The Death and Rebirth of Glamourbombing

You probably didn’t know this, but glamourbombing is dead. Shot through the heart by the grim specter of consensual reality we call the Mundane World. I would like to say that she waged a valiant battle against overwhelming odds – but the truth is, she didn’t. Instead, I’ll say this: never bring glitter and mailbox doilies to a gun fight.

Glamourbombing was, at heart, an idealist who wanted to believe that if mankind could be convinced of the reality of magic, of glamour, that it would help to breach the veil between worlds. To this end she left glitter-encrusted messages for the mundanes touting that their wings were real. She glued pennies to sidewalks in strange and wondrous designs. She even, on Thursdays after a new moon in months ending with a ‘y’, put on elaborate performances known as “Goblin Markets,” plying whimsical wares to the bemused and banal. The one thing she didn’t try very often? Magic.

That was her secret, you see. She loved magic, would use any trick or gimmick of guerrilla art or stage magic to convince a sleeping populace of its reality. But deep down, in her heart of hearts, she didn’t – couldn’t – believe in it herself. Certainly could not believe in a magic strong enough, powerful enough, effective enough to break open a sleeper’s mind and introduce them to the reality of the supernatural.

She didn’t know – couldn’t see – how very wrong she was. Magic is not some sickly, impotent wretch whose presence and reality need to be faked to be convincing. And by acting as a charlatan on its behalf, she was not helping but betraying it. Giving the world one less thing to believe in. One more proof that magic is simply tricks and illusions with no real substance.

But now, rising from the ashes of the old, we find a new glamourbombing taking her place. One no longer afraid of the power of magic, nor afraid to wield it. This glamourbombing is a true creature of Dream. A will-worker. A weaver of wonders.

The tools of this new glamourbombing have changed as well. Glitter has been set aside in favor of the simple tools of chalk and marker. And sites are tagged not with cheap inspirational phrases but with empowered sigils.¹ Sigils to link them together in a network of magic.² Sigils to invoke spirits, angels, gods and demons.³ Sigils to stich the physical and the astral together like Peter Pan and his Shadow.⁴ Sigils to infect the mind⁵, or to warp reality itself.

This new glamourbombing creates fresh variations on prayer wheels, using them to spread fey energies and create new thin places. She attunes others to otherworldly energies⁶ and condenses such energies into objects of power.⁷ She invokes the otherworlds themselves, calling them into alignment with our own. And she invokes those who, like ourselves, share an otherworldly heritage.⁸^,⁹

But her greatest workings are found in the oldest of magics. The magic of blood.¹⁰ Our blood, for she has re-enchanted it with the blessing and curse of all that makes us fey. All that makes us living gates between the worlds. Our natures, spread virally forward and backward along the river of blood. We are the changelings, and she has stolen us.

This is the new glamourbombing. No more a timid mouse, but a QUEEN in black and RED.¹¹ This is glamourbombing, and her name is Alice, spelled E-L-L-I-S. This is glamourbombing. Are you ready to see how deep the rabbit hole really goes?

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Jarandhel Dreamsinger