#me and my muses who give me excuses to wax poetic abt witchy and pagan stuff <3 <3 <3

[ladyseidr]

unironically going to ramble a little bit abt the promo i made for my spn muses under the cut lmao. i don't imagine discussion of the "occult," demons, and stuff bothers many ppl here, but y'know reader beware just in case. ( i always tag anything relating to luci.fer, demons, or general chr.istian mythology with "religion tw" for what it's worth ).

i spent so long trying to find quotes i wanted. i didn't want to just, like, copy-paste the wikipedia page for demons or luci.fer because that's so Boring, so i spent a long time looking through pdfs, archives, books, etc

i was initially looking at modern-ish stuff ( early 1900's-2000's, for the sake of being Time Period Conscious ) but i was having to play that game of "don't accidentally quote a book written by The Worst Person Alive" that i think all pagans/witches are already familiar with LMAO so i went full historical

( no like literally i found a book on demono.logy, was like "well let me check out the author just in case first" and for fuck's sake oh my gods )

next issue: find anything that wasn't still incredibly chr.istian while talking abt summoning demons / luci.fer??????? this was a little surprising, maybe i'm just not as familiar with demono.logy as i thought LMAO. but it doesn't fit the sp.n vibe

when i finally settled on the encyclopedia, i found the entry for "devil" ( which was used both for The Devil and "devils," or demons ) and that's where i got both quotes. the possession quote just immediately made me go "ooooooh that's good" but ngl i went a little insane at the whole demons "lay[ing] snares for hunter." like, yeah, it meant Normal Real Life Hunters, but it was just too good not to use

okay, outside of the quotes now:

it was v intentional to make jess and sam's image witchier, which was a combo homage to a. my jess's hunter AU, b. sam canonically learning spells / some witchcraft in later seasons, and c. lbr i was thinking abt witchy hunter power couple jess and sam ( @florietiae ) fhdskfjdsalk

the pentagram amulet is a ref to jess's amulet but, while it's something she might wear in the hunter AU, her amulet is def not so obviously... witchy. just because, like. i mean lbr, ppl can be weird abt ppl wearing pentacles sometimes. her actual grandmother's amulet is a lot more subtle, but i was trying to fit the witchy and occult vibes

yes that is a tarot card. yes i went with The Tower instead of The Devil because oh if you know, you know LMAO.

i wasn't trying to "couple up" my muses, i mostly put jess & sam together for aforementioned witchy stuff, and then just, like, ended up with dean and cas together. i think it's incredibly funny.

i originally thought abt putting a ring of salt around jess's picture but it was just too busy visually. i hope the thought still counts fkdhsalhfda

every time i add muses with witchy or pagan aspects, my url makes a little more sense ( se.idr is a form of nor.se magic, & the "lady" in question is the goddess Fre.yja who uses said magic )