How about scenes from a TV show were a group of kids are always in their school library researching witchcraft and other demons. Then try Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
If you think I didn’t grow up in a town with a store that sold books on crystals and witchcraft, and that my mom didn’t buy me them and that I didn’t walk around with them in middle school so people would ask me about them, you’d be wrong.
I loved when it was an amazing-looking scary tome. I was greatly mislead how many of those there'd be available in the world. Instead, in my youth you'd get a generic stock photo of the sky with "LEARNING WITCHCRAFT with ABBY BROWN" in Papyrus on a glossy paperback with terrible typography.
A series with an occult bookstore I feel gets little recognition is Brand New Cherry Flavor on Netflix. Love the vibes and Catherine Keener is a great witch.
So every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I always loved that the research component was a huge part of the show. Buffy was the only one qualified to handle most threats, but she had to rely on intelligence and operational support from her team. So basically Lioness.
and when it turns out the witchcraft section is suspiciously disjoint from the classification scheme governing all the other material? ohhh yeah that’s the stuff right there
I’d love to run an occult store. Nothing but love for the new age stores around, but I could spend the rest of my days doing that, sourcing quality spell and ritual stuff and very select books for the back room and witchy aesthetic stuff in front
I’ve always wanted a scene with some expert on arcane knowledge or librarian or bookstore owner saying, “I am really tired of you crazy people. Go on, get out. I’m not indulging this,” like they get people asking for weird, secret knowledge all the time.
It’s funny how this stuff changes. I used microfiche a lot, as a kid, but everybody who did any kind of research did. Now that it’s not so dominant, the movies and cultural artifacts convey a different sense of it. It seems special, because of the specialties of the ppl in them.
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Me as a teen? Not as much.