#boy Witch

[maltcrescent]

Vertigo

witch boy captured D:

[cruelseraph-art]

🗡🕯💀

[blue-solstice]

A coupla cute witches 🕸️🔮🪄

[insecthusbandry]

Wait psspsspss sleep no more folks, I am slowly digging up old snm art, here is mr Boy Witch from last January 🧚‍♂️

[drinkthehalo]

I saw the Boy Witch again last night.

It was the first time I'd seen Jordan Morley in the role since 2011, and the 13th anniversary of the opening of Sleep No More NYC.

It was magical. Jordan moves like a witch. Little movements of the hands, ways of floating through the space, supernatural.

Jordan finds so many moments of connection.

In May (?) 2011, Jordan's Witch drew me to sit with them at a little table in the lobby dining room, put a little milagro on a red string around my neck, and whispered, "Wear this always. It will protect you." (My memory of this is fuzzy, and I have other memories from this time that couldn't have been accurate, but I think this one is real.) I put the milagro on my bedroom mirror - it was a little hand - and it remained there for ten years, until I moved in 2021. Other trinkets came and went, but that one stayed, along with other milagros from Boy Witches, until they stopped giving them out a couple years later.

Why did I keep it there for so long? That moment of connection had been so beautiful. I knew it was a performance, I knew it wasn't "real," I knew it happened to whoever was in the right place at the right time multiple times per night. And yet somehow, in that brief moment, it had been so deeply moving and meaningful.

I felt it again last night. For the first time since my son was born, my back didn't hurt. I floated through the space like walking on air, like I was 13 years younger.

I've puzzled for so many years about why I am so drawn to the Boy Witch. Often I'd feel ashamed, wondering if it was something prurient, if I was just coming back to be flirted with by an attractive person who gets naked.

It came to me last night though, what's really going on. The Boy Witch is reaching out for connection. With these little moments of fun, and play, and teasing, and then these moments of great longing, of extended eye contact, of tears, of hugs.

He is a character who is cloaked in darkness, narratively an omen of tragedy and death, literally cloaked in the dark shadows of the McKittrick, and yet he reaches out through that darkness, always trying to find human connection. Last night I felt in those moments that he was seeing me as the Porter, as that embodiment of his lost love and humanity.

(Maybe the tragedy of the character is that he can never truly maintain the connection, that the tears aren't real, that those moments are ephemeral, that one moment he looks deep into your eyes and the next moment he spurns you. (Although I take the Boy Witch/Porter's recent NYE wedding as canon!))

What a miracle that this performer I've never spoken to outside of the show, and never thought I'd see in the role again, could reach out through the darkness of 13 years and create such beautiful moments of connection again.

[seasidesapphix]

so in the sleep no more program, there's that description from the paisley witch trials of a cat being christened by witches and transformed into a man, which makes me really like the idea that the boy witch might've originally been a cat

[yeowninefive]

Gourd Gusto and Dewey Neuron Doodles

More artwork of Dewey in the highest of thighs.

The first drawing (as one can guess with the giant pumpkin) is technically a holdover from the late Halloween queue from November. (Dewey --still a witch, albeit without his hat-- is traveling through the forest on the pumpkin, the green vines are supposed to serve as reins.)

Meanwhile, the last two drawings are actually weeks-old unpublished doodles made when I was sketching a sweater/thigh highs outfit for Dewey (which eventually produced "Witch Dewey" as seen in Gourd Gusto above, as well as the previously linked "Evening Flight"). I was motivated to post them in light of this popular "Neuron activation" post by Doremian Cleff on Twitter, hence the title of the doodles. (Honestly, there was no way I couldn't share them, the outfit(s) of Doremian's OC Jet was a direct inspiration for Dewey's sweater/"witch" design. Too perfect of an opportunity to pass up.)

[threestarshigh]

[maltcrescent]

Conked-Out Conjurer

Let sleeping witch boys lie.

(In the meantime: I spy, with my little eye...)

[cruelseraph-art]

[WIP]

preview of what my transmasc pinup series looks like when you put them all together. Still fighting my scanner to get a good digitalized version of the bottom left red one, but the plan was to put them all in rows like this from the start <33

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

I made a pretty boy witch

[teawitch]

I don't know who needs to hear this but I've been reminded on a group that the deadline to register for Between the Worlds is August 30.

