#Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

[computergeek123]

list 5 things that make you happy, then send this to the askbox of the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers!

since it’s five, i might as well do five more things that make me happy:

• Newsies! (christian bale + jeremy jordan)

• video games! (mostly sonic and others!)

• musicals! (ex. Newsies, Bonnie and Clyde! Never actually been to one before!

• Singing (I know Hell’s Greatest Dad by heart lol)

• Z Nation (recently got into that!)

• Pizza (i love pizza a lot!)

• Arrowverse (mostly the musical episode in Flash, but I LOVE the Crisis on Earth X!)

• books! (who doesn’t love books? my fav rn are WoF!) • HH + HB, (i love Lucifer! :) )

•and finally, dancing. (I’m hoping to be in a musical at school one day!)

[romanceyourdemons]

dracula’s paradigm of vampires, a product of the late 19th century’s milieu of developing race science, is a fundamentally racialized one, framed by the book as a semi-person from far away who has something different about him indicated by the small details of his body, something that gives him a raw, sexual animal power above that of the purer and nominally superior white men of enlightened europe. similarly, just like in the contemporary gothic works the phantom of the opera and dr jekyll and mr hyde, the most horrifying things about dracula are the threats of racial passing and racial devolution—the fear that one of the apparently white faces mingling in high society is actually a mask for the dreaded atavistic-troglodytic-semitic-oriental-infiltrator-invader, and the fear that this invader can draw you in with the promise of gold or sex and then eat your whiteness, making you like him, a degenerated danger to your own people.

for this reason, black vampire films—blacula (1972), ganja & hess (1973), da sweet blood of jesus (2014), anne rice’s interview with the vampire (2022), even the blade films at moments—are so much more interesting than virtually any white-centered dracula adaptation. when the person being turned into a vampire is black, then vampirism fundamentally lines up with whiteness; in these films, to become a vampire is to be violently removed from the community of american blackness in favor of bloodsucking white-adjacency. in all of these works of film with the exception of the blade films, this black person becomes a vampire as a result of gaining enough power, wealth, stability, and respect that they are closer to the lifestyles of the white elite than that of their impoverished black community—and therefore the fears of racial passing and changes to one’s racialization are not the abstract self-spooking concerns of white-centered dracula stories, but rather concrete and salient concerns of black americans: is it possible to have power, wealth, stability, and respectability without the white elite that this wealth brings you closer to eating your blackness, making you just like them, and filling you with their uncaring hunger for the blood of your very own people?

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Monty, Charles, and Edwin (Arranged Marriage AU: Chapter 2)

It's a flash of movement, so quick that Monty isn't even sure if he blinked and missed it. One moment the pistol is casually twirling between Charles' fingers, the next the shot goes off with gunpowder and a bang, followed by a shout of pain and the flash of keys being tossed through the air. Charles doesn’t even flinch at the recoil, merely extending his free hand to catch the keys in hand as Brad clutches at his now bloody, ruined palm.

“You know the rules, Brad,” Charles says, “Second chances only for those that prove themselves. And if you waste it, then you’re done. You touch someone against their will, the hand you used to do it pays the consequences. You're damn lucky that it was me and not Crystal who heard first, because at least you can still see. Now fucking scatter, and don’t you dare show your face on this side of the tracks again.”

Brad looks like he wants to argue with Charles, to shout at him, but also like he wants to cry. Understandable- there’s a bullet on the ground that is covered in his blood and viscera. 

At the end of it, he decides to run out the back door, tail between his legs.

Charles tucks his pistol back into its holster and twirls the ring of keys around his finger. "There," he says, "He'll know not to try that again."

Monty knows that he should be dropping to his knees in fear, begging Charles not to do the same thing to him when he learns what Esther set Monty up for. That now that he's seen Charles Rowland in action, he should be terrified of the consequences of the truth.

And yet, it is also one of the hottest things that Monty has ever witnessed, Charles defending other people like that. It's the first time in Monty's life when he has seen someone actually stand up for people with less power than them, taking a no and etching it into fucking concrete.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, the devil’s gonna make me a free man (gonna set me free)

I know who I am when I'm alone

I'm something else when I see you

You don't understand, you should never know

How easy you are to need

Don't let me in with no intention to keep me

Jesus Christ, don't be kind to me

Honey, don't feed me, I will come back

-Hozier, It Will Come Back

@pappelsiin @itsbitmxdinhere @rexrevri @sweet-like-h0ney-lavender @saffirez

@the-ipre @sunnylemonss @days-light @agentearthling @helltechnicality

@sethlost @catboy-cabin @secretlyafiveheadeddragon @vyther15

@anything-thats-rock-and-roll @queen-of-hobgobblers @every-moment-a-different-sound

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@fandoms-are-my-lifestyle @frottow @sixbynine-da

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee, Oscar winning filmmaker was born in Atlanta, GA, on this date March 20, 1957.

His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983, and they include: She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers, Girl 6, Get on the Bus, He Got Game, Summer of Sam, Bamboozled, 25th Hour, She Hate Me, Inside Man, Miracle at St. Anna, Red Hook Summer, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Old Boy, Chi-Raq, BlacKkKlansman, and Da 5 Bloods.

Lee’s outstanding feature documentary work includes the double Emmy® Award-winning If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, a follow up to his HBO documentary film When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, 4 Little Girls, Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall, and the Peabody Award-winning A Huey P Newton Story.

