Happy book birthday to Irene Radford's THE PERFECT PRINCESS, the second in her Dragon Nimbus series, now in #ebook and #paperback from Book View Cafe.

Hidden among #dragons, #cats, #magicians, and a golden wolf lives the Perfect Princess for a new king. But who & what is she?

A crown prince and the princess his council demands he marry have been the focus of both dark #magic and treachery--and time is running out for them both.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #fantasy

https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-the-perfect-princess-by-irene-radford/

Jok - The library: https://aryion.com/g4/view/907883

Jok visits the library in his village to find out more about this world and about magic.
There he meets a girl, who is really helpful.

#Village
#Magic
#Magicians
#Library
#Reading
#Girl
#Fantasy
#Talking
#Friendly
#Culture
#Rape
#Helpful

In Marvel's latest run of the comic Venom, Al Ewing delved deep and started establishing some fascinating lore with #mystical themes.

For those of you who are not familiar with what the character Eddie Brock has been up to in the comics since his return which corresponded to the movie release, allow me to summarize for you:

Eddie Brock and his Other went on a wild adventure of self-discovery which involved learning that he had a previously unknown son with his late wife Ann Weying who had been raised by his estranged, abusive father in secret. Not long after, a pre-cosmic nightmare entity known as Knull was released by Carnage from a prison planet made of Symbiotes (which we learn were created by Knull at the dawn of time as weapons in a war with the Celestials). The entire arc culminates in Eddie briefly becoming a Captain Universe Venom and eliminating this new threat, as the Enigma Force is revealed to be the counterpoint Light to the Darkness of Knull. Ultimately, Eddie then becomes the new "King in Black" that controls the entire Symbiote Hive Mind.

Al Ewing takes this new status quo and develops it further by positioning the King in Black as the opposite number to The Beyonders themselves. Whereas these Ivory Kings operate as an external force trying to guide creation, Eddie has become an Onxy King whose purpose is to "keep the train on the tracks" as it were in symbiosis with the material world rather than being apart from it. I found this an interesting polarity as presented by Ewing.

The "Light Magicians" are those who, like the Beyonders, work from closed-off sanctums and attempt to affect the world from outside or above it. Ewing goes as far as to say that this requires a certain amount of self-denial and typically, but not always, leads people down a more heroic path. In contrast the "Dark Magician" works from the streets and gutters to change the world from within its very heart, and this path can create a taste for worldly power which tends to create villains - but again, not necessarily. He makes a major point of stating that neither has an inherent moral superiority over the other.

You see a lot of this reflected in the #HighMagick crowd versus the #LowMagick crowd. Ceremonial #magicians tend to be operating from above or outside the world, seeking solutions to problems by invoking powers from beyond the world itself. #Witches and #UrbanShamans come to mind as people who work mostly from within the world by interacting with the materials around them. I get the feeling I would more likely see a ceremonial practitioner offering food to a god or demon whereas I know Hexorian Mages who are advocating feeding the homeless as a devotional act.

Just a #MagickThoughtOfTheDay type thing.

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I am really excited to announce that I have made some coin gaffs/gimmicks for use in close-up magic.

No-one else is doing Half Stretched coins it seems, and after emails to various Magic Shops in the country, it appears there is a market for it!

I even created a website to https://coinmagic.co.uk

#magic #magician #magicians #magicshop #coinmagic #stretched #coingaffs #coingimmick #gaff #gaffs #gimmick #gimmicks #magicprops #props #ukcoins #numista #numis #coincollecting #uk

@supriya Magicians,especially as characters, absolutely do not need any of their trick secrets revealed, because they're really not a sizable part of them or their worlds. What instead should be the foci are, similar to other entertainers, how they handle the public, their struggles to get jobs, their stage/magicians persona and how is that different from their day to day personalities. In as much as tricks should be written about, it should be more on how their practicing needs & schedules affect the rest of their lives.

*Similar to singers, while there are always a few who become rich & famous, far more struggle to survive with it as their trade and far more still loose money on it overall, in-between paying jobs for it. I know because I'm married to the last type & never want him to give it up.

#Writing #Magicians

#RIPHarryLorayne #HarryLorayne #MemoryTraining #Magic #Magician #Magicians

Photo: With Anne Bancroft & Mel Brooks--via artist's website

New Yorker: The First Magician on the Vegas Strip https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-first-magician-on-the-vegas-strip #NewYorker #ActorsandActresses #News/Afterword #Magictricks #Magicians #LasVegas #Magic

On March 28, 1930, West of Zanzibar debuted in Argentina. Here’s some Lon Chaney art to mark the occasion!
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#WestOfZanzibar #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HorrorMovies #HorrorFilm #SilentFilm #BlackAndWhiteFilm #Magicians #TCMUnderground #ClassicFilm #1920s #ClassicHorror #Art #PopArt #ModernArt #Portrait #MovieArt #MovieHistory

In case there are #magicians out there
https://youtube.com/@MagicbyJordanP

@arjil
@Mage_of_Aquarius @mrvapor @songwitch

As an Afro-LatinX, I love the latin and gay influences in this video:

Drop it Low
https://youtu.be/3Hz64-_2Gu8

#chaosmagick #magick #chaosmagic #witchcraft #witches #occult #occultism #magicians

Magicana - the Charlie Miller collection is one heavy magical tome. #magicians #bookstodon

I have never read Victor Hugo, so I thought I'd start with The Man Who Laughs.

#Books
#Magicians
#Wolves

I tried to get into some #Magicians fandom stuff on Tumblr, but everyone there has VERY strong opinions that are pretty counter to what I feel and it's easy to get shouted down and discouraged from having your own opinions. The #HarryPotter fandom has issues for....obvious reasons. And the #MCU fandom is exhausting for many reasons.

New Yorker: My Daughter, the Magician’s Apprentice https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-daughter-the-magicians-apprentice #NewYorker #Culture/CultureDesk #Illustrations #Parenting #Magicians #Childhood #Magic

Seeing conversation in #occulture going on about the role of #magick as a tool of #resistance against established hierarchies, and I'm heartened to see that even when there are huge cultural gulfs among us that #magicians are #united on the fact that we have more in common than we do with the wealthy and the Fash.

I think the next best question is going to be - should we define ourselves as magicians above all other affiliations, how could we do that inclusively and safely, and how would we justly hold ourselves accountable while doing that?

#ChaosMagick #occult #mysticism #CounterCulture #AntiFascism #Equity #Justice

I find The Magicians to be much better than Harry Potter, much due to the respectful treatment of minorities (by which I mean explicit inclusion without retconning). I'm not sure about the books, but the series is top notch – especially once the series writers get free reign once the books are done (from S3 and onwards)

Candis Cayne's Fairy Queen in Season 3 is phenomenal. And the episode where Quentin and Eliot live a whole life.

It's definitely my favorite fantasy series.

#Magicians

Are there any #magicians to follow here? I don’t like Instagram and TikTok…

#cardmagic #coinmagic #closeupmagic #magician

"The Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/magazine/juan-tamariz-magic.html

#magic #magicians #Tamariz

Watching S02 of The #Magicians, and it opened with this dark masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46u_Ggsub1A