Home Page - Between the Worlds

(Posting because none of y'all on tumblr seem to know about it, even though I am not strictly speaking the correct audience.)

[insecthusbandry]

Do anybody know who played boy witch for today's matinee? He was so good and he looked like this but I can't tell who he is on the website.

EDIT: Steven Apicello! Does anyone know if he played Kronos in the burnt city at any point bc if so I'm pretty sure I had Kronos 1:1 with him 🤯

[a-foggy-maggy]

part 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

[charlietheepicwriter7]

Despite Danny's best efforts, no matter how much time past, Amity Park refused to see Phantom as a hero.

Sure, there were pockets of support, particularly among teens, but most of the town blames Phantom for the property damage, saying if he didn't fight the ghosts then it wouldn't be so bad, to that time he got mind controlled by Freakshow and "attacked" the mayor. It wears him down. It wears Tucker and Sam down. Jazz can only try to support them all.

Then one day, a member of the Justice League visits. Someone minor, and kinda a jerk... maybe a Wonder Twin? Zan? Whatever. They don't investigate; they don't look deeper. They listen to the town folks and declare the ghost hunters, Red Huntress and the Fentons, to be the official heroes of the town.

Worse? Danny Phantom is officially considered a villain to the Justice League. Tuck hacks into the Watchtower and confirms that they have a file (a heavily inaccurate file) about how to defeat Phantom.

Danny doesn't think he can do this anymore.

A few weeks later, a young villain escapes into Amity and demands (begs) that Danny help them escape from the hero after them. No idea who, I can't find a lot of info on teen villains in DC, so let's fudge some ages and make it Kyd Wyckyd from the Teen Titans cartoon. Danny agrees, because to hell with the Justice Losers, and they defeat the hero, becoming friends in the process. Kyd confesses that they became a villain after being ostracized bc of how they look, and they've been trying to avoid villain organizations because HIVE was abusive, but it's really hard to be a villain alone bc of all the heroes.

Sam gets an idea. Tucker agrees with the idea. Jazz is just happy they'll end up making friends.

The next day, the Teen Villain Alliance is formed, ready to assist with any teenage illegal shenanigans their allies might get into.

Some notes:

It's created to be a healthier option for teen "villains" to connect with others and support each other.

It's more important that this is for Teens rather than Villains. They're tired of adult villains taking advantage of them. The TVA would rather ally with a teen vigilante than with an adult villain.

Again, no idea who the teen villains are, but Klarion is definitely here. He leaves the Light for the chaos of the TVA. Maybe Ember is there too?

Timeline wise, this is around when Tim is still Robin, but Damien has arrived at Wayne Manor.

This is because, when it comes time to try to infiltrate the TVA, they'll have a convenient child-assassin who has none of the monitors of a teen hero that Phantom immediately picks up on.

Damien, who at this point has been abandoned by his mother, dismissed and scolded by his father, and has had no success at carving his own place in the family, jumps at the chance. He is then surrounded by peers who don't insult him or try to change his behavior (too much; jazz is trying to help him find healthier methods of expressing himself). He... might not want to continue being a spy.

Danny, Sam, Tuck, and Jazz are the founding members.

Danny reinvents himself as the High Prince of the Infinite, Prince Phantom Dark. He got kingship from fighting Pariah Dark, but since he's still alive, he's only a prince. He steals the last name Dark as an intimidation tatic against those in the know; only Danny would have the balls to claim family with Pariah.

Sam works as a powerless villain, but she might no be powerless? Either way, Danny gives her a bunch of repurposed Fenton tech, and she buys the rest with her parents credit card. She does NOT care if that's traced back to the Mansons. She would choose something goth, maybe something spider related or even bat?

I love Pharaoh Tucker, so I think he should get magic powers? Since pharaohs of old were considered the balance between the real and the divine. He's still a tech guy, now he's a tech and magic guy.

Jazz isn't really a villain, more of a team mom who's planning on using everyone's psyche's as her thesis paper. You know what, that's her callsign, she's Psyche. Sometimes she flirts with Nightwing.

[yeowninefive]

Evening Flight

"I don't know how to fly this thing!..."

(Part of my queue of late Halloween artwork I'm publishing after Halloween.)