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will-o-the-witch · 2 years ago

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Writing a Witch Character, Respectfully

This is by no means a complete list, but it'll hopefully lay a foundation of things to keep in mind so that you can write a good character while still being respectful to real people and traditions.

Look at actual magical traditions to compare your magic system to. Obviously it's your work of fiction and you can create your own rules, but it can help provide some frame of reference. It'll also help you avoid unintentionally coding a 1:1 stand-in for an existing tradition.

Harmful stereotypes about witches often have roots in racism, antisemitism, and the satanic panic. Avoid terms like "black magic" which are used to demonize afrodiasporic religions (especially Vodou) and Santería. Avoid having your witches kidnap people, especially children, in order to use/drink their blood (this is called blood libel.) Avoid cabals of evil witches secretly conspiring to control the world, or who already do. (Another antisemitic trope.) Make sure your super-earthy witch who can talk to animals isn't an anti-indigenous charicature.

Be mindful of Wiccan-based stereotypes. Wicca dominates a LOT of magical discussion, especially from an outside perspective, but is definitely not representative of all witches. Ideas such as the threefold law, the "burning times," a single important Goddess, or heavy emphasis on the moon and wombs/fertility is really stale to read about, especially if all witchcraft is portrayed as being like that. It's okay play with those themes, but make sure you're not stacking too many on top of each other or just writing about a Dianic Wiccan.

When writing about a real tradition you aren't a member of, study the hell out of it and talk to members of that tradition. They can help provide more specific details about what is/n't respectful and even give insight into the tradition that may help develop the character. Be sure to compensate people for their labor.

ALSO when writing about a real tradition you aren't a member of, (or a fictional tradition that's coded as a real one) make sure it's really your story to tell. It's great to write about characters who are different from you, but some stuff can only be written from lived experience. While not all magical practices are closed or marginalized, it's inappropriate to profit off someone else's oppression. If your story/character is all about what it means to be X in today's world, grappling with one's identity as X, or what it's like to experience bigotry against X, consider lifting up X writers telling their own stories instead.

People are still people. Just like other characters, people's lives don't usually revolve around only one thing. I'm a witch, but I also have a career, love life, hobbies, and interests completely outside of that. Let your witches be three-dimensional.

If critiquing the character's (fictional) magic beliefs/tradition, make sure you're still doing it from a place of respect for real people. It's really cool to see characters realize something they believed in isn't real, watching them grapple with this new information and the impact that has on their worldview. It's really annoying to see authors use that scene to say, "Haha, look how stupid they are for believing in things. What a hack." If it's a real tradition, just don't. You'll just come off as an asshole.

#creative writing #writing ocs #witch oc #witchcraft

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pigeonflavouredcake · 2 years ago

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My Grimoire Research Library

this is a list of my major resource I've referenced/am currently referencing in my big grimoire project. For books I'll be linking the Goodreads page, for pdfs, websites and videos i'll link them directly.

There are plenty of generalised practitioner resources that can work for everyone but as I have Irish ancestry and worship Hellenic deities quite a few of my resources are centred around Celtic Ireland, ancient Greece and the Olympic mythos. If you follow other sects of paganism you are more than welcome to reblog with your own list of resources.

Parts of my grimoire discuss topics of new age spiritualism, dangerous conspiracy theories, and bigotry in witchcraft so some resources in this list focus on that.

Books

Apollodorus - The Library of Greek Mythology

Astrea Taylor - Intuitive Witchcraft

Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham - Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests

John Ferguson - Among The Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion

Katharine Briggs - The Fairies in Tradition and Literature

Kevin Danaher - The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs

Laura O'Brien - Fairy Faith in Ireland

Lindsey C. Watson - Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome

Nicholas Culpeper - Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

R.B. Parkinson - A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Around the World

Rachel Patterson - Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness

Raleigh Briggs - Make Your Place: Affordable & Sustainable Nesting Skills

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Ronald Hutton - The Witch: A History of Fear in Ancient Times

Rosemary Ellen Guiley - The Encyclopaedia of Witches and Witchcraft

Thomas N. Mitchell - Athens: A History of the World's First Democracy

Walter Stephens - Demon Lovers: Witchcraft S3x and the Crisis of Belief

Yvonne P. Chireau - Black Magic: Religion and The African American Conjuring Tradition

PDFs

Anti Defamation League - Hate on Display: Hate Symbols Database

Brandy Williams - White Light, Black Magic: Racism in Esoteric Thought

Cambridge SU Women’s Campaign - How to Spot TERF Ideology 2.0.

