Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

Hey stalkers! I miss writing to you. It's oddly cathardic. Today I want to talk about witches. I don't know why, but ever since I was little I'd had this obseen fascination with them. Well, actually, when I was little they terrified the crap out of me. Then my mom started watching Charmed at the dinner table. As I'm sure you can tell, seven or so years later I began to watch Charmed, from the beginning, on my laptop. I finished the series only three weeks ago. I miss it. I miss the characters and the stories and the demons....and sure I can watch it again, but it's just not the same as discovering it for the first time. Anyway, that's only one of the points I was planning on hitting in this post, so I have to move on from my beloved Halliwells.

I was thinking to myself at the beginning of last year that there were no good shows about witches. Now, this fall, The Secret Circle is coming to the CW. I have no idea if it's going to be good or not, but I'm watching it anyway. I've always figured that when I become an actress, I'll play a witch at least once. As it is I've been Gritch the Witch in Piggy Pie in third grade, Elphaba from Wicked for the talent show in fourth grade, the Wicked Witch of the West in fifth grade, and I went through that whole Wicked-obsessed phase that's apparently common (I've met two other people who went though the same phase) in sixth grade. Elementary school aside, I have not played a witch, no, but I really hope to, someday. (Now I really just have to focus on my divorce, remarriage, and pregnancy in this year's fall play, Steel Magnolias.)

I'd like to meet a witch. I don't really mean like the waving wands kind, because those aren't real, but I'd like to meet a Wiccan. It's a real religion. (To be fair, so is Jedi, it's very popular in Australia.) I'm dead serious. I'd like to be friends with one. I think it'd be cool to talk to them about it. I'm a Christian, have been all my life, so this isn't some creepy anti-God thing, I just wanted to put that out there.

I got on this topic in my head because I opened a book that I thought would be about witches. I was going to read it, obviously, until I discovered that it had nothing to do with witches at all. Which means that I'm stuck waiting for "that next book in that series that I like" to come out. I wish I were a brilliant writer, so that I could write my own fantastical story about witches, and live in it. (I'm pretty much just stuck waiting to register for Pottermore - talk about desperate.)

Anyway, I know this whole post was poorly written, with no transitional sentences, filled with run-ons and overused parenthesis, and so many other grammatical errors, but I just wanted to voice my opinions. Here are three pictures: one of Charmed, one of The Secret Circle, and one of Wiccan symbols, a triple moon. After researching a little bit, I discovered that it symbolized all three parts of female power becoming one. As a feminist, I think that's really cool. Plus it's also really pretty, don't you think?




I'm pretty sure that this is the big, final battle in the penultimate episode of Charmed



The Secret Circle



The Triple Moon

So I know this post was a little weird, but I had fun writing it. Until next time, my dearest stalkers!

Lots of Love,
~M~

P.S. While I remember to mention it, this new show called The Ringer is totally ripping off The Lying Game, even more the novels than the TV show.