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Some concepts:

Boys who teach their non-witch boyfriends about witchcraft

Boys who aren’t witches but still get excited everytime their witch bf talks about witchcraft

Boys who become witches together and practise everything with each other

Boys buying each other witchcraft supplies and drawing sigils on them

Boys making personal sigils for each other

Witch boys supporting each other’s craft and practising together to grow as individuals

go to the forest together and collect cool things for spells. kiss him under the tallest trees and tell him he’s the most magical thing in there

Reblog if your blog is a safe space for

- witches of color - male witches - lgbtqpiad+ witches - non religious witches - young witches - beginner witches - plus size witches - differently abled/disabled witches - witches suffering mental illness

Reblog if you're a part of the lgbt witch community 🔮👫👬👭 🔮

Witch tip

> wear crystals

> light candles

> drink tea

> be gay

I wanna make a masterlist of lgbt+ witches on tumblr

so reblog this if you are a witch and are lgbt+ pls!

alsoi wanna follow all of you

Being a witch

expectation: im gonna use this candle to heat up this moon water with the herbs i need to help keep intrusive thoughts and bad energy away from me

reality: *rubbing quartz on my forehead and temples, visualizing my brain* alright so listen up fucker i dont need your negativity, so cut the shit

All daemon forms are valid!!!!! I cannot stretch this enough!!!! Give a big middle finger to stereotypes surrounding animals!!!! Is your daemon a chicken??? a snail??? a fucking WORM??? that's TIGHT AS FUCK DUDE

After Ursula, here comes Vanessa’s story 😈🐙🏰

dr. malone: knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit- wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad

lyra: philosophy is wondering if that makes ketchup a smoothie

pan: common sense is knowing that ketchup isn’t A FUCKING SMOOTHIE LYRA

Quick someone talk to me about sense8 daemons, how Nomi’s settled into a peacock (male, of course, with a truly magnificent tail) when she decided to stop trying to fit in, and Lito’s lioness has no idea how to fight but she stood in front of Daniella and snarled at Joaquin’s coyote, and Sun’s black-furred wolf walks with a stern dignity until someone starts a fight and he turns into a raging, savage maelstrom of fangs and claws, something out of darkest fairy tales but not feral, no, just fiercely destructive. Talk to me about how none of them even thought twice about touching each others’ daemons, how Kala’s marmot danced up and down Wolfgang’s boar’s back while their human counterparts sang, how Capheus’s zebra noses at everyone’s hands like a horse searching out a sugar cube, how Will stroked Riley’s leach’s petrel while he slumbered uneasily next to her, head under his wing, and when Riley woke up in the BPO facility it was to Will’s golden lab enthusiastically licking her face.

pan: if you could go back in time what would you do?

will: probably kill baby hitler

pan: you can't do that! it's a baby!

will: what would you do

pan: kill 11 year old hitler

pan: fifth graders are the worst

Pantalaimon in His Dark Materials 1.03 “The Spies”

if you’ve never seen one before

deer are smaller than you think

raccoons are bigger than you think

bears are smaller than you think but you were pretty close

otters are bigger than you think no even bigger than that

wolves are bigger than you think

wild cats are smaller than you think but hopefully you’ll never see one

chipmunks are smaller than you think

so are mice but you’ve seen a mouse right

you were right about the size of moose, mostly

pigs are bigger than you think

coyotes are that size

so are foxes

woops bears are bigger than you think but only that one type

this is an informational post about mammals if you know more please do tell

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.

Hello! I’m hoping your blog is still active, I’m assuming that’s what the little green dot means :) I’m reeeeaaally new at dæmonism, like I’ve been doing it for a few days, and I was wondering what weight projection feels like? Coz I’m projecting my dæmon as being sat on my leg and I can actually feel a weird tingly weighty feeling on my leg where I’m projecting her and idk if I’m doing it right. I don’t actually know if I’m doing any of this right 😂 thanks for reading this, if you do :) x

Hi! Welcome to daemonism and the community ^^

That’s a really interesting question, actually- I haven’t really thought about it before. Most of Splash’s (my daemon’s) forms are either very small (rhino beetle, horsefly, chickadee) or very large (coyote, bison, python), so the “weight” of them varies widely.

