Universe

Hello, so what is everyone up to?

Heya

@otherkinnet, Hello! I think it\'s a real blessing to find your website on the Internet. I\'m an Elf. Now I\'m writing a book, dedicated to elves: their historical past and their present. I\'m from Ukraine. Since I do not have the right to publish materials without the permission, I am writing to you. Can I post some articles posted on your website in my book, of course with a direct link to the source(on your website) and the author\'s name? Thank you very much and looking forward to your reply!

Made a little change which should hopefully speed up the site. Let me know if you think the site is any faster now, and also if you notice anything break which might be due to this change.

My usual, gut-level, teeth-grinding reaction to certain referential allusions that occasionally come up during discussion is as follows:

AAAUGH RANDOM DEFAULT USERPIC IS HORRIFYING

So, what does everyone think of the new site so far? Parts you like, parts you dislike, etc? Any bugs that you\'ve found so far? The only outstanding bug that I\'m currently aware of relates to the live notification updates plugin, and it\'s a minor display issue that I\'m going to look into correcting - I think it just needs some css tweaking. Anyone find others? What about suggestions for the site, or content you\'d like to see added? I\'ve been monitoring 404 errors from people linking to the old site, and I\'ve found there are some things I still need to move over - mostly things that were on the otherkin.net wiki and a handful of stuff from the ORC that had been imported to otherkin.net but was not part of the main articles listing. I\'m also working to map redirects from the old article locations to their new ones so people don\'t get 404s when visiting old links, but that\'s going to take some time to go through completely. Anything else I\'m missing? Don\'t be shy, folks, speak up!

Ok, I *think* that everything has been migrated over from the old site at this point. Articles, poetry, humor, filk, artwork, songs, and stories. I\'ve tagged them as best as I can to try to help people find what they\'re looking for, but a few I really didn\'t know how to tag. If you have any tag suggestions, please feel free to leave them as comments on the relevant items - I\'m looking around for a way for the community to more directly add tags to items (with author or admin approval) but so far haven\'t had much luck and I really don\'t have the time or desire to write such a plugin myself at this exact moment.

Reality™ consists of multiple worlds, or as some today say, a "Multiverse of Realities". At a very minimum, Gaelic Traditionalists believe there is a World of the Stars (the Sky), a Middle World (the Earth, or the Land) and an Underworld (the Sea). All of these worlds are connected in some way, with events and magicks from one affecting events occurring in a different world. These Worlds, separated by what some call The Veils, are closer at certain times called the "In-Between Times". It should also be no surprise that the Ancestors practiced Their most important Magicks during such In-Between Times as the sunrise, the sunset, the moonrise, the moonset, and during the transitions of the seasons (Béaltaine and Samhain), as well as the extremes of the Sun (Mid-Winter and Mid-Summer), or the great "Fire Festivals". The period from Samhain to Béaltaine is called "An Ghrian beag" or the "little Sun". The period from Béaltaine to Samhain is called "An Ghrian mór" or the "greater Sun". Great fires are kindled during the fire festivals. The thought behind this is that "like attracts like", so that the Power of the flames will also attract the Magickal Power of the Sun. The fires also encourage and enhance the energies of the Sun and help to create conditions favorable to transmutation of magickal power.

Some of this is from the Torah, some from rabbinical commentary, some from oral tradition, and probably a number of inaccuracies caused by my fuzzy memory on the subject (PLEASE feel free to set me straight if you know this better than me). Please bear in mind that this is not necessarily my take on the whole thing, just the story as I recall it. Here's the gist:

Magpie's essay on the septagram is an incredible one. It was well thought out and researched. However, at her urging I decided to present another view of the septagram... this one intensely personal.

Forget Schoolhouse Rock: three isn't the magic number, seven is. Seven is one of the most widely recognized "lucky numbers", and comes into play with a fair amount of things, both magical and mundane... for example:

Full D. sylvanus taxonomy is as follows:
Species: sylvanus
Genus: Dannan
Family: Faeidae
Infraorder: Catarrhini
Order: Primates.

It's rather simple, actually. When the Crone is coming to fruition in the waning dark of the Moon, you must create a black waxen image of your computer with wick for lighting, or black candle if you're not artistic. Upon it with your Burin, which can be found at various stores throughout the Internet, inscribe these words, "I desire to leave this list list", along with the Tattwa for the Element of Fire, representing freedom, change and destruction , the Elder Futhark rune of Thurisaz, representing freedom in movement, the masculine in action and destruction of obstacles, and the Ogham symbol for Birch, representing new beginnings, purification and changes. You'll need a banishing incense of your choice and two lodestones. Cast circle, yadda, yadda, yadda, dress waxen computer image or candle and place on pentacle, light.

[Written by Tiernan and Robin. Taken from the TNO archives, Issue #1, October 1995. ]

1. Are people spooked when you walked up behind them and they never heard you coming?
2. You are always the first one to hear something in the distance (ie: aproaching car, person, storm...)
3. You can smell a troll for miles and miles and miles...
4. You couldn't care less about gun control as long as they don't outlaw bows.
5. You think "Lord what fools these mortals be" should be in Bartletts Quotes.
6. You are frequently offered 'Santa's Helper' jobs at Christmas without an interview.
7. Your best friends are nymphs, pixies, and fairies.
8. You think trees are a great place to live, and holes in the ground are for worms and hobbits.
9. Your friends cat, who hates EVERYONE including your friend, loves you.
10. You HATE ear jokes
11. You catch yourself referring to David Bowie as 'cousin'
12. The only iron you care to work with is the one that takes the wrinkles out of your clothes.
13. You can smell what kind of mood the people around you are in.
14. You HATE plastic.
15. You LOVE mushrooms.
16. You can be spun around at night with a blindfold on and you stop spinning pointing to true North every time.
17. You find yourself arguing that Vulcans and Romulans are your long lost cousins with a Trek fan.
18. Almost no-one understands your sense of humor
19. Trolls stress you out.
20. You have pet dragons.
21. You would rather listen to bird songs than the radio.
22. You can sleep on the floor, ground or a wood waterbed, but not a metal frame bed.
23. Orcs are the cousins you don't talk about.
24. You have a fascination with edged weapons.
25. Most of your clothing has ties and laces instead of buttons and zippers.