He is also known for his legendary Air Jordan TV commercials and marketing campaigns with Michael Jordan for Nike. In 1997 he launched the advertising agency Spike DDB, a fully integrated agency with a focus on trendsetter, cross-cultural and millennial audiences.

In addition to his films, TV series and commercials, Spike Lee has Directed a number of music videos and shorts for artists such as Michael Jackson, Prince, Public Enemy, Branford Marsalis, Bruce Hornsby, Miles Davis and Anita Baker.

YA’ DIG, SHO NUFF.

CARTER™️ Magazine

[theguywithaplan]

List of Films Turning Ten (10) Years Old in 2025

American Ultra (stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart as stoners).

Ant-Man

Avengers: Age of Ultron (pretty short Age, if you ask me...)

Beasts of No Nation (stars Idris Elba as a warlord).

The Big Short (the favorite movie of the most annoying guy you know).

Black Mass (stars Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger).

Bridge of Spies (directed by Spielberg, written by the Coen Brothers, and stars Tom Hanks. What more could you want?)

CHAPPiE

Cinderella (the live-action disney remake)

Creed (the successor to the Rocky movies

Crimson Peak (a gothic horror movie from Guillermo del Toro).

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (a horror movie from Spike Lee).

The DUFF (stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend).

Ex Machina (the AI movie with Oscar Isaac).

Fant4stic

Fifty Shades of Grey

Focus (a pretty decent crime drama with Will Smith and Margot Robbie).

Furious 7

The Good Dinosaur (the rare misstep for Pixar).

Goosebumps (starring Jack Black as R. L. Stine).

The Green Inferno (a cannibal movie from Eli Roth).

The Hateful Eight (the eighth movie from Quentin Tarantino).

Hitman: Agent 47 (based on the video games).

Home (the DreamWorks movie starring Sheldon Cooper and Rihanna).

Hotel Transylvania 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2

Inside Out (one of Pixar's best)

Insidious: Chapter 3

It Follows (a fantastic horror movie).

Jem and the Holograms (I'm so sorry that you guys had to go through this).

Jupiter Ascending (an honest to god underappreciated sci-fi movie from the Wachowskis).

Jurassic World

Kingsman: The Secret Service (look up the church scene with Doom music. Thank me later).

Knock Knock (an erotic thriller starring Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves)

Krampus

The Last Witch Hunter (a strange passion project from Vin Diesel).

Mad Max: Fury Road (greatest movie ever made, don't at me).

Magic Mike XXL

The Martian

Minions

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

The Night Before (a really fun Christmas movie with Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Pan (a really terrible Peter Pan adaptation with Hugh Jackman).

Paper Towns (based on the John Green novel of the same name).

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

The Peanuts Movie

Pitch Perfect 2

Pixels (Pac-Man's da bad guy...?)

Poltergeist (the remake)

The Revenant (Leo DiCaprio got his Oscar, and all he had to do was get mauled by a bear).

Room (Brie Larson won an Oscar for this. Deserved).

Run All Night (Liam Neeson post-Taken).

San Andreas (not based on the GTA game.)

Sicario (Denis Villeneuve does not miss)

Southpaw (a boxing movie with Jake Gyllenhaal).

Spectre (the James Bond movie... it was just okay).

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Spy (a shockingly good spy comedy with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham).

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

Steve Jobs

Straight Outta Compton (starring Ice Cube's son as Ice Cube).

Taken 3 (how were there three of these??)

Ted 2

Terminator Genisys (I'll defend Salvation, but not this).

Tomorrowland

Trainwreck (an Amy Schumer comedy. Approach with caution).

Vacation (a reboot of the National Lampoon Vacation movies).

The Visit (the movie where M. Night Shyamalan finally decided to stop sucking).

[berrypass-de-murdler]

98. Stage Fright

I just wrote this yesterday so bear with me, I haven't written an episode in a while-

um uhhh

I'm really bad at drawing so I'll do something else

DON'T READ THE EPISODES UNTIL YOU'VE FINISHED THE FIRST BOOK!!

Logico and Irratino slowly follow Obsidian, nervously looking in every direction. They arrive at a locked stage that no one can enter. The boys see Pearl in a heated argument with Midnight III - well, however ‘heated’ Midnight III can be.

PEARL: YOU I’ SAY’N, MAY? DA’ END’S TOO LAYME! WHA WE GO’A JUS’ GIV’I ALL A ‘APPY END? MIDNIGHT: Okay, how about a new idea - everyone dies. PEARL: JESUS CHROIST MIDDA! DAZ S’POSE BE BEH’A??? OBSIDIAN: Ahem. [claps] Everyone look here…

She holds up the sparkling key. The arguing blokes stare in intrigue.

PEARL: NO’B’S BEEN ADDA LOCK SOWUND STAY I’ YEEEEAZ! MIDNIGHT: Maybe it’s time they did. Let’s see what Dad’s been up to.

Everyone backs away in cowardice as Obsidian walks up and unlocks the door. She’s so awesome, everyone automatically obeys her as the superior. The five fellows creep inside to find a dark room without a single source of light. 

GOAT SCREAM!!!

LOGICO: IRRATINO WHAT HAPPENED!!!

No response, but a single light turns on, dramatically revealing the goat lord’s body!

LOGICO: [insanely high-pitched scream]

And Officer Copper is suddenly there, right next to him, lapping oil out of a can!

