Tag: paradigms
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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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Multitudes of Spirits, Unverified Personal Gnosis, and Respect
I hope you have been doing well, my dearest readers. Over here, it’s way too fucking hot. As some of you may know, I live in a home built in the 1870s, and therefore we have no central AC. Instead, we have a portable AC unit that stays in the room we sleep in, and…
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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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Hero and Heroine’s Journeys
Most people who are familiar with stories are familiar with the narrative tropes and archetypes of the Hero’s journey. However, it is startling to me that very few people are familiar with the Heroine’s Journey. As someone interested in magic and pop culture, this is something I don’t feel can be ignored. There is also…
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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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The Sacred Self Insert
Do any of you remember back in the day when self-insert characters were the ultimate fan fiction sin? I remember both my public face as a Protectors of the Plot Continuum (PPC) member who was strongly against self-insert characters as a whole—and did participate in what is flat out bullying of fan fiction writers. (That…
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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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Power Sources: Spirit Allies
In pop culture, there are often varying sources of magic power. Some examples of this are divine in nature—such as gods. Others might be gained through contract with a non-divine being, like the Warlock Contracts in Dungeons and Dragons. Supernatural heritage is another example. I thought it would be interesting to explore pop culture magic…
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Signs of a Good Pop Culture Paradigm
Previously, I have discussed awful paradigms for magicians, and this is often a topic within my paradigm breakdown posts. So we have indicators of bad paradigms. What about good ones? Note, Rune explained all of these in his online Geekomancy Course. So I can hardly take credit. Most of what I am doing here is…
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Light and Dark: A Final Fantasy XIV Perspective
Note: This Article contains Spoilers for Final Fantasy XIV: Shadow Bringers expansion. It seems like you can’t read anything in the occult world these days without coming across terms like ‘white witch’ referring to someone eschewing all baneful magic or ‘black magic’ referring to nastier spellwork. And, no, I am not going to go into…