This was originally commented by me on another post about shrines, but I really love the idea of shrines and I thought that there should be more posts on them, so I'll post what I commented in this one to create another post for more potential content on it:
I only have a fictional character darling at the moment (waiting for my real life darling) so my shrine is limited to a phone gallery of photos at the moment but I've come up with a few ideas for a shrine/alternatives/things to add that I want to try someday:
- notebook dedicated to darling (diary entries about them, photos and descriptions, artwork, lipstick kisses on the paper for them, venting your love or them on in entries, scripting them to come to you for manifestations, etc.)
- An Altar dedicated to them (Pictures, their fave things, fave flowers in bouquet, candles and incense with their fave colours and scents, etc.)
- A secret stash/collection of their stuff (old pencils, wrappers, crumpled paper with doodles from the bin, pictures, etc. I love collecting things and having them secret for myself like little shiny things found in random places so I love the idea of this option.
- A website on neo-cities or something like that dedicated to them/your connection
Coming back to that collection idea I have a little wooden box where I keep my misc trinkets so I could totally see myself having a box shrine, opening it and on the top inside of the lid have a picture or two of my future darling and collect things in there and stash it away happily. I guess that mixes an altar and the collection to make a shrine right? It sounds like it would be fun. There are also so many ways to customize it.
I also totally want to try the notebook one and it could be kept in the box too!
Feel free to comment if you have any other ideas!