Sorry I’ve been so terribly afk* this month. With my EEOC issues and the fact that it’s a pretty not fun month to be Black, I really haven’t been writing much. And there’s also the fact I’ve been playing Pokemon Go a lot. And just discovered My Chemical Romance has an update for September 23rd, I have to get in adequate spazzing time for that. Very important.
Anywhoodle, I’m always active on my social media (mostly on Tumblr, then Facebook fan page, then Twitter), especially if you message me. I do like hearing from people, just not stupid people.
What counts as stupid people? Enter this kiddo, Star Ikky:
It is! “Life from the Black Pagan Perspective” *jazz hands*
Everyone, I usually do not like when people ask me about curses or spells that sound an awful lot like you’re about to ask me for a curse or spell. Anyone who has skimmed this site should know that. (Anyone who have briefly skimmed Ask Black Witch[link] should know that). Why? Because I mention a ton of times here that I don’t talk about spellwork that in depth for a bevy of reasons. It’s cool to ask, “hey, I want to do a serenity spell, to calm down about the police shootings, what should I do?” Because you’re just asking for suggestions, not a full out order. And if you want a full out order, I recommend books. Because they exist. Books are like an extended FAQ for me to share with others. Keeps life simple.
This simpleton is not a fan of simple, evidently.
I always check my google search feature on my site and I religiously put columns into categories. I like making searching easy. I’ve tried tags but they’ve never stuck
Folks, never just ask about curses like this. It makes you look suspicious. Like “I heard you worked at the Library of Congress and know about 3d printers. If someone wanted to shoot, say, a political figure head, from a really high place with undetectable materials, how would it be done? Asking for a friend” – type suspicious. If people want to curse others, I rather figure out the motive before anything. That and seriously, why curse when guns exist**? Or there’s talking out the problem, a decent alternative.
People hex and jinx for their own reasons. I can’t fault them. However, I’m not just gonna tell any random dink how to do it. I barely tell people how to do spells that help folks (Sorry, it’s a strict no-spell policy), like I’m going to divulge more for the opposite.
Also, it seems this dude keeps thinking that when I say I’m a Black Witch, it means I practice the Left Hand Path. This is poor reading skills at work. I’m “Black Witch” because I’m a Black person (as in, part of the African diaspora. I’ve got the police harassment records to prove it, too, ha! Ok, that’s depressing. Black lives matter, y’all) and I practice witchcraft. Therefore, “Black Witch”. Pretty simple. Especially if you’ve seen all the writings I’ve penned (typed?) about race.
Now, I’m going to spare everyone the many, many, many times the dude asked the same two questions: “If you wanted to curse me, what do you need” and “can you curse me over the internet”? Everyone, I like questions but please don’t say the same ones over and over and over and over and over and …you get the point. I may have amnesia issues but trust, it’s not that bad. If I say, “hey, read the columns,” it means, “hey, read the columns”. Not “If you ask me a million times, I’ll eventually tell you what’s in the columns.” Nope, I’ll just eventually make fun of your poor intelligence. I have to deal with a computer at work that I’m certain thinks it’s an ice cube aspiring to be a bonfire a good 60% of the time. Please don’t be dumber than that computer. *** At least the computer has an excuse.
This dude didn’t seem to dig that I wasn’t *gasp* spoonfeeding him information about hexes and jinxes and how I do it. I mean, if I’m pointing you to my columns, I’m still telling you what I said and how I feel, just not in “txt” form.
