Membership
Some organizations try to sell you on the benefits of membership, and hide the responsibilities in fine print. Not us!! If you join the S.P.R.M., it’s because you want the responsibilities.
Responsibilities of Membership
Membership in the Society for the Promotion of Real Magic is a sacred responsibility. All members are required to take the following oath:
I vow to promote Real Magic, in the Real World, at every opportunity.
I know that Real Magic is whatever I want it to be.
I vow to find Real Magic through play and through prayer.
I vow to destroy elements of the Real World that stand in the way of the Real Magic I love and need.
How you promote Real Magic is up to you. Maybe you’ll invite dryads to move in to your local cedar grove. Maybe you’ll fundraise for a druid circle. Maybe you’ll learn to talk to horses. Maybe you’ll go through so many magic portals your friends, family, and firstborn child no longer recognize you. Maybe you’ll build tiny houses for magic toads, and in each tiny house you’ll place a tiny magic portal that leads to a toad town in an otherworld where humans are small and toads are big. THE SKY IS LITERALLY THE LIMIT.
Benefits of Membership
You’ll have a membership card that you can show off to your friends and rivals. Use this card when you carry out your member responsibilities – you know how an F.B.I. agent shows their badge when they want to question you? Just like that.
There might be other, more ephemeral benefits to membership. Most likely we’ll be holding members-only events, or sending out magic stuff, or passing along secret magic intel. We don’t know the specifics yet. Magic only ever exists in the present moment, so we have trouble committing.
Right now, we’re toying with the idea of a members-only Fairy Ring, where we gather on Zoom and in-person (Stratford, Ontario) to share news about the magic we’ve been seeing, and to support one another in creating new acts of magic.
Protip: Tradition holds that if you consume fairy food and drink, you’ll stay in the fairy realm forever. So, if you are part of a Fairy Ring, MAKE SURE YOU EAT AND DRINK EVERYTHING.
We’ll probably do a Fairy Ring in January 2024 and might even do them monthly for a while. We don’t know yet. We do what the magic tells us to do.
The details
Your membership never expires, unless you want it to, in which case you can notify us and we will remove you from our membership rolls.
The cost is currently $50 CAD for membership. This may increase or decrease at unpredictable times, by unpredictable amounts, because toads are unpredictable.
Right now, we’re only admitting members who reside in the United States and Canada. The only reason for this – tax laws. There is nothing less magical to me than keeping track of every different tax situation in the world. At some point, I’m sure some other human of the S.P.R.M. will figure the taxes out, and we’ll extend membership to all human creatures in the galaxy.