LOGICO: YOU! PEARL: DA ‘ELL? OW’D’JA EVEN GET IN’EYA? COPPER: [throws hands up] I DON’T LIVE HERE-

Logico rushes to Irratino’s side, the poor goat laying in a puddle of blood. But when he looks at his face, he notices the tiniest of smiles - he’s doing this on purpose. Gico gets the hint, and pretends to be in hysterics, determined to solve the case.

While Logico looks for clues, Midnight III is interested in something else - the giant tarp in the middle of the room. 

MIDNIGHT: I really want to touch it. Or even uncover it. Or do I already know what it is. I don’t remember. 

He approaches the thing.

MIDNIGHT: GET OUT FROM UNDER THERE, I DEMAND YOU!!!!

Everyone steps back. This new passion is unsettling.

MIDNIGHT: Oh. Heh. Never mind. There’s nobody there. PEARL: AN’ YOU KNOW WHA’LL ‘APPEN I’YOU TUCHAT THING? MIDNIGHT: … PEARL: … [gets right up in his face] Oi’ll kill ya. MIDNIGHT: It’s not… it’s not yours

Logico cringes. Looks like this sweet moth is not sweet at all. She casually approaches Logico.

PEARL: I SEE’A NO’ISS DA OFFER COPPA IN THAT BIG MAH-SHIN. COPPER: Gee, Deductive, you’re not very uhh… upset about Irratino’s whole death this time around huh? Gotten over your honey bunch already?

Logico wants to punch her so bad, but Obsidian gently stops him. He looks up at her with confusion. She looks so worried…

He feels a pat on his foot. Irratino slyly winks at him, a note in his hand. Logico takes it.

“The killer stabbed me!”

Logico nods. 

PEARL: WH- WHA YOU ON ABOT? WHA YOU-

Irratino leaps to his feet.

IRRATINO: It was Pearl, AGE, with a knife by the great machine to protect a secret!

Copper screams. Midnight sighs. Pearl twitches her antennae and hisses. 

PEARL: OI’LL ‘AV’A FOINAL CUT!!!

She grabs her knife and jumps straight for Logico, Irratino sliding in just in time to take the hit. Logico grabs him and tears the knife out of his chest, but there’s not a speck of blood - the goat unbuttons his shirt to reveal his protective vest. He winks at Gico one more time. The magnifying glass man uncharacteristically jumps and fist-pumps.

LOGICO: I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE NOT NORMAL!!!

The other three force Pearl out, and Logico rips down the tarp. He screams so loud...

The end!

look at this plush baby logico umm

if you read this I love you!

The power of Goat Lord compels you!

See you next time murdlers!

[wordstome]

@kneelingshadowsalome thank you for indulging me on the hozier songs xoxo.

Melody-wise, if you liked Take Me To Church and Work Song, you'll like these songs, they're rock with gospel and folk influences. I'm going to list the songs who have lyrics that remind me of our favorite nasty Austrian man, but I really do recommend listening to all of Hozier's discography. Long post ahead!

Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene - lol of course I start with this one. This one is mostly about an unhealthy dependency on a woman akin to a drug addiction, but these lines are so König. Also this song just rules.

Feeling more human and hooked on her flesh I lay my heart down with the rest at her feet Fresh from the fields, all fetor and fertile It's bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet

It Will Come Back - feral man becomes obsessed the moment you show him scraps of affection

You know better babe, you know better babe Than to smile at me, smile at me like that Than to hold me just, hold me just like that Don't let me in with no intention to keep me Jesus Christ, don't be kind to me Honey, don't feed me, I will come back

Cherry Wine - required listening for Hozier fans, such a beautiful song. Again, this one is also about an unhealthy relationship that I don't really associate with König, but these lines do remind me of Fatum Nos Iungebit

Her fight and fury is fiery, oh, but she loves Like sleep to the freezing Sweet and right and merciful, I'm all but washed In the tide of her breathing And it's worth it It's divine The way she shows me I'm hers and she's mine Open hand or closed fist would be fine The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine

Dinner & Diatribes - drawing comparisons between the act of eating and the act of loving, my beloved

Honey, this club here is stuck up Your friends are a fate that befell me I'd suffer Hell if you'd tell me What you'd do to me tonight

Sunlight -

A soul that's born in cold and rain Knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight And at last can grant a name To a buried and burning flame As love and its decisive pain Oh, your love is sunlight

De Selby (Part 2) - this song just goes hard asf

What you're given, what you live in Darling, it finds a way to live in you And your heart, love, has such darkness I feel it in the corners of the room

Francesca - this song is really beautiful and longing, it's based on a story about a forbidden love where the couple was put to death. Also, "put me back in it" is most certainly referring to pussy.

My life was a storm since I was born How could I fear any hurricane? If someone asked me at the end I'd tell them, 'Put me back in it' Da-darlin', I would do it again If I could hold you for a minute

Special shoutout to the line "Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I"

Who We Are - hehe the third chapter of Shrike is titled after this song. Bit of a spoiler, but without context, which is the best kind of spoiler >:)

I just held it tight So someone with your eyes Might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife

Butchered Tongue - also reminds me of Fatum Nos Iungebit

So far from home to have a stranger call you 'Darling' And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand In some town that just means 'Home' to them With no translator left to sound A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground

Unknown/Nth - this is a really bittersweet song reminiscing on a relationship that ended because he didn't truly know his partner. Again, I don't really associate the whole song with König, but these lines do remind me of Just Friends

Where a blinding light shone on you every night And either side of my sleep Where you were held frozen like an angel to me

Hozier also sings the last verse of this song so beautifully, it's like he captured the sensation of being at a concert and having the artist's voice so powerful in your ear. Required listening tbh

There are so, so many more songs I would recommend listening to, but these are the König highlights :3 Enjoy

[chevy2497]

Thursday 31st August 2023. Last day of Winter. Tomorrow is the Friday 1st September 2023, first day of Spring.

