#salems lady

[iris-the-illustrator]

Memory’s of the Moon

Pearl: one of the latest addition to Evo, yet also one of the last to leave.

Pearl is a Moon Goddess or more accurately she was, however when she was brought to Evo the Watchers suppressed the memory’s of her past life and trapped her in a mortal body to ensure she couldn’t appose them.

In the past her mortal form is a moth hybrid, however in the present her mortal form is an avian.

Due to her undiscovered divinity she has a Goddess form that is unaffected by time and space, meaning she can vaguely remember the previous timeline after every reset.

The more resets that happen the more vividly she remembers and the more she risks prematurely discovering her true form.

Her dynamics are mostly the same as they are in the original timeline, when it comes to Mumbo however he knows he has to be careful around her. He is her friend In the future, but he can’t act like it too soon so he wont raise suspicion during the timelines where he try’s to hide the fact he’s from the future.

The main difference come in later timelines, when she starts to remember more clearly things that never happened. Salem is usually the first person to catch onto the fact Mumbo is hiding something, but this just gives her more reason to suspect something is wrong.

So in later timelines Pearl, Big B and Salem form a secret alliance to try and figure out what’s going on.

Gods and Goddess:

In this AU Gods/Goddesses are less like how most major religions see them and more like the Deity’s from Egyptian mythology or even Norse mythology. They aren’t all seeing all powerful entity’s, they are powerful of course but can still be killed/depowered, they are also less the rulers of a domain and more so the manifestation of their domain with their power and influence reflecting the state of their true selves (for example when the ocean dried up in empires, leading to Lizzie forgetting who she was)

Also in the past Pearls Goddess form is pale and blue to resemble a new moon, but when she rediscovered herself in the original timeline at the end of empires her Goddess form changed to resemble a harvest moon.

Also, also Salem is a Pegasus hybrid that idea was inspired by @fallow-foot Salem design go look at their art it’s great.

[insomniaruler]

Are evo members scared of portals?

Aka I had a T H O U G H T

So to jump through the versions they had to travel through nether portals and the dragon fight when everything fell apart was the end portal.

Mix this with my personal head canon that most of them don’t remember Evo. (Jimmy, Grian, BigB, Martyn and Pearl are the only ones who remember) (so that’s a about half)

And you get people who don’t know why they’re so scared of portals.

Sure it might be what’s waiting on the other side but as Salem looked up at the undulating and pulsing purple mass she shook. It was just the portal that made her so nervous, for no reason the cold obsidian and the purple glow made her hairs stand up.

Zee knew what awaited him on the star filled portal, a broken enderman farm. Killed by one of his server mates no doubt. He walked the rim and checked his armour three times before he turned and faced the portal on the other side. He hated the end portals they always felt like he was getting squeezed from every angle. Whenever he brought this up to anyone else he got weird looks. So he never got far enough to mention feeling oddly watched.

[ponydoodles]

I like to think Pinkie gave her Webkinz ridiculously long names

[confessionsdiaz]

me when YET ANOTHER SHOW I LIKE GETS CANcELLED

[whchwitch]

First meetings.

[lesbiifem]

The Ballad of the Witches' Road

Seekest thou the road to all that's foul and fair

Gather sisters fire, water, earth and air

Darkest hour, wake thy power, earthly and divine

Burn and brew with coven true and glory shall be thine

Down, down, down the road

Down the witches' road

Down, down, down the road

Down the witches' road

Down, down, down the road

Down the witches' road

Circle sewn with fate

Unlock thy hidden gate

Marching ever forward

'Neath the wooded shrine

I stray not from the path

I hold death's hand in mine

Primal night, giveth sight

Familiar by thy side

If one be gone, we carry on

Spirit as our guide

Down, down, down the road

Down the witches' road (down the witches' road)

Down, down, down the road (down the witches' road)

Down the witches' road (down the witches' road)

Down, down, down the road (down the witches' road)

Down the witches' road (down the witches' road)

Blood and tears and bone

Maiden, Mother, Crone

The road is wild and wicked

Winding through the wood

Where all that's wrong is right

And all that's bad is good

Through many miles of tricks and trials

We'll wander high and low

Tame your fears, a door appears

The time has come to go

Down, down, down the road (down, down, down, down)

Down the witches' road (down the witches' road)

Down, down, down the road (down the witches' road)

Down the witches' road (down the witches' road)

Down, down, down the road (down the witches' road)

Down the witches' road (down the witches' road)

Follow me, my friend

To glory at the end

Rip Nicholas scratch

[ktb90s]

this honestly was one of the most visually beautiful episodes.

The Tarot and the real life comparisons

The Salem Seven and Lilia falling.

Rio as Death. Seeing her true form was chilling but still beautiful.

[good-day-batey]

Absolutely going crazy about how Agatha All Along is about relationships with mothers (and honestly family, but I like it being mothers, can you tell I have mommy issues?).

