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It’s almost time… to keep your appointment with the wicker man.

Sadly not a real movie, but an artist really did design a wicker man comic with muppets with this poster and a video trailer on youtube to promote it:

“A Muppet Wicker Man” comic by Paul O’Connell:

issuu.com/soundofdrowning/docs/muppetwickerman

“A Muppet Wicker Man “ comic trailer:

YouTube

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Why I won’t buy, read, or review “The Green Mysteries” by Daniel Schulke

Three Hands Press has become an untrustworthy print on demand grift and Daniel Schulke, its sole proprietor, is as equally terrible at indie publishing as he is at writing intelligible books. A lot of people don’t know Daniel Schulke is the only person behind Xoanon and Three Hands Press. There’s no companies, no offices, no warehouses, no employees, and no cultus sabbati group, it’s literally just a dude. Despite claiming it was founded in 1992, Xoanon didn’t exist until post 2000 and it was just Chumbley self-publishing. After his death Schulke used it for self-publishing. Despite claiming it was founded in 2003, Three Hands Press was founded after Chumbley’s death in 2004 with its first book not published until 2009. I doubt Chumbley was ever involved. The press ran smoothly for a few years until Michael Howard (the anonymous unnamed partner who was the money and the publishing expert) died in 2015 and then it started to fall apart. Chumbley and Schulke are windy trash bags and always were. Stop listening to traditional witch influencers who make you think you have to have certain authors on your shelf to be legit. Neither has given anything back to the community. They never created community. Exclusion was their marketing ploy and it worked. Everyone wants into the exclusive club. It was always about book sales and the email list. Just an occult bro mlm. And y’all fell for it. Eight years to publish just one book and y’all still kissing Schulke’s ass after he spent all the preorder money, wouldn’t answer emails or give refunds, and then the book sucks? Insane.

Sources:

“Navigating the Crooked Path: Andrew D. Chumbley and the Sabbatic Craft “by Ethan Doyle White, 2019.

Video: “Why I won’t buy books from Three Hands Press anymore”

https://youtu.be/-abIFwGxWuQ?si=x3vK7Rrv0ayNYDfy

Three Hands Press’ Better Business Bureau complaints:

https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-pablo/profile/online-shopping/three-hands-press-1116-925897/complaints

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Remember when historian Diane Purkiss chose violence? 🤣

“In this essay, I will show that medieval and early modern witchcraft was for the most part not a pagan practice, but a dissident form of Christianity. I will also argue that modern pagans and modern witches are themselves products of the very globalized, commercial, urban and anywhere culture which they set out to resist.”

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Adding Inner Traditions to my growing boycott list of authors and publishers with white supremacist associations.

New Age Publisher Inner Traditions Thinks Fascists Are "Must Read"

As occultists, pagans, witches, magicians, and those adjacent, we need to always remember that people are actively promoting fascist literature, ideologies, and agendas in our communities.

Last year for Halloween, new age publisher Inner Traditions offered a special boxed set of the writings of "suprafascist" Julius Evola, whose explicitly racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic writings have seen an increased popularity with the rise of the far right -- especially far right occultists.

Evola seems to appeal to incel and traditionalist types who are upset that Neitzche isn't racist enough and Crowley is too effective of a magician, as well as fascists who want to obscure their racism in something that sounds esoteric and inspired. He's also frequently recommended in online occult forms by fascist recruiters who insist his magical teachings are vital and necessary to any aspiring magician.

Inner Traditions posted an ad for their fascist books on their FB page, and it became noticed by pagans, witches, and magicians that are not fascists, and who questioned the decision to publish and advertise the books, especially without the context of the fascism and racism of the author. Inner Traditions responded with a promise to have the translator of the books, Joscelyn Godwin, explain their position in a blog post, inviting critics to engage with that post.

The blog post was promised in a week's time. It did not appear for over a month. It was not written by Godwin, who writes articles praising Evola for the far-right conspiracy magazine New Dawn, but couldn't be bothered to articulate to value of Evola to people who aren't already fascists. It did not actually address any of the criticism brought up in the FB thread, instead complaining that commenters were mean. And, most tellingly, the blog does not allow for comments, and the post was not shared to the publisher's FB page where critics could comment and "engage with [the] material."

I suppose that this response, though cowardly and intellectually dishonest, was really the best option for Inner Traditions: ignore the problem and hope it fades away, while continuing to profit from spreading fascist material that is becoming more influential in an increasingly reactionary world.