#witch route

[goldieclaws]

Wanted to draw the Witch Princess, then got inspired by a comment I saw on a youtube video:

And in case the text is a too small to read:

"Why did you drag me down the stairs? Now we will both surely die," said the Hero "Lol," said the Princess, "lmao."

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#slay the princess #stp #stp spoilers #witch route #slay the princess witch #stp witch #voice of the hero #black tabby games #slay the princess fanart #the princess #the witch princess

[blee-bleep]

current dragon diana design lolol

#will probably go on a falin route and give her a chimera body later #diana cavendish #atsuko kagari #akko kagari #little witch academia #diakko #dianakko #lwa #bleeart

[supikaa]

you want to grow, don’t you

#sirius gibson #witch’s heart #i love you sirius route #spica art

[tea-kettlezztoo]

Witch Primcess I love you witch princess

#slay the princess #the witch #fandom #adore witch -> wild and witch -> thorn easily my favorite routes #ik that isnt like a super unpopular or uncommon opinion but still #also love beast -> den and adversary staying as adversary but this aint about them #love you mischievous and suspicious cat lady

[honeycheersfears]

Hiya killer. I was hoping to see you again

#slay the princess #stp spoilers #stp #slay the princess fanart #stp fanart #Honey draws #I did this for a friend but I’m kind of obsessed with it #btw witch routes the beloved #the friend has seen it #hi friend #smile

[j0celynh0rr0r]

666.

#666 #666 satan #666 aesthetic #angel number 666 #the number of the beast is 666 #route 666 #darkness #aesthetic #gothic #alternative #dark aesthetic #dark art #the devil in me #ave satanas #the satanic temple #satan loves you #the satanic bible #i love satan #the satanic verses #satanist #hail satan #satanism #satan #satanic #withcraft #witchy #witch #pagan witch #evil girl #evil women

[neonswitchhouse]

Pop Culture Witchcraft and the Importance of Being Cringe

Cringe has become a bit a loaded word nowadays, being at first a word to describe feelings of second-hand embarrassment, arguably from failings to impress others or to raise one's social capital. Think for example failed motorsports stunts, falling into pools with a tray full of fruity drinks or even worse; someone trying to impress a crush by molding themselves into someone they only think the other party would like via baseless assumptions. Your body recoils, seeing a dirt biker tumble down the course. Your stomach sinks, watching someone plunge into the shallow end of the water. You squirm watching someone try to convince their crush to go out with the facade they made. That I would describe as "empathetic cringe"; a reaction based on witnessing something you do not wish upon yourself like physical harm or embarrassment.

The modern definition of cringe however, is a different beast entirely.

Using the Urban Dictionary meaning as defined by user Screech McGee, "Before the internet trolls changed the meaning of this word, "cringe" was a verb used to express embarrassment or disgust. Now, this word is mostly used to define something that you dislike or do not understand. Internet trolls use this word as an insult towards people in fandoms, with bad grammar, or both combined. Trolls also use this word to describe memes on some occasions."

Doing a quick search on YouTube or Tiktok for "cringe" gives you an array of oddities to the average eye; people dressed in rainbow-colored wolf fursuits, teens expressing their love and attachment for their favorite anime character, or perhaps someone outwardly displaying behaviors considered aneurotypical. They fall outside societal norms and standards of behavior. They aren't perceived as "normal or acceptable" to the standards set by white-cis-het-able bodied-neurotypical persons and communities.

But in it, the furries, the fandom-lovers, and even the "neurospicys" are harming none. They're doing what they want.

Sounds kinda familiar doesn't it?

Lets loop around to what you're probably reading this rant for; the witchy reasons.

Witchcraft as a practice, is already an outsider to most societies, especially to those predominated shaped by Protestant Christian beliefs. It's already something outside the norms. Even back during the hey-day of reality tv shows like Wife Swap, those who weren't considered Christian or followed more "earth-based" religions and lifestyles were presented as the butt of the joke. And while witchcraft and non-Christian beliefs as a whole have becoming more popular nowadays, it's still considered something outside the norm or in the minority of persons identifying themselves as witches and pagans voluntarily.

