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26 November 2021 15:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonBig happy announcement: Version 1 of my Bumper Pagan Reading List is now Done.
Do you like folklore? Want to learn about the history of magic? Enjoy 1970s pastoral weird counterculture or creepy children's television?
Are you absolutely horrified by the immensity of the ocean and want to prod that feeling with a stick until it starts creeping up on you as you walk down the street unexpectedly, the knowledge that the sea is just there, fathomlessly deep and impossibly cold, and more mysterious to us than the moon?
You'll fit right in! ~200 recommendations for music, movies, and books, of interest to pagans of all kinds (and people who just like some make-believe)
(and on a personal note, what a relief - what a relief - to get this weight of work out into the world, just a basic and incomplete thing but enough to say "this is what i have been doing, this is what i can gift to the world, i am not ready to Run My Own Religion in any substantial sense but you can do it for yourself with this, everything I've looked at to form what I do; and my responsibility for it is now discharged". I need to set up a compassionate update schedule for myself; because the website version is, of course, already out of date, but I need to make time for my own self as well - to be reading and reflecting without the mass scrutiny of the internet and the implicit judgement of strangers eyes and my desire to perform in front of them; to just be alone with the gods, once in a while; or alone with my books, at least. Also yes, the physical bookshelf on which I store all these things are a beauty to behold; and I daydream about having a pretty living room and an open door, and people just dropping by to read and borrow them all. A webpage is the next best thing.)
Do you like folklore? Want to learn about the history of magic? Enjoy 1970s pastoral weird counterculture or creepy children's television?
Are you absolutely horrified by the immensity of the ocean and want to prod that feeling with a stick until it starts creeping up on you as you walk down the street unexpectedly, the knowledge that the sea is just there, fathomlessly deep and impossibly cold, and more mysterious to us than the moon?
You'll fit right in! ~200 recommendations for music, movies, and books, of interest to pagans of all kinds (and people who just like some make-believe)
(and on a personal note, what a relief - what a relief - to get this weight of work out into the world, just a basic and incomplete thing but enough to say "this is what i have been doing, this is what i can gift to the world, i am not ready to Run My Own Religion in any substantial sense but you can do it for yourself with this, everything I've looked at to form what I do; and my responsibility for it is now discharged". I need to set up a compassionate update schedule for myself; because the website version is, of course, already out of date, but I need to make time for my own self as well - to be reading and reflecting without the mass scrutiny of the internet and the implicit judgement of strangers eyes and my desire to perform in front of them; to just be alone with the gods, once in a while; or alone with my books, at least. Also yes, the physical bookshelf on which I store all these things are a beauty to behold; and I daydream about having a pretty living room and an open door, and people just dropping by to read and borrow them all. A webpage is the next best thing.)
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Date: 26 November 2021 16:23 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 27 November 2021 15:51 (UTC)I manage my Reading using JabRef, which is a bibliography program for academics, and you can add things "to-be-read"; I appreciate recommendations so much, to make sure there's always something on-the-go
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Date: 27 November 2021 23:42 (UTC)What a glorious list. Thank you for sharing. From the entries I've already read I think you've really captured an energy. Excited to place some holds at the library, and buy the others.