#witch manifesto

[ovaettrgrimoire]

Queer Witch’s Manifesto 2.0 (2023)

(Written in 2021 originally sourced from another manifesto online, this was adjusted for my own needs back then, now updated again to better fit the needs of 2023 and so forth. Finished this edit up for the Full Super Sturgeon Moon of Aug 1st ~ 3rd 2023, as I re-investigated my life’s values and what made up who I am for my 32nd solar return on July 24th. Enjoy. If this echoes true with you, you are allowed to use this manifesto for yourself too. It is open and free to use and change as you need. Take care. -O) ---- There are INFINITE genders or lack thereof and sexual identities. Each one deserves the same space and respect as the next. Each one brings something unique and necessary to a circle should they choose to share their magic with us. We are not limited by binarism. White supremacy upholds ideals and expectations that harm EVERYONE and must fall. Christo-fascists seek out only furthering this harm in our communities. We must NOT let it continue. Even though white supremacy harms everyone, white people must not center themselves in discussions or plans for taking it down. We must center the voices of those most marginalized by white supremacy first and foremost Because we are fighting white supremacy, queer magicians must work hard not to appropriate sacred religious tools, artifacts, aesthetics, practices, or deities that do not belong to us.    Sex magic is powerful, beautiful, and queer. It should not be censored. Like anything sexual, we must hold up the idea that informed and enthusiastic consent is mandatory.    Our queered-up version of sex magic also fights rape culture, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and cisnormativity. Though we are anti-capitalist we recognize the constraints of the society we live in and know that money magic is often critical and empowering for those living in the margins. We recognize that the Goddess does not equal “womb worship” and that ANYONE can invoke “Goddess energy.” Goddess energy is intersectional. We recognize that some witches may have physical, emotional, or mental limits that cannot be overcome with spirituality. We welcome these witches to bring their whole, real and authentic selves into a magical space and cast spells in a way that works best for them. Magic is not diminished by disability. Disabled witchcraft is powerful, immeasurably so. All bodies are capable and deserving of magic and joy in their lives. We recognize that individual traumas may need to be healed before we move on to collective work. Global climate change is killing us all and we MUST protect and heal the Earth. Hierarchies do not work in a queer magical context. We are equals even if our jobs differ. MAGIC IS A TOOL FOR PERSONAL HEALING THAT LEADS TO EMPOWERMENT. This empowerment enables us to focus on social progress, empowering others, and collective liberation.

[designing-witch-forms-4-ur-faves]

can.. can you pretty please do chocolate-box girl from the post traumatic manifesto:)

I had to look this person up because I had no clue what they were from but they’re so cute! Apparently post traumatic manifesto is a vocaloid album (from what I could gather)

I read a few comments on chocolate box girl’s video and apparently the song is about (or at least heavily interpreted to be about) a///e?? Correct me if I’m wrong. But if that’s true then :(

I’m aware witches are supposed to be the embodiment of despair but I couldn’t help but sprinkle in a tiny bit of symbolism for hope (especially for such a heavy topic)

Zuckerschicht Pamela : the sugarcoater witch

I ultimately ended up happy with the end result

Usually with these, I include a bonus but unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be able to do that with this one :(

I still hope you like this design tho!

As usual, concept art + deep dive into design choices under the cut:

Plus, here’s a render of the actual witch by herself because I liked how it turned out :]

Thank you so much for requesting and I hope you like this!

[wherewisteriaends]

It really took me 24 hours to realize something. It's not that the ending is a bad ending. I mean, take us back a week ago. We all said that their kiss would be the kiss of death. We all predicted that Agatha would sacrifice herself for Teen. We also saw that the Road was it was very probable that Billy or Agatha (turned out both) could have created the road. If we all thought it, that says something and that is this ending made sense. So why are we all so angry ? Because even if it was an ending that made sense, they didn't write it in a way that it would make sense. And I'm not saying we didn't get a redemption arc when we should have. I don't think Agatha should have had a redemption arc. However we should at least have had her accepting Death as the end. And also her bonding with Teen. Because yes she has bonded with him but clearly not the point of choosing to die because he mentions Nicky. Which seriously, this sentence made no sense, gave absolute no explanations. Another major issue is the dynamic between Agatha and Rio. Them in episode 8 has nothing to do with all we saw before. It really feels like something happened that we missed or like the story was different. What they showed us of Nicky was beautiful, also doesn't explain Agatha and Rio dynamic in 8 while 8 makes the conflict all about Nicky. Apart from the grave, the whole scene in Agatha's basement was ridiculous. When Agatha is in Teen house, he doesn't act at all like he wants to kill her. And all of sudden he wants to banish her. I'm serious, they fucked up the relationship dynamics and developments. Same goes for Jennifer. She makes it out of road and she doesn't even search for Teen ? Because that would be the best reaction for someone who just said she wasn't letting anyone die under her watch again and that doesn't know Teen is behind her torture. Again, at the opposite of the development we saw of Jennifer. And Billy, which his portrayal is completely chaotic since episode 6. One time when Agatha comes out of the mud he appears like he wants to see her dead. Then in 8 he trusts her with his life all over again. And don't get me started of the nonsense of Billy in episode 9. And no I'm not a Billy hater, but they certainly write him as an inconstant character that obviously results in him being mistrusted by the viewers. Also what pisses me off is that Lilia's ending was perfect, and even Alice sour departure was beautifully handled. Which adds even more to it the sense of ruin.

