I can’t say that I’m exactly surprised at the results, as Eight set up an After Dark tier years ago and people have been clamoring for me to…reveal more of myself, as it were, for some time now, ever since I released the first round of videos teasing “Apocalypse You”.
So if more… midnight revelations are your thing, head over to our Patreon and check it out. 😘
-Allēna
I apologize for any inconvenience if y’all were trying to read Lavender and Scissors or access any of the other pages on this site. I fucked them up a few nights ago and have been trying to resolve the issue pretty much nightly since.
Yay, I love learning new things on the fly!
In other news, we’ve been under a flood watch and portions of Milwaukee are underwater. I keep seeing posts about basements getting flooded and restaurants needing to close down. We’re in for more storms later today, which is just horrible considering all of the water that’s already been dumped on us. I’m worried about all of my local friends and followers.
If you live in the city or you’re being affected by flooding elsewhere, could you please let me know that you’re safe somehow, either in the comments of this post or via a direct message on one of my social platforms?
-Allēna
It is with great pleasure, pomp, and circumstance that I announce the release of “Apocalypse You” on our Patreon page. Paid subscribers to our Patreon can grab a copy at their leisure 💛
Juneau, this one’s for you.
-Allēna
If you enjoy our work, go ahead and subscribe to Open Sorcery while you’re at it!
except for the fact that I am so goddamned tired that it feels like my organs have been scooped out and replaced with nothing but fatigue.
Fuck everything.
-Allēna
There’s a certain song on my YouTube Music likes that brings back a ten ton brickload of memories every time I hear it. “Hits Me Like A Rock” by CSS takes me straight back to August of 2017 every fucking time I hear it.
I don’t quite remember how I came across it exactly, but I do remember that it was via Spotify somehow around the same time I entered into my first T4T relationship shortly after my 20th birthday and the total eclipse of the sun on August 21 of that year. I remember listening to it incessantly while I wrote what I later called the August Draft of the Third Prophecy along with Brazilian Girls’ cover of “Whip It” by Devo. I think I listened to both of those of those fucking songs they’re stamped into my viscera somehow. I was only with that girl briefly, but she fucking loved the Third Prophecy and was a phenomenal kisser, and she ended up inspiring a solid third of our 2017 album Mago. I hope she’s doing well.
What a month. What a time.
-Allēna
25 people with more money than sense
are trying to ascend to godhood again
and we, the other 99%, dare them to do it –
in the same week that a
man in ontario, california sets fire
to his workplace screaming “you could have
paid us a living wage”
(careful,
he’s a hero)
we will all have bread & roses when you
upload yourselves to your digital heavens
to preside over an eternity of ozymandian
digital sand
we will feast on the grapes of wrath you
kept from us when you hang yourself
by a noose of your own hubris
may your wait-list be short
and your eternity be long
and ultimately fruitless
-Allēna
4/11/2026
I am Feeling Emotions about it.
First… Why did I never hear of her before? She fought for so much shit for women and AFAB people, like for them to be able to have their own FUCKING credit, for them to be able to be legally addressed as Ms., thereby freeing them to not be addressed relative to their marital status, and introduced the VERY FIRST nondiscrimination bill for LGBTQ+ people in the workplace.
Before that, she was a lawyer who made a name for herself attempting to appeal a conviction for a Black man accused of rape, even going so far as to write to the President at the time. It unfortunately was unsuccessful, but women at the time DIDN’T GO TO LAW SCHOOL and didn’t FUCKING DO THAT SHIT.
She fought for EVERYONE. SHE BELIEVED THAT NOBODY IS FREE UNTIL EVERYONE WAS FREE, and I believe that, too.
She was, unfortunately, a Zionist, but the documentary addressed that she had conflicting feelings about that, even back in the ’70s, because Israel was doing fucked shit aided and abetted by the States and toeing too close to the Holocaust for her taste, but she was Jewish and believed strongly in a homeland for her people. So I don’t know how to reconcile that part of her life, and it seems that neither did she.
She had a husband who deeply loved and supported her. She had two kids with him and still did all this. And everything I’ve mentioned is just the tip of the iceberg.
What a complicated, fierce, and important lady. She was also famous for her hats!
-Allēna
It was simultaneously very funny but also very emotionally heavy, and I took a much needed smoke break towards the end of it. Two girls were discussing their guy drama and I told them to just be bold and also trust their gut because we live in a hellscape. I told them that that’s how I met Emerson and we’re married now 💛 They said that they appreciated my wisdom, so there’s that, I guess. I also met a very inquisitive and affectionate dog named Keaton. Both his owner and I think he might be a boxer mix of some kind, but he’s also very small, so he might have been the runt of his litter. He was a very precious baby who reminded me of my childhood dog, a purebred Lab named Eli, who was constantly excited about everything and was very handsome. Everyone loved that lad even though he was extremely small for his breed.
I also figured out that a friend of Emerson’s and mine works at County Clare. I almost didn’t recognize her outside of the events I normally see her at, but it’s a small world, I suppose, and I was grateful to run into her. She’s lovely.
It started raining on the way back to the car, and I think my body is deeply unhappy with all the storms we’re having. I feel like I got hit by a train.
I think I’m going to go to sleep soon. I definitely need it. I managed to finally go to sleep around 5 AM today. I feel like I was hit by a train.
Juneau is in one of his states again – I think he might be splitting on me or starting to. He’ll probably come around in about 2 business days with an apology or something to that effect, and we’ll kiss and make up, as it were. I think it would be in poor taste to inform him that he might be splitting on me, he’s an adult and he’ll come to that conclusion on his own. In the meantime, there’s nothing to do but live life, dispense advice to strangers on the sidewalk like I’m some faerie that haunts the shadows, see really heavy plays, and scritch adorable dogs.
-Allēna
I injured my ankle at Linneman’s on Monday due to the severity of my fatigue and I was in bed most of yesterday. I am still very tired because yesterday kicked the hell out of me emotionally. I just… Can’t with this shit. I hope y’all are having a better time than I am..
-Allēna