#chumbley

[barbarapond]

doctor who daily challenge (first doctor edition)

day three: favourite creature

the chumblies

[therabbitofrassilon]

this is all the proof I need that vicki pallister is the doctor who character who would describe things as "scrunkly" and "scrimblo" and "onglydoople"

[barncultus]

I think everyone should read Chumbley.

I do not think everyone should be a Sabbatic witch. I often see new magicians/witches/occultists overlook philosophy when studying or preparing for the practice of magic, when in truth they are in areas deeply intertwined. This is not to say all "real" magic is some lofty, philosophical construct that requires ritual of Golden Dawn complexity to wield. Magical philosophy can be subtle, moral, intuitive.

At its most core, I have found, magical philosophy is complex. Not necessarily in practice, not in every spell, but often enough it demands the mind to stretch, to labor, to seek understanding of impossibilities.

This candle is a person, lighting the wick to enchant them with happiness. Why? Is the wax the body, the flame your spell? Is the wick a sorrow? Sometimes these things don't have answers, sometimes they just work, but more often than not magic will demand you ask the question.

Chumbley as a writer I think conveys this idea clearer than most, in his own philosophical framework, in his own time.

[halestromthewhoobsessed]

Doctor Who robot designs really peaked in the 1960s

[tyetknot]

Full offence but I feel like people wouldn't care nearly as much about Chumbles or Schulke or anything else pertaining to Cvltvs Sabbati if their books were published as mass-market paperbacks by Llewellyn. Their entire image is built on a foundation of artificial scarcity fostered entirely by vulture capitalism and the entire thing would be a footnote in Craft history if it had been published by Llewellyn. And not modern actually-publishes-decent-shit Llewellyn either, like, late 90s-era Llewellyn, DJ Conway-era Llewellyn.

There, I said it.

[6-and-7]

TARDIS Tarot

5 of Wands - Steven Taylor in Galaxy 4

Monochrome version under the cut

[sabbatica-umbrae]

Titans of 'Crooked Path Sorcery'

(R) The Ðragon-Book of Essex (Celestial)

By Andrew D. Chumbley

(L) Book of the Black Dragon (Telluric)

By Peter Hamilton-Giles

[maggie-d]

@doctorwho fanart because I have hyperfixations