For really small forms I can kind of describe it as that feeling you get when you’re sure there’s a bug on you, but there actually isn’t. Kind of a “I’m not touching you!” sensation? “Tingly weighty feeling” actually describes it pretty well. And honestly for the rest of them it just takes a little extra “immersion” (for lack of better word) to project weight. To use the example of one of our comfort forms (Indian rock python):

(Big Snek)

Back to the “I’m not touching you” feeling, put your hand flat out on a table or something and pretend there’s a heavy cube or ball holding it down. If you respect the rule of the fake cube and accept that you can’t move your hand, your hand starts feeling a little heavier. In this “cuddling with Big Snek” diagram, Splash is on top of me, and while I could technically get up because he’s not corporeal, I’m not going to unless he moves. So by default of him being in that space and me accepting being “pinned,” it’s kind of like tricking my body into thinking something is there weighing me down, and I feel heavier where I’m projecting him. The idea that he takes up space is important- there’s gotta be room for him.

It’s all kind of conceptual and I’m not sure that ANY of this makes sense to anyone reading my ramblings (I get very long winded and I apologize), feel free to let me know if that’s the case and I’ll try again! TL;DR I think it sounds like you’re projecting weight perfectly fine, and this is basically just how I got to a point where it feels easier and more natural. If you find that you have forms that your daemon takes frequently, do a quick google to see how the size and weight of that animal is, relative to a human! It’s super easy and very helpful, though of course you don’t have to strictly abide by reality with this sort of thing.

Anyways I hope literally any of this helped, again if it doesn’t make sense I’m happy to clarify, and I’m always happy to try and answer any other questions ^^

Okay, this is my daemon's name: Kleytos

○ - hundred thousand hearts - holychild

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Pacific Northwest Musteloids

in a series that is so deeply critical of religion, making one of the most heinous, despicable characters in the story a heretical scientist is such a good balance. like, the magisterium are oppressive and controlling and undeniably evil, but pullman also says that things aren’t justified just because theyre done in the name of science instead of religion. both asriel and the oblation board were willing to sever children. they’re two sides of the same coin. he is the same as them.

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?

Dæmon fun fact #2

Your dæmon will almost NEVER be your favorite animal. It’s a sad truth almost all of us have to learn to accept unless you sincerely can say you are your favorite person/kind of person. Very few people have that level of self love, and most of those who do… Likely aren’t being too healthy about it.

Bonus: not always but a lot of times our favorite animal tends to reflect the dæmon of our favorite kind of people. Not always, and usually it’s more of a theoretical preference than one gained through experience. When I did reveals for a couple, her favorite animals were dogs and coincidentally his dæmon was a dog too.

I’m reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman for the first time and it just occurred to me that like…. my depression would be alleviated so much if I had a daemon??? Like imagine having a physical manifestation of your soul that has known and loved you since birth reassure you when you’re alone and scared and sad because you’re never actually alone… like most people, my depressive episodes are always worst when I’m alone in my room with no one and nothing but my cruel depressive thoughts. That depression prevents you from reaching out to people and telling them how you’re feeling and prevents you from really hearing or believing people when they try to help you but imagine having a daemon there to hold you and comfort you and tell you that your cruel thoughts about yourself aren’t true and they should know because they know you better than anyone. Having a physical voice there to contradict those cruel thoughts would be so amazing like wow I always sort of wish I had a daemon from a “who wouldn’t want a talking animal companion!” perspective but now I wish I had one because it would make my whole life better to never have to be completely alone with my own thoughts.

Concept: Social Classes and daemons.

aw fuck i can’t believe you’ve done this (but i’m also glad you did because this idea is a big one)

social classs are already so complex, the way people are treated based on social class and income are already so askskskgha but to add dæmons to the mix? are people gonna start treating others like second class citizens because of their dæmon’s form? maybe if someone doesn’t conform to the expected dæmon for types of their class they’re given a harder time than others that do? maybe in a capitalist society dæmons are seen as a commodity rather than as your soul and other people living in different parts of the world are disgusting by our attitudes towards it? ofc if dæmons were physical tomorrow companies would start selling us dæmon related shit the day after without a doubt

