Louis, Koby, Harry - they all have abilities that aren't working. I think anything supernatural that would give you an advantage in the game is weird until it's over.
But thank you for trying. In your condition, it must be hard whether it's useful or not.
That's...nice, I guess. It's not weird for them that you couldn't deliver?
A little. I've been guzzling tea with honey for a few days, but I did too much talking during the voting. Need to just rest my throat for a few days. Maybe start wearing turtlenecks now that it's purple.
[ Matt, for better or worse, interprets "deliver" as "dick," and tries to formulate an answer without kissing and telling: ]
I'll have to circle back with them and see if they thought anything about it was weird.
What I can offer is maybe a step up from tea with honey. I'm not a great healer, but I can support your body's natural healing processes, so ... depending how things go, and if you want it next week, hit me up.
I don't think every practitioner feels it like I do. But if you reach out to a higher power asking "please, I need help to make the changes I want to see"
I think I've said I wasn't raised with religion. But that's what it feels like to me. Fulfilling an obligation to others through a connection to something bigger.
It's worked for charms that didn't directly tie to the game. And technically, I think Parisa's spell did work, it's just that the inquiry wasn't particularly probative.
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Nobody 100% agrees on exactly how magic works, so this is colored by my personal experience. But it comes from human sentience + some element of ritual applied to an outcome, and for me, intimacy is like
a way of connecting to someone all at once, with everything. Mind, spirit, body, emotions. You can surpass the boundaries of yourself to make something that's bigger than you and your partner individually.
In place of prayer, yeah. Or of channeling life energy, which is more or less how I cast on the daily. Some people use emotion or force of will.
You generate energy, and then things like candles and herbs and chalk lines help you shape your outcome.
[ Matt wants to tell Tim I think it's rarer than it should be, to feel like that. But even though he thinks he might be about to die, that feels a hair too presumptuous. Too intimate. He's already shared more about sex magic in the past fifteen minutes than he's told almost anyone in his life, except maybe Vincent. ]
[ If it isn't love, then it must be sin. And if it is love, then it must be transcendent, consuming, self-sacrificing and without ego, devotion of the mind, body and soul. It has to be worship. That's how you're meant to love God. He never learned any other way. ]
So you have this powerful experience through physical intimacy, which allows you to do...all kinds of magic? It doesn't have to do with intimacy. You used it to track the belt.
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Date: 2024-10-18 07:06 pm (UTC)But thank you for trying. In your condition, it must be hard whether it's useful or not.
How are you feeling besides that?
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Date: 2024-10-18 07:26 pm (UTC)Plus I got more takers than I expected, so you know. That was nice.
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I'm okay. Trying to stay positive.
How about you? Throat any better? Honestly, I should've made you like a tea or something, that would probably have been a better use of time
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Date: 2024-10-18 07:38 pm (UTC)A little. I've been guzzling tea with honey for a few days, but I did too much talking during the voting. Need to just rest my throat for a few days. Maybe start wearing turtlenecks now that it's purple.
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Date: 2024-10-18 09:51 pm (UTC)I'll have to circle back with them and see if they thought anything about it was weird.
What I can offer is maybe a step up from tea with honey. I'm not a great healer, but I can support your body's natural healing processes, so ... depending how things go, and if you want it next week, hit me up.
Failing that, I suggest scarves.
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Date: 2024-10-18 10:26 pm (UTC)And that's nice of you to offer, but you should save it for yourself. You're way worse off. It's fall, I can do turtlenecks for a while.
[ He'll be wrapping nothing around his neck that can be used as a strangulation aid anytime soon, thank you. ]
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Date: 2024-10-19 03:10 am (UTC)I guess I should try to make a stronger case for myself here
but even where I come from, sex magic is weird no matter where you do it.
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Date: 2024-10-19 03:39 am (UTC)I mean, that can't be an efficient way to power...whatever it is you do.
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Date: 2024-10-20 04:09 pm (UTC)At the bottom, that's what it is.
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Date: 2024-10-20 05:23 pm (UTC)I don't understand.
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Date: 2024-10-20 11:08 pm (UTC)I think I've said I wasn't raised with religion. But that's what it feels like to me. Fulfilling an obligation to others through a connection to something bigger.
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Date: 2024-10-21 03:36 am (UTC)Has that actually worked here? It looked like the belt just led you around in circles.
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Date: 2024-10-21 04:30 pm (UTC)[ A pause between messages. ]
Nobody 100% agrees on exactly how magic works, so this is colored by my personal experience. But it comes from human sentience + some element of ritual applied to an outcome, and for me, intimacy is like
a way of connecting to someone all at once, with everything. Mind, spirit, body, emotions. You can surpass the boundaries of yourself to make something that's bigger than you and your partner individually.
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Date: 2024-10-21 05:03 pm (UTC)I guess I can understand that. I've felt like that during sex.
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Date: 2024-10-21 11:37 pm (UTC)You generate energy, and then things like candles and herbs and chalk lines help you shape your outcome.
[ Matt wants to tell Tim I think it's rarer than it should be, to feel like that. But even though he thinks he might be about to die, that feels a hair too presumptuous. Too intimate. He's already shared more about sex magic in the past fifteen minutes than he's told almost anyone in his life, except maybe Vincent. ]
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Date: 2024-10-21 11:50 pm (UTC)So you have this powerful experience through physical intimacy, which allows you to do...all kinds of magic? It doesn't have to do with intimacy. You used it to track the belt.
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Date: 2024-10-22 03:52 pm (UTC)for me, I try to honor the source of the power not necessarily in a specific application, but in trying to do good with it
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Date: 2024-10-22 04:09 pm (UTC)I don’t have any supernatural ability myself, as you know, but I think I understand.
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Date: 2024-10-23 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-23 08:52 pm (UTC)I don't think I'll participate in your group thing, but I hope it works.
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Date: 2024-10-24 05:28 pm (UTC)I hope so too.