#magic mayhem

[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

I didn't notice until Sleepy Time Spell, but every episode's end credits has images at the bottom that represent that episode's plot.

[starlitflowers-secretgarden]

Also, I love how chill Vito is with all of this. Like this is his second time getting yeeted out of his world to go on some fucked up adventure with MC, and this time he’s just like. Oh yeah, affinity spell. Makes more sense than space time magic. Yeah, my girlfriend travels to other dimensions and has other boyfriends in other dimensions. She also has another boyfriend and a girlfriend in my world. Whatever. I’m just gonna shoot this monitor lizard real quick.

truly a legend

[illusionsofdreaming]

Bound to You - Cale

Notes: adjflakdjflkj here it is. Cale’s part was growing much too long so I decided to split them into three separate imagines instead. Unfortunately, I’m not the most pleased with this piece OTL I’m sorry

PS: Originally was written for the request for ‘competitive hand holding’ and I translated that into ‘having your hands stuck together’ scenario 

Ft: Cale 

Cale Henituse

When Rosalyn’s experimental spell backfired spectacularly it seemed like a blessing in disguise. 

An inconvenience? Sure. Embarrassing? It could get a bit awkward. 

But Cale saw all past that. Considering the Tower Master’s tendencies to leave smoking craters behind, having his hand temporarily stuck to yours was a much more preferable outcome. Ever the opportunist, Cale was going to milk his situation for all it’s worth. Taking some time off to wait until the spell naturally wore off or until Raon figures a way to dispel it would be well within the range of a reasonable request right?

He was proven correct when Ron informed him that his schedule has been cleared for the day with no complaints from the other lords. And if Cale noticed a sinister smile on the butler’s face as he said that, he wisely chose not to address it.

You, on the other hand had regarded him with a look that didn’t sit so well with him. It was a look that often spelt trouble, like he’d done something great and not in fact, use his not-really-that-inconvenient-problem to slack off.

“Cale you’re too generous. You must know how packed both our schedules are but to think you’d be willing to set aside yours just so I wouldn’t be inconvenienced in mine…”

Somehow that didn’t sound right. Cale didn’t like the direction this was going at all. He would’ve felt warmed when you pressed a chaste kiss to his cheek, when in fact your next words were akin to dumping an entire bucket of ice water over him.

“I’m sure the others would be honored that you’d be visiting. I’d love to get your advice on several things as well.”

“Wait-“

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“Why are you handling so many matters?” Cale groaned loudly as he collapsed into the seat next to yours, eyes closing as his head lolled back against the back of his seat. 

After running around all morning, there was finally time to catch a break - and it only happened because he insisted on resting. 

He shouldn’t have cancelled his meetings. Had he gritted his teeth and stuck to his duties, sacrificing a few brain cells to boredom would be much better than this full body ache he’s experiencing now. 

“These are well within the range of duties I’m expected to handle as the future head of the household.” You sipped your tea delicately even as he gave you his most unimpressed look.

“You’re overworked.” He frowned, running his free hand over his face.

From reviewing mountains of documents, solving taxation disputes, organising merchant lists and supervising guard drills, you even had time to fit in a house visit in between all of that!

“It’s just work that’s been piled up because I haven’t been back for a while.” Not when you’ve been too busy following Cale around, foiling terrorist plans and saving the kingdom.

“It’s not that bad,” you defended as you set your teacup down. “I quite enjoy it.”

The look he gave you was like you’d cursed out his whole family.

“These are also things you’d be doing in the future as the successor to the Duke-“

“What nonsense.” He interrupted sharply as he sat up, placing a cookie he grabbed from the table into your mouth to halt your words. “Basen’s more suited to be the successor of the household, I’m just trash who’d very much like to retire to the countryside and enjoy a slacker life.” 

He didn’t like the look you gave him. It was that same pitying look where it was clear you understood every word that came from his lips but believed none of it. Thankfully you chose to nibble on your snack quietly instead of jinxing him.

Cale sighed, “At least it’s over.”

He caught the guilty shift of your eyes and suddenly felt, much, much worse.

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The crickets have started singing their second verses by the time he returned to your shared room, him finding the bed immediately to collapse face first into the soft material as his relieved sigh was muffled by the blankets. 

