#cassandra craft

[wanderingmind867]

I can't believe The Phantom Stranger hasn't had a good ongoing series since the 70s. How!? The man had such a good supporting cast! Doctor Thirteen and his wife Marie, Cassandra Craft, Deadman, there were a group of teenagers he knew in the early issues, etc. And even his villians aren't talked about enough. Tala and Tannarak are some pretty cool villians. This evil british/egyptian sorcerer and a demoness from hell. Those are some interesting villians. There was many directions you could have taken the stranger, i feel. But he's just a supporting character at best nowadays, which is a shame.

[dailycrippledcharacters]

Cassandra Craft (DC)

[Image Description: From the official comics. Cassandra, a white woman with long white hair whipping around her face. She has white eyes and her mouth is open in a scream. End ID.]

Cassandra is blind.

[momachan]

"Storm clouds of doom gather overhead, as if a parliament of dour executioners were called to judgement on frail humanity in these final, ember hours of all we hold dear. Good evening, ladies. Good evenings, all here gathered."

Seven Soldiers Of Victory; Book One. "A Box In The Beginning."

[radroller]

Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #2 “A Book in the Beginning”

Written by Grant Morrison, Illustrated by Ryan Sook and Mick Gray

[eliah]

[horsechestnut]

Bat Kids!

(Designs based on Wayne Family Adventures. It was the best place to find a consistent design for all of them in the same art style.)

New Stephanie Brown Expansion Pack

[ectonurites]

a teeny tiny cass sketchbook i quickly made last night

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

Why yes I am using the Silt Verses to push propaganda for some of my faves 🤭

If you like TSV for its weirdo eldritch gods and cosmic horror most of these would fit.

If you're specifically looking for capitalism-core with a dash of lovecraft type shit The Craft Sequence and The Dead Take the A Train got you.

If you're looking for the Ace/aro Mood while attempting to comprehend the horrors and being persecuted for your creepy fantasy religion try Winter Tide/The Innsmouth Legacy.

You looking for the unhinged queers who do murder in the name of their gods + a middle-aged trans MC who's just trying her best™ No Gods For Drowning might be for you.

Ya like the messed up saints?the body horror?and devastation that the gods in TSV bring? The Black Iron Legacy might do you some good.

Suppressed religions & dangerous gods 2 electric boogaloo aka The Divine Cities. Also got that sweet sweet political intrigue and commentary on colonisers/colonised dynamic among other things.

TWs:violence, death, gore, body horror for most of these. Some sexual references but nothing too graphic, In the Craft Sequence I do remember Three Parts Dead having a non-consenual kiss, can't recall any further SA atm.

I'm bad at explaining but just try them. K thx bye.

[loverhorror]

Lydia Wednesday Nancy Elvira

[beaulesbian]

They may call it a Summer palace, but it’s actually three different structures joined together. The cathedral is at the top. No way in there except from the palace itself. Below that, the whole place is a maze of secret passages, easy to get lost in. And it’s all built atop a sealed temple to the Old Gods.

[himejoshiangels]

only one episode out and I might have to become the #1 Kristen Applebees defender

[wanderingmind867]

My ideas for a Phantom Stranger/Destiny/Madame Xanadu series pt. 1: The origin of Madame Xanadu:

Now, let's look at the other side of the coin. Let's discuss the origin of Madame Xanadu (or my personal take on it). Madame Xanadu is immortal, and she was granted that gift as recompense for what the world tried to do to her. Born the child of a Romani Fortune Teller and her demonic lover, the child named Urania Kothari learned all the tricks of the magical trade from her skilled mother. But growing up in a time where both romani and non-christians were heavily persecuted, Urania had to be taught to hide her skills with the magical forces all around us.

Still, she found love. While blending in, she met an odd young man named Jason Coledridge who was fascinated by her powers and beauty. They fell in love, and even eloped in secret. It was a fairy tale romance, but one that was fated never to be. For you see, Jason's father was the town's chief priest. And when he learned his son had married a "gypsy witch woman", he formed an angry mob set to burn Urania alive.

