#hexfest

[elhoimleafar]

Fake it till you make it - Or quit the process, dealing with the expectations of the North American Witchcraft Community.

[original-kakabel]

Christian Day is back at it... Using Dogwhistle Anti Trans rhetoric at a Welsh Transwoman mere DAYS after Britania Ghey's murder, calling ICE on POC Pagans and trashing Mambos in LEGIT Hatian Voodoo Houses...

All because he has a 'con' coming up and a re-release of his ghost written book...

[epiphenomenal]

Teenage exorcists edition: matoba oh so casually showing up at culture festival at natori’s school!

[image description: confused-looking natori, in a japanese ghost costume, opens a classroom door; outside, matoba smiles, a crepe in hand]

(the crepe is not for natori)

[loquatenjoyer69]

He wants the loquat because he wants, like most people, to be happy.

Matoba is Matoba. The exorcist world is dying, families are losing their power, but there are still those who want to see the Matoba house brought to its knees, and even in a world like this where the competition is not what it used to be, it's still crucial to maintain the family's power. One slip could reveal a fatal weakness. A single crack could bring the whole house down.

Matoba is Matoba. A fifteen year old boy knows the histories of all the notable exorcist families, because he has to. If you're Matoba, you have to keep tabs on everyone. The Natori house was once powerful enough to rival the Matobas; their proprietary paper techniques allowed them to commune with the gods. Now all that's left of them is a child who knows nothing of his own legacy.

"The Matoba clan might not always be at the top, either, you know."

"Ahaha, I don't know about that... I won't let it fall." It's not allowed.

Every month, a hideous dark mass of a creature comes after him, trying to eat his eye out of his skull. Every Matoba head for countless generations has lived with this. The previous head's face was unrecognizable by the end. A fifteen year old boy is already preparing to take on the role with unwavering confidence. A single crack could bring the whole house down.

Exorcists gossip, exorcists scheme, they plot against each other and try to gain power. Youkai are unpredictable and dangerous; they can be powerful, but they often impose themselves on humans and cause them to suffer. If you can learn how to control them, you can wield that power. You must not let the youkai catch you, or the Matoba's power is no more.

Matoba Seiji is the head of the notorious Matoba clan, dispatching dangerous youkai with ease, spying on other exorcists, keeping the enemies of his clan in check, always carrying the umbrella when he needs it, always with that smile on his face. Matoba has perfectly mastered the art of protecting Matoba.

At twenty-two, he's been doing this for a while now. The small talk, the plotting, the bribing, the arrows, the umbrellas, the monthly visits from a creature hellbent on devouring your eye, it all becomes part of a routine, and at the same time, it gets tiresome.

Incidentally, Matoba Seiji likes sweet things. Incidentally, Matoba Seiji has a fondness for cats. These are essentially fun bits of trivia about him; they're not evidence of anything.

Incidentally, sometimes it seems like he's going out of his way to help people without them knowing. It's just easier that way; it's just more efficient.

None of this means anything. Maybe Matoba is the hard ground in winter: dry and barren, all life asleep underneath, waiting for spring (winter has been going on for years now). Maybe he's a summer harvest: the product of deliberate and painstaking cultivation under the heat of the sun. Maybe he's the spring: full of potential, just starting to blossom. Maybe he's the fall: dying, though he doesn't know it. Maybe people aren't like seasons at all; they're actually more complicated than that.

Summer is loquat season. Under the blazing heat of the sun, in the damp and sweltering air, the sweet loquats are ripening on the branch. Years ago, Matoba Seiji would admire them every day on the way home from school. It's wonderful how something so sweet and delicious could come from nature. Years ago, someone else was there, and they both got to taste the loquats. It's funny how things don't always work out.

[defeateddetectives]

I was happier, dreaming.

