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New Year's 2024 Grimoire Challenge!
Let's start off 2024 with a month-long grimoire challenge!
I know that I love to always gather new information for my grimoire, and so I wanted to share this challenge with you.
For the entire month of January, complete one of these activities every day in your grimoire. If you have already completed the question, expand on the information you already have!
There is a beginner level and an advanced level for witches of all stages. If you'd like to, post your responses to the questions here and tag it with #branwens grimoire challenge! I'd love to read all of the wonderful information you find, so tag me too, if you'd like.
Farewell and good tides!
January 2024 Grimoire Challenge
by Branwen (@thatdruidgal)
Plants - Beginner: What are the correspondences of five plants that grow in your local area? Advanced: Come up with a new combination of plants to burn in your next ritual.
Heritage - Beginner: Where do you come from? What types of magick did your ancestors possibly practice in their homeland? Advanced: What were common for your ancestors (eg. food, clothing, daily life)?
Practices - Beginner: What is the difference between closed and open practice? Are you permitted to learn about any closed practices? Advanced: What are 2 open practices that you don't follow? What are some similarities with your practice?
Energy - Beginner: What is energy work? How would you begin this practice? Advanced: What are the four energy types, and how can you connect to each one?
Water - Beginner: What are the uses of moon water? How can you make it? Advanced: How would adding moon water affect your favorite potion recipe?
Altars - Beginner: How could you represent each of the elements on your altar? Advanced: What colors are you not currently using in your altar? Which elements do those colors correspond with?
Salts - Beginner: What benefits do you get from moon salt? How do you make it? Advanced: Research cleansing salts and add the recipes to your grimoire.
Omens - Beginner: What are five ways to bring yourself good luck? Advanced: What are recurring signs you've noticed recently? What sort of message do they bring?
Animals - Beginner: What is an animal(s) that you have always felt a strong emotional bond with? What are their traits? Advanced: How has your spirit animal helped you in the past? How have you communicated with them?
Astrology - Beginner: What are the correspondences of the planets? Advanced: In what ways have you been affected by the planets recently? How can you better their influence in your life?
Crystals - Beginner: What are the correspondences of your 5 favorite crystals? Advanced: What other crystals could have improved your last spell? What are some of the substitutes that could have been used instead?
Cleansing - Beginner: What cleansing methods can you use for your crystals and tools? What methods can you NOT use for certain crystals or tools? Advanced: What crystals require extra cleansing? What crystals cleanse other items?
Recipes - Beginner: Find a recipe that helps you with a problem you've been experiencing recently. Advanced: Find a recipe for you to use during the next moon phase.
Spirits - Beginner: What are the five types of spirit guides? Advanced: How can you better connect to the spirits around you?
Motivation - Beginner: What are some easy witchy tasks that you can do when you have low energy/motivation? Advanced: What are easy-to-perform spells or rituals that help boost your energy? Are there any common ingredients? Create a new spell with these.
Divination - Beginner: What are 5 types of divination that you find interesting? Advanced: What type of divination have you used most often? How can you improve your practices by adding crystals/items?
Healing - Beginner: What plants are used in your favorite medicinal tea? What are their correspondences? Advanced: What is a local plant that has medicinal properties? How would you use these in a spell or potion? What other correspondences does this plant have?
Candles - Beginner: What is your favorite scent of candle? What correspondences does that scent have? Advanced: What colors of candles do you burn most often? How would burning a different color of candle affect your atmosphere or your next ritual?
Sigils - Beginner: What are active ways to activate a sigil? What are passive ways? Advanced: What symbols (eg. celtic knots) work as sigils? What are their uses?
Offerings - Beginner: What are suggested offerings for spirits during the next Sabat holiday? Advanced: What things do you normally offer the spirits as offering? What is their favorite offering?
Sabats - Beginner: What are the eight Sabats? Advanced: What are some of the correspondences of the Sabats? What rituals are best done during these times?
Plants - Beginner: What are the bloom times for your plants? Advanced: What other plants can you grow in your climate? What are their correspondences?
Recipes - Beginner: Find a recipe for a tea/potion you'd like to make. Advanced: Find a recipe for a Sabat-specific item.