But while the mob came to burn Urania alive, a bitter and ironic twist of fate meant that Jason died with Urania and her mother. Jason died at the hands of his own father, who had been driven to the point of pure hatred and fanaticism. It's a sad story, one of lost love and religious persecution. But it isn't the end of the tale of Urania Kothari.

Although one holy group and their vindictive God may have turned against her, clearly someone out there in one of the other pantheons had their eyes on Urania. Because instead of dying, she merely fell unconscious in a death like sleep. And when she finally woke up, she was in her current occult shop. A telepathic message from one of the local celtic deities revealed that they had spirited Urania away to colonial america and hidden her away in a new shop. She would assist people with her magic, and she would do it under an alias.

She chose the alias of Madame Xanadu. Xanadu for the ancient palace of Kublai Khan, which always had an association with mysticism (ever since ancient europeans were baffled by tales of chinese culture and it's advancements). Under her new name, she has lived for centuries. And now you might understand why she would take in the Phantom Stranger and Destiny after an unkind god stripped them of their powers. She, too, was condemned by that selfsame vindictive god, and she would never leave anyone to suffer the way she did.

So now the phantom stranger and destiny are living with madame xanadu, while they try to work out all the details of their past and while they try to find a way to restore their powers. So if this were a real comic, all three of them would be the stars. And since the phantom stranger is the only one with a real supporting cast, we'd probably have doctor thirteen and cassandra craft show up in this series. Maybe cassandra could get a job as madame xanadu's assistant?

This concept could also serve as a great lead in to a Justice League Canada Dark style book. With Madame Xanadu, the Phantom Stranger and Destiny, we'd only need at least two or three more to have a round five or six initial team members. Perhaps Cassandra Craft and Deadman would work? Maybe Etrigan or Zatanna or something too?

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

Currently at the top of my witchy reading list: 'Welsh Witchcraft: A guide to the Spirits, Lore, and Magic of Wales' by Mhara Starling and 'Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins' by Cassandra Snow.

Though I have listened to the audiobook version of 'Welsh Witchcraft' already, I wanted a physical copy to support Mhara and to more easily follow the exercises (rereading lines is easier than fiddling with Spotify imo).

[momachan]

"It's safer in the workshop. You were followed. I can hear his footsteps in the grass. And it's you he wants, Zee."

Seven Soldiers Of Victory; Book One. "A Box In The Beginning."

[abookishidentity]

Urban Fantasy thoughts part 2

It's very interesting how in each urban fantasy book I have read the main character is constantly hurting for money. Then again, there have been quite a few science fiction books in which the starship captain isn't exactly raking in the dough.

Urban Fantasy main characters are deeply broken people which makes sense as they have seen a lot. Something interesting about reading about a deeply broken person who is just constantly trying to survive and defeat bad creatures.

I remember looking up Sandman Slim on youtube and seeing someone comparing the book series with Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. So I checked out Storm Front by Jim Butcher and I just couldn't make it through it which was disappointing as the entire series was at the library it seemed. Didn't like how women were written, or at least the vampire women were, and I didn't like the main character.

Here are other urban fantasy books I did like:

-Dead Things by Stephen Blackmoore - I want to get more into this series.

-The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey - how I could not like this? Richard Kadrey cowrote it.

-Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone - I love the Craft Sequence series.

-White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton - Pretty good book.

-Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire - I would read more of this book series. I haven't read many books about the fae.

-The Devil You Know by Mike Carey- Currently reading this book. I definitely would want to read more of this series.

Other urban fantasy books I have read /tried to read but will not continue.

-Storm Front by Jim Butcher- already gave my reasons. It's quite disappointing and I'm not slogging through several books before it gets better.

-Moon Called by Patricia Briggs- I didn't finish this book. Too much werewolf pack rules shit.

-Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews - It was a pretty good book. A lot of werewolf in this book. The constant talk of who is the alpha and pack rules just kind of annoys me.

-Spider’s Bite by Jennifer Estep - Once again, it was pretty good. She was a deadly assassin which was cool. Didn't like that she lusted after the cop. Sometimes I forget that urban fantasy protagonists can just be ridiculously horny.

That all being said, I possibly need more recommendations for urban fantasy. Hopefully they are the libraries I frequent.

[eliah]