#indigo the witchling

[katherinehillierillustration]

Belated inktober day 19 using the prompts GOTH MOTH from #mabsdrawlloweenclub, ENCHANTED from #drawingparade2023 and GARDEN from #peachtober23

This is my character Nirvy. Her story begins with a witch who had a magic lizard familiar called Hanyula, who could make shed-skin clones of its witches. When the witch died young, her brother Shood inherited Hanyula as his familiar. He became a highly skilled witch and turned the skin-clone of his sister into a living person with a mind of her own. That’s Nirvy! Who is kinda goth, and likes moths. So here she is in some magical overgrown palace garden ruins.

Pen on purple card, pls dm if you’d like to purchase x

[divinaes-bookofsecrets]

🎃 😊 Happy Halloweenie to toonie shadows 🎃😊

[witchykinny]

FAQ

Hello! Call me Shadow. I am 21 and use he/vamp/bats/cats pronouns. I am neurodivergent.

I am an eclectic witch. I dabble in a bit of everything (as long as it’s not cultural appropriation). I work with the Infernal pantheon. I mostly work with Lucifer and my two pop culture deities.

Witchlings are welcome here! I believe in education, to a certain point.

I have moved my kin stuff over to @evildadstims :3

I am white. I recognize that I inherently have privilege, especially in the United States, where I live. I recognize that I am on stolen land, which once belonged to the Umoho, Kansas, Oto, Pawnee, Lakota, and all other tribes that were here that I can’t find sources for (list is specifically for where I live in Nebraska). I apologize to them and ask that everyone recognize that what I say and do on this blog does not reflect all of my activism and what I do in real life to help BIPOC and other marginalized groups.

I tag all triggers with “//” before the trigger. Other things below! General TWs, nothing explicit, just mentions.

Some things I post are NSFW, especially when I talk about sex magic. 18+ only on those posts. Kink blogs are not allowed to interact, though. I am okay with littles, but nothing DDLG or any other kink relating to that. Littlespace is a coping method, not a kink.

DO NOT INTERACT IF YOU ARE/SUPPORT:

Cultural appropriation/not believing in closed cultures, using white sage and/or using the term “smudge” if you’re not an indigenous american, use the terms black/white magic and/or dark/light magic (has racist roots), practice wicca (cultural appropriation), are against baneful magic/talk about love and light.

Christians/Catholics/if you support christianity in any form.

The Satanic Temple and any of its associates. 'Atheistic' Satanists/Luciferians.

Bigots of any kind. Christans/catholics. Pro-lifers. TERFs/radfems/gender critical/trandmeds/etc. Proshippers/comshippers/variants. Pedophiles/MAPS/NOMAPS/PEARS/etc. Incest (includes adoption). Noncon. DSMP/Harry Potter/Melanie Martinez fans. Starseed/indigo children/other ableists. Anti self-dx.

[keydawolf]

Calming the Flames

Chapter 1

Boscha stares at the group of witches and one human, this was all Willows fault!..... Wasn't it? Boscha had been thinking about all the events that had occured.. First Amity starts acting weird, then Half a witch starts getting confident, Amity takes that human to Grom, then challenges Boscha to a grudgby match with the human and half a witch… and now? Boscha scowls, watching her old group of "friends" chatting away with each other… without her, they seemed content, at ease even, without her presence. The whole school hierarchy that Boscha used to keep in check was turned upside down, bullies and the like were now frowned upon, so she was basically ignored now. Boscha looks back at Amity and Willow, chatting quietly between themselves while the weird Illusion kid talked to the human and… a new face, one that had just seemed to appear, with a weird hairstyle, purple hair and eyes and dual tracking in Bard and Illusions, so weird, yet none of that compared to their behaviour. Boscha decides shes had enough aggravation and gets up, dumping her lunch tray and heading off on her own, eyes burning into the floor as she heads for a place she can at least think in peace. Unbeknownst to Boscha, she had someone following behind her, no malicious intent, more simple curiosity. Boscha arrived at her spot, the gymnasium, most students didn't come here, let alone the small room beyond the stage, the bard class used it only when prepping for plays so it was always empty and no one ever batted an eye at random objects just appearing there sometimes. Boscha checks around the gymnasium before going inside, bullies may bot be liked, but they still existed and the last thing she needed was to become a new target for them. The room was empty, as usual, spare for a small potted plant at the back, the plant growing out of it was tiny and shriveled, it made Boscha growl just looking at the state of it, but even so, she grabs her water bottle and waters it carefully, not too much, not too little. Boscha had recieved it from one of her former friends, Amelia, who, despite everyone else telling her not to, was still kind of her friend, well, she tried to be, Boscha kept pushing her away, she didnt want pity, pity was worse than loneliness… or so she thought, at first she had just left the plant there, then it started to dry out and die and for some reason, Boscha couldn't stand the thought of it dying there alone. "Come on you dumb plant, why won't you just go back to normal!" Boscha growls in annoyance "I gave you water, what more do you need for pete's sake, I'm no plant witch, I can't just…" the sound of the door creaking reaches the witches ears. Boscha hesitates, she turns to see that purple haired weirdo just standing behind her at the doorway of the room, their face looks surprised as their eyes move between her and the plant. Bosch'a mind quickly comes up with a solution to the problem before her. Indigo had a total of 3 seconds to react as a fireball is tossed at them, thankfully they dodge it completely and shut the door behind them, pressing against the wall as another fireball burns through the wood, leaving a small hole in the door. A moment passes and Indigo feels the defensive anger bubble down to a fuming irritation. An idea passes through Indigo's mind for a moment, they consider it, decide its a terrible idea, but decide to do it anyway. "Put it in the sunlight" Indigo calls softly, as expected, the anger is back and accompanied by thundering footsteps. Indigo books it out of the gym before the angry witchling can get to the door. Boscha fumes as she checks outside the door, the weirdo is now gone, but their words echo in her ear…. Sunlight… of course! Boscha looks around for a small window, spotting one covered in drapes and opens it slowly, it wasnt the best place but the sun did reach it, she places the pot there, she could swear one of the leaves on the plant twitched, that had to be a good sign! Indigo walks back to where Luz had been waiting for them, smiling to themselves as the anger calmed just a bit

