BS-Free Witchcraft

On the show I've talked a lot about witchcraft in fiction over the years. But as I'm also an author of urban fantasy novels, I thought it might be interesting to talk about it from the creative end -- how I think about writing witchcraft in fiction as a witch in real life. And since I thought it would be weird to just talk about it on my own, I've decided to make it double-weird by inviting author of Dionysus in Wisconsin and co-host of Ask a Medievalist E.H. Lupton onto the show to talk about it with me!

So on this one hundredth episode of the show, enjoy the chaos when two writers from Wisconsin talk about writing magic in fiction.

So we covered some of this back in the "Respect" episode, but I really just wanted to take some time and explore how we talk to each other in witchcraft spaces. And, uh, I might be part of the problem here from time to time.

Bree NicGarran joins me this episode as we finally get around to talking about the 1998 film adaptation of Practical Magic. For some people the '90s movie that got them pulled into witchcraft was The Craft, while for others (like Bree) it was this one! We figured with the sequel coming out soon, we really needed to get around to talking about this one.

So we did! For two hours! You could have watched the whole movie on your own in that time!

It’s July which means it’s time for the annual feedback/Q&A episode of the show! In this episode I sit down and answer questions that you, the audience, has been sending me over the last few months. It’s the same dance we do every summer, but maybe a surprise guest will show up and help me answer one of these.

Look, there are two things I wanted to talk about this month, but didn't have enough time to fully prepare an episode on either. So, instead, I'm just going to talk about my current thoughts on both of these (unrelated) topics. First off we have the US Military no longer recognizing about 180 different religions, and then after that I'm talking about my thoughts on Chaos vs Eclecticism.

Like I said, unrelated topics.