Erised has been inactive for a very long time, but I would weep if I lost the content of this journal. Don't let it happen to you. LOG INTO YOUR INACTIVE ACCOUNTS.

Originally posted by bookshop at A proposal.
Regarding LJ's decision to delete inactive journals and all content associated with those journals, a massive user response may be appropriate. ( Read more... )

I haven't a strong idea of spirit. I am no ghost, no haunted object, no embodiment of any once-physical thing. My consciousness is the result of magic that had, once awry, needed to be expelled into some object. Is it like that with all wizards. Sourcerors simply created the objects into which they find their power expelled. What's more, I am the ( Read more... )

Talk about something you inherited.It all happened so fast, of course ( Read more... )

When you are an immobile Mirror of unimaginable power -- well, the 'immobile' part of the discussion frankly negates the 'unimaginable power', doesn't it? It's quite difficult for a Mirror to 'retreat' to anywhere in particular, particularly if the Mirror is an inanimate object. By the laws of physics and arithmancy and whatever sort of rules that ( Read more... )

Not that Mirrors of any sort 'wake' or 'sleep' of course, but supposing They could, perhaps those simple designations wouldn't be made necessarily by the atmosphere or degree of sunlight around Them, but instead by the state of the person who gazes with bleary eye and heavy heart into Their glass.

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In truth, my 'mother' was a grandmother, and more a grandfather than anything else. Merlin, with his magic and guileful goodwill had crafted the first Mirror, the Looking Glass of Venus, and gifted it to Ryence with all intention of protecting that kingdom. Yet, when that Mirror was shattered, I was created, and though a birthing metaphor could ( Read more... )

Close your eyes and think about what you've been missing in your life lately. It could be a person, pet, place, thing, occasion, feeling. Anything at all that you miss dearly.

I no longer see the stars. ( And yet, this is not important. )

There are times, really, where everyone might need an Erised of sorts. A mirror that two people can look into, side by side, and see what the other feels about them, their deepest desires. What a dangerous weapon that would be. How many people would pay exorbitant amounts of gold to possess such a thing covertly? And how many more would pay a ( Read more... )

If you could find out one single fact about every person you met, what fact would you want to know, and why?
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It's like becoming someone.

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