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Okay.
Tomorrow I have a lunch-and-learn type zoom meeting about getting funding, locally, as a queer creator.
At least I do, if I can actually receive the link to the thing.
It hasn't shown up yet, so who knows. :-\

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).


I wanna make all the necklaces.
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.
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).

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.


Queer Witch Podcast episodes that I'm linking to in order to make them easy for me to find:
Episode 26: Revelations, A Scorpio Review and Discussion of Gender-Inclusive Witchcraft
Witch Wound, Law of Attraction and Shadow Work
Money Witch Jessie Susannah talks balance, banking and building
Episode 5: The Desire & Anxiety Connection


Have started reading Book Two of the "Something Dark and Holy" trilogy.
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 know 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.

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.

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.

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?"

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!

So...

Motherwort to hold us.

I want motherwort in front garden. It's sometimes called Lion's Tail, I think. It's a wild mint-family plant with pinky-purple flower stalks and sharp-toothed leaves. It grows all over the place. It has anti-anxiety properties, is an anti-coagulant (so, if you're at risk for blood clots as well as panic attacks, this might be a good one for you), and is apparently good for fertility? Or maybe not? I'm not sure...
I'd also like to grow skullcap (like motherwort, it has anti-anxiety properties - it's also, iirc, shade-lfriendly AND it has pretty BLUE flowers, which I want more of!)

The big, spikey plant that's taken up residence in the front corner of my garden is, aparently, Viper's Bugloss and is a relative of borrage (so: Yay, food for bees!). You can make a red (ish?) dye from the (very, very deep) tap root. Associated with frost giants and other weather-people? Iiiiinteresting.


I need to go and do the laundry. It's just past 1:30. Need to strip the bed, sort the wash, figure out what gets washed vs what is going to have to wait. I think I have enough for three washes + an hour of dryer time, but I need to check that. Better, if I can fit things into two.

Power Exchange Stuff: Learning new things about stearing my Horse. More than two things on a to-do-list is overwhelming and she'll stall into inaction, dig her heels in, go and hide in her hobbies. We shall see if sticking to a Two Things rule will help on the Getting Shit Done front. <*fingers crossed*>

[EDIT: Normally I friends-lock just about everything and then filter the hell out of it even beyond that. But Tithenai - on-whom this post rather centers - asked me to unlock it so that she could link to it in her own write-up, so I'm doing so. Behold! Me. Laid bare. ;-) /EDIT]



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Perfect.

Oh, perfect and beautiful.

It was one of those nights where everything sings, everything flows just perfectly.

The open mic list filled up in fifteen minutes flat. There was only one spot left by the time I got through the door, and that was gone within seconds of my actually sitting down. We had FIFTEEN PEOPLE signed up to perform.

We had high school students come with their teacher(s) to perform (one of them, at least, for the very first time). We had local celebrities on the stage and in the audience. We had queer gals and het gals, gals who mentioned their faith and gals who didn’t bother with that stuff. We had gals talking about despair and suicide. Gals reading poetry about being young and being bringers of change. We poems about pregnancy and stories about belonging.

The energy was up and high and glorious.

And Tithenai hadn’t even got on stage yet.


( Squeeing FanGirl is Squeeing! )


Anyway. That’s my story.


I love poetry and want to write something about land-based deities. Or something. Possibly lantern fruit (I’m feeling kind of whimsical, can you tell? ;-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon.

To Do Today:

Therapy
Groceries
"Chin Ups"(?)
Phone Sara
Hot Bath (Mmmmm... I SO need this!)
Magic



NOTE: Slightly worried about the magic.

Filling up a bunch of rocks with big, huge buckets o' lovelovelove is an excellent plan. But is my current enotional state going to taint said lovelovelove with anxiety? 'Cause I'd really like to NOT do that. :-\

Thense having the bath beforehand. There will be a bath bomb and a lot of epsom salts. Maybe some other cleansing type stuff.
Maybe I'll burn some incense while I'm at it. My apartment is feeling kind of Eugh these days.

If anyone has suggestions for how to not mess up my little gift-bag o' rocks, please let me know. :-)



- TTFN,
- Amazon.