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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

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I have noticed that most characters with bird dæmons on the tv show (Ma Casta, the Master, Serefina, etc...) wear some sort of leather brace on their non-dominant arm and hand. Do you think this so their dæmons can land there without the claws damaging them?

Oh, I think that’s definitely the intention for the bracer! Physically speaking, the daemons are corporeal and they can harm you, even if unintentionally. In Northern Lights (this might be a book one spoiler if you’re a show-only fan, sorry!) when Lyra is rescued from the intercision machine, Pan is in a wildcat form iirc, and he clings to her so tightly that he scratches her, but she doesn’t mind the pain. So, there is no malice in Pan hurting her, but he still hurts her.

I feel like for birds, getting wounded and scratched would be fairly common (and something that Philman didn’t seem to consider in the books, as he usually does lmao), and the show had a very nice way of approaching that issue. I feel like birds of prey daemons are the most common ones to have to use a leather bracer, because they strike me as birds who might hurt you, even accidentally; probably anything bigger than a parrot would require a bracer, or only small birds like robins and greenfinches wouldn’t require leather bracers as they don’t have such dangerous claws. I can imagine - while we haven’t seen them on the show - that other types of daemons that might hurt or wound or even make their humans dirty, might require special gear to prevent that, and it’s also possible that padded shoulders outfit - considering the fashion of Lyra’s world ranges from victorian to mid-50s, especially in the show where women dress very 30s/40s - most birds that aren’t from gyptians, usually stay on their human’s shoulders. I can’t imagine an aristocrat with a hawk daemon using a super simple leather bracer like Ma Costa’s, so it will either be a fancy one or they’d adapt the shoulders to take the daemon.

Sacred Plants & Flowers ~ Hellenic Gods

Part 1 of ?: The twelve Olympian Gods

Because I keep looking it up myself, I decided to write down a handy list with sacred plants/flowers and plants/flowers strongly associated with the Theoi. Feel free to add on to this list.

Find more lists of sacred plants/flowers here.

Aphrodite Rose, Anemone, Myrtle, Myrrh, Apple, Lettuce, Pomegranate, Linden, Lime (large-leafed)

Apollon Laurel, Larkspur, Cypress, Palm, Sweet Violet

Ares none known

Artemis Cedar/Juniper, Chaste Tree, Cypress, Laurel, (Persian) Walnut

Athena Olive Tree

Demeter Wheat, Poppy, Barley, Mint, Chaste Tree, Fig Tree

Dionysos Grapevine, Ivy, Bindweed, Pine Tree, Elm Tree, Fig Tree, Fir, Calamus

Hephaistos none known

Hera Pomegranate, Apple, Chaste Tree

Hermes Crocus, Strawberry Tree

Poseidon Pine Tree, Wild Celery, Parsley, Rock Rose

Zeus Oak Tree, Olive Tree, Manna (Ash), Wild Celery, Parsley, White Poplar

Resources: theoi.com, plants of greek myth flora 1 & flora 2 Dividers by: @firefly-graphics

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?

Water Energies

Moon Water

It could energize crystals

Perfect for a magical bath

For bless yourself, your home or magical tools

Spring Water

Good for Fae work

Excellent for abundance

Used in love or fertility spell

Used in subtle magick

Snow Water

Recommended for spells that focus on purity endings and change

For slow working spells

Rain Water

Multi-purpose

Excellent for growth and rebirth spells

Good for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time

River Water

Recommended for rituals and spells that has to do with moving on.

Focusing energy

Breaking through rough times

Warding

Good for activating tools

Ocean Water

Good for cleansing

Healing

Banishing

Used for protection rituals and spells

Cleansing crystals

Thunderstorm Water

Add a magical boost to any work

Good for spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strengthening, confidence and motivation

Virtuous for hexes and curses

ok but can we just talk about how deep reggie’s abuse of his children goes? like first, we have ben, who has repeatedly established himself to be the kindest and most understanding among his siblings. despite the fact that klaus has been treating him more of a show pony than a brother for most of season 2, ben still tries to be the angel on his shoulder and offers advice when he can. he even lets it slide when klaus tells their siblings that he didn’t travel back with them, even though it’s so obvious that the remark hurt, because klaus of all people knows just how much ben misses their family, misses being alive.

but the minute klaus insinuates that he sounds just like their father, he finally shows an emotion that is anything but calm, and even goes so far as to attack his brother. this alone should be enough of an indicator as to what kind of man hargreeves was in life.

oh, and should i add that reggie just upped and decided to turn ben’s funeral–a painful occasion on it’s own–into yet another scarring life lesson for the ones he’d left behind? just imagine being shy of seventeen and having at least half the guilt in the universe weighing you down, and ben–who is right there–just wanting to tell all of them that it was “never your fault, diego, please don’t listen to him, we both know you’re better than that,” but of course he can’t, because he’s nothing more than a ghost now, so yes, welcome to powerlessness.