And there was strong dialogue, strong acting skills in those two last episodes, beautiful scenes on screen. But it still doesn't make sense. I solemnly thank the actors for their portrayal, I thank the whole production team, makeup, costumes, light, cut, sets, everything because this was by far one of the best MCU projects - if not the best. And I doubt it's someone fault for what happened with the last episodes. SO PLEASE DON'T GO HATING ON PEOPLE. Please, think of your own humanity, and even if media make it very easy to succumb to hate, no one is responsible, no one deserves your hate for their part into the production of a show. What gives me a bit of hope is that they were so much left untold that it is possible we get a season 2 or other projects centered around Agatha or Jennifer or other witches. And because there was so much blur, we, as writer and reader, can see the opportunity to partake into a fiction we all so loved. So don't give up on Agatha All Along just yet and see a bit of the bright side. And because, the MCU ethics seriously should be questioned, wait on me, I will come with an essay down the line. And if I do and if you think it's worth readable, I'll send it to Marvel teams.

[zoppa682]

I am a therian who fully identifies as non human. The ONLY part of me that is human is my physical vessel, otherwise I am not human at all. Because of this, I have kinsidered fictionkin many times in the past, and every time I have, I pushed it aside since the characters I were kinsidering were human when I don't feel human at all. That was until it occurred to me: both the characters I am kinsidering are characters I headcanon as therians. Therfore, it would still make sense for me to feel nonhuman. So now I have been kinsdering them all over again.

I could not find much info online since all the info about fictionkins I found was past life stuff. I personally do not belive in the multiverse (I find it a cool concept and respect anyone who does), and I don't feel like I had a past life as any characters at all. Because of this, I came to the fictionkins, nunhumans, and alterhumans of tumblr.

I am kinsedering two characters. I will post here my experiences with both.

Jade Harley

Well, from the time I first got into Homestuck I always said "She is literally me!" And it always felt far more serious than just a fun joke. I feel so connected to Jade in so many ways. I really sometimes feel like her. My friends even call me Jade for fun, but it feels more serious to me, and I am happy going by the name. I relate to her a ton, for example, not just my therianthropy headcanon, but also her personality (both good and bad), her mannerisms, and even down to the way she types with the emoticons. Maybe that's not enough to mean anything, though.

It gets a little more complicated with the second character.

Mayra Tikuna

Mayra is a character from The Post Traumatic Manifesto by vocaloid artist Weevildoing. My Weevildoing hyperfixation only started about a week ago (on December 20th, when the series ended), but I knew their music and was a part of their fan base for way longer.

From the first time I heard Taxidermy Girl, something felt extremely off about it, in a good way I mean. I am not joking when I say I listened to it 10-15 times in a row after hearing it, trying to determine what it was I felt. I couldn't tell if it was the oddly haunting melody, or the fact that I heavily relate to the song, but either way, it stuck with me a lot even before I began to actually hyperfixate on the series.

I am in countless fandoms, and within every fandom, I have a favorite character that I will go crazy at the mention of, and my obsession with them always seems so exaggerated to others. Out of all the fandoms I have been in, there are only ever very few where I have related to the characters this much, and only ever these two characters have i felt THIS attached to in this context.

Because of how much I, once again, relate to the character in many ways (Again with the ties to therianthropy, the character's gender identity, their negative experiences, etc.), I have kinsedered him as a kintype. Though, I am unsure if it is too soon to tell. It's only been a little over a week, but I still feel as though something is stirring up here.