Blogs and Websites

Anti Defamation League

B. Ricardo Brown - Until Darwin: Science and the Origins of Race

Dr. S. Deacon Ritterbush - Dr Beachcomb

Folklore Thursday

Freedom of Mind Resource Centre - Steven Hassan’s BITE Model of Authoritarian Control

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Royal Horticultural Society

The Duchas Project -National Folklore Collection

Vivienne Mackie - Vivscelticconnections

YouTube Videos

ContraPoints - Gender Critical

Emma Thorne Videos - Christian Fundie Says Halloween is SATANIC!

Owen Morgan (Telltale) - The Source Of All Conspiracies: A 1902 Document Called "The Protocols"

The Belief it or Not Podcast - Ep. 40 Satanic Panic, Ep 92. Wicca

Wendigoon - The Conspiracy Theory Iceberg

Other videos I haven't referenced but you may still want to check out

Atun-Shei Films - Ancient Aryans: The History of Crackpot N@zi Archaeology

Belief It Or Not - Ep. 90 - Logical Fallacies

Dragon Talisman - Tarot Documentary (A re-upload of the 1997 documentary Strictly Supernatural: Tarot and Astrology)

Lindsay Ellis - Tracing the Roots of Pop Culture Transphobia

Overly Sarcastic Productions - Miscellaneous Myths Playlist

Owen Morgan (Telltale) - SATANIC PANIC! 90s Video Slanders Satanists | Pagan Invasion Saga | Part 1

ReignBot - How Ouija Boards Became "Evil" | Obscura Archive Ep. 2

Ryan Beard - Demi Lovato Promoted a R4cist Lizard Cult

Super Eyepatch Wolf - The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers and Mediums

Weird Reads with Emily Louise -The Infamous Hoaxes Iceberg Playlist

Wendigoon - The True Stories of the Warren Hauntings: The Conjuring, Annabelle, Amityville, and Other Encounters

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fallstaticexit · 4 months ago

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Im absolutely loving your new Nancy Langraab story!! Hell yes for making boring townies interesting via a new backstory!! (I never found Nancy and Geoffrey much to my taste because ts4 just presents them as another boring rich couple who are probably shitty parents. But this backstory adds so much more interest and layers to her!) I can’t wait to see everything fall apart for her… (Angst is my favorite part of storytelling, hahahaha) Also, I just have to say that the fact that Cassie’s friends are playing D&D at a Catholic school in what would have been close to the height of the satanic panic, which very heavily targeted D&D as a horrible anti-Christian thing is very funny to me. (Not saying this to be rude, I genuinely find it amusing.)

Thank you so very much ✨😭 I too love some good ole fashioned angst. It’s my coffee in the morning.

I did do a super quick google search prior to writing the scene and saw a few discussions about D&D and the church ( here and here and here ) because it did dawn on me that the school would have likely had an issues with it during that time period but decided to write it in anyway, as a nod to the late 80s and early 90s and as a stereotypical “geeky” thing that Geoffrey and his friends did together. 😭🙏🏾

#tw religion #tw religious mention #tw religious trauma #ask #the art of being seen tag #I grew up in the Deep South Baptist church and I swear everything was a problem #they didn’t like Harry Potter but they didn’t ban it #it was heavily frowned upon tho #def didn’t like the gays - which one of many reasons why I left

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problematic-faves-appreciation · 4 months ago

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A List of Moral Panics

TW: Suicide mention

The facts: Fictional media in particular cannot insta-brainwash you. Audiences don't passively absorb information like sponges, nor respond uniformly to media exposure:

The 21st century

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Heartstopper and other queer stories

Fear: "It's going to magically turn my kids gay or trans!"

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Colleen Hoover novels

Fear: "Her books normalize abuse, and pose a danger to women!"

Medium(s): Books and fanfiction

Subject: Dark romance

Fear: "Dark romance is normalizing abuse, and it poses a danger to women!"

Medium(s): Fanfiction (this includes fanart and shipping)

Subject: Fanfiction

Fear: "The bad fanfiction is normalizing illegal behavior, and it poses a danger to the youth!"

• Fandom antis

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Fifty Shades of Grey

Fear: "Fifty Shades of Grey is normalizing abuse, and it poses a danger to women!"

Medium(s): Novels

Fear: "Twilight is normalizing abuse, and it poses a threat to teenage girls and young women!"

About Twilight and Fifty Shades: A domestic abuse epidemic did not occur in the wake of these books.

