Witch Hot Takes!

Hello, I'm K! I took over moderation of this blog back in October 2025 and this is a place to anonymously (or not!) share your hot takes about witchcraft, paganism, spirituality, etc.

What is a hot take? A hot take is a short, unnuanced opinion usually based on emotion rather than logic or facts. Hot takes can be provocative and are often designed to generate an immediate emotional reactionary response from the reader (often negative).

The point and purpose was to create a safe space for people to voice less than popular opinions about witchcraft that they were not comfortable putting their name to.

While the blog started off with this intent, we've come a long way from that starting point. Here are a couple of things you may want to consider before you hit the askbox:

Takes are often posted as polls; however, this is not always the case and I reserve the right to determine how I'm going to post an ask. I also reserve the right to decide whether an ask will be posted or not.

I have tried to discourage vagueposting. This hasn't worked, I regularly receive asks that are either vagueposts or people will flood the comments saying that they are. Look, witchblr is vast. I'm not going to be reading through every niche bit of drama to keep up with all of it. At this point, I'm fighting a losing battle with it and this began as just a fun side project. Scrolling through every witchblr tag to screen my anons for vagues is a full-time job and unfortunately, I already have one of those. Let's try to do our best and be respectful here.

This leads me to my next topic - threats. I (naively) didn't anticipate this becoming an issue, but recently it has come up, so here goes: From this point onward, if you threaten someone in the askbox or in the comments, you will be blocked. This is your one warning.

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I'm a fallen angelkin and an autotheist and my system is full of divine beings or beings who at least identify as such.

It's such a struggle when a lot of things are centered around worshipping gods.

I'm figuring it out, and in my case i think i'll be treating them as almost "pen pals", distant buddies i send treats to, but figuring out any practice is so rough bc a lot of it is "call upon x higher power" and it's something that i should just be able to do but can't in a human body !! Gahh

i understand that a lot of witchcraft walks the lines between the living and the dead, but i don't think it's actually respectful to the dead or their spirits when you're disturbing graves, and it's not respectful to their living loved ones either. i think it brings up consent issues, but it also brings up issues of entitlement. i, a witch, struggle with the fact that someone else clearly felt entitled to my dead parent and their peace for a magical working.

*here's what i mean by disturbed in my particular situation because i know some people might ask what i mean : someone identifying as a necromancer and ceremonial mage was taking things from my father's grave and burying their workings there because of our surname (they associated the name with a profession and ethnicity that they felt would "charge" their working and bless it). it was all caught on camera after we got permission to set up security cameras after the grave was disturbed multiple times and things were stolen from it. the person was also keeping things taken from the grave on an altar for "charging spirit vessels" and admitted to believing they had "captured" my father's spirit and taken it home with them for magical workings. and the person eventually picked up criminal charges for the thefts, trespassing, and vandalizing graves.

Anon, this is legitimately horrifying and I am so sorry to hear that this happened to you and your family. I'm glad that person was charged - no one should be desecrating graves, no matter what their practice entails. There are definitely right and respectful ways to approach spirits in the cemetery without resorting to stealing items left behind by loved ones.

"HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST TO GO ENJOY THE SUN AND AIR SOME PEOPLE LITERALLY CAN'T LEAVE THEIR ROOM" well then they can open the window, the advice still stands. Do you want to help those heavily disabled legions or do you just want them to wallow in misery while you scramble your brain to justify hurling slurs at randos?

(10 bucks that someone in the notes is gonna go "how dare you some people don't have windows")

Once upon a time in witchblr lore, someone made a joke post about experienced witches telling newer witches to look into a bowl of water.

What we learned from this is that some people literally don't have bowls (how dare you), some people don't have water (how dare you), some people have internet but already died of dehydration (and/or possibly dysentery), some people have no eyes, some people cannot read but they can comment angrily, and some people cannot tell when a post is being unserious 😅

Some don’t want to do the research to find a way that works for them. 

Others just don’t want to meditate full stop.

But most people can and just lie.

Granted, I know associations are personal, but damn it would be nice to sort by existing ingredients.

We can also extend it the other way- how are those unfamiliar with our own ways to know if they’re engaging with respected ideas when people are so prone to ignoring that information? Are they any more likely to care?

But at the end of the day, we’re all just sitting in this misinformation hole together because enough people are currently doing things and calling them witchcraft, in places where that seems safe enough, and they are very good at digging up the craziest stuff that will inevitably be interpreted without any nod to the original context. It’s fine- a person wrote it so it must be true and neutral.

You want to become more witchy? Do more actual witchy shit.

Research other traditions and religions. Look into alternative ways of viewing spirits and deities. Experiment with ways you can incorporate their symbolism and methods into your daily life.

Or you know.. just sit around making fucking tea all day and giving the world yet another example of the Dunning-Kruger effect for all of us to roll our eyes at.

Why the fuck not?

You're rude, arrogant, and frankly, unsuited to preach any opinion about witchcraft.