#sorcerers

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

3rd Annual Witchcraft and Sorcery Convention, program book, Ken Krueger's Where House, Cahuenga, CA, 1973 (cover illustration by Bernie Zuber)

[minew01]

[jstor]

Here's what our friends at the Cleveland Museum of Art write about these four 17th-century paintings entitled "Scenes of Witchcraft" by Salvator Rosa:

A huge upturn in interest in witchcraft emerged during the 1500s in Europe, but by the middle of the next century - at least among the cultured elite of Florence - a backlash arose against the many accusations of sorcery. Artists and writers explored the topic more out of curiosity and amusement, chief among them the poet, painter, and satirist Salvator Rosa, who examined witchcraft with gusto in numerous poems and works of art, including these four paintings. They show a range witch types - from the beautiful enchantress to the old crone to the male sorcerer - and represent activities commonly associated with black magic - levitation, love potions, devil worship, the invocation of demons, and transformation. 

If you think that's awesome, you should browse the museum's collection in JSTOR—lots of great art from a wide variety of cultures and eras, and it's open and free for everyone to view and download!

[mamaangiwine]

This may be a great big, juicy Controversial Opinion (tm) that I'm throwing out to the wolves here, but I personally feel that if you're gonna go down the path of magic and the occult, you need to just come to terms with the fact that somewhere, at some point, there is going to be something that fucks you up a little bit.

[sorcererest-sorcerer]

Yo!

Where my sorcerers at?

[delinquentbookworm]

I think I relate so much to wild magic sorcerers because I have tics. And a surge and a tic are kind of similar in that they're both involuntary, they're loud, they're attention-grabbing and usually socially unacceptable. And there's really no way to prevent either of them or control when they happen, you just kind of have to apologise, laugh it off as best you can and hope the people around you are understanding about it.

Anyway, if we wanted to make them more similar, my proposal would be that sorcerers should set each other off. Because one thing about tics is that seeing someone else tic is like being hit with a reflex hammer. If you have a bunch of people who tic in the same room, one person ticcing will usually set off everyone else. And I think surges should work the same way, one person surging should start a chain reaction.

[thefugitivesaint]

Alice Helena Watson (1896-1984) ''The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book'', 1930

[theshadowrealmitself]

Town that’s been cursed and won’t be un-cursed without the love of two powerful sorcerers who unfortunately just died

So it’s like. a long ass time later. town is still hella cursed. when who should drive in but the reincarnations of the two sorcerers and their kid

And everyone’s hella excited because they’re here, they’re clearly in love, they can undo the curse!

So they’re doing everything they can to befriend the couple and see what they know and try to convince them to undo it, but all signs are pointing to the couple having no magic at all, as well as no memory, just a very normal couple looking to find a fresh start with their kid that they absolutely adore, so what gives?

Turns out it’s the kid who’s being kinda ignored by the whole town (because they’re not the reincarnation of anyone, the sorcerers never had a child before dying originally) who has magic (because they’re the embodiment of the couple’s love), and that magic is extremely powerful, stronger than the two sorcerer’s combined when they were alive, and can definitely undo the curse

Unfortunately for the town, this is a comedy in my mind, so no one’s really figuring this out, just testing the couple repeatedly, while the kid (who I actually imagine as an older teen) is doing magical feats in the background

And for the drama of it all, the one responsible for the curse, who’s stuck in the town too for whatever reason, is the closest to figuring out it’s the kid who has the magic

[moonlitcomet]

Empath, p1

[fantastictalesofadventure]

😞🔥

[sugarratio1]

Laelia wants abble

Laelia and Aukkora belongs to @moonlitcomet

Aukkora is holding Tirisp, she belongs to me

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Dan Bress and Ed Konstant - The Book of Sorcery - Little Soldier Games - 1977 (illustration by Bob Charrette)

[inverts]

it's time to get silly ;3

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[brookestar4]

“It wasn’t so bad!” 😭😭 had to draw this trio ❤️