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Witchy Study Sessions

Welcome to the second post in my witchcraft x studying series! My first post received lots of positive attention so I decided to keep it going!!!

In this post I'll discuss different herbs, incense, fruits, flowers, stones, etc you can use to help you out when you study! Feel free to use this list to help in the creation of spells (if you do, I'd love to hear all about your spells!!), meditation, etc!

Herbs:

Rosemary: the arguably most common and popular herb in witchcraft. It has been used for a very long time for a ton of reasons, making it extremely versatile. This herb is used commonly to help with memory, focus, and concentration making it amazing for study sessions! You can put in in your tea, cakes, breads, salads, whatever you like! Not only are it's metaphysical properties versatile, it's mundane uses are too! It's used everywhere from skincare to medicines to decoration and pest repellent.

Allspice: that one herb everyone has in their cabinet but doesn't know quite what to do with it! This is typically used more commonly for money, but luck, prosperity, and energy are all things anyone going to classes definitely needs. Perfect in baked goods, drinks, incense, sprinkled in wax warmers, and used in sauces and soups, this makes application of this herb for your studies almost limitless!

Bay: got a big test coming up and just need a little pinch of good luck? Throw some bay leaves in your bag! These are very popular for wishing, luck, and that little extra push! Also very amazing in the kitchen. You can also hang them over your desk or put them in your drawers. A popular way of using them is writing what you want on the leaf and then burning it.

Chamomile: every witch's best friend. These are super easy to get and very common, so it's perfect for even the closet witches! Finals week is one of the most useful times for these gorgeous flowers. Don't like the taste? Use them as decoration or in a bouquet! Sprinkle the flowers around your room or in a little jar. They also make Chamomile incense!

Cinnamon: My personal favorite (I add this to almost everything). It's amazing for luck, success, energy, and amplifying energy. Hell, they even make cinnamon gum. With the element of fire, it also tends to have a faster effect than other herbs.

Frankincense: AMAZING for concentration. Burning it also impacts ion channels in the brain that can help alleviate anxiety, which is why you have that mystical kind of feeling in a church while they burn it. It is a slight psychoactive because of this.

Ginger: nervous? Have some ginger! This herb is used even medically to help calm you down. Best part is that it is delicious! Super easy to use without anyone suspecting anything. I add it to my Ramen all the time.

Grass: I know what am I thinking? But have you just laid in some grass and felt calm? Read a book sitting in some and then able to talk all about it? Grass is amazingly magical. It increases focus, concentration, and brings a sense of calmness with it.

Lemon balm: very commonly used to help with anxiety and depression! Need I say more?

Fruits and Veggies:

Acorn: these little guys are absolutely adorable, in season, and perfect for studying! They bring luck, wisdom, and bring out your personal power. Just pick one up and carry it along with you to give you that extra oomph! Did you know that you can also make flour from them? Their flesh is 100% edible. You can even boil them too!

Broccoli: this is a great veggie for growing and being strong just like your mama told ya. It's also great to help balance life as well. Cook it, grow it, chop it up and dry it to powder it, whatever! It's very potent magic. Just be careful! Bitter plants tend to also be able to cause the opposite if used in large quantities in spells (A superstitious belief of mine anyways).

Cabbage: Good luck! Always need more of it so eat your cabbage! Don't like how it tastes? Get some red cabbage and marinade it in some lime juice and salt and add it to a salad or serve with dinner. I promise vegetables aren't bad, they just need seasoning. Bonus points if your seasoning amplifies the energies you want.

Celery: the Allstar veggie! Perfect for stress, tiredness, fatigue, and brain fog. Gnawing on a few sticks tastes great and is healthy. The crunch can really help reduce stress and calm your brain down. But you can also bake it, put it in salads, use the seeds, grow it, etc.

Orange: the praises of this fruit are well sung so I won't beat a dead horse here.

Pumpkin: the king of the season, this baby is amazing at bringing good vibes and pushing you towards success! Plus it smells amazing and is super festive up until winter. You can even paint them to bring some color magic into it!

Strawberry: what better fruit to bring about success, fortune, and favor than this gorgeous beauty? Absolutely delicious, very abundant, and just a pure, helpful energy all around. Use in smoothies, desserts, salads, breakfast, syrups, glazes, sugars, snacks, etc. A gorgeous fruit with an amazing energy. What else could you want?

Flowers:

Carnation: Got too much on your plate? These flowers of motherly love are here to help! Often used for that energy, they can also help ease anxiety and provide some balance to a chaotic life much like a mother can calm her screaming baby to sleep. Best part is these flowers are also edible. The petals are sweet and tender and can be used in all sorts of dishes from desserts to salads to even wines!

