Simmering with resentment towards an old lover? Brimming with gratitude for a friend? Nursing a grudge against your boss? Worried about the future?
If you have a desire, but cannot see a way to fulfill it through conventional means, you have come to the right place. Pass through one of the portals below to submit a curse or blessing, and to witness conjurings cast by others, past and present.
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When all the methods promised to us by our systems and protocols have failed, how else can we make our desires reality?
As the means to realize human desire become increasingly unattainable, the time is ripe for magical thinking.
A spell does not rely on the infrastructures that have already failed us. A spell makes desire real, fulfills it, not through the depletion of money or gas, but through the most elemental of currencies — a gesture. The accumulation of gestures, a physical insistence, is what empowers the spell.
This site is a crowdfunding platform for such repetition, and in turn, for magic. Here, you will see a range of curses and blessings, from the premodern era to present day. Sources include Greco-Roman curse tablets, Chinese spirit tablets, the Akkadian Maqlû incantation text — and potentially, you.
You are invited to power this array of ancient to contemporary wishes by reading them aloud, or automating the process with text-to-speech. You are also invited to submit your own curses and blessings, which will be added to the site and powered by future visitors.
May I live in a reality where wishes can, at last, be fulfilled by the sheer force of collective desire.