Warding - Beginner: What are 3 easy ways to ward an area? Why would you want to do that? Advanced: What are ways to refresh your wards? What are ways of warding that you haven't tried yet?
Enchanting - Beginner: What is enchanting? Advanced: What are the easiest materials to enchant? What are the hardest? (eg. iron doesn't stick to magick)
Fae - Beginner: What are things you need to be wary of when interacting with Fae? Advanced: What are signs that Fae are near? Describe 5 different kinds of Fae.
Zodiac - Beginner: What are your zodiac signs? (sun, moon, ascendant, etc) Advanced: How do each of your zodiac signs affect you? What is another type of zodiac (eg. Chinese, Celtic), and what is your sign there?
Personal Beliefs - Beginner: State 5 things that you believe to be true about the universe. Advanced: What are your beliefs on creation? On karma? On dieties? On planes of existence? Be detailed.
Practices - Beginner: What are 5 different spells or rituals that you've been looking forward to try? What are the ingredients? Advanced: How did your last 5 spells go? Did you get the results that you wanted? How can you improve your practices in the future?
Types of witchcraft - Beginner: What are 10 different types of witchcraft? Which of those appeal the most to you? Advanced: What types of witchcraft do you not follow? Are there any that you haven't researched?
Crafts - Beginner: What is knot magick? What is something you could make with this magick? Advanced: How can you incorporate knot magick into your everyday life? (eg. doing hair, bed routine, fiddling)
#2024 grimoire challenge#2024#happy new year#grimoire challenge#witchy stuff#witchcraft#pagan#druidry#paganism#green witch#witchy things#grimoire#druidcraft#witches of tumblr#witchblr#baby witch#Branwens grimoire challenge
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D&D Character Concept: The Druid in the Walls
You know when weird bits of inspiration combine from very disparate sources? Specifically to give you extremely horrible backstories for a character?
Because I’ve been walking the dog the last while, and I’ve been noticing a lot of the wall plants. You know, the bits of plants, pennywort and red robin and the like, that grow in the cracks in the walls? Between the stones, in the gaps in the plaster. They’re really pretty, and I just love the stubbornness of them, to wind their way into wherever they can anchor and just bloom there.
I’ve written some things before on urban druids in D&D, and I was thinking idly about making a character in that context. The plants that grow in the cracks in the walls. And, because this is D&D and tragic backstories are, like, the thing, I was considering …
Beyond just general urban misery, where would you be where the sight of a stubborn little weed growing in the crack in a wall might be the one beautiful thing you can see and a seed that becomes a focus for your whole being?
Prison is an obvious answer. A cell, looking up at the bit of green growing near a high window. But the idea merged with a crime documentary I watched on youtube, which I cannot find again, about (warning for child death) a Victorian/Early 20th century murder of a child. A society woman who’d had a child out of wedlock as a teenager collected her young daughter from the woman who’d been caring for her, brought her to the cellar of her new husband’s house, and murdered her, without realising that one of the maids witnessed the deed. Which, yes, extraordinarily dark. But.
A child in the cellar. An illegitimate child, hidden away. A bit of green in a high window.
For some reason, my first thought was half elf, because D&D has some options for visibly illegitimate children. But then I remembered we can go one further for social ramifications. We could have a tiefling. A tiefling druid, who spent her first years in the care of a nurse, until she was old enough that they knew she would survive, and then was violently taken away and hidden. Because she is living proof of a … of an indiscretion. A sin.
There’s a bit of me that wants to go with the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide tiefling variants as well, here. Because, while we’re on this very bleak trip into victorianesque worries about the physical markers of illegitimacy and immorality, there’s the alternate appearance descriptions for variant tieflings: “Your tiefling might not look like other tieflings. Rather than having the physical characteristics described in the Player's Handbook, choose 1d4+1 of the following features: small horns; fangs or sharp teeth; a forked tongue; catlike eyes; six fingers on each hand; goatlike legs; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.”
… Tieflings really are playing on a lot of … of very old fears and prejudices. So yeah. But if we’re consciously playing with that, here. It does work.
