#summon up the devil

[tonyrossmcmahon]

How to summon up the Devil

How does one summon up the Devil? There is no one definitive method of going about meeting Lucifer in your bedroom. But there’s equally no shortage of advice going back over two thousand years. The 1970s was a decade obsessed with horror, the occult, and Satanism. In 1975, when I was a 12-year-old at secondary school, an art teacher took time during class to tell us exactly how to summon up the…

[thetemplarknight]

How to summon up the Devil

How does one summon up the Devil? There is no one definitive method of going about meeting Lucifer in your bedroom. But there’s equally no shortage of advice going back over two thousand years. The 1970s was a decade obsessed with horror, the occult, and Satanism. In 1975, when I was a 12-year-old at secondary school, an art teacher took time during class to tell us exactly how to summon up the…

[nootnootles]

Congratulations Raido!

[cloudysfluffs]

tickling your human host is SO unfair

(ns//fw and/or fetish blogs please dni🙏🙏)

[lemonycranberries]

last episode and the episode name dropping is still going strong!!

[ladynamida]

DMC Questions Anon here!

DMC 5 did a great thing a gave us dates! It also gave us a Patty cameo that revealed it's her birthday on May 3rd. So my question for you is, how will her next birthday go after DMC 5?

The heady scent of incense burned through the air, the dark night sky hidden behind curtains so thick they felt as if they could keep the entire world at bay. Furniture pushed to one side of the room, scratch marks still visible in the parquet floor. It was now or never.

She was alone. She had never felt so alone. Desperate. No matter how many people she surrounded herself with, no matter how many flashy names with their flashy smiles and even flashier cars, she never felt safe anymore. Those marionettes with the double-barrelled surnames that had never stared down death and been protected by the barrel of a gun. They didn't understand. They could never understand. How could they, unless they had seen what she had seen? She wasn't cruel enough to wish that on anybody.

She remembered a simpler time, when she was told everything would be okay if she closed her eyes. When she dared to trust a stranger, in eternal optimism that there were good people she could trust, and she would be taken care of. Rescued.

It was her turn to do the rescuing now. She closed her eyes and took a breath.

The sigils outlining the circle began to glow as she fell to her knees and slapped bloodied palms on the floor. She recited the words, not knowing exactly what they meant but trusting them anyway. Lady would be furious, but what she didn't know wouldn't hurt her. She poured every ounce of hope she possessed into every syllable she uttered. They came from her gut now, and from the darkest recesses of her heart.

She felt pressure, pressing on her from all sides, suffocating, but she pressed on. She had spent months nurturing her skills, learning the words down to the last inflection and growl. She'd be damned if she would give up now. Giving up was not a phrase in Patty's vocabulary.

The pressure reached a crescendo, crushing her chest inward and pushing her down toward the floor, bowing to a deity not even there, but with the last demonic growl the sigils disappeared from sight, the magic poured into them spent, and the room was draped in darkness once more. She leaned forward, bowing her head, trying desperately to hold herself upright and hear anything beyond the rushing of blood through her ears. Darkness.

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Heavy breathing, then the glow of a small summoned sword faintly lights the room with blue. Eyes immediately pick out the girls silhouette, slumped on her side but knees still drawn up toward her chest. A flash of red - he knows that silhouette.

"...Patty?"

She feels him speak more than she hears it, and cracks her eye open, frowning against the pain in her head and rubbing her forehead against the cool wooden floor. He's beside her in an instant.

She knew what to say: she had spent almost as much time daydreaming about it as she had studying the dark arts she would need to make it happen.

"You're a whole year late, you know."

[annabelle--cane]

okay. collection of disparate thoughts on the good hal/bad hal thing:

-> I get, mechanically, why they went for it as a creative decision. I can buy the hal we see in the cutler flashbacks and the hal we see in the present day as being the same person because they're separated by sixty years, people change with time, but clearly what they wanted was for hal to go full villain mode in the last episode, and simply making him have a breakdown and do a heel turn on his personality wouldn't make sense. and like, last episode evil!hal is really fun, he's a smug villain who does dance numbers and is blunt enough to deliver the show's thesis as parting wisdom, I see the reasoning.

-> but I'm not sure how much of that was planned from hal's introduction? he says things like "I've been so many people" and "you've got the wrong man, I'm not him anymore," but it always reads as more metaphorical until s5. hal always says "me" when referring to his Evil Self, up until the middle of s5 where he starts saying "him."

-> and because (in my opinion) this element was added for a mechanical function, it overwrites thematic ground we've already covered before. when george split his monstrosity off from himself and called the wolf "it," that was a problem he had to overcome; when mitchell tried to deny his own agency and say he wasn't in control when he hurt people, that was a flaw that got corrected. then in hal's case they flip the script and say it really isn't him who does the atrocities. they try to work around it a bit, having good!hal kill someone and feed in secret so he does have things he's responsible for that lead into the change, but it still feels weird.

-> I also get where this comes from, metaphorically. there is a trend in sci fi/fantasy of portraying addict characters with this sort of jekyll-and-hyde dualism, literalizing internal struggles and the way people change while under the influence of mood altering substances, you find shades of it as far back as medieval morality plays where an everyman's vices and virtues manifest into physical form to duke it out. I don't love it, but I see where the emotional core of it comes from, and I also think it works best when (like with jekyll and hyde) the story comes to the conclusion that the two aspects aren't ultimately different people, and that's not really what they do with hal. unless...