The 20th century

Medium(s): Video games

Subject: Video games

Fear: "Video games make children violent!"

• 8 Myths About Video Games Debunked

Medium(s): TV

Subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Turtles

Fear: "The cartoon is going to make kids violent because... NINJAS!"

Medium(s): Film

Subject: Horror movies — "video nasties"

Fear: "These violent horror films are going to deprave and corrupt everyone, especially the children!"

Medium(s): Multiple

Subject: The Satanic Panic

Fear: "This media is corrupting the youth!"

• Pokemon

• Harry Potter

• Dungeons & Dragons

• Heavy metal music

Medium(s): Comic Books

Subject: Comic books

The Fear: "Comic books are corrupting the youth and causing juvenile delinquency!"

• The Comics Code

Medium(s): Film

Subject: Classic films; sex, homosexuality, violence, profanity, and interracial relationships in pre-Code films.

Fear: "These movies are lowering the moral standards of those who watch them!"

• The Hays Code

Medium(s): Music

Subject: Jazz — The "Devil's Music"

Fear: "This immoral music is bringing about the downfall of society!"

The 19th Century

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Sensation novels

Fear: "The impressionable female readers are going to be morally corrupted!"

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Lady Audley's Secret

Fear: "This novel is going to corrupt young women of 'good blood and good training'!"

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Penny dreadfuls

Fear: "Penny dreadfuls are corrupting the youth, causing more juvenile delinquency!"

The 18th Century

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Fear: "This novel is causing an epidemic of suicide!"

• The ‘Werther Effect’ of Goethe’s Werther: Anecdotal Evidence in Historical News Reports

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Pamela; or Virture Rewarded

Fear: "It's going to lead female readers astray!"

Excerpt from Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women (1766)

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Romances

Fear: "These are especially dangerous to women, for they will get the wrong idea about love and ruin themselves!"

Excerpt from Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation by Jaqueline Pearson

Medium(s): Novels

Subject: Novels

(I disagree with the article author's take on trigger warnings.)

Fear: "Novels are leading the youth and women astray!"

#fiction analysis #moral panics #censorship #media audiences aren't passive recipients #debunking anti novel rhetoric #my posts #this list is a work in progress.

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pyxes · 2 months ago

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BUCKLE UP FEW FOLLOWERS/MUTUALS WHO INTERACT WITH MY POST... because right now is a good time for me to tell you all the tale of Idaho’s cannibalism law and the still very much relevant christian-fascist fear of anything that goes outside their bubble.

Idaho House code 18-5003 is perhaps my favorite part of history because it’s one of the most unknown but most jarring example of moral panic and is comparable to what we see today with Q-Anon, MAGA, and even general republican politics. I am going to try to keep this as short as possible but that might be a hard for me (post writing warning this is like...super long but also super cool and interesting). Like I said, I am completely entrenched in this part of history so I may go off rail a couple times.

To preface, Idaho is the only state in the union that explicitly has a law outlawing cannibalism. There is nothing like it in any other state which, when hearing this, people are generally shocked. The law states:

18-5003. CANNIBALISM DEFINED — PUNISHMENT. (1) Any person who wilfully [sic] ingests the flesh or blood of a human being is guilty of cannibalism.

(2) It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of the provisions of this section that the action was taken under extreme life-threatening conditions as the only apparent means of survival.

(3) Cannibalism is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding fourteen (14) years.

One would expect this to be cause by some crazed cannibalistic maniac but no. In 1990, it was caused by an orchestrated nationwide fear that “satanist” (use context clues on who was labeled as such) would kidnap children-specifically white, Protestant, blue eyed, blonde hair, girls-who would then be sacrificed. We know this now as a product of the Satanic Panic of the 80's-90's. But where does the Satanic Panic and fear for our little Suzy’s life come from????

Well with all terrible things in contemporary American history the vast majority of this goes back to gross, disgusting, turkey-neck Reagan. I know. Yuck. Don’t have to tell me twice. But to understand more we have to go back a little further to the Vietnam Era and the Jesus Freak Movement.

The fundamental idea of the Jesus Freak Movement was to break away from the period typical charismatic Protestantism. The "Freaks" were generally peaceful but a few bad seeds lit the fuse for what would become the early aughts of the Satanic Panic. Two of the most notable are The Manson Family and Jim Jones' Jonestown, both of which used New-Age Christianity to further their dark self-fulfilling prophecies. Because of this, anti-cult organizations began to form and would label anyone with differing opinions from, again, charismatic-fundi Protestantism, as "devil worshippers". These organizations really did nothing to help victims, nor did they care, they only served a purpose to yap and uphold Christian Morality.