[the-craft-of-alex]

Hello, witchy side of Tumblr!

My name is Alex, and I’m a secret witch who loves their plants and their crystals! Here’s some things you should know about me:

🦊 I’m basically a cat my I love love love LOVE foxes

🦊 Also the colors indigo and teal!

🦊 I love practicing witchcraft but I still consider myself to be a witchling!

🦊 My pronouns are they/them but I don’t label my attraction

🦊 I love working with card game decks because they’re so versatile!

🦊 My overall favorite crystal is green aventurine!!

🦊 I’m still in school and thus, if you’re you’re looking specifically for an extremely active poster, I am not the one to follow.

🦊 I’m a nonprofessional artist and I love to draw fancy sigils!

🦊 I’ll be posting lots of: really simple spells, gem tips, random sigils, and random things that relate to my interest in foxes or my daily life.

🦊 I spell it “magical” and not “magickal,” for future reference.

Blessed be everyone, have a great day!

[glittertrail]

blue: the most recent dream i remember is from two days ago in which i was in a very curious situation in which i was in front of a supernatural creature of some kind and i was trying to figure out their name (kind like rumpelstiltskin except there were no towers, spinning wheels or babies involved, just a sense of ??!?! because i was trying to figure out their name for some reason but not bc i was afraid of what they'd do) i wish i remember what else happened in the dream, i remember thinking it was all very oddly mundane but not much more

burnt umber: here is the next day already because i didn't see this before falling asleep last night lmao but my 'being kind to myself' of the day is going to be getting hopefully some writing and reading done before i meet with some friends in what i like to call being irresponsible overly social because i know the possibility of me not going back home till it's saturday morning-ish is never zero (so far the itinerary includes going shopping with someone, then meeting some more people at a bar for a birthday and then going to a club a friend is DJing at tonight)

indigo: please do print it, i am this close to do the same to almost everything @librarian-witchling has written in the tags of posts about me because they never cease to make me feel like the Grinch having his heart tripling in size but i think the most memorable compliment i've ever gotten was from a friend a couple of years ago, who said i was the person that made her feel most at peace, like looking at me reminded here everything would turn out alright and calmed her down, i still get a little 🥺 thinking about it

blue, burnt umber and indigo please 😊

oh thanks, doll! <3

blue; what’s the most recent dream you remember?

I slept for like twelve hours a few nights ago and had the weirdest dreams...the most involve of which was that my dad and I bought a house near a hiking trail that definitely doesn't exist in real life but I've visited in dreams before. And we were renovating the house with my two aunts (his sister and his brother's wife) and then the aunts started being mean to him about him being deaf--which is not in character for either of them, especially not his sister--and so I got really mad at them and yelled at them. And then we made bread, I think?

burnt umber; what’s something you plan to do before the day is over to take care of yourself?

I AM GOING TO DO A FACE MASK AND LAY OUT MY CLOTHES BECAUSE I HAVE A VERY LONG DAY TOMORROW AND I REFUSE TO DO WHAT I NORMALLY DO AND BE UNPREPARED FOR IT.

indigo; what’s the best/sweetest compliment you have ever received?

Literally this. I read it when I'm sad, lonely, frustrated, or all of the above. I should print it out honestly.

What about you?

[pinebrookcrystals3]

Day 31: Let’s see the whole collection!