What do you all think? If there is any guidance or advice you can give me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Anyone who reads this far, have a wonderful day :3

(Also, go support Weevildoing, their music is incredible and has helped me through struggling with horrible intrusive thoughts many times)

[charaznablescanontoyota]

look ?

“you are fucking unbelievable,” shoka says. her teeth are chattering. al picks up his can of beer, takes a sip, and puts it back down. “do you want my scarf?” “to strangle you with? yes.” the threat’s half-hearted, like she’s saying it on autopilot. she hugs herself inside her oversized sweater and glares daggers at him. “why do you care, anyway?” “well, you looked cold–”

[unofficialchronicle]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Essemian Manifesto (Female Dominance and Fetishism As a Religious Philosopy) - Essemian Sancturary of the Goddess - 1987

[fiannalover]

The Athrun Harem jokes are overkill and I believe that they have taken a disproportional life given how much time he spends in Destiny actively rejecting people. With that unnecessary disclaimer out of the way. I think that if Athrun visited Asticassia, beat Guel's punk ass and became Miorine's groom by complete accident. It would be absolutely gutbustingly hilarious.

[manty-monster]

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i do it to older posts so you can click the hashtag to see my original posts, because i reblog a lot.

✧kinks i might reblog: sleep/scent/mom/piss/pup/blood/puke/guro, tho i try not to get to intense

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MY PANTHEON

check my #clowncore tag for my clown looks

one of the bad ones.

https://theanarchist library.org/library/baedan-baedan/

https://thenewinquiry.com/hot-allostatic-load/

[explainslowly]

The thing about the Bucklemming dogfucking episode* is that it makes up, on the spot, a completely different lore for witches, for some unfathomable reason, like we are suddenly in a completely different urban fantasy show. I have read a few familiar fics and they are fun but ultimately it doesn't fit into spn imo. I like the original spn witches who are like, off-putting and nasty and tied to demons more than the episode's vision of just some guys who go to like sexy little clubs and have their own subculture and have animal friends. Like this is not the golden fucking compass.

*love that there two of those. Love that I have to specify I mean the Bucklemming one.

I like witches because they are fucked up and gross and all their kills are super fun and ironic. The impression I get from early season spn witches is that they either implode pretty quickly, because they are ultimately playing with powers that should not be wielded by people, or stabilize and live forever by feeding others into the meat grinder. I like that witches are just humans who are amoral and driven by selfishness. I do not fucking care for Mr. Psychic Cop, like are you kidding me, who is this asshole, who asked for this. Good news is that I don't think the lore sticks? I guess I'll see.

[wizard-alchemie]

writing the story for Florence/Florenz (no decision on spelling yet) and unlocking new levels of gender understanding of myself like never before on complete accident

[ebrieta]

make a decision for me

[designing-witch-forms-4-ur-faves]

Hey! Since you have posted Chocolate-Box Girl as a Witch, do you mind posting Taxidermy Girl (also from TPTM) as a Witch? Thank you and good day/noon/night!

Hi! I looked into taxidermy girl as a song and oh boy where do I start? Good melody? Check. Great use of avanna who’s an underrated voicebank? Check. Talking about a topic that’s more relevant than ever? Check. (EDIT: my bad, turns out it was makia. No clue why I typed avanna but to whoever pointed out my mistake, thanks! I would’ve never noticed if it wasn’t brought to my attention 😭)

The song as a whole is apparently about the horrors of being a woman so here’s what I came up with:

Damen Tierpräparation: the taxidermy witch

As usual, concept art + deep dive into design choices under the cut:

I’m a bit of an optimist and I can’t help but sprinkle in a tiny bit of symbolism for hope when it comes to heavy topics like this. The butterfly is also a symbol of transformation and change, which is what I hope for the future :]

Unfortunately, no bonus again as I’m not sure what I could make for these music themed ones :(

I’m no composer sadly. I have a huge amount of respect for people who know how to use voice synth softwares because I tried UTAU once when I was younger and almost immediately got overwhelmed and quit 😭

Thank you so much for requesting and I hope you like this design!