“Thank you, Cale.” He heard you approach from behind, the magic spell having worn off just moments before. 

Exhaustion couldn’t even begin to describe the weariness that weighed his body. Still he turned his head to the side to watch as you began shedding off your uniform and followed along when you beckoned him closer to help him as well.

There were many complaints resting at the back of his throat as your fingers worked the coat from his shoulders- you being severely overworked being one of the more pressing one, but when you pressed a grateful kiss against the corner of his lips and he noted the same fatigue reflected in your eyes, he decided the rant could come later.

An hour later found Cale staring balefully at the ceiling to the sound of your soft breathing. Despite the exhaustion he felt after running around all day, sleep continued to elude him, the growing sense of dissatisfaction curling in his chest. 

That’s it.

He sat up abruptly with a frown and got out of bed, threw on a coat and grabbed a candle.

He flinched away from the cold of the doorknob and he glanced down at his open palm with some confusion. How weird, he glanced back towards the bed where you slept peacefully. To think he’d begin to miss the warmth of your hand in his already. 

Cale flexed his fingers experimentally before quietly sliding out of the room.

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-THE NEXT DAY-

“..What did you say?”

“Y-your meetings, there aren’t any today...”

“That can’t be possible,” you spluttered, perplexed as you stood at the door to your office.

Your secretary looked pale, “But the Young Master came last night to tell us that you wish to cancel all meetings for the next three days and that the vassal lords will handle the res-“

“Cale Henituse did what?!”

[loraculis]

I hope magic mayhem will have companions from stories other than queen Marie, magic lamp and gotham memoirs.

I'm hoping for vincent, yazdan, yasmin, huo shao, salvia, lawrence, julius, audwin, or xiaoqing, yk. Characters from more recent stories but not too recent that are already beloved.

Audwin could a good replacement for light, since in most gathering stories, light is partially responsible.

[walkingencyclopediaofweirdmayo]

Ya know,

When I downloaded this game, I thought it would be just a cute little dress up game.

I never expected it to make make me cry!

[tapefish]

hey i absolutely love your art style. it's soo cute. but i wonder how you make it look so comic-ey (like how you do the halftone thingies that make it look like an actual printed comic)

keep it up, you're awesome

- 🌌 Magic Mayhem

thank you!! This is all set for krita btw :)

For the effect above, I saved the right image as a pattern, and then filled the canvas with it (edit >fill with pattern). Then I change the effect to “hard mix (photoshop)” and change the opacity to whatever looks good (usually 5-15%)

This effect is a little more complicated, so I'll put it under the cut

I'll explain the background because I think it's the best example :)

So there are 3 main parts for this effect. The effect, the color, and the base layer. Here I put them in a folder (background). The effect layer (comic book texture) goes on the very top and has the same settings as above (hard mix photoshop). The color layers (paint layers) are the individual colors for the art. Each color should have it’s own layer, and each layer should be set to “multiply”. All of the layers above the base layer should be set to alpha-inheritance (the symbol on the right that looks cross between an "a" and "x") so the comic book overlay doesn't show up where there is no color. The base layer is set to "normal" and determines where the above layers are able to be seen.

After that, you can move around the individual paint layers a bit to get the poor registration look like below. Because the layers are set to multiply, it will show where they overlap!

To make the black look gritty like above I do something similar over the lineart. I put the pattern "default paper effect" over the inks/lineart and set it to "grain merge" or "grain extract" (doesn't make much of a difference). Set it to alpha-inheritance so it only shows up on the lineart.

To get the paper effect, I put the following texture over the whole piece and set it to multiply.

and thats it! hope this was helpful :)

[bughead-in-the-comics]

Jughead, Betty, and Reggie try to summon Veronica from her magical "disappearance" by purposely insulting her Magic Mayhem, Betty and Veronica Spectacular #33 (1999).

[analisegrey]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter 1 of ‘Miss the Sky’, a Molly and Caleb fic. Heavily inspired by @fieldbears story ‘Fever Dream’, which you should absolutely go read. 

Also, thank you to @sparxwrites for having that story on one of your rec lists. Part of this story is owed to you as well :)