And this is the sort of house that has a cellar. That has maids. That has nurses. This is urban nobility. But this kid has no memory of wealth, comfort. She just remembers a prison. A cold room with a high window onto street level. And the bit of green, the delicate bloom, the one pretty thing she can remember, shining in the dusty light of that window.
I also, I’ve been handwashing a lot of clothes lately, and I was thinking about the red hands you get from hand laundry. Caught red-handed. And, urban nobility like that, they’d have laundry. Maybe even laundry in the cellar. And I was thinking about the maid in that documentary. And I was thinking … someone freed them. Someone heard the creature in the walls of that house, and the hints upstairs of what it might be, and someone found the compassion in their hearts to do something. Some tiny thing. Even if it was just ‘accidentally’ leaving a door open. And all this kid remembers of how she got out of that prison is … red hands. The raw, boiled red hands of a laundry woman, as she darted past them into the light, in search of their tiny sprout of green.
So she escaped. She lived as a street urchin for a while, a good few years. And she never lost … She looks for the plants. The weeds. The tiny scraps of green the city over. The flowers blooming in the cracks in the walls. Because there’s … there’s an ethos there. A sympathy. A stubborn, determined thing. They grow where they’re not wanted, in the dirt and in the dark, and they bloom anyway. They survive, and they bloom, and they give hope to those around them. It’s a scrap of a thing, a fragile shred of green, but it grows. No matter how unwanted it is. And it gives hope when there’s nothing else.
At some point another druid stumbled across her. An apothecary, maybe, an urban herbalist, or just a vagabond with their own sympathy and appreciation for those shreds of green that all the artifice of urban living could not drive away. She found a teacher. She learned some things. And she gave back some things. Druids have goodberry. Healing word. Spells to help … those who survive in the city’s cracks and crevices. And she wants to. Because of the green, yes, for the hope in the darkness, and also for those boiled red hands. For the servant who helped her, for the faceless person in her memory, that pair of hands, that helped the monster in the walls when no one else would. She doesn’t know who she was. She don’t know what happened to her. The house she came from had a demonic child caged within it. Who knows what they’d do to a servant who interfered in the family business like that? Urban elite, nobility, tend to have … pragmatic solutions to things like that.
Though they hadn’t killed her. Why didn’t they just kill the monstrous child, the proof of their sins? Why hide her, instead of simply getting rid of her? So maybe … maybe there’s hope. Maybe that poor woman, whoever she was, didn’t die for her good deed. I think that is a hope she holds. That she wants to find out what happened to that woman, and maybe, if it’s possible, if it’s not so very much too much to hope, to meet her. Thank her. And … until then. To emulate her. To help. Before anything else, just to help.
I do know I want this druid to have the druidcraft cantrip. Because, yes, it might be largely useless, compared to the likes of prestidigitation and even thaumaturgy. And yes, druids only start with two cantrips, and she probably should take more useful ones. But there is one effect of druidcraft: “You instantly make a flower blossom, a seed pod open, or a leaf bud bloom.” And that’s …
I’m not sure if it’d be ruled that she could create flowers with that. Let small flowers bloom in the cracks with a whisper. But even if she’s only helping the ones already there to bloom, it’s still …
That was her hope. Her symbol of the outside world. The only beautiful thing in her world for years. And she wants to be able to spread that. That was the first magic she learned. The first warmth and hope she ever held in her hands. The ability to make flowers bloom. Even here. Even in the dirt and the dust and the misery. A little tendril of green, stubbornly rooted into the stones of the world. Sometimes you don’t need to be able to fight. Sometimes you just need to be able to provide hope.
(If she could also get herself a Staff of Flowers along the way, she’d love that too)
Maybe a lot of the local urchins know to follow the flowers to find help. You know?
So yeah. Yeah. A tiefling urchin urban druid. A child of sin, with the cherished power to coax hope to bloom, and the stubborn determination to grow no matter what. And to … to repay the small and infinitely precious kindnesses they have received.
