The Mothwinged Witch

On my good-spoon days in cold weather, all I want to do is make huge pots of stew and chili or giant casseroles or a big roast chicken or lots and lots of pumpkin bread. But I also know it's not likely to be eaten quickly and I don't want to waste it.

Magic is more interesting when you take out “intent is all you need” and focus instead on anthropological study of systematic methods rooted in metaphysical or cosmological theory that matter as both techniques and technologies that _communicate_ intent to the forces around you rather than deciding intent alone is the power - because under that particular assumption, a shallow and superficial understanding is all you need and it really just sucks the fun and exploration right out of it because you’re basically deciding to be finished growing as a practitioner as soon as you start and that’s not to even mention the fact that old folklore is fucking interesting.

It's not necessarily a sexual thing! Like for me it's just a "fine, I guess I'm a furry since I enjoy RPing a crow as a bit on tumblr dot com" thing.

Women are not “more magical”, men are not “devoid of magic”. In many cultures of the world, men have made most of the input into the development of magical craft. You don’t need to be a cisgender woman to do magic or call yourself a witch; witch is a gender neutral term.

Drop "karma" from your witchcraft vocabulary all together.

Full on.

Stop saying it.

Because karma literally has nothing to do with witchcraft. Never did, never will. The millenia old religions from which karma originates aren't witchcraft. Very few people who are native practitioners of those religions identify as witches, and those who do, they know what they're talking about when they do bring up karma in their practices.

If you're not coming from a spiritual background of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, if you don't have a working knowledge of any of these religions, and especially if you're white, then shut it about karma.

It’s a sexless new age enlightenment pseudopsychological therapeutic social justice language pissing contest. Who can present themselves as the most sterile poised guiltless “intuitive tarot reader”.

It’s queerness with the edges ground off, magic without blood, psychoanalysis without ugliness, art without disturbances, smoke without fire

It’s like corporate pride meets new age wicca meets self help bullshit meets fandom meets empath nonsense and let me tell you it drains the fucking life out of me

If you believe a common misconception, and someone else responds with evidence that the thing you believe is wrong and historically inaccurate, you don’t need to die on that hill. You can go “oh shit, I didn’t know that! Now I’ve learned!”

It wouldn’t be a common misconception if it wasn’t. Y’know. Common. Lots of people believe the fake thing. They’re wrong too. Sometimes you’re wrong, and that’s okay. You don’t need to get offended. You certainly don’t need to pull out easily debunked “sources” to try and back yourself up. You’re making yourself look silly. Just be excited you learned a new thing. It’s okay.

Been a while so might miss one but IIRC there's

Unverified Personal Gnosis (UPG): Something that you experienced and believe to be true, but can't provide evidence for.

Unverified Shared Gnosis (USG): None of you can prove it, but have had similar experiences. Could also refer to multiple people experiencing the same thing.

Verifiable Gnosis: This is something that can be proved or at least backed up with sources aside from just other people.

Perhaps to use ghosts as an example

UPG: My house is haunted but the spirit only shows itself to me for some reason.

USG: This building is haunted and dozens of people have witnessed supernatural phenomenon.