#man myth and magic

[werkboileddown]

via john coulthart with an interesting essay of contextual info about the publishing history, and links to some older related pieces on his blog:

"The editorial board of Man, Myth and Magic was composed of heavyweight academics, together with John Symonds (Aleister Crowley’s literary executor and biographer), while the group of special consultants included Katharine Briggs (folklore), William Gaunt (art) and Francis Huxley (anthropology). Symonds brought Kenneth Grant on board. Grant at this time was the official head of Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis, and his presence gave the editorial team access to his large collection of Austin Spare artwork."

[the--firevenus]

"Ah, look at all the lonely people."

Pulled something real quick for this game, it's eating my brain

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Frank Smyth - Modern Witchcraft - MacDonald - 1970

[veinereastath]

Cᴀᴘᴛᴀɪɴ Jᴏʜɴ Pʀɪᴄᴇ ɪɴ Cᴀʟʟ ᴏғ Dᴜᴛʏ: Mᴏᴅᴇʀɴ Wᴀʀғᴀʀᴇ II [2022]

[gameraboy2]

Christopher Lee as Dracula Man Myth & Magic #34 (1971)

[indoodlingmadness]

ok but

what about Merlin tav and Arthur as the guardian... I know it's supposed to be the other way around but ofc after the reveal it would make sense that the Emperor shaped himself after what Merlin loves the most...

[lorddarker]

Mando: I bathed in the living waters as i promised.

The Armorer: What.

Mando: I also saw a Mythosaur. Weird uh?

The Armorer: Din what the hell-

[redbootsindoriath]

I'm glad you're back (ish??) I love your little sketchies so very much! I was wondering if you'd feel up for doing a commission in that style?

I'm curious which sketchy style you're referring to exactly, but that sounds like fun.  I did low-level commissions once or twice before (not in a couple of years since it’s difficult to get good quality scans to clients while traveling) but I’d be willing to give it a go again now that I've got a tablet to work with, just to see if it’s possible using that.

Transcription:

[Morgoth:] “So...the giant spider plan didn’t work out so well for you either?”

[unexpectedgeese]

Fate is already decided, is the thing. The giants of Gigantomachia have already lost. Secretive Plotter has already lost everything. 999th YJH has already died. Orpheus has already killed his father. And there is no undoing any of that; The stories that unfold on the page are immutable. These people have wounds, and they can’t be healed.

The Star Stream is a system built for tragedy. Again and again incarnations have thrown themselves at impossible dreams of a happy ending; and every time they die for it. There are hundreds of regressions, thousands of victims, a million stories unfolding— Every last one a tragedy.

Is there meaning in a story with a fixed end? The incarnations write their own downfalls, bound into tragedy by an impassive system. Yoo Joonghyuk dies again and again, eventually succumbing to overwhelming despair.

You cannot change the past. You can’t rewrite a story that’s already been written.

You can read it, though. And that’s the point— the entire point of a story is to be read. To read a story is to understand, to love, to pick through a lifetime of suffering and find the good in it; To take that story with you when you write your own.

And what then? What if every story is meant for one reader? What if that reader writes their own story in turn, influenced by their predecessors, bringing those scavenged bits of hope along?

If every story is told and listened to, every failure a building block of some unseen future, are we still writing a tragedy? When that original story is  built on, bookmarked and dog-eared and woven into a final epilogue, is it still a record of hopelessness— or is it a way to survive?

Every story has a flaw. This means that every story can be completed. If reader, writer, and protagonist all band together and just try to reach the ending— 10 times, 100 times, 1000 times, each one compounding on the next— What will happen?

These people can’t be healed. But they can be saved. You cannot change the past, but you can change the future. You cannot rewrite a story, but you can give it an epilogue.

We are not reincarnators, or regressors, or returnees. But if we tell our stories, isn’t it a similar thing?

[love-songs-for-emma]

say what you will about the hannibal lecter diet of

WINEWINEWINE

PEOPLEPEOPLEPEOPLE

DESSERTDESSERTDESSERT

but girlie got shit done😳😳

[alifanii]

"Ascent of Man and the Destruction of Magic" by Rebecca Yanovskaya on INPRNT

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Fate & Fortune magazine, Marshall Cavendish, N.1, April 1974

[the-almighty-bean]

Beans!

[talentforlying]

father grimaldi: forgive me, lord, for i have sinned. constantine: — understatement of the bloody century, that is. father grimaldi: the chapel is closed to the public! who are you? how did you get in here . . .? constantine: did you know vatican city has the highest per-capita crime rate of any nation state in the world? i'd have thought a touch of breaking and entering's pretty much par for the course around here.

so #1, an undeniable slay.

#2, how long do we think he was sitting in the confessional booth waiting for the guy to wake up from ellie's fake vision quest. like an hour? checking his light, practicing his Big Reveal Pose TM? he probably brought a book with him and just shoved it underneath the seat cushion when it was time to show off.

#3, knowing how intensely he studied & continues to study in order to teach himself magic at such an absurdly advanced level without any teachers to formally guide him? and how that level of dedication would absolutely carry over into researching a mark / making sure he had every corner of a confidence scheme nailed down pat? i like to imagine that the day before this meeting was spent with his severely under-caffeinated ass parked at a public library computer, squinting at articles for 'most important things to know about vatican city before you travel' or 'top 10 little-known facts about vatican city' and using the back of his boarding pass to take notes on what would be the best throwaway line to blow off all the usual questions with.

also, he probably woke up still in his travel clothes less than two hours before this scene and had to hustle to get suited up in time for his Dramatic Apparition. the demon blood was boiling so bad in that chapel that it was giving him a killer migraine. he didn't get breakfast so his stomach was growling the ENTIRE time. but all that meant was he had plenty of room to eat UP the runway and that's EXACTLY what the fuck he did.i'm

[breitzbachbea]

Sorry, I'm - Yeah, I'm down bad for the blond arsehole again. Yeah, thought about Robert and the scene to come where he taunts Harry with how he is gonna hurt Charlie and then. Then it turned into Violence as courtship in the Myth AU. Sorry, Robert being like "I want that changeling's head on a stake anyways, but if it makes you happy, handsome, then oh, how much sweeter the victory will be". Yeah, It's gonna be all night.

[myrlin]

who is ur muse meeting first, merlin or OLD MAN MERLIN