FELIX FELICIS is a magical potion that makes the drinker lucky for a period of time, during which everything they attempt will be successful. It is meant to be used sparingly, however, as it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence if taken in excess. Felix is highly toxic in large quantities and is also a banned substance in all organised competitions, such as Quidditch, along with all other methods of cheating. It is very difficult to make, disastrous if made wrong, and requires six months to stew before it is ready to be consumed.
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↳ The Children of Nyx
In Hesiod’s Theogony, Nyx, the personification of night, was born of Chaos at the dawn of time, along with five other primordial beings. One of her siblings, Erebos, the personification of darkness, became her consort and together they created Aether and Hemera, respectively the personifications of brightness and day.
On her own, Nyx gave birth to more children: Moros (Destiny), Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and Peaceful Death), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Misery), Apate (Deceit), Nemesis (Retribution), Eris (Strife), Philotes (Affection), and Geras (Old Age), as well as the Hesperides (Nymphs of the Evening), the Oneiroi (Dreams), the Moirai (the Fates), and the Keres (female daemons of violent death).
Although her children were mostly scattered around the world, Nyx and the brothers Hypnos and Thanatos were said to inhabit Tartarus, the deepest, darkest part of the underworld. However, Nyx didn’t spend all her time in Tartarus: whenever Hemera arrived, Nyx would leave, ensuring that Day and Night would not occur in the same place at the same time.
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Prompt: "A temptation, to sink down into these definitions. To become a martyr in reverse, or food, or trash. To give up my own words for myself, my own refusals. To give up knowing. To give up pain. To let go.” -Margaret Atwood, poem excerpt from “Half-Hanged Mary”
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In the late 30s, photographer Josef Breitenbach and botanist René Devaux managed to take photographs of the molecules of odours.
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Virgin Goddesses
"Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belonging to a man - a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virile. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus - they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chastity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. “