Trying to make the meme real

Just finished The Llewellyn Practical Guide to Astral Projection. Most exercises inside seemed interesting but the book itself was quite sensationalist in places. 4.25 stars. My cats found its scent fascinating. #WitchSky #reading

Just finished The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter. This sequel to The Time Machine captures the style of the original while using more modern tropes of the time travel genre effectively. 4.75 stars. #BookSky #reading

Just finished Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson. This was a unique story that was writing in a compelling way and managed to make a somewhat convoluted plot work remarkably well. 4.5 stars. #BookSky #reading

Just finished A UFO Hunter’s Guide by Bret Lueder. This was a misleading title, but is a decent overview of UFOlogy concepts, albeit undercut by an absurd degree of credulity. 3.25 stars. Spooky wants to believe as per her namesake Agent Mulder. #witchsky #reading

Omg he’s back?

Just finished Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton. This was a fun take on animals in a zombie apocalypse, even if the writing got clunky towards the end and it overly relies on a crude vulgar humor I don’t really enjoy. 3.75 stars. #BookSky #reading

Just finished Proxima by Stephen Baxter. I wanted to like this book more than I did. The story at once feels bloated and slow, with characters that lack depth and pacing that turned an interesting premise into a slog. 2.75 stars, big disappointment. #BookSky #reading

Just finished The Night House by Danielle Dulsky. There are some interesting fairy tale reimaginings in here but the ritual ideas from them feel a bit basic and it seems more focused on the former than the latter here. 3.5 stars. Cats enjoyed lounging near it. #WitchSky #reading

Officially all caught up on Deltarune now that I’ve beat the Titan fight. Hopefully we get a chapter 5 release date update soon. 🙏🏼

The idea that you can do things incorrectly and just say it’s a ‘different way’ is great. When I spin a roulette wheel to decide what grade to give a student that’s just a different way to teach.

Been reading less because I am now hyperfixated on Deltarune. Please Toby Fox let us know when chapter 5 comes out.

Just finished The Goblin Universe by Ted Holiday. This was a book with some interesting concepts about the paranormal and cryptids undermined by the author’s own fears of them and a chapter long polemic against Darwinism. 3.5 stars. My cats didn’t pay attention to this one. #WitchSky #reading

Just finished The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula. This was overall a fun historical fantasy read, but the writing in the second half did get a bit choppy. 4.25 stars. #BookSky #reading

Why’s he healing Epstein? 😭

X Files Season 3 is making it clear I overestimated the Cigarette Smoking Man because he’s managed to botch attempting to kill the leads and recover the tape they got so badly he’s melting down at Walter Skinner for hinting he knows where it is because he knows he’s on thin ice.

Maybe we should not be allied with the country that calls its military operations things like this but maybe I’m just a self-hating Jew.

Just finished Strange Buildings by Uketsu. This sequel to Strange Houses keeps up the compelling blueprint-based mysteries and darkness, but is even more complex a story than the original. 4.25 stars. #BookSky #reading

Why the Hell is this guy lowkey the hardest boss in Deltarune? 😭

Just finished Theurgy: Seven Approached to Divine Connection. This is an excellent overview of theurgic practices from a few distinct perspectives and will be coming back to this book more in the future. 4.75 stars. Little Dipper enjoyed rubbing it. #WitchSky #reading

Just finished The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by Robert Kirk. This is a good primary source of folklore and the intro links it to 1800’s psychical research, even if its age can make it harder to read. 4 stars. My cats liked how it smelled and felt to rub. #WitchSky #reading

Doing this and moving the water there somewhere else

Same energy.

Just finished The Comfy Cozy Witchy’s Guide to Making Magic in your Everyday Life by Jennie Blonde. This is a good if not groundbreaking beginner’s guide I gave 4.25 stars. Despite it being a library read, my cats were disinterested in it. #WitchSky #reading

Just finished Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire. This was a fun read that moved quickly even if it is very tropey. 4.25 stars. #BookSky #reading

If the clip wasn’t here to prove it, I would believe it if someone told me he said this. Feels too blatantly satirical.

