Me: I want to be a positive and non-biased influence for babby witches.
Also Me: Goddamnit I hate Wiccans.
@spiderrobotpig indeed? as someone who bounced off Wicca (rather roughly) I'm curious if you can elaborate on that
@kara_dreamer Mostly wiccans on Tumblr tbh?
Just really...forceful in their assumption that the rules of wicca apply to witchcraft in general, and it's just typically bad feels for me tbh?
@spiderrobotpig *nods* my biggest problem with Wicca is that it's symbolically empty to me, mired in stale assumptions about gender, but its practitioners tried to cram other mythologies into this inadequate framework and pretend they fit fine.
@kara_dreamer Yeah, definitely not a fan of that either, but I have heard some practitioners -trying- to be trans-positive, which is more than I can say for some sects *coughanythinginvolvingdianacough*
@spiderrobotpig Oh dear...I really don't think anyone sensible should get very near to Artemis / Diana, honestly...
@kara_dreamer Yeah, I kinda got that feel? I've been messing with Loki and Salacia, but I've also been kinda lax recently because of spoons.
Hoping to rekindle some stuff soon, because they're pretty chill
@spiderrobotpig Loki has been a strong but chaotic influence; I tooted a whole bunch of stuff about Loki that I'm hoping to put online in some other form in a day or two. Hecate has been of great assistance at times. But I've been disorganized and getting reminders about my poor focus :/
@kara_dreamer Saaaaaaaame
Also I would love to hear about your interactions with Loki. Don't meet many Lokeans, and my old witch mom had a tenuous relationship with them.
Hecate seems interesting? I remember Hestia was hanging around for a bit, but she just kinda left, and then I started talking with Salacia
@spiderrobotpig Damn, I should just do this thing tonight because tomorrow won't be as favorable...hopefully I can supply a link in an hour maybe XD Hestia has been of some interest to me as well, as the most humane of the otherwise somewhat off-putting Greek crowd.
@kara_dreamer Hestia is really nice. She gave me a protection sigil which was neat.
But also she apparently doesn't like cookies? Or she just doesn't like my cookies.
*shrug*
@kara_dreamer *shrug*
People are weeeeeeeird.
I will say it never came up? But yeah that's really odd
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@spiderrobotpig there's a lot of the Greek pantheon that's fucked up by the society's hideous sexism (this is kinda painful to me cos studying Classics was my route into paganism and I translated Homer in school and stuff like that, but I can't deny that ancient Greek had some truly wretched ideas about how people should get along.) Like, how Artemis ends up being a weak copy of Apollo and not a fully-rounded goddess of the hunt; other cultures link huntress-goddesses to fertility but again Greece had to make their huntress a virgin, so Artemis ends up being this weird knockoff of a powerful god, like the Supergirl to Apollo's Superman