Category: Paradigm Breakdowns
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What is a Paradigm? Or: Why is Chaos Magic so Different than other Systems?
Good evening my dearest readers. This week, ya girl is doing something that she’s never done before—which is taking a whole week off from her day job in order to actually try to rest. With mixed results. But, that means I had some time to think about what this blog really needed in terms of…
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Paradigm Breakdown: The Owl House
My partner recently started and then binged the entirety of The Owl House within maybe three or four days. I realized I hadn’t written a Paradigm Breakdown for The Owl House, despite how much I love it. I had to do a little refresher on some of this lore. But I think I have the…
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Paradigm Breakdown: Mononoke
I don’t know about the rest of you readers. But, I’ve been a hardcore Mononoke simp since it’s initial release back in 2014. Now that we have an additional movie scheduled for 2024, I am back on my Mononoke Bullshit. That means the rest of you have to read about it. Spoilers for the very…
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Paradigm Breakdown: Kingdom Hearts
I knew this was coming sooner or later. Oh man. We got the heartless. We nobodies. Somebodies. Anybodies? just loads of shit all over the place. The fact that we have Disney involved and also Square Enix means that this is going to get complicated very quickly. For the sake of brevity, I am only…
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Card Captor Sakura : Magic Circles and Card Backgrounds
Within the Card Captor Sakura (CCS) Geekomantic Paradigm, every magician has their own magic circle. Those magic circles both describe the magician’s worldview and information about their personal magical alignments. Rune S. Emmerson gets into alignments further in his book. So I don’t feel the need to go into it very far. Generally, there are…
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Paradigm Breakdown: Sugar Sugar Rune
Ah, Sugar Sugar Rune. One part magical girl, one part queenliness contest, and all 2000s shoujo. The manga and anime have essential differences, and this paradigm breakdown follows the manga. There are some differences in the plot, but the paradigm more or less remains intact and the same between the manga and anime—with the exception…
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5 Terrible Geekomancy Paradigms
Not all Geekomantic paradigms are created equal. And that is not a statement based on how cool the setting is, or how good the character design or writing is within the property. Some settings and paradigms might seem cool—but they would actually be constricting or overtly harmful for practitioners. When a Geekomancer uses a paradigm,…
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Paradigm Breakdown : Puella Magi Madoka Magica
My Geekomancy teacher always said there are several rules that any paradigm should follow for a Geekomancer to use it. One of them is that the paradigm should be safe for magicians. This means that there should be no in-canon reason why practitioners are doomed if they are practitioners. Puella Magi Madonna Magica is not…