five goes missing and what does he do? nothing. absolutely nothing, aside from having a painting commissioned, but who’s to say it wasn’t a memorial like ben’s statue and more of a warning to the other children instead? something along the lines of look at how this brat disobeyed me; do you want to disappear, too?

there’s luther, who even after everything their father has done to them–to him, most of all–still manages to make up bland, half-baked excuses that he himself is starting to lose faith in, and all that rage and resentment keeps stewing inside him until he reaches his breaking point, rips off his shirt, and yells at his father to look at me! look what you did to me! and it’s even more heartbreaking because reggie does look, he just doesn’t care

let’s move on to allison. it was mentioned at one point that she was something of a daddy’s girl growing up, and even though we aren’t really shown much of their time together, remember when he made her rumor vanya? how she clearly didn’t want to? imagine being so heartless as to instruct a four-year-old child to wipe her sister’s precious memories, all because you were scared of being unable to control her.

and who’s to say there were no repeats after that: of allison turning people’s minds and bodies against them, every single one under her father’s orders as part of her “training”, and when allison fails because her conscience has finally caught up with her, who would stop him from hurting her?

definitely not her siblings or grace, and certainly not pogo.

moving on: oh god, klaus. it’s really not a no-brainer why his son barely has any respect for him, even going so far as to put out his cigarette in his father’s ashes as a final fuck you, because who could respect somebody who forced you to confront your worst fears at thirteen with no safety net whatsoever, even as you screamed yourself hoarse in that damp tomb, with only your nightmares for company

later on, when klaus honest-to-goodness dies and meets him for the first time after so many years, what’s the first thing reggie does? insult him. no “i imagined it’d be a few more years before you joined me here” or “are you okay? why are you even dead, son?”

instead, reggie debunks his accusations as excuses and outright states that he will not accept a single one. instead, he reminds klaus that he is–and always will be–his father’s greatest disappointment, that him never achieving his full potential was klaus’ fault and his alone.

and when klaus chastises him for being so harsh on them and leaving luther on the moon as an easy out for his shortcomings, what’s his greatest takeaway? that he should have burned every single package luther sent back to earth instead of keeping them under the floorboards. 

no apologies, no owning up to his mistakes whatsoever. 

he just deflects his child’s accusations, and even attempts to gaslight klaus once more into thinking that everything he did was to make them stronger and how dare you disobey me, i made you children what you are today and this is how you repay me? what a bunch of disobedient and ungrateful brats you all are indeed

don’t even get me started on vanya’s treatment at his hands. otherwise we’ll be here forever.

and then, we have diego. 

time and time again, diego has proven himself to be tough and capable; whose soft interior is something of a privilege bestowed only to those he truly cares for. and even though he’s come so far in life and helped so many people, the minute reggie takes a shot at him with a few select words? 

nope, never mind, he’s eleven-years-old and back at the academy again.

the man sitting in front of him may not be their father just yet but it’s the exact same words he’s heard for most of his life, the exact same weaknesses gleaned from a single glance, and even in an alternate timeline, his father just knows where to strike, every observation landing dead center like diego’s precious knives. 

(and judging from his siblings’ reactions, this speech is just a rehash of something they’ve all heard before, but it definitely doesn’t mean that it’s going to hurt their brother any less.

no, it will hurt more because he’d actually thought he was finally untouchable after all these years.)

i mean, just look at him: at the way his shoulders shrink inward subconsciously, the excited light in his eyes fading, his stutter reappearing. and despite the fact that he has spent a decade away from this bitter old man, it only takes a minute for his hard earned self-worth to crumble, and suddenly it’s so clear to us just how deep his self-esteem issues go:

because aware or not, everything diego has done and said so far (“he’s an asshole; i’m amazing”) has simply been his way of coping with the fact that no matter how many acts of heroism he performs as an attempt to live up to the “perfect superhero” mold reggie forced them to fill at such a young age, their father will never view them with anything less than contempt, not even luther who barely had to work for approval and their father’s twisted version of “love” because he used to be his loyal lapdog favorite, and that is the real reason why i’m gonna hate this jackass forever, in this essay i will

Together de Michelle Branch.

Una de las muchas canciones daimónicas que de cierta forma describen la especial unión que todos nosotros conocemos.

¿Alguna canción daimónica que quieras compartir? ¡No dudes en colaborar!

A random thought: I feel like me and Theet display more physical affection towards each other day to day now than we would if he were corporeal, cause if he were corporeal we would be more concerned about giving off a more stoic and cool appearance.

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.