but back to social class, there would likely be social expectations placed on people to determine what form their dæmon “should” be based on their social class. maybe only certain forms are acceptable for certain people, maybe women are expected to settle as x amount of forms because of bullshit gender expectations, maybe people of color are expected to settle as only certain animals under the guise of “that’s their culture!” while other people don’t have those expectations placed on them at all. if having a dæmon means that you’re human then what implications does that have for people who are viewed as less than human? fucking yikes™️. the world might even get to the point where dæmon forms are largely influenced by need based on lower social standing rather than opportunity associated with higher class standing. kids exposed to more stuff and given a better education would be more likely to choose forms that are diverse, kids that aren’t as lucky wouldn’t be given that chance at all and a dæmon form bottleneck between the upper and lower classes might form

i really do like those “what if dæmons suddenly appeared” ideas but at the same time it’s a potential hell world. things suddenly get a lot scarier

people acting like animals going extinct would affect daemons at all as though this shit isn’t canon

“Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone’s daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deerhound.”

“It was raining even harder now, and Malcolm found it difficult to see ahead. Asta became an owl and perched on the prow, her feathers shedding the water in a way she’d discovered when she was trying to become an animal that didn’t yet exist. The best she could do so far was to take one animal and add an aspect of another, so now she was an owl with duck’s feathers; but she only did it when no one but Malcolm was looking.”

Daemons in School

Students’ daemons lying down in gym to help their people feel less tired, but constantly being yelled at to stand up by the coach

Two students’ daemons discreetly cheating on a test. The teacher’s spider daemon trying to get them to stop, but they don’t notice her

A bully’s daemon in tiger form pins down another student’s pug-daemon, but he is pushed off by a third student’s moose, who helps the pug-daemon up and defends him

In art class, students get the assignment to have their daemon transform into the most colorful thing they can, and to paint it. Half the class are giant rainbow-colored parrots. Some are glittering snakes. One girl, who researches animals all the time, has her daemon change into a rare type of butterfly with beautiful markings. Another student throws realism to the wind and turns his into a giant dragon with neon claws.

A first grader has a “form fight” with a third grader, boths’ daemons changing into random forms as quick as possible whilst fighting. Finally, the first grader wins, her crab latching onto the paw of the other child’s lion. They both get in trouble, and are best friends ever since.

The cheerleaders use their daemons to their advantage. Two of them have big cats–a tiger and a panther–so they stand on the outsides, roaring on que. Three of the girls have birds that fly in sync. Another girl’s daemon hasn’t settled yet so he shifts from a peacock to a bear to a cat, all with varying colors.

On the basketball team, only one girl doesn’t have a big, intimidating daemon. The rest of the team teases her about her moth, who flutters frantically after her during games, but she knows they mean well.

Someone’s deer-daemon trips and hits a bass in the orchestra hall, causing multiple people and instruments to collapse in a startlingly fast sequence of events. After making sure no damage was done and nobody was hurt, all the orchestra students share a laugh about that event, nicknaming the boy and his daemon, “clumsy-hooves.”

I have so many ideas about daemons in school tbh

Some photos of this year's Yule.

Panserbjørne

Do they have a class system or some type of rankings?

Do they have oral traditions?

Do they have religion?

What kind of laws do they have?

How different are the roles that male and female bears play in their society?

Has there ever been a ruling queen? Or is Svalbard a patrilineal monarchy?

At what age do Panserbjørne make their sky-iron armour?

There's a palace in Svalbard, are there anymore buildings that the bears use for themselves?

I’ve been really interested in His Dark Materials since the new TV show started. I was looking for more in depth research about the world building of daemons because it’s such a fascinating concept and like I discovered how daemons get their names. So when a child is born, the child’s daemon is named by their parents daemons.

So when Lyra was born and Pan started existing, that means that THIS MOTHERFUCKER

THIS THING is what gave Pantalaimon his name.

You could argue that Stelmaria might’ve contributed to the name but based on the fact that it was a highly scandalous affair, I doubt Asriel was anywhere near Lyra’s birth.

But like, the golden monkey being the one to name Pan is so fucking wild. Like he chose a name based on a Greek saint? A name that basically means all-merciful?

The monkey wanted Lyra to be merciful. He wanted her to have mercy.