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Armed with a demon-forged knife and guarded by the enigmatic Elias, Helianthes ventures into the streets, causing mischief and exorcising demons. But the shadows of his past lurk, and a haunting specter emerges to confront him. Amidst the dark chaos, an unexpected romance blossoms between Helianthes and Elias, fueling the fire in this dramatic M/M narrative.

This is definitely not a story for the faint-hearted. We recommend 16+ readers navigate this fiery tale.

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Invocation of My Demon Brother, 1969

Dir. Kenneth Anger

𝚃𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝟸𝟻; 𝙽𝙴𝚇𝚃 𝙶𝙴𝙽.

                 LEO HAMATO.

as terrified as leo was leaving new york and coming to elias, the city had been a blessing in disguise. the role of leader never felt like it fit right. it was always a pair of shoes that were far too big for leo but after sometime he learned how to not only be part of a team but also be a better brother. along the way he got swept off his feet by a prince. he released his title as leader for two months to try the royal thing but realized that his destiny was always with his brothers. the universe had brought them together for a sole purpose and who was leo to fight against that ? who was he without them ? while leo learned that it wasn’t always about him he took the phrase a little too literally and almost died because of it. the battle with his inner demons and trauma is something that’s been ongoing for a while now but after losing his arm leo’s been better about reaching out for help when he needed it instead of letting his sadness drown him. 

he’s the sensei of many, many students. the most important being the hamato girls given they were created to keep them going ( aka donnie loves his brothers so much he can’t imagine a world without them ) he’s learned he doesn’t have to shoulder this responsibility alone (and with the aid of his brothers and father they train all students who come to the hamato dojo. for a mutant kid who came from nothing and literally lived in the sewers he’s created a beautiful life for himself with his king husband and three kids. 

𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙻

birth name. leonardo tiberias hamato. other titles include master leonardo and prince consort leonardo hamato.  nicknames.  leon, neon leon, nardo date of birth.  may 30. ( true birthday august 14 ) species.   half human, half turtle mutant powers.  ninjutsu, mystic energy manipulation, teleportation, skilled swordsman and fighter. place of birth.   new york, new york.  current residence.   kingdom of vellona & elias. occupation.    sensei & ninja. 

𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴

height. 6′0" build. we all saw future animated leo right ?? it would be disservice if i didn’t make him jacked like that. it truly would. hair colour/style. brunette. he IS graying and he DOES dye it for his own ego. someone get him some tea the stress isn’t good for the baby ( him he’s the baby ) eye colour. heterochromia blue and brown. ( x ) blue when in turtle form glasses/contacts ?  he wears glasses at night faceclaim.  josh segarra. voiceclaim. josh segarra.

𝙷𝙴𝙰𝙻𝚃𝙷

physical ailments.   prosthetic right arm. lost his arm protecting donnie.  allergies.   none. sleeping habits. prone to nightmares and has bad insomnia. that red slider dna was not forgiving.  drugs / smoke / alcohol ?  no / no / yes

𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙿𝚂

children.  matteo, aerwyn & lorena hamato-sera. grand-children.   none. significant other.  eric seara. closest friends. brynne utonium, sulley beausoleil, ella kaur, jim hawkins, there are others i’m sure but i’m not connecting the neurons 

𝚂𝙺𝙸𝙻𝙻𝚂 & 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚃𝚂

languages spoken.   english, spanish & japanese  drive ?  yes. jump start a car ?   yes. change a flat tire ?   yes. ride a bicycle ?   yes. swim ?  yes. play an instrument ? no. play chess ?  yes. braid hair ?  yes. tie a tie ?          yes. pick a lock ?          yes. sew ?   no.

compassion.         10/10.

empathy.         10/10.

creativity.          8/10.

mental flexibility.          10/10.

passion.        9/10.

luck.         6/10

motivation.  10/10.

education.          10/10.

intelligence.         10/10.

charisma.       10/10.

reflexes.          10/10.

willpower.          9/10.

stamina.          10/10.

physical strength.         8/10.

battle skill.          10/10.

initiative.     10/10.

restraint.          8/10.

strategy.     10/10.

teamwork.         9/10.

Really enjoyed The Demon of Beausoleil by @marinscos so I wanted to draw Helianthes 👉👈

You can check out the comic here! and you totally should bc its only 7 bucks and very worth it!!

Invocation Of My Demon Brother (1969) Dir. Kenneth Anger

🎶 I was “tagged”—apparently that’s the term—by Angel Dust @sluttyspiderpolkacock with this little note:

You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to! Put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people.

🎶 And I thought, sure! That sounds delightful! But I’m not going to “tag” any of you people. If you want to do it, do it yourself.

🎶 My record collection is shockingly vast and not at all geared toward easy “shuffling”—vintage vinyls are not decks of cards!—so instead of my full library, I’m drawing from a much shorter playlist—only about 5,000 songs.

1. “I Dare Not Love You” by Irving Aaronson and His Commanders

2. “The Drunkard Song (There Is A Tavern In The Town)” by Rudy Vallee - But specifically the version where he cracks up laughing in the middle!

3. “Russian Lullaby” by Cab Calloway & His Orchestra

4. “Notes / Prima Donna” from Phantom of the Opera - Although I wish it was easier to find albums with “Prima Donna” by itself! It wasn’t a problem on the phonograph record version, but you can’t move the needle wherever you want half as easily on a digital recording.

5. “Glitz At The Ritz” by Jules Gaia

6. “It’s A Great, Great Pleasure” by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

7. “My Old Flame” by Charlie Parker & Miles Davis

8. “Foxtrot-Potpourri” by Kurt Weill & Max Raabe

9. “Prince Nez” by Squirrel Nut Zippers

10. “Perdido Street Blues” by Louis Armstrong

((And as a bonus, here’s a dozen songs from the mun off of my personal and ever-incomplete Alastor character playlist:))

“Blue Devil Blues” - Walter Page’s Blue Devils

“Dahmer Does Hollywood” - Amigo the Devil

“Faidherbe Square” - Proleter

“La Danse De Mardi Gras” - Dewey Balfa, The Balfa Brothers

“Drinka Little Poison (4 U Die)” - The Soul Rebels, John Mooney

“Re-Charleston (Radio Edit)” - Wolfgang Lohr

“Dead Man’s Blues” - Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers

“Brass Devil” - Parov Stelar

“Les Fleurs” - BeauSoleil

“The Masochism Tango” - Tom Lehrer

“Demon” - The Electric Swing Circus

“The Axeman’s Jazz” - Reddie Whilling & Able

((Most of these songs are also somewhere in the above playlist that Alastor’s own choices are from; but the mun’s OOC “Alastor inspiration” playlist is focused on songs that thematically/lyrically/musically fit Alastor, with whether he’d like them himself a secondary consideration. The IC “what Alastor would listen to” playlist is a lot longer and a lot less focused because nobody ONLY listens to music that fits their character, right? Like does every song you listen to thematically highlight an ongoing motif in your personal character arc, or do you just listen to some songs because they’re jams? Most of the songs that Alastor listens to, he listens to because he thinks they’re jams.))

((So don’t psychoanalyze the 10 songs Alastor posted too much lol. I literally put a 5,000-song playlist of jazz/swing/electroswing/musicals on shuffle.))

Bobby BeauSoleil Behind the Scenes in Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother. 

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Meet Helianthes, a half-demon cambion, with horns, claws, and a tail— feared and shunned by many, apart from his prestigious family. Armed with a demon-forged knife and guarded by the enigmatic Elias, Helianthes ventures into the streets, causing mischief and exorcising demons. But the shadows of his past lurk, and a haunting specter emerges to confront him.

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Over the past century of popular culture, Satan has acquired the souls of delta blues musicians, incited youth rebellions, possessed small children and goats, impregnated unsuspecting women and transmitted evil through backwards lyrics on heavy metal records. But recently, to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, the nature of his game has been puzzling us.

The forces aligned against Satan have become so objectionable that he no longer looks like the bad guy. They include such groups as the Westboro Baptist church, notorious for its hate speech against LGBTQ people, Jews, Muslims and other groups, all of which it condemns as “satanic frauds”. There’s the Trump administration, in league with the US religious right, which has been aggressively pushing anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ legislation, not to mention engaging in overt Islamophobia. Those forces would also include the 20,000 people who recently signed an online petition condemning the Amazon TV adaptation of the cult novel Good Omens – about a demon and an angel – as “another step to make satanism appear normal”.

Now, a documentary threatens to rehabilitate Satan. Directed by Penny Lane, Hail Satan? follows the early adventures of the Satanic Temple, an institution that has hit upon the perfect counter-strategy to the evangelicals’ efforts to recouple church and state. Based in Salem, Massachusetts (where else?), the Satanic Temple is officially recognised as a tax-exempt religious organisation. As such, it has been claiming the same rights and privileges as those obtained by evangelical Christian groups – albeit with a prankster sensibility.

Where the city council of Phoenix, Arizona, began its meetings with a Christian prayer, for example, the Satanic Temple demanded that satanic prayers should also be said. The council chose to drop the prayers altogether. When the Child Evangelism Fellowship set up the pro-Christian Good News clubs in US public schools, the Satanic Temple introduced its own After School Satan clubs – promoting scientific rationalism. And when the Oklahoma state capitol permitted the installation of a Ten Commandments sculpture in its grounds, the Satanic Temple campaigned to erect its own 8ft-high statue of Baphomet, the goat-headed, cloven-hoofed deity. 

“It became very apparent that there was a real need for what we were doing,” says Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple’s spokesman and de-facto leader. “More and more, they try to whittle away the rights of others and define us as a Christian nation, to the extent that religious liberty applies to them alone. That’s just a scary circumstance for us to be in.”

Greaves is exactly what you would expect the earthly ambassador of Satan to look like. Pale-skinned, well-groomed and dressed entirely in black, and with one clouded eye, he could have walked off the set of a teen vampire series. Harvard-educated, he often sounds as if he is reading from an academic text. There is no mention of God in the US constitution, he points out, but there is a first amendment protecting freedom of expression and religion. The words “under God” were added to the US pledge of allegiance in 1954, and “In God we trust” first printed on US currency in 1956 – so as to differentiate the US from the godless communists. “Up to that point, it had been E pluribus unum – ‘from many, one’ – which was a much better motto.”

Greaves doesn’t believe in God, Satan, “evil” or anything supernatural, he says. Nor does he sacrifice babies or serve a secret coven. The Satanic Temple is nontheistic, and its principles are broadly liberal humanism. The first of its seven tenets, for example, is: “One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.”

So why call it “satanism”? “The metaphor of Satan is just as important to a lot of us as it would be to anybody who takes it literally because we grew up in a Judaeo-Christian culture. It really does speak to us in a very pointed and poignant way about our place in our culture and what our affirmative values are … and, of course, it defines what we oppose: these kinds of theocratic norms and authoritarian structures.”

The Satanic Temple’s interpretation is closer to that of Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost, Greaves says. “The rebel against tyranny, who stands in stark contrast to that mindless superstition and that mob mentality that causes people to give themselves the moral self-licensing to create the ‘other’… and thereby victimise people.”

You could say that is in keeping with Satan’s place in pop culture. Only occasionally has he been taken as a literal figure of evil; more often, the devil represents the outsider, the provocateur, the one with the best tunes. To be labelled “the devil’s music”, as jazz, blues and rock’n’roll all were, was the best possible branding. The Rolling Stones expressed their Sympathy and called an album Their Satanic Majesties Request, but nobody considered them serious satanists. Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page would have been more qualified; he inserted mystical symbols into the band’s imagery, owned an occult bookshop in London and was a keen collector of the works. He even bought the Scottish home of the occultist Aleister Crowley (whose face also appears on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album). Page collaborated with the film-maker Kenneth Anger, whose films of the era, such as Lucifer Rising and Invocation of My Demon Brother, brought together a Who’s Who of 60s occult-dabblers, including Page, Mick Jagger, Donald Cammell, Marianne Faithfull, the Manson family member Bobby Beausoleil, and Anton LaVey.

LaVey is acknowledged as the founder of modern satanism, although he, too, was more theatrical showman than genuine prince of darkness. He strove to look the part, with his shaved head, sharp little goatee and black cloak – imagery largely gleaned from old horror movies. He opened the First Church of Satan in San Francisco in 1966, synthesising various occult sources into a semi-coherent philosophy, and attracting a few celebrity devotees, including Jayne Mansfield. Greaves acknowledges the Church of Satan as an influence, but rejects LaVey’s beliefs in social Darwinism and police-state authoritarianism as “Ayn Rand with ceremonial trappings”.

The heavy metal acts of the 1970s and 80s caused more alarm in some quarters, from Black Sabbath and Coven onwards through the likes of Slayer, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and onwards to thrash, death and ultimately black metal. Again, the satanic messaging was largely theatrical: occult symbolism, demonic lyrics and horror-movie guitar riffs. The exception was the infamous Norwegian black metal scene, which devolved into genuine horror with the bands Burzum and Mayhem, whose horrific saga involved church-burnings, suicide and murder. “A lot of these movements have always had an inordinate amount of attention for how small they really are,” says Greaves. “Sometimes, they embraced the worst elements of what they were accused of. They become this creation of the hysteria against satanism.” 

That hysteria rose to witch-hunt levels in the 1980s and 90s, in what became known as the “satanic panic”. Doubtless inflamed by the imagery of horror movies, such as The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, Christian groups began finding “evidence” of satanism everywhere. They heard subliminal satanic messages in rock records, the most famous being Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven (which supposedly contains the phrase, “Here’s to my sweet Satan,” when played backwards). Then came lurid allegations of satanic ritual abuse around the world – child sexual abuse, murder, torture, cannibalism and gory rituals, ostensibly at the behest of a secret sect intent on undermining the foundations of civilisation.

This is the environment in which Greaves grew up. “I saw peoples’ lives destroyed by the mere attribution of satanism,” he says. “I began to realise that the real evil was in the witch-hunt itself, and not in any of these alleged cults that were supposed to be initiating these activities.” While satanist conspiracy theories filled the airwaves, it bears remembering that there really was an organised sect sexually abusing children on a global scale with impunity: the Catholic church.

Ghost Adventures: San Francisco Filming Location

WESTERFELD HOUSE

Beyond the Westerfeld residence’s storied past — it has opened its doors to czarist Russians, jazz luminaries and Janis Joplin and her hippie counterparts — the house is the perfect horror story setting, considering its history of rumored paranormal activity. The mansion already bears its fair share of horror cinema history, as experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger lived in the house while shooting “Lucifer Rising” and “Invocation of My Demon Brother.” These short films featured the likes of Anton LaVey, the cult leader and founder of the Church of Satan, and Bobby Beausoleil, Anger’s housemate who would go on to join the Manson family cult and is now serving a life sentence for murder. LaVey visited the house often to perform “satanic rituals up in the tower,” said the house’s owner and resident Jim Siegel before leading the tour up to the room that provides a panoramic view of the city.

The haunted mythology has persisted: While tour members snaked through the hallways of the 28-room Victorian, a separate film crew was setting up a shoot for the Travel Channel’s reality television show “Ghost Adventures.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Snaggletooth-fits-right-into-Westerfeld-13048440.php

More Info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Westerfeld_Hous

Invocation of My Demon Brother, 1969

Dir. Kenneth Anger

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Just paroled in early Jan. 2019 after 50yrs in jail for committing the 1st murder attributed to the Manson Family, Bobby B. aka Cupid also played “Lucifer” in Kenneth Anger’s “Invocation of my Demon Brother”, a short film (with an all Moog synthesizer soundtrack by Mick Jagger) assembled from scraps of another film, “Lucifer Rising”, for which Beausoleil composed and recorded the soundtrack from prison. From the history books I’ve been reading what I find interesting is how much of a music insider Manson really was when LA’s Laurel, Benedict and Topanga Canyons were home to many of the soon to be huge rock stars of the late 60’s . This interview shines a curious light on how fascinated many fellow musicians were of Charlie’s musical abilities. 

PS Now waiting for Tarantino’s ingloriously bastardized version of the Tate/La Bianca carnage.

https://youtu.be/1rCGiB-77vo