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See I was already at that point when I showed up on Tumblr in 2011, so my "witchcraft blogging" has always been moreso a mix of shitposting and just interacting with other witches.

Like I don't think I really started putting out "real" witchcraft content until I started the podcast, which is a whole other endeavor.

My favorite "witch blogs" have always been "a blog owned by a witch" over "a blog about witchcraft." That's what mine is.

Which is why folks have to put up with the rest of my nonsense.

I think it's nicer to know we're all multifaceted human beings than "push button, get witchcraft shit" machines.

So here's the thing, right? I keep looking through my own blog going "Hey! Where's the witchy content?" (the-- the 'where's the cream filling' commercials? anyone? no? I'm just old? okay.)

I've made a few posts over the past little while that boil down to "blogging about witchery gets hard once it gets more specific". At some point, my craft got so personalized to me, interacting with my own familiar spirit, building my own astral space and figuring out a whole paradigm there about bridges and astral space and liminal space and imagination... there's just so much that I can't really *share* and have it applicable to anyone else but me, you know? So in a slow-but-steady snowball effect, I've wound up going pretty radio silent over here at lazywitchling dot tumblr dot com. I'm still witching in a way, but it's been a lot more reading and information gathering lately. Less active work and more passive learning.

It's hard to talk about the information gathering process, especially when a lot of that has moved offline. It was easy to share all the things I was learning when I was first starting out, because all the things I was learning came from here. It was easy enough to hit the reblog button, share a post to my blog, and tag it so I could find it again later. As a consequence, other people were able to find content through my blog too. But now I'm spending more time reading books offline, taking notes in a physical notebook, sitting quietly in the dark with my eyes closed having conversations with a spirit consisting of vague impressions and images, waving a pendulum at a dusty old building corner and asking The Thing That's There if it wants to stay or leave.

So what do I do about this radio silence? SHOULD I do anything about it? The other thing is that I've seen so so so many witches over the years of this webbed site just disappear, then come back years later with a lot of fanfare and "I'M BACK, BABY!" and then they just... stop posting again after a month. So something about making the big "I've decided to post more!" announcement just doesn't work. You gotta have reason to start posting more, not just the desire to, yaknow?

What do I talk about, then? Vague updates about the astral space I'm building? Perhaps a few more stories of the conversations with J (my familiar)? More vague updates of me screeching at witch books? (I know y'all love that last one!)

Something. idk what, but something.

Anyway. Hi. I'm Jes. It's short for Jester. How's it going?

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Shadowcasting, the third installment in The Mia Graves Saga is now out. And if you're looking for some fun, queer, contemporary fantasy books to read (with a good dose of humor and a pinch of spice), you should check out all of them.

Book one, The Witch and the Rose, asks the important question "What if your one night stand was your only chance to survive your haunted house?" Think "lovers to friends" as the trajectory here.

In book two, Bloody Damn Rite, Mia has to deal with both vampires and her ex-girlfriend showing up in town at the same time.

And now, in book three, Shadowcasting, we find out just how hard it is to talk a twenty-something out of using a magical nuke. Mostly because no one listens to you when you work retail.

Order the books today!

The Witch and the Rose ISBN: 9798869132666 eBook: Kindle / Kobo / ePub Paperback: Amazon / Direct Order

Bloody Damn Rite ISBN: 9798330220373 eBook: Kindle / Kobo / ePub Paperback: Amazon / Direct Order

Shadowcasting ISBN: 9781088207031 eBook: Kindle Paperback: Amazon / Direct Order

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“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

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“IT’S A SWORD, IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.” My favourite scene from The Hogfather. ___ See how this comic was made here.

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The latest episode of the BS-Free Witchcraft Podcast is available for early access on Patreon! This month I'm looking inward I guess.

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I'm not posting a lot of tng as I watch it but this took me tf out

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The latest episode of the BS-Free Witchcraft Podcast is available for early access on Patreon! This month I'm looking inward I guess.

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It's that magical time of the year when you find out everyone is susceptible to misinformation if it confirms their pre-existing biases.

Y'know, Christmas.

Edit: I know I start by saying I like this creator, but... uh... I found out some stuff that's not great, so maybe Imma roll that statement back a bit.

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New Stormwood: C2E146. Here’s What Really Happened (Clueless Part 9) http://dlvr.it/TGvPnN

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We have gotten so far from my original point.

Regardless on what we consider significant change in a character, what I started with here was: "when documentaries end… the people in them keep living their lives."

The most unrealistic part of most mockumentary series is that they still tend to end with some sort of important emotional resolution -- which breaks the narrative of the setting. We saw it with The Office, Parks and Rec, and other shows in the genre. But that's not what happens. In real life, they just stop filming at some point.

There is no cliched narratively fulfilling ending that works for these characters, so instead they fully embraced their genre. They ended it the way real things end -- leaving people where they are. They keep living their lives away from the cameras. They don't contrive an artificial ending, and in fact the show directly comments on how forced that kind of ending would be when Guillermo shoots a fake one for the doc.