[laparosdivinos]

Manifesto da Wicca Inclusiva de Ivonne Aburrow - Tradução por Sirius Cor Leonis - PARTE II

Manifesto da Wicca Inclusiva - Parte II (devido aos limites tumblr)

Por Ivonne Aburrow (Tradução livre por Sirius Cor Leonis)

Um Manifesto:

Diversidade é importante na celebração, teologia e cosmologia. Nós não utilizamos a narrativa de uma deusa e um deus interagindo em diferentes pontos da Roda do Ano porque isso reforça o binarismo de gênero cisgênero e heterocêntrico. Nós exploramos diferentes aspectos das mitologias e folclores, incluindo a celebração de divindades queer. Por essa razão, a Wicca Inclusiva tende ao panteísmo (onde o divino inclui todos os gêneros e orientações sexuais) ou politeísmo (onde nós reconhecemos muitas divindades que têm diversas orientações sexuais e expressões de gênero). Nós também abraçamos deidades fora do heterossexual binário, incluindo deidades que formam pares do mesmo sexo. Nós acomodamos diferentes perspectivas teológicas, incluindo mas não se limitando ao animismo, ateísmo, panteísmo, politeísmo e duoteísmo. Wiccanos ateus também são incluídos na Wicca Inclusiva, permitindo a participação dos indivíduos que vêem as divindades como arquétipos e energias, contanto que estes possam trabalhar em conjunto com pessoas de diferentes perspectivas teológicas no círculo. Isso também se aplica a todos com diferentes perspectivas teológicas.

Identidade de gênero, expressão de gênero, sexo/gênero assumido no nascimento e características biológicas são coisas distintas. Com isso, nós queremos dizer que esses conceitos são notadamente diferentes, mas podem ser interpermeáveis e com fronteiras um pouco confusas. Gênero não é um spectrum. É mais como um gráfico de dispersão e não pode ser ordenadamente confinados em caixas e categorias. Expressões de gênero queer são criativas e lindas e nos liberta desses padrões cansativos de 'qualidades masculinas' e 'qualidades femininas'. A atribuição arbitrária de características como bravura, nutrição e cuidado ou criatividade a um único gênero ou a outro não deveria ser algo sacralizado e reificado, mas sim quebrado, desafiado e resistido. Muitos praticantes pagãos produzem visualizações e trabalhos que dependem de perpetuar a binariedade de gênero e desempoderando igualmente pessoas cisgêneros, transgêneros, não-bináries e generos-fluidos. Na Wicca Inclusiva nós pressionamos para além dessas barreiras e dessas atribuições arbitrárias uma vez que acreditamos que as deusas não precisam ser suaves e férteis e nem os deuses inflexíveis e violentos. De maneira similar, nós também reconhecemos e abraçamos a prevalência das pessoas intersexuais, que negam a ideia de que o sexo biológico é simplesmente uma questão de 'macho' e 'fêmea', tornando a atribuição de gênero algo um tanto arbitrário. A importância social atrelada pela 'cultura mainstream' ao sexo biológico e a forma como as crianças são socializadas de acordo com um gênero ou com o outro ao longo de suas vidas, traz a reflexão de que o paganismo deveria ajudar as pessoas a escapar dessas noções culturais embutidas em nós.

Há muitas formas de criar polaridade, uma vez que a mesma é simplesmente a tensão de opostos. Juntar os corpos masculino e feminino não é a única forma de criar polaridade. Um grupo de pessoas reunidas pode ser dividido em em diversas binariedades: pessoas matutinas e pessoas noturnas, amantes de cães e amantes de gatos, apreciadores de chá e apreciadores de café, signos de ar e signos de terra, signos de fogo e signos de água, pessoas que preferem salgados e pessoas que preferem doces, extrovertidos e introvertidos, e assim por diante. Cada um desses pares criam polaridades quando têm suas energias reunidas. Polaridade pode ser criada por duas ou mais pessoas de quaisquer gêneros ou orientações sexuais e também por duas ou mais pessoas de um mesmo gênero. E mais, polaridade existe num espectrum onde uma pessoa A pode ser ser yang em relação a uma pessoa B, mas ser yin em relação à uma pessoa C. Por exemplo, A pode ser mais extrovertido do que B, mas menos extrovertido do que C.

Energia pode ser gerada com ressonância. Ressonância é quando duas ou mais pessoas similares se reúnem e alinham suas energias uns com os outros para amplificar o sinal. Por exemplo, duas mulheres, dois extrovertidos, duas pessoas do mesmo signo astrológico, duas pessoas matutinas, dois amantes de gatos, e assim por diante.

