#Witchy Credence!

[simsdaughters]

GOTH LEGACY CHALLENGE

Making this for myself and any of you guys who wanna tag along to this little experiment with me!

The goal of this challenge is simple: get to 10 generations, with each one representing a different goth subculture and fashion, starting with the Goth family. I hope that through this, you guys can see the love I have for the goth culture :)

For extra drama: none of the Goths of the main family line may die of old age.

RULES PER GENERATION BELOW:

GEN 1: Aristocrat Goth

The founders of the Goth legacy, their aristocratic air lends credence to their importance. Drawing from historical periods such as the Victorian and Edwardian eras, this subgenre of goth fashion features tailor suits, cravats, waistcoats, corsets and hats.

Master the piano and violin skills.

Reach 500,000 simoleons in savings.

Master the business career.

Make enemies with at least one Landgraab.

GEN 2: Witchy Goth

Drawing inspiration from their parents' lifestyle and beliefs, Cassandra and Alexander adopt a more spiritual approach to the goth aesthetic. This fashion subgenre is characterized by esoteric and spiritual elements in the outfit, such as moons, stars, skulls and maybe black cats if you want to be on the nose with it, while the cultural approach to it is inspired mainly by, of course, witchcraft.

Become a spellcaster.

Master the medium skill.

Learn all potions.

Reach lvl 5 in the gemology skill.

GEN 3: Traditional Goth

The "original" goths, who find their roots in gothic rock born in the post-punk era, the traditional goths are what you first think of when you hear the word goth: ripped, black clothes, dark makeup and wild hair. As a punk offshoot, traditional goths prioritize self-expression, individuality and challenging traditions.

Join any artistic career, and reach lvl 5 in it.

Master the guitar skill.

Volunteer at least once a week.

Befriend any occult.

GEN 4: NU Goth

A slightly controversial subgenre in the goth culture, NU or "new" goth is a more modern approach to the goth genre. More lenient in their view of what "makes" a goth, they are known to be more welcoming to mall goths and baby bats than trad goths (though that does not mean traditional goths are hostile to the two, simply that there is a prominent debate in the goth scene on what consists "a true goth"). This fashion type is what you'd probably find on pinterest or tiktok, with the more current fashion trends influencing the style.

Sell at least 5 thrifted outfits.

Join the social media career.

Film fashion tutorials at least once a week. (Get Famous)

Have at least 500 followers on any social media.

GEN 5: Cyber Goth

The cybergoth subculture and fashion mixes industrial, 2000s and rave aesthetics in one, featuring leather, neon colors, futuristic looks and a love for electronic music. They embrace philosophical discussions and imaginations of a dystopic information society future.

Master the DJing skill.

Reach lvl 5 in the dancing skill.

Go clubbing at least once a week.

Master the programming or robotics skill.

GEN 6: Pastel Goth

Mixing the kawaii aesthetic with gothic ideals and themes, pastel goth makes it's mark by ... well, being pastel. Often seen dipping into lolita or fairy kei fashion, this style can accessorize with sometimes cutesy details. This style is more focused on the fashion and aesthetics of the gothic look rather than the music, and on having fun with their self-expression.

Have an all-pastel home !

Join the Style Influencer career.

Make 5 friends.

Thrift clothes at least once.

GEN 7: Romantic Goth

As expected, romantic goth subculture focuses on romanticizing death, the macabre and the dark. They find beauty and appreciation in things like withered roses, skulls and more. Their fashion is characterized by flowy, ethereal silhouettes, and a feminine touch to their outfits. Its the embrace of beauty.

Have a gothic wedding ceremony.

Master the writing skill.

Have a cemetery.

Romance a vampire at least once.

GEN 8: White Goth

The white goths reverse the traditionally dark and ... well, black palette of the gothic genre for white, and other such colors you shouldn't wear at a wedding. Their clothing taste often includes silks, ethereal garments, ornate jewelry and parasols.

Master the organ skill.

Master the painting skill.

Serenade someone at least once.

Wear white at a wedding.

GEN 9: Victorian Goth

The Victorian Goth subculture pays homage to the elegance and refinement of the 19th century. Their fashion sense borrows from the Victorian era, with silhouettes evocative of the era, top hats, lace and corsets. They mix the aesthetic of a bygone era with the ideologies of all goths, that of individualism and self-expression through art and fashion.

Do not own any electronics, lights included.

Master the writing skill.

Own at least one horse, and travel to lots with it.

Paint at least 20 paintings.

GEN 10: Vampire Goth

Inspired by vampire lore and horror, the vampire goth fashion scene includes elegant, intricate designs, corsets, capes, vampire fangs (real or otherwise) and bloody, macabre themes. Like the romantic goths, they find beauty and allure in the dead and the deadly, and would probably love owning a fainting couch.

Master the charisma skill.

Master the vampire lore skill.

Turn at least 5 sims into vampires.

Become a Master Vampire.

[coccineum-vocatorem]

I modded woodsy witchy AU Rise into existence real fast earlier just for a single gpose (that I'll post later), but anyway here's witch!Rise compared to mainverse. She's not as, uh, meticulous about her makeup and general appearance while living in the middle of a spooky swamp. Plus it lends some additional credence to her image as a creepy swamp witch to be a little unkempt!

[aliatori]

5 & 9

Hey you. Thanks for the asks! 🖤 5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true? I'm not an incredibly superstitious person, so that carries over to my writing. HOWEVER. I've recently developed a superstition where I believe if I talk in any level of detail about my WIPs, it means I'm never going to finish them. How much of this is superstition and how much is crappy executive function due to neurodivergence (and therefore talking about a project gives the same dopamine hit as writing about a project) is anyone's guess.

