#it has a supernatural and Hannibal sticker on it

[hannibal-the-bimbo-cannibal]

Washing way too many ibuprofen down with an energy drink while blasting Kesha in my pink car felt awfully close to godhood

[callsignhood]

If you wanna be friend with me:

- I’ve been living in Canada for 10+ years

- Have a cat named Mimi

- Shows: Supernatural, Person of Interest, Hannibal, Wednesday, and that’s it because my free Netflix subscription has ended

- Anime: Ghost in the Shell (the movie was ok), Fullmetal Alchemist, Horimiya, Overlord (and much more bc I’m a fucking anime nerd)

- Music: Sleeptoken, Slipknot, WARGASM, The Neighborhood, Doja Cat, Ariana Grande, Sawano Hiroyuki (and a lot of other musicians too)

- Games: Final Fantasy 16, Arknights, Cytus 2, Hogwarts Legacy, and a lot of horror games but I only watch gameplays because I’m a coward

- Comfort characters: König, Winter Soldier, Jason Voorhees

- Believes that money can indeed buy happiness, because there’s no free pizza in this world, and I like pizza 😔👉👈

- What does James Bond do before bed? He goes undercover

- Yes I like stupid puns

- Have a huge sticker collection

- Can drive

- But I’d prefer a motorcycle, Ninja 300

- Plays guitar but I suck

- I’m very silly

- I’m pretty straightforward, so you don’t have to worry about if I’m hiding anything

- Wanna go to Europe someday and see all the cultures, I think it’s wonderful

[nightmarist]

Hello lovely, could you tell me a bit about working with pop culture Gods? I am interested in working with the Darkness from SPN, but I've never tried anything at all under the pop culture paganism umbrella. I feel so much every time I see or think of her and her backstory vibes with my practice and the other entities I work with, she'd fit right in! She feels special to me and deserves a place in my practice, I'm just not sure where or how to begin. Thank you! xx

Hello, I don’t usually post about pop culture here, it’s mostly goes in my sideblog, HighPriestness 

However I’ll go ahead and talk some about it. For starters Pop Culture Paganism’s modern roots generally came from the belief in a “pop idol” or similar “pop culture figure” being revered to the point of worship such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis and eventually evolved into what it is today, which is the worship or working with of fictional characters or entities. 

For example, the Love Craftian mythos has had an actual following of worshipers and still does, regardless of it’s ties to HP Lovecraft. 

Different aspects of pop culture paganism come from different beliefs. Some people believe in a basic form of “multiverse theory” in that there’s infinite universes where somehow someway these characters and entities exist somewhere. Other believe in the egregore theory, which is where the “original” modern pop culture work sort of draws from, in that the popularity of figures and idols and others is the source of power, and others believe in the thoughtform concept that you create these entities and worship them yourselves. I believe in a mixture of all of these, myself, and I figure most pc pagans and witches believe in some mixture of these as well. 

From my FAQ I wrote: 

Similar with any type of God, but Pop Culture deities stem from all forms of pop culture. They can be called Gods right off the bat, such as “Xenagos, God of Revels” or can be worshiped as is (such as those who worship Hannibal or Castiel [the Supernatural entity]) without having a title of “God” beforehand. Usually individuals worship Castiel or work with Castiel from Supernatural as a separate entity than Cassiel, the Biblical Angel he is based off of. SImilarly, creatures and deities may share origins with a “real” Deity, such as Loki from Marvel versus Loki the Norse God, but there are people who worship Marvel Loki separately from Norse Loki

It depends on the kind of pop culture experience you’re looking for, also. I’m a sticker for canon. I dont even like AU fanfiction, so my UPG is usually very limited or researched greatly with canon while “filling in the blanks” from other sources, such as Avacynian rituals from MtG being pieced together by lore, flavor text, and articles written by the devs. Others usually focus a lot with UPG, be it that some entities just dont have much lore or that they just want to throw out the lore. I don’t care for it myself, but that’s one way to go about it. 

There is also a difference between Pop Culture Paganism, WItccraft, and Modern Culture Paganism. I also have my own modern culture pantheon, and “modern culture” usually pertains to new gods of the modern world such as Thrift Store Gods or Chronica, the goddess of chronic illness, etc. I’m unsure for the label but there is also a label for Forgotten or old, unknown gods. 

