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I reached a critical point in Melusine on the subway this morning. If what I think is about to happen happens, it's indication #784545 that I really need to make a list of "occult texts you should read before attempting to use sex magick as a major plot device in your fantasy novel."

Maybe no one cares but me, but I care!

Just because the magick in your fantasy novel isn't real doesn't mean it doesn't have to have internal consistancy, a justification for its processes (why you have to do x instead of y) and some sort of philosophical underpinning. Magick _is_ science, and deciding that it's not and therefore doesn't need rules, FUCKS YOUR NOVEL UP.

Thank you.

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Michael Liljenberg has some good stuff to say about that kind of thing in the FARP SciFi/Fantasy Worldbuilding Tutorials (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/liljenbergworlds/index.html) recently posted at Elfwood. I've been reading those rather avidly of late.