Just an Enchanted 'Droid

I’ve got new freelance gigs on my roster, and people are catching wind of my capabilities and industry experience. Suddenly it’s becoming a lot more valuable to have me on site and in venues because of the things I can do and can do skillfully. A lot more places are becoming willing to pay me more and offer me more just to have me around, it feels great.

But it’s ironic too because I’m still someone who’s willing to work for peanuts if I like the environment and it makes me feel good, and I have been lmao, I’ve spent half my time at a theatre known for terrible pay. Me and my friends there discuss how low it is, but it’s still comfortable, because I’ve strategically budgeted and limited my expenses and costs and live a pretty minimalist lifestyle, I’m not stressed about it. I can prioritize what I love. I’m even staying an extra 11 or so hours after my work morning tomorrow for no pay just so I can help a buddy out with some live music work and learn the system at that space so I can start covering calls there later on mixing the bands’ audio.

Though I’ve got higher paying stuff coming up too. A bigger museum in the north side of the city caught wind that I can operate lighting and is pulling me in for events and concerts. Got a couple of those coming up, with the highest pay rate I’ve ever gotten. It’s very exciting, and I know friends there too, so I’m not stressed about it. I’m also juuuust doing enough corporate AV to keep those folks on that side of my life happy, and I’m about to start putting the clamp on all of them for raises too, because everyone keeps telling me my skills should have me being paid more.

It feels like I’m bragging but like I’m really proud of myself? I’m LIVING again, in a way I haven’t in a few years now between the pandemic, losing my career and home, and my last relationship adding extra layers of stress and emotional exhaustion. I’m spending time with friends, I’m exploring my sexuality and identity with people I trust, I’m figuring out myself and what I want but also just letting myself live in the moment. I commissioned a friend of mine to design me a tattoo that has a lot of emotional and spiritual meaning for me, and I submitted my name and gender marker change application. Things are falling into place.

I’ve got a festival gig coming up that will consume about a month of my summer, and idk what it’ll pay me yet but I also don’t care!! I’m not worried about it! It feels great! It won’t pay me any less than it did in 2019 (which was shit pay but enough to cover my more expensive rent, expenses, bills, transit which cost me more then than it does now, and have enough spare to have some fun) and if it pays me more it’ll be a pleasant surprise for later. One of my best buddies is my second technician for the venue and we’ll be a dream team. And they moved the patio and offices for the festival around the corner from my apartment, so it’ll be even easier to party with the artists and other techs after each show day lmao.

Details of basic thoughtform creation specific to dragon petsite hell, written with independent constructs w/ free will in mind. Actual post under the cut to avoid it showing up in the site tags. It is assumed that you already have basic thoughtform knowledge.

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you don’t let them develop awareness at all. their not meant to become like AI, in that you’re not wanting them to become self aware. you’re essentially using them like an extension, think more robot/aid in a mobility sense or household sense. you wouldn’t want a broom or dustpan to develop awareness, but you still use them to make cleaning up messes easier. same concept. 

you don’t let them develop awareness at all. their not meant to become like AI, in that you’re not wanting them to become self aware. you’re essentially using them like an extension, think more robot/aid in a mobility sense or household sense. you wouldn’t want a broom or dustpan to develop awareness, but you still use them to make cleaning up messes easier. same concept. 

First I would like to say, Yes people can use whatever terms to identify their practice that they would like to, and that is not what I have the problem with.

But, what I have a problem with is more so is the use of traditionally, because traditionally in Old English which is were known as wicca for male witches, and  wicce for female witches, and both of these words eventually get put together in order to make the common word of witch in english. Both males and females could be witches and this goes back to the original treatise on the matter known as The Malleus Maleficarum. Women are considered to be witches more than men are, because in their understanding women would fall to the devil more easily than men, and they thought only weak men would fall to the devil.

The term Warlock is commonly thought to derive from Old English word wǣrloga meaning oathbreaker, betrayer, and traitor. Wǣr meaning truth, faith, pledge, oath, covenant, truce, pact, and/or promise, and loga meaning liar, and/or breaker. Warlock was given special application to refer to the devil in 1000, which associated him with the term, and made one of the meanings of warlock to be devil, or fiend. It was first used in the 13th century to denote a person who was thought to be in league with the devil, and it being used to refer to an evil practitioner of magick started in the 14th century. The meaning of the word warlock for a male which started in 1560, and was Also a part of the Scottish usage. It is also thought that later Hollywood and the fantasy genre helped popularize its connection to a male practitioner of witchcraft.

Some scholars believe the term warlock could be derived from the Norse Vardlokkur, who is someone who uses a certain type of seidhr that involves singing, though this has been criticized by other scholars.

Conclusion:

So traditionally a witch was a male, or female practitioner of witchcraft, which in that time was connected with being in league with the Devil, and traditionally a warlock was used as a name for the devil because of its meaning of oathbreaker and Deceiver, and was later used to refer to evil practitioners of magick both male, and female in the time when the malefic maleficarum was written.

Going Through a Painful Blood Ritual of the Black Angel Cult

Here’s a list of topics some people find to be “taboo” in the pagan community. Now, a lot of this list contains things people have highly variable opinions about – either they love it or hate it viscerally. I’m in support of all of these topics as long as they’re engaged with in a safe manner. 

But my point in making this post is to warn folks – given how the internet and tumblr are prone to dogpiling first, asking questions later, I’ve found that people simply don’t know these topics are “taboo.” They end up casually mentioning one, and then get hurt when people lash out. 

This isn’t a list to shame anyone, it’s just a warning that general pagan communities can go from kind to spiteful at the mere mention of some of these concepts! Keep it in mind as you navigate the internet. 

Being Neutral to Positive about Established Religions:

positive attitudes about Christianity in pagan spaces

talking about Christianity and Judaism as very separate things

talking about Christianity as a grouping of many different practices instead of one monolith (often conflated with the US Evangelical Version)

Holding People Accountable within the Community:

talking about any of what I call -isms (racism, ableism, queerphobia, s*xism, etc) in relation to paganism

talking about appropriation within paganism

Any Relationship Dynamic with Spirits / Deities that is Non-”Standard”:

channeling or possession, especially when done casually

godspouses (gods, spirits, fae, demons, angels, anything that can be in a godspouse-like relationship)

any kin or shard stuff

pop culture paganism

unrecorded gods

astral kids and astral s*x