So we're already ticking one "cringe" box according to societal norms

Chaos Magic as a whole is based on using belief as a tool or as a fuel source to workings to enact change or bring it about to oneself or to the environment around them as a whole. Hence the whole "nothing is true, everything is permitted" thing in that there's no one strict set of rules to make something work.

Pop Culture Witchcraft and Pop Culture Paganism deriving from chaos magic, while with several theories as to how it works, the crux is in "belief", in energy fueled into something or even someone.

Going off the egregoric model, egregores are formed and fed by the energy (ie: belief) fueled into them. This is where fandom comes into play. Fandom is fueled by passion, by love, by admiration, by forming community around shared likes, interests, or even dislikes. Fandoms are funnels for that collective energy, passion, creativity, etc.

And to some, pouring in so much joy, passion, fervor, and creativity can be seen as something out of their grasp of understanding; something that they're the outsider to and not the main target audience of. It's "not made for them". Therefore it's deemed as "cringe" underneath that definition.

But why deprive oneself of joy just for the approval of others?

Why force oneself to conform to arbitrary rules and norms?

As long as your joys and passions affect only yourself and do not harm others directly, why shield it from view?

To get the most out of a pop culture practice, it's good to have it based on what you're passionate about; what you're well-versed in. What gives you that fuel or belief. What brings you joy and makes you want to pursue things even further.

So be cringe, be passionate, be able to go on a dang unprompted 20minute rant about the lore to your favorite failed RPG series. Be able to show a whole dang portfolio of your self-insert smooching your favorite character on the cheek. Be absolutely, unapologetically passionate about something and see what happens. See what happens when you drop the worries of how others perceive you.

So stay safe, have fun, be cringe, be free, stay spooky.

#pop culture paganism #pop culture witchcraft #pop culture magic #pop culture witch #eyestrain cw #gif warning #I spent like an hour writing this and didnt have the spoons to edit #anyway this was inspired by a recent route in my path involving more horror based sources and entities so heehoo

[beat0s]

“She could’ve gotten out of there at any point that sneaky little-“

#slay the princess #the long quiet #the witch #black tabby games #art #traditional art #pencil #i love this route lmao

[swugart]

this is a silly little mock-up of an idea for a role reversal au for stp...

#used one of the images from the witch route for a base #so this is not actual drawing but just for pitching an idea #slay the princess #stp #stp spoilers #i said she's cat-coded so i went with that. #also had to switch the colors as much as I love the black

[falconearring]

She should be happy. Happier than anyone.

#witchs heart #noel levine #rpg maker horror #just finished noels route again #obviously it goes without saying I feel awesome

[minotaur-asterion]

Opportunist! I added some lip piercings and a fancy scorpion tail to eir design. I figure I should do the rest next but I’m stumped on who

The scorpion tail is based on the Scorpion and the Toad-inspired achievements you can get during the Witch, and the back scar is also from the Witch. Ey have a bad back now so ey use a cane (it’s supposed to look like em)

Just full body under the cut:

#slay the princess #voice of the opportunist #slay the princess fanart #slay the princess spoilers #Mostly just minor Witch route spoilers but still

[lipstickchainsaw]

what do you think about the beast in STP?

It took me a while to really get a handle on the Beast, especially because, from what I can tell, there's only one not-immediately-intuitive way to get to her. The predator/prey dynamic is obvious, of course, but what does it mean? What is the game doing with this dynamic?

But I think I have an answer.

The Shifting Mound and the Long Quiet were once one, the god governing the cycle of life and death, transformation and evolution, and the Beast and Witch both embody more instinctual aspects of this cycle.

Where the Witch embodies a 'kill or be killed' kind of paranoia, she is still very much built on equal power exchange (for all that the Blade gives you the initiative within the larger dynamic, the Witch is as capable of killing you as you are of her). She outright calls you both similarly wretched beings, after you've had to betray her in Chapter 1 just to get to her.

The Beast is similarly, well, bestial, and to get to her, you also have to betray her. The narrative for this betrayal is a little different, however. You have to start by leaving your Blade behind, but still expressing some suspicion of the Princess. Then, when she starts showing non-human behaviour (gnawing at her own arm), you take the first opportunity to stab her, finding it proof of your suspicions.

And, most crucially, this betrayal has to fail.