Okay, so with that out of the way, it's time to talk about the man who unfortunately survived a gunshot, Ronald Reagan. Even with the recent assassination attempt, Reagan was dropping in the 1882 mid-term polls. He was not a good man but he was a good grifter, like what we have currently been witnessing with Donald Trump. Seeing that he needed to align with something he sought refuge in the growing Religious Right movement, even though he was the first president to not attend church while in the whitehouse. His “griftey-ness” seemed genuine to some, especially Protestant Evangelical America. This is because of three calculated speeches at the National Religious Broadcast, the National Prayer Breakfast, and the National Association of American Evangelicals. These speeches would regain confidence in Reagan and would give way to a new political group to rise, the Moral Majority.

After this alignment with the Religious Right, Reagan was to the average American W.A.S.P (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) as John F. Kenndey was to the average Irish American Catholic. And if you have ever met and old Irish Catholic lady, you know they SALIVATED at the meer image of sexy John EVEN before he was president. Before Reagan, the Moral Majority was a right-wing movement whose relevance could be compared to a child putting their fingers in their ears and going “la-la-la”. The movement was founded by known anti-semite, Teletubby hating, sexual abuse defending, televangelist, Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr in the late 1970's. The Moral Majority was a loud but ignored group until Falwell’s association with Ronald Reagan.

Falwell saw how moldable Reagan was and would personally invite him to speak at the National Religious Broadcaster Conference of 1982 previously discussed. He would use Ronald Reagan as a tool to further legislation that made his world more comfortable for him. SOUND FAMILIAR???? The moral majority had one mission and that was to create a ginormous red voting block that upheld conservative Christian ideals. These ideals really have not changed much from today with them focusing on a “traditional”, nuclear, bible abiding family. Traditional meaning strict heterosexual gender roles with males at the helm that we all know and are disturbed by.

One aspect of the Falwell’s Protestant Christianity, also referred to as charismatic Protestantism, is the idea of eschatology. While yes, all Abrahamic religions believe in eschatology, Falwell’s version was much more extreme. Instead of pondering of what happens with one's soul after they die, Charismatic Christianity cranks an imaginary biblical dial up to its max setting. Anyone who did not follow their beliefs were sinners and were bound to go to hell. It was, and still is, quite easy to be persuaded by the Devil, some examples include being gay, trans, Jewish, Muslim, a democrat, not want children, not tithing, playing Dungeons and Dragons, wearing pants if you are a woman, listen to secular music, breathe wrong... the list goes on. All things that deviated from the views of the growing Moral Majority turned into a calculated tabloid sensation that created a real time imaginary world that only served to push their political agenda.

Many of the tabloids were orchestrated in a way that disrupted the white suburban lifestyle institutionalized by the “White flight” of the 1960’s. A good chunk of these rumors was formulated via fear to persuade blue collar workers of the growing divide between them and those who wish to push a liberal agenda. The component of Protestant blue collar workers is important because it is distortional composed of economically stressed people who still held on to traditional American cultural values which affirmed the theology of the Moral Majority. This is still relevant today, I mean look at the voting stats in this years election. Or I don't know listen to you weird uncle who gets his checks garnished talk about how he voted for trump because of "taxes".

There are more blue-collar workers in the nation than televangelist, but the televangelist still persuaded the working class with the teachings of the prosperity gospel because that is the goal of their game. Fear provokes rumors and that was the plan to control the general population at the time. Rumors are created to both satisfy the need to reduce uncertainty and provoke more anxiety. It did not help that at the core of these rumors all held shared beliefs between thousands of people who share the stress of demoralization fronted by Satan.

Besides the views held by the religious right, a book would come out in 1980 that would confirm all the mass rumors surrounding satanic ritual abuse. Now discredited and laughed at, Michelle Remembers is the book that conservative America needed in terms of mass satanic cult confirmation bias. The book was written by “recovered-memory” therapist Lawrence Pazder and details the not-so-true story of his patient and later wife, Michelle Smith. Although the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was not around at the time the book is straight HIPAA violation after violation. The book is filled with Smith’s accounts of being tortured, sexually abused, and witnessing human sacrifices that she was sometimes forced to be a part of. One of the books many covers plays into the fear of the kidnapped blond-hair blue-eyed child previously discussed, the child is holding a doll surrounded by candles with the eyes of an evil satanist looking down at her ready to sacrifice and consumer her at any given moment.