[endless-season]

kirameitetegomen.mp3

[coquelicoq]

" & after they’ve left natori is like wtf matoba????? & matoba’s like well it’s what they all thought we were doing anyway" XDDDD im amazed u got these brainworms BEFORE special ch 17, anyways if u have any other bedtime stories to share i would be very invested in reading them hahaha

[re]

one of my fave horrible exorcist concepts is that they aren't together but everyone thinks they are and matoba likes watching natori squirm about it. just saying stuff that's technically true but which he knows will be misinterpreted. like somebody says "oh matoba-san, is this your boyfriend?" and he's like "well, since we're both the heads of our clans, neither of us can marry into another clan." like, okay, but that is sooo irrelevant to the question you were asked bestie. meanwhile natori is standing there seething but everyone just interprets it as anger over the unfairness of their situation 😌 or because of the groundwork matoba has laid, every time somebody asks natori about his relationship with matoba and he laughs it off or demurs, they're like oh i get it wink wink yes you're definitely not lovers, *whispers* don't worry natori-san you can trust me i'll keep your secret!

anyway yes reading special chapter 17 was such a trip because i was like wait a second. matoba curing natori of youkai illness/possession was canon all along??? classic. she's going for all the best tropes. they're constantly protecting or rescuing each other, they get the battle couple treatment, they get locked in a room together at one point for crying out loud. lay it all on me midorikawa-sensei. give me honesty curse, give me fake dating, give me arranged marriage. give me there was only one futon.

[treecakes]

[10 layers of headcanons deep voice] i’m gonna make this doodle digital now

[undistortedworld]

i wanna bake a joint bday cake for the exorcists today but i dont wanna go shopping for ingredients or spend ages baking ToT

[izumisays]

i am so EXCITED for hexfest and also so OUT OF SHAPE

that is to say, i may have miscalculated how long it will take me to finish my birthday offering for horrible exorcist no 1

sooo - a placeholder? happy rough draft birthday?

[hexfest]

since fall and s7 is upon us soon and this was such a blast last year, casually putting out an interest check! feel free to like/reblog/comment if you may consider participating in a potential hexfest 2k24 edition 👀

[half-infinite]

horrible exorcists; ~500 w.

He'd found himself nodding off as Seiji was speaking, sharing some lore about the ayakashi inhabiting these woods, and something about his voice was almost soothing. [fic by @defeateddetectives, comic by half-infinite, for @hexfest 2024]

Happy Hex Fest 2k24 to all those who celebrate from @defeateddetectives and I❣️❣️❣️

[epiphenomenal]

sorry to anyone who just followed me, because after hexfest i'm going to disappear indefinitely again........... (pls feel free to unfollow)

anyway, a crossover no one asked for, with my actual current fandom

[image description: natsume yuujinchou and kitaro tanjo: gegege no nazo crossover. in the foreground, natori and mizuki exchange namecards; behind them, matoba and gegerou eye each other sceptically]

[souenkun]

home is where the cats are | horrible exorcists

Now, after the axis of his world was tilted askew, Seiji wanted to see what eye color that all of the kittens' would develop just as much as he wished to see how retirement would fit itself for Shuuichi, for them both together. For once, he stopped himself from tucking his true intentions in between the lines for Shuuichi to read, and so Seiji let his sleep-muddled mind do the talking, croaking out the truth as he cupped his boyfriend's face. "I just wanted all of us to grow old together. Is that too much to ask?"

Or: after finding a litter of kittens post-exorcism, Seiji and Shuuichi has been taking several day offs to care for the lovely devils, but nothing lasts forever when both of their demanding jobs awaited them, leaving no one to care for the young felines. Seiji wasn't ready to let them go.

Written for Hexfest 2024 (@hexfest).

[defeateddetectives]

First time I've ever wished for a disney version.

[thecrowsart]

i dont like ramble posting on here too much but i wanna say im so sorry for not doing any hexfest posting TT_TT i really want to participate and ive had ideas rattling around my brain for a few months that i was saving for now but i'm super low energy atm and also became fixated on translating a manga so i'm in my hole... OTL I WANT TO DRAW!!!!!! I will try to spit something out during this month at least. I'm always keeping those two in my mind