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we need to stand up stop being ashamed of our lightning powers and start killing people with them indiscriminately

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why is it always a secret witch cult and never just like. "i learned it by watching ducks"

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Wizards call it The Dance.

Since there have been wizards, there has been The Dance. One wizard changing shape and pursuing another - first a hound to chase a coney, then a pike to hunt a trout, then a falcon to strike down a sparrow.

Then through its orchestral movements, The Dance itself changes. What was once a falcon becomes thundercloud to smother a glimmer of moonlight that had been a sparrow. Loamy clay to hold a corpse. Blinding hope to snuff out blind despair.

There are thousands of ways to dance The Dance. Often innuendo is involved. The Dance is the thumping, beating heart of wizardry; you can’t be a wizard without being a Dancer. It’s a ceremony. It’s a duel to the death. It’s a mating ritual.

What it isn’t is magic. Magic is sugarspun chaos, delicate and constructed.

The Dance is a force of nature.

The Dance is old.

Old as balls.

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The war pipes skirled, and the drummers beat a martial tune, and bugle and trumpet sounded their brazen cries as the army marched off to war, and above all could be heard the saxophony of the saxophones saxing a saxophonous racket

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Oh sure, self-negate yourself from nothingness all you like. At a certain point, apophasis is a band-aid fix. To get from infinity to immanence, sacrifices have to be made. Infinity is static, the world isn't. Q.E.Fucking.D.

All-knowing, all-good, all-powerful. You gotta pick one to drop, but nobody said you have to pick one forever. Nah. You can cycle through them, and you can cycle through them so fast it seems like you're all of em at once, AND none of em at once. That's the Wheel.

It's as close to perfect as you can get. Someone did all the cosmic math a few kalpas ago. A hypostate of The One which asymptotically approaches perfection. But that infinitely small gap is still a gap. The cosmic gears don't quite mesh, and where they grind, sparks fly. That's why bad things happen to good people.

With every spark, the wheel loses a bit of momentum. There needed to be someone to correct the mistakes, to keep one second ticking every second.

Howdy.

But I can't just flick the cosmos back into place. Nah. It's a big system. It needs one hell of an engine. You think things are bad now? If the flame wasn't here, you'd all be up to your tits in suffering. It's a clever system really. Toss it all in the fire. It'll keep the wheel turning another day. Two birds, one stone.

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https://twitter.com/Kbearart/status/1433601390429892621

wizard

thats plectronoceras its the first 100% definite cephalopod in the fossil record, wizard friend :)

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Everyone has little magic. Sometimes the smell of gumbo is yours!

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have you guys heard about wizard101 getting hacked the other day. ive never once played the game in my life but whatever happened there is absolutely hilarious

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Tlazolteotl, Queen of the Witches. The Magic and Mysteries of Mexico; or, The Arcane Secrets and Occult Lore of the Ancient Mexicans and Maya Lewis Spence, patriotic Scotsman London: Rider & Co., 1943.

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If "all it takes is a hairy chest" then, hey wait- are you even listening to me?

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Why are bi women bringing male partners to LGBT spaces meant for same sex partners?

to fuck on the snack table

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from the Galdrabók

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Since the Middle Ages, botanical explorers inspired by ancient accounts of this remarkable plant have sought it on three continents, and always in vain. Many historians view the disappearance of silphion as the first recorded extinction of any species, plant or animal, and a cautionary tale in how thoroughly human appetite can erase a species from the wild.

But is silphion truly extinct? Thanks to a lucky encounter almost 40 years ago, and decades of subsequent research, a professor at Istanbul University suspects he has re-discovered the last holdouts of the ancient plant more than a thousand years after it disappeared from history books, and nearly a thousand miles from where it once grew.

This is the most thrilling news I’ve heard in ages, as someone interested in botany and culinary archaeology — not only has a plant thought to be extinct for millennia survived after all, it is turning out to be as medicinally potent and delicious as ancient accounts have said!