Smith’s story set shockwaves and inspired another “victim” of satanic ritual abuse to come forward named Laurel Rose Wilson with her book Satan’s Underground. The two would go on and appear on the Oprah Winfrey show and speak their “truth” and have it confirmed on nationally syndicated television furthering the fears of many. Although both books have been disproven and scrutinized by investigators both books sent a shockwave throughout the globe, with Michelle Remembers being known as the “whistle-blower” book. One of my favorite reviews regarding the book is “Five Baphomet pentagrams for originality and five more for hilarity.” Looking through the lens of today it is easy to call out the embellishments and laugh at Smith and Pazder’s elaborate trolling, but back then this book was truly groundbreaking and instilled more fears in Christian America. DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR ARE WE MAKING CONNECTIONS YET! I mean think of all the brain dead idiots on youtube still claiming to be a victim of satanic ritual abuse.

At this point the Satanic panic has surpassed cult rumors and became a real threat to once secure neighborhoods. Parents began to fear for their children's safety when sending them to school, nowhere was safe from the evil grasp of Satanist. One event regarding this would be a product of the rumors and be the catalyst that ceased the Satanic Panic of the 80’s and 90’s. This event is known as the McMartin Preschool Trials which would later become the longest and most expensive series of criminal trials in American history. The story of the trail starts with Judy Johnson claiming her son was sexually molested by McMartin Preschool employee Ray Buckey. Ray Buckey was soon arrested, and a letter was sent out to the about 200 parents who sent their children to the preschool detailing the alleged acts perpetrated by Buckey.

Quickly receiving this letter, the number of children abused by Buckey reached 360. During the investigation claims were getting muddy with Buckey having an array of costumes, branding children, creating child sexual abuse material and dispersing it to others, slaughtering animals, and any other satanic ritual abuse activity. Buckey was not the only one charged in the case, his mother, sister, as well as several other employees were charged with the same counts as well. All together they had 208 counts of abuse that were a product of cult practices. There were even claims of underground tunnels made to traffic children. Eventually it would come out the children were being coached by investigators to make false claims in regard to what happened at the preschool. In the end all charges but 12 were dropped and the preschool was demolished which can serve as a metaphor for the panic in general. Something created out of falsehoods only to be destroyed by factual evidence based.

Do I believe the Buckey and others involved were abusing children in the name of Satanic Ritual Abuse? No. But I do believe that something must have happened for a child to recount what happened, persuaded by investigators or not. What could have happened to spark such controversy could take the form of many types of abuse, it does not always need to be sexual abuse is abuse. One thing about children is that while yes, they have very active imaginations they also lack awareness of what being abused is like unless they suffered. It is not a concept they are born with so it should be a red flag to an adult when a child says something relating to being abused. Instead of focusing on the real issue of the claims being made, the parents of McMartin Preschool could not face the reality of abuse being perpetrated by a non-Satanic cult affiliated person with bad intentions. I think the idea of parents automatically blaming Satanic ritual abuse is, well to be frank, disgusting. It takes away from the reality of the situation and gives backswords credence to abuse happening inside their bubble.

That is where the crux of this super mega long text post lies. People have always refused to acknowledge reality outside of their safety nets. When the reality of their constructed world is broken there is no other way to explain it other than fiction with the intent to blame everyone but themselves. Reading this you can not help but make comparisons to today, most notably with that of Q-Anon and Charismatic Fundamentalist. It feels like every week Q-Anon comes up with a new child-trafficking conspiracy like Pizza-gate/Wayfair-gate, turning Jill Biden's panda costume into some symbol of child abuse, thinking a trans predator is awaiting in every women's bathroom, creating child victims with drag queen story time, etc, all while turning a man (Donald Trump) into a god who has been charged numerous times with abuse of a minor along with his sex-trafficker friend (Jeffery Epstein) who certainly did not kill himself.

These hypocrites all preach the same ideas as Falwell and his Moral Majority constituents: that all those who do not follow their path are monsters out to abuse children, when in reality they do not care about the abuse of children. The state of Idaho does not care about children and is actively pushing legislation to make the lives of women and children more difficult every day. Long before the overturning of Roe v Wade, Idaho governor, chud Brad Little supported sentencing women to death for getting an abortion. Shortly after Roe v Wade was overturned, Idaho immediately put an abortion ban in place, making sure to sign “abortion trafficking” laws that would prosecute anyone who crosses state lines and then followed that by eliminating Idaho’s committee dedicated maternal deaths. Eliminating a committee who’s sole purpose was to understand maternal deaths all while OBGYN’s flee the state the to follow that up by cutting $38 million in state funds dedicated to preventing child abuse while also repeatedly killing bills that would put an end to child marriages in a state with one of the highest rates proves the Brad Little and his cronies do not give a single shit about kids. This obviously is not just an Idaho thing but this is a growing trend across the nation. They only care about ownership. They only care about furthering an agenda to keep their world theirs. Thus, they orchestrate lies to control the masses while they themselves turn them into truth.