Just finished A Scheme of Heaven by Alexander Boxer. This was a detailed overview of the history of astrology that handled the topic skeptically yet respectfully. It was a bit dry to read. 4 stars. My cats were disinterested in this one. #WitchSky #reading

Just read The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith. I picked up this libertarian propaganda alternate history because I hoped it would be the funny kind of bad and was not disappointed on that front. That said, it is objectively a 2.5 star book at most. #BookSky #reading #alternatehistory

Thinking about how back when I was in college a decade ago the CR chapter I was in impeached its leader for an Islamaphobic joke and then those same people who did that either left the GOP or shifted to the alt right as soon as they saw where the momentum on that side were going.

The snake is the eel of the land and the eel is the snake of the water. There are also water snakes, which are the land eels of the water. Sometimes eels go across land as well, which makes them the water snakes of the land (distinct from water snakes, which are land eels of the water, as mentioned)

I miss having a government that at least cared enough to pretend not to be run by totally sociopathic ghouls.

Just finished Dollcraft by Patti Negri. It’s a good basic overview of haunted dolls and poppets, but was a bit too basic for my tastes and the repeated mentions of Zak Baggans did ick me out a bit. Spooky was more interested in her toy rainbow as she should be. #WitchSky #reading

One of my favorite classes in college really hammered home not only how corrupt & authoritarian the Shah was but 1979 leading to theocracy was made inevitable by the regime crushing every opposition group but the clergy with brute force for 25 years. This ‘50 year war’ didn’t come out of nowhere.

Just finished Practical Solitary Magic by Nancy B. Watson. This was a generally solid guide if a bit dated (from 1996) and basic in its advice. 4 stars. Little Dipper enjoyed rubbing her head on it. #WitchSky #reading

The idea of adapting this is…questionable to me, but I have enough nostalgia for the original game I’ll probably watch.

Just finished A Guide to the Tarot of the Greek Magical Papyri by Jason Augustus Newcomb. This was a good overview of the logic behind this newly acquired tarot deck as well as its potential use in rituals. 4.5 stars. Cats were too busy sleeping to provide comment. #WitchSky #reading

Just finished Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. This compelling reimagining of the ‘visiting a strange otherworld’ genre of children’s fiction kept me hooked even if it was a bit short. 4.5 stars and I will be continuing the series it launched. #BookSky #reading

I have conflicting feelings about John Green. On one hand, his videos helped me pass 3 AP classes. On the other hand, a joke he made about Milton Friedman T-shirts is what ultimately made me go libertarian and I regret that.

‘Accepting that dinosaurs became birds is a slippery slope to transgenderism’ is a take my brain generated that almost certainly is real. I really could write for the Daily Wire if I was soulless enough.

I mean I guess if she was right about him being a powerful astral being not bound by linear time maybe he actually was preventing war with Iran with his mystical powers but I doubt it.

Ok look I’m sorry but I can’t respect anyone still going to bat for the imperialism-fetishizing ex-Blackwater Reddit Nazi (because he has made it very clear that’s what he is), even if the alternative is a cringe octogenarian.

John Bolton rn

Donald Trump’s ‘anti-war’ credentials always were based on assuming his hostility to liberal internationalist and neoconservative principles meant he was a non-interventionist or isolationist while ignoring the obvious truth that he was just an old-school imperialist.

Just finished Vicuous by V.E. Schwab. This was a compelling and unique take on the concept of superpowers and how people respond to receiving them. 4.5 stars. #BookSky #reading

Five authors I've read at least 5 books by: 1) Ursula K. Le Guin 2) R.F. Kuang 3) Stephen King 4) Jeff VanderMeer 5) Octavia Butler

Going to a Ghost concert (known to some as a ritual) tonight. Should be a great time!

Just finished Word Witch by Kate Belew. This was a good overview of blending magic & creativity. I’m kinda bummed it’s a Libby borrow because it makes it harder to try the exercises so I may have to purchase it later. 4.5 stars. Little Dipper was too sleepy to share thoughts. #WitchSky #reading

Thinking about all the paranormal podcasts I listened to who said ‘Trump will only do UFO disclosure if he thinks it will help him by distracting the public from Epstein’ and…yeah they clocked it.

Just finished The Trickster and the Paranormal. This was an excellent analysis of the paranormal taking into account a number of frameworks and highlighting the role trickery has played in shaping narratives around it. 4.5 stars. Mooch felt it was very good for scritches. #WitchSky #reading

Just finished Empire of Shadows by Jacquelyn Benson. This was a fast and fun archaeology adventure with some romance and direct engagement with more problematic tropes associated with ‘adventure archaeologist’ stories. 4.5 stars. #BookSky #reading