{"id":1879,"date":"2024-10-22T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?post_type=book&#038;p=1879"},"modified":"2025-01-02T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:32:09","slug":"mister-magic","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/book\/mister-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mister Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">I think I always, on some level, wanted to read a full novel-length version of <a href=\"http:\/\/ichorfalls.chainsawsuit.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/ichorfalls.chainsawsuit.com\/\">Candle Cove<\/a> and I certainly got some level of it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My friend read this before and I kept seeing the cover around. I&#8217;ve been haunted by the magenta cover with the test pattern TV for ages now, so I just broke down and read it. And truly, I don&#8217;t regret it at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">How much can I say without giving it away?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">(A lot, this blog isn&#8217;t a review blog, it&#8217;s just me, logging my shit)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I think I felt the religious trauma from early on. This book is <em>Religious Trauma and How it Fucks You Up<\/em>, really. The indoctrination, the struggle to resist, the way it looks when you actually <em>look<\/em> at the memories. How it affected you. A mysterious, magic man that swoops in to direct, to point the way, to make sure you fit into the society that has put you in his clutches\u2014 c&#8217;mon. And then the narrative shifting in the meta and the book itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">An exhausting upbringing in the midst of the struggle. The desire to escape all mention of it, to deny yourself a god, because a god hurt you. The slow realization that you can be your own god, or allow a gentle god, a presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children&#8217;s programming can really fuck you up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":460,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[5],"genre":[275,393],"rating":[310],"series":[],"smut_stuff":[],"trigger_warning":[389,391,392,390],"trope":[396,394,398,395,399,397,344],"class_list":["post-1879","book","type-book","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","genre-horror","genre-mystery","rating-310","trigger_warning-amnesia","trigger_warning-cults","trigger_warning-lds","trigger_warning-religion","trope-eldritch-worship","trope-horror-nostalgia","trope-my-ship-sank","trope-religious-trauma-symbolism","trope-self-sacrifice","trope-small-town-horror","trope-unreliable-narrator"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"smut_stuff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/smut_stuff?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"trigger_warning","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trigger_warning?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}