“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.”
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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…
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Paradigm Breakdown: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is a spinoff series that originally aired in 2004. The series begins with an ordinary girl named Nanoha meeting a mage named Yunno—who hails from a different world. He asks Nanoha to help him find 12…
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Shit Magicians Don’t Talk About
I don’t pretend to be some sort of All Wise or All Knowing magic-user. I don’t even pretend to be more than a rank amateur, especially compared to my more experienced friends and peers. Also, I appreciate a certain sense…
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Contrasting Curse Approaches
In the world of pop culture, there are two general approaches to curses or spiritual grudges. Either the magician overwhelms their target with higher quantities and levels of spiritual power. Or, they take the route of discussion. In both cases,…
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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.…
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Magic With Me : Clow Sorcery Part One
It’s not common for Geekomancers to find ready-made paradigms to work with. But, fellow Geekomancer Rune S. Emmerson has already created and self-published a book on using Clow Cards from the Card Captor Sakura manga and anime. He has it…
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Essential Skill : Divination
For a Geekomancer, and especially solo practitioners, divination is one of very few ways for them to check their work. Did that spell actually function as intended? Did they actually capture that spirit they were working on? For newbies, this…
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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…
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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…
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Geekomancy : A Book Review
Geekomancy had a lot of potential—but generally failed to live up to my expectations. The book was billed as ‘the way Geekomancy works’ and so I felt an obligation to read it to better understand paradigm building within a Geekomantic…
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