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azurelunatic) wrote2005-06-18 02:01 am
azurelunatic) wrote2005-06-18 02:01 am
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Witchery at work
There's a lady who works dayshift who looks exactly as I'll probably look twenty-five years from now. We have the same general body type, features, hair color, hair style, and cheerful outlook on life. Since we share a desk (she has the desk in the morning, I have the desk in the evening) on weekdays I do check-in, we've gotten to know each other somewhat, and we get along swimmingly.
She has a teenage (early teenage, it sounds like) daughter. The daughter's evidently expressed a teenage-rebellion interest in witchcraft.
"Does she know how much work it takes to be a witch?" I asked.
Evidently not.
Evidence suggests that said teen may be casting spells at or about "the plastics" -- the fakey-fakey clique girls infesting the high school. I gave some tips on redirecting her energies into something more productive, ie, not shooting herself in the foot by cursing the bitches, but rather trying to get some kindness and enlightenment into their narrow little lives. The worst she can really go with that, at least, is having kindness and enlightenment thrust unwillingly into her own life, and if things do work as planned, maybe they'll stop being such utter bitches.
I told my elder clone to have the kid search up "the threefold law", and told her I'd be perfectly happy to check out some of the websites the kid was talking about that her friends had linked her to, to make sure the sites are on the up-and-up and are ethically sound.
If it's this kid's true calling, I'll be happy to point her in a good direction. If it's not her true calling, better she find out so sooner rather than later, and at the hands of someone with good intentions and a willingness to treat dumbass kids with both patience and firmness rather than at the hands of someone of dubious ethical background and/or a more scorched-earth approach to clearing up misconceptions.
Methinks I'd better get that Magicgeeking 101 whipped into shape pronto.
Any more suggestions for things I should include in a base-level magicgeeking document that is intended to strike Clue into the hearts of clueless teenagers, and defuse the paranoias of parents who don't know jack about assorted witchery?
She has a teenage (early teenage, it sounds like) daughter. The daughter's evidently expressed a teenage-rebellion interest in witchcraft.
"Does she know how much work it takes to be a witch?" I asked.
Evidently not.
Evidence suggests that said teen may be casting spells at or about "the plastics" -- the fakey-fakey clique girls infesting the high school. I gave some tips on redirecting her energies into something more productive, ie, not shooting herself in the foot by cursing the bitches, but rather trying to get some kindness and enlightenment into their narrow little lives. The worst she can really go with that, at least, is having kindness and enlightenment thrust unwillingly into her own life, and if things do work as planned, maybe they'll stop being such utter bitches.
I told my elder clone to have the kid search up "the threefold law", and told her I'd be perfectly happy to check out some of the websites the kid was talking about that her friends had linked her to, to make sure the sites are on the up-and-up and are ethically sound.
If it's this kid's true calling, I'll be happy to point her in a good direction. If it's not her true calling, better she find out so sooner rather than later, and at the hands of someone with good intentions and a willingness to treat dumbass kids with both patience and firmness rather than at the hands of someone of dubious ethical background and/or a more scorched-earth approach to clearing up misconceptions.
Methinks I'd better get that Magicgeeking 101 whipped into shape pronto.
Any more suggestions for things I should include in a base-level magicgeeking document that is intended to strike Clue into the hearts of clueless teenagers, and defuse the paranoias of parents who don't know jack about assorted witchery?
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The teen witch kit is pretty bad yes, it's a strange eclectic hodge podge of Wicca with her own blend of stuff that she says is based on her local Coven's traditions. But it does thump home the threefold law and common sense. TRASB does the same thing.
I have a little more insight into all these books. a) I've read them b) I'm a Witch with a near teen daughter. I wouldn't give her the BBB. I did give her the teen witch kit, long before she was a teen, and with instructions to read pro-actively. Not just to accept what she read, but to question it and work through whether she agreed with what it said and more importantly why.
She's progressed through all of the SRW books, pulling out what she agreed with and rejecting what she considers rubish. She's nearly ready for the Farrar's Witch's Bible and she's 12.
Love the Ravenwolf or loath her you can't get past the solid common sense underneath the fluffiness. And I'm one of the least fluffy Witches I know.
