Pretty boy
Natural blood-stained blond
With the holes in his sneakers
And his eyes all over me
Drive-in slasher flick again
Feeling me up as a porn star dies
Heโs watching me instead
8th grade death pact strike me dead
All of alabama laid out in front of your eyes
But all you could see was me
You walked in, you were singing
You tried to wade in cause you wanted
Just to tell me who you were
You were kind, dying to tell me
Youโll wait if i have to make sure
Grew up hard, fell off harder
Cooking our brains smoking that shit your daddy smoked in vietnam
Youโd be a writer
If he didnโt leave all his hell for you
Saying if you could, youโd leave it all
I knew it was love
When i rode home crying
Thinking of you fucking other girls
And when you
Said that youโre in love
I never wondered if youโre sure
Pretty boy
Consumed by death
With the holes in his sneakers
And his eyes all over me
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some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.
if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars
literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that.
Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?
there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life
this keeps getting shared around and ive seen some different tags responding differently so i just want to make some important clarifications and distillations
you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)
if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too
learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life
writers tend to put a lot of work into their stories. if you learn to read that work you'll (probably) appreciate the stories you love even more. And if not, then you'll have developed your taste. This too is worth doing
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A list of the resources I own for unicorn folklore, mythology, and magic. Divided into different sections for easy access. If you have any I missed, please let me know!
Under the cut I explain more about the books and why they are good/not great/trash.
The Great:
The Natural History of Unicorns โ Chris Lavers
The Book of the Mythical Unicorn โ Vakasha Brenman and Alfonso Colasuonno
The Unicorn Tapestries โ Margaret B. Freeman
Unicorn Magic โ Tess Whitehurst
Unicornis โ Michael Green
The Helpful:
A Complete Guide to Heraldry โ Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Llewellynโs Little Book of Unicorns โ Angela Wix
The Unicorn: A Mythological Observation โ Robert Brown
Unicorn Magick โ Lisa Papez (Youtube video)
How to Believe in Unicorns โ Celestial Cafรฉ Podcast (Youtube video)
Unicorn Sight โ Elizabeth Barette (Spell on Llewellynโs site)
The Fun:
(Just light, fun books for unicorn lovers)
For Unicorn Lovers Only โ Penelope Gwynne
The Unicorn Handbook โ Carolyn Turgeon
Unicorn Your Life โ Mary Flannery
Unicornucopa โ Caitlyn Doyle (this one even has some cute spells!)
The Little Book of Unicorns โ Orange Hippo! (this one even has some cute spells!)
The Meh:
Unicorn Rising โ Calista
Unicorns โ Skye Alexander
The Trash:
Anything by Diana Cooper
Anything by Flavia Kate Peters
the Treasure of the Unicorn โ Ted Andrews
Unicorn Magic โ Kitty Bishop
The Great:
The Natural History of Unicorns โ Chris Lavers: Great source for the myth and history of the unicorn. Including dissecting the New Age view of the unicorn.
The Book of the Mythical Unicorn โ Vakasha Brenman and Alfonso Colasuonno: So much history and all neatly organized by region. Some woo, but mostly legends and folklore.
The Unicorn Tapestries โ Margaret B. Freeman: Focuses on the Unicorn Tapestries, but the book is huge and filled with interesting info about the folklore and beliefs around the unicorn.
Unicorn Magic โ Tess Whitehurst: I doubted very much where I should put this one, in great or in helpful. But in the end, if you want to include unicorns into your magical practice, this is the book I would recommend. Not all of it is great. Whitehurst does have some New Age beliefs and like in most Llewellyn books there is some appropriation (chakraโs), but I have found the exercises to be invaluable. This book was what kickstarted my practice.
Unicornis โ Michael Green: A โdiscovered fieldguideโ dedicated to the unicorn. Gorgeous art and storytelling. Comparable to the Faery books of Brian Froud.
The Helpful
A Complete Guide to Heraldry โ Arthur Charles Fox-Davies: Good source on the historical views of the unicorn, not only in the context of heraldry. Fascinating to read.
Llewellynโs Little Book of Unicorns โ Angela Wix: It is not easy finding books on unicorns from a witchcraft perspective. This book was fun to read and had some interesting correspondences, exercises, and spellwork in it. Itโs not great, and as always there are chakraโs in the book (because Llewellyn) but it did help me a lot as an inspiration.
The Unicorn: A Mythological Observation โ Robert Brown: A book from 1881! Interesting read, but very much influenced by the times and in places no longer accurate.
Unicorn Magick โ Lisa Papez (Youtube video): Lisa talks about her favourite tools and books when it comes to practicing unicorn magic
How to Believe in Unicorns โ Celestial Cafรฉ Podcast (Youtube video): Two witches who practice unicorn magic discuss their views, where they differ and where they are the same. Very interesting!
The Meh:
Unicorn Rising โ Calista: Okay, the book itself is not trash. Itโs just not really about unicorns. Itโs a pretty descent self help book, with interesting meditations, but if youโre looking for unicorn magic of inspiration this book isnโt useful for you.
Unicorns โ Skye Alexander: Look, the book isโฆ okay. Itโs just not really deep, and wonโt tell your anything you didnโt already know. Itโs biased, like most Skye Alexander books, and Iโm just not a fan.
The Trash:
Diana Cooper: Books are full on New Age drivel, like equating unicorns to angels, and stating that they come from the ninth, most pure of course, dimension. Lots of Christlight and other โChristโ references. It is a headache to read and honestly has nothing to do with unicorns. Just one demonstration:
Flavia Kate Peters: Holy appropriation, Batman! Again, heavily New Age and equating unicorns to angels. Calls herself a โFaery Shamanโ.
The Treasure of the Unicorn: If I have to read โthe unicorn horn is a phallic symbolโ one more time I am going to scream. It was torture to finish this book. Some interesting points like Storytelling as Ritual, but to be honest, it wasnโt worth it.
Unicorn Magic โ Kitty Bishop: This person trained under Flavia Kate Peters and it shows. Same New Age beliefs repeated and very little expanded upon.
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the stuffed animal situation is phenomenal these days. you can find any specific arthropod or deep sea fish or microbe etc. used to be back in olden times all you could get was bears and mutants
