Hi witches, thought you might like my witchy/celestial cakes I made for my sober birthday!

I wanted these cakes to feel like tea with a cottage witch if she was a Michelin star rated pastry chef.

🌘 Earl Grey Cake with Vanilla Bean Honey Buttercream, Apricot Compote, and White Chocolate Crunch

🌕 Lemon Olive Oil Cake with Lavender Buttercream, Blackberry Compote, and Shortbread Crumble

Happy to share any of the recipes as well!

Edit: here is a link to my Pinterest video I made it shows everything step by step! Recipe in comments! https://pin.it/cL0qdRYkj

Hi to my favorite witches 🧙‍♀️👋🩷

While wandering around the city the last few days I found this nice street art and thought they would be the perfect backdrops to show off my outfits 🩷🌸

Every day, one step closer to becoming myself 🏳️‍⚧️🦈

Also: it might be hard to see, but I got my belly pierced yesterday 💍

Hope you all have a magical week 💖💫

I live in a tropical place, in my craft I learned very quickly just how fast water will grow algae. For my moon and other celestial based waters I fill glass jars with filtered boiled water and charge them with the lid on, canning style. Because no amount of metaphysics will make water algae free.

However for things like rain and storm, river and waterfall water, I just had a thought. What if instead of filling jars with water from these sources which tended to have a short shelf life, I took the same method and put the jar
- in a stream for an hour or so while I chilled nearby, - held it in the flow of a waterfall,
- leave the whole filled jar with lid outside during a storm,
- fill with salt water and put where the waves of the ocean ebb and flow over it for a while?

Do you feel this would capture the energies of these various water sources? Or does the water have to be intrinsically in the source to hold the charge?

Thoughts? Discussion? How do you keep your stream water from turning into a science project?

Photo for attention; not my own work

I'm looking to expand my reading and I don't have as many women authors about celtic paganism. I'm also looking for good recommendations for Hoodoo or Sami history, or recommendations on eastern Asian history of covens that weren't involved in government affairs and weren't known for black magic. Thank you!

Now, who wants to take over an island with me? We can sunbathe, look for pretty shells, and devour any trespassers if we get hungry….
Mask sculpted from paper mache and paper clay 🔱🖤

Laverie was born in 1875 in Sacramento and became known locally during the mid-1890s as a skilled performer on the trapeze.

Charmion became famous when she started performing at the Koster & Bial's theater in New York City in 1896. She attained nationwide fame not only because of her acrobatic skills, but also because of an apparently new part of her shows where she'd disrobe on the trapeze, tossing each article of clothing into the audience until down to flesh-colored tights.

Charmion was also eager to show off her muscles and included flexing routines in her act. She routinely curled 70 pound dumbbells for exercise, could tear chains apart with her bare hands, and once fought a professional male boxer in an informal match and kicked his ass. Once when a man tried to kiss her, she physically threw him down like a sack of potatoes and broke his jaw. Another time famed strongman Sigismund Breitbart publicly claimed that women couldn't be as strong as men. Charmion responded by challenging him to a weightlifting contest; he didn't respond to the challenge.

Her act was incredibly popular with women and marketed for women, which angered right-wing men who whined about how "indecent" it was and how inappropriate it was for women to watch (and for Charmion to throw underwear to women in the audience, which she was also known to do). Charmion responded to these complaints by mocking the losers for their prudishness and emphasizing the stripping part of her act even further.

A brilliant woman who was fluent in five languages, Charmion frequently wrote newspaper articles and gave public lectures in an effort to encourage other women to exercise and become fit like her. Charmion seemingly retired late in 1912, around the same time she married fellow vaudeville performer William Vallee. she died in 1949.

My name is Fabian MacKenzie and I'm an author. My general focus is on Dionysus and Hellenism, however, my most recent book is about how Pagans reacted to the rise of Christianity in Antiquity. What this book captures is a lost side in a volatile debate raging in Antiquity: who knew who God was? This will be of interest to Gnostics, Christians, Pagans, Atheists, Jews, and anyone else curious about the debates which hit the scene two millennia ago.

Link: https://a.co/d/0gf6JWJL

My name is Bijhan Agha. I'm a trans Uruguayan of Iranian descent with autism. My nonbinary spouse, RaeRae, is my editor. The comics are alternately illustrated by SwapTrap, a cis man from India; and Pallet, a trans man from Australia. The books' covers are illustrated by either Duende, a queer woman from the Philipines; or Ceci, a cis Uruguayan woman.