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Good to know about Buckland. The guy who reccommended it to me was Alexandrian (aka really enjoys books with that elitist, as you put it "l33t enough" feel) I love the man dearly, but it seems to be the common thread in some of his book reccomendations.
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Even if I were to write my own I'd get slammed just as hard as SRW - she just can't win. I say she's fluffy someone else in the same journal entry says she doesn't concentrate on the threefold law enough. The thing is that you can't please everybody all of the time - especially not Pagans.
Teen witch I'm not pushing, it's not aimed at *teens* anyway - it's for a much younger audience. To give to a random teen I'd still say TRASB with added 101 "pinch of salt" in a personal letter. And with the permission of the parents an open invitation to come talk about it. But then that's what I do *shrugs*.
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...and I just realized that no matter how flawed some people consider her stuff (I've only read the one thing; the cover art turned me off from the rest), she can't be half as bad as Gilderoy Lockhart.
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Burt's a decent guy, he just has the classic Alexandrian stick up the ass. His discordian roommate and I have declared it our intention to yank it out.
Thus far we've discovered that miracles can be accomplished with strategically placed lizards. If you happen to have any more ideas in that regard, we would appreciate it. We're running out of ideas and want to stick to our central lizard theme.
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Inspiration for where to place lizards may be found from
What have you done so far with lizards? This sounds utterly entertaining.
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Dear Burt,
we're very sorry about the lizard. We managed to trap it in your room, but couldn't get it out. Please be very careful. We need him for Monday.
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We found a realistic one of those fake lizards that blows up in water. the first thing he does every morning is shower, so we were going to leave it there. Unfortunately, he caught us soaking it the night before in Sam's closet to inflate it.
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I suppose leaving that same fake lizard in the dishwasher, if applicable, would be fun?
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We were also considering the refrigerator.
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"Cookies for tomorrow: please don't eat all of them before then!", lid askew, and then... LIZARD!
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Btw, if you know any Alexandrian jokes, we're always looking for new ones to use on him. He actually does laugh at them.
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Also, I'm not sure what your bug situation is, but if it's not a bad thing to leave spilled flour, you could always leave lizard tracks through flour or something leading into his room... or paint... or something.
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He's a proffessional cook, and is incredibly anal-retentive about the cleanliness of his home kitchen. The spilled flour alone would make him have a heart attack... let alone small animal tracks through it.
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I should get some of those lizards with suction cup feet and have Sam decorate the ceiling above his bed while he's out...
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If you've been following my lj you know I'm presently romantically involved. My dear darling Sven has learned that if you're 6'4" and a well-muscled Scandinavian, nobody dares get homophobic with you.
There's nothing like a big wall of viking walking up behind junior high boys making homophobic commentary and informing them that if they continue, he might get offended. They shut up. quick.
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I had the most delightful conversation about Mercedes Lackey with a young man from school who I ran into in the library. He thought her stuff had gotten not so good when it started being all about gay guys. *snicker*
Yep, it's mostly homophobes, with a few shining exceptions like
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He has that aura that only guys who actually know how to swordfight have, with that air of niftiness that you get from forging your own sword. All in all, he comes off quite intimidating.
Of course, it helps that he wears all black everywhere, with this big hat that has a habit of falling down and covering up just one eye.
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The Viking, in contrast, holds forth at length on the spiritual wrongness of same-sex couples, had an objection to me giving the Little Fayoumis his birthday request of "a rainbow" (I selected a length of bright rainbow fabric) because, and I quote, "You have to be careful about that, because the rainbow is the gays' flag!" He also thinks all Christians, even my friend Dawn and even fucking DARKSIDE, are lurking in wait to try and convert you as soon as you get comfortable around them. He doesn't think "towelheads" are capable of proper family feeling. ...And he wonders why he's always so oppressed.
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And I'm not fond of Ravenwolf's Teen Witch thingy either -- I got it myself, and found it not particularly coherent. I wonder what I'd think looking it over now with a little more experience under my belt...
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Ellen Dugan. She's a mom of three and I think that she can give more insight to both the mom and the daughter. Theres alot of basics that help to explain that its more than spellcasting and riding brooms. Hope this helps!
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