MUNDANE MAGIC

What is MAGIC? Magic is any system with complex variables which can be influenced
willfully. Prayer is a type of magic. Sacraments are a type of magic. Fixing an
engine, programming an app, and creating art are all different forms of magic.
A film is a piece of magic.

Anyone who endeavors to influence day-to-day magical variables is a MAGE (also
known as Wizard, Witch, Magician, and more. Feel free to substitute your own
word).

The focus of a magical act or system is called a SUBJECT. A film is directing
its magically potent images and sounds at us, the audience, and we are the
subject. A film could also be a subject itself (as in the "all-female reboot,"
where the film's key identifying magical variables have all been inverted).

Different MAGICAL INFLUENCE PATTERNS are used to affect change on the magical
variables of a subject via the use of the mage's will. There are four main
magical patterns that a mage can use to influence a subject, or the magical
memes that people are likely to associate with a subject:

1.) INVERSION is the most potent and powerful pattern. In this pattern, a mage
uses his will against a subject in order to damage, destroy, or shrink its
influence and power. The mage creates a graven image of the subject with the key
identifying variables of the subject altered to their precise opposties. This is
especially potent because the image takes on the outward appearance of the
subject while precisely inverting its identity. Inversion softens the structural
portions of the subject's unique magical identity without giving the outward
appearance of malintent.

2.) REFLECTION is a magical pattern in which the mage takes upon himself the
magical energies of the subject in a non-destructive way in order to direct the
subject toward a certain end goal by making slight adjustments in his own energy,
causing the subject to unknowingly follow suit, until the subject's energies are
led toward the mage's goals. In sales, hypnosis, and persuasion, this is called
"mirroring."

3.) OPPOSITION is the direct contradiction of a subject's magical energies in a
head-on "fight" against the subject's magical influence. This can be aimed toward
a goal of either destruction.

4.) DIRECTION is the attempt by the mage to aim or redirect the flow of the
subject's magical energies by using existing magical momentum, rather than
contradicting, changing, or arresting that momentum.