I also have Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (and V.E. Schwab, who also mentioned this superstition/belief in a talk I heard) to thank for my other sole writing superstition. Essentially, Gilbert says in Big Magic that creative ideas have a lifeforce of their own, so if you sit too long on an idea, it will go find a person who can make it an actuality. Initially, I dismissed this idea as bullshit, but the longer I thought about it, the more I have seen ideas jump around in the collective consciousness with little to no external connection. So I'm now resolved not to sit on my best ideas in the vain hope of perfection in case they decide to abandon me someday, which is great for my productivity if less great for my stress levels, lmfao. 9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know. Alright. Listen. One of my partners and I have gotten into repeated discussions (some of which may have involved increasingly loud defenses and rebuttals) about this. I am a witchy bi trans Scorpio who gives credence to a bunch of spiritual and supernatural stuff—tarot, astrology, magic, ritual—if not necessarily in super literal, concrete ways, i.e. I don't think tarot is actual divination, but I do think it allows you to access your subconscious and deeply reflect on yourself and your life. But ghosts. Ghosts? I feel like the whole point of ghosts is that they would never be tangible enough to manifest in any way we could detect. And like, I really wish they did, because if I could summon and commune with ghosts, that would be an absolute vibe. I want to die and come back as a haunting. But what people call 'ghosts' I mostly ascribe to humans with creative imaginations who like to entertain and/or be spooked as hell and/or ascribe meaning to otherwise meaningless phenomena. Could you apply this to any one aspect of my own spirituality? Sure! I didn't say my brain made sense in what it picks and chooses to place its faith in. My rule as always is: As long as you're not hurting anyone or yourself, believe in what you want to believe in and go on with your bad self, ghosts included. (Weird questions for weird writers here)

[the-witch-of-cedar-and-bone]

Day 1: Answering prompts from the post 'Quantifying Your Craft'

Do you follow a particular path or tradition?

Not strictly, no.

How would you classify your craft, i.e. green witchcraft, cottagecraft, sea witch, lunar witch, and so on?

I struggle to put labels on even mundane things because there are always nuances, but how I generally prefer to give folks a heads-up that I work with less "love and light" aspects and have a pension for questioning everything, is to tell them I'm a 'skeptical death witch'.

Do you work with any deities, and if so, which ones?

Not regularly. I'm honestly still struggling to put credence in if they exist or not, and if they do, why they'd waste their time with all of us.

Do you work alone or with others?

When I first started taking witchcraft seriously, I practiced with a former friend. But I always felt pressured by them to follow in their footsteps and their path just wasn't for me. Our friendship burnt out for unrelated reasons, but it left me regretting 'coming out of the broom closet' and threw me back into denial about my spirituality.

After sometime though, I started dabbling with magic again and eventually made a new witchy friend. They invited me into their small coven, and for a while things were good. It felt like a little community but just as I started opening up again, the group began to show their true transphobic and radfem views. So I left, lost another friend, and stepped off my path for a long rest.

But now that rest is over and I'm walking my path alone again.

How long have you been practicing?

On and off for seven years as of this post.

What, to you, is the most important aspect of your craft?

I think the most important aspect of my craft is that it helps me feel in control during situations where I have no control. For me the spells may just be placebos, but they help me center my focus and give me something tangible to create to feel a small achievement boost.

[fangedmagick]

It was almost scary they had similarities yes, but they looked so different. Aurelius had come so far even when he was alive, healthier and stood tall with the world once fearing his hate and pain. Now he hid in the shadows but was still quite fearsome when he had to be.

He couldn't think of leaving Credence there... himself there to freeze. He recalled the cold winters and how he managed to not freeze to death was a miracle. He didn't understand why he somehow was back in time, but he'll be damned if he let himself freeze in the New York streets. While feeding the younger his blood was probably a mistake in the long run, it was the quickest way to help heal a mortal and warm them it seems given the boy's temperature seemed to be going back to normal and the breathing wasn't as shallow. He was relieved and had to make sure it looked like he himself was breathing, despite not needing to, he didn't want to freak Credence out.

The house probably looked like everything Mary Lou would've hated and damned Aurelius for. He had to keep himself from smirking and hoped the one he killed was rolling in her rotten grave.

His home was like a cottage, probably more witchy than it should be. Even in his bedroom, there was some incense burning, some dried herbs, his bathtub was candle central with some ancient carvings in some of them. He had some tea and soup he made, unsure which was better for the boy. "You're welcome." His voice was different compared to Credence he noticed... they truly were so different, different lives but the same person from the same upbringing. "I couldn't leave a boy who was down on his luck." He finally added, trying his best not to show his full face, more for the boy's sanity. "It's no trouble at all, I promise. And besides, if you stayed there you'd have frozen." He could see the unease. "I promise I won't harm you while you're here." He reassured. He can smell the injury still but he was sure it was more of a minor injury now compared to how it was earlier. Days or maybe a week of healing in a few hours. "I'm Aurelius, some call me Aurie for short. Go on and eat, I promise my cooking isn't the best but it won't poison you" Smiles, trying to make a little joke.

👊(because why not)

Send 👊for your muse to find mine brutally beaten and left to die.

It wasn't everyday he'd see someone beaten so brutally and left to die on the street of New York. The city was cold, colder than it should be. Aurelius came back for a decade or so from Scotland. He reclaimed his domain. Fought for it, fed when he needed, slept, and avoided the stupid laws and politics best the vampire could.

Usually he'd leave the dying to die, it was cold to act like that, but he learned that helping humans led to trouble later. But what he didn't expect, what frightened him almost was the face. At first he had to blink, shake his head, to make sure he wasn't seeing his past haunting him or some past guilt.

