tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-18:358056amazon_syrenamazon_syrenamazon_syren2020-10-16T01:21:33Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-18:358056:1154872Queer Witch Podcast2020-10-16T01:21:33Z2020-10-16T01:21:33Zpublic2Okay.<br />Tomorrow I have a lunch-and-learn type zoom meeting about getting funding, locally, as a queer creator.<br />At least I do, if I can actually receive the link to the thing.<br />It hasn't shown up yet, so who knows. :-\<br /><br />I also have a birthday party (all three of us) for my metamour. I'm making a carrot cake and also some rose petal shortbread cookies. (My wife, AKA her non-live-in life-partner, found her The Cutest Cookie Jar, per request, so I wanted to give her something to put in it).<br /><br /><br />I wanna make all the necklaces.<br />I am getting the hang of doing knotted cord necklaces (where there's a knot between each bead), and I super want to just buy a tonne of 8mm beads and do myself a bunch of (some magical, some just aesthetic) princess-length necklaces to go with all my round/scoop neckline tops.<br />Amazonite (obvs) and moonstone and labradourite and rainbow obsidian and tourmilated(?) quartz and rhodochrosite and snowflake obsidian and purple fluorite and blue lace agate and sodalite and iolite and pearls and various other stones in shades of grey and blue and pink, for the most part. (But also mahogany obsidian and elephant skin agate and ukanite, because I want to make necklaces for more than just me).<br /><br />That's going to have to wait - possibly quite a while - until there's money for Fun Things again. But it's sitting in my head, and I'm making do with the bead stash I've got in the mean time.<br /><br /><br />Queer Witch Podcast episodes that I'm linking to in order to make them easy for me to find:<br /><a href="https://thequeerwitch.libsyn.com/episode-25-revelations-a-scorpio-review-and-discussion-of-gender-inclusive-witchcraft">Episode 26: Revelations, A Scorpio Review and Discussion of Gender-Inclusive Witchcraft</a><br /><a href="https://thequeerwitch.libsyn.com/witch-wound-law-of-attraction-and-shadow-work">Witch Wound, Law of Attraction and Shadow Work</a><br /><a href="https://thequeerwitch.libsyn.com/money-witch-jessie-susannah-talks-balance-banking-and-building">Money Witch Jessie Susannah talks balance, banking and building</a><br /><a href="https://thequeerwitch.libsyn.com/episode-5-the-desire-anxiety-connection">Episode 5: The Desire & Anxiety Connection</a><br /><br /><br />Have started reading Book Two of the "Something Dark and Holy" trilogy.<br />I continue to have "You did this for aesthetics" Feels, there's already a (further) degree of Telling Not Showing, and the Crazy Prophetic Witch is getting on my nerves because, y'all, I <i>know</i> people who Hear Voices and have visions and this is NOT how they act. And yet. Clearly I'm liking it enough to keep reading. So here we are.<br /><br />Looking forward to diving into Rin Chupeco's Bone Witch series tho. Concerned that it'll be Horror, rather than, like, Fantasy With Ghosts, but looking forward to it none the less.<br /><br />I've also got Sarah Glenn Marsh's "Reign of the Fallen" and "Song of the Dead" out of the library, and I'm frankly hoping for Moar Lesbian Necromancers. Although I'm not sure that's what I'll get.<br /><br />I am very, very much enjoying how YA seems to be handling the question of "Vampires weren't cool there, for a bit, but also Brooding, Tortured, Dangerous, and Possibly Immortal Love Interests remains a hot topic (hahaaa see what I did thar) for a SIGNIFICANT subsection of fantasy-readers so... how do we make Dead People Sexy without saying the word vampire?"<br /><br />Lesbian necromancers (in more than one series??) and god-touched/semi-divine waifs and people who need to bleed in order to do magic and other people who are horny for skeletons and/or revenge... seems to be covering it nicely? Good Job, YA!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=amazon_syren&ditemid=1154872" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments