A wild witch has appeared! Good thing she's friendly, I think?

Hello Steemit! First post and of course my introduction!

How Did You Get Here?

My roommate, @bluebeaniejean , has been using this site for a little bit now and recommended that I do so as well. Mostly for DLive since I already stream. After listening to him talk about it, getting some tips and tricks and feedback and such from him, and giving myself time to think I decided it was time to sign up for myself and see what happens.

Sharing With the Rest of the World

There are many things I enjoy for one reason or another, and after consideration I'd like to use Steemit to share that with people. And beyond sharing, I'd like to see what others have to share as well. To network with people and learn and grow from and with them as I hope that people will do so from my posts as well.

I plan to start streaming soon via D-live and sharing posts on my cooking recipes here that were previously being shared by my roommate before I got my own account, for starters. Where it goes from there we'll see!

What Else Is There?

I'll be 28 here in a few weeks and currently live in Kansas with @bluebeaniejean who I have known for over a decade. He's my best friend, co-worker and business partner and I wouldn't have it any other way. Together we own 3 jumbo rats named Zevran, Dorian and Iron Bull along with an orange cat Tobias Hawke (Toby or toe beans), his brother and our black cat Warden Inquisitor Crow (or just Crow for short), and our lovely husky named Fenris.

I prefer either neutral they/them/theirs or female she/her/hers pronouns, and while for now my employment situation is sketchy at best I am trying my best. I'm a witch by practice, I read tarot cards, and as I mentioned before I love video games and cooking among many, many other interests.

Wait, You're a Witch?

Yes. Or Pagan, depending on what umbrella term you prefer to use. But I do practice witchcraft. The real world stuff, not the crazy pop culture stuff. It's a personal belief system similar to Judaism and the like, and I started practicing back in late 2015 so I'm still just kind of a baby at it all but just over two years has taught me a heck of a lot.

I've also been practicing tarot since 2008, long before I was a witch. The two aren't inherently linked, even if many witches do practice tarot there are just as many non-witch tarot readers out there so it's just one of those things. Presently I own 3 decks and my roommate owns 3 that I borrow from time to time for readings. Those would be Tales of the Mystical Cats, Homestuck, and Steampunk on my end and Happy Tarot, Tarot of Bones, and Tarot Apokalypsis for my roommate. I have deck envy something awful, though, and as soon as I can there are several other decks I'd like to get my hands on.

So What's This About Video Games?

I started gaming in the mid 90's when my dad bought me a N64 system. Typical Legend of Zelda, Pokemon Stadium, Harvest Moon, Banjo Kazooie, all that jazz. Moved up to PS2 and a lot of JRPG games from the Tales of series to Atelier Iris and games of that kind. And then over to xbox where I picked up Fallout, Mass Effect and Dragon Age series as well as Skyrim.

I've never been much of a PC gamer, but that's changed in recent times. Games like Minecraft, Stardew Valley and Sims have had me spending more time with computer games as well as more recent trends like Fortnite and The Darwin Project when it had its open beta weekend. I even play ARK from time to time, because who doesn't like getting murdered by dinosaurs all the time?

You Cook?

Yes, I do. Since about 2006 I've been experimenting with cooking. I mostly do desserts, but I can do savory from time to time. I've experimented and had my failures, but I've also had successes. I also take in as many cooking shows as I can - Chopped, The Great British Baking Show, Iron Chef America, all of it. I never went to culinary school, but that doesn't mean I can't be a wonderful home baker.

My mother wasn't much of a cooking person, she always joked she'd rather go hungry than do all the dishes that came with cooking a meal. But my grandmother was, and when she couldn't pass on her own cooking knowledge to my mother or my aunt since neither was interested she passed it on to me instead. I have a vast library of her personal recipes, often handed to her from her mother or grandmother, and while I haven't tried them all it's absolutely on my bucket list.

I'm glad she was always such an encouragement in my life, too. She's the one who started the game with me where when we'd watch a baking show she'd pause it at certain points and see what I could come up with. How to use the basket ingredients for Chopped or what my signature bake would be for The Great British Baking Show. And now I just do it for myself so that I can continue to push my boundaries into new places.

Where Else Are You?

• My Personal Tumblr for all things random, funny, and generally in all categories.
• My Witchcraft Tumblr for all the witchy things I do over on tumblr.
• My Flight Rising Tumblr to just collect aesthetic things related to my Flight Rising clan.
• My Flight Rising Account that is of course linked to the tumblr I posted up above.
• Over on Weasyl where I post random writings from time to time and such, just be warned some content is NSFW.
• Twitter where I tweet out when I'm going live for streaming and such
• Etsy where I sell my tarot readings for people, among other things. I also co-own this with @bluebeaniejean :)
• And on Discord as Sigilmancy#1858

Thank You All So Much!!

Obviously a big thank you goes out to @bluebeaniejean for recommending me here and helping me get set up, settled and familiar with this place.

Also to @flauwy for a seriously expansive set of video tutorials that are super helpful for understanding how Steemit works and all related fields.

Additional Questions?

I tried to cover what I could, but if anyone has any other questions please feel free to ask down in the comments section. And please, if you know anywhere else around Steemit I should check out let me know! Until then, I'll see you guys when I post recipes here and when I start streaming next week. Much love <3