falling petals

cerise

junicorn

day 07

Thomas G. Aylesworth’s Servants of the Devil (1970) is from the same series as Vampires and Other Ghosts, and like that book it is full of large art reproductions and flare for pleasing graphic design. But where the former book is breezy and light, this one is a sober evaluation of the folklore of witchcraft and the use of the same as an excuse for murder and torture by the churches and governments of Europe and elsewhere. It’s nice to see Aylesworth struggle to be impartial. Any semblance of that falls way pretty early. By the time he mentions Nicholas Remy, the judge who sentenced hundreds of “witches” to burn to death in a span of 15 years, Aylesworth’s anger is pretty apparent. Toward the end of Remy’s life, he was plagued by guilt, not for the deaths but rather because he spared some of the children who came before his bench. What a shit.

Anyway, after that point, Aylesworth is pretty clearly horrified by the persecution of witches. He leaves some room for the existence of witchcraft as defined by Margaret Murray, that is, as a survival of a pagan religion dedicated to a mother goddess. He does this, it seems, because of the absence of evidence either way. As for the diablery described by the witch hunters, he appears deeply skeptical. In all, it’s a rather bracing indictment of cruelty and hysteria.

posting some old and perhaps strange WIPs that you may have never seen on my ko-fi (these are from 2023! when i had the astarion brain worms) !!

im actually going through my old art to make some wallpaper packs rn and i even surprised myself, i forgot i made all this

The Sisters. And donut

The Sisters. And donut Is she eating the last one super small and tasty donut on Equis?!

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I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

Edit: this post is blowing up so I’m gonna shamelessly plug my art account. Follow me and I’ll draw the Godzilla lesbians @thenonbinaryfriendnamedcrumb

#I like to imagine they were trying to deal with the serious ramifications of being in love in 1950s japan before Godzilla showed up#like#“but we’re both girls- holy fuck is that Godzilla

now there's an idea for a yuri game

Secret Sea Cave

Missed Mermay 2026 but just in time for Pride! A mermaid and a pirate queen meeting for a secret tryst!