You have to give up. In the other route, this might lead to the Tower, a god to your smaller presence, but in the more instinctual, bestial version, you create a predator/prey dynamic, expressed within you by the Voice of the Hunted joining you.

From there, it's interesting that you, as the prey, get to have the choice in how the resulting confrontation plays out, because the Beast operates on instinct. She has a role to play, you have a choice to make. She just wants to eat you, and you get to decide how to deal with this.

And you get to explore all the main prey strategies: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn play dead, all of which work great!

There are two wrinkles here, however. The first is that the Beast is not pure instinct. Her bestial instincts obviously play a big role in how she acts, and leaves her just as impossible to reason and work towards a mutually beneficial resolution with as the Witch (after ll, she's the predator, and she needs to eat), as she herself points out, but she still points this out. She is still sentient, does still have things to say for herself (is still hurt by your betrayal).

And the second is that she needs you for something else. She doesn't just want to eat you, she wants to swallow you whole so you're still alive when she tries to get out of the cabin, and to that end, the power dynamic continues once she's swallowed you.

Because there the question becomes whether or not you can hold out or hurt her more than she hurts you, to deny those higher brain functions, those non-instinctual impulses what they want.

The Den is the Beast truly reduced to something non-sapient, and she becomes pitiable as a result, and the Wild is where the Witch and the Beast meet in trying to bury the mutual animosity by trying to go back to a past neither can truly remember.

The Beast, ultimately, is notable in that she isn't a beast, isn't just the predator/prey dynamic made manifest, part of the instinctual cycle of life and death, in that there's still some higher purposes determining her actions, her role, and the choice you get to make is whether or not they're worth maintaining.

#slay the princess #slay the princess spoilers #stp the beast #ask me #not too happy with this one #I find the Witch more interesting as a route #and I think it shows in this answer #hope it's interesting still

[saucy-mesothelioma]

The Witch offshoot routes: lots of implications and incredibly thought provoking as well as beautiful and heartbreaking

The Razor offshoot routes: stabby speedrun any%

Getting these two back to back was a fucking godsend

#tonal shift so fast it'll give you whiplash #the razor routes are by far the funniest I was sobbing with laughter #I think Blaze and I had the most fun with this one with the damsel route following close behind #got it was fantastic #and don't get me wrong kitty princess was great too we love her #stp the witch #stp the razor #slay the princess #stp spoilers

[handelgamer]

I found a rare route in Slay the Princess!

I was in the mood to go to the Wild through Witch. And I was doing it my personal favorite way, going into a drag out brawl. But for once, I wasn't quite feeling doing my usual just-go-back-to-fighting. I kept questioning the Princess as to why she's acting like this.

And within the route I got a new voice I hadn't seen before!

Cheated! I suppose the Princess did stop us from getting an out-and-out win by calling upon the cabin to crush us. And the line of questioning wasn't too dissimilar to ones that lead to the Thorn as well, such as wanting to become a better person and being denied the immedate opportunity to do so.

God I love this game! So pleased to find another way in on a route that's my personal favorite!

EDIT: And uh, I usually really like Hunted's final line for the Wild but DAMN.

#slay the princess #voice of the cheated #the wild (stp) #the witch (stp) #and since it was my first route I finally get to see the cheated's inital mirror lines! nice nice nice

[set-wingedwarrior]

The ending of this show brought me so much joy :)

#gundam #g witch #wfm #sulemio #mobile suit gundam #gundam the witch from mercury #suletta mercury #mioletta #miorine rembran #gundam wfm #gundam spoilers #g witch spoilers #maybe i'll write proper thoughts later #but for now #i'm just really happy they went for the happy ending instead of the tragedy route #a happy ending achieved after so much pain feels so much earned

[j0celynh0rr0r]

Always

#the satanic temple #satan loves you #the satanic bible #i love satan #the satanic verses #ave satanas #satanist #hail satan #satanism #satan #666 satan #route 666 #angel number 666 #666 aesthetic #the number of the beast is 666 #666 #hail satan 666 #darkness #aesthetic #gothic #alternative #dark aesthetic #dark art #the devil in me #witch #witchy #witchcraft #paranormal #hell is a teenage girl #evil women