#familiar names

[sysmedsaresexist]

reading your big post validated me hugely. we noticed alters around 15 years old but called them "kins" and "headmates" due to lots of online misinformation. we doubted ourselves for so long because of that and to know that its normal?? mind blown 🤯🤯🤯 seriously made my night. 🧡🧡

;--; that makes me so happy, honestly

I'm so glad it helped ❤️

you've been a longtime interacter with us, I wish I'd made the post earlier just to ease your mind sooner

[ofna]

Elliot: "Nobody names their familiar."

MC: "Ah, I see that you are not a man of culture."

Your MC to Elliot:

[frenchwitchdiary]

Petit moment rigolo, je viens de réaliser que sur cette planche représentant des familiers de sorcières avec leurs noms si particuliers, on retrouve “Pyewackett”, le nom du familier dans la VO du film Book, Bell and Candle, et “Vinegar Tom”, le nom du familier de tante Zelda dans the Chilling adventures of Sabrina !

[overlookedtoon]

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985, USA) Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn stowaway onto Mark Twain’s hot-air balloon as they sail off to see Halley’s Comet.

If you were at any corner of the internet, common or strange, you might have seen pieces of The Adventures of Mark Twain at some point. It’s sequence with the mysterious stranger has become more infamous than the movie itself arguably. However is that sequence the only reason to bring up this film at all anymore? Obviously no. Will Vinton’s first and only feature film is done in his prolific use of clay-sculpted models and animation for which he was gaining major commercial attention at the time. Vinton was approached and convinced to make a project based on a copy of “The Complete Works of Mark Twain”, originally starting as a short film based on Mark Twain’s Adam and Eve story then developing later into a feature with other the author’s other characters and tales featured, created within four years with a crew of 20-less fulltime artists working in a converted barbershop complex.

Rather than just focusing on Mark Twain’s more popular characters, such as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, they’re instead accompaniments to Twain himself in an inventive story-within-a-story as Twain deals with shortly passing away to somewhere else represented with a trip to Haley’s Comet. Adventures of Mark Twain also illustrates and features Twain’s lighter, poignant, and twisted sides as a storyteller as represented through sequences and surprises based on his lesser-known stories - including the infamous Mysterious Stranger scene. Almost everything in the film is sculpted and designed with common clay materials, which leads to interesting visual effects done with clay like rolling clouds and some squash-and-stretch tricks with simple one-colored blobs. Mark Twain was very quietly put into kids matinees in 1985 through a distributor that was going into bankruptcy, the few critics and moviegoers who did see it praised Vinton’s film.

Can I find this? Sure. Will Vinton retained the rights to Adventures of Mark Twain in recent years and remastered it in HD and re-released it on Blu-Ray and DVD, with Magnolia Pictures. Much to popular belief on the internet, Mark Twain was never banned from television broadcasts. In fact, my first exposure to this film was finding it briefly on TV outside a Burger King that was showing the Mysterious Stranger sequence - I had accidentally left my VCR to record some of the film even.

[ofna]

"Nobody names their familiar." Is this just Elliot being a bit of a killjoy or is it really that unusual for....magic bird cult people to give their familiars names? It kinda seems like it would be the opposite way around really haha

Little of column A, little of column B

Most members view their familiars as extensions of themselves, so they wouldn’t really think to name them. The birds are somewhat autonomous and do their own thing sometimes, but they are essentially a part of their given member at the end of the day.

[ofna]

Goldfinch is named Sunnyside :') and I love them :')

You all are so creative 🐥

[ofna]

my initiate calls his blue jay Twpsyn because he's kind of an asshole, but eventually he comes to mean it very fondly

More names everyone sent in 💗

[ofna]

so, i tried naming my familiar after various characters to see Elliot's reactions, and it made me curious-- will other characters react too? what if you named the bird something like,say... Lucia or Elias? 👀

They might 👀 Will depend on the name, though