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Witch Cabell, PhD
@cabell.bsky.social
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Pink-haired professional bisexual witch. Contingent sociologist & bath bomb artist—order at witchqueen.net! She/her. “Cabell” rhymes with “Scrabble.”
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I’m at the Madison Comic Con Winter Show at Monona Terrace today if folks are looking for a fun weekend activity—$10 admission at the door, kids under 12 get in free. I’ve got a bunch of freshly made giant dice soaps (full set of seven dice embedded inside!) & lots of other great-smelling goodies!
A woman in a green and black striped shirt, black velvet witch hat, and bright green KN95 sitting behind a table with various bath & body products laid out and a large table runner with a stylized logo of the letters WQW, below which it reads: Witch Queen Workshop Queer & Fantastic Luxury Handmade Bath & Body Custom orders welcome! A child wearing a black and white striped cardigan, a black KN95, black witch hat with ivory crocheted lace trim standing next to a woman wearing a black and green striped shirt with black skirt-all, black bat wing cat eye glasses, a green KN95, and black velvet witch hat with tulle trim. Close up of three giant dice soaps, a d20 in the foreground, d12 behind it, and d20 in the back, striped in neon pink, neon yellow, neon green, and black glitter, with silver embossed numerals. Close up of a giant d20 soap in layers of white, gold glitter, and different shades of purple, with gold embossed numerals.
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I decided to go with “recognizable” for my costume on campus today, so (Maleficent says trans rights!):
Five photo collage of a white woman dressed as Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, with a black velvet and purple satin dress with batwing sleeves and coordinating headpiece. She has black cat eye glasses with a cat eye shape, black heart earrings with a rose on them that say “protect the dolls”, and dark green and black pumps with dragon spikes on them. In the full length photo she is holding a gnarled wooden staff.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Mortified, delighted… same difference
Eventually, Musk realized that Pop-Tarts were best enjoyed toasted. So he opened a package and put two of them into the toaster, Thompson said. Only Musk made the rookie mistake of inserting the pastries horizontally, rather than vertically. When they popped back up, he had to stick his fingers into the toaster to grab his breakfast. This was a problem, and at about six in the morning Musk proceeded to scream, at full volume, "Fuck, it burns! Fuck, it burns!" Two older ladies at the front desk, nearby, watched in mortified silence.
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Y’all, thanks to this morning’s Main Character, this is currently ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT

That’s right: HEY MR GOD

WHAT ABOUT ME

#TheMiddlemanLives
Grainy close-up screen cap from the tragically short lived series The Middleman of Pip, the malignant nematode son of Wendy Watson’s building owner, in profile looking to the viewer’s right and making a particularly punchable smug face with his brow furrowed and his mouth partially open to speak, upper lip curled. He is a white man with short brown hair in an early aughts teen heartthrob cut, like a 90s Jason Priestley pompadour but shorter? He is wearing a black and cream color blocked satin top of some kind—honestly probably a shirt rather than a jacket in 2006, but the collar is pretty jacket-like so it’s hard to say for sure.
October 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Tfw you think ppl just tell you about their queer kids bc of the hair but then you remember you’re wearing the BE GAY DO CRIME earrings today 😂

Obligatory first day of class fit pic:
Square collage with five photos, a square in the middle surrounded by alternating horizontal and vertical rectangles. Clockwise from upper left (landscape rectangle): Close up of closed eyes with neon rainbow eyeshadow and dark thick lashes, wearing pale pink heart shaped glasses encrusted with pearls and pale pink roses at the outer corners; full body mirror shot of woman with short fluffy lavender hair in a white and rainbow gingham swing dress with pink petticoat, wearing the heart shaped glasses, a wide yellow belt, a lavender short sleeved bolero cardio, a blue & purple KN95, a silver necklace, and light green and pale blue pumps; close up of the pumps, with quilted pale iridescent green bodies and light blue patent leather heels, toe caps, and t-straps; closeup of the woman’s face focused on a translucent neon pink acrylic earring cut into the letters “Be Gay”; center square is a selfie of her whole face, with a rainbow watercolor pattern kn95 holding out the earring on the other ear, which reads “Do Crime.”
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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So I have a bunch of jewelry wall storage, including one w/a shelf on top. Periodically I notice that items are missing but nowhere to be found on the floor, which y’know, ADHD, man, what can you do…

