#folklore

[stillgotscars]

you guys… “don’t read the last page, but i stay / when you’re lost, and i’m scared, and you’re turning away” -> “i knew you / tried to change the ending / peter losing wendy” -> “lost to the lost boys chapter of your life / forgive me, peter, please know that i tried to hold on to the days when you were mine”… i’m unwell

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jozef Van Lerius (1823-1876) "Lady Godiva" (1870) Oil on panel Located in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

[deansbisexualflannel]

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each era as its own poster ✨

part 1

[filurig]

some stuff involving non sapient creatures in pareidolia, first image is some animals that tomtar have domesticated, second is a remake of gloson, which is a vätte but is, contrary to most other ones ive made, not a sophont and is instead domesticated by trolls. more info below the cut...

ive already talked about the tomteget in another post, so i wont go into detail about them here, but the one shown in the picture is gullmar's goat (and he is there as well as ucan see). tomtar also keep a domesticated breed of wolverine and ermine, used for some different purposes - wolverines more as guarding/herding animals and ermines to hunt. tomtar don't actually tend to hunt a lot of large prey at all, and what they do hunt is sort of limited as a lot of game birds are sacred to them due to folklore (basically ptarmigans, corvids, grouses, capercailles and things in those veins..). therefore despite how small ermines are they can hunt most of the quarry they prefer such as hares, ducks etc - especially bcs the tomte variety of ermine is bred to be a bit larger and more robust. they can also just be kept as companion animals for many tomtar. wolverines meanwhile serve well as guarding and herding animals due to their size and strength. there is a notable regiment of wolverine fighters in the midlands front - where interested tomtar are trained for combat utilizing the power of the wolverine - the one pictured though is a regular herding/guarding animal though. there are probably some smaller tomte hunting groups that try to go for bigger game with them such as wolves etc. but its definitely pretty unusual. tomteget goats are basically universal across tomte cultures, but the tomte wolverines and ermines are a bit more limited, more occuring in northern cultures historically. although as time goes on they have been spread further south, especially as the midlands front was established and increased the communicative network between different disparate tomte societies. 2. this is just a remake of the gloson from that older post bcs i wasnt really happy with the design - its a laaaaarge animal but didnt really feel like it proportionally bcs i stuck too closely to the normal eu swine proportions... things are mostly the same about them though. the orange parts of the horns glow!

[comparativetarot]

Fire Elemental. Art by Kaitlund Zupanic, from the 78 Tarot 10th Anniversary Deck.

[truthdarespinbottles]

The Eras Tour Costumes: Alberta Ferretti folklore/evermore gown in yellow with crystal embroidery

[wieczorynka]

Dziwny świat kota Filemona, odcinek 13. Miejsce na zapiecku

[tswiftupdatess]

‘folklore’ now ranks among the top 10 most streamed female albums on Spotify. x

Surpassing reputation!

[andichoseyou]

Eras Tour surprise songs parallels

February 25, 2024—Sydney, Australia: Haunted / exile (mashup)

[weirdheadcanons]

Fic Idea

Okay, I kinda ended up stumbling into another Batfam series idea...

Love the Baby Robins trope, but of course, if you actually think about it it is horrifying to have a twelve year old investigating serial killers in Gotham...

So currently I'm more or less coming up with Supernatural Batfam ideas to cancel out the child soldier angle of Robin.

I wanted a series idea where Bruce is actually doing the right thing - or at least, choosing the least damaging option - by making the kids Robins.

So, this one.

In Indian folklore, it is believed that those who die an unjust death can come back as Other.

Which flavor of Other can vary, going from vampiric ghosts to local gods.

The usual pattern in the lore is that, those who die unjust deaths - especially if they died young - come back vengeful, dangerous.

Deadly. Not just to the ones who wronged them, but to everyone. They are furious, destructive, lashing out at every living thing.

So when someone comes back like that, the local people begin to try and pacify them. Give them offerings. Pray to them. That goes on long enough, the Other becomes benevolent. Becomes a local guardian spirit instead of vengeful demon.

Basically you deal with