The Crafts: Wixes, Spells, and the Weaponized Placebo Effect

... Dammit, I don't know enough about tarot to know whicj cards, say, Rose Potter or Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way would be.

 

It's also very hard to do a single-card drawing of Ron Weasley being a "shit wizard" who can't Body-Bind two Muggles and yet overpowers Hermione twice.

 

the empress had better be mpreg

 

I dunno, I'm thinking the one where the Mary Sue decided the best way to help the Fellowship when they ran out of food was by breastfeeding them. Subjugation's bodybuilder Dumbledore can be the Emperor.

 

How did I manage to forget this one and how do I get back to forgetting it
(Suddenly, the "Breastfeeding the Fellowship" card in Cards Against HQ makes a little bit more sense.)

 

On that note, tarot deck hoard post with a mini review for every deck.

Hard to believe that I only had three decks when this thread started and now I have... eight... maniac cackling.

 

aaand I published a spell today! Based off a thing I mentioned in my rant on dragon magic a few days ago.

 

.....clicks like to save this for later
I'm gonna reblog it to my witch blog

 

Glad to serve.

 

@palindromordnilap Is Little Miss Mary oblivious enough to suit the Fool card?

 

... Again, don't know much about tarot, but I think it might work.

 

The Lovers; Harry and Hermione dancing in a diner to the Robot Unicorn Attack song. Enoby can be the Devil, after all she is a SATANITS. Cluny wielding a spear ominously ought to be King of Wands.

 

SATANTITS?

 

Her attempt to write "Satanist".

And David Gonterman's self-insert and his interstellar shotgun should be Page of Wands.

 

i know, but i had to mangle the spelling further ::D

 

Only somewhat related to tarot:

So, a friend asked me the other day if I was a witch. It struck me oddly enough that I laughed before trying to put together an answer- no, I don't identify as such because it has always seemed to me that witching is not just about habits. My belief had always been that witchcraft was akin to a religion; it was a thing to be practiced and performed, and also an identity that specifies and shapes one's perspectives on the world.

That said, I sit here fully intending to formally banish my deadname, and with a tarot deck that gives scarily accurate readings on a regular basis. I've experienced things which I can only explain as supernatural, and I'm a firm believer in the powers of symbolism and the weaponized placebo effect (clarifying edit: to affect my own mind and perceptions; still very much on the fence when it comes to the possibility of affecting things outside myself). And I have a black cat. And in the time it's taken to write this, I've come up with the perfect symbol for hexing the president-elect. (Empty carton of orange juice, two pennies inside.) And, and, and- the list goes on.

So, please help: Am I making assumptions about witchiness that limits it to not include me? Is there a practical difference between "girl who sometimes does the physically or statistically impossible" and "lazily eclectic witch"? Why does "I don't identify as a witch because that would mean my life will have to change" sound so very much like "I don't identify as trans because that would mean my life will have to change"? Is "witch" a functional label for "those who do witchy things", an identity label for "those who see the world in a witchy way", and do I count as either? These questions are starting to keep me up at night.

(Second edit to add: and what's up with the face cards (king, queen, knight, and princess of each suit)? The book I have is not clear at all on what they represent.)

 

Interesting! The main thing stopping me from calling myself a witch is that most of the witch-flavored things I do are more vague and spiritual than what i'd think of as actual spells. Just kind of using symbols and signs to hack my mindset in order to make things go a little more my way. I think I just recently hit a tipping point where I have to admit that I'm basically doing minor magics as part of my regular routine and therefore really ought to just take on the label.

 

My altar is my computer table and about 1% wix stuff. Most of my witchery is in my head instead of 'actual spells'. There are a lot of asshole gatekeepers out there, but it's really hard to be a witch wrong. If you want to use the label then do.

 

I really want to do more witchy stuff but i am perpetually busy and exhausted and have no idea where to start

 

I mean I barely do witch things ever because spoons and money and parent problems
but I'm still gonna call myself a witch, goddammit