You're Gonna Love Me, You're Gonna Take Me As I Am

It's more a last five or six years thing. I'm actually planning to do a whole episode about this in October on BS-Free Witchcraft.

Most of it's from younger witches who don't really know much about the history of modern witchcraft who are hearing things third or fourth hand. Honestly? In like five years I expect things will turn around and a lot of these folks will be peddling Wicca as "authentic" Witchcraft instead.

Hello, my name is Jon-Paul Rennison, although I prefer to go by “JP”, I am a radical civil rights activist from the United Kingdom, the few who follow me probably know me for doing a lot of LGBT+ rights stuff as well as holding a lot of Marxist views and ideals. Well today I have something I wish to share with everyone in light of the recent situation with Luigi possibly facing death and the wider state of the world…

I confess to the killing of Brian Thompson on the 4th December as well as the theft of multiple items including a pistol I had no permit for

No, this is not a late April fools joke, nor is it a hoax or a parody, if I wanted fame and attention I could have just continued the work I’ve already been doing in politics without admitting to a high profile crime, if I wanted to just try to get Luigi off the hook then I will tell you that I DO NOT believe that this will clear his name, the narrative set up painting him as guilty would backfire horribly if they were to accept that someone else was the culprit. I and my mother were in Manhattan at the time and well… I had the opportunity to and knew how to get my hands on the right tools so… I went ahed with it.

Simply, I did it to try and cause tension, I knew that someone of his status dying like that would have caused chaos amongst the ruling class, and it being a Healthcare CEO really helped to get the message across, since while it is a different country my main work IS targeting and investigating the NHS and the quality of its health services (especially when it comes to wait times and the quality of care for disabled and Transgender individuals), and thankfully it appears the message I was getting across DID make it to people across the UK. Since this however I’ve been just back to doing more stale things, it’s not as easy to get a gun over here for one, and two I was making enough progress that I was semi-confident I would be successful without any more extreme and risky moves… however I think this is something that needs to be known considering the current situation.

I didn’t know if I could actually get away with everything, however, I didn’t really care by that point, I saw an opportunity and I took it, I was in an unstable position, had effectively seen my chances in education destroyed, and as far as I knew and still know the person who matters most to me who served as my motivation for living and engaging at all in politics was out of my life and may never speak to me again, in my eyes I really had nothing left to lose, and almost 4 months later I still don’t, so here I am. The REAL perpetrator, don’t anyone forget, they are trying to send an innocent man to his death.

Yes, I am a leftist who opposed voting Kamala because of Palestine and supports the rights of LGBT+ people, People of Colour, Women, disabled people and Immigrants, the main catalyst leading to the events on December 4th eventually happening was a Trans woman I sacrificed almost everything to protect. If this alters your perception somewhat, good, if this upsets you or caused you to try denying, then I don’t care, go fuck yourself. I’m revealing this through Tumblr because this is the platform in which I’ve received the most traction in past.

If there is enough time left and anyone wants more information on the crime (to try and confirm it’s me or just general morbid curiosity), send me an ask and I might elaborate on certain details.

it’s been a while but I really missed drawing them

i’m anti people who take the good parts of their practice and ignore the other fundamental parts because they were inspired by a racist bigot

that racist bigot was one of gerald gardner’s biggest inspirations yet witchblr wants to focus on spelling ~magic with a K~ WHICH CROWLEY DIDN’T EVEN COME UP WITH

HE JACKED IT FROM AGRIPPA LOL

Crowley was not involved in Wicca. Did Gardner know of Crowley? Yes. Did he directly take from him? He built off the movement that Crowley kickstarted, but he did not build off Thelema.

In the late 1940s, Crowley initiated Gardner into the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Gardner was replaced in 1951. But this isn’t where he learned his shit—he already knew the basis of Wicca before this even happened!

So where did Gardner learn his shit? He was initially a member of the New Forest Coven (which today does not associate themselves with Wicca) before he split off to form his own movement.

He also traveled a fuckton and learned about a lot of different religions, from Singhalese Buddhists to Malayan folklore. He was also initiated as a Freemason long before OTO. He parents were Anglican and later Methodist, both of which influenced Gardner’s approach to ceremonialism, Hermeticism, and later, Wicca.

After Gardner began publishing about Wicca, Crowley wrote a preface to one of Gardner’s books that basically said “this guy is legit.” It lended Gardner credibility in the occult sphere.

TLDR; Gardner wasn’t “inspired” by Crowley. If anything, it was the opposite. He learned most of Wicca BEFORE he even met Crowley!

1. ACTUALLY study Wicca (not just on tumblr). You don’t have to like it; you don’t even need to accept it; you just need to understand it.

WHITE SJW KIDS, STOP TRYING TO SPEAK FOR PEOPLE OF OTHER CULTURES. LET THEM SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES FFS. I promise they can, and will if they need to.

Culture - by its nature, by human nature - SPREADS. It just DOES. People contact other cultures, and they share things. That’s just a fact of life. And it’s A GOOD THING! The VAST majority of people ENJOY that and are HAPPY to share culture! Culture is NOT a finite resource that can be stolen, that can be devalued with use, that can be depleted - quite the opposite, actually. In fact, people from other cultures have explicitly expressed, to me personally as well as to plenty of others everywhere, that they feel pride and excitement when somebody from another culture is interested in or wants to emulate their culture. People who are not uptight white American teenagers/college kids are far more often than not quite HAPPY TO SHARE CULTURE.