#d&d#5e#character concepts#druids#urban druids#tieflings#illegitimacy#druidcraft#urban plants#dark backstories#hope in the flowers
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He's just gonna druidcraft the anxiety away
#my wee anxious small man#critical role#cr3#cr c3#critrole#critrole memes#bells hells#bell's hells#orym of the air ashari#flowers#druidcraft#coping mechanism#cr spoilers#cr memes#cr shitpost#courtesy of me#critrole meme#crit role#cr campaign three
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Welcome to the Queendragon Stable, Druidcraft.
You are a fresh gust of wind, you are a blooming flower, you are the all-too-familiar sound of forest
For everyone not familiar with DnD this is what the spell Druidcraft does:
#ssoblr#sso#star stable#star stable online#star stable screenshots#starstableonline#!Druidcraft!#dnd reference#horse game#druidcraft
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Ugh, druid stuff (cleaning my room)
#im not kidding#clearing your space is literally part of it#and like#its right#u just do not want to do it lmao#druidry#magic#folk magic#withcraft#home witch#druidcraft#witchcraft#witchblr#druid#celtic
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I made a bic case with my sigil. Another UV reactive one. I needed a template, and this was my only bic, so I had to use it. Needed to show it off, though.
#leather#leathercraft#leatherwork#leathertooling#druid#druidcraft#druidism#druidry#sigilcraft#sigil#sigil work#chaos magic#chaos magician#diy#hand crafted#handmade
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The Prophet Yaun Ji Taur
Yaun is a drow druid, the wife of the divine hunter Renir, and founder of the Taur Cult.
She believed in worshipping evolution, survival of the fittest, but also the cooperation required for survival. She believed reckless giving of yourself in service to others was proof of just how capable of a survivor you are. Offers of the flesh, like cutting off fingers or cutting off long ears, where proof of dedication to survival. She helped anyone in need because every success proved she was a product of evolution's success.
#art#d&d#dnd#dndcharacter#dnd campaign#dnd art#dnd oc#dnd ocs#dnd oc art#dnd character#druidic#druid#druidcraft#dnd drow#drow oc#drow elf#drow#cultist
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Plant Lore: Snow Drops
Primary Meanings: hope, purity, innocence, rebirth, new beginnings
Also symbolizes: fertility, renewal, sympathy, love, good luck, courage
Dominant Feature: small, drooping, white flowers in bunches, usually drawn with petals of three.
Tarot Example: Princess of Swords
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i love dnd
i love how my dm let me homebrew attacks with druidcraft. it’s quite devious, really! now i can throw seeds and bloom them in people’s eyes!
its quite silly tbh
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grimoire organization 2022
Greetings, everyone! This is how I've organized my grimoire for 2022. I use Obsidian to write it digitally.
This is just my personal preference for organization, so no worries if yours looks different! There are as many ways to organize a grimoire as there are witches and wizards in the world.
Tell me what you think! What parts do you like? What do you think I should add? Anything I'm missing or suggestions to make it better? Feel free to comment how you organize your grimoire below!
Farewell, and good tidings!