Iris: The ultimate power flower with a need to get done attitude. Big project? Need some creative help? Can't focus? Brain fog? You name it, this flower can help! These plants are mildly toxic to humans and toxic to pets so don't let anyone eat them please.

Honeysuckle: With a flower that smells so sweet, how could it not make things better? This flower is great for extra confidence, success, and luck. And it's a very common perfume scent making these magical boosts super easy to get!

Lilac: Amazing for more than just flirting and banishing, it also helps aide memory. Have some of these flowers around you while you study or rehearse to help you remember the small details!

Orchid: this is a no nonsense flower that will bring you focus, concentration, and elegance. Their energy is very strong and their colors are many, making it super easy to customize these to fit your needs!

Rocks:

Agate: with properties like courage, confidence, and strength, these beautiful rocks make amazing and beautiful energy beacons for studying. They also are used a lot in jewelry and art pieces so they are very accessible and easy to disguise!

Amethyst: this stone is like rosemary in the sense that people say it can do anything. Let it bring calmness and sleep on those anxious nights.

Pyrite: this stone isn't just for money, but also for success, luck, focus, and confidence. Carry some around with you to classes to help you focus and be more confident about answering questions.

Yellow flourite: Honestly one of the best stones to help fight fatigue and burn out. It helps clear your body and remove stress. Pair with a positive stone like amethyst to help recharge yourself and get back on your feet.

Yellow topaz: absolutely gorgeous stone with such positive energy. This stone will help you with your confidence and luck as well as look amazing with almost anything!

Other misc. Items:

Dirt from your school: This is an amazing spell item for all sorts of reasons. It brings school energy with you. But it also helps with memory, focus, knowledge, and overall studying.

Paint: paint itself can help invite creativity, overcome road blocks, and provide inspiration. Pair that with the ability to add color magic into it so easy, you have a very potent spell item. This is also a great one for closet witches as no one is going to even think about witchcraft if you're playing with paint.

Pennies: not just for graveyards! These little guys can also bring you good luck!

Shark teeth: Need a confidence boost? Keep some Shark teeth on ya. They are not only super cool, but also very common and popular.

Incense:

Angelica: This is amazingly calm but also great for bringing new understanding. If you're stuck on a topic and just can't get it, try burning some Angelica incense and try again.

Basil: This delicate but almost earthy scent can help with retention, focus, enthusiasm, and mental clarity. This is one you typically can only find combined with other scents.

Bergamot: Pulling an all nighter? The coffee isn't quite cutting it? Try burning some bergamot incense to help keep you alert and keep your mind active. It can also make you feel more confident and ready to take on this class!

Cardamom: this is great if you don't like the smell of bergamot which can be kind of intense.

Sage: remove that stress and heavy energy after failing a test and replace it with a much friendlier, happier energy.

Rain: this is another great option to help alleviate stress especially if you don't like the smell of sage! It's much calmer and more relaxing.

Clove: a great option for long study sessions, this incense really helps with focus and memory, as it was a very warm, earthy smell to it. It also helps in grounding and concentration exercises.

Eucalyptus: a very calming and relaxing incense, this is great if you're stressing over finals or a big project. It will help calm you down while also increasing your focus.

Lemongrass: this is the almighty incense for studying. It helps fight fatigue, increase focus and concentration, promotes stress relief, and helps memory.

Hi anon! I haven’t read many but love these:

the space between (what you want and what you need) by disapparater (2020, M, 13k)

As a specialist Healer in dark magic, Draco has had his fair share of difficult cases and awkward patients. Still, nothing has prepared him for a curse-paralysed Harry Potter.

The Snitch-Maker by Omi_Ohmy (2014, T, 21k)

Draco is content with his Snitches, with the tap tap tap of his hammer, and the tiny gears and sharp scent of metal in his workshop - until one day Harry Potter appears, asking for help to solve a rash of Snitch-tampering in the Quidditch world.

Vale Sanare by RurouniHime (2011, M, 23k)

Draco’s world gains a new component just when he thought he’d sorted everything out.

Come For Me by Frayach (2012, E, 24k)

After Draco is paralyzed in an accident, he and Harry discover a new way to make love. Please read Author’s Notes!!

On One’s Knees by pir8fancier (2008, E, 33k)

The war is over and to the victors go the spoils. If you are triggered by infidelity, this is not the fic for you.

Draco In Darkness by plumeria47 (2003, T, 34k)

Following an accident in his seventh year, Draco loses his eyesight.

fly like paper, high like planes by @harryromper (2019, M, 47k)

Harry Potter, Head Coach of the Appleby Arrows, is very content leading a quiet life. He has a doddery old house-elf who makes his breakfast, a team of players who love Quidditch almost as much as he does, and a Kneazle that curls against his damaged leg at the foot of his bed at night.