For the few who read this I hope you are now informed and also enjoyed this little history lesson that is doomed to repeat itself. We are all aware of the signs of what is to come but stay strong and do not fall into it. They want you to. Be vigilant and be informed.

#if you want my sources just ask

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printedword · 1 month ago

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Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice. All told, the decision to acquire InfoWars was an easy one for the Global Tetrahedron executive board. Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon. Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron. No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it at a steep bargain: less than one trillion dollars. Make no mistake: This is a coup for our company and a well-deserved victory for multinational elites the world over. What’s next for InfoWars remains a live issue. The excess funds initially allocated for the purchase will be reinvested into our philanthropic efforts that include business school scholarships for promising cult leaders, a charity that donates elections to at-risk third world dictators, and a new pro bono program pairing orphans with stable factory jobs at no cost to the factories. As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal. All will be revealed in due time. For now, let’s enjoy this win and toast to the continued consolidation of power and capital.

#the onion #infowars #alex jones #words

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dandelionsandcacti · 1 month ago

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All told, the decision to acquire InfoWars was an easy one for the Global Tetrahedron executive board.

Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon.

Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron.

#the onion #infowars #i fucking love this

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nyxs-sins · 1 year ago

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Short Fictions (Part 1)

Ceraunophile

Summary: It’s the first time MC sees a thunderstorm in the Devildom, and they wanna go check it out! Paring: GN!MC x Leviathan Warnings: Thunderstorms and fluff!

Leviathan’s Final Form

Summary: MC sees Levi in his final form for the first time. Pairing: GN!MC x Leviathan Warnings: None

Proposal

Summary: It’s late at night and MC wants to get married. Pairing: F!MC x Lord Diavolo Warnings: None

Clothes Shopping Mayhem

Summary: MC needs new clothes but hates shopping. How can Mammon and Asmo help them have fun in such a mundane and anxiety-inducing task? Pairing: Mammon x MC x Asmo (Platonically or Romantically, up to you.) Warnings: None

Guardian Angel

Summary: Simeon is MC’s Guardian Angel, how do things play out between them? Pairing: Simeon x F!MC Warnings: Slight angst at the end.

Bittersweet

Summary: Satan has always known he is nothing more than a replacement for Lilith. But how does he feel when you replace him as Lilith’s replacement? Pairing: Satan x YOU Warnings: Angst/Comfort

The Tsundere Way

Summary: MC doesn’t understand Mammon’s tsundere tendencies. Pairing: Mammon x GN!MC Warnings: Yelling, arguing, angst.

Everyday Life

Summary: Diavolo remanences about like with MC. Pairing: Diavolo x GN!MC Warnings: None

Cookie Cup

Summary: It’s Beel’s turn to catch MC in the kitchen after hours. Pairing: Beelzebub x GN!MC Warnings: None

Counting Cards

Summary: Mammon teaches MC how to count cards. Pairing: Mammon x GN!MC Warnings: None

Rumors

Summary: For the MC Monday Prompt 13. Pairing: Mammon x Nyx Warnings: Minor Panic Attack

For Your Special Day

Summary: Mammon wants to do something special for your upcoming birthday. What could he have in store? Pairing: Mammon x Reader Warnings: Slight Angst, SURPRISE

Punishing Belphie

Summary: Prompt - “Come here.” “Why?” “Just come here.” “No you’re going to hit me!” Pairing: Angel!Belphie x Angel!Reader Warnings: Angst, Physical Abuse

Pride’s Silly Secret

Summary: MC learns a secret of Lucifer’s and tries to tell the Anti-Lucifer Squad.

Pairing: Satan x MC x Belphie

Warnings: None

#obey me #obey me fictions #short fictions

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creature-wizard · 9 months ago

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Is the Illuminati real

So, there was a real group of people called the Bavarian Illuminati. They were basically into rationalism and human rights and democracy and such things as made European conservatives of the 18th century antsy. The Catholic Church banned 'em.

Now, lots of people were into the same ideals at the time. And contemporary conservatives who refused to imagine that the common folk could have anything against monarchy and theocracy and all that of their own accord started blaming the Illuminati for stirring up all of this dissent. And as it goes with these kinds of things, they basically blamed them for everything they didn't like.