-> how different are good hal and bad hal, anyway? obviously their moral codes are different, but are they different people or two aspects of the same person? bad hal isn't a neat freak, but he shares good hal's passion for vintage showtunes and werewolves who visibly want to do him harm. he's genuinely distraught when lady catherine dies, he keeps up appearances with lady mary for 250 years, young leo gets right under his skin, and he was willing to let let tom and alex have a nice send off from him. and, as should probably go without saying, good hal can also be a bastard, too. he almost attacks people several times, he says awful things to tom, he recruits ian and hides it, he kills larry and hides it, he feeds and hides it even when directly asked, etc. if the show had had one more season, I think the obvious next step for this arc would be bad hal joining the gang and everyone realizing that he's still just hal. this isn't a stranger, their friend hasn't died, this is the same man they've been living with for months and he still thinks the lute is the coolest of all medieval stringed instruments. the only real difference is that now he's decided to stop trying, but he's perfectly capable of changing his mind back.

-> what actually is his deal? what, specifically, is the good hal/bad hal thing? other vampires don't do that, other old ones aren't like that, the closest another character comes is herrick's whole amnesia arc but that was because he came back from the dead. I've seen other people go through and track how hal does actually show a good number of symptoms of a dissociative disorder (traumatic early childhood, out-of-body experiences, some amount of amnesia, etc.), but given that he says he feels like "both" and "neither" of himself when the devil tricks them all into thinking they've been un-cursed, I think we're supposed to read it as something supernatural. the best headcanon I've got is it is a dissociative disorder but hal thinks it's supernatural so the devil took it away as part of the whole too-good-to-be-true thing, but I don't think that was the intention and the show leaves it super unclear, they just drop it in and expect us to roll with it.

[chainsawctopus]

I made a Yoshida-Denji roleswap AU some time ago but gave up on it cause I don't know how to design a good Ocean Devil Hybrid design LMAO 😭 Octopus Pochita's name is Takocchi, more random info in tags

[darkcloudsatnight]

Engineer tries to summon a demon for reasons (side note don't take medics advice) and ends up summoning soldier (demon solly) on accident. They're now stuck together because soldier won't leave without engineers soul and engineer doesn't think soldier to smart enough to sell his soul too

Also something something soldiers never been deemed bad enough for hell something something this is his first time being summoned something something

WOAHHHHHHHH WAIT WOAHHHH YES PLEASE

WAIT THATS SO COOL

[snkts]

If Logan was the king of hell still could you technically summon him while he was in the middle of teaching a class or playing pool

[thedrotter]

cw BLOOD!!!!

2003 Kinder Yuuichi doodles motivated by this one battle sprite of him with this goofy face ... (also 2003 shunsuke appears there too did I need to draw him differently from my design of him no did i do it anyway yes)

Wanna doodle him more but first I'll be figuring out what's being said in the game ... Do not want to mischaracterize him even if he's slightly different so for now THE SILLY

[callmearcturus]

what if I install a bunch of cheats into my Citra MMJ emulator and just maybe try Shin Megami Tensei IV just one more time, JUST ONE MORE TIME, but this time with all the apps unlocked and maxed out money so i can steamroll to the next part of the game, what if i finally make it past the Kagome Tower plotline????

[madspeed]

Thought I'd show off a few things that came in this month!! It's a Raidou Kuzunoha garage kit from the 2007 wonder festival showcase and a Lisa Silverman figure I got signed by Lotus Juice..!!!!

Finding the Raidou kit was an insanely lucky find, let alone finding it with it's seal still in tact. I've only ever seen around 2 listings from within the last decade, and this kit actually even has counterfeit casts that went around for a bit! I may post pictures of me putting him together, but first I need to buy new sand paper lol.

[fiilemade]

// brainrotting over my own damn au......

Thinking sm about how beaten down Ren is at the start of the game, and all the ( very traumatizing!! ) shit he went through and then going 'now imagine doing all that, except he's moving into a place that - to your understanding - will MURDER your ass if the court story gets out about it, so good luck talking to anyone. Oh, and your guardian loves the people who would do said ass kicking.'

Of course, it's Furin. Once they know the truth then it'd probably be a total flip, and found family out the goddamn ass, but GODDDD do I gnaw it all anyways.

...I also ponder whether or not to give him the metaverse in this au. On one hand windbre is a Very 'yea no powers these are JUST some kids who hit like semi trucks-' BUT ALSO........the vibes of Ren eventually finding mementos and sorta pulling a solo thief act and trying to keep it a secret is very fun. Kid who cannot fight in reality very well but still finds his own way to combat the gangs yknow

[siderealscribblings]

[birdmenanime]

man I miss birdmen so much. I’ve been so DnD brained but I literally have it down so when I DM my first campaign in a couple of years (a sequel to my current campaign) I’m gonna reread birdmen to get a better understanding of the evolutionarily “magic” system and how it evolved alongside capitalism and restrictive government vs communism and anarchy.