At no point was AI ever used to generate text or art.

What is Time Wars
I've created a fictional universe where Humanity and Vampirekind have been eternally locked in a shadow war across every culture and in every era of history. In the deep future, time travel is invented, and both sides send agents into the past to recruit "temporal natives" to change the course of history. While the Vampires recruit the influential and powerful, Humanity empowers the marginalized and ostracized, fighting for a future beyond bigotry.

If you'd like to join our community for news and updates, we have a free tier on Patreon. Higher tier levels include free digital copies of our stories.
http://www.Patreon.com/JamsheedStudios

NOVELS

All of the novels are available exclusively in digital formats: PDF, EPUB, and DOCX.

The Undying Queen and the Dragon's Son
I wanted to tell a gothic horror story, and have the magic of the universe rooted in real history. Artemisia of Halicarnassus has always been fascinating to me: a woman who inherited her father's regency due to her unparalleled skill as a warrior and sailor, and the first woman to be a naval admiral in recorded history. I'm also intrigued by the historical figure of Vlad Dracula, made famous by the novel Dracula, but whose real legacy is much more devastating and brutal. I decided to make them both just as immortal as their legacies by giving them X-Crystals, powerful magical artifacts in the Time Wars universe, which allow the users to manifest their emotions as physical and elemental powers. I did thorough research into both Artemisia's time and culture, as well as 15th century Wallachia, including maps of the capital city of Tagoviste. The story I told here is at once loving and upsetting, a center of hope surrounded by a patina of despair. I hope it thrills, terrifies, and inspires you.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/time-wars-the-undying-queen-and-the-dragons-son

Legends of the Order
In much the same ways that some civilizations lionize their historical figures - such as Heracles of Thebes, Arthur Pendragon, and Julius Caesar - assigning them magical properties or even worshipping them as gods, I thought it would be a wonderful thing to re-imagine the heroes of America as such. The story is about Harriet Tubman and John Brown being given alien technology by agents from the future, so they can wage a broader and more devastating campaign against the Vampires who are behind the insititution of slavery and machinations of war. When a treasure trove of alien technology is discovered under the Nevada desert, Tubman and Brown must assemble a team to heroes to race the Vampires to the buried starship. It include an ensemble cast include a gay tans man who uses a mysterious stone to teleport, a free Black cis man who worships the Olympians and uses robotic limbs to fight, a trans Muslim Persian woman who has an X-Crystal and hunts Vampires on her own terms, and a gay Chinese-American former coolie who has become the sheriff of Rock Hen, Nevada due to this amazing gunslinging - among many others. The story is told alinearly, except for the climax, challenging the reader to piece together the timeline.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/loto-eng

The Phantom Revolution
Realizing most of my stories are from the perspective of those interacting with time travelers, this story follows a Time Corps Agent of the Human Republic from the 161st Century. She is a shape shifter, able to take any form, as she conducts a series of missions across history. However, her rival, Nadira Adona, is a Vampire who can also shape shift, and who seeks to upend our hero's journey. The story is told linearly through history, though each of the two time travelers experiences the events in totally different orders. The interweaving time lines, use of extraordinary technology from the future, and the mysterious ways they interact with the "temporal natives" is at once thrilling and puzzling. Though the emotional core of a woman trying to win a war against a deadly foe is clear, the order of events challenges you to read context clues and put together a clearer picture of how the characters experience events.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/pr-eng

Starship Tatanka - Border of Terror
I wanted to model a future which is simultaneously aspirational in how society has overcome concepts like racism and queerphobia, but also pinned in by the Vampires' insidious efforts to perpetuate classism, capitalism, and hegemony. Inspired by the Star Trek's vision of scientists and explorers being a driving force in civilization of the future, I developed a delicate social network of unusual people from disperate cultureal backgrounds and of various neurodivergent natures who are working hard to form a crew for an isolate starship on a mission to map the nebulae on the border of the Galactic Human Republic. All queer by modern standards, they live in newly-formed polycules, managing their romantic relationships in addition to their professional ones. All of that is thrown into chaos, however, when a Time Corps Agents from the 161st Century arrives and announces that not only is there a vast Vampire conspiracy on a nearby world to initiate war with the enigmatic Ongol Empire... but one of the crew is a Vampire themself. The story that follows is full of puzzling mystery, brutal violence, daring escapes, political intrigue, and even starship battles. For fans of queer literature, and/or classic science fiction.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/stbot-eng

Comics

All comics are available in both PDF and physical formats.

