Well I reached the middle! It was not very exciting.

There are these two assholes who we haven’t seen yet:

and some information about how close Sulfurea and Stridoria were (very):

and then this:

as a human she was studying to make perfumes, and she was in love with this young alchemist and together they were trying to make a perfume that rendered the wearer invisible, which attracted Mai Nominata.

It doesn’t say exactly what happened but it says that Mai Nominata kidnapped her and “broke her dreams of love” at which point she became a witch.

I have to say, this one is the least interesting to me out of all the witches so far.

As much as I’m like “UGH WHY HIM” about the Nameless Prince, I have to admit that all of these scenes between him and Samah are very good and very cute

I HATE THIS TEA WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

the king is over there Demanding An Explanation and look.

Samah is at least 20, probably older. If she wants to take off on a magic carpet date she’s allowed to do that. Because, you know, she’s a fucking adult who can make her own decisions.

Granted, I think they’re bad decisions but I’m not going to say she doesn’t have the right to make them.

Youve come a long way ❤ you should be proud and remind yourself to get yourself a little something special now and then

thank you! honestly it’s happened so gradually sometimes I don’t even realize how much I’ve changed until something sets me off a little and I can take a step back and see how different my reactions are.

I actually just bought something that’s why I was thinking about it like “I bought one thing from Amazon yesterday and another thing today and…wait I can just DO that and no one cares, and I don’t care”

You know, I used to have a lot of anxiety about money. Like, a lot. 

My mom used to interrogate me about everything I bought, and sometimes it was just annoying and sometimes it was really bad like the time she completely lost her shit over me buying a book at the grocery store, god forbid.

And over time this condensed into this incredibly nerve-wracking monetary experience where I would be overcome with guilt and panic and regret over buying anything, even things I needed. Like food. 

I’m still a bit stingy and I’m still obsessive about saving, but I’ve done a lot of work to get over this and sometimes the fact that I’m an adult who can just Buy Things That I Want still amazes me.

Samah keeps making him help people gross

he’s very put out by it…but I guess this is going to be a case where the guy has to change his behavior in order to get the girl so at least that’s refreshing.

anyway they had a whole argument about it but Samah won lol