lb_lee | Madgic Is Up For Sale!

The paper book is $8.00 on Etsy, and the PDF is on itch.io for $4.00. It was the big hit at MICE this weekend, outselling everything else! (And to think, Mori was worried nobody would be interested...)

When you’re severely mentally ill, religion or magic may seem like nothing but worsening symptoms, but what happens when therapy, medication, and doubt doesn’t make it go away? Herein, Mori of LB Lee talks magic and multiplicity, sanity and spirituality:
• Autonomancy, semiotics, and dance to communicate with the subconscious mind (depicted as a cartoony whale)
• Exorcism, coercive belief modification, and how belief is less about thoughts or feelings than behavior
• Sanity-boosting, inner community building, and body rooting
52 pages, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, black and white.

A textured dark gray handprint, with a white circumscribed triangle and square on the palm. The outside of the circle makes a ring of symbols. Text reads Madgic: a sanity and sorcery zine by Mori of LB Lee. The title is written in spikey text, with a heart worked into the D, a spiral for the G, and an x dotting the I.

A textured dark gray handprint, with a white circumscribed triangle and square on the palm. The outside of the circle makes a ring of symbols. Text reads Madgic: a sanity and sorcery zine by Mori of LB Lee. The title is written in spikey text, with a heart worked into the D, a spiral for the G, and an x dotting the I.

I'm trying out yet another new ebook-accessibility thing which, if it works, will make future zine-making a lot simpler. Up till now, I've had to make screenreadable versions manually, deleting every image and replacing it with text and saving it as a different file. However, LibreOffice has recently updated with accessibility tools that, hypothetically, allow straight embedding of alt-text into images in the PDF, meaning that if it works, I could just make the one file for everything. I hope it does. Unfortunately, it seems to crash LibreOffice a whole heck of a lot.

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Mori: our roster is kinda a mix. Mac is Protestant, Falcon a lapsed New Orleans Catholic (we think?), Grace Jewish atheist, Bob Hindu atheist. We had a preponderance of Christian atheists, but it's kinda hard to uphold either that when our brain keeps doing what it does. So most of us are just a flailing parade of, "whatever gets us through the day." Truly a deep, rigorous philosophy! It'd be downright weird if all of us had the same traditions and such; I can't IMAGINE Bob praying to anything! (Meanwhile, Rogan's told Mac a bunch of times that it'd feel weird if Mac wasn't Christian.)

Both marriages here are interfaith. Grace once said about her marriage to Bob that from their differences come strength; I'm pretty sure Mac and Rogan feel the same way.

The funny part is seeing how the bony lady gets (mis)identified by everyone around her. Falcon thought she was a loa when they met, while Bama (who was Protestant, RIP) thought she was the Christian angel of death, and me and Rogan mistook her for Santa Muerte, who's a Mexican Catholic saint. (Neither of us are Mexican OR Catholic, adding to our confusion.) We finally gave up on pinning her to a pantheon; she just pops up now and again and laughs at our attempts to categorize her. She seems totally uninterested in any moral philosophy more complicated than, "make yourself useful until the end of your days. You're doing that? Great! Keep up the good work byyyyeeee!"

Madgic Is Up For Sale!

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