I used to love reading W.I.T.C.H. comics and they always had a bunch of fun stuff about zodiacs and reading the future in tea leaves, moons and stars and all that silly stuff. I friggin loved that shit because it was fun for the imagination and it also tied in well with the comic being about a groups magical girls who get their powers from nature and blah blah blah. I thought it was fun to find out what my element was based on what month I was born in and what my birthstone was and take little personality tests to see which one of the girls I was like the most (9 out of 10 times, I got Taranee).
The thing is, though: I always knew it was just play pretend and fun past time stuff.
I have had that fun permanently destroyed for me after people started believing in astrology and magic for real. I know people irl who refer to their zodiacs as an explanation for how they like their coffee or why they push their work to last minute or why they vibe well with this and that person. They take personality tests and believe it for real instead of using it as some stupid past time fun. Online, it’s even worse. It gives me the same level of ick as the women in Sex and the City.
It absolutely fucking ruined the fun for me and I just can’t read my horoscope anymore because I don’t want anyone to think I’m one of those people.
You might enjoy Terry Pratchett’s witches series. There’s magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.
Indeed I do! Granted, it has been a minute since I last visited Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, but I have a goal of gnawing my way through 50 books this year, so I might as well peek back in. Thank you for the reminder!
I didn’t even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I’m the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it’s just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there’s that.
In my humble opinion, the first 20-30ish issues are the best ones and then after that the decline is wild and steep. I also never really cared for the TV show. I was so excited when it aired and had been waiting to see the girls move and speak for so long. And then the art style, the color palette, the animation and the voice acting was all ugly and cheap and I never understood why they decided that the color palette should be different shades of piss when the comics were so vibrant and lush. But that is just me. Also, legit, after the comics go into the 30s, the entire franchise crashed and burned. It’s it’s own can of worms and I don’t want to bore you, but that was my first experience with becoming a dedicated fan of something and have a big entertainment company come in and annihilate everything that made the franchise good, run it into the dirt in the most disrespectful way and then cancel it because nobody liked it anymore.
I like tarot cards too. The idea of them, that is. I like the imagery and the many different meanings they hold depending in the combinatiom. Ironically, the whole predicting the future part of tarot cards is the least interesting thing to me, but that’s how I feel about all these witchy things. It’s more so the idea of the weird magic rules and how aesthetic they are that I find so appealing.
I used to love reading W.I.T.C.H. comics and they always had a bunch of fun stuff about zodiacs and reading the future in tea leaves, moons and stars and all that silly stuff. I friggin loved that shit because it was fun for the imagination and it also tied in well with the comic being about a groups magical girls who get their powers from nature and blah blah blah. I thought it was fun to find out what my element was based on what month I was born in and what my birthstone was and take little personality tests to see which one of the girls I was like the most (9 out of 10 times, I got Taranee).
The thing is, though: I always knew it was just play pretend and fun past time stuff.
I have had that fun permanently destroyed for me after people started believing in astrology and magic for real. I know people irl who refer to their zodiacs as an explanation for how they like their coffee or why they push their work to last minute or why they vibe well with this and that person. They take personality tests and believe it for real instead of using it as some stupid past time fun. Online, it’s even worse. It gives me the same level of ick as the women in Sex and the City.
It absolutely fucking ruined the fun for me and I just can’t read my horoscope anymore because I don’t want anyone to think I’m one of those people.
You might enjoy Terry Pratchett’s witches series. There’s magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.
Indeed I do! Granted, it has been a minute since I last visited Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, but I have a goal of gnawing my way through 50 books this year, so I might as well peek back in. Thank you for the reminder!
The map is not the terrain.
Somewhere between naive realism and “some stupid past time fun”, there are maps.
I didn’t even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I’m the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it’s just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there’s that.
In my humble opinion, the first 20-30ish issues are the best ones and then after that the decline is wild and steep. I also never really cared for the TV show. I was so excited when it aired and had been waiting to see the girls move and speak for so long. And then the art style, the color palette, the animation and the voice acting was all ugly and cheap and I never understood why they decided that the color palette should be different shades of piss when the comics were so vibrant and lush. But that is just me. Also, legit, after the comics go into the 30s, the entire franchise crashed and burned. It’s it’s own can of worms and I don’t want to bore you, but that was my first experience with becoming a dedicated fan of something and have a big entertainment company come in and annihilate everything that made the franchise good, run it into the dirt in the most disrespectful way and then cancel it because nobody liked it anymore.
I like tarot cards too. The idea of them, that is. I like the imagery and the many different meanings they hold depending in the combinatiom. Ironically, the whole predicting the future part of tarot cards is the least interesting thing to me, but that’s how I feel about all these witchy things. It’s more so the idea of the weird magic rules and how aesthetic they are that I find so appealing.