#legerdemain

[ofbakerst]

[valeforic]

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

S3

It was not about the man anymore, the beast had taken over.

That's what Storer did and this is how he undid it:

Resets

We're cool. The Bear is gone. Now it's time for THE GUY.

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[mtg-cards-hourly]

Legerdemain

Squee tucked the warm ball in his pocket and slipped a pebble in its place. 'Glok,' he mumbled, and hid.

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[under-the-table-podcast]

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In this ep: The Bear - The Musical Mood killers Embrace the hate Jelly Carmy Potential Sydcarmy scenarios and kickstarts Sydcarmy vs Clairmy Manifesting Chaos / Amnesia Remember you can join our community here

[benjikthedud]

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[funnyao3]

“You have a terribly roguish accent.” His eyelashes flutter. He points accusingly at Oliver with his cigarette. “In your youth, did you slaughter chickens?”

“No.” It’s a terrible misconception he frequently encounters.

- Legerdemain by mordancy

[wild-magick-child]

Glamourye (Illusion Magick)

(pic & (most of) post by The Silver Elves)

The Path of the Illusionist is the way of Glamor and Glamoury. Illusionists deal primarily with the appearance of things. We are Masters of the Magick of Sensory Manipulation, and experts at creating just the right atmosphere for any occasion. In the play of life, it is we who create the props, the sets, the costumes, and the music. We are Masters of Mood. The purveyors of the vital elements of setting.

There are surely some who would be of the opinion that the work the Illusionist does is unimportant or even evil. But the Elfin are aware of how much these things add to the success of any venture. It is rather like a play... it is true that a good play with good actors requires neither costumes nor props nor scenery nor any outer accessory, and yet how much is added to the play, how much is its effect heightened, when we have those very things done well?

The Illusionist also has the knowledge and power of camouflage and protective coloring. Often we find these magick workers among those who must frequently go among mankind and other races (raises hand) for they are adept at fitting in and appearing to be just like everyone else. This, at times, can be an important function for nearly all Faerie Folk; however, Illusionists are experts in our field.

It is Illusionists, in fact, that protect Faerie from intrusion or even being found by those who are not ready for the splendor and wonder of that radiant plane of being. Paradoxically, it is also Illusionists who help reveal to those who are ready the illusionary nature of seeming Reality. For we know better than anyone how illusionary that world is. Thus curiously the Illusionist not only performs great feats of illusion, but by doing so makes layfolk aware that they are illusions and that things are never what they seem.

To most folk, Faerie its'elf is illusion because it seems to be a realm born of and composed of fantasy and this has truth to it. But it is a fantasy that has life in the realm of Spirit and Soul and these worlds, while invisible to ordinary sight, are the true energetic reality, and the realm of materiality which seems so solid and real is, in truth, the real world of illusion.

Now for my two sense! As an Illusionist, my power is rooted in Mind Control. Because let's be honest: to manipulate perception you must manipulate the mind. I often get accused of lying or Goddess forbid "not taking things seriously enough." This is because Illusion Magick has consequences. These consequences are us ending up embodying the essence of Glamour, or worse, getting trapped in the Glamours we create. Glamour, while real magick, is still an illusion and therefore subject to trickery. We are often like the Jesters of Old, and many of us enjoy playing pranks (raises hand). And can you blame us? Illusion was made to entertain others! Just because I'm an Enchanter, doesn't mean I can't be serious. My question is this: if it helps & does what we claim it does, does it make a difference if it is trickery or 'real?' No, no it doesn't.

Sources:

• Having a specialty in Glamourye, and constantly accused of things I did not do, being called a fake/fraud, etc.

[mywifeleftme]

280: Reveen // Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating

Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating Reveen 1978, Reveen Recordings

Novelty record with a fab sleeve here, featuring hypnotic self-help suggestion courtesy of the Man They Call Reveen, an Australian-born magician who toured a trough through Atlantic Canada for 35 years. Due perhaps to the limitations of the LP format, Reveen spends the majority of each side of the record inducing the listener into a hypnotic state by telling you Hooow reLAXed Yooouuuu Arrreeee and COUNting DOWN in a DRONing CADEnce before rather briefly outlining what is bad about smoking and over-eating respectively and supposedly planting the suggestion you mightn’t want to do either of those things anymore. Reveen’s accent is kind of stuck in one of the middle stages of Animorphing between his native Australian and a poncy Received British accent, which makes everything he says funny. I’ve never been susceptible to hypnosis (…unless?), so neither side pulled me under and cured me of my ways, though the record is acceptable as ASMR and I conked right the fuck out listening to it this afternoon.

Reveen was both a mesmerist and a magician—I’m just old enough (41) to have possibly caught the tail end of his career, but never saw a performance. From what I can gather from the sparse clips online, he ran a very old school show, dressing himself in faux Eastern finery and no doubt reciting borrowed stage patter about having learned certain of his arts from Oriental mystics. His illusions look fairly stock, but he probably didn’t have to do more than the basics to thrill rural Canadian audiences in an era before widespread cable television and the internet. He’s largely forgotten these days, though his resemblance to Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys is the source of a running gag, but in his day his gently hokey mysticism was woven into the fabric of his adopted country, and a warm nostalgia still faintly clings to his powerfully coifed visage.

280/365

[howdyimhowdy]

I like the limbus company egos so heres my sona wearing some

[devonellington]

Tues. Jan. 16, 2024: A Steady, Creative Flow

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[valeforic]

my character hades

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

The trickster

Source: Wiki.