…Yesterday I put on ~6” platforms & discovered my spouse has been putting stuff ON TOP OF THE SHELF
A yellowish looking wall with a black metal shelf with tons of jewelry hanging off it and a painting, an echo dot, and a crocheted poison all on top, a slate blue wooden earring hanger to its right with lots of earrings on it, and the bottom of an abstract painting visible to the top right.
August 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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So like, if you skeet an image of a post like this and add alt-text except that you literally just enter the single word “spoon”… it’s hard to conclude anything except that you are intentionally being an asshole
Screen cap of a Tumblr post by user nohoperadio: A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.
August 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Madison people, if you’re looking for an indoor activity today, Day 2 of #MadEx (comic & pop culture expo) runs until 4pm at the Alliant Energy Center & I’m vending. If you need me to sweeten the pot, my booth neighbors are a bunch of mermaids doing community outreach including free photo ops 😄
A woman with short fluffy yellow & pink hair wearing a flowered pink kn95 mask, heart shaped pink glasses with pearls and pink roses all around the frames, an ivory felt witch hat with pastel flower sequins, rainbow pastel ribbons, and a mint green ruffled brim, a green glass beaded necklace, and a pastel rainbow gingham v-neck top. She is holding up a translucent rectangle soap with a neon pink & purple base and a Twilight Sparkle alicorn figurine embedded inside. Close up of a giant d20 soap with layers of pearlescent and sparkling white and silver numerals. Through the 8 facet, a white die is visible inside. Bathroom mirror shot of a woman in a rainbow pastel gingham swing dress with straps & poofy skirt, a cream felt witch hat with pastel rainbow sequins and ribbons hanging down to the sides, heart shaped pearl encrusted glasses, a pink kn95 mask, a con badge on a black lanyard, and olive green leopard print flats. She has one hand on her hip and is taking the photo with her phone in the other hand. Close up of a translucent rainbow ombré giant d20 soap focused on the corner of the 5, 18, 2, 12, & 15 facets. A rainbow striped d6 is visible through the 2/18 edge inside the soap.
August 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Anyway to celebrate my decrepitude/our current front row seats for the Decline & Fall, here I am drinking something billed as “watermelon margarita” (do NOT read the fine print on that) while wearing glasses that, rainbow titanium hardware aside, would not have been out of place on my mother in 1987
Closeup of a white woman with lots of freckles, yellow, pink, and peach short fluffy hair with dark brown roots, a silver nose ring, and giant clear plastic squarish glasses smirking at the camera and holding up a pink ombré plastic stemless wine glass with black seeds painted on that contains liquid and lots of ice. Green grass is behind her.
August 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Basically my approach to witchcraft:
Three-panel Schitt’s Creek image. Panel 1: Close-up of David, looking EXTREMELY skeptical and holding Moira’s hand to viewer’s left, Alexis’ hand to viewer’s right, while speaking: “Okay, are we praying?” Panel 2: Close-up of Alexis at the left of the frame shooting daggers from her eyes at him, with Moira in the center of the frame holding Alexis’ hand to viewer’s left and David’s hand to viewer’s right while squeezing her eyes and mouth shut as Alexis says: “Don’t be ridiculous.” Panel 3: Close-up of Alexis on the left as Moira, eyes still closed, speaks in the center of the frame: “To Whom It May Concern.”
August 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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I actually had a pretty good start—I’m scrappy—but yeah, it ended pretty predictably:
Collage photo square with three images on the left and two on the right. From top to bottom on the left, then top to bottom on the right: 1) A short white woman with short hot pink hair (henceforth Pink) in a sports bra and jean shorts wrestle-hugging a tall white woman with shorter dark blue hair (henceforth Blue) in a sports bra and exercise shorts with her back to the camera. 2) Back/side view of Pink on Blue’s back with her arms around Blue’s neck. 3) Pink with some mud above her right eye grinning and looking down at Blue who is lying down with a muddy arm around Pink’s neck. 4) Pink letting out a barbaric yawp while trying to push Blue back down into the mud, both of them covered in mud now. 5) Pink flat on her back in the mud, looking upwards, with Blue straddling her with her arms around Pink’s neck.
August 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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QP with your own starry art! (And alt text)

