Aloha,
David Waldron wrote:
> Personally I find the use of the fictionalised characters a little odd
> and exist because he is an esoteric writer who is gothic and cool from
> a late 20th C point of view.
Doing magic using a literary or a movie/TV or a game story universe often
introduces a current of fandom, or many currents of fandom, into the mix.
Fandom has a different take on how energies work in the story universe
than magic has, and how characters or figures may be played or played with.
Maybe it's a shift in sensibility.
Practitioners using a legacy pantheon tend to be a little more serious
and solemn
about the energies and figures than fans. Fandom gives rise to a range
of responses--
enthusiasm, homage, slash/, filk. Legacy practitioners sorta look down
on that complex
of response. (Hey! You can't suggest that the masculine virility deity
of my choice is
actually a transgendered female deity!)
Ritual aesthetics?
Here are two post-modern movements mixing together, or not mixing so well,
at the temple/con. I haven't ever been able to figure out why I favor a more
traditional pantheon and outlook on energy and workings, but I do. I see the
*created by humans* in the story universes I'm a fan of, and probably
suspect
how those story universes may be changed by human discourse.
My use of story universes in magical activity angles toward the slash/
and filk,
toward the playful, funny, or turning elements of the story universe
against itself
to produce a shock. Da-Da and surrealist derived. no doubt. Plushy
Cthulhu all
so cuddly...(Well, I'm not making the distinction that I can barely
discern very
clear, even to myself. I'm too post-modern for my own good. Fandom
excels at
deconstructing human story universes. Legacy practitioners suspect
deconstruction,
and hesitate at its application. That's vaguely what I'm thinking about.)
Musing Otaku Vs. The Devotee! Rose,
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