So my theory and predictions have always been along these lines:

But I have always thought Shapiro's trick is not just a poaching trick, as I explained in the meta above.

IMO it's also a trick rooted in professional jealousy and pettiness.

Walk with me here:

We were talking FF earlier with @only-one-brain-cell, and the trickster came up. Her angle was: "What if Shapiro was never going to talk to Carmy? What if he just said that to put Sydney’s mind at ease?"

Which makes total sense, right?

BUT

My point is:

What if it's worse than that, I mean on top of that the tricker was BLUFFING because he's a trickster!

I mean... What if he was never gonna hire her to begin with and he just wanted her to quit The Bear but there was no such partnership stake?

What if he just wanted to poach her but there was no such agreement?

He never sent her a contract for her to go over, which is a formality and common procedure in any business negotiations, especially if the offer is really juicy.

No hard copy.

Carmy drew the agreement and emailed it because his is actually a real and legit offer.

Maybe Shapiro just wanted Carmy to lose his most valuable asset.

And then ditch Syd, and hire someone else, maybe someone more experienced than a young chef who had been a CDC for only a month by then and had plenty of experience as a Soux Chef but no international experience and a failed catering business under her belt, regardless of how talented he knew she was, because he had already been to The Bear incognito, of course.

Perhaps Shapiro, strategically speaking, just wanted to make sure he was going to compete with the Sydless version of The Bear.

Stealing young talent is common in the biz but that stealing, which is what we all know as poaching, may not be always followed by a better and more solid offer, sometimes it's just about making sure the other restaurant loses its edge, not about hiring new talent, not necessarily.

Maybe Shapiro just wanted it to be Carmy vs him, EC vs EC.

Maybe he thought he could take him that way and beat it at his own game for once.

A Sydless Carmy may have looked less unbeatable in his eyes.

Why wait for her to talk to Carmy to make a formal offer? Wouldn’t it be more convincing/tempting to show up with the paperwork and the $ right up front? And only let her cash the first check in once she quits The Bear?

BECAUSE HE WAS FUCKING BLUFFING AND TRYING TO USE SYD TO GET TO CARMY BY POACHING HIS EDGE, HIS NEW SECRET WEAPON, THE PROMISING YOUNG TALENT THAT HAD EVERYTHING TO PROVE, CIA TRAINING, TALENT, AND NEW AND GREAT IDEAS, SOMEONE WHO HADN'T YET BEEN FULLY JADED BY THE INDUSTRY AND COULD ONLY GET BETTER.

Forget it! It was a trick!

He said it. He literally said: “Here’s the trick”

And then offered the deal.

No paperwork though, just his words.

He’s a trickster!

I’ve been saying this since June 27, the guy is full of shit and professionally jealous of Carmy since they were staging together before he was sent to Copenhagen.

Unlike Luca who saw Carmy as an inspiration knowing he could never beat him, Shapiro saw him as competition and hated him because he couldn't beat him, Carmy went on to become the most excellent CDC... you know the drill...

Now, Carmy, Carmy never even saw Shapiro at all.

🤪🤪🤪

Too busy being the most excellent CDC and putting his ❤️ on a plate for Syd to even think about Shapiro at all.

Which is what kills Shapiro and that's why he wants to take him down.

Because Carmy never even saw him as real competition so that'll show him!

Carmy saw Luca as competition.

Not shapiro

And he smoked Luca.

But Luca doesn’t resent him for that.

Shapiro, on the other hand, is petty.

And Shapiro would have never achieved what he did so far it wouldn’t have been for Chef Terry. She was the soul of ever. Not him, and he knows it, that's why he wants to start clean and doesn't wanna inherit anything from her.

He wants to open his own place like this because he has A LOT TO PROVE TO HIMSELF.

Unlike Carmy, who made it anywhere in his own merit, even under his iron fist:

That's yet another difference between Shapiro and Carmy and the trickster is aware of this and it kills him.

But my point is not that Carmy is better than the Trickster but that the reason why the Trickster wants to poach Syd OR MAKE HER THINK SO TO GET HER AWAY FROM CARMY AND BREAK THE WINNING UNBEATABLE TEAM, is exactly that, Shapiro is Shapiring and thus he's not to be trusted, that offer may not even exist, it's only a decoy for Syd to bite and leave Carmy high and dry so it's easier for him to take him down.

He must have seen them working together when he went to SPY with a bunch of friends and sent the reviewers in to try to fuck Carmy and picked up on this:

Because he's a trickster but not stupid.

He doesn't want Syd and he certainly doesn't want to give her "whatever she wants". GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!

He wants to ruin Carmy.

I said it before and I'll say it again:

FUCK SHAPIRO!

Bonus track: Sorry, you were saying?

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[matildashieldmaiden]

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Disclaimer: @gingergofastboatsmojito was heavily medicated. We apologize for the inconvenience.

In this ep: The Bear - The Musical Mood killers Embrace the hate Jelly Carmy Potential Sydcarmy scenarios and kickstarts Sydcarmy vs Clairmy Manifesting Chaos / Amnesia Remember you can join our community here

[wild-magick-child]

I Met A Mentalist

(and I got his autograph)

This is Wayne Hoffman, a famous Mentalist & Bizarre Magician. He came to perform at Bossier Parish Community College during our Week of Welcome. This was during the Organization Fair held by Student Life. It was so cool seeing a fellow Mentalist perform 🤩🎭🎩🪄🃏