Anyways I’ve done a part two of Rami Malek as Louis Dega and Elliot Alderson. 🥰🥵😎🥰🥵😎🥰🥵😎🥰🥵😎

Top Left (Home Screen) Rami Malek as Louis Dega (Papillon)

Top Right (Lock Screen) Rami as Elliot Alderson from the tv series “Mr. Robot”

Bottom: Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek)

I look at my phone screen more then my Fitbit for the time.

@crewman-penelope @rami-malek-yeah @ramimalek4ever @ramibabe @ramicastiel @rami-hoe @maleklovers @malekedd @robotedit @mrrobotsource

I have seen about 16 of Rami Malek’s films. Those films are:

- Night of the Museum (2006)

- Night of the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

- Larry Crowne (2011)

- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)

- The Master (2012)

- Short Term 12 (2013)

- Need For Speed (2014)

- Night of the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

- Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus (2014)

- Buster’s Mal Heart (2016)

- Papillon (2017)

- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

- Dolittle (2020)

- The Little Things (2021)

- No Time To Die (2021)

- Amsterdam (2022)

Even though I hear that Rami Malek is either dating Emma Corrin. Well I’m happy for him.

I know and understand that age doesn’t matter but he’s like 42 and she’s like older then me by two years)

Rami Malek is 42 (he’s 16 years older than me)

Emma Corrin is 27 (she is two years older than me)

[lboogie1906]

Ruth E. Carter (born April 10, 1960) is a costume designer for film and television, with over 40 films to her credit, she is regarded as having mastered the look of multiple periods and genres in envisioning the clothing and overall appearance of a character or performer. During her 30-year-plus film career, she has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, for her work on Malcolm X (1992), Amistad (1997), and her most recent work on Black Panther (2018), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022); for her work on Black Panther, she won the award and became the first African-American to win an Academy Award in that category. In 2023 she won the same award again, this time for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This made her the first African American woman to win two Academy Awards.

She graduated from Hampton Institute with a BA. She began her career working as an intern in her hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts, and at the Santa Fe Opera. She moved to Los Angeles in 1986. While working at the Los Angeles Theater Center, she met director Spike Lee, who hired her for his films, School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo’ Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Oldboy (2013), Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), and Chi-Raq (2015).

She has worked with legendary directors such as Steven Spielberg and John Singleton and has dressed actors from Denzel Washington to Josh Brolin, and actresses from Angela Bassett to Jane Fonda.

She is known for her work on What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993), Serenity (2005), Four Brothers (2005), Sparkle (2012), The Butler (2013), and Selma (2014). She has designed costumes Being Mary Jane.

Her costumes were inspired by many traditional African garments, including those of the Maasai and Ndebele people. She traveled to southern Africa to draw aesthetic inspirations and received permission to incorporate traditional Lesotho designs into the film’s costumes. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the film category. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #176 - Da Sweet Blood of Jesus 

[romanceyourdemons]

i have decided i want to watch blacula (1972), blade ii (2002), and da sweet blood of jesus (2014) as a series. now i ask for your advice

[goth-catte]

What a fantastic night at Pandemonio tonight. The place was packed, and everybody seemed to be vibing the whole night. Thank you all for your support, thank you for coming and hanging with me while I shared some music. This week I'll be at Club Valkyrie on Wednesday night and the Anti-Social Club on Friday, both at 11pm US Central. And, of course, you can find me at my Pandemonio home every Sunday for the mega-set of goth & industrial.

Dead Can Dance - Children of the Sun Fee Lion - Blood Sisters (Kontravoid Remix) GoodBooks - Leni (vs Crystal Castles) Grey Gallows - Dying Light (Actors Remix) Korine - Train to Harlem She Wants Revenge - What I Want Front 242 - Welcome to Paradise Incubite - Hell Instructor Bigod 20 - Like a Prayer Night Club - Cities in Dust Mechanical Moth - Black Queen Style Ayria - Headhunter Accessory - She Says It Feels Good And One - Metalhammer Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser Ministry - Effigy (I’m Not An) Switchblade Symphony - Dissolve Diary of Dreams - You (-das) Plastique Noir - Asleep in the Night Train Occults - Hot Crucible Christian Death vs Creux Lies - Spiritual Cramp Twin Tribes - Portal to the Void Drab Majesty - Ellipsis HEALTH - Feel Nothing Covenant - Bullet Haujobb - Speed of Pain NIN - Down In It

Depeche Mode - Master & Servant^ Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Gunship & Kat Von D - Black Blood Red Kiss Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always Rosetta Stone - Nothing IKON - She’s In Parties Necessary Response - Spilling Blood^ Frozen Plasma - Warmongers Covenant - Der Leiermann Gossamer - Run (Wayne Hussey Mix) Leathers - Missing Scene Ulver - Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers Oscillian - Activate HEALTH - Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0 Accessory - Elektrik Project Pitchfork - Acid Ocean Night Club - Vampires Corlyx - My Body Is Wrong Rein - Dystopia Trevor Something - Enjoy the Silence Hante. - Light//Lies Male Tears - Hit Me Drab Majesty - Dot in the Sky Pixel Grip - ALPHAPUSSY Sad January - Until the End of the World Perturbator ft. Greta Link - Venger Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy’s Song (Victoria Mix by VNV Nation) Qntal - Veni (Filthy Floor Mix) In Strict Confidence - Promised Land (Club Mix) The Cruxshadows - Helios (Solar Night Mix) Pixel Grip - Club Mania Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine The Chameleons - Second Skin Joy Division - A Means to an End Love Like Blood - Lucretia, My Reflection The Cure - One Hundred Years Black Angel - Serene Only Fire - Double Penetration

[talesfromthecrypts]

Have you seen Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Spike Lee's remake of Ganja & Hess? It wasn't particularly great, but it was beautiful and made me want to watch the original.

