Loot
My computer is finally hooked up again! And It's pimped.♥

Holiday Loot Recieved:

-Tuberose Bath&Bodyworks Perfume
-Harry Potter & The Order of the Pheonix Limited Edition DVD
-POTC: Dead Man's Chest Limited Edition DVD (I'm contemplating treking down to Best Buy to see if I can exchange it for the set with the Capt. Teague figure. However, I'd have to fork over the extra dough and I am lolariously cheap. Plus, I'd have to get a bigger Jack figure because the Jack!Writing Muse in my head has daddy issues. I should write more fanfiction...)
-NEW HD
-New Memory Card
-Tori Amos "The Beekeeper" CD
-I can't believe my dad spent $50 on a tube of paint- actually I can because he doesn't know how to shop for it. Yes, I asked for tubes of paint for Yule/X-mas and I received ONE tube of paint. Granted it's the good stuff but now I'm afraid of even using the tube. It's cute if you think about it.
- A military-style pea coat with a collar you can take off so it has two different looks
-A book on Italian Witchcraft
-Book: Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters (this technically doesn't count because I got it for myself while I was shopping, but I love this book. It's folklore from around the world about women kicking ass.)
-A necklace of a fir leaf dipped in copper
-Cashmere scarf
-A couple sweaters
-At least $65 worth of gift cards and cash from various relatives

I should receive a copy of Diablo II from my friend in the post after New Year's (she's talked me into playing the game with her and no, I don't know how that happened).

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	ashenmote 2007-12-29 11:45 am UTC (link)
	Awesome! I bet it's magic paint that makes the things you paint with it become alive. I've read a comic like that once. Don't play a Spears Amazon. They suck. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tehrin 2007-12-29 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	Or I can paint the future and get my brain eaten by a ~~hot~~ psychopath. I don't know what class I'll play. What's good? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ashenmote
2007-12-29 11:15 pm UTC (link)

Oh, that sounds even better!

I don't have the add-on so I can only talk about the basic five classes:

Paladins only make sense when you run around with big parties, and they are bores and they suck.

Barbarians are for people who love to click their mouse buttons a lot, and they suck.

Necromancers are for people who love to stand around and look cool and have lots of equally cool servants (who will stand in your way in the rare cases when you want to do things yourself). If you want to have some time to sip from your cocoa while playing, pick a Necromancer. I love them.

Amazons are awesome and fun when they stick to bows, not spears, and I love to play them too.

But Sorceresses are the best thing ever! They can overtax slow connections and computers with the display of their neat spell effects, but if they do you will run into problems playing Diablo anyway, because some monsters use that stuff too. They rock when you combine cold spells with either fire or lightning.

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	notjo 2007-12-29 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	A book on Italian Witchcraft? First I want to make a rather-dated Strega joke, and then I want to as the details! (Reply to this)(Thread)

tehrin
2007-12-29 07:10 pm UTC (link)

It's Italian Witchcraft by Raven Grimmasi. It's about Stregharia (go ahead and make your Strega joke :P), so it's a bit different from what I normally read and I learned more about that. It's also New Age so I don't know if that's your cuppa but it does have some neat sections. There's a section about Catholicism's influence and another on Tuscan Witchcraft. It also talks about the Ancient Etruscean's death cults in the Tuscany chapter and I found it facinating how that related to Carnivale. The first half of the book just explains beliefs in Stregheria and the second part is on rituals and spells. I'm halfway through the first part.

My friend got it for me because she knows my patrons are Diana and Apollo, but I'm really more of an Eclectic Wiccan, with a leaning to the Celtic side because that's how I've practiced in the past. Also, in Stregheria, Watchers are believed to have a larger influence than in other traditions.

Most of the book is based on Charles Leland's work so you'd probably learn just as much if you read his writings. There are also some excerpts from Roman historians and generals which are fascinating and Grimassi uses those passages to support his claim that the Cult of Diana was feared to a certain degree by Patriarchal Rome and references to Diana made in inquisitional hearings to support that some of the Dianic worship may have survived, whether through Aradia teachings or by other means.

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	ourself 2007-12-30 03:36 am UTC (link)
	That's some good loot! YAY! (Reply to this)