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Arcturus Black (arcturusfirst) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-01-12 14:08:00

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!open, astrid, miguel o'hara, ~arcturus black

I don't mean to be a bother, but is there anyone here who is knowledgeable about domestic magic and might be able to advise me?

I need a spell to get ink stains out of clothing. I've been getting by with an all-purpose dirt repelling charm, but it's not designed for this sort of problem.

In a not entirely unrelated matter, does anyone have experience with raising magical children? If you do, and you're not the sort of person from the future who thinks it is good or natural for children to be rude and hate their elders, I would like to ask you a few questions in private.

- A.C. Black

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	_astrid_ 2022-01-12 02:41 pm UTC (link)
	why do you not simply wash the clothes with the stains and then you will not need such spells (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arcturusfirst 2022-01-12 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	I don't do that sort of thing. I'm a wizard, not a washerwoman. Besides, clothes wear out if you're always boiling them and scrubbing at them. I know there's a spell. A girl at school used to do it for us. I just don't know how to do it myself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_astrid_ 2022-01-12 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	aye and children grow and people damage their clothes too, it is the way of things. i do not know of any spells but i am going to be washing clothes this evening. you may come along and see how it is done if you wish. it would do you well to learn the washerwoman skills for you may not always be a wizard in this place. things have a habit of changing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

arcturusfirst
2022-01-12 03:20 pm UTC (link)

Quite so, and tailors make a good living out of it all, but I'm doing my best not to hurry the damage along.

I appreciate that you made that offer in a very kindly spirit, and so I'll thank you and not be offended by it, but it's really not an appropriate thing for a gentleman to do. Casting aspersions on my magic is rather impolite, though. Magic is in my blood; I'm from an ancient wizarding line.

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_astrid_
2022-01-12 03:28 pm UTC (link)

i am casting nothing on your magic. we live with the gods now in the stars and so strange things will happen. people grow old or young here outside of what is normal, or they grow wings, or men become women, or they will change bodies. if you were to change your body with someone who is not a wizard, they will have your blood and your magic and you will not. and then your clothes will get dirty and you will smell.

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	arcturusfirst 2022-01-12 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	If such a terrible thing as that were to happen to me, the dirt and the smell would be the very least of my troubles. I expect it would kill me. I try not to think too much about all the bad things that could possibly happen to me here. It's better to try to be cheerful than always worried and afraid, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_astrid_ 2022-01-12 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	i do not think you would die of it for it has not killed anyone else. if you cannot keep clothes clean at the moment, what are you managing to do? are you eating? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backwardstalk 2022-01-13 03:19 am UTC (link)
	How do you cast spells? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Miguel \| Arcturus miguel_ohara 2022-01-15 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know Latin as a language, per se, only how it's used in taxonomy. And you could get other dirty things if you wanted to practice first. I wouldn't recommmend taking all kinds of different samples from the shirt to work on, given that the whole point is to be able to keep on wearing it afterwards. I won't tell anyone anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Miguel \| Arcturus miguel_ohara 2022-01-15 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	I specialized in biology, not languages. I only know Spanish, English, some Japanese and a bit of Russian. Does he miss his mom a lot? When I went to school, there were other kids who missed their parents. They were told to talk about their mom and dad, or to write to them regularly, or things like that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)