Last night
was the premiere of Witches of East End on Lifetime and as a diehard witch fan
and lifelong Charmed junkie, I of course had to check it out. I knew going in
that there would probably be negative reviews, but I usually disagree with those.
It turned out that I really enjoyed the show. It intrigued me and made me
laugh. More than that, it took the time slot Charmed held for so long. Suffice
to say, I’ll be tuning in again next week. Then I wake up this morning and as I
browsed Facebook on my Kindle, I come across the negative reviews I
anticipated.
I’ve said
it before and I’ll say it again, the two touchiest groups of people that I’ve
met are feminists and Pagans. Not all, maybe not even a majority, but in these
groups you will find touchy people who take everything personally or
negatively. It was expected that Pagans, practicing witches, would not like
this show. They would blast it for wrongfully representing them to the public.
And that was exactly what I saw on Facebook this morning. It was just a few out
of the comment thread who did exactly as I predicted, but I still had to put my
two cents in.
Charmed was
the reason I found out Wicca existed at all. Charmed was the reason I found my
poison for fiction and devoured every book on witches I could get my hands on.
I was smart enough, even at age eleven, to know what was real and what wasn’t.
And I was curious enough that all the information based in fact that those
books carried, I read up on it and more. And eventually found my path in
Paganism, following a Goddess who speaks to me and a God who finally got tired
of me not paying him any mind. He is a long story, for another blog.
The bottom
line is that Charmed, just like Witches of East End, was fiction. It isn’t
real, but what the Pagan community often misses when they blast it is how many
people it brought to this side of the tracks. Just by introducing the real idea
that people out there believe in magic. From there, we learn that there is a
way to practice it. It’s not bright flashes of light and dramatic music, but it’s
a force of will, almost like a prayer, seeking change in our world. Sometimes
it works, sometimes it doesn’t. And every action carries a consequence, balance
must be honored and kept within ourselves and the world around us. These are
the things I learned and the things that resonated within me, just because I
was introduced to a show about three sister witches and decided I wanted to
read more about fictional witches. They say fiction is based in fact and in
this case, they are very much right. But not in the way these touchy Pagans
think.
I’ve
addressed this topic on the Kelswitch a few times before and I’ll keep writing
about it until people understand. Both my community of those who were brave
enough to step away from the majority religions like Christianity and
Catholicism, and those who are still in those faiths and think witches are
evil.
Speaking of
magic, part two of Shadows Moved will be posted to the Kelswitch at sometime in
the near future. Maybe this week, maybe not. I’ve got a job interview today and
if I get it, I have a feeling my writing time will go down severely. I’ll be
happy for the paycheck, but sad for that. Even so, that’s not why I’m choosing
not to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year. I’ve never done
it before, but I decided that I’m a little past doing it. It’s an order of
50,000 words in a month, a very rough first draft of a novel and I’ve already
done that this year. By November, I plan to be elbow deep in revisions, if not
working on book two. But good luck to all who are participating!
Now, I’ve
got a list of stuff I should be getting done before my interview this
afternoon. Happy Monday from the Kelswitch! Over and out.
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