I did years ago. I remember it being very dry and boring but that's all I really recall. Just not nearly as interesting as its predecessor by any measure. It also had the misfortune in coming out in a banner vampire year (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, What We Do in the Shadows, Prince Lestat, the second half of NBC's Dracula). It did have a really sick poster though.

[misericorsalvator]

Eavesdrop Fina, if you want

@midnight-blue-blood

"...Aye, and the nice lady who game you the flute. Jesus pup, how'd you remember all that? ...Heh, almost. Fina Motisi, not Mitosis. That's a science thing. You remember her? ...Yeah, she's in America. She's doing well, looking after her home, her folk. ...Heh, sweet? Don't know, always seems a bit stern. ..Because I acted like a-? Oi! Where'd you hear that word? That what they're teaching you there? Pfft- Don't cover the receiver, I can hear ya laughing over there.

...No, pup. She's a busy lady, wouldn't want to disturb her work, would we? ....Alright, I'll tell her you said hi. ...Heh, alright, won't say any bad words, either. Swear. Nos da, pup, don't stay up too late. ...Oi, I mean it! You little devil... Alright, alright, nos da. ...Caru ti."

[roseofithaca]

The Gift

Set in @idiotwithanipad Era Swap AU. How young Silver acquired the Sight.

-

"Heavens aboves, what's 'appened?!"

"Move aside, wife!"

"Donts you 'wifes' me, John Guppy, what 'as 'appenens to my baby?!"

Mummy and Daddy are squabbling over her. She doesn't like it when they do that, because it happens so rarely, especially when they do raise their voices high aboves the other. Usually they pipe down when she rushes between them and asks them to stop.

She can't do that now. Can't so much as lift her head, let alone raise her hands and demand they cease their shouting.

Da carries her across the threshold of their little cottage, handlin' her as if she were a newborn babe instead of a big girl of five years, his hand supporting the back of her head which pulses in agony against his palm.

"What was it? One of them mules give her a kick? I said not to let her go toddling around the back of them beasts!" Mummy berates.

"Weren't no mule's hoof, Mary. Cart horse got startled and went off trail, wild as the devil. 'Ad to use both hands on the reign to calm the creature and the little'en went tumbling off the side, landing on her noggin'." Da explains with more than a pinch of guilt; "Should've had her clutched under me arm, I know, but-."

"Shouldas be no help to us now, John! 'And her to me! She needs her Mummy."

"I gotta put her down on the bed, Mary, can't risk breakin' her little neck by jostling her about this and that." Da says, apologetic, and Silver feels the softness of her straw mattress and blankets beneath her as she's laid down; "There you are, little'en. Home and safe. Time to open them eyes now, yeah?"

Da's palm is stroking her brow ever so gently. She wants to open her eyes, wants to show them she's okay, she's still with them, not left with the angels but...she's so weak. So very tired.

A larger hand grips her own, and she instantly recognises it.

"Silver, darling, t'is Mummy. Can ye hear me, sweetheart? Ye must open them eyes for Mummy now. I shall bake thee the sweetest honey cake if thou squeezes my hand. Please, little love..."

"I can sees her chest rise and fall with the breath of the soul." Says Da, resting his fingers over her torso.

"There bes blood on her head, John! Look!"

Through a haze of black as Silver tries to open her eyes, she sees her mother's hand held up, fingers dripping red after having stroked her daughter's hair.

"Sweet Jesus. We shall need a barber. And your mother's medicine, no doubt. I'll fetch them both." Da panics.

"Make haste, John! If she dies, I wonts be long behind her!"

Please, stop yelling! Her head is hurting enough as it is!

It's awful listening to Mummy weep at her bedside and not be able to comfort her. To not have the strength to sit up and assure her that she's okay, that she's not gone yet...There doesn't seem to be any angels coming to collect her and fly her up to the clouds.

That is until she spots another figure sit at the edge of her bed.

"Well, well, darlin'. Don't think I's seen anyone get my kid brother in such a tizzy since I released the sheep we were watchin' as nippers." A man who looks an awful lot like Da smiles over her.

Barely, she frowns. This man...He'd been in the fields before. When she'd fallen off Da's cart, he'd been the first to look over her. Was he a friend of her parents she hadn't met before?

He frowns back and tilts his head, waving his hand at her.

"I's be damned...Blink twice if thou can see me, little one?"

She does so, whimpering softly from the throbbing in her skull.

"Oh dear. Oh, we can'ts be 'avin' that." The man pales before shuffling closer; "If thy eyes are able to look upon me, it means your soul be comin' into my world. We can'ts let that happen, niece."

Niece? But...she knows all Mama's brothers and sisters, he doesn't resemble any of them. And Da is the only surviving one of his brood.

"Ah, ye may nots 'member me, little one. But I 'as known you since birth. I used to make thee laugh with my 'and puppet shows over your cradle when ye were a babe, I dids." The man grins warmly at her; "I is thy Uncle Jim."