And this is basically where we still are with the Illuminati. Conservatives use them as their boogeyman to blame for any social trend they don't like. The mythology has become quite elaborate over the years, merging with antisemitic conspiracy theories and anti-witch conspiracy theories. Conservatives are constantly reinventing the material to sell it to each new generation. For example, during Europe's witch hunts, witch hunters claimed that people could be witches without any conscious awareness of it; essentially astral projecting to witches' sabbaths at night and waking up in the morning with no recollection whatsoever. Around the Satanic Panic, conspiracy theorists reinvented this as the alter programming conspiracy theory, where supposedly anyone could be a satanist because the conspiracy supposedly knew all of these techniques to give people DID and program each alter into whatever they needed.

So, there was a group of people called the Illuminati, but there is no group of people known as the Illuminati today that we have to worry about. It's all a bunch of conspiracy theory bullshit.

#answered #illuminati #the illuminati #conspiracy theory #conspiracy theories #conspiracism #conspiratorial thinking

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wepolian · 5 months ago

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Okay okay ive been browsing tumblr and i tried to google it but the definition was not clear, WTF is ramcoa???????? It has a definition on Pluralpedia but that's like not helpful and i was hoping you'd know considering the posts yer posting /genq

Its an old term meaning Ritual Abuse Mind Control and Organized Abuse

It originates from a phenomenon during the satanic panic where many people were coming forward to talk about horrific abuse at the hands of satanic cults, shadow governments, and secret rings of pedophiles and sex traffickers operating within schools, daycares, and after school programs.

This did not happen. It has been debunked countless times, many of the "survivors" have been debunked OR later went on to sue their clinicians for implanting false memories.

These "survivors" talked about ritualistic murder, sexual abuse, and most importantly the "scripts" or "programs" that kept them complicit and docile to the abuse. They claimed the abusers enforced them to develop DID (then MPD) as a way to cover their crimes.

This just... isnt possible under the current understanding of DID and OSDD. It requires a predisposition to dissociation and disorganization attachment in development. You cannot *make* a child have DID by traumatizing the child repeatedly, it would not be reliable enough to have these hoards of teenagers and young adults claiming to be programmed.

The most important thing about RAMCOA is that in order for it to exist it relies on anti Semitic conspiracy theories. The new world order, the "elites" trafficking/buying children (this is literally pizzagate) and then after they set in the conspiracy any denial to believe it is met with "youre covering for the cult/government/organization" or "you just cant see it its being covered up." No shocker the exact shit conspiracy theorists say about the most crack pot shit.

N e ways sorry if this is disjointed im kinda high

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just-antithings · 2 years ago

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"you take an axe to the innocence of children and sacrifice them your blood god" The 80's called and they want their Satanic Panic back

antis just trying to start a new satanic panic

#mod erin #ask #just anti things

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gertruderobinsonscat · 2 years ago

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Listening to a podcast, Hoaxed, about a satanic panic conspiracy in London, and the host drawing the connection to it and Pizzagate, then QAnon, and the host saying in tones of one having a revelation that “it’s all the same conspiracy!” All I can think is, “brother, boy do I have news for you about conspiracy theories that a secret religion is murdering babies as part of their anti Christian rites!”

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gryficowa · 6 months ago

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Time to analyze Poles in post-war times (Because people, it's just a rollercoaster), well, the "Satanic panic" was activated in Poles, but instead of "Satan" there were "Communists" and "Jews" (Because it makes no sense, seriously, post-colonization trauma fucked up this country)

Because if saying that Poland was complicit in the Holocaust is a lie (And funny it comes from two colonizers… Americans and Israel, so it sounds funny coming from criminals, especially from the USA which is known for attacking countries for raw materials) and I say it straight, it's blaming the victims of the Nazis, it's sick and disgusting (And the worst thing is that people believe it and I feel disgusted by it because it shows ignorance about it, the risk for hiding people from concentration camps ended with the shooting of the entire family, including children, so I hate that these people ignore it and go with shit like "Too few Jews saved", SHUT THE FUCK UP! You are a piece of shit who has no idea what was going on, yes, I will hate these people because they are disgusting, they blame the victims of colonization and the Nazis for complicity, you are no different from Zionists who blame Hamas for everything)

I just had to get it off my chest because Zionists and Americans piss me off because they blame Nazi victims for collaborating with the Nazis (Do you know who collaborated with the Nazis? Zionists, but you keep silent, you're disgusting)

