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Apologies for a two week gap! Your girl was at GenCon and it wore me down to a nub.
I humbly offer pencils for the first page of a David x Michael comic I've been working on. Still not sure where I want to take the final rendering.
I consider the scene where David blows smoke onto Michael's lips to be the most sexually charged in the film, and I'm going to turn the musical Michael's inability to hit a blunt a sexy teaching moment. This miiiight get very explicit, but tbh I'm still not sure how Tumblr handles that or a good option to take it for viewing outside the platform. We'll see!
A really important thing to understand is that victims of witch hunting are not any neopagan or modern-day witch’s “ancestors”.
They did nothing resembling what they were accused of. Despite older historical claims that they were probably mostly cunning-women/doing folk magic, or that they were midwives or abortionists or whatever else, the fact is that they usually they did nothing at all, and their worst “crime” was some trait or past action which got them targeted for blame when something bad happened independently to another person or community (someone falls ill or starts behaving very strangely; your crops fail, especially because of bad weather/hail; your animals die; your wife miscarries or dies in childbirth, etc…).
Those things could be any combination of, or in addition to,
Being viewed as antisocial/against the community, mean-spirited, or ‘power-hungry’ in some way
Being socially outcast
Being elderly (& a woman usually)
Being unmarried or widowed
Being an (accused or real) adulterer, divorcee, someone who’d engaged in unmarried sex, or otherwise considered sexually “tainted”
Having had a lot of family members die (especially repeated miscarriages or dead babies)
Being disabled
Being a religious minority
Being a foreigner
Being an ethnic minority
Sometimes accusations were made up over personal vendettas; sometimes they were completely random because they originated from things like torture or pressuring children to come up with answers; and sometimes they were knowingly invented for profit or social clout by a professional ‘witch hunter’. Often they were led or further-fueled by secular or religious authorities figures who believed in conspiracy theories about witches being present as a secret, underground sect of devil worshippers trying to create as much chaos and suffering as possible before the Second Coming of Christ. The more powerful the person in charge who believed the accusations, the higher the death toll typically.
Accusations often resulted in collective paranoia and a cascading effect of attempting to locate multiple witches, particularly in areas where it was believed that witches always met and worked in groups—therefore if you have one witch you must have more in hiding nearby.
Admissions were almost invariably gathered through torture, coercion, and/or gaslighting people to the point where they questioned the severity and cause of their own ‘actions’. The fact that sleep deprivation was common for interrogation meant a LOT of people likely hallucinated what they admitted to, and at the time nobody knew that lack of sleep could make you see things that weren’t real or considered it a form of torture.
Salem-specific details under the cut if anyone’s interested. TL;DR the contributing factors in Salem included most of the things I mentioned.
In Salem ca. 1692 there were:
A degree of social unrest and fear generated by recent wars with indigenous people
Two influential preachers (Increase and Cotton Mather) having written about and preached against witchcraft in recent years, which disseminated and reinforced beliefs in the conspiracy theory
A bunch of pre-existing internal conflicts between residents of Salem (who were “supposed to” be living in an ideal Christian society where everyone got along, priming people to view conflict as un-Christian and sinful) which led to both vendetta-based accusations admissions of “guilt” which came from people… basically attributing being pissed off at their neighbors to demonic influence, when under duress to confess
Several of the initial false accusations from children/teens attributing (real or fabricated, it’s not 100% clear) health issues to witches’ curses (who later admitted the charges were faked)
One of these accusations was in part based on the initial accused (enslaved, indigenous) woman’s race/‘foreignness’ to the Puritan English culture, and a resultant lack of understanding of cultural practices she might have been witnessed engaging with (Tituba)
Tituba then accused a destitute, socially rejected woman (Sarah Good) and a woman met with scorn over a marriage viewed as inapproriate (Sarah Osborne)
Good’s four year old daughter Dorothy was then accused because she gave four year old level answers to questions about her mom which were treated as credible (holy McMartin Preschool…)
After that the cascade effect I mentioned really started—once two upstanding, covenanted women were accused, pretty much anyone became fair game…
So yeah. None of these are things that could be reasonably treated as “witchy” in any way shape or form. There’s nothing scary here except the capacity of humans to be cruel to each other in conditions of suspicion, paranoia and fear.
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AU where Lucy gets a different job and doesn’t cross paths with Max (at least not yet). She joins a book club that meets at 9pm on the last Tuesday of the month. There’s a lot of women, a lot of them in low-wage service jobs. Some housewives who’ve begged off for an hour or two.
Since the fires are still uncontrolled and we don't know how many people have lost their homes, here are a bunch of organizations seeking donations for relief for the 60,000+ people who are displaced and who may or may not have lost their homes.
The HOME Starts Here fund is usually for homelessness, but it's been opened for wildfire relief:
Donations to the H.O.M.E. Starts Here Fund go directly to supporting services for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Innovia fund is a local nonprofit that has created a wildfire relief fund:
2nd Harvest food bank takes donations of shelf stable food, but they also take cash donations:
Second Harvest provides fresh, nutritious food to those in need across Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Join us in creating a hunger-free
And the red cross needs no introduction:
Additionally, if anyone affected has a gofundme or a ko-fi or something for mutual aid, feel free to add it to the replies and I'll reblog it.
just saw an entire thread of people sincerely describing a content creator's pattern of posting a large amount of content and then taking breaks as "obviously grooming her audience" via "love bombing and ghosting" which i think could have been a really exciting innovation during the steven universe discourse era of tumblr
it’s about being queer it’s about surviving assault it’s about alienation and most of all it’s about how everyone who loved you before might not be able to even look at you now, no matter how many times you try to explain that you didn’t ask to die and you didn’t ask for that death to leave you only half-eaten when it got bored of you.
This is without even mentioning the broader metaphorical implications of disease and contagion; foreign invasion; colonial or imperial violence; interpersonal abuse; generational trauma; religious trauma; violent cultural assimilation; repressed or suppressed desire; the fear of no longer being able to recognise or relate to someone you love; and on and on and on.
Vampirism is a flexible metaphor that reflects the anxieties and desires of its age and its authors, and I love that for it!
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In theory, maybe I get the “we’re all just playing with barbies, they’re fictional characters, no interpretation is incorrect because it’s an interpretation” argument. But actually no, not all takes are equally valid. Framing something as an interpretation doesn’t mean it inherently has merit. Some takes are completely incorrect and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material. They just aren’t a reason to harass people or send death threats