PC Witchcraft usually draws from the collective energy of popular things, such as memes, shows, music, etc. Personally one of my pet peeves is the disguise of a regular spell “based off” a pop culture thing, which I personally believe to be different. For example, I’ve made a spell “based off” dragon age (a glamor spell) versus a spell that I specifically made to fit the magic: the gathering universe that works in our world (a phyreian ichor), but that’s me and you can do whatever you want regardless of whether or not I or anyone else likes it. 

I would definitely try to keep PC Witchcraft and Paganism separate, however, at least if you make a spell that doesn’t involve actual paganism (worship, evoking/invoking pc spirits, working with, etc) because spells sometimes clog up the tag. An emoji spell isn’t the same as worshiping Sephiroth as a beacon of annihilation or asking Naruto for some tips on centering yourself, you know. 

Hope that helps, feel free to ask anything else. 

[informaturge]

Excerpt from a Weird Idea I had recently.

It annoys me that the most common question I get is “what’s the most powerful artifact in your collection?”, like there’s a standardized rating system for objects associated with inexplicable phenomena. There’s no system for these things, no rules or regulations. Nobody handed me a supernatural geiger counter when I started this gig.

Well, okay, that’s not quite true. I do have what I’m told is a supernatural geiger counter. Got it from an auto mechanic out of Pittsburgh, who told me he got it from his father, who got it from a demon. Or so his story went. Most of the stories that come along with these things are garbage, made up to give an explanation to something that’s inherently unexplained.

On the other hand, the thing /does/ go off whenever I bring it close to any of the more “provable” weird junk in my collection. Then again, it also goes off whenever I bring it close to my dog. And as far as I know, my dog isn’t supernatural. Unless “really likes peas for some reason” is a metaphysical trait.

Anyway, there’s no rules in this business, no “difficulty level” sticker on the box. Like, I’ve got a DVD case for an apparently imaginary film called “Hannibal Chloroplast” that, when opened, contains a CD copy of “The Sign” by Ace of Base, no matter how many times I open it and pull the CD out. That’s, like, creating matter from nothing, which seems pretty powerful to me. But it’s almost entirely useless. On the other hand, I have a computer program saved on a removable hard drive that was supposed to study fluctuations in financial trends to predict stock prices, but instead started correlating completely unrelated data from all over the internet, only to begin producing evidence that there’s a vast and unknown /something/ out there, swimming through our informational detritus, eating data and shitting obfuscation, all the while leaving ripples in the fabric of knowledge itself. Technically, that thing isn’t even supernatural, it’s just a broken Windows 8 app. But if you take into account how many people, people no one will ever remember having existed at all, died horribly at the hands of something no one will ever see, just because some college dropouts wrote a program that pointed out that it probably might exist, then it seems pretty powerful to me.

I also have a plain stainless steel teaspoon that strikes irrational terror into the hearts of werewolves, bequeathed to me by the estate of the last known carrier for the lycanthropy virus after he died a few years back. I’ve got a collection of several dozen metal hoops, convex crystal lenses and transparent hexagonal prisms that I found in a slab of million year old sea ice that fell off the coast of antarctica recently, which spontaneously arrange themselves into a complex (but seemingly useless) free-floating array of some kind when any one of them is exposed to a sharp strike or an electrical charge. I’ve even got what I am told by a reliable source is the original Ring of Solomon, which either does nothing at all or has specific requirements for activation that I simply do not know. Maybe no one knows. Maybe it isn’t the real deal. Maybe it IS, but whatever bullshit space magic made it do whatever it was supposed to do just wore off after a while. How should I know?

Basically what I’m saying is that it’s a dumb question. “Powerful” is the wrong word for this kind of work. It implies that these things exist for a reason, or have a defined purpose to them. They don’t. Or maybe they do, and you have to be looking at reality from outside and slightly to the left to see it.

Now, if you were to ask me which of the objects in my collection I considered the most “terrifying” or “dangerous to the general populace” or, even “useful to have around on a daily basis”, man, I could tell you some stories.