Everyone, I tend to dislike those who dislike research. I’m like a Republican when it comes to spoonfeeding: no handouts
I guess I have to remind everyone but if folks are going, “Black Witch, why do you suggest we read so much? Reading is lame! Just tell us everything we need to know so we can be witches already,” these are all the things that is me:
– English Degree
– Getting ready to pursue a Master’s in Library Science for Preservation
– A Librarian (tech/assistant, but that’s because of lack o’ degree, I still am paid to tell people to zip it)
– A daughter of a teacher
– Published in academic books (one just won an award, “The Sisters are Alright” by Tamara Winfrey Harris)
– Worked in the Library of Congress
Lolz. Not much in there that says, “I’m pro-stupid”, “pro-coddling”, “pro-‘tell you the answers’”. Because that’s not learning, that’s being lazy. It’s one thing to get stumped, it’s another to just not want to learn. Being stumped is fine, that means the little hamster in your head is whirring away the best it can. Being lazy in ignorance just means that little hamster is totally vegged out with a bag of doritos and soda, struggling to breathe under its own weight.
Eventually, the dude goes full-on emo and does the classics everyone else does when they’re upset I don’t do parlor tricks: try their hand at reverse psychology and attempt to do the “I guess you’re not real because you won’t prove it to me” route:
Seriously? This makes for crap logic. By this logic, if he thinks that I refuse to tell him my bank pin, that would mean I didn’t know it. Not that I simply didn’t want to share. Also, the columns are the reasons why I don’t try to answer the same dunce question twice.
The dude even tries to tell me that this site is somehow a fraud.
Seriously? I don’t think my info is that valuable to dupe to such an extent
I really don’t like when folks go the “you’re a fake and phony” route because it’s annoying. Look, you’re upset I’m not jumping through hoops, I get it. No need to get lame about it. I think just about everyone who I didn’t act like Sabrina the Teenage Witch towards considered me a fraudster. This dude isn’t even that smart in how he applies it:
You didn’t think I was gonna talk about cursing folks, right?
Folks, I find folks like this annoying. Very annoying. If you don’t like reading, I will always tell you up front that metaphysics is, therefore, not for you. There’s a metric crapton of reading, most of it very dense and university level.
This guy eventually goes “Oh, you hide behind your books and research” because he doesn’t want to read anything himself. He just wants to be fed information. If I were hiding behind books, then this column wouldn’t exist. Because that’s what “hiding behind books” mean: That I pretend I’m so lofty that no one else could get to my level. I also wouldn’t cite books or feature them on my site (check my The Arts: Samhain Edition picks). I’ve met folks like that. Telling people to research and think for themselves is hardly hiding behind anything. Not to mention, I’ve directly told him to visit this website, if I were hiding this site behind a pay wall or selling some crummy book with “secrets of magick”, then this dude would have a case. Instead, it’s just whining. I don’t like pointless whining. I work in a library. They exist for a reason. Use one.
If the dude said, “hey, I read somewhere [book here] about jinxing. What is your take on [author’s take on subject of jinxing]?” that would have been remotely better. At least it shows some level of thinking. This guy is just showing serious laziness.
This is Donald Trump-level of being childish. All because he wanted to avoid reading. He asked a columnist for a suggestion and got upset when the columnist suggested reading.
Really, now? All this to avoid cracking open a book? Not even cracking open a book, just using an already supplied search engine on a website. Man, this dude must have had horrendous grades. I’ve definitely had my days in school where I was 100% “I dun wanna!” from pre-K to university but never this bad. You can’t ask for help and get upset that it’s not neatly packaged for you. That’s not how asking for help works. And this is coming from someone who would spend whole days hanging in a metaphysical shop as a teenager – however, I think those folks didn’t mind because they figured I was around Black elders and not running the street so they didn’t mind me milling about.
This whole conversation was fail and I could tell from the start. I just didn’t know how much fail.
Folks, I like getting your questions. Just make sure they’re good ones. Because as I always say, “good questions are appreciated. Bad questions are eviscerated. Send them in.”
*”Away from keyboard” for you dinos out there
** If you’re in America. Other nations kinda have done away with the “angry person with a gun” problem. We should probably get on that.
*** Ok, not entirely all the computer’s fault, I guess. But whoever had it last really jacked up the AI, I think it has mood swings. This is what happens when you work with futuristic technology. It’s better than the holographic keyboard that kept writing spam messages on government computers when it saw sunlight, though. That little dude was a rebel. And possibly a smidge evil.
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