And even if it somehow WEREN’T human nature to share and spread culture, imitation is not inherently ridicule or inherently bad. What could possibly make emulating somebody or something bad? Even the most “egregious” “cultural appropriation” “offense” - dressing up for Halloween - isn’t necessarily bad or wrong. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. [Which, I think, is a large part of why people are happy to share culture.] When you see somebody in a football uniform on Halloween, do you immediately assume that they’re making fun of football players, devaluing what they do? Or do you think, aw that kid wants to be a football player when he grows up, or I guess that guy likes football/that player? 

So why is it different for cultural outfits, or for adults? It isn’t, not inherently. Dressing up in a kimono isn’t making fun of kimonos or Japanese culture. It’s appreciation. Now, if somebody is going around dressed in a caricature of a culture and openly and maliciously mocking people, then they’re… mocking people and that’s fucking rude. But they’re not stealing culture since culture can’t be stolen, and they’re not devaluing cultural items because culture is far stronger and more meaningful than somebody’s clothes.

I mean, are YOU not happy and excited to share YOUR culture with people? Do YOU get offended if somebody dresses up as something from your culture or learns your language or eats your food or wears your culture’s clothes? If you do, you’re an asshole. That’s not normal.

Like the example in the OP I, too, have been given cultural items as gifts, by people (or race traitors???) from the same culture. I have friends who bring back gifts, including grammar/vocab textbooks, from their home country when they go back to visit, and they get genuinely excited and happy to see me (and anybody they gave gifts to) use/wear their gifts. Once a sweet Cameroonian lady my gramma worked with gave her a cultural dress and actually helped her dress up in it for Halloween. That was super cute. Also, I was once asked to sing at a big, important party celebrating a big, important CULTURAL holiday that we don’t even celebrate in America, BY people from that country, because I could speak (and sing, though not sing well) in their language. I got a massively positive response from every single person there, some of the older ladies actually had tears in their eyes, absolutely everybody there wanted to hang out and speak to me in their language, a couple even invited me to come sing at their wedding later, and the host’s wife even HAND MADE a beautiful cultural dress for me afterward (ooh, so I guess she’s an evil race traitor, right???). Because sharing culture is a WONDERFUL thing that should be CELEBRATED and not fucking OUTLAWED you nazi freaks.

And here’s another example, which actually comes from an excellent YouTube channel where a Japanese guy excitedly shares his culture (or betrays his people????) with the world (TRIGGER WARNING: don’t click that link if you can’t handle watching a man intentionally teach people how to “appropriate” his culture!!): 

In this video, he went around asking random people (I don’t think I’ve ever seen the same person twice in his “man on the street” videos) what they think of otakus, and specifically about people from other countries being obsessed with anime and such (that question starts at about 3:15). This is three separate groups of unrelated people who all independently stated that sharing culture is a good thing. There were plenty more answers, ranging from take it or leave it to it’s awesome, but nobody was protective of their culture in any way. (Side note, I think I might be in love with the girl in the 2nd-to-last pic. She is sooo sweet and her smile is sooo pretty and she is just sooo cute!)

You'll say a lot less ignorant things, you'll learn a little bit more about how other people think and practice, you'll also most likely be inspired and encouraged to branch out and adapt things for your own.

Stop following only people who practice the same as you do.

You're doing nothing but oversaturating your craft and surrounding yourself with people who more than likely honor the same holidays and Beings as you do in similar if not the same ways.

Follow more people from different religions, practices, spiritualities and craftspeople.

i’m anti people who take the good parts of their practice and ignore the other fundamental parts because they were inspired by a racist bigot

that racist bigot was one of gerald gardner’s biggest inspirations yet witchblr wants to focus on spelling ~magic with a K~ WHICH CROWLEY DIDN’T EVEN COME UP WITH

HE JACKED IT FROM AGRIPPA LOL

Crowley was not involved in Wicca. Did Gardner know of Crowley? Yes. Did he directly take from him? He built off the movement that Crowley kickstarted, but he did not build off Thelema.

In the late 1940s, Crowley initiated Gardner into the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Gardner was replaced in 1951. But this isn’t where he learned his shit—he already knew the basis of Wicca before this even happened!

So where did Gardner learn his shit? He was initially a member of the New Forest Coven (which today does not associate themselves with Wicca) before he split off to form his own movement.

He also traveled a fuckton and learned about a lot of different religions, from Singhalese Buddhists to Malayan folklore. He was also initiated as a Freemason long before OTO. He parents were Anglican and later Methodist, both of which influenced Gardner’s approach to ceremonialism, Hermeticism, and later, Wicca.

After Gardner began publishing about Wicca, Crowley wrote a preface to one of Gardner’s books that basically said “this guy is legit.” It lended Gardner credibility in the occult sphere.

TLDR; Gardner wasn’t “inspired” by Crowley. If anything, it was the opposite. He learned most of Wicca BEFORE he even met Crowley!

1. ACTUALLY study Wicca (not just on tumblr). You don’t have to like it; you don’t even need to accept it; you just need to understand it.