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What is fire cider and why has it just appeared out of the ether in all the witchy spaces? I hate trends

I don't know and I don't know.

Googling it, it looks like people use it as an herbal remedy for colds. Whether it works or not, I have no idea. Until this ask, I had never even heard of it so the research I've done right now is... zero.

And I'm guessing it's showing up right now because it's cold and flu season.

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Anyone who wants my history with Ryan Kopf... we did an hour long show about it back in 2023.

And here's the audio version with links:

Ryan Kopf is apparently running for public office.

People should really Google: Ryan Kopf Anime News Network

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Ryan Kopf is apparently running for public office.

People should really Google: Ryan Kopf Anime News Network

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Actual thing I did today -- I went to type out the date, and I wrote 2023.

God damn it, it's NOVEMBER.

Why am I like this.

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Crank position I am slowly coming to believe: I think theosophy actually subsumed romanticism. The romantics did not carry us into modernity. They made it to about 1870, and then Blavatsky took the reigns.

Like William Blake was awesome but without Blavatsky, there are no Hippies. Without Blavatsky, George Harrison never learns to play the sitar.

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Wow — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3hiS1uP

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a lil love letter to this past june

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A fascinating watch on not only how bad Twitter/X has gotten, but how this happened in the first place and what to look out for.

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We have GOT to stop pathologizing the joy out of life.

Saw someone claim that if you read a lot as a child, you were disassociating. No, you were reading. Because reading is fun.

"I have a problem with maladaptive daydreaming." It's only maladaptive if it negatively impacts your ability to function in the real world. Laughing at a joke you made in your head isn't doing that.

"You seem to do a lot if creative projects. What are you escaping?" I'm escaping this conversation.

Like what is the end goal? Because so far, all this has done has made it harder to enjoy my hobbies because you're turning a mindless process into something I gotta think about.

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You may be asking yourself, "Trae, what were you writing? Is there some new project you haven't announced?"

And the answer is I was writing… nothing?

Well, I was writing something that wasn't going to turn into anything at least. Sometimes I just start writing a random chapter or story because I want to try out an idea. Like "would I like to write this sort of thing." If I don't like it? I stop. If I like it? It might become a thing.

But that test chapter still probably won't. It'll probably still go in the bin.

The reason is simple -- if I like it, I'll want to do plan and plot out the real version. The thing I randomly wrote will be missing pieces, or ideas -- because it was just a stream of consciousness. I'll want to write the "real" version from scratch.

So when I say I was writing "nothing" -- I mean I was writing something I had no intention of keeping whether I liked it or not.

Also it was about werewolves fucking--

Did I write 3000 words yesterday? Yes.

Were they in the novel I'm supposed to be working on? Uh... WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE!? *runsaway*

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Start with The Witch and the Rose, which has Witchcraft and Ghosts, while Mia deals with trauma and Riley makes bad life decisions!

Then read the sequel, Bloody Damn Rite, which has Witchcraft and Vampires, while Mia deals with trauma and Riley makes worse life decisions!

Then, in the upcoming Shadowcasting, there's Witchcraft and more Witchcraft, while Mia still deals with Trauma but Riley only just gets kind of judgy... because Bobbi is the one making bad life decisions.

Do all of these people need therapy? Probably.

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Did I write 3000 words yesterday? Yes.

Were they in the novel I'm supposed to be working on? Uh... WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE!? *runsaway*

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I don't know if people realize how happy it makes me to get to write Lynn Baxter as a character again.

She's my favorite fake person who lives in my head.

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November 17th 1984 is Lynn's canonical birthdate, so that means today is her 40th. So happy birthday to the fictional character I've been writing in one shape or form for over twenty years.

I don't know if people realize how happy it makes me to get to write Lynn Baxter as a character again.

She's my favorite fake person who lives in my head.

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Since we're getting into "did you know that Santa's eight tiny reindeer are a reference to the eight legs of Odin's steed?" season once again, remember: while there are some elements of Christmas (or Hallowe'en, or Easter, or...) observations that are probably pre-Christian in origin, before one believes any of that this-is-really-100%-just-a-Pagan-holiday-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off stuff, one must consider all of the following possibilities:

Our earliest known records of the cited pre-Christian practices were written down by some random Christian monk centuries after the fact, and we genuinely have no idea how accurate this account is, to what extent the apparent similarities with Christian practice are due to the author deliberately or unwittingly putting a Christian spin on it, or indeed, whether they were just making shit up.

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Christian writers who were bent for prefiguration theology (i.e., the idea that the Bible echoes backwards in time and pre-Christian religious practices were unwittingly imitating future Christian practices).

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by Protestant writers who believe that all Pagan deities are Satan in disguise, so they think that if they can prove that Catholic practices are secretly Pagan in origin, that proves that Catholics are secretly Satanists.

The similarities between the two sets of practices have been exaggerated or misrepresented by overzealous mythographers trying to prove that all mythology and religion throughout all of human history is secretly a single unified monomyth; if it's pre-Victorian, expect shades of prefiguration theology, while if it's post-Victorian, expect a lot of stuff about the Collective Unconscious.

A bunch of 19th Century proto-Fascists were trying to construct a pre-Jewish cultural identity (and considered Christianity to be tainted by association), but didn't want to give up any of the fun rituals, so they made some shit up about how it was still okay to do Christmas because something something Odin, or whatever.

A bunch of early 20th Century Pagan reconstructionists filled in the gaps in their understanding of pre-Christian ritual with culturally Christian assumptions, then turned around and pointed at their own accidentally Christianised reconstructions as evidence that Christian practices are derived from them.

A bunch of late 20th Century self-help manual authors tried to break into the occult bookstore market by uncritically repeating any or all of the above.

Someone on the Internet just made it up.

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you have to outlive donald trump