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“I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,” said Granny firmly.”

Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.”

“But all them things exist,” said Nanny Ogg.”

That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ’em.”

  • I couldn’t help but think a lot of the Raven Queen this week. One of my beloved quail passed, and I hoped the entire time that she would easily find her way to wherever she was going, and that it…

  • Here we are with a Part Two. It’s more ugly stuff I’m going to point out under our little magic rock in the occult community. This post has less to do with magic and more to do with the people…

  • The vast majority of the time, when someone on the internet says that (in whatever arrangement of words they please) that they are very special and no one else is as special as them, and only they have the ability…

  • Sometimes you run into the wildest spell ideas or tarot spreads, or even the most absurdist ideas. To me, bad tarot or oracle deck spreads are some of the easiest things to critique. They tend to come in a few…

  • When I see the term ‘Cultivation’ I usually see it within a context of martial arts and immortal stories. The idea, as far as I can tell, is that one can develop their soul and ascend to near heights by…

  • 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…

  • Have any of you heard of Artist Trading Cards? The idea of ATCs was that artist would make small artworks of a standard size and then could trade them amongst themselves. Selling ATCs directly contradicts the idea of their founding.…

  • The idea of using cards from the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) is not a new one. I first heard of this idea on Tumblr. So I am not by any means taking credit for this idea. Instead, I’m taking…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

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