So I've seen some really weird takes about the What We Do in the Shadows finale complaining about how they didn't wrap up all the stories or characters not having completed arcs…

…and I'm like, did you not watch the episode?

That's literally THE WHOLE POINT.

Like the entire thesis of the show is that these characters don't change. And the finale is a commentary on both that AND how when documentaries end… the people in them keep living their lives.

Like most mockumentaries ignore the fact that in real life "storylines" don't get wrapped up. It's not even subtext -- it's TEXT. Guillermo literally talks about it in the episode.

I'm pulling my hair out with these people. Media literacy is truly dead.

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Shadowcasting, the third installment in The Mia Graves Saga is now out. And if you're looking for some fun, queer, contemporary fantasy books to read (with a good dose of humor and a pinch of spice), you should check out all of them.

Book one, The Witch and the Rose, asks the important question "What if your one night stand was your only chance to survive your haunted house?" Think "lovers to friends" as the trajectory here.

In book two, Bloody Damn Rite, Mia has to deal with both vampires and her ex-girlfriend showing up in town at the same time.

And now, in book three, Shadowcasting, we find out just how hard it is to talk a twenty-something out of using a magical nuke. Mostly because no one listens to you when you work retail.

Order the books today!

The Witch and the Rose ISBN: 9798869132666 eBook: Kindle / Kobo / ePub Paperback: Amazon / Direct Order

Bloody Damn Rite ISBN: 9798330220373 eBook: Kindle / Kobo / ePub Paperback: Amazon / Direct Order

Shadowcasting ISBN: 9781088207031 eBook: Kindle Paperback: Amazon / Direct Order

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My god, you missed the whole point of Colin Robinson being reborn and Lazlo's plot. That in the end, it returned to the status quo. Any change was rejected by Colin.

They literally were foreshadowing this ending.

Nandor is the only vampire who really grows, and it's because Guillermo is the catalyst. He's also the only vampire who actually sees Guillermo as an equal. "All of the vampires slowly learn to treat Guillermo better" is nonsense. Nadja, Lazlo and Colin grow to like Guillermo, but they explicitly see him as a pet. They don't give a crap about humans, just their human.

What the finale is doing is reframing what you've seen in a way you don't like. That these things are phases some very bored immortal characters go through to fill the time. What looks like change to Guillermo and the viewer over six years isn't, it's just what they've decided to do that day.

The point of the episode is that Guillermo is confronted with the same things you don't like about the episode, and he has to come to terms with it.

He did, you didn't. And that's okay. You don't have to like it.

But it's not bad writing.

So I've seen some really weird takes about the What We Do in the Shadows finale complaining about how they didn't wrap up all the stories or characters not having completed arcs…

…and I'm like, did you not watch the episode?

That's literally THE WHOLE POINT.

Like the entire thesis of the show is that these characters don't change. And the finale is a commentary on both that AND how when documentaries end… the people in them keep living their lives.

Like most mockumentaries ignore the fact that in real life "storylines" don't get wrapped up. It's not even subtext -- it's TEXT. Guillermo literally talks about it in the episode.

I'm pulling my hair out with these people. Media literacy is truly dead.

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So for Christmas and New Years week we're giving Ethan a two week break from the Peregrine Lake to do a four strip mini-prequel drawn by me in the style of UnCONventional.

The comic will update Tues/Thurs those weeks, and I think it'll be fun. Here's a preview.

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Click through the "Keep reading."

It's a good take.

So I've seen some really weird takes about the What We Do in the Shadows finale complaining about how they didn't wrap up all the stories or characters not having completed arcs…

…and I'm like, did you not watch the episode?

That's literally THE WHOLE POINT.

Like the entire thesis of the show is that these characters don't change. And the finale is a commentary on both that AND how when documentaries end… the people in them keep living their lives.

Like most mockumentaries ignore the fact that in real life "storylines" don't get wrapped up. It's not even subtext -- it's TEXT. Guillermo literally talks about it in the episode.

I'm pulling my hair out with these people. Media literacy is truly dead.

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Like I'm fine if people don't like what happens in it.

But the people who try to call things sloppy or plot holes when they were deliberate decisions, or who claim things that were spelled out in the "text" of the show didn't happen.

Mostly it's the current fandom landscape where anything someone doesn't like must be morally wrong or "lazily written" when it's just okay not to like something.

So I've seen some really weird takes about the What We Do in the Shadows finale complaining about how they didn't wrap up all the stories or characters not having completed arcs…

…and I'm like, did you not watch the episode?

That's literally THE WHOLE POINT.

Like the entire thesis of the show is that these characters don't change. And the finale is a commentary on both that AND how when documentaries end… the people in them keep living their lives.

Like most mockumentaries ignore the fact that in real life "storylines" don't get wrapped up. It's not even subtext -- it's TEXT. Guillermo literally talks about it in the episode.

I'm pulling my hair out with these people. Media literacy is truly dead.