But... it was Credence, it was himself, the hair, the thin form, the face. It was Credence... it was Aurelius in another life. And the next thing he knew, he was helping the limp form up, hearing the heartbeat, it was weak... and that scared him more. Why was himself here? Alive? He brought Credence inside the cottage that was hidden from mundane eyes and placed the boy in his bed. Working quick to heal any wounds that were severe.

Aurelius trying to keep his face hidden behind his hair in case the boy woke up and saw a scary lookalike. The vampire hated this, hated to do this. He was sure Credence or this look alike was bleeding internally. He hated to do it, it wouldn't turn Credence by any means, but it would make him a temporary ghoul, someone that would listen to any order the vampire who fed them it's blood would demand, even literally die for the vampire. But it also would heal the boy much quicker. He slowly fed the boy his own blood to speed up the healing and Credence will just have some light bruises and soreness by the end of it. And Aurelius just had to try not to order the boy around and all will be golden.

[nettlekettle]

As the clock tolls 8pm on Samhain night, Graves sweeps Credence away to the moonlit fields of Wyoming for broomstick-riding lessons.

My fic for the @gradencetrickortreat prompt fest is now on A03! Thankyou to @unicornmagic for the wonderful prompt! I had a lovely time writing it. 

Happy Samhain everyone! ❤

[obscurebelief]

Its spoopy time (when isn’t there with me but lol)

so you are getting witchy spam gone extra! midnight margaritas, black cats, and brooms for all!

[gin-draws]

    "don't let the no-majs get you down"  Modern Credence Barebone for @brooklynbrooklyn 

 ✨ Commission Info✨ 

[jumbledbee]

ok. that’s a little weird, but nothing to write home about, right? OH, YOU’D THINK SO!

Let me walk you though this nightmare of a tracklist:

Side A

Big Iron by Marty Robbins

El Paso by Marty Robbins

Big Iron by Marty Robbins (hmm)

Fire and Rain by James Taylor

The last 10 seconds of Out of The Woods by Leon Russell (???)

This Masquerade (originally by The Carpenters) performed by Leon Russell

Magic Mirror by Leon Russell

BIG IRON

EL PASO

(Seriously started questioning my sanity at this point. was checking over my player, taking the tape in and out to make sure the spool was really that far along and I didn’t somehow skip back 10 minutes)

BIG IROn‼️

(A-FUCKING-GAIN, WHY NOT⁉️)

The Cowboy in the Continental Suit by Marty Robbins (ok. I thought, surely, the rest of this mix would be normal…)

I’m a Believer by The Monkees

Steppin’ Stone by The Monkees

I’m a Believer by The Monkees

Side B

Witchy Woman by The Eagles

Desperado by The Eagles

The Best of My Love by The Eagles

Magic Mirror by Leon Russell (again)

Tight Rope by Leon Russell

Out in The Woods by Leon Russell

This Masquerade by Leon Russell (… again)

Magic Mirror by Leon Russell (AGAIN⁉️)

I’m a Believer by The Monkees (I think this guy deserves the death penalty)

Who’ll Stop the Rain by Credence Clearwater Revival

Run Through the Jungle by Credence Clearwater Revival

Have you Ever Seen the Rain by Credence Clearwater Revival

Lonely People by America

Big Iron by Marty Robbins

(DEATH‼️ DEATH BY HANGING)

ok so I collect cassettes and sometimes I buy the cute little hand labeled mixtapes if I like the artists/they seem interesting

and I think I’ve just heard the worst one ever⁉️

I feel like I’ve just been trolled? A feeling I haven’t felt since the 2000s

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

I'm still of the opinion that Lena's witch storyline did not make sense but it does follow the pattern of the other arrowverse shows wherein almost every person in the titular hero's supporting team has to become a hero too. Whether that's through vigilantism or becoming a metahuman or being an alien who just so happens to have powers, it always happens. It actually would've been nice for them to keep Lena as she was, a tech genius who comes up with whatever ex machina they need to save the day. Just a (relatovely) ordinary person doing extraordinary things through intelligence and determination alone. I loved that about Lena, that her mind was her greatest weapon. And yes technically she still used her brain power alongside the magical nonsense but it was so farfetched at that point. Maybe I would've hated it less if Lena actually had a magic fuelled showdown with Nxyly. If the so called "you need magic to defeat magic" proclamation actually meant Lena's magic vs Nxyly's. If they showed Lena actually accessing fifth dimensional energy and her struggle to control it because of her emotions being tied to those powers. But that would've required prior preparation and thought and probably an additional season. Which is probably why they should've axed the magic Lena stuff and stuck with what worked really well, Lena being the smartest person in the room.

Agreed. If they had just given it a little bit of foreshadowing in S6, with mysterious happenings/dreams for Lena before she goes to Ireland Newfoundland would have gone a long way towards lending credence to the witchy heritage angle. They could have easily sacrificed some of the PZ content to accommodate the addition, but even without sacrificing the Kara content they could have made it work.

The whole arc is just evidence that the writers had mentally checked out at that point. Which is disappointing to the nth degree. The viewers AND the actors deserved better.

