Bronte-Marie Wesson

But.

fairies were originally frightening and they were of the land and there is a reason why in Ireland they will be reluctant to cut down certain trees out of fear that they will piss off the local fairies and will bring like ominous bad luck to an entire town because you've chosen to cut down the sacred tree.

I think religious prophecy is interesting because it's often self-fulfilling.

Like a very important person said a very important thing at some point and the world bends over backwards to make that thing true.

Okay, cool.

So maybe the original person who said it was magical, maybe they did...

have some form of blessing, is the magic system.

But also, is it the sheer influence of what they've said that has forced this to be true?

Do the words that they were spoken, do they serve a specific agenda in the long run that's now being turned and trained into a weapon?

One of my friends, Richard Swan, he's way more intelligent than I will ever tell him to his face, but he wrote something in his book about how

Like an empire, its strongest weapon is like its media machine, like how it writes.

So cool, an empire is given a prophecy that serves a purpose.

In the end, it doesn't matter if the prophecy was magical or not.

It doesn't matter who said it.

It matters that it works for what we need it to work for at this very moment.

And it serves that empire machine.

Exactly.

that it doesn't really matter what the prophecy is in the long run.

Like, what matters is what you do.

I think we are prone as individuals to look at the big scary thing hanging over our heads and go, oh, what are we meant to do about that?