First time mage

chunnibyou guided meditation

Breathe in. *Feel* the demon energy welling up in your cursed eye. Breathe out. Relax your phantom dragon wings.

not to explain the joke but it's funny cause both chunni and meditation involve intense bodily visualization, notions of transformation and becoming and the question of selfhood, and overly serious affect. but the tone and cultural associations between them are radically different. meditation is taken seriously while chunni is absolutely not. and so the ideological function of the joke is to take meditation less seriously while taking chunni more seriously. and so they collide in the middle, a middle where their wreckage become accessible for what it is. that's why it hits.

I was just talking to @rednines about how this post bares humorous similarity to an actual ritual; the Stellar Transvocation from the Dragon Book of Essex. Down to mystically significant language regarding assuming the body of the Dragon.

oh, wicca is absolutely chunni

thelema is more chunni than wicca though i think

#REAL #I'm saving that statement LMAO

Thelema is one of the most chuuni religions ever invented.

gaytanic-panic

@cryptotheism

#posting while working .png

This type of self-deification is a huge element of a lot of 20th century occult practices, especially in regards to Thelema. Which was itself a reaction to the most conservative and fundamentalist expressions of American protestantism. Crowley's parents were members of a very fundamentalist Prot sect. Much of his theology is a response to that cultural milieu.

Like this is part of what Crowley meant by "every man and every woman is a star". It's genuinely interesting to see the charismatic elements of modern evangelical protestantism evolve a similar structure.

Also you could absolutely make an argument that the new age was in part inspired by the 1970s revival of early 20th century occultism, the core of which was Crowley / Blavatsky's writing. These new age elements definitely influenced the more woo-y ideological currents in modern Christianity. So what I'm saying is you might be able to draw a direct theological line from Crowley to Paula White-Cain. Like this could literally be a christianized thelemic practice unknowingly laundered through the New Age. Idk how you'd prove or disprove that though.

I just wanna start my "wizard scaring the hoes" era but I have bills to pay

slowspinningredemption

it's so funny seeing everyone still posting about the shitty update when they reversed it like forty minutes ago. come out of your basements the tornado has passed it's so sunny up here and bright

slowspinningredemption

[gently, as though talking to a frightened stray] look. only one set of notes

thatlittleegyptologist

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

sapphling

bigots can now reblog your selfie or personal post, mock it, and block you, and if you don't see it the second it happens, it can spread to thousands of their ilk with literally no possible way for you to know, unless you happen to be on one of their blogs and come across it. are you comfortable with this? i know i'm not.

tumblr

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

#tumblr #this is terrible

Yeah so I'm just going to turn off reblogs for any posts I make on here going forward. What a shit ass update. Imagine making a witchcraft post and the notes disappear into the fog for you but you get rebloged by some asshole you don't see who completely shits all over your post for notes, but since you don't know they rebloged it you don't know to block them. Or they keep spam commenting on the notes of other people's reblog.

Heavily weighing the consequences of throwing a curse on my bosses at work rn because they keep wanting me to use ai while I work. Like putting a curse on my workplace *will* be cursing myself basically, but also fuck them for wanting me to use ai.

#I don't want to lose my job rn because obviously #but I've tried before to tell them I don't want this and yet they keep telling me to

What even happened to the witchcraft tag? Why is is all just mood boards, photos of old buildings, and generic weekly readings? Where are the freaks

#fuck TERFs #if you don't agree you can get blocked idgaf #free blocklist

Lmaoooo in what way was my post a invitation for you to announce you're a cunt. Fuck TERFs I will outlive you all and your hate

Check out what came in the mail today! It'll be fascinating at what Mayan astrology looks like.

Oh cool they included pictures of the original manuscript, lemme flip to the back-

This is almost as tall as me!

#astrology #occult #witchcraft #mayan culture #mayan civilization

What even happened to the witchcraft tag? Why is is all just mood boards, photos of old buildings, and generic weekly readings? Where are the freaks

#witchcraft #witchblr

What Do You Mean John Dee built a special astrological instrument for measuring the occult influence of the stars. This is the fourth biography I've read and none of them mention this.

I tracked down the citation. Its from the paper "Dee, Mercator, and Louvain Instrument Making: An Undescribed Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator (1551) Broecke, Steven Vanden")

ITS ONE OF A KIND?

Oh my god its so cool. I need to reproduce this immediately.