[bladekindeyewear]

Book Commentary on Inversion Theory

Alright, as a follow-up to this post, it looks like there’s an actual full bit of Homestuck book commentary (around the pages nearing Rose’s grimdark transformation, Book 6 pg 115, HS pg 3305, thanks @ramiedersedreamer and @zandraxofnebulon) about how Inversion Theory (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) isn’t what we thought.  Quoting and reading it first (not the whole reddit post but that portion at least), then discussion under the cut:

"Rose is a Light player, but her blackout effects result from arguably the nadir of her role as such a hero--that is, when she succumbs to Scratch's manipulations and other eldritch persuasions, and goes grimdark. This truth would appear to lend credence to a line of classpect thinking known as "inversion theory," which really isn't without its merits. This note has just gone to the bother of describing one of its merits, in fact. However, it is possible to get carried away with this line of thinking and use it to evaluate everything that happens in Homestuck. For instance, you could say "Well, Karkat is a Blood hero, and here's where he stops being as Karkatty as usual, so that means he's being the opposite of his aspect. Which means he's being Breathy instead of Bloody. So that means a bunch of other stuff, ipso facto, Homestuck has been EXPLAINED." That's not really the way all this works. Aspect lore runs deep, but it isn't the Rosetta Stone to the story. When in doubt, it's better to remember this: rather than an underlying mystical logic where all classpect roads lead to Deep Answers, HS is a comprehensive nexus of many themes, and all roads lead to the basic idea that this is a tale about kids who are trapped in the universal struggle associated with growing up."

I... hm.  Dammit.  Is that all he wrote??  This slippery author is a master of giving us tantalizing and insightful details without committing to any hard yes-or-no whatsoever.  >:T

I’d been building myself up to reading this all throughout yesterday with gut-wrenching dread that at this late, late, late hour he’d finally given us a definitive “NO” on Inversion.  Instead we get this quite interesting but more vague “eh, there’s merits, but don’t go too far with it”.  Which is...... 

...about as potentially-optimistic as I put it in the previous post, if not moreso?

Andrew’s being careful to lavish odd praise on inversion theory, too.  Which some people are going to interpret as (Option 1) “Nice try, but dead wrong”, like the anon who put a snippet in my inbox initially, and others will interpret as (Option 2) “The big ones are RIGHT, nudge nudge, but stop applying it everywhere cause the fans who say every line of the comic means ‘ghosting inversion’ are looking at the story wrong and annoying everyone”.

As someone guilty of being one of those fans described in the latter half on occasion, I can CERTAINLY agree with THAT last part.  Andrew made it really clear with the ending of Homestuck proper -- “this side shit didn’t matter as much as you thought it did”.  I was so enamored with the classpect system that I thought almost everything was being shown to us through those lenses, at one point -- but even though perhaps more than the random reader might have thought is there, like he says, it ain’t supposed to be no Rosetta Stone.  Even when I WAS overapplying classpect everywhere, the people who did it too often in places I felt clearly un-merited REALLY pissed me off!  I can’t imagine how much more that might’ve been magnified in the shoes of someone who happened to apply the correct, lower amount of classpect and had to put up with me babbling and slathering it everywhere, much less the author’s shoes.

But there is still a big hole in his criticism, one he intentionally seems to have left there to me.  By saying “don’t look for it everywhere”, but ALSO that “there’s more than some merit to it”... I don’t think it’s a stretch to think the truth might not only be somewhere in between Options 1 and 2, but perhaps even closer to Option 2.

Aaaand HERE’s where if you’re someone who HUNGERED for me to admit wrongdoing by sticking with this theory for so long, you’re no doubt angry.  Looking at me as making excuses in the face of this long-awaited OBJECTIVE PROOF OF TOTAL THEORY DISMISSAL... WHY won’t the deluded bastard FINALLY succumb to REASON?  ANDREW HIMSELF spoke up on the issue, IS THIS NOT ENOUGH?!???

And, well... you’re right to be angry.  To be honest, I’m a fair bit pissed off too -- I could’ve used a solid “NO”, traumatizing as it would’ve been to me!

But that’s not what we got, because... *rolls eyes @ author* ...that’s not how Andrew works nowadays.  And as irritating as it is, I also have to respect it a bit.

Andrew has become pretty committed to not full-on table-flipping fan interpretations and fanworks, avoiding forcing one “correct” interpretation (see: central struggle of HS^2 and the villains labeling divergence from canon at all as “bad”) because both interpretations should be rewarded.  If something is REALLY wrong and hurts objective appreciation of the lessons he wanted to portray in his comic, like people plastering Classpect everywhere to the exclusion of the story’s central canon-escaping themes, he’s willing to shut them down... but when it comes to effective-sounding interpretations of the comic that he possibly never intended but “could” have been what he intended?  He’s REALLY careful not to step on them!  Or even sometimes DISTINGUISH them from the ones that he DID intend, sometimes, to keep as many fan interpretations alive in our imaginations as possible.

Which, as someone who pins Inversion’s entire existence on the assertion that “Andrew deliberately intended this and it’s our DELUSION otherwise”, really pisses me off at times like this.  This is a theory hinged on the idea that Andrew had been deliberately hiding INCREDIBLY clever evidence throughout the comic for these intense thematic moves.  All the SYMBOLISM we thought was pointing to inversion would lose an incredible amount of its meaning if it were all an accident.  What about all that cool imagery in the Breath and Blood post?  Did any of THAT really mean what we thought it was there for, like between WV and PM?  Was any of it REAL?  Will we ever even get an ANSWER?  The answer is “no, we won’t”, because Andrew persists in this method of keeping his cards close to his chest even if he has to take them to the damn grave, cause he knows we’ll have more “fun” not knowing ‘em.  That considerate son of a bitch.  >:(

I’m serious -- it really does make me more than a little angry.  I really do wish he’d said more to show us where we’re off-course.

But HS^2 has brought us Terezi telling us that Mind and Heart are indeed opposites.  He MIGHT be holding onto the info because we may get it later in canon itself...

