Assorted items from Reverend Lunatic:

[azurelunatic]

* You do not do a smol summon to all the trickster gods you can dig up sigils for simultaneously and go "HAAAYYYY I'M A SEEKER" for similar reasons to why you do not post publicly to facebook, twitter, and 4chan simultaneously going "HAAAYYYY PARTY AT MY PLACE HERE'S THE ADDRESS" while @-ing a few choice contacts. That is how you get more infosec d00ds than you know what to do with on your lawn and hacking your launderizer; similarly, you don't necessarily want a certain redhead and a certain fan of well-targeted fruit to take up camp in your pineal gland without that you thought things through very, very carefully beforehand.

* I can, in fact, still use coffee as a divination aid.

* Does anyone know a deity or two who might be associated with shit sandwiches and/or lemonade? No, seriously. The deity who is your boon companion when you go "Well, this is certainly a shit sandwich that I have here!" and/or also the entity for "Welp, these are some lemons; I guess it's time to find a big pot and some sugar." Asking for a friend.

* Tumblr is great for creating new mythology. However, anything that tumblr says are true historical fax, double-check that with other sources.

* 90s web design is not an immediate disqualification for a pagan informational website. Presence of information which can be easily debunked via actually qualified historical sources, however...

* Libraries are a thing.

* Divination can be super helpful at some things, but when you're doing it for yourself, you're going to get a lot of internal noise from what you're wanting to happen. Thus, divination is a reasonable way to explore what you personally in fact actually want...

* For fuck's sake, do not get a tattoo on your actual body honoring Bacchus without thinking things through super carefully.

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or, in other words...
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Comments

[silveradept]

This is a most helpful list, and therefore it must have been brought into existence by someone's experiences. Dies this mean it's time for Storytime with Azz?

[azurelunatic]

Happily, the experiences were shaped more like "So, I'm embarking upon an Adventure, and I've been in need of some spiritual advice ... I'm not sure all the spiritual advice my friends have been giving me is super helpful???"

* Person is looking for a deity to open negotiations with, related to an upcoming Life Milestone
* No, the suggestion from a third party to invite all the tricksters to your Life Milestone Ceremony is ... probably not good.
* Here are some tools for evaluating the resources that you find
* The same third party responsible for the mass-invite trickster idea is the same person who suggested the tattoo honoring Bacchus
* Your reservations about this person's ideas are entirely justified

Friend is sensible. Now, the third party... I may need, at some point, to meet the third party.

[silveradept]

...do we get to record the screams and sell them to a Hollywood movie director for obscene profits?

(Ipe. That third party is...something.)

[azurelunatic]

An Interview With The Fishmum is more likely to produce meeping and "... oh." than screams, really... ;)

(I have heard enough about the third party to establish that the third party *means* well, but may be somewhat ...

... you know the effect where a Very Helpful Geek reads up on a thing on wikipedia and becomes an Instant Expert?)

[silveradept]

Oh. Different entity to sell things to, then.

(Oh, yes. Since I have to do that on occasion for work, I get it. When I start believing it is when the cluebats should come out.)

[azurelunatic]

I should also start to think about carrying around my usual deck more places with me again, because I'm a little out of practice at divination-with-coffee, but that was the tool I had on me! I wasn't expecting to run into a clergy call at that place and time...

[silveradept]

That seems to be a thing - clergy calls happen at the least expected time.