Okay, time to calm down and return to the topic of post-war Poland (Inhale and exhale), the trauma of Poles was so strong that they became something they were not even before the war (Because before the war they were close to accepting Jews, unfortunately, an unfulfilled Austrian painter will stand in the way , so we already thank you for this, that I see boomers in the comments blaming Jews for shitty movies and TV series… Yes, boomers, now I see frequent hatred towards Islamists, and that says a lot… So unfortunately they found a new victim to spread their venom) and well, Poland was in deplorable condition, including Poles after years of brainwashing by the Nazis (Who tried to forcibly erase the national identity of the Poles themselves, so it's a miracle that something remained, although unfortunately, a lot was destroyed, including the acceptance of diversity, because Poland was diverse and that's crucial)

Anti-communist propaganda did not help either, and many Jews were considered communists by Poles (Jerzy Urban likes this… Even though he had nothing to do with communism, in other words, he was a politician in the commune and was a Jew who was not caught with his family because they were atheists)

Just a communist from a commune (Who got a cult on the Internet, he died some time ago, so it's a strange story of a communist criminal, but okay, whatever)

"Jerzy Urban[a], originally Jerzy Urbach (born August 3, 1933 in Łódź, died October 3, 2022[1] in Piaseczno[2]) - Polish journalist, publicist, satirist, writer and politician.

In the years 1981–1989, he was the press spokesman of the Council of Ministers of the Polish People's Republic[3], during this period he was one of the main authors of state propaganda and censorship. From April to September 1989, minister- member of the Council of Ministers and chairman of the Radio and Television Committee "Polskie Radio i Telewizja". In the years 1990–2022, editor-in-chief of the weekly "NIE" and owner of the publishing company Urma[4]."

You have the story of this man, but it's in Polish, so I recommend using a translator (For those who don't believe he was a Jew, well, he was, but not in a religious family)

But coming back, what happened in Poland after the war was sick, but it shows that a victim can become his own enemy and fall victim to brainwashing

Unfortunately, generational trauma has taken its toll and it's devastating when the US and Israel trivialize everything that happened back then - that's easy to say when you weren't a victim of colonization, right?

But yes, this part of Polish history is dark (On the other hand, there were a lot of Poles who stood up for Jews, they often ended up being beaten, but there were, and this is crucial, there were still Poles who fought for Jews, unfortunately, history must always be presented as black and white and they are being erased, the same will probably happen to the Israelis who are fighting for Palestine, and that's a depressing thought…)

And it should teach that the sacrifice can become evil, this teaching should be valid in the case of Zionist Jews, but unfortunately, it is not used and hence Israel went unpunished for years

And the fact that Zionist Jews lied about Poland's participation in the Holocaust does not help in the fight against anti-Semitism, which was the result of trauma and propaganda from the Nazis (It deepens this problem even more), unfortunately, Zionists have done their part to deepen this problem…

This is one of the faults of Zionists (In these times, although now anti-Semitism has been changed to Islamophobia, so yes… Crazy), how to fight anti-Semitism when Zionists fuel it with propaganda? Well, this is a devastating fight in this world, and it doesn't help that Zionism is doing too well in Poland and that's terrifying

And I won't mention the Zionists who use your origins to "ridicule" you, because they are disgusting bigots

But yes, what happened after the war was the result of fascism, which destroyed the identity of Poles and turned them into something they were not, unfortunately, we still have the effects today and it does not help that many right-wing-conservative Poles believe that Hitler was a leftist, so that makes it harder to fight it all :/

Those who survived were beaten for supporting "those evil communist Jews who kill white children" (Jeez, that sounds like something a drunk man would come up with…), so you were ostracized for supporting people (Tia… Still relevant now you are "unglued" and "the left has brainwashed you", so you are evil and abnormal for saying, that something is fascism…) and unfortunately, history itself also rejected them as heroes because they destroyed the narrative: Poles are bad, Jews are good, it's time for CS

Poles who hate Germans piss me off, because what do these new generations have in common with those who killed them? Well, they have nothing, I don't like this method of hating someone for their origins, it is being a bigot to feed your ego

We cannot change what happened many years before we were born, but we can strive to change it, and this should be promoted, not trying to tell people that they are bad because their DNA is bad…

The beautiful thing is that we can change the world and strive to change it for the better, it should never be that we use our origins as an argument, it's disgusting

I want to end this with something that gives hope for the future, because we live in times when we don't have it

#poland #germany #polska #jews #jewish #judaism #jewish history

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