“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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V. Desiccation as Resistance: How to Make Your Terrain Uninhabitable to Social Work Mold

V. Desiccation as Resistance: How to Make Your Terrain Uninhabitable to Social Work Mold

You cannot argue with mold.

You can only dry it out.

This section outlines the tactical use of emotional, linguistic, and procedural dryness as a method of survival and subversion within fungal bureaucracies.

When your home, your tone, and your narrative are stripped of moisture — vagueness, defensiveness, pleading, or emotional excess — the spores cannot spread.


A. Dry Language Ends Spore Loops

Social workers thrive on emotional humidity:

  1. If you cry = “parent overwhelmed”
  2. If you resist = “hostile and closed to support”
  3. If you explain too much = “inconsistent narrative”

Instead, respond with:

  1. “Please confirm your legal basis for this meeting.”
  2. “This will need to be put in writing.”
  3. “I do not consent to further visits without documented cause.”
  4. “I require all communication in written form only, as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act.”

This is not compliance.

This is desiccation.


B. Dry Homes Confuse Moist Systems

A tidy home isn’t enough.

It must be inert.

No visible stress.

No unfiltered emotion.

No explanations that open narrative humidity.

The goal is not perfection.

The goal is to create no surface for spore adhesion.

Keep printed records.

Speak minimally.

Record everything.

Seal every door with silence and exactitude.


C. Dry Identity: No Feeding Loops

Fungal systems feed on:

  1. Confession
  2. Justification
  3. Emotional exposure

Dry people say:

  1. “I decline.”
  2. “That’s incorrect.”
  3. “This is a documented pattern of administrative harassment.”
  4. Nothing.

They leave no entry point.


D. Dry Terrain Breaks the Cycle

Once the terrain dries:

  1. The case dies
  2. The spore chain collapses
  3. The workers move on to moister ground

They need contradiction, reaction, softness, and confusion.

If they encounter only clarity and record-keeping, they retreat.


Conclusion of Section V:

Dryness is not coldness.

It is resistance.

Moisture is not compassion.

It is a tool of invasion.

When the fungal system arrives with soft eyes and damp paper, your task is simple:

Seal the terrain. Dry the air. Starve the spores.

Let nothing ferment.

Let no story mist the glass.

Let no concern take root.


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