#hidden witch

[littleeyesofpallas]

I have always loved Molly Knox Ostertag's work, in particular the really cute, heartwarming tact of the Witch Boy trilogy's trans allegory and the way it feels so well built to walk that fine line of appropriately nuanced but still perfectly digestible for its intended teen audience.

Well The Deep Dark is more of precisely that style of writing and it blows me away just as much now as Witch Boy did the first time I read it. It's exactly the kind of book I wish I'd had as a kid, and the sort of thing that lights a little hopeful flame in the jaded dark corners of my heart. It's the sort of thing that helps me feel optimistic about a generation of kids who will grow up with this kind of story as their formative personal mythos.

I know I don't usually do reviews or recommendation on this blog so I dunno who this is for really, and it certainly won't have any particular reach, but if you find yourself with the chance to, I really can't recommend The Deep Dark enough. And of course everything else Molly Knox Ostertag has had a hand in, even the one's she's not been the sole author on.

[wildwitchofthewest]

Just realized something, if you want to incorporate minecraft for some discreet witchery, you can literally build a sigil and set it on fire and let it burn away to get it charged and activated.

I just thought of this now.

[thedarkwitchesblog]

The reason I don't share my craft.

It dangerous

And no one needs the exact use in my craft make it your own so your spells and etc are connected to you not what I use connected to me.

I don't have anything linked to my witchcraft learning pages ,not one picture of my face or my actual social media bc I don't want my face connected to witchcraft.

I do not tell people I am a witch or share my actual spells or craft with anyone bc it's personal and sacred to me. I am who I am in public but also get worried or bring followed home or hate crimed .

I have a witch insta but my face is not on it or connected to my actual life or face. I do not put anyone as a witch if I happen to have a witch friend or people tell me their witches I don't out them or say anything.

Even though it's more normalized now it doesn't make it more safe.

You can assume I'm a witch by what I wear in public but it none of your business if I am or not. For my safety I'll never admit it if I feel unsafe or uncomfy.

[eliotbaum]

The Occultist class for the upcoming TTRPG, The Hidden Isle.

[bloodbroox]

asajj is currently rescuing force users through the hidden path along with quinlan, in this essay i will-[GUNSHOT]

[sayaberry]

just discovered that not only are there magireco witches present in the newest trailer for walpurgis rising, but they're all the witches of the girls who were involved in the factor of despair events that happened right before eos.....

chat what the actual hell are they cooking

[eursolons-mushroom]

After much planning, time and love, I've finally finished my World's Beyond Number nesting dolls. Im not one to make fan art, but this podcast has moved me to the point of creation. I simply NEEDED to have the gang for my desk. Im so happy with all the details I was able to fit in.

[miiukkaa]

cooking with magical ingredients (GONE WRONG)

[rosalie-starfall]

Agatha All Along

Circle Sewn With Fate / Unlock Thy Hidden Gate

[ryukisgod]

Mrs Hart when the witches were summoning The Road:

[sulemio-week-official]

Nika: sooo.. did you kiss Suletta once you two reunited?

Miorine: no the moment just wasn't right. Look, she could be my future wife. Our first kiss has to be amazing.

Nika: awe, that's so sweet!

Chuchu: so you chickened out like a little bitch?

[ribbittrobbit]

destiny's children trick or treating!!! spooky season lives on in our hearts i suppose

(they're dressed up as the crew from the wizard of oz and yes i know gerard is green so he should have been the witch but u know what? rosamund convinced him to switch at the last minute and he didn't have the heart to say no but he isn't happy about it)

(also i forgot that canonically mother goose is supposed to be a "gangly baby" and i'm too lazy to change it rip)

suggestion from @actualbabe ty this very was fun

[gert-the-disaster]

random showstoppers inc witch sheep and pumpkin rabbit scribbles (BUT SWEENEY TODD THEMED)

[produck-arts]

Age of The Stars🌙✨

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Vernon Howard - The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power - Warner - 1976

[thefirstknife]

i unironically hope Eris stays in her Hive form at least physically bc im already loving how both her & Immaru are pointing out Ikora's (and humanity's) inherent dehumanization of the Hive.

Eris being all "If this form does not leave will you still view me as a friend?"

Immaru when asked where the Experiment Subjects come from and responding with "Don't act like you care."

Honestly, it's so good. I really love the Eris stuff and some of these questions being posed. A lot of people react negatively to Eris doing this, forgetting that Eris has already been part-Hive for a long time. She was just hiding it behind the eye cover.

Technically, nothing inherently changed about Eris; she just embraced that part of her. And that's super important for her arc I think because she's been on a journey of accepting her trauma and her losses for a very long time. We helped her face her fears and traumas in Shadowkeep and she came out of it victorious. And the story never treated it as her traumas being gone; she still has them, but she has the means to tackle them and handle them and live with them. Since we helped her, she became more open and more involved with what we do to save our home, even if it meant tackling dangerous things.

And the thing is, now that her traumas cannot be exploited by Darkness anymore, she's capable of involving herself in these things, knowing that she has friends to fall back to and a support system and better mental fortitude. We've seen it through her endurance beneath the Pyramid on Io, and her grasp of stasis, and her dealing with the Crown of Sorrow and egregore and the Lunar Pyramid nightmares. And now with her embracing her Hive self. It doesn't change anything about her, but people prefer when she hides it so they don't have to see it. And she knows it (Sororicide lore book, page 1):

It's a perfect example of how we inherently view the Hive as untrustworthy. Obviously, there are good reasons for it! The Hive have caused immense pain and trauma to pretty much everyone in the universe, Eris included. It must take an incredible strength of character to embrace the fact that you're physically half-Hive, creatures that traumatised you in the first place. No one else has dealt with anything similar so naturally they're afraid for Eris. But I believe in her strength. And so does Drifter and Drifter is never wrong:

He'd read the reports. He saw the theories on VanNet. He didn't trust them. He trusted her.

There's a cutscene that people skip and can cause people not to see it, I recommend replaying the thing on a different character or seeing it online, but it shows Eris taking off her bandage in front of us:

It's such a powerful image to me. A symbol of her taking off her mask. Not pretending to be the same as us anymore. Because she isn't! The Hive are a part of her and have been for centuries. And she's always been in control. Our mistrust has always hurt her, but before this, we could act with pity towards her. Now that she's fully in Hive form, people's perception of her changed, for really no good reason other than prejudice. She is still Eris.

I definitely think that eventually we will have to reconcile with the idea of the Hive not being inherently evil in totality as a whole group of people. Obviously this is going to be difficult, especially when their leaders act the way they do, but eventually I do believe we will have to accept some of them, even if it's only Eris for a start.