy – proponents of neuro-morphic theory argue that ‘quasi-settlement,’ by definition, is only applicable to daemons who retain metamorphic ability. 10]

Long-phase and short-phase polymorphic settlement are marked by limited retention of metamorphic ability. Polymorphic daemons have a set range of forms – as few as two, or as many as twenty [11] have been recorded. In contrast to unsettled daemons, polymorphs often describe their shifts as involuntary or situation-based. (e.g. a polymorph is always a yorkshire terrier at home, but shifts to a husky while at work.) [12] The division between long and short phase polymorphs is largely artificial, useful more for describing the entire population than any one individual. A polymorph who shifts more than once a month is considered a short-phase, one who shifts less often is a long-phase. [13]

Traumatic resettlement and unsettlement were, until recently, treated only as symptoms of PTSD. [14] The DSM-5 reclassified them as trauma disorders in its own right, [15] which has drawn disapproval from multiple groups.[16]…

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