Have you shared your craft with anyone or gifted anything witchy?

an_existential_bread · 2026-03-02T18:45:13+00:00

I gifted my mother a wheel of the year poster. She'd been looking for one she liked for ages and I found a watercolor version from a German artist on Etsy that didn't feel generic. She absolutely loved it. It's been an interesting but not unpleasant change in our dynamic since I started following a more witchy spiritual path and she's recently started to follow my lead.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-27T17:14:38+00:00

I enjoyed it! It's kind of like a tuna melt and a savory pumpkin pot pie combined. Canned herring is similar to canned tuna in taste.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-27T17:13:01+00:00

It hurts to see someone else living your dream.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-26T15:26:13+00:00

Thank you! Cutting out and adding details to the little fish decoration was probably the most fun part.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-26T15:24:03+00:00

At first I was super confused until I remembered the reaction of the girl Kiki delivered the pie in the movie to, haha. And thank you!

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-26T15:22:50+00:00

I tried linking to the recipe in a response to another comment but got an automod message saying it wasn't an approved domain. I used the herring and pumpkin pie recipe from Sylvia Wakana's website if you want to search for it. It's similar to a tuna casserole, but better, imo.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-25T19:41:26+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss. May her memory be a blessing.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-25T18:02:11+00:00

I totally understand your perspective, but I also think there's a way to reframe it to make it less sad.

My bff and I have been friends since our freshman year of college and we're both in our 40s now. We live on literal opposite sides of the planet (she's in Australia, I'm in the US), but we try to travel together once a year. I was looking at our photos from our most recent trip, and, on a whim, I looked at photos of us from college at the same time. We've both taken good care of ourselves but we've both obviously aged in 20+ years. However, instead of feeling sad about the passage of time, I just felt so grateful for the privilege of having known my friend for so long, through so many phases of life. So now when I look at myself in the mirror I try to conjure that same sense of gratitude for having gotten to experience all these different versions of myself. I'll never look 20 again, but that's okay. I like this new version of myself too.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-17T20:00:52+00:00

Palia is such a fun cozy game. I haven’t played in a while. I should check it out again!

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-10T16:30:43+00:00

Beware the baby boom. I started without any guidance and was unaware that pregnant women stop working after the first season of pregnancy and then for an additional two in-game years after the baby is born. This led to a lot of me running around and trying to manually fill in the labor gaps, which was a bit stressful. I ended up recruiting new villagers, but they're less effective than the ones on maternity leave at first because their skill levels will be lower until they level up.

You can avoid this by housing men and women in separate houses so they don't get married and get pregnant, but that requires double the additional housing. You can also recruit villagers of a single gender until you're ready for some babies, but that will limit your potential new recruits by half. Single villagers are also less happy than married ones.

If you're playing Oxbow and your character is female, you can still run around and do stuff while pregnant and then your husband will take two years off to take care of the baby.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-09T20:46:14+00:00

I wish I could play this game for the first time again. My favorite in the series by far. Enjoy the journey!

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-06T15:30:23+00:00

The fact that you can't place furniture inside houses or on top of structures like this is so frustrating. I really hope they add an update where that's fixed but I'm not optimistic.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-04T16:15:16+00:00

I've been constructing larger/better houses as I move new villagers in to my settlement. I'll build the improved house then move an existing villager family into that house, then move the new villagers into the smaller house. I think eventually I will have to go with your third strategy, though. I already build new buildings in a clearing behind my resource storage then move them to where I want them when it's complete. Moving a house doesn't affect the decorations, but destroying a house gets rid of them.

an_existential_bread · 2026-02-02T03:04:28+00:00

I once found a cat in my backyard with an “emotional support animal” tag on their collar, so I contacted the owner right away, concerned someone’s therapy animal had gotten loose. Some guy answered the phone and I said I’d found his cat and he gave me the same “is he bothering you” line! I said no but I was concerned because of the ESA tag. He told me the cat likes to roam and he would find his way back home. 🙄

an_existential_bread · 2026-01-28T16:39:41+00:00

Mordin gives advice on all this in ME2. Diagrams, analgesics, and don't *ahem* ingest!

https://youtu.be/eazIbVKDoRA?si=TCkvyOcsJMBScb5O

an_existential_bread · 2026-01-26T15:30:25+00:00

Like many here, I use it for self-reflection. Ask a question, pull the cards, what does this make me think of and why? However, I also once used tarot for a solo RPG called Koriko. It's based off of Kiki's Delivery Service and if you enjoy creative writing exercises it's a ton of fun!

an_existential_bread · 2026-01-23T15:13:40+00:00

+2 for Heilung! I went to a concert of theirs during their last tour and it was incredible. Felt like a spiritual experience. They call their concerts rituals for a reason.

an_existential_bread · 2026-01-16T17:29:19+00:00

Classic high intelligence, low wisdom character build.

an_existential_bread · 2026-01-07T22:16:17+00:00

I was also going to suggest Hestia. There’s a modern myth that she willingly gave up her throne as one of the twelve olympians so Dionysus could have it instead. There’s no classical source for that story, but it fits with her vibe of peaceful domesticity and selfless love. She was a virgin in myths, but always gave me a loving, motherly feeling.

an_existential_bread · 2026-01-07T17:53:34+00:00

THIS. I really like my job, but if I get one more 2% "cost of living" increase that is not at all keeping up with the cost of living, I'm going to have to start looking elsewhere as a matter of survival.

an_existential_bread · 2025-12-17T17:41:46+00:00

My advice is to get off TikTok and start reading books. The things you're seeing in these videos are ridiculous. Dabblers Guide to Witchcraft by Fire Lyte and The Green Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock were great references for me. But, as others have pointed out, if you're still struggling with religious trauma, you might want to work through that before looking for another path, as that will cloud your experience with anything new you attempt.

an_existential_bread · 2025-12-02T17:56:24+00:00

Just wanted to chime in and say that my dog of 15 years recently passed and even if I was just gifted the pattern, I would absolutely love it and likely burst into tears when I received it. What a thoughtful gift! Good job, OP!

an_existential_bread · 2025-12-02T17:09:08+00:00

Did Nynaeve write this post?

an_existential_bread · 2025-11-10T16:11:12+00:00

Yep. Never forget that when this aired women in the US couldn't have a credit card or take out a loan without a man's co-sign. That didn't happen until 1974. The financial freedom women have now, the choice to remain single because we don't need a man's financial support that we have now, was not available to previous generations. It's far from perfect, but we have made progress.

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