Plus the Iris Oracle, but it’s not here yet. I feel like I buy too many decks for someone who mostly just does readings for myself.  List of decks below

Left to right:

picture 1: Shadowscapes Tarot, Sun and Moon tarot, Tarot of the Magical Forest, Idiosyncradeck tarot, Rider Waite Tarot, Universal Waite Tarot, Type Tarot, The Happy Tarot, Hidden Waters Tarot, Wild Unknown, Cheimonette Tarot, Celestial Stick People Tarot, 

picture 2: Angel Tarot cards, Guardian Angel Tarot, Linestrider Tarot, Animal Spirit deck, Earth Magic oracle, Nature Spirit oracle, Past Life oracle, Wisdom of the Hidden Realms, Miracles Now, Only Time Will Tell, Vessel Oracle, Madame Endora’s Fortune Cards

picture 3: Witchlings cards, Oracle of the Mermaids, Whispers of Love, Mystical Wisdom, Nature’s Whispers, Energy Oracle 

Picture 4: Angel Answers, Indigo Angel, Healing with the Angels, Archangel Michael oracle cards, Archangel Oracle Cards, Angel Prayers, Keepers of the light

[breezy-may-wizardry]

Sometimes a girl just needs color therapy and tea

[katherinehillierillustration]

Indigo growing mushrooms, 2x Aphinus looking cute and round, and Indigo with a small potted bush.

[katherinehillierillustration]

Inktober day 2! I used the prompts ROSE from hartober and psychic armour from octoberchrysalis

So here's a sketch of my character Aranura (a rose-person wise-witch) in some magical all-seeing eyeball armour, back in her youth when she was a knight for the mushroom king. The red rose is some kinda magical prehensile whip weapon...thing?

Her skin is spiky like rose stems, and her hair is rose petals, like her eyebrows. I tried to add elements of multilayer petals to her armour, as well as rose spikes. I gave her a vaguely leafy-petally-semi-sheer-sparkly cloak but idk if it's better without?

Anyway, this was just a scribbly messy, but I like some elements of it. And that's a large part of what Inktober is about?? Right??

[katherinehillierillustration]

My chara Indigo Atalanto, the trainee witch (who also got returned from the dead) with her thief bf Olfi Sputt whose house is also a cat sanctuary.

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Nirvy and Indigo sketchins, 2 of my witchling characters

Nirvy spends most of her time studying and being a research assistant on viscera magics

+ indigo in her ‘foraging in the woods’ coat , full of pockets for bits n bobs

[katherinehillierillustration]

My character Cibella! From my WIP YA/tween fantasy novel Indigo Atalanto series, the first book of which is called ‘Indigo the Witchling’, set in a magical world that’s kinda all over the place, in a good way.

Cibella Stonch is a Necromantical Witch who teaches necromancy and Communications with the Undead Realm at the Witchery, which is where Witchlings earn their certification to become a professional Witch. 

Her familiar is Amzy the yellow viper, who can transform into a whip made of bones, which can drag ghosts temporarily from the Undead Realm into the Living Realm. 

She is an Othli, which means she is a mothy-humanoid, and like most Othlis she is from a poor family who tend their local graveyard. However, Cibella only went and married the Hallesian Prince Aureus, who is also a Witch, so now she has a fortune to spend on gifts for her ghost buddies and adopt lots of weird pets, including a giant sparkly pink beetle which replaces a horse on her skull-shaped carriage. 

I wanna do more backgrounds! This was an attempt do to a background. What are your thoughts on backgrounds?

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[katherinehillierillustration]

A couple of concept scribbles for my witch novel series innit

On the left is a 16 year old knight from a prestigious family who have sworn to always protect the innocent and quash all evil!! while being pretty self-entitled and blustering.

On the right is Magenta - a witch who was shunned for the death of her 4000 year old moth familiar (who gave its life to protect her when she was only 11) and seeks revenge by eating the hearts of witches to gain the magical powers of their familiars.

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Indigo and her bossy ancient lil familiar - Acanthus ! 

character concept doodles for my WIP kids witchy novel series

[katherinehillierillustration]

So for the last few months I’ve been putting together some ideas for a series of books about witches! Set in a so far ambiguous magical world. Basically, it’s the stories I wish was able to read when I was age 9-12, instead of the low-key misogynistic fantasy novels or boring young-adult books I ended up with.

The main character is 12 y/o trainee witch Indigo (not settled on name) who always wanted to be a doctor to take care of her remote mountain village home, and is frankly skeptical of this whole witch bizzniss, but was coerced into witch training by the legendary but lazy Viridia who has a wise old sleepy armadillo familiar called Lola. Indigo’s familiar is Acanthus - a 5000 year old silver hare who is dissatisfied by how inexperienced and disinterested his new charge is (speaking of which, I rly need to learn how to draw hares)

Anyway Indigo meets a whole host of characters inc Dido, teen warrior from nomad tribe, also a posh wannabe-knight, magic-scammers, magic animal poachers, really chill skeletons, the Moon Twins, Acanthus’ weird old friends, the Lotus Queen, the witch police, The Saturday Butcher (who steals human body parts to sell to dark witches for evil potions etc), various vampiric creatures, parasitic melon plants, cute boys in distress, forest guardians, various royals, and also she gets to travel through time a lil bit. 

of course - diverse representation inc lgbt main characters.

ALSO rather than develop or base ideas on existing mythologies and folklores EG unicorns, cyclops, werewolves, all the mad magic is mad shit I'm making up myself! so thats fun and also mentally stimulating/exhausting but mainly fun.