Trial versions of new soaps I’ve been working on!
Close up of a white hand holding a rectangular neon blue and purple swirled soap with a clear layer on top containing an Applejack My Little Pony figure (a gold pony with green eyes, three red apples as a cutie mark, and lighter yellow mane and tail with streaks of gold glitter) with holographic glitter in star, crescent moon, and heart shapes visible around it. Close up of a white hand holding a rectangular neon green and yellow swirled soap with a clear layer on top containing an My Little Pony figure of a white Pegasus with hot pink mane & tail, blue eyes, and a pink diamond cutie mark with holographic glitter in star, crescent moon, and heart shapes visible around it. Close up of a white hand holding a rectangular neon purple and pink swirled soap with a clear layer on top containing a Pinkie Pie My Little Pony figure (a light pink pony with blue eyes, three balloons as a cutie mark, and curly hot pink mane and tail) with holographic glitter in star, crescent moon, and heart shapes visible around it.
July 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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42) Weird family-specific holiday traditions are the BEST traditions. When I was a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs so our house was visited by the Easter Iguanodon along with various standard magical gift-givers, and now the Easter Iguanodon comes to Wisconsin:
Linoleum tile floor with different pastel colored dinosaur footprint decals (various shapes but all three toed) leading from the upper right corner down and to the left toward the photographer. There are bookcases against the wall visible to the left.
July 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Oooh, I would like to know this if people want to respond (about my creative work OR my teaching, honestly, but around here I think people mostly know the former?):
A little yellow cartoon face with big googly eyes with sparkly hearts on them, with little yellow hands in front of it pointing finger guns at each other. Two tiny red hearts float off to the right. Caption above reads “What do you think is my biggest strength as a creator?”
July 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Feeling cute, just wish my freaking left arm worked… 😭

I got these earrings from @lionesselise.bsky.social’s sale last month and I LOVE them—garnet, base metal charms, mother of pearl, and TEENY TINY rubies. And ofc you know I’m a sucker for a strappy push-up bra 😂
Three photo collage with a wide angle curve to it. Left is a tall vertical close up of a freckled white ear with a dangly earring with silver wire connecting a large dark red round bead, a little black gloved hand charm, a carved mother of pearl monstera leaf, and a tiny rough ruby. Top right is a close up of pink, orange, and yellow fluffy hair with dark brown roots, and bottom right is a downward angled shot of a freckled white woman with short fluffy pink, orange, and yellow hair with dark brown roots in a kind of 70s swoop, large black cateye glasses with lots of clear rhinestone embellishments at the corners and halfway across the tops, and a low cut bright red top with fluttery cap sleeves over a red, pink, green, and black bra with black cross cross straps across the chest. She is wearing a simple silver pentacle necklace and has a silver hexagonal nose ring with a captive bead.
July 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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if you see this, quote repost with a robot that isn’t from star wars, star trek, doctor who, or transformers
EXTREMELY 1970s looking water color painting cover of the Science Fiction Book Club edition of Tanith Lee’s The Silver Metal Lover (1981), featuring a a silver skinned android sitting on a stone staircase. He has short curly bright red hair, is wearing a blue body suit with a green accented v-neck and pink mid calf boots with purple and orange accents, and is playing what looks like a guitar. Leaning her head on the android’s shoulder is a light-skinned woman with long straight brown hair wearing a brown and red vest over a pink mini dress with balloon sleeves and gladiator sandals laced all the way up her legs. In the background are Jetsons-esque glass bubble structures against a pink and silver sky.
July 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Look. All I’m saying is that if I practiced mystical healing arts taught to me in dreams by ghosts & was constantly trying to upsell my clientele on secret tinctures to adjust their humours & such, you could not get FURTHER from the Vibe I would be attempting to achieve in my place of business
A wooden framed sign reading “Smile and smile often. Smile regularly. Smile when you don't feel like it, and you will feel like it when you Smile - BJ. Palmer” That last “smile” is in large cursive handwriting at an angle to the lower right. The sign sits on a darker rustic wood counter in a nondescript bathroom type space.
July 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Okay I gotta say, I think adhesive rhinestones for our protest signs MAY have been a stroke of genius (look, they go to a big city public school, they’re being indoctrinated into anodyne liberal slogans):
A black rectangle sign with iridescent silver letters reading “queer witches 4 bodily autonomy” surrounded by multi-colored gems, with a strip of rainbow gems along the bottom A white teenager with medium length dark curly hair, holding a black sign that says “love is a human right” in silver iridescent letters surrounded by pink gems, many of them heart shaped. A black sign that says “protect trans kids” in multi color bright glittery letters.
June 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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So yesterday those rainbow striped dice I sourced finally arrived—I cannot WAIT to put these in soap!
A cluster of translucent rainbow striped gaming dice with plain white numbers sitting on a reddish blonde wood grain surface. Where the light from the flash hits them, the colors are super bright and vibrant, with excellent clarity; where the light doesn’t hit, they are darker and more muted, sometimes appearing almost black. Slightly down and to the right is a cluster of opaque slightly glossy black dice with kind of medieval/metal white numbers. Looking at the two clusters, it’s clear that the rainbow dice are significantly larger than the black ones. A white hand with a plain silver band on the ring finger, cupping two 20-sided dice. The lower left die is slightly glossy black with white medieval/metal style numbers, while the upper right one is translucent rainbow striped with plain white numbers. The rainbow die is slightly larger although it’s not that easy to tell with just this pair. In the background reddish blonde wood grain and blurred lines of dice are visible. A line of translucent rainbow striped gaming dice with plain white numbers sitting on a reddish blonde wood grain surface. Slightly down and to the right of each die, starting with the d20 and ending with the d4, is its opaque slightly glossy black counterpart with kind of medieval/metal white numbers. Looking at the two lines, it’s clear that the rainbow dice are significantly larger than the black ones, except for the d12 and the d8. Close up of a large translucent rainbow striped soap shaped like a 20-sided die. The embossed numbers are painted with silver; the 13 face is turned toward the viewer, turned sideways. At the vertex bordering the 11 and 5 faces, a distorted d20 is visible inside the soap. Toward the bottom of the 13 face, two more dice, a percentile d10 and a d6, are visible deeper inside the soap.
June 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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SO

