I very nearly had, like, the awesomest event ever put together but we had irreconcilable differences over how the bar tab would be handled.
It's depressing, Charmers. I worry that no one will buy my book, no one will care about it and there will be no event to mark, oh I don't know, only everything I've been working for my whole f*cking life.
And all I keep thinking is you have to f*cking blog so people will remember you exist! Say new things! BE INTERESTING.
Who wouldn't be sparkling and amazing with enough internal pressure to create a diamond? I mean, that's where magic happens right?
So let's talk glamour. At the end of the day, you can look at glamour two ways:
- You are leveling the playing field in an unfair world so you can manifest all the wonder you are working to manifest.
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2. You are manipulating those around you to get what you want, which is the purpose of Witchcraft.
Um, you can imagine how much my publisher liked #2. It's not exactly love 'n light sisters!!!!!1111!!!
Obviously, if you want to feel really justified in everything you do ever, you should think #1. If you like feeling like the dangerous type and the implication that you are a bottom feeder, you should think #2. If you actually want to get somewhere with glamour, you should think both.
Manipulation is such a harsh word. It makes everyone feel mad. As someone who "reads" as feminine in some way especially, it's one of the worst things that can be said about you because in society's view, it separates you from all your soft, squishy maternal instincts that we all supposedly have. That makes you a user. That makes you a gold digger. That makes you a climber. That makes you self centered. And my god, what is worse than being called that when you are supposed to put everyone else's needs before yours if you want to be a Good Girl?
Which is why, if we're being completely honest here, if you are good at glamour it's because you are manipulating others without them noticing. That's the feminine part of the Arte, the subtlety. Because oh lordess, if you get caught out for trying to manipulate those around you, the stakes are really high. Possibly because you might be getting burnt at one (metaphorically now, less so even two hundred years ago).
So, let's pretend everyone has common sense here because that's a fun game. You should, like, totally have a moral compass. Because if you can't sleep at night because you did something crazy? Guess whose fault that is? I mean, you can blame Godzilla all you want for your ramen stand problems but he ain't gonna be the one starving to death. All your actions (and inactions) have consequences which is really tedious but a trufax.
The thing is, just about all of us, even the more introverted side of the spectrum, chose to have lives intertwined with others in some fashion. We do things we don't want to do all the time for each other for all sorts of reasons - as a sacrifice on the altar of love, to curry favor, to right a wrong we've committed, to even an uneven internal score card, lots of