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"Take the World By Storm" MUSIC VIDEO - COMING 09.21.14 | #TTWBS

"Take the World By Storm" MUSIC VIDEO - COMING 09.21.14 | #TTWBS

no seriously I was thinking bout witchy shit and obviously not all magic users are witches. it's probably a pretty even divide? witches of the lady variety are just most well-known and have the most comprehensive education; this is only because, in olden times, women's schooling wasn't much of a thing and burning magic users at the stake was. most men's schools had secret wizard/warlock groups and classes within, but women's schools were so far and few between that local witches would put together schools that reversed that: they catered primarily to magic users, but offered regular classes for all women. before the fifteenth or sixteenth century, there were more well-known male users, just called alchemists instead of wizards/warlocks/sorcerors/etc. some speculate that Jesus was a Kabbalistic wizard. anyway the catch-all term for anyone who can use magic is magic user, spellcaster (often shortened to caster), magician, that sort of thing. since the late 80s, more and more schools have opened their doors to trans casters. of course, a lot of them still hang in the balance because they can't go to the school for people of their designated sex and they can't go to the school matching their gender, either because of their sex or because there are no such schools. there have been coed magical schools since the 60s, but they're far and few between. magic is a very traditional study and its practitioners often long-lived. magic users, on the whole, do not like change. I was thinking of trans caster having to insist on their terms. "So you're a wizard?" "No, I'm a witch." "Okay, you're a caster." "No, a witch." or "You're a witch, aren't you?" "I'm a spellcaster, actually." "But you're a witch, I mean..." in some cities (eg San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, London, Paris, Berlin, etc.), queer-specific magical schools have started cropping up. some deans have converted older schools to coed ones. there are a few nonbinary-specific covens, but they're small. magical schools tend to be multicultural. magic is straightforward and the same across the board, but people can channel it in different ways as dictated by their culture. one typically practices their culture's traditional form of magic and will take a deity from their mythology as their patron. covens are typically groups of casters within the same cultural frame of reference. you'll rarely find a Greek practitioner and a Celtic practitioner living in a community outside of school. most european magical schools embrace white magic. some schools lean more grey, teaching controversial methods. there are probably a few black magic schools out there, moreso in the states than anywhere else.