Open Sorcery is the world of Lazarus Halliwell.

Excellence and batshittery, done on purpose.

I’m Lazarus. I make art, music, poems, plays, and magic for the quiet, brilliant, broken ones. If that is you, welcome home. I adopt your kind.

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  • I don’t know who the FUCK I am (DID is weird like that)

    But APPARENTLY I CAN PAINT/DRAW???

    Have these as proof. Lēna is gonna shit a sideways brick when she comes back to front and sees this.

    -Sender unknown

  • Today was better.

    I did some painting and have some potential projects lined up.

    -Allēna

  • WE FINALLY GOT AN OIL CHANGE

    OUR CAR IS OPERATIONAL ONCE MORE

    SHE LIVES

    THE DAY IS SAVED

    -Allēna

  • I spent a large part of the day making social media banners for people.

    These are a few of my favorites:

    I was inspired to do this by listening to the podcast I Like Your Work, and I listened to the latest episode while making a banner that is unfortunately not shown here.

    If you want a banner, feel free to reach out to me on socials and we can set something up!

    -Allēna

  • I wrote an audio drama once.

    I was very lonely during the winter of 2019 and wrote this script. I am a better writer now, so I might revise and/or expand it in time, but for now, here it is. Please let me know what you think. -Allēna

  • I’ve stumbled upon an adaptation of the Iliad that is Castor-approved, which has been a lifelong task.

    His standards are ridiculously high because he’s a stickler for accuracy, especially considering I read the original poem in college at Maryland school. It’s called Troy: Fall of a City and it’s on Netflix. I highly recommend it, especially since it can satisfy Castor’s pedantic ass.

    -Allēna (hi, I’m back!)

  • I wrote this at workshop today.

    I am the candle you allowed to go out
    you would bind yourself to me but you’d never
    bleed for me
    and if you had fifty million words to say what you
    meant
    or anything at all
    you’d ramble on, talking in circles
    and in your haunted sound and your fury, you’d say
    nothing –

    did I ever mean a goddamn thing to you?
    was I nothing more than another withering body in your bed,
    another meal, another drink, another drug,
    another stepping stone in your unanswered,
    unmatched ambition?
    there’s no way to tell now in this optimized
    emptiness, is there?
    I’ve tried to see through the cage of your lies
    one too many times
    so now I go about my petty tomorrows and you go about
    yours on opposite sides of this compound fracture town
    we are all bleeding at the seams
    at the end of the day, aren’t we?

    I don’t think fate was involved anymore
    only hunger clawing at your insides
    and when you finished devouring me in your
    desperation, you corroded your soul
    with something and someone else
    another victim wrapped too tightly in your spell
    who are you drowning with now?
    of course they won’t see that the cords wrapped
    around their neck aren’t love until far too late
    of course they won’t have words for how you’re drinking
    them dry, and
    of course you won’t tell me their name
    but I’ll hear their screams through
    the grapevine anyway

    out, out
    brief candle
    again and again
    oh, that I would have
    died hereafter
    after what you did to me
    but
    watch me rise like the morning star
    instead
    burn out
    shimmer and fall
    knowing you can never again
    touch me

    -Castor 2/1/2026

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