Energia pode ser gerada com sinergia. Sinergia é onde as energias de todo o grupo convergem. Isso acontece em círculos o tempo todo, por exemplo, quando todos dançam em um círculo juntos ou quando todos os membros focam na mesma visualização ou intenção. Isso pode ocorrer com tudo, no lançamento do círculo, no chamado dos quadrantes, ao invocar uma deidade, etc. Cada um no grupo deve focar no que ocorre dentro do círculo ao invés de permitir que sua mente divague.

O conceito mágico de fertilidade não é estritamente biológico e se aplica à criatividade. A Wicca é frequentemente vista como uma religião da fertilidade, causando várias objeções à mesma por parte de várias perspectivas queer. Mas a Wicca Inclusiva mostra que a Wicca pode se mover para além da crença limitada de que fertilidade se refere somente ao ato de dar a luz a crianças. Mesmo quando fazendo magia de fertilidade, um corpo masculino e um corpo feminino não são necessários para produzir fertilidade mágica em um nível simbólico, como, por exemplo, quando estão abençoando uma plantação. Também não é de nada proveitosa a visão (introduzida por pessoas de fora da religião) de que o Paganismo é ou era uma religião da fertilidade. Isso torna a ideia de que o Paganismo é de todo uma religião da fertilidade profundamente suspeita. A ideia de que a Wicca é uma religião da Natureza é muito mais válida, uma vez que muito do reavivamento pagão tem sido sobre recuperar nossa conexão com a Natureza. Essas oportunidades para nos reconectarmos com a Natureza são tão diversas quanto as pessoas que são bem-vindas na Wicca Inclusiva.

Mulheres são muito mais do que a encarnação da fertilidade. Alguns Wiccanos são muito fervorosos na ênfase da fertilidade das mulheres e em sua habilidade de dar a luz e menstruar. Esse enfoque exclui pessoas trangêneras, não-bináries, agêneres e queergêneres. É ótimo celebrar o corpo, mas a Wicca Inclusiva nos desafia a nos certificarmos de celebrar todos os corpos, quer eles tenham gerado/gerem crianças ou não. A Wicca Inclusiva não reduz a mulher a ser não mais que uma partadora de útero.

Qualquer deidade de qualquer gênero pode ser invocada por um humano de qualquer gênero em um humano de qualquer gênero. A tendência Wiccana de somente fazer a invocação onde somente um homem invoca uma deusa em uma mulher ou somente uma mulher invoca um deus em um homem não é consistente com muitas outras formas de práticas ocultas. Em basicamente todos as outros sistemas mágicos, qualquer pessoa pode invocar qualquer deidade em outra pessoa. É saudável assegurar que qualquer indivíduo invoque diferentes tipos de arquétipos e energias e que não fique apenas invocando o mesmo tipo de deidade, o que poderia causar algum desequilíbrio psicológico pela ênfase excessiva em um arquétipo particular.

Os papeis rituais não são designados de acordo com o gênero. Qualquer um pode limpar a área ritual e lançar o círculo; qualquer um pode invocar os quadrantes; qualquer um pode consagrar os bolos e os vinhos. Não há a necessidade de que homens e mulheres se alternem em posições no círculo. Homens podem beijar homens e mulheres podem beijar mulheres. Consagrar e purificar um ao outro no círculo pode ser feito de qualquer gênero para qualquer gênero, o que inclui masculino, feminino, queergênero, não-binárie, agênere, genero fluido, metagênero, postgender e todos os outros gêneros. O gênero de uma pessoa não dita suas habilidades de performar papeis específicos ou de executar um trabalho específico.

Continua na parte III

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

Left to right. First row.

1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell.

In a joyous and perverse intermingling of fable, myth, heterotopian vision, and pocket wisdom, The Faggots & Their Friends tell us stories of the 70s gay countercultures and offer us strategies and wisdom for our own time living Between Revolutions. These pages sketch a different shape to time and offer instructions for living within it. This story, like our own, plays out in liminal time. Not the time of revolution, and not after-the-revolution, the story occurs between revolutions. Being between revolutions: being enmeshed in slow entropy, in abandoned spaces, in lives forged without recourse to “winning” or “after.” The faggots feel this disintegration, and live best when empires are falling.

2. Be Gay, Do Crime by The Mary Nardini Gang.

Among the discordant chorus of anons who penned the defining texts of the queer anarchist network Bash Back!, none was more fervent in its glorification of criminal desire, decadent hedonism, and social undoing than the Milwaulkee-based Mary Nardini Gang. Their fiery “Towards the Queerest Insurrection” still circulates as an integral manifesto of riotous queerness, while the “Criminal Intimacy” and “Whore Theory” have made their more subterranean way into innumerable conversations and correspondences.