Meh.  I’ll try not to hope too hard.  And I’d better clarify what I actually believe, here:

My TL;DR thoughts on Andrew’s commentary up above are that when it comes to Inversion Theory (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), he’s leaving room for some of the BIG events to have been right or almost right -- say, #1, maybe #2, and only POSSIBLY #3 or #4 -- while telling us to back off and cast SERIOUS DOUBT on stuff that could have more character-driven explanations, especially #5.

If there’s a seriously FUNDAMENTAL transformation in a character that isn’t fully explained by their character journey alone (as kids growing up), involves significant outside interference, and is reflected by countless visual cues, THEN we should want to see if Inversion Theory “has merit” in that sort of case -- while laying it up against other competing theories that account for external interference of a non-Inversion-related nature in their actions too.  Things like pre- and post-ascension Aradia or pre- and post-dreamdeath Jade seeming almost completely different characters?  Or Rose seemingly taken over by the Horrorterrors... only to do nothing to benefit them but throw her mainself at Jack and get killed so she’d be forced to ascend on the moon mission rather than God-tier-die?  I’d say Inversion is worth consideration and -- daresay -- worth believing in, in such cases.

And it still might all be wrong.  There are legitimate ways to read Andrew’s commentary above that would have people screaming that Inversion has been disproven, that the “merits” mentioned were just a nod of respect to the losing side that I’m completely overblowing.  But those seem to me like carefully ambiguous words from a carefully ambiguous man, and if there’s anyone to blame for their ambiguity, it’s Andrew.  Trust me; I don’t like it either.  He’s had plenty of practice saying things in a way that we CAN’T really draw many assumptions from.

Heck, even the Redditor transcribing this summarized their thoughts in a way that draws some assumptions I don’t believe are there:

Mostly I think it's just interesting that he's actually addressing Inversion Theory, and the gist is basically "it's a cool idea and has some merits, but the classpect system and story are not quite that formulaic." Sorry BKEW. At least we know Hussie has been paying attention to our wild theorizing.

--which is a rebuke drawn on the common interpretation that Inversion describes too “formulaic” a classpect system, especially with specific-class inversion like Seer <-> Witch and such.  But IS that what Andrew is saying? Andrew criticizes the overapplication of aspect theory in describing everyone’s actions page to page, but does that mean a quote-unquote “rigid” system (I’m not going to play out the old “specific-class-inversion-is-too-rigid” vs “youre missing the flexible potential a fixed system gives” arguments again) is ITSELF an overapplication of classpect to people’s actions and personalities? Is he perhaps hinting that only Aspect stuff mattered in Inversion cases and the Witchy Rose class stuff was just a separate thematic thing that fits by coincidence??  What does it mean? WE DON’T KNOW!  AND IT’S PISSING ME OFF AAAARGH

...I think I’ve said all I can think to say for now.

I mean, I’m glad Inversion Theory wasn’t outright disproven.  I think it’s neat.  I have a lot of emotional investment behind it, and being told it was all a worthless goose chase would have made me vomitously sick!  But as I struggled with at the end of Homestuck proper, constant ambiguity shows a fair bit of disregard of its own, and both ending AND epiloguing Homestuck not only without a “yes” on this but without even a clear “NO” has caused me more gutache and poor feelings across MONTHS than either answer ever would have given me.  I thought we’d earned that by getting through it, that we wouldn’t have to wait for YEARS and then STILL get cockteased like this.  And I wonder how much I’m going to regret, later, that this wasn’t just a clear, simple “NO”.

I’m being told there’s an upd8 just now and I should read it.  I’ll get on that.  Cy’all.

[ghostflowerdreams]

Books Similar To Hocus Pocus & Halloweentown

This was originally a search for books similar to Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown because nothing puts me into a witchy-fun mood than with the start of autumn. However, in my search I’ve learned that no books will ever come close to the cult classics. But that’s fine because I found some other witchy books that could possibly help to put me in the mood.

If you know some books that you think will be good too, please feel free to suggest them. Either way, nearly all the books below focuses on witches and/or has magic in it. This list also encompasses a variety of ages, mostly from young adult to those older.

Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel by A. W. Jantha -- You basically get two stories in one book. The first story is the one that all Halloween enthusiasts of Hocus Pocus are familiar with. You get the original film story with extra details that fleshes out the characters and events.

Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (human and otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity.

After that, you get the sequel which continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens.

Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches' latest vile scheme.

The Witch’s Amulet (Tales from Halloweentown) by Lucy Ruggles -- This novel is based on the popular characters from the Disney’s Halloweentown film series. It's summer break at Witch University, but Marnie and Dylan Piper have their broomsticks in high gear! Marnie has her hands full as a Resident Advisor and is keeping an eye on her younger sister, Sophie, who has enrolled in the University's junior sorcery school.

Dylan's working as a lab assistant to Professor La Biel, a powerful warlock who's developing a youth serum. But when La Biel steals The Gift, an amulet that gives its wearer ultimate power over hearts and minds, will Marnie have the power to defeat the cunning warlock, or will her entire family fall under La Biel's spell?

The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw -- Two centuries ago, in the town of Sparrow, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.

For a brief time each summer, the Swan sisters return, possessing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge. By luring boys into the harbor where they can be drowned. And this year, a new kid, Bo, has come to town—but he gives no credence to what he thinks is just a silly local legend. Penny, a longtime resident, has a hunch this new arrival will be the next victim, but can she save him from the watery death so many others have suffered?

The Witches of BlackBrook by Tish Thawer -- Three sisters escape the Salem witch trials when the eldest casts a spell that hurtles their souls forward through time. After centuries separated, fate has finally reunited them in the present day. One the healer, one the teacher, and one the deceiver. Will their reunion return their full powers, or end their souls journey forever?

Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson -- Thirteen-year-old Annabella Ballinkay has never been normal, even by her psychic family’s standards. Every generation uses their abilities to help run the Ravenfall Inn, a sprawling, magical B&B at the crossroads of the human world and the Otherworld. But it’s hard to contribute when your only power is foreseeing death.

So when fourteen-year-old Colin Pierce arrives at Ravenfall searching for his missing older brother and the supernatural creature who killed their parents, Anna jumps at the chance to help. But the mysteries tied to Colin go much deeper than either of them expects....

As the two team up to find answers, they unearth Colin’s family’s secret past and discover that Colin has powers beyond his imagination. And now the supernatural creature, one with eerie origins in Celtic mythology, is coming after him. If Anna and Colin can’t stop the creature by Halloween night, the veil to the Otherworld could be ripped open—which would spell destruction for their world as they know it.

Double, Double, Twins and Trouble (Book #1 of Witches of Peculiar) by Luna Graves -- There are monsters among us…and they’re just trying to survive middle school! In Peculiar, Pennsylvania, the supernatural kids attend Y.I.K.E.S.S.S. (Yvette I. Koffin’s Exceptional School for Supernatural Students), run by Yvette herself. From goblins to ghosts to werewolves and witches, the students learn the ins and outs of doling out the scares and blending in with the humans they live among.

Mostly, the system works, but there’s occasionally a young monster who shakes things up—a pubescent werewolf who displays some suspicious body hair on the community basketball court or a scatterbrained ghost who goes through a door instead of opening it. But Peculiar has never seen a potential PR disaster quite like the Maleficent twins!

While Bella and Donna’s magic is powerful, they don’t quite have a handle on their (witch)craft yet. Can they get through the sixth grade without turning the mailman into a toad, burning down the town with hellfire, or turning all the liquid on earth into Cherry Lemonade Jell-O?

The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab -- The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. There are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.

But when an actual stranger--a boy who seems to fade like smoke appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion.

As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know-- about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins -- Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It’s gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie’s estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it’s her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.

By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.

As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.

Witchtown by Cory Putman Oakes -- When sixteen-year-old Macie O’Sullivan and her masterfully manipulative mother Aubra arrive at the gates of Witchtown—the most famous and mysterious witch-only haven in the world—they have one goal in mind: to rob it for all it’s worth. But that plan derails when Macie and Aubra start to dig deeper into Witchtown’s history and uncover that there is more to the quirky haven than meets the eye. Exploring the haven by herself, Macie finds that secrets are worth more than money in Witchtown. Secrets have their own power.

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend -- Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.

But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor.

It's then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organization: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart--an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests--or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate.

The Gates by John Connolly -- Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe, a gap through which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out.

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco -- Let me be clear: I never intended to raise my brother from his grave, though he may claim otherwise. If there's anything I've learned from him in the years since, it's that the dead hide truths as well as the living.

When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she's a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training.

In her new home, Tea puts all her energy into becoming an asha―one who can wield elemental magic. But dark forces are approaching quickly, and in the face of danger, Tea will have to overcome her obstacles...and make a powerful choice.

How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather -- Salem, Massachusetts, is the site of the infamous witch trials and the new home of Samantha Mather. Recently transplanted from New York City, Sam and her stepmother are not exactly welcomed with open arms. Sam is the descendant of Cotton Mather, one of the men responsible for those trials—and almost immediately, she becomes the enemy of a group of girls who call themselves the Descendants. And guess who their ancestors were?

If dealing with that weren’t enough, Sam also comes face to face with a real, live (well, technically dead) ghost. A handsome, angry ghost who wants Sam to stop touching his stuff. But soon Sam discovers she is at the center of a centuries-old curse affecting anyone with ties to the trials. Sam must come to terms with the ghost and find a way to work with the Descendants to stop a deadly cycle that has been going on since the first accused witch was hanged. If any town should have learned its lesson, it’s Salem. But history may be about to repeat itself.

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe -- Connie’s summer is full to the brim with research for her PhD. But when her mother asks her to help handle the sale of her grandmother’s house, Connie finds herself pulled into a dark mystery involving a family bible, an old key, and a name: Deliverance Dane. Who was she? And why is Connie suddenly having visions of the Salem Witch Trials?

Toil & Trouble by Tess Sharpe & Jessica Spotswood -- History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure—and to kill.

A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls in love with an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. In Reconstruction-era Texas, a water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power in order to destroy their captors.

This collection reveals a universal truth: there’s nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness -- Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries---and she is the only creature who can break its spell.

The Witch’s Market by Mingmei Yip -- Chinese-American assistant professor Eileen Chen specializes in folk religion at her San Francisco college. Though her grandmother made her living as a shamaness, Eileen publicly dismisses witchcraft as mere superstition. Yet privately, the subject intrigues her.

When a research project takes her to the Canary Islands—long rumored to be home to real witches—Eileen is struck by the lush beauty of Tenerife and its blend of Spanish and Moroccan culture. A stranger invites her to a local market where women sell amulets, charms, and love spells. Gradually Eileen immerses herself in her exotic surroundings, finding romance with a handsome young furniture maker. But as she learns more about the lives of these self-proclaimed witches, Eileen must choose how much trust to place in this new and seductive world, where love, greed, and vengeance can be as powerful, or as destructive, as any magic.

The Witch Haven (The The Witch Haven #1) by Sasha Peyton Smith -- In 1911 New York City, seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell spends her days as a seamstress, mourning the mysterious death of her brother months prior. Everything changes when she’s attacked and a man ends up dead at her feet—her scissors in his neck, and she can’t explain how they got there.

