@KawaSeadrake Well, there's "alchemy" (my symbols and how I work with magic) and there's "magic" (how to build a magic system and work with it to better yourself). And most of what I want to talk about is the latter because once you understand that the former becomes kind of... implementation-detail-y? Like, you have to find the system that works for you, because this is such a personally invested space.

@literorrery @KawaSeadrake (and @Fuego)

I... hmm.

May I respectfully raise the point that I'm not sure the world needs yet another "magic is what you make of it, do what thou wilt!" text, and what it does need is more earnest and forthright EXAMPLES of how someone did that for themself?

Spirits know that if I had earlier access to the latter, I'd be a lot further along in my own personal figuring-out.

@literorrery @KawaSeadrake @Fuego

More to the point: HOW MANY tech projects have burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp after someone uttered the dread phrase "Oh, that's just an implementation detail!"

@literorrery @KawaSeadrake @Fuego

Even more to the point, by way of delving deeper into the analogy: Magic has a whole lot of "Anyone can code!" books, a whole plague of "101 scripts for your website" books, and very few tomes on design patterns. :)

@Fuego @KawaSeadrake @literorrery

Worse, there are many books I can think of that say "Design Patterns" on the cover, and inside have 101 scripts for your website. ;)