The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

if a theology doesn't have an object referent *at all* around which to coordinate criticism, it's idealist, and has nothing to do with the World

I don't even know what that means tbh. I just want a setting that follows a softened form of chaos magick metaphysics without people yelling incomprehensible gobbledygook at me.

if chaos magick interacts with reality, then reality can be used to criticize chaos magick if chaos magick *doesn't care* about reality, it doesn't interact at all, then it has nothing to say about reality anyway... so do what you enjoy with it

if you're talking about fiction, then people shouldn't scream gobbledygook at you, that's just rude sorry if i'm doing this

(if you're treating fiction as an allegory for reality, then people will critique that allegorical relationship, of course)

For a reality that does not yet exist tbh, that might exist, that probably should not. I am doing Egan esque stuff irt simulations and so forth that is kind of... how to put it... not relevant to anyone else but me? It's a criticism of things I think people might do in the future

I think exploring "what if chaos magick were real for some reason" raises the question of why it is real in the fictional setting, which in turn provides the leverage for criticism of people sucking or thinking wrongly or whatever.

my model of chaos magick is that it's a (pseudo) culturally-uninformed triumph of personal faith over the world, with added esotericism-sauce to create aesthetic elbow-room (sorry @ chaos) so, idk, seems like a fun premise for *any* setting