JS Groves
@satyrmagos.bsky.social
author * artist * sorcerer * madman pronouns = xie/xir Magical jeweler and occult blogger. Novelist and photographer. Some of my art is naked, all of it is queer. jsgroves.com sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com
I jumped into my giant project head first, and I don't recommend it. But, I don't want people to think I didn't prepare. I studied screenwriting and storyboarding in college, and various comic-making resources and more books on story structure before I started planning How to be a Werewolf
The advice "Don't make your first project a overambitious sprawling epic" is good. The problem is that I don't think people can really learn that lesson before they ignore the advice and just do it anyways. Sometimes you have to throw the baby into the pool to teach it how to swim.
If you see this, post your marine-themed art!
If you see this, post your marine-themed art! ✨
#AugustWorldbuilders, good morning! Have there been any ancient wars or conflicts in your fictional setting? Things that have affected the present? Tell me about them
The Image of Jupiter, according ... Apollonius, is the shape of a man sitting on an eagle, wrapped in a cloth, with his feet on the eagle’s back, and a head, covered by a cloth, held in this right hand. -Picatrix Book II, Ch 10, Para 15 (Attrell & Porecca, 2019) #Art #OccultArt #QueerArtist #Magick
Round pendant bearing an image of an apotropaic sphinx in an Art Neveau style: a synthesis of the Greek monster that strangled travelers who could not answer her riddle and the Egyptian sphinx who stood guard over secrets. sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1250... #QueerArtist #Art #Jewelry #BSNM
First late entry for #Smaugust! 01 - Historical dragons ✨ This one inspired by an illustration from the Divine Comedy
The Sator square is an acrostic with deep and wide magical history with the oldest known example dating back to Pompei. Magical applications include generic protection, cursebreaking, and defense against malicious spirits. sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1132... #Magick #HandmadeJewelry #BSNM
added a "buy the ebook" page to The Prince's Fighters website probably should have done that, like, a month ago princesfighters.jsgroves.com/buy-the-ebook/ #Dathl'lyr
Buy the Ebook – The Prince's Fighters
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The image of the Moon, according to ... Apollonius, is the shape of a woman standing upon two bulls; the head of one is next to the tail of the other. - Picatrix Bk II, Ch 10, Para 36. (Attrell & Porecca, 2019) #Art #OccultArt #QueerArtist #Magick journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com/index.php/20...
A bead necklace with a brass ferret skull in the center bracketed by brass snake vertebrae strung with lava beads with quartz point accents. Beads are strung on wire, rosary-style. sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/8930... #HandmadeJewelry #QueerArtist #Jewelry #BSNM
A short necklace with a stylized crow’s skull suspended between a pair of wings. sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1109... #QueerArtist #Art #Jewelry #ArtJewelry #BSNM
“The image of Mercury, according to the opinion of the wise Apollonius, is the shape of a bearded youth holding a dart in his right hand. This is his shape.” Picatrix Bk II, Ch 10, Para 31. (Attrell & Porecca, 2019) #Art #OccultArt #QueerArtist #Magick
⚫ El eclipse solar sobre Zaragoza, en imágenes. La silueta de la basílica del Pilar y el Ebro dejaron algunas de las estampas más espectaculares de la tarde. 🔗 arainfo.org/todos-los-de... 📸 Fotos: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza
Aight... either I do the floor tiles some other day or digitally, cause a patterned half circle in perspective will make my head explode rn. But!!! Sneks done!! (pushed the darkness and contrast for drama :P)
𝗛𝗲𝘆! Side Quested is up and Peony has a really simple way to see... things. 🔗 tapas.io/series/SideQuested/ep442 🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested 🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/ 🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser 🔹 #webcomics
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At the time of The Prince’s Fighters, the rhu xian are only known to live in the Lightning Plains, the immortal realm between the mortal world and the Holy Lands, where they are concentrated in an empire that corresponds roughly to the northernmost regions of the mortal world #Critterary #Dathl'lyr
So where does your creature(s) live? Do they have a preference on their environment? How spread out are they? Can you find them everywhere? Maybe they were forced into a specific space due to various regions? #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
So where does your creature(s) live? Do they have a preference on their environment? How spread out are they? Can you find them everywhere? Maybe they were forced into a specific space due to various regions? #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
Barring violence, a rhu xian can expect to live for about three thousand years, on average. Exceptionally powerful individuals might live more than four thousand years. Childhood lasts about a century, as does adolescence. 1/🧵 #Critterary #Dathl'lyr
Some creatures live for a long time, some gone in the blink of an eye. How long does yours live for? Also throughout their life, do they go through different stages where their appearance greatly changes, maybe gains new abilities throughout at different points? #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
Some creatures live for a long time, some gone in the blink of an eye. How long does yours live for? Also throughout their life, do they go through different stages where their appearance greatly changes, maybe gains new abilities throughout at different points? #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
So many that they have special in-world names: Relics and Vestiges, some of which come not just from past ages of the Younger World but date back to the Elder World that the gods destroyed and from which they built this one. Two are central to the plot of the novel 1🧵 #AugustWorldbuilders #Dathl'lyr
#AugustWorldbuilders. Let's get into some archaeological goodness. Are there any items or artifacts from an ancient era? Anything magical? Anything that hints what those lost civilizations were like? Tell me all the juicy details about them~ 👀
Good luck to all #eclipse watchers today! May the clouds fuck the fuck off, may your Baily’s beads be plentiful, may your ring shimmer a thousand diamonds, and may your streaking corona cradle a hole as black as the emptiness between the stars. #SolarEclipse #EclipseSolar2024
It's hard for me to pick my favorite eclipse pic, but this diamond ring pic I got in Chile in 2019 is probably it. #Eclipse #Photography #Astrophotography