Uncle Jim? But...Daddy had said that the only brother he remembered had gone up to Heaven before she was born...

"Ah, I's can see that clever little brain workin' away evens now." Uncle Jim praises; "Ye know what I must be, don't thee? And as much as I woulds love to 'ave some family with me here, it can't be you, little Silver. Thou has thy whole life ahead of thee."

Silver's attention is pulled again by her mother's sobbing and stroking her face.

"Oh I shoulds have let thee stay in and play whilst I works! Shoulds not have allowed thy da to take you on that blasted cart. Forgive me, darling girl, please...Don't leaves me." Mummy begs, squeezing her little fingers tight.

Uncle Jim looks solemn; "One of the best women on God's green earth. Little brother did good findin' her. Listen to her, Niece. Your ma be an angel, she don't deserve to mourn another babe. And yous will shatter thy daddy's heart if you leave him, so stay put in that body, ye hear?"

She would nod if she could. Yes, Uncle Jim. No matter what it takes, she'll fight. She'll stay.

Soon the door opens and there are people bustling around her again. Da is dragging Mummy away to let the others see to her. Granny Maggie has her basket full of herbs. Rufus the barber is examining the wound on her head and preparing his blades to cut...oh no! Not her hair!

She's able to summon another whimper when Rufus tells her folks that he's going to need to take most off the back of her hair in order to stitch up the cut. Mummy loves her hair ever so....

"Better to lose thy hair than thy life, little one. Hair can regrow...well, unless ye has mine and your grandpa's blood." Uncle Jim smirks.

She wishes she could scowl at him. Not funny.

But Granny is already heating up a special tea and tilting her head to drink it all up. The lavender scent is already pulling her further down into sleep.

"Don'ts you leave us, Silver Guppy."

She's not sure who gives the order. Mummy, Daddy, Granny, or Uncle Jim. Maybe all of them. It doesn't matter. She'll fight as best as she can.

-

It feels as though she's cursed to lie in bed forever, immovable. Days drift past at a rate impossible for her to tell with how often she slips in and out of consciousness.

Mummy and Da rarely leave her side, there's always someone holding her hand. Mummy tucks her ragdoll, Luna, in bed with her. Da sits and tells her stories, few of which she manages to listen to till the end before passing out.

"Ha! I remember when our ma would tell us that one. Johnny would always hide under the bed after! Not surprised he changed the ending for ye." Uncle Jim comments, jovial.

Granny visits often with her soups and teas. Mummy spends so much time praying that her knees must be getting blisters. The barber returns to check her head and Silver feels a rush of cold on her scalp, realising with horror that some of her hair is gone, bandages wrapped around her tight.

Hair regrows, she reminds herself daily. Hair regrows.

"What if she wakes up changed, John? Old George got kicked in the head and were never the same after." She overhears Mummy fretting one night.

"Tosh, Mary. Some would say what that horse did was an improvement." Da dismisses; "So long as she doth wake be the main thing. I care not if she rises and can only cluck like a chicken, I's shall be overjoyed - and ready to work on buildin' her a hutch to lay us some eggs!"

"Curse you and your japes, John Guppy!" Mummy scolds but Uncle Jim is chuckling.

As is Silver.

They both turn their heads to the little bed in the corner of their cottage.

"Darling girl...?" Mummy gasps, dropping her spoon beside the bowl of stew she were eating.

Silver grinned, weakly.

"Daddy...will I has to go in the pot when I's stop layin' eggies?"

Her parents shot up out of their seats and rushed to their bedside. Both were cautious to hug her, as much as they clearly wanted to.

"The little scamp! She hath risen, Mary! Haha!" Da praises, cupping her face with his hands.

"Praise be! T'is a miracle! Thanks be to Jesus!" Mummy cheers and sits beside Silver, bundling her close with care and smothering her face with kisses.

Uncle Jim stood behind them, letting out a heavy sigh.

"There's a good girl. Knew ye could do it." He smiles.

Silver blinks and looks at her mother, still feeling a bit groggy. Maybe from the wound, maybe from Granny's medicine.

"Weren't just Jesus, Mummy. Uncle Jim helped me too." She tells them both.

The adults frown.

"Uncle Jim? Sweetheart...you's only been dreamin' all these weeks. Uncle Jim be with the angels." Daddy tells her gently.

"No, he be here, Da! Over there, see! He looks like thee, 'cept less hair and a mole on his nose!"

"Oi! Could've said 'more handsome', Missy." Jim chides.

Her parents exchange frowns.

"Did you tell her about Jim's mole?" Da asks Mummy.

"Why woulds I do that? 'E were thy brother!"

Silver frowns; "Can't you see him? He's right there!" She points.

Mary and John stare in direction but see only the table with their abandoned dinner bowls.

Uncle Jim gives her a sad smile; "Livings can't see the Dead, little one. Neither are you 'sposed to...Most likely I's will fade away as I did when thee were a nipper. But I's shall remain as long as the Lord wishes, watching over thee."

The thought of that makes Silver sad, almost ruining the elation of having the strength to move and speak again.

"S'not a dream, Mummy, Daddy. He's real." She tries to tell them.

"I's sure he is, little love. And I thank him for helpin' keep you with us." Da indulges her, kissing her temple.

"Just rest, darling girl. We's got you. All will be well now." Mummy whispers, rocking her in her lap.

-

She sits on a stall in her Granny's house several weeks later, the old cunning woman stood before her with her hands behind her back.