Before she can be condemned as a murderess, two cape-wearing nurses arrive to inform her she is deathly ill and ordered to report to Haxahaven Sanitarium. But Frances finds Haxahaven isn’t a sanitarium at all: it’s a school for witches. Within Haxahaven’s glittering walls, Frances finds the sisterhood she craves, but the headmistress warns Frances that magic is dangerous. Frances has no interest in the small, safe magic of her school, and is instead enchanted by Finn, a boy with magic himself who appears in her dreams and tells her he can teach her all she’s been craving to learn, lessons that may bring her closer to discovering what truly happened to her brother.

Frances’s newfound power attracts the attention of the leader of an ancient order who yearns for magical control of Manhattan. And who will stop at nothing to have Frances by his side. Frances must ultimately choose what matters more, justice for her murdered brother and her growing feelings for Finn, or the safety of her city and fellow witches. What price would she pay for power, and what if the truth is more terrible than she ever imagined?

Edie in Between by Laura Sibson -- It’s been one year since Edie’s mother died. But her ghost has never left.

According to her GG, it’s tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It’s just as much a part of a Mitchell’s life as brewing cordials or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family’s legacy as local “witches.”

When her mother’s teenage journal tumbles into her life, her family’s mystical inheritance becomes once and for all too hard to ignore. It takes Edie on a scavenger hunt to find objects that once belonged to her mother, each one imbued with a different memory. Every time she touches one of these talismans, it whisks her to another entry inside the journal—where she watches her teenage mom mourn, love, and hope just as Edie herself is now doing. Maybe, just maybe, Edie hopes, if she finds every one of these objects, she can finally make peace with her loss and put the past to rest for good. But this journey to stake her independence from her family may actually show Edie who she truly is…and the beautiful gifts that come with being just a little different.

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury -- A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes -- and the stuff of nightmare.

Strange Magic by Syd Moore -- Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It’s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run.

Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There’s the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there’s curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can’t decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a while.

Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelope them all.

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice -- This lush, dark, and gorgeously gory paranormal series introduces readers to the Mayfair witches, whose stories have been told for centuries by the Talamasca. This time, Rowan Mayfair is a neurosurgeon who never knew of her abilities until one day when she brings a man back from the dead. Cursed (or gifted, or both) with the ability to see the dark realm and the evil spirit who wants to come through to the mortal realm, Rowan must find a way to defeat him and protect the world—and people—she loves.

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor -- Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s a terrific athlete, but can’t go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a “free agent” with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do.

Conversion by by Katherine Howe -- It’s senior year, and St. Joan’s Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades, college applications, boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the school’s queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class.

The mystery illness spreads to the school’s popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic.

Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago...

Triple Moon by Melissa de la Cruz -- After they cause a terrible accident at their old high school, twin witches Mardi and Molly Overbrook are sent to live with their “Aunt” Ingrid Beauchamp in North Hampton, on Long Island’s mist-shrouded East End. Because the twins cannot control their powers, their father begs Ingrid to tame them over the summer, before the White Council exiles the girls to Limbo.

Trouble continues to bubble and boil when the girls meet the younger Gardiner boys, who are just as handsome and sexy as their older kin. But all is not as it seems. As Ingrid helps the girls learn to control their magical impulses, Mardi and Molly have just this summer to figure out how to grow up, how to love, and how to be a family.

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman -- For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...

Curse the Day (Spellbound Paranormal Cozy Mystery Book #1) by Annabel Chase -- The only magic Emma Hart believes in is caffeine and the power of the dryer to lose one sock per load. A public interest lawyer buried under a mound of student debt, Emma’s whole life has been one turn of bad luck after another.

Her streak seems to continue when she gets lost on the way to see a client in the remote Pocono Mountains. A chance encounter with a suicidal angel lands her in Spellbound, a town where supernaturals have been cursed to remain for centuries--probably not the best time for Emma to discover that she's actually a witch.

Between the recent murder of the town’s public defender, a goblin accused of theft, remedial witch classes, and the attention of one smoking hot vampire, Emma struggles to navigate this unfamiliar terrain without losing her mind...or her life.

[thebellamybarnesarchive]

Inviting Aura || Bella&Sadie

        Various neighbourhoods in the city of Opulence had their own identities, a club in Descray looking vastly different to one in Dillon, or in this case Bowden. The area mostly populated by students and other young adults it’s clubs tended to not have thumping bass and electronic music but rather focused on live performances. The one Bella have found was a nice witchy dive, most of the acts similar to Fleetwood Mac and Credence Clearwater Revival, folksy slow rock songs.

         One was playing now, singing of his coven, and the magic the wielded together, while Bellamy stood at the bar. “Can I get a gin and tonic with just a splash of lemon,” she requested of the bartender who nodded, beginning to mix up the drink for her, the vampire woman’s false nails tapping on the mahogany bar, carvings with various coven symbols on it, like a registry of various groups in the city, any who had come and decided to leave their mark anyway.

         Bella’s nail kept tapping as she looked around the room, blonde hair falling over the fabric of her corseted vintage Vivienne Westwood top. As she did, her golden eyes caught sight of someone who seemed to be looking at her, not aware that there was every chance the woman was observing the carvings, or someone behind her, the most shallow part of herself assuming that the woman certainly had to be looking at her, and so Bellamy gave her a playful smile just as her drink came, sweet face giving off the briefest of inviting auras.

@sadie-carterfjc​

[carina-go-lightlee]

                                       Let’s Unpack This Convo

                                         Spoilers below for, like, everything

So here our MC talks to three NPCs who we maybe didn’t expect to attend Elizabeth’s memorial: 

-Captain Brus??? Though he’s helped us foil a number of Dark Core plots, he hasn’t mentioned his close involvement with the Druids until now

-Nic Stoneground (boyf needs a glo-up): We learned in the Save Anne questline that he’s much closer to the Druids, Evergray in particular, than previously expected. I love that that’s continued here.

