The Hocus Pocus of the Universe, Laura Gilpin

Mountain Dreams, At the Cemetery // Fiddlehead, USMA // Otto Hesselbom, Christmas Eve at the Grave // Laura Gilpin, I Rarely Dream of Orpheus // Sergej Andrijaka, New Year’s Night 1984 // Big World, Christmas Eve

"January" - by Laura Gilpin, from "The Hocus Pocus of The Universe"

Hocus Pocus Universe - art by Hannes Bok (1950)

Maasverse x Hocus Pocus

Bryce, Aelin & Feyre as the Sanderson Sisters

Art by romantasyart

WHAT I WRITE

just a quick guide to my rules for my works. please read this before requesting and if something isn’t on here and you’re unsure, just ask :)

WILL WRITE: smut, angst, polygamy, fluff, preferences, a-z, prompts, song fics, triggering topics, step-cest, non-con, enemies to lovers, ect

WON’T WRITE: pedophilia, zoophilia, smut for characters that have underage actors, incest, necrophilia.

(both lists are subject to change)

Nevi Kingorn: Culture Shock

~Stranded due to her lack of magic energy, Nevi, Lilia, and Baul take stock of the alternate universe (AKA the Canonverse) they dropped into and realize it's far different from their norm.

2023 Halloween Watch List

It's September, which means it's time to start diving into the Halloween season (no it's not too early). Spirit stores have opened, leaves have started changing colors, and the sweaters are being pulled out of closets. There are some annual classics that you just have to watch every Halloween season. But along with that comes the fact that 2023 is a year filled with Halloween anniversaries. For instance, this is the 85th anniversary of the Addams Family creation (the comic strip in the New Yorker), the 90th anniversary of Universal Monsters 'The Invisible Man', and the 80th anniversary of Universals 'The Phantom of the Opera' colored version. Better to start early than late, so tomorrow I begin with Practical Magic, I've already been reading Bram Stokers Dracula, and the music is coming soon enough.

TBW:

Practical Magic (1995)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) [35th anniversary]

Hocus Pocus (1993)

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966)

Heathers (1988) [25th anniversary]

Corpse Bride (2005)

Coraline (2009)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Halloween (1978) [45th anniversary]

The Exorcist (1973) [50th anniversary]

In between these will also be episodes of Supernatural, The Addams Family (1964), and perhaps I'll even start Hannibal (it's also Hannibal's tenth anniversary this year).

Apparently grim reapers are meant to work hard until “the day they are forgiven”. But that could be centuries, so… what constitutes as forgiveness? And what happens then? Do they just… disappear?

(Edit: more in tags and reblogs)

its false they lived in salem ur honor they actually live rent free in my mind and in 4K <3

My grandmother made me some mittens knowing I like them better than gloves, knowing I like the way all four fingers keep each other warm.

The Mittens My Grandmother Made, Laura Gilpin 

Ovid, Metamorphoses XV, 165 // Susan Glaspell, Alison’s House // Paintings by Mary Herbert // Jenny Xie, excerpt from “Postmemory” // Laura Gilpin, “Life After Death” 

the hocus-pocus of the universe ~Laura Gilpin

Steddie Hocus Pocus INSPIRED au anyone?

Nowhere near the actual movie but it kinda follows the story I guess 😭

Eddie who just moved from Texas and doesn’t believe in witches because they’re just made up by capitalism to sell more candy at Halloween and to attract tourists.

He and his uncle move to Hawkins, a town famous for supernatural experiences and sightings.

One afternoon (October 30th) he finds himself in the woods at the edge of lovers lake, listening to his new (cough only cough) friend rant about the legend of the Creel Coven, going on and on as they stare at the old cabin at the edge of the water which apparently belonged to the cursed, hundreds and hundreds of years old.

His friend (Chrissy) goes on to tell the story of the curse placed on the land, and how a boy by the name of Steven Harrington fell to a hard fate along with his best friend, both were said to haunt the place, Steven as a cat, Robin as her namesake.

The next day their English class goes about the apparently yearly discussion of the old legend and Eddie scoffs, ever the skeptic toward this kind of legend, granted he enjoyed them, but his belief in them? A whole other story.

Chrissy shoots him a glare as he goes on a rant about Halloween being a PR stung and interrupts him, telling him something he perhaps shouldn’t have payed any kind to.

Later that night Chrissy Eddie and Dustin (eddies step brother) find themselves in the creel house, Eddie becomes cocky, scoffing when the others tell him to avoid lighting the candle, he shrugs them off, flicks his zippo lighter open and lets the candle light.

What he didn’t anticipate was what would happen afterwards.

I know Peter Parker’s really intelligent but when it ventures into “Top 10 of the Marvel universe” territory it’s always because of something someone said and never something he’s actually done

Hot Topic has teamed with Her Universe for a Hocus Pocus collection, the highlight of which is a recreation of Max Dennison's tie-dye tee over a long-sleeve shirt. Normally $36.90, it's currently on sale for $29.52.