The Adventures of Kobra Olympus
Inspired by Golden Age classics, especially the original run of Wonder Woman, Kobra Olympus is a young trans Muslim woman in 2015 Seattle who has to balance her life as a tech professional with her duties as Agent Tha, a superhero empowered by a high tech cellphone that transforms her and gives her access to a series of tools and weapons. Her crusade against the Vampires is complicated when she begins a relationship with Dorothy Diamond, a much more outspoken and confident woman who finds Kobra's soft sweetness charming. Now the balancing act is more complicated, as Dorothy has become at risk just due to knowing Kobra.

We are currently having a Kickstarter for Issue #4, which includes both digital and phyiscal options to get back issues and catch up with the story!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

The Adventures of the Legendary X-Knights
This time drawing from Japanese superheroes, the X-Knights are a team of queer martial artists in thr 22nd Century who have been brought together by agents from the future to form an unlikely team. Lilly McGann is a half-Irish half-Chinese lesbian woman and retired Air Force colonel in her 60s. Rocky Anoa'i is an aro/ace Samoan Prince and former professional longboarder in his 50s. And DeShaun Oliver is a nonbinary Black American in his 20s who has spent most of his adult life as a hairdresser in Fresno. Despite Lilly's temper, Rocky's refusal to take things too seriously, and DeShaun's lack of life experience, they must somehow learn to live, work, and fight together now that they've been given X-Crystals: magic alien objects which fuse with their body, allow them to summon physical armor and weapons manifested from their emotions, and control different elements with their minds. Their mission: dismantle a vast Vampire conspiracy which seeks to use the American military industrial complex to create weapons of horrific power, and proliferate them to battlefields across the world.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/lxk.html

The Adventures of Ash Grey & Saturn Olympus
A spin-off of the novel Legends of the Order, the character of Ash and Saturn are focused on in more detail. Ash Grey is a white Christian trans man who has stolen an alien artifact which allows him to teleport. Saturn Olympus is a Black cis man who worships the Olympians, and who uses robotic prosthetics for his arms and legs. They are the 19th Century's greatest Vampire hunters, having annihilated most of the monsters in Washington Territory, a region controlled by the Vampire Warlord Leonard Victor. Ash and Saturn are also two men in love, regarding themselves as husbands in an interracial, interfaith, gay marriage. However, at the same time that Victor sends the cyborg bounty hunter, Alice Hayweather, to kill them, Ash discovers he's pregnant! Now they have less than 10 months to hunt down to evade Alice, and hunt down and kill Victor. They'll need help, though - and so they begin the task of assembling a team of heroes to wage war.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/agso.html

The Adventures of Zero & One
With inspiration from "magical friends" anime and manga, like Digimon and Pokemon, I wanted to make something where both halves of the team were equal, and immerse the hero in a world totally unknown. Set in the distant future, Zero of Mars is a nonbinary youth of an ethnicity that does not yet exist in our time, who crash-lands on a planet called Elentia full of living sentient robots called Elemorphs. The Elemorphs come in all shapes and sizes, each drawing from different elemental power sources. Despite a language barrier, Zero makes friends with an Elemorph named One, who looks like a small deer and has nature-based powers. Together they discover a series of clues left behind hundreds of years ago by Time Corps Agents from the deep future, putting them at the center of a mystery which spans the ages. Soon they discover they're being pursued by a Vampire agent and their Elemorph collaborator, who seek to conquer the Elemorphs and bring them as enslaved living weapons into the Time Wars.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/zo.html

I really hope you find something in here which appeals to you. Me and my spouse have worked really hard to try and make stories which inspire, dazzle, and entertain. We struggle often to survive, and any help you want to give us by supporting our work would mean the world to us.

I’ve been absolutely loving creating these and I feel like they sparked my creativity once again so as always, I hope you like them!

I’m sealing a spell jar with a candle and partway through burning it looked like a horse. I pulled some tarot cards to see if there was a specific horse association (knight, The Sun, etc) but The Emperor reversed and The Chariot jumped out of the deck. My interpretation is that the goal around my spell jar is going to take effort and strength to achieve but does anyone have other interpretations?