Ten years later, the secretive group supplements these collected writings with a subtle retrospective. Carefully unlocking the hidden layers of their theses on insurrection, they face up to what they got wrong, concede that the world ended somewhere between the Greek insurrection of 2008 and now, and insist upon the vital task of ushering new worlds into being as we live amid the decomposition and cataclysmic death throes of the old one. To their theses on insurrection, they prepend a new arcana tooled for opening onto the queerest of outsides.

Dedicated to their friends among the dead, this pocket edition is a necromantic mirror, an encrypted message to old loves, and an invitation to those finding these words for the first time.

3. The Criminal Child by Jean Genet.

“As for me, I have chosen: I will be on the side of crime. And I will help the children, not to win back access to your houses, your factories, your schools, your laws, and sacraments, but to destroy them.”

So reads this new clandestine translation of a previously censored and unavailable text by Jean Genet. “The Criminal Child” is a critical engagement with the French youth prisons, a reflection on Genet’s formative years within them, a document of hostility towards society and its benevolent reformers, and – as argued by the anonymous afterword – an initiatory magical system.

5. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans.

This radical faerie classic, first published in 1978 by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilization. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual freedom was targeted by the authorities for total and often violent repression or appropriation. The concluding manifesto calls for pagan reconnection with the living world, the creation of armed anarchist cells, and the destruction of industrial civilization.

Left to right. Row 2.

1. What is Gender Nihilism? A Reader.

A collection gathering readings for discussions on an end to gender: not the proliferation or liberation of gender, but its catastrophic cancellation. The reader brings together writings as old as 1883 and as recent as 2015, juxtaposing nihilist, radical feminist, queer, trans, anticolonial, communizing and insurrectionary approaches with other unclassifiable textual/existential disruptions. Many of the readings are out of print or have only appeared online or in zine form, and include: Adrienne Rich, Monique Wittig, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, A.R. Stone, Paul B. Preciado, the entities known as Radicalesbians, Gender Mutiny, Baedan, Ehn Nothing, Laboria Cuboniks and, as always, Anonymous. Also includes “My Preferred Gender Pronoun is Negation,” “Gender Nihilism” by Aidan Rowe, and the gender nihilism anti-manifesto that inspired the collection.

2. Baedan 1 – journal of queer nihilism.

3. Baedan 2 – a queer journal of heresy.

If the first issue of Baedan was a knife thrust wildly in the dark, the second is an effort to examine our enemies in a new light; enemies who bear scars yet endure. In a sense, this issue follows through our initial attack and pushes beyond our own horrors at the consequences of words. We write at a time when everything which seemed slightly possible two years ago has borne its rotten fruit; when queer recuperation has become more powerful and accepted than ever, while the fetish for technology has reached an unprecedented frenzy; when so many efforts at subversion languish under the tyranny of cybernetic identity and aesthetics (even our own etymologies have become identities!); when friends turn away out of fear of the unknown, turn toward all the comforts and certainties of the past (identity politics, traditionalism, religious morality, activism, et al). The old enemies rear their heads and the terrain is as bleak as ever. And yet we take seriously that adage: “There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”

4. Baedan 3 – journal of queer time travel.

Bædan: journal of queer time travel marks a further attempt to pose and to flesh out a queer critique of civilization. Queer not only in the sense of coming from those outside and disruptive of the Family, but also in the sense of a critique weirder than its more orthodox cousins. We imagine the Bædan project as an effort to pose the critique of civilization otherwise, to begin from another place. In this issue (and beyond…) we have conjured a strange bestiary of thinking, trying to unearth and trace the tradition of anti-civilization thought in the literature of queerness and in queerness as immanent critique.

*I couldn't find this one online*

[alicesoinions]

The Jaderoxy Manifesto

An incredibly good and unfortunately underappreciated ship

Both are obviously trans girls

Puppy and kitty

Both associated with pumpkins

Roxy's shirt symbol and one of Jade's shirt symbols are animal heads with very similar shapes

Roxy likes wizards; Jade is a Witch

Both tech-savvy (both normal tech and weird sburb tech)

Nuclear physicist x hacker what's not to like

Both grew up incredibly alone, interacting only online or with carapacians

Both are much smarter and sadder than they might seen at first; they put on a happy silly whimsical front to distract you from their loneliness and pain