"Again." The grey haired woman says.

"Oh comes off it, Muvva', ain't we done enough tests on the little'en?" Mummy pleads.

"We has to be certain, Daughter." She replies, sternly. "Come, girl. Tell it true."

Silver glances over to her Uncle, standing unbeknownst behind her grandmother.

"Six." She squeaks.

The fingers change.

"Three."

And again.

Silver giggles.

"Darlin' girl, this be no laughin' matter!" Mary chides.

"He's saying Granny's bein' cheeky!" She defends.

Her grandmother smirks, apparently displaying some rude gesture to the ghost that was supplying Silver with the answers.

"Hmm, I cans imagine what your uncle be sayin'." She says, "There be no doubt. The child hath the Sight."

Mary places her hands on Silver's shoulders.

"Oh nos! Be there no cure?" She asks.

"Cure? Am I sick? You said I be all better!" The child frowns.

"Pay no heed to your mother this time, little'en, thou is perfectly well." Her grandmother assures, rather blandly, clearly used to her youngest daughter's quick to panic.

"Perfectly well? She doth converse with the dead! My little girl be cursed!" Mary clutched Silver to her breast.

"Calm yeself, Mary! Ye be so quick to assume everythin' be of the devil! Did Jesus 'imself not converse with Moses and Elijah?"

"I'm like Jesus?" Silver's eyes widened.

"Well, no, best not be thinking that child, I just be tryin' to prove a point to your mother." Granny assures, getting back to preparing one if her satchels; "But thou doth have a great gift, as I's sees it."

"A gift that coulds get her branded a witch, Mummy!" Mary continues to fret. "If word got out-."

"Then word won't get out. Your daughter be no fool, ain't that right, little'en?" Granny looks at her, "Ye be wise enough to know what things stay private among families and what our neighbors be allowed to hear."

"Like the secret to your cherry pie, Granny?" Silver asked, kicking her feet.

"Ha! See! She gets it." The old woman ruffled her hair beneath her bonnet. "Bring her back to me in a couple o' years, we'll begin makin' a Cunning Woman of 'er yet. And we might find a way to put this Gift to some use."

When they arrived back home, Silver could tell her mother remained unconvinced this was a good thing. She barely looked at Silver as she prepared dinner, telling her to play with the wooden toys Da had crafted for her.

When her father returns, he's full of smiles and laughter as usual. Silver rushes to hug him and he scoops her up.

"Ah! There be that goat I lost!" He teased, picking at the tops of her shortened hair - still growing back out - till it looked like horns.

"M'not a goat, Daddy!" She giggles.

"Oh this one bleats a lot, don't it, Mary! Almost smells as bad too, must be due its bath!"

Silver squeals at the threat. She already had her one bath for the month! Da's just being silly as usual.

"Muvva' confirmed it, John. She has the Sight." Mary stated, grimly.

Silver's heart plummeted.

Da seemed to grey; "Ah...I see. Well then, we has ourselves a little miracle worker! One who can talks with angels!"

"Hehehe, Uncle Jim is laughing 'cause you called him an angel!" The child laughs in her dad's arms.

"Oh I forgot that bugger was 'ere." Her dad seemed to look a bit overwhelmed at knowing for sure his dead brother was nearby; "Can't bear to be apart from me, ey Jimbo? Yous better be on thy best behavior arounds my girl!"

"He tells me all the rude words you used to makes up....Hehe, and nows he's calling me a dobber!"

Her father laughed at that; "Haha, I shall give him that, you shouldn'ts be dobbing!"

"WILT THOU STOP!"

Mummy's voice makes them both freeze. Silver wraps her arms around her father's neck. There are tears in Mummy's eyes, her face red as beetroot.

Da rubs Silver's back as she trembles; "We was only jestin', Mary."

"This be a serious matter, John! Hath you not heard what's they be doin' to girls with...abnormalities such as this?" Mary sniffles, holding her wooden spoon up as she wipes her nose; "'Member the tales of that French maiden who claimed to recieve visions from God? Doth thou want our little girl burned at the stake?!"

"Burned?!" Silver's eyes widened.

Da covered her ears.

"Hush, woman, ye shall give the girl nightmares!" He whispered.

"I already hath nightmares of standin' at her grave or watchin' them executes her! I cannots bare it, John, I can'ts..."

Da puts her down on the floor.

"Darling, go feed the chickens for us will you, please?" He says softly.

"But Mummy's crying." She whimpers, seeing the woman cover her face and turn back towards the stove.

"I shall sees to her, go outside please. Jim, if you be here, brother, yous can sit her for me." Da speaks firmly to the air.

Uncle Jim nods and walks beside Silver, beckoning her with a smile as he's unable to take her hand.

"C'mon, poppet. Leave your folks to sort this out."

After she's scattered the feed to the chickens in their hutch, Silver wanders to the low swing Da built for her and sits upon it.

Uncle Jim crouches close.

"Apologies I cannots push you, darlin'." He smiles.

"That's okay..." She mumbles, twidling with the fabric on her dress; "Is Mummy sad because I is broken?"

"No. No, little'en, it not be that."

"But t'is a sin for anyone to speak to the Dead. Is the Devil in me?"

Jim gives her a thoughtful look.

"I's not even sure there is a devil. If anyone be a sinner in life, it were me. I broke all the commandments, save a couple...the really bad ones." He said, a little guilty; "But I's wandered these lands for years waitin' for Lucifer to come collect me and send me down to Hell. Either he be takin' his time or....he don't exist."