Branwen
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01.00 introduction
01.01 book blessing + protection
01.02 devotion/dedication
01.03 codes/rules/tenets
personal code
code of celtic druidism
the celtic commandments
01.04 intentions and goals
goals
intentions
01.05 learn more/add to grimoire (notes)
02.00 about author
02.01 names
02.02 personal craft
02.03 life path number
02.04 birth tarot card
the emperor
02.05 astrology birth chart
sun in leo
moon in capricorn
ascendant in aquarius
mercury in virgo
venus in leo
mars in pisces
jupiter in leo
saturn in cancer
uranus in pisces
neptune in aquarius
pluto in sagittarius
02.06 celtic zodiac
hazel “the knower”
02.07 personal beliefs (brief)
02.08 favorites
color
magical tools
herbs
crystals
02.09 relationships with spiritual beings
02.10 psychic abilities (clair-)
02.11 personal signature/symbols
02.12 ancestry
02.13 how i want to be remembered
03.00 basics
03.01 types of spells
cleansing
saining
warding
enchanting
verbal spells
invocation
evocation
candle spells
sigil spells
jar spells
ratchets
rituals
03.02 ritual work
the ritual model
intent
visualization
consecration
meditation + grounding
directing energy
clockwise vs. counterclockwise
03.03 types of correspondences
protection
healing
cleansing
banishing
luck
mental clarity
03.04 sabbats
about sabbats
yule (winter solstice)
imbolc
ostara (spring equinox)
beltane
litha (summer solstice)
lughnahsadh
mabon (fall equinox)
samhain (halloween)
03.05 altars
03.06 spirit guides
about spirit guides
ancestor guides
ascended masters
archetype guides
guardian angels
animal guides
03.07 auras
about auras
chakras
03.08 alphabets + code language
ogham alphabet [not featured here]
03.09 symbols
celtic symbols
03.10 about divination
04.00 nature
04.01 the three elements
nwyfre
gwyar
calas
04.02 talking to nature
04.03 lunar phases
full moon
new moon
waxing crescent
first quarter
waxing gibbous
waning gibbous
last quarter
waning crescent
blue moon
black moon
lunar eclipse “blood moon”
solar eclipse
moon void
04.04 herbs
tips
for saining
medicinal
misc
how to dry + store
04.05 gardening
companion plants
herbs
night-blooming plants
04.06 waters
rain water
storm water
dew water
snow water
moon water
sun water
river water
sea water
spring water
lake water
well water
swamp water
rose water
florida water
salt water
rosemary water
how to make moon water
04.07 aromatherapy
essential oils
custom for calm
05.00 minerals
05.01 crystals (by intention)
ones i own
ones i do not own
05.02 stones
precious stones
hag stones
wishing rocks
heart stones
05.03 jewelry
05.04 amulets
about amulets
charging amulets
05.05 charging
05.06 cleansing + care
05.07 salts
purposes
06.00 spirits
06.01 relationships with the spirits
06.02 when making offerings…
06.03 offering ideas
06.04 spirit guides
how to contact
talking to spirit guides
questions to ask
06.05 the fae
about the fae
offering ideas
(some) types of fae
07.00 altars
07.01 layouts
07.02 what to use/ideas
07.03 for the elements
nwyfre
gwyar
calas
07.04 for sabbats
yule (winter solstice)
imbolc
ostara (spring equinox)
beltane
litha (summer solstice)
lughnahsadh
mabon (fall equinox)
samhain (halloween)
08.00 recipes
08.01 general tips
08.02 infusions
tips
herb-infused oil
rose oil
08.03 foods
lughnasadh herb bread
litha orange honey cake
rosemary-honey shortbread
enchanting flower and herb spread
08.04 drinks
fire cider
08.05 potions
08.06 natural remedies
elderberry syrup
08.07 lotions
rose hip lotion [personal]
08.08 cleaning products
pine needle spray
08.09 misc
incense
four thieves vinegar
09.00 spells + rituals
09.01 affirmations
lunar affirmations
09.02 sigils
passive sigils
active sigils
creating sigils
charging sigils
09.03 sachets + jars
anti-anxiety sachet
09.04 prayers
simple opening prayer [personal]
druids prayer
09.05 blessings
old irish blessing
blessing lavender tea [personal]
garden blessing
seedling blessing
09.06 lunar rituals
new moon
waxing crescent
first quarter
waxing gibbous
full moon
waning gibbous
last quarter
waning crescent
09.07 sabbat rituals
yule (winter solstice)
ostara (spring equinox)
beltane
litha (summer solstice)
lughnahsadh
mabon (fall equinox)
samhain (halloween)
09.08 birthday ritual
09.09 solitary dedication ritual
10.00 divination
10.01 astrology birth charts
sun
moon
ascendant
mercury
venus
mars
jupiter
saturn
uranus
neptune
pluto
10.02 zodiac signs
aquarius
pisces
aries
taurus
gemini
cancer
leo
virgo
libra
scorpio
sagittarius
capricorn
10.03 celtic zodiac
rowan
ash
alder
willow
hawthorn
oak
holly
hazel
vine
ivy
reed
elder
birch
10.04 basic tarot card meanings
major arcana
minor arcana, cups
minor arcana, swords
minor arcana, staffs
minor arcana, discs
10.05 tarot spreads
10.06 cleansing the tarot deck
10.07 omens
10.08 psychic abilities
about psychic powers
what to use them for
developing psychic abilities
11.00 library
11.01 dictionary/encyclopedia (?)
