Month: June 2016

victoriousvocabulary:

Substitutes for Said (A-D)

A) accused, acknowledged, acquiesced, added, addressed, ad-libbed, admitted, admonished, advised, advocated, affirmed, agreed, alleged, allowed, announced, answered, apologised, approved, argued, articulated, assented, asserted, assumed, assured, attacked, attested, averred, avowed.

B) babbled, baulked, bargained, bantered, barked, bawled, beckoned, began, begged, bellowed, blabbed, blasted, blubbered, blurted, boasted, boomed, bragged, brayed, breathed, bubbled.

C) cackled, called, cautioned, charged, chanted, chattered, cheered, chided, chimed in, chirped, chuckled, cited, choked, claimed, commanded, commented, complained, conceded, concluded, condescended, confessed, confided, consented, consoled, contested, contended, continued, contradicted, conveyed, cooed, corrected, counselled, countered, cracked, cried, criticised, croaked, crowed.

D) dared, debated, decided, declared, declined, decreed, decried, deduced, defended, deferred, delivered, demanded, demurred, denied, denounced, described, dictated, directed, disclosed, divulged, drawled, droned.

[Source] [migz]

In the words of Stephen King, please don’t do this. It’s weak writing. The best way to handle dialogue attribution is with a description of the characters actions before or after the dialogue. People should know your character so well they know who is speaking by what they say. In a scene with only two people speaking you don’t even need them.

scarletsocietate:

LIBER AL VEL LEGIS, III,44: But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous; let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men!

LIBER AL VEL LEGIS

III,45: Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit.

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selftarot:

We all need to learn to consciously appreciate the somethings in life that are the gifts of apparent nothings. This spread is intended to show us what we are overburdening ourselves with and how to create more space in our lives for the things we love and the people we care about. 

1. Aspect of my life that is too “full”.

2. What is being neglected.

3. What is being forgotten.

4. How I am affected.

5. How those around me are affected.

6. What I need to reduce/remove from my life right now to make space.

7. How I can better manage my duties/responsibilities.

ishiganto:

Thoth speaks:

“The ibis and the inkpot–these are blessed. For as the ibis pecks along the bank for a bit of food, so the scribe searches among his thoughts for some truth to tell. All the work is his to speak, its secrets writ down in his heart from the beginning of time, the gods’ words rising upward through his dark belly, seeking light at the edge of his throat. We are made of god stuff, the explosion of stars, particles of light, molded in the presence of gods. The gods are with us. Their secrets writ only in the scrolls of men’s hearts, the law of creation, death and change inscribed in the blood and seed of man’s love. In the beginning and at the end, the book is opened and we see what in life we are asked to remember.

Hear, then my words, the ringing of my speech, as the heart and the scroll of this life fall open. Truth is the harvest scythe. What is sown–love or anger or bitterness–that shall be your bread. The corn is no better than its seed, then let what you plant be good.  Let your touch on earth be light so that when the earth covers you, the clods of dirt fall lightly. The soul of a man forgets nothing. It stands amazed at its own being. The heart beats the rhythm of its own life. The lungs breathe the ions of its own vibration. The mind recalls its thoughts. The glands respond to its emotions. The body is a soul’s record. And when a man’s life ends, his body is given back to the gods and the gods shall see what use their laws have been. They shall see the deeds its hands have made, the sparks of light its heart set in the world. They shall see whether or not their love, their powers have been wasted, whether the plants it has grown were nourishing or poison. And like the ibis, the gods shall circle about him, hunting for seeds that remain uncultivated, for ideas that lie unexpressed. They shall find new seeds from the plants he has tended. And these shall be planted again in the clay of a new man and he shall be sent back to the world until all seeds the gods have seen fit to create in man is cultivated, and then, in final death, he shall be welcomed home as one of them.”

-The Speeches, The Book of Coming Forth by Day

Magician For Hire

scrollofthoth:

When I tried teaching classes at my local occult store a
couple of years ago it didn’t go so well. The owners told me that no one really
wants to put in the time and effort to learn magick, but they suggested that I
offer divination services or to do magick for people. At the time, making money
off of my magick left a bad taste in my mouth, so I declined. But times change.
I have grown more confident in my abilities, and feel competent enough to get
results.

Last week a friend of mine asked me to do some magick for
him to help get rid of a psychic vampire and reignite his energy. It went
extremely well. He was profoundly grateful, and I liked the feeling of helping
someone with my abilities.

So with a mountain of medical debt looming, and with me
still paying on my student loans at the age of forty-five (those student loan
people are some serious Black Brothers), I am offering my services for hire.

I am a 4* in the Illuminates of Thanateros, have a degree in
comparative religion, and am familiar with a  wide range of paradigms, methods, and
techniques, including: goetia, sigil making, servitor creation, Wicca,
Traditional Witchcraft, Thelema, Golden Dawn, banishing, Norse magick, Egyptian
Magick, divination, enchantment, and illumination.

Here are the services I can provide:

Ritual Design – I believe the most effective way to get the
results you want is to do the ritual yourself. I can design rituals for you
that can be done with a limited amount of proficiency and materials.

Direct Magick – I would be happy to perform a ritual for
you. This would include some token from the ritual, a picture or something
physical, which will be sent to you upon the rituals completion.

Divination – I get the best results from three card tarot
spreads. I would take a picture of the cards and provide my insight on each
card.

Prices vary by the request.

But as they say, the proof is in the pudding. I am offering
to perform any of the above for free to the first three persons who drop me an
Ask. The only condition is that I can post the Ask publicly and blog about the
procedure and the results.

Of course, if you would just like to donate (especially if
you enjoy my podcast), go to scrollofthoth.com and use the convenient paypal
button.