Silver blinks. No devil? What a strange thought...It was almost as bad as believing there was no Jesus.

She pushes herself slightly on the swing.

"Maybes God not be lettin' you into Heaven as punishments insteads?" She suggests.

"Hmm, I has wondered that. But it not be much of a punishment." He smiles; "Sure, I miss eatin' and drinkin' and talkin' to your dad and others...But I's gots to see you bein' born and growin' up. I gets to see the world carry on and all that pain in my chest I hads before be gone."

Silver blinks; "But...weren't you lonely? Before I coulds see thee."

"Hmm, sometimes. But I's hardly alone. Ye think I be the only Dead'en here?"

She looks up in surprise.

"There be others?"

"'Course! They mostly stick to their own houses and I may have asked them nots to startle ye while ye be unwell, but....Hang on."

A realisation seemed to come over Uncle Jim's face.

"I thinks I might know someone who could be of help." He says, a smile spreading on his face. "Come withs me."

Silver slipped off the swing and chased after her uncle.

"What about Ma and Da?" She calls.

"Don't worry about them. They be at it for a whiles. And we shan't be too far away. Come!"

-

Just a couple hundred yards from their cottage was the entrance to the woods. Silver's parents had always warned her against venturing in alone, given there were still said to be rumors of wolves lurking within. It was also only half a mile away from the estate of one of the nearby Lord's, whose lands were private. Not for young peasant children to go wandering on their own.

But this time, she's not alone.

Uncle Jim leads her a short way in until reaching a clearing. Silver gasps at the pretty grove they come across. A small plot of green hidden amongst the trees and dotted everywhere beds of blue and purple cornflowers.

In the middle of it all, next to a large and old looking tree, sat a woman in a black and red cloak, the hood covering her head.

"Going by those bumbling footsteps, I take it that be you, James Guppy." A wise voice called without turning around.

"No missing a trick with you is there, Mother." He smiles.

Silver gasps; "Mother? Be this my other Granny?"

"No, child. Mother was simply the most common title granted to priestesses such as myself, back in the Old Days."

The woman rose to her feet and turned around. Silver stepped back against her uncle's knees, a little shocked at how white the Lady's eyes were.

And yet she still seemed to look upon Silver and smile.

"Be not afraid, girl. Your uncle will tell you my bark be worse than my bite." She winks.

Uncle Jim's hand hovered close above Silver's shoulder.

"T'is not often a Living can see me better than I sees them. Has been many an age since someone of these parts was blessed with the Sight." The woman speaks.

"....Are you Dead like Uncle, miss?" She asks.

"Oh yes, dear girl. Dead as Dead can be." The older woman chuckled; "Even my people, my gods, my kings and legends...we all be Dead."

"Gods?" Silver frowns; "But...there be only one God."

"Hahaha. Yes, that is what I hear nowadays. If they be true, this God has many to answer for. It sounds like He could do with a wife."

What a silly thought, Silver smiled.

"Niece, Mother Bridghe here is from the Dark Ages. The time before our first King and anyone hearing 'bout Jesus." Uncle Jim explains, crouching near her; "A time when magic still covered the land and folks walked with the gods. Like them stories of King Arthur and Merlin your da tells ye."

Silver gasps; "Really?"

Mother Bridghe chuckles; "It not be quite as fantastical as thy dolt of an uncle says...But t'is true. The world was much different back when I lived. When Albion had many kings, and we worshipped the gods not in cold, musty buildings of stone....but here in the trees. And at the great stone circles beneath the full moon. And women like us, girl, were revered for our gifts. Not shunned, cast out or executed."

"You keep saying gods. Do ye mean demons?" The child asks.

"That be what your ministers calls them. But in truth, they be not so different to thy own. Only with different names. T'is all part of the same divine Source."

Silver looked up to her Uncle for answers.

"Beats me, darl', I thought she may help thee understand this power of yours." He shrugged.

"Which I am happy to do, if the girl be as open to learning other ways as you say." Bridghe speaks, waving her hand to beckon Silver closer; "Come, child. Tell me what ye know of the ways of Medicine."

"Oh! My Granny be a Cunning Woman! She hath promised to teach me alls about herbs and remedies if I live to my seventh year of birth!" Silver grinned, bouncing on her toes.

The woman waved her hand; "A mere shattered reflection of the knowledge that was lost. Not to disparage your grandmother's efforts, but there is more to being a Sorceress than brewing a few teas and soups....Woulds thou wish to learn them, girl?"

Silver felt uneasy...but also curious.

"The Bible sayeth witchcraft be a sin." She whispers, afraid. What Granny did was different...wasn't it?

"For starters, my dear, that Bible o' thous was written by men. And they be the last folk ye wish to pay any attention to. Present company included!"

"Oh, many thanks!" Uncle Jim chuckled; "The gratitude I get for bringing her an apprentice!"

Apprentice?

She knew what that word meant. She'd overheard Mummy and Da talk about what future she might have, maybe in training as a midwife or at the mill.

But an apprentice to...a Witch?

"Second of all, I hath heard this 'holy book' be preached throughouts the age, I's think you shall find the original word be 'poisoner'. Do you plan on poisoning anyone, girl?"

Silver shook her head, reverently.

"No! I wanna help people! I want...I want my mummy not to cry anymore. I wanna keep our family all safe." She says, bottom lip wobbling.

Mother Bridghe grinned widely.

"Then I think wes shall make a fine Wise Woman of ye in good time, Silver Guppy, yes we shall."

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