11.02 science and magic(k)
matter and energy
11.03 celts
deities
celtic clothing
celtic days
hand-fasting
11.04 druidry
about druidry
bard
ovate
druid
druid organizations
11.05 paganism + animism
11.06 types of divination
augury
astragalomancy
biorhythms
cartomancy
tarot
cleromancy
rhabdomancy
numerology
osteomancy
sacred geometry
tasseomancy
theriomancy
11.07 types of witches/witchcrafts
green witch
eclectic witch
kitchen witch
solitary witch
cottage witch
grey witch
hedge witch
sea witch
religious witch
moon witch
sun witch
elemental witch
fire witch
earth witch
water witch
air witch
swamp witch
faery witch
cosmic witch
divination witch
crystal witch
secular witch
urban witch
literary witch
forest witch
music witch
chaos witch
shadow witch
techno witch
desert witch
art witch
natural witch
hereditary witch
11.08 types of psychic ability
clairvoyance
clairaudience
clairecognizance
clairsentience
clairalience
clairgustance
psychometry
11.09 tree lore
oak
hazel
hawthorn
11.10 animal lore
salmon
cranes
serpents
bees
ladybugs
butterflies
dragonflies
owls
hawks
crows
spiders
11.11 misc correspondences
shapes
colors
weekdays
elements
12.00 inspiration
12.01 legends and myths
fionn mac cumhaill and the salmon of knowledge
12.02 poetry
celandines
alder dance
the oak tree
augeries of innocence
putting in the seed
hermitage
to the cardinal, attacking his reflection in the window
nature aria
the gray heron
12.03 artwork [not featured here]
12.04 photography [not featured here]
13.00 shadow book [personal]
13.01 affirmations
13.02 recipes
13.03 cleansing
13.04 warding
13.05 enchanting
13.06 verbal spells
13.07 candle spells
13.08 sigil spells
13.09 jar spells + sachets
13.10 crystals
13.11 rituals
13.12 tarot divination
readings
getting to know the field tarot deck [archive]
13.13 dreams
13.14 craft challenges
13.15 holiday celebrations
13.16 miscellaneous
13.17 craft advice
from mickey
14.00 personal beliefs
14.01 personal beliefs (expanded)
14.02 creation of the universe
14.03 death + otherworld
14.04 time
14.05 “spirituality”
14.06 magick
15.00 index of personal contributions
16.00 list of sources of information
#grimoire#2022 grimoire#grimoire 2022#grimoire organization#witchy#witch#green witch#crystal witch#witchy things#druidcraft#witchcraft#baby witch#idk what im doing#but i guess this works#at least for now#grimoire tips#witchy tips#beginner witch
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Got this lovely addition to my shelf for plant magic. It's a more expanded upon version than my small foraging book. I've been wanting a more expansive book like this for a while.
#witchcraft#plants and herbs#healing herbs#herbalism#herbology#magical herbs#herbarium#green witch#cottagecore#goblincore#druidcraft#medicinal plants#shamanism
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ANOTHER TREY CLOVER LOVER.. please he is so best friend's older hot brother coded 😭
HE IS or big brother’s best friend………. But tbh the current brainrot is like. A v specific kind of trope where u work for his family while he’s away so u spend months hearing about him in abstract and slotting urself into that family dynamic and then he comes back home and oh fuck fuck fuck he’s hot oh shit
#ask.🌧#druidcraft#or like u open a lil cafe next door and his parents kinda adopt u bc ur young and new and offer to sell their pastries and stuff#I just like the idea of like. hearing stories. being impressed by the idea of this small-town baker boy turned nrc mage#(bc people overlook just how impressive it is to be going to nrc in the first place tbh)#and meeting him and being infatuated immediately…… and he’s equally interested but SO casual abt it u don’t even know#until he’s cornered you after hours and shoving his tongue down ur throat. huh.
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