The 11yo came home today with this cookie, which she frosted after it broke accidentally to make it look like its head had been chopped off. Did the teacher have any concerns about decapitation being “inappropriate for school”? HAHAHA NO

Friday’s email just got a LOT more pointed, y’all
Paper plate with a bear shaped sugar cookie with the head broken off. The neck at the top of the torso and bottom of the head has been frosted in red, and the eyes have black squiggles on them (they were supposed to be Xs but didn’t turn out). There is a crescent moon cookie frosted in black, white, and red at the upper left (it’s supposed to be a boomerang)
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Oh shit THIS IS IT, just a bunch of angry babies who expected to be the Chosen One at every pursuit they half-assedly attempt demanding we all pretend that the Plagiarism Machine makes it look like they are
GIF of Fry from Futurama standing in front of a grey tiled wall with the caption of “So I really am important? How I feel when I’m drunk is correct?”
June 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.
Still of Adrian Paul as Duncan Macleod in the Highlander tv series, backlit by a small explosion/fire caused by the lightning of the Quickening he is taking, which is still shooting into him and also appears to have blown out a couple of 90s satellite dishes. His head is thrown back and his face isn’t really visible; you can really only tell it’s Duncan Macleod bc the carved handle of his katana is visible, held in his outstretched right arm while his left grasps emptily at the sky. He might be wearing all black (pants, shirt, jacket) or that might just be the aforementioned backlighting. Side note: Man, if 1990s tailored pants didn’t look good on Adrian Paul, on whom DID they look good?
June 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Welp, the common thread here seems to be my big mouth, flamboyant personal style, and general Main Character Syndrome, which, fair. 😂

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Rachel Brosnahan, a white woman with shoulder length curly brown hair wearing a light green collared jacket and mauve cloche hat, standing at a microphone and backlit, as Mrs. Miriam “Midge” Maisel, the titular protagonist of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Retta, a fat Black woman with a shoulder length dark brown straight bob, wearing a fuchsia and black floral patterned top and a turquoise cardigan, smiling wide-eyed into the camera as Donna from Parks and Recreation. Robert Downey Jr., a white man with graying dark brown short gelled hair and Van Dyke mustache/goatee combo, in a red, black, and white body armor esque suit with the Avengers logo on the breast, as Tony Stark. Dan Levy, a white man with shortish dark hair swept back and lightly gelled, heavy dark eyebrows, and visible stubble making the start of a Van Dyke mustache/goatee, wearing a black, grey, and white sweater with a star and zig zag pattern, as David Rose from Schitt’s Creek.
May 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Honestly the best thing about my giant dice soaps selling so well is that I get to make more of them 😂

What gemstone colorway should I do next?
Two large purple, gold, and white soaps, shaped like a d12 (top) & a d20 (bottom). The embossed numerals are unpainted. A large blue, silver, and white d20 shaped soap with unpainted embossed numerals. A second soap in the same color way is cropped out of the upper left, and a green and copper one is cropped out of the upper right. A large d20 shaped soap in shades of green and copper with unpainted embossed numerals. Large d20 & d12 shaped soaps in purple/gold/white on the left and blue/silver/white on the right. The embossed numerals are unpainted.
May 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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At Madison Comic Con at Monona Terrace until 4:30–doors opened at 10 & I’ve already seen some awesome costumes.

Spouse as we headed out: “Wait, you’re wearing a jumpsuit—“
Me, automatically: “SPEEDSUIT.”
Spouse: “Okay, fine, speedsuit, my concern is will you be able to go to the bathroom” (yes)
A white woman with pink hair wearing a KN95 mask with pink roses on it, black cat eye glasses with clear rhinestone embellishments, a green beaded necklace, a black velvet & tulle witch hat, and a low cut black velvet top with a decorative boob strap visible. Behind her is a display of black spray bottles and a sign listing item prices.
May 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM