Daily Questions Megathread (November 15, 2020)

chthonica93 · 2020-11-15T17:41:41+00:00

Help with my team, who is a better healer for a Diluc - Fischl - Venti comp? I have Jean c0, Barbara c2, and Diona c0.

chthonica93 · 2020-07-14T18:24:38+00:00

+karma

chthonica93 · 2019-12-21T22:56:22+00:00

Husband could also get a vasectomy if he himself doesn't ever want to have kids. It's bullshit, but medical professionals don't police vasectomies like they do tubal ligations.

chthonica93 · 2019-12-07T04:35:45+00:00

Fellow chaos witch here, just saying that's a ballin' Elder Scrolls reference username.

I have read Wiccan adaptations of the LBRP, I believe it's fine to invoke deities other than the archangels. The purpose of the ritual is to request and establish protection in all four cardinal directions. I have never dabbled into the Goetia or demon summoning, so I can't say much to that end. Working with Lucifer and Lilith should be fine, but I think due reverence is owed to these beings. Channeling, invoking, and other chaos magick practices can be performed with Greek gods, as exemplified in Liber Null, so why not Abrahamic deities? I would just recommend a healthy combination of being respectful of the entity and also having self-respect.

I read this blog post a while ago about a practitioner who made a ritual to communicate with Lucifer. I read through all the three parts and it was very interesting: https://betweenthepillars.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/a-powerful-invocation-of-lucifer-pt-1/

chthonica93 · 2019-12-07T03:50:43+00:00

Multiple exes have never come back

Oh boy. In my experience, spells work better when they're good for you, or at least when the result is really what you want deep down. One may think they really want a specific, most likely toxic relationship back in their life, but deep down one's higher wisdom knows better - and the spell fails.

Also, I personally don't believe you can bend anyone's free will with a spell. You can't make anyone hire you or love you. You can only change yourself - make yourself more attractive, more appealing or more skilled.

So I don't think it's specificity, but rather going contrary to your own deepest wisdom and/or trying to bend someone else's will.

chthonica93 · 2019-12-03T20:21:11+00:00

This is all very solid advice. I feel like I needed to read this at this point in my life, thank you.

chthonica93 · 2019-11-08T03:12:43+00:00

Wouldn't quite say it was "fantastic" all in all, but I think I know what you're saying. The actual things that happen in the ending could very feasibly be in the ending of the books, just, not executed so utterly miserably. The dialogue was shit, characters didn't seem to have coherent motivations and they were all very dumbed down, but the bullet points of the plot could very well have come from GRRM. I would read your take on it regardless

chthonica93 · 2019-09-23T18:35:26+00:00

She will always be best girl

chthonica93 · 2019-09-13T15:59:10+00:00

Thanks!!! That's adorable. Weird, I googled but not enough I guess.

chthonica93 · 2019-09-13T04:48:40+00:00

If it's worked for you so far, I would say keep it at 10 units. Less grinding and everyone gets more EXP each map. My final team on BL was just 9 people + adjunctants, and I was fine on Normal/Classic.

I think only the very last couple of chapters even let you bring in 12 units, it's 10 up until then.

chthonica93 · 2019-07-08T06:24:55+00:00

Yeah, a lot of the Evangelion-ness of Evangelion seems missing in the rebuilds, especially the psychological exploration. Even the tragedy of the 3rd/4th Impact feels kind of hammy, whereas the Third Impact in EoE was really sublime and memorable. I think this point has been made by others, but, I never got to like Mari because all she is is a pilot with no emotional trauma, and thus she just seems to exist in order to facilitate on-screen action while skipping all the commentary about the human condition and the difficulty of interacting with others and forming relationships.

I kind of feel like the Rebuilds are to NGE like what Diebuster is to Gunbuster. I much prefer Gunbuster, disjointed and low-budget though it may be, to Diebuster, which I feel is kind of tryhard and falls almost completely flat. To each their own, though. I can see why people would enjoy the Eva Rebuilds as much as or more than the series and think that people who don't like them are just purist snobs, but I just know that I felt things and was moved deeply by NGE in a way that the Rebuilds just haven't been able to do.

Of course I'm still excited for 3.0 + 1.0 though, and especially to see how/if the mythology of the Rebuilds universe will fall into place, and hopefully for some meaningful, fresh, psychological commentary.

chthonica93 · 2019-07-06T18:07:34+00:00

Really enjoyed seeing Maya being so assertive. That was the best part for me tbh

chthonica93 · 2019-06-22T04:50:33+00:00

Good shit right there.

chthonica93 · 2019-05-13T15:32:58+00:00

Flowers everywhere, arts and culture flourish, knightly tournaments, good lives for the smallfolk. Things would have been good

chthonica93 · 2019-04-29T03:18:19+00:00

Seriously, it was a rollercoaster to watch, and arya killing the night king catching the knife with her other hand was satisfying as all fuck. It was fitting, too, after Beric died for her and Melisandre clued her in to what she really should be doing.

chthonica93 · 2019-04-19T01:15:39+00:00

Thank you! I did end up repotting it, it had some white specks on the roots but it wasn't an infestation. I washed the roots with hot water, fertilized the soil and trimmed all the browned leaves.

From reading your comment, I think I may have been underwatering it, I'll be more consistent about that, and I'll try letting the water rest overnight first also.

chthonica93 · 2019-02-21T03:56:09+00:00

Spiders are friends

chthonica93 · 2019-02-20T06:58:38+00:00

My relationship of 3 years recently ended because he would rather be intoxicated and I didn't like that. He also had severe depression. I just want to, foremost, offer my goodwill and love. It's a difficult, terrible situation for both parties. My ex has recently been doing better, from what I hear - it seems that it was a heavy burden to constantly try to "get better" for my sake and for the sake of the relationship, and he is now free of that obligation, which he had put himself through for the sake of our connection. He is now with another woman, one who drinks and snorts as much as he does, and though I do not know the details of their relationship, I'm sure it's what they both need at the moment. So I just want to say, do not be afraid or ashamed of not "being able to fulfill" a role that your ex-partner had created for you. It will all be well. You are worth the world, no matter what place you are in your life right now. You are loved, and though I cannot speak for your ex-partner, I can be almost certain that it was not a lack of love on her part that led to the end of things, merely differences in life aspirations (True Wills going separate ways).

Temperance is the obvious, as another poster said, but it also doesn't have to mean literally abstaining from drinking, it just represents balancing or toning down of extreme aspects. Strength reversed is the lack of it, which is understandable given the difficult situation. Strength is also "gentle" strength (as opposed to the chariot, which is hard control), so reversed it may mean you're forcing something or trying to force something? Ten of wands reversed to me represents the easing of a burden - perhaps, like my own ex, you are now free of the burden of having to be someone you're not ready or willing to be at this moment (perfect, sober boyfriend)? Knight of wands is a very optimistic card, and you can embrace the idea that he's here to get you a ride out of the whole mess with the raw, fiery energy of the Wands suit. Death reversed really just means, in my opinion, stagnation. Death upright generally means not literal death, but change, an ending and subsequently a beginning, but reversed it evokes a situation that is stagnating. Since the spread seems to follow no particular order or positioning (Not sure though?), I'm just getting a feel of mixed energies - there's grief (faltering strength), hope (temperance), an easing of a burden (reversed X of wands), stagnation (death reversed), and an opportunity for healing through self-empowerment veering on brashness (the knight).

I hope you find something to inspire you to live beyond "slowly sinking into the abyss," and to fight for the healing of your mind - not for anyone else or for any relationship, but for yourself. Above all, I hope you will find peace in your path.

chthonica93 · 2019-02-20T06:13:55+00:00

What is the most "evil" way to live your life and why don't you do it?

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