- Mrs. Holdsworth: Has always hinted at having witchy abilities, but seeing her included in the Druid inner circle is a new one.

From them we learn a lot not only about Elizabeth, but also about how people become Druids. 

                                              Druid Birthrights!

From Nic (bae) we learn that the Stonegrounds (meaning Mica too, one might think) have a familial connection to the Druids/Keepers. This makes sense given our lore so far: Justin, the son of a Soul Rider (Catherine), has prodigious Wild Whispering abilities, and we can imagine he’ll be recruited by the Keepers later in the questline. 

We also learn that you can deny destiny when it comes to being a Druid. Nic was meant to be a Druid, but chose a different path. Might Justin oneday do the same? What of Everygray? He managed to wander and explore while being a Druid, but clearly became a bit of a persona non grata with the Keepers because of it.

Speaking of, Avalon and Evergray must come from another family with a bloodline connected to the Keepers. Could any other NPCs be part of this family?

Farah also mentions that her family has always been Druid craftspeople. Yet another Druid birthright!

Also, Elizabeth used Dino Valley as an escape from her stresses as a Druid, and was at least buddies, if not best buddies, with Ni. Did they know each other before? Was he involved with the Elizabeth/Catherine incarnation of the Soul Riders?

                                               Druid Destinies!

Captain Brus tells of the story of how Elizabeth came from somewhere else (WHERE?) as a stowaway on his ship, drawn by dreams and visions to join the Keepers in Jorvik. 

This seems to be much more in line with our current group of Soul Riders’ experiences: Anne, Alex, and Linda were already on Jorvik to answer the call, and Lisa/her father were seemingly brought by destiny to Jorvik. Our MC could be either, depending on the story you’ve concocted for them, but the text at the beginning of the game suggests that they, too, come from far away.

None of the current Soul Riders- barring your own HCs- have Druid blood. I love that; despite the number of Druid families we’ve been introduced to, all of the current SRs have been chosen by some Aideenist destiny to save the world. 

It’s kind of like how Soul Steeds can be incarnated as any gender: a soul isn’t defined by its genetics or birth. Anyone can be a Soul Rider, Soul Steeds aren’t locked into one sex throughout time, and any horse can be a Starbreed.

                                              Druids vs. Witches!

Aaaand Mrs. Holdsworth (whose text I failed to capture).

Mrs. Holdsworth is clear that Druids and the witches of Jorvik, even good witches, have been at odds in the past. In fact, her being a witch is the reason that Mrs. Holdsworth never got to know Elizabeth better: it seems that this is a long-running feud.

She also alludes to witches having a hand in the dissolution/death??? of the last Sisterhood, the one including Elizabeth and Catherine. Could the Scarecrow Hill/Pi/Golden Apple plot have to do with that previous battle? Is that why Katja chose to challenge us to a nightmare race in that area when we were searching for Anne and Concorde? To trigger past traumas in our Souls/Steeds?

Feel Free to add to this discourse!!! I’m sure that you caught things that slipped past me as I zipped through dialogue. 

                                          Carina and All of This!

This NPC conversation has lots of implications for Carina:

1. Her mans is deeply involved with the Druids; I crave the full lore surrounding that fact. This bodes well for him getting a f*cking redesign, but also promises more Nic Stoneground questlines for MEEEEE! Huzzah! This fall, when we get the Kallters back, I hope to learn more. For now I’m just smug that Nic Stoneground Thirst still seems to be a club of one, and my years of shipping my MC with him have been rewarded by his relevance to the story.

2. Carina ALSO got called to Jorvik by dreams/premonitions, by boat. I wrote that plot long before these quests! What a crazy random happenstance! She has this in common with Elizabeth, and there WILL be a fic exploring it further

3. Carina being distantly descended from WWAU Carina (and not Nic; WWAU Nic dies, but that’s a story for another day) lends credence to both the birthright AND destiny possibilities. 

[merthewarrior]

Halloween Playlist

I was tagged by @nobeerreviews​ to post my favorite ten  HALLOWEEN songs! So, without further ado, here they are:

The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone

Don’t Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Witchy Woman - The Eagles

That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald

Bad Moon Rising - Credence Clearwater Revival

Black Magic Woman - Santana

Runnin’ With The Devil - Van Halen

I tag in turn @self-cancel-error @bakerstreetirregularr @sns112 @vennitudesreturn​ @original-asteria​ @majorkirastan​

Happy Halloween!! 

[littlemessyjessi]

CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD REQUESTS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN! PLUS SIZE READER!

THEY’RE OPEN! FLOOD THE ASK BOX!!!! YASSSSS QUEEEEN!!!

Ok, so obviously Newt because hello, he’s adorable! 

And QUEENIE because I love her more than life! 

And Jacob because yus!!! We love a handsome fella. 

Leta Lestrange!!!!!!!!!

Credence because he is my sweet precious BABY! 

A young Albus because um, YISSSSSSSSSS!!! 

AND most certain-damn-ly Grindelwald...I’m well aware of his behavior- I got it...but it’s Johnny Depp and magic and I need it.  So just saying.  It’s open, lol. 

It’s a work in progress and I’ll add more as my obsession grows!! 

If you wanna see more of my content just check out my blogs! @littlemessyjessi is the main blog full of fandom fictions, imagines, headcanons and sickeningly sweet fluff! Yeah, I know, lol. Barf.  But hey, I like it. @witchyweirdness is the magical blog full of witchy content And last but not least !   @monsterbaesbymamakennysaurus is my monster blog full of all kinds of monster related content! So I hope to see you there! Love, Kenny

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Love, Kenny