Merlin Works in Mysterious Ways by lordhellebore (2013, M, 82k)

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Balance, Imperfect by @bixgirl1 (2017, E, 91k)

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Any Instrument by @dictacontrion (2015, E, 131k)

Draco Malfoy wouldn’t go back to England for anything less than an exceptional case. Being asked to figure out why Harry Potter can’t control his magic might be exceptional enough to qualify.

Thinking about how Phoenix and Miles are the opposite of predestined soulmates and how at every crucial juncture of their relationship it has been a deliberate and often difficult CHOICE.

Miles standing up for Phoenix in the classroom trial. Phoenix studying law and working in the same district to find Miles again. Miles surrendering his perfect record to convict the true criminal in the Powers case. Phoenix taking on an impossible case and believing in Miles’ innocence even when Miles himself didn’t. Miles leaving to make himself into a better person, and still coming back. Phoenix forgiving Miles for leaving. Miles dropping everything to be by Phoenix’s side when he was in trouble and risking everything to defend someone Phoenix believed in.

They come together, again and again and again, not by a quirk of fate but because they choose eachother, again and again and again, no matter how hard it is. Every choice has led them closer together because every hardship that they’ve come out the other side on has proven that they can trust eachother, that their belief means something, that they will face eachother and work together and be the better for it.

That they are drawn to eachother is not the inevitability of gravity but the exertion of Newton’s Law. Every choice they’ve made has had an equal and opposite effect on the other - push and pull, two steps forward and one step back, trust falls and lifting eachother up.

They could have made so many other choices. They could have chosen to stay out of eachothers way, and the world would not have ended. But they would not have been better for it.

They have shaped eachother, permanent fingerprints on their souls, and that is why they fit together so well. They were not born that way, they were made in an arduous and wonderful joint act of creation.

Phoenix Wright's best traps are the ones he knows the effectiveness of firsthand.

He knows that a bright-eyed young defense attorney with a burning desire to exonerate their client will take key evidence from a disarmingly innocuous-seeming girl in a cape. Kristoph Gavin taught him that, and Apollo Justice takes the bait.

He knows that, if you want to get evidence from someone or retrieve certain objects, the most effective way to do so is to get close. To be friends. To take meals together. Perhaps even to get them to fall for you. To make them think you're nothing but a helpless pretty face. Dahlia Hawthorne taught him that, and Kristoph Gavin takes the bait.

He knows that, if you don't have the evidence needed to convict someone obviously guilty, you're not out of options. Their crimes speak for themselves, and if they're made known in court, it's the court of public opinion who will deem them guilty, and the gavel has no choice but to follow. Mia Fey taught him that, and Kristoph Gavin takes the bait.

He knows that, when trusted family commits unspeakable crimes, only the light of the court can exorcise that darkness. Miles Edgeworth taught him that, and Klavier Gavin takes the bait.

Nie!Wei Wuzian Au - Masterpost

I reeeeally really love this Au, i want to expand it so if any of you know other fics or posts and want to add feel free to contact me!

ON AO3

The Horned Beast of Qinghe by literaryaria

Summary:

Orphaned at age six, Wei Wuxian was adopted by Jiang Fengmian. For the next six years, he had trained and cultivated alongside his adoptive siblings, but little did he know that despite his best efforts, he would never belong there. Disheartened, he set out to find a place for himself only to go full circle as he met another pair of troubled siblings.

This time, would he get to stay beside his new family or would his illusion come crashing down on his head again?

(A Nie Sect Wei Wuxian story that’s almost as angsty as canon.)

The Light That Fails to Dim by glowingreverie 

Summary:

Wei Ying lost his parents in a night hunt. Cold and alone, he wandered the streets of Yiling for nearly two years. However, one fateful night, a tall, scary man finds him and takes him back to a place he calls Qinghe. Later Wei Ying, now known as Wei Wuxian, discovers that that tall, scary man is not bad at all. And his cowardly brother makes an even better friend than he initially thought he would. With a content feeling in his chest every day, Wei Wuxian can only hope these peaceful, happy days with his new family will last until the end of time.

Or, in which Jiang Fengmian is unaware of what happened to Wei Wuxian’s parents and Nie Mingjue takes him in and the story continues from there…

On Tumblr

@someone-save-meeee ‘s story!

YZY ultimatum AU where the nie bros adopt Wei Ying after he’s been kicked out.

“That’s not love” she tells me. “You don’t have to beg for someone to stay. You don’t have to beg for someone to live with you. You don’t beg for them to commit to you and you don’t have to beg for a title. When it’s love, you don’t even think about those things. They happen naturally. This boy is the epitome of everything that love is not. And what a heartbreaking yet wonderful experience to have at a young age, for it opens up more room for the right sort of love to appear”

— my mothers pep talks (ms, 2019)

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

twenty years later