u/Werewolf_Cartomancer

(Sorry for bad English, it's not my first language)

I've noticed that trope has become very common in movies like that The Craft remake and the more recent Practical Magic sequel, where there is a man from magical lineage, but he has no powers and the ONLY spell he can cast is "steal woman's magic".

Like, I know it's a critique of patriarchy and all, but it's done so poorly and I find the writing quite lazy when they summarize whole characters into "jealous man". I can't remember any explanation why those guys didn't inherit the magical powers in those movies.

It would be refreshing if we got a gay witch boy in those sorts of movies. Or maybe a straight one too. Patriarchy can hurt anybody someday and somehow.

Maybe that's really petty, but i just couldn't get this off my mind. I'm sorry if i talked shi here lol.

Here are some of the werewolf characters from stories I wrote over time! Read if you have nothing else to do.

Peter: He's eight, has a sister who is also a werewolf, a crush who likes him back and overall a pretty neat life. Plus, I first drew him in Paint (that computer app) when I was a child, so he canonically looks like a roblox character. I doubt roblox was a thing yet.

Matt: He's not a lot older than Peter. He has no close family and lives alone in a house that is definetly too big for him to manage alone. He has only one friend and a girl he likes at school. His curse makes him always feel hungry, keeps him from sleeping and breaks open all his scars that are related to the night he was bitten. He's also terrified of flowers because he doesn't know only Wolfsbane will cause burns. At the end of his arc, almost none of his real problems are solved, just his fear of biting people. I just feel sorry for Matt.

Samuel: A witch killed his dad and manipulated him.

Aishel: He ran from home and got manipulated by a witch into biting two younger boys so he could have "brothers". The difference is that he enjoyed living with the witch because she decided to adopt him and became a surprisingly loving mother. She was then killed by a monster hunter, and the rest is history.

Adrian: He went through so many iterations both his looks and lore are highly inconsistent and all I know about him is that he's in a paranormal romance.

Hope you liked the trauma-dump loll.

(That's it.)

(If you needed a convincing explanation to write a Were-vampire story, you're welcome.)

(Also, good luck! ;))

Provavelmente não dá para medir o poder desses rituais em círculos comuns, mas se desse, eu chutaria que estão em algum lugar entre o sétimo círculo (chutando bem baixo) e o décimo segundo (chutando bem alto), já que os dois têm um poder muito grande de alterar a realidade.

Espero não estar falando merdkkkk

Edit: eu me refiro aos rituais que dão nome às temporadas, não os rituais que aparecem nas temporadas.

For the sake of realism in a book, i wanted to ask you guys what kind of garment you think one would need to stitch more frequently after transforming into a black-bear-sized shadow beast. For example, the shirt or the shoes.

What are your thoughts on it?

What's your origin myth for werewolves? Does it have a moon or wolf entity? Is it related to any existing trditions?

Important info:

>This is part two of a post where I asked redditors about how they handle magic that can corrupt the players. After some suggestions, I doodled a really basic system.

>I'm using a homebrew system for magic with four elements, of which the element of Night is the most dangerous and violent, and supposed to be taboo between the Kajurus (Witch-doctors).

The doodle: There's a corruption bar for magic, and it has 8 points. Whenever using magic of Winds, Forest and Waters, the player should roll a d4 that will corrupt them to a not-so-concerning amount. When using Night magic, however, the player should roll a d8 or 2d4, (still not sure).

Corruption is supposed to wear off with time. Edging total corruption, getting to 7 points of corruption, should wear off in about three weeks without intense use of magic.

In a homebrew system very vaguely inspired by Paranormal Order, I've been working on a magic system with four elements. Those elements are related to both magic and monsters. The thing is that intense contact with the elements corrupted humans into monsters before, and i want to make that a risk for the magic-wielding players too.

In a book I am writing, there is an old language used to name magical creatures and that is known by wizards and Royals. Though the idea is older, this vocab is fresh.

The following text is a royal title that translates roughly as "Prince Anu, son of the Queen of Fairies and of the King of Men, Prince of Fire and Winds".

"Tra Anu, zav Tabaḥa Aḥintī, av Tra Adontī, Tra aḥdudetīu āv mwamtīu."

I know it's really simple and not much more than a relex, but i still wanna show it to someone who isn't chat gpt. What are your thoughts?

Also one cool fact:

Tra literally means Moon, but it's often used to refer to princes and kings. Similarly, Tabaḥa translates as Sun, but is used for queens and princesses.

https://preview.redd.it/zozsto0xjggh1.png?width=764&format=png&auto=webp&s=cdacd20b51ae02aedd2cac658c595a2a0352a214

I hope someone notices it has no plosives.

https://preview.redd.it/eyme1ply7oeh1.png?width=968&format=png&auto=webp&s=2377718222223c91f29ddac4968892bc1ac8fc59

There are about six different vowel marks, on a table with Lines for Good and Evil, and Columns for Female, Male and Plural. It was a fun experience to try Good and Evil as genders in my language.

Never gonna post another script for this language. It's good enough.

https://preview.redd.it/fpe7oq75ouch1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=2054ad69fd2d6318325a6c74c7688da37852c019

In red: Ipsis Literi of the names.

In purple: Cursive version.

In green: Abbreviations (the final goal).

(Loved and seduced as verbs in past tense)

This will mostly show up in the background, like SU gem glyph, and i've been working on it for at leas three months now. The cat symbol is a direct nod to a character in the plot that is charming, debatably attractive, untrustworthy and also a cat. In the same way, the symbol for dog (王) is altered for the verb "to trust" and the word "deluded", as the dog character in the plot trusts the worst people and is quite vulnerable.

On the script itself, it has an older, more classical-chinese-like set of characters, and i added those dots and dashes so the system becomes a little more useful for me. Still, it's pretty simple and i kept it as low as ten distinct characters so this conlang doesn't take too much of my animation time.