Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

Good thing #1: 20 pages of actually-audience-derived Mage FAQ written heavily in game-developer voice. Better (20+ years) late than never, hmm?

I have a new Mage: the Ascencion book to read. Except more tooting about magic, and not being able to tell if it's RPG stuff or RL stuff. I'm never sure myself. ^.^

Heeeey remember when I said I was finally getting a job role change into something that was really awesome and great for me, pending the resolution of some corporate bureaucracy?

Guess what's still stuck in process hell?

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@MinUmbra Hey, I dunno if you still use this, but I just wanted to mention I started reading Techniques of Modern Shamanism and it's kinda blowing my mind how applicable it is even coming from a non-chaos-magic perspective? Thanks again for all those resources you provide. :)

I am watching Great British Bake-off for the first time; I'm halfway through one episode and I think Sue Perkins is now my favorite person in the entire world.

Yes, thank you faceless corporate monitoring systems, I LOVE getting assigned high-severity tickets that I can literally do nothing about because I don't have the permissions, and then getting emailed about it by VPs that I barely even know.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

*hides under a desk*

Aaaah OMG just finished Full Fathom Five.

Left a four-word review on Goodreads:

"This book is perfect."

Whooof. Just got to the bit in Full Fathom Five that describes the Kavekanese creation myth and I got the happy shudders.

"Some the mud fit, and some it didn't."

I think this is a place I'd like to move to.

(cc @starkatt :))

I definitely need to figure out more magic/spiritwork stuff I can do that involves the plushies. It is a very good artifice-animist thing to do. ^.^

Last night I finally set up 'wards' for the chill-space/occasional sleeping-room where I keep my altar and spend most of my time.

The setup, of course, included a plush triceratops. Now I just have to make sure the dino stays put. I'm VERY glad I have housemates who understand this sort of thing. https://awoo.space/media/MGt9ye_7X1lGT7tNGH0

Boarding plane to Reno now, woo!

So hyped for BLFC, and yet so very not ready. c.c;

All that being said, I got the 5 of Swords today, sooo. 💩

Spiritwork link of the day (h/t @forestservice for pointing me to this blog):

http://galabes.blogspot.com/2016/10/foundations-of-magical-practice.html

This finally convinced me to do daily Tarot readings, and also has a really cool aside about the intersection of neurodiversity and magical practice.

Spiritwork link of the day:

http://paganbloggers.com/wolftracks/2017/05/23/relationships-and-cosmology/

This is basically what I've been trying to say about animism basically ever since it's been a thing in my head and I'm relieved now I have a link I can just point at (and only mildly put out that I didn't get around to writing it myself first!)

I have yet to see an RPG, or even very many fantasy novels, that have as much depth to their deity characterizations as even the most poorly-attested historical-polytheism deities.

Here's a thing about gods that lots of folks, world-buildes and pagans alike, seem to miss sometimes:

Gods are people. People are complicated. Most folks I know resist being stereotyped as 'the movie guy' or 'that photography girl'.

Similarly, saying 'Oh that's the God of Writing' or 'Yay, love goddesses are great' cuts off a lot of the history and specifics and individuality that makes it possible to get to know, and work with, a particular deity.

Me: "Bluh, I'm so sick of seeing random new-age stuff come up whenever I'm trying to do serious spiritwork/animism study."

Also me: *walks out of mineral show with over $100 of crystals* "Oh my gods, all these really spoke to me on sich a cosmic level."