How To Be a Weirdo: A field guide (with printable zine)

molly roberts
Jun 26
3 min read

A smiling person with colorful pom-pom headdress and bright attire. Text: "How To Be A Weirdo, a field guide." Disco ball and papers in vibrant setting.

A smiling person with orange hair in a colorful room. Text reads: "Hello Moon Baby! I'm Molly. Art Witch, Author, Magick Mentor, Dorky YouTube Fairy Godmother."

Folk keep telling me, “I want to get weirder.”

They’re longing to find ways to respond to difficulties with more creative magick, resist psychic death, and LIVE.

Me too.

As a professional full time weirdo, I’m here for you. The following is a field guide to becoming the wizard your city deserves! Let's explore 10 ideas for cultivating your benevolent oddness and keeping it weird.

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Shedding: If a label is exciting, validating, or life affirming, keep it. If it cramps you, toss it in a bottomless pit. Practice being label-less. Enjoy unnamable nebulousness. If you desire, invent an entirely new label for yourself with permission to shed it at any time like the multitudinous serpent you are.

Hermitage: Seek psychic respite. Practice periods of hermitage to sift through experiences and be alone with your own juicy thoughts. The Hermit is a uniquely wise person because they can spend time on their own. (Those insights power the lamp of wisdom.) A mystical beard is not required but always admired.

Glamour: Wear what you want. Embrace the art of artifice. Cultivate your fleshy mansion in ways that delight you. This creative construction will result in a glamour which amplifies your sweet weird soul. (You can reach much about glamour conjuration in my book, Rainbow Magick.)

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Contrast: To become instantaneously weirder notice the environment. Then, embody its compelling opposite.

Establish alternate forms of communication: Blog, employ messenger pigeons, establish a new system of pictographs, pen love letters to the dead in your dreams, expedient fungal hormones, communicate only in haiku.

The more thoughtful and time consuming this communication is, the better.

Initiate Yourself: A key to being a powerful weirdo is to initiate yourself into the ranks of soft leadership. Knight yourself. Grant yourself permission. Whether you reach out to other weirdos to create new worlds or not- just accepting the mission of weirdness will make you a kind of subtle uplifting leader.

Your permission to be free gives others permission to be free.

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Be omnivorous. We wary of the algorithmic undertow. Reject regurgitated lifeless media. Enjoy cycles of scholarly depth and messy magpie frippery.

Look for inspiration exactly where you think you won’t find it.

Ninja Level Whimsy Conjuration: Pro weirdoship stems from a refined whimsy pallet and dedicated eccentric follow through. Have an idea that gives you a jolt of life force? Follow the whiff of a whimsical impulse to its full manifestation.

Build this skill by keeping a list of your unhinged ideas.

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Become Perfection Proof: Perfection is boring. And boring is the sworn enemy of the weirdo. Do things sloppily with great joy. Flaunt growth made through imperfect means. Spill stuff. Partake in the knowledge that imperfection will not kill you but the pursuit of perfection just might. Enjoy your power to create.

Ally with Mythic Forces: Does your neighborhood need a guardian, a muse, a trickster, magician, or soothsayer? Sign up, moon baby! It is of upmost importance.

What constructive mythic force do you wish to embody? The job is yours.