Witches and that sort,
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Witches and that sort,
Being that the interest is so vast, what information do you find lacking online that you feel is important to your practice?
There are multiple blogs and sites about candle magic, color magic, simple spells, astrology, and divination with cards, runes, and other tools.
I'm not writing my blog to make money and won't have ads on it. I'm just looking to share knowledge that I have about my practice.
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KentuckyConjurerreplied to KentuckyConjurer last edited by
I tend to follow some blogs when I personally (like online interaction) know the author. I like that connection and seeing what their practice is like.
In a time when so much information is out there, what are you looking for and whom do you find credible?
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to KentuckyConjurer last edited by
@KentuckyConjurer I have been watching quite a number of videos where witches and warlocks try to divine how a certain poorly woven underwater basket broke down and killed four zillionaires. Does that count?
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to KentuckyConjurer last edited by [email protected]
@KentuckyConjurer I don't know most people whose blogs I read and videos I watch. I don't exactly do a formal assessment, but I think my criteria can be boiled down to three categories: I want the author to know their stuff, see interesting ways how their stuff goes together with other stuff, and not try to deceive me. In other words, wise, intelligent, and honest. If they show these three qualities in any field that I have some interest in (which are numerous, because #ADHD ), I tend to try and read or listen or watch them, if I don't get distracted by somebody else's stuff first. (Because #ADHD .)
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by [email protected]
@KentuckyConjurer Beau of the Fifth Column was an excellent example of this triplet. I think I only remember one argument of his, over four years, that would fail the third test, and it was about guns, and knowing Americans, probably some sort of stupid meme that he just repeated.
PhilosophyTube, Suris, DemonMama, Chloe of Disaster Breakdown, Jordan of Dead Domain, and Brady of Oceanliner Designs are some other people whom I consider good examples, and watch or listen regularly.
On written media, I read most of what Bruce Schneier and Julia Serano write, and quite a bit of what Cory Doctorow writes. (He's one of those writers who writes about so many things that I often just get distracted before I'm done, though.)
But I also swap dead tree books with a couple of friends actively, and that lets me find interesting stuff from authors whom I never heard of before. Copycats & Contrarians by Michelle Baddeley was one that I recently found this way, and that I'm happy I have read. I'm currently reading The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games by Christopher A. Paul, and I just got a copy of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More by Alexei Yurchak, which I have only browsed so far, but which looks interesting.