With the Salem Seven, are the children of the ones that trialled and wanted to execute Agatha. Having grown resentful and vengeful of what Agatha did to their mothers, they have come after her, in her weakest she has been. Perhaps just like how their mothers and Evanora did to her daughter during her trial.

With Lorna Wu doing everything she can to protect Alice with this generational curse between women--daughters of her clan. Going on tours and tours to get her song-her spell to be heard because just as long as it is remembered, Alice will be protected. Which succeeded, and Alice died with her own terms in protecting her Coven.

With Agatha first and foremost being hated and seen as evil by her mother, and then being seen/rumored as this wicked witch (get it cause she's dressed up as the wicked witch of the east in ep 7 ha) who gave up her son for the book of the dammed, when in reality that can't be the case with all of the hints we've seen with her and Nicholas. And then seeing this boy-- this Teen who just broke into her house, broke her out of the Scarlet Witch spell, got to know him more and see him as a child to be protected once more, unlike perhaps do what she couldn't do with her own son. That she will to this kid who may have been the son of the woman who trapped her for 3 years, and basically "deceived" her all throughout the journey, but is nonetheless proud. Proud in seeing him take the opportunity to survive and grow up when he was supposed to die, as Billy Maximoff and even as William Kaplan

With Rio, who loves and is just as much of a mother to Nicholas, but is obligated to her job that she cannot abandon, making her do something that she doesn't want to someone she loves (both to Nicky and Agatha).

And to Billy, as a Maximoff and as a Kaplan. With Wanda, creating him and Tommy out of nothing but her powers and a desire for love and family, to her having to take everything she wants down and to her going through the multiverse to find her children only to find out that the twins of that universe already have a mother that is loving and isn't blindsided by the grief and the control of the darkhold that won't accept albit scared with what has she became . Too blinded by the grief and corruption, she didn't notice that her love presevered and saved the body this dying child. And with Rebecca Kaplan, despite basically grieving the death of her son because he can't see her boy in him anymore because of the amnesia (or literally with William dying and Billy taking over), she hasn't given up on this child. Having kept him safe in whichever way she can and in the process making Billy see her as her mother, giving the Kaplans more time with him rather than dying in William's bar mitzvah.

And lastly, with Lilia (I'll always love you), having the power and knowledge, she has basically been the mother of the coven. Always trying to save the people from the demise she has no control of seeing and failing to do, such as the curse of seeing divination just like in her first coven. She has accepted her fate of being a witch by having her final act saving her current coven, sacrificing herself, and loving to do so in the process. Such as a mother ready to sacrifice herself for those they love.

I have so much more yapping especially with Lilia and ep 7 (and Jen but we don't have her backstory yet so) but its honest to God 1:33 am in my place and i need to sleep 😴😴

[dyke-in-crisis]

art vs artist 2024 🫀🫀🫀

[stunning10s]

[clueless-fan-critic]

Agatha All Along: the Magical Sequel to WandaVision

So…I’m pretty late to the bandwagon, but I finally got fully through the entire series.

And I loved it!!!! The lore, the atmosphere, the characters, everything fell perfectly into place. After finally finishing and rewatching the show, it has become my top favorite show along side WandaVision. I'm always a sucker for anything with witches, spells, deities, and other mythological elements. I've been a big fan of the Scarlet Witch, both in the comics and Elizabeth Olsen's stellar performance. But enough praise, let me explain what this show has in store.

Agatha All Along is the sequel series to WandaVision that follows Agatha Harkness, previously trapped in Wanda's spell, on a journey beyond Westview. And onto the Witches Road with a makeshift coven on her side.

With all that out of the way, I will examine the finer details full of spoilers and dramatic twists that are much better if you go into the show blind. Now, Down the Road We Go!!!

Down the Witches Road...

The Witches Road is the main setting for all the major conflict in the show with a magical MacGuffin playing a role for each of the witches. As they progress, each character fulfills their own desires by overcoming the trials: Jennifer Kale learns to be a witch without her powers, Alice Wu-Gulliver overcomes her family curse, and Lilia Calderu embraces life despite her upcoming death. However, there were hiccups along the way with Sharon Davis's death, Agatha confronting her mother's ghost, and Rio Vidal's reveal as Mistress Death. But the major twist is that... The Witches Road never existed in the first place and Agatha made up the Ballad to lure witches for her to absorb. And Teen, later Billy Maximoff/Kaplan, made it real in a way like Wanda's Hex.

What I could tell was that each trial played a role in a character's journey, magic, and an element they represent: Jennifer as potions and water, Alice as protection and fire, Agatha as spirit, Lilia as divination and air, and Rio/Death as earth. The trials were more or less reflections of the characters in essence like Alice's trial related to music and Agatha's trial was more about what she has become and is. In the end, many of the characters got what they wanted from the road ironically since Agatha only gathered the coven to gain more power for herself.

Witchcraft is a huge staple in this show that embraces the more mysterious and spiritual sides of magic. Making it distinct from Sorcery by the Masters of Mystic Arts which looks more like the Avatar's Bending Arts if anything. It gives us a different way of seeing magic used by actual witches with spells and potions and even riding broomsticks.

Although we don't really know why, I think Agatha's magic draining power is a "mutation" that makes her incapable of creating her own magic and instead steals it from others. We also don't get any clues to how she got the Darkhold, just a rumor about her giving up her son for it. Maybe someone gave it to her and manipulated her into seeking out Wanda by promises of giving her power or resurrecting her son. Those were the only plot holes that kind of bothered me in the end, but aren't important... yet.

One by One We Carry On...

All the actors portray their characters flawlessly, but I did not expect Agatha to remain the same evil character throughout til the end. I thought they would pull some sort of "Zuko" scenario in a short period. But no, they keep the same but more sympathetic and relatable. Agatha goes from an evil witch killer to a grieving mother who's also a witch killer. Despite falling in love with Death, Agatha still lost her child Nicholas Scratch and still continued building the legend of the Witches Road to pursue more power. While it doesn't justify her actions, we get a bit of an understanding into why she does what she does.

While Billy is a great character, I didn't feel he had those "Epic Epiphany" moments like with Lilia completing the Divination trial and her final showdown with the Salem Seven. I still think he'll go to that point in some other project but he does grow into a stronger character from his experiences.

One of the witches who stood out the most is Lilia Calderu. The strongest episode is Death's Hand In Mine where she takes center stage as the main character. Lilia was characterized in a very strong way where she's definitely not a Mary Sue who wins because it happens. We see how Lilia experiences time randomly and how much she struggles to live with it. She uses her Divination powers to outsmart the Salem Seven in one badass move, but ultimately sacrificing herself while finally reclaiming her power.

The only thing I felt was unnecessary were the Salem Seven. They only play the role as an obstacle rather than a major antagonist like Mistress Death.

Now that we finally know who Rio is, it makes sense with how she drops bread crumbs in her scenes including her arrival on the Witches Road, the Ouija board's message, and even how she talks with Agatha about their history.

The casting and dialogue feels both organic to the actors and technically skilled in how they include previous characters from other shows like Sharon Davis and Ralph Bohner/Randall. All without being forced or contrived, it feels necessary for Westview to become the place where magic goes awry.

With where the series end, I really want to know how they can top or connect this to the next saga.

What Lies Ahead...

With the overloaded schedule of upcoming MCU projects, sudden hiatuses, and crazy leaks, we can only hope for some definitive answer to how plot holes are filled in. Will we get the resurrected Tommy Maximoff/Shepard meeting White Vision? How did Agatha get the Darkhold before Westview? Is Billy going to become a Young Avenger with his codename Wiccan? And will we get a sorcerers vs witches battle? All completely up in the air and slowly driving fans psychotic with anticipation.

With that said, Agatha All Along is more than enough to keep us satiated with amazing performances, alluring settings and designs, and intriguing witch mythos. I am hoping for more witches and magic being incorporated into the MCU and having writers learn that a character doesn't need to be redeemed into a hero so long as they are compelling to relate to.

Now, What Will You Find Down The Road?

[iris-the-illustrator]

The Lunar Trio bonding over their Trauma

[crazyaboutto]

Agatha All Along e8-9 predictions

Final episodes are but a few hours away so I needed to share this quickly

Here are some of my predictions from the final two episodes. Note that I haven't watched any trailers for them. Some predictions can contradict each other

Bonus: Wanda steals Agatha's show with Wanda All Along 🤣🤣

So excited for the final episodes. Truly lived up to WandaVision and gagged all the people who said "who asked for this?"

So happy that Aubrey wasn't lying about this being the gayest marvel project

[bestwitchsam]

Deleted scenes from #AgathaAllAlong :

— Salem Seven lore in Episode 5

— The reason for Agathaʼs trial being about mediumship in Episode 5 — William getting ready for the Bar Mitzvah in Episode 6

— Ghost Agatha seeing Eddie in Episode 9 and taunting Billy about it (wasn't filmed)

A Look Inside the Writers Room of AGATHA ALL ALONG with Showrunner Jac Schaeffer & The Writing Team

[confessionsdiaz]

sometimes i am doing fine and then i get struck by an intense yearning for a show that was cancelled too early

[lindavictoria95]

Last nights episode was just perfect! We got to see not only the reveal of Rio as Death (called it! 😁) but we also got an amazing trial, great dialogue and some of the connections and ties to the other episodes! It was so late I had to stifle my excitement at Rio’s reveal. I cracked up at the straight answers comment and loved the ex… best friend comment towards Wanda from Agatha too! Ahhh and the trial!? Amazing! Rip Lydia, I loved what she did for her new coven in the end but sad she’s gone. 💛😭