#black arts

[la-muse-noire]

Black Venus , Margaret Taylor Burroughs, 1957

[prettyfemmestrawberry]

CLIT CLUB

A lesbian party from 1990- 2000, founded by two women of color

Everlasting | Pride | 1996

[the-two-germanys]

Frontispiece. Witches Still Live; a study of the Black Art today Theda Kenyon Illus. by Siegel New York: Ives Washburn, Publisher, 1929.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Victor Jay - Devil Soul - Belmont Tower - 1972

[1andonlytashae]

I need to get this off my chest right quick.

As I was scrolling on tiktok last night (June 25th), I came across a video of a popular content creator I follow and it was breaking down the cause of Michael's death and who was truly at fault.

Needless to say, I was intrigued and after watching the video I found out the creator had uploaded a longer, more in depth video on YouTube, so off I went.

The info I learned wasn't all that shocking and connected dots in a very clear prospect. Cause at the end of the day, Michael was still a black man with influential power in the music game. I didn't know he'd bought an entire catalog of music that was worth a BEACOUP amounts of money and Sony wanted to push him out cause of that.

I can't even fathom being at the level of fame that Michael was and going through all he was subjected to and not knowing a moment of peace. It's really heart breaking when you think of how quickly folk turned on him.

Can you imagine how lonely he must've felt and all he wanted to do was live life? Michael was the definition of whimsical and I just know that man was HILARIOUS, had to be lol if the BTS footage, home videos and uncut scenes were accurate.

He's truly missed and still appreciated to this day, but just further goes without saying how we gotta give our black musicians, actors, and creatives their flowers while they still living to receive them. Cause if we not gone support & protect each other, then who will?

[jemmmstone]

MAGIK Graduates Propagate Pestiferous Philosophies

opinion by Jem Stone

The Blightblue burned for months before the next great disaster extinguished it.

993 A.D. was a time of wild potent power and few guiding hands. The carelessness of wix and the pursuit to control ancient nature magic of the time caused events such as the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the extinction of several magical creatures, and even the deadly trend of wix hunts. Pushed into the shadows, “witches and wizards” needed a place of safety; moreover, a place to cultivate and protect magic from those that sought to extinguish it. Thus, the Magical Academy of the Great Imperial Kingdom was built by the “four greatest witches and wizards of the age”.

Grypusroar, Rookrive, Heavelhump, and Skitterhiss created four guilds baring their namesake and ideologies, molding the template for future magical academies. However, one must wonder, had 3 founders of the time known their bright vision would turn red with blood, would they forge the same path? Skitterhiss’ dreams of “magical purity” were passed on for generations, trapping minds in a cycle of odious and oftentimes violent behavior.

MAGIK was the United Kingdom’s premier school for witchcraft and wizardry. Hidden in the barren rowling hills of the Scottish Highlands, the school was shrouded far away from normling reach. While several notable wix attended, it would seem that hidden in the ancient walls were terrible secretes and dark desires. Slavery, segregation, slurs, curses; such things were common practice for students and faculty alike. Even the school song was a twisted glamour of indoctrination:

“MAGIK, MAGIK

Bold and old MAGIK

Keep our bloodline clean.”

It is no surprise the school would descend in every respect under the late Headmistress Wartz. Many speculate that her obsession with transfiguration, sex, gender, and even insisting that wix children do not exist caused her own magic to fade. When interviewed by The Profit, the Choosing Cap stated:

“Wartz’s venom roused occulted parts of the school / polluting minds that foolhardily followed the rules”

The nonsensical, extractive and rapacious culture of MAGIC, its cohort, and the British Ministry crumbled under the weight of centuries of villainy. Blightblue engulfed the Magical Academy of the Great Imperial Kingdom on July 31st 2027. While it is not known what sparked the flame—some speculate that Headmistress Wartz overcome with madness spoke the incantation herself—it remains clear how the tragedy could have been avoided. The magical ecosystem the castle was built on had been plundered, offering no natural fortification. Runoff deposits of phosphorus rich soil and years of potion dumping alchemized the Deep Lake, MAGIK sat upon, making it highly flammable. The charm was impossible to extinguish as no fieldwork had been done on the lake’s changed disposition. Had MAGIK formed better relations with the Deep Lake Merfolk and the once thriving magical ecosystem, it might still be standing.

Today, all that remains of MAGIK—save the minds it shaped—is the odd paradigm it left behind. Renamed guilds continue to artificially pit students against one another under the guise of preparedness for the world outside of magical communities. Deeproot’s own Wisteria Willow Academy shares the same anatomy; a sister school as it has been called. Although our local, lofty halls of ivy no longer reside a vestige of MAGIK, the true legacy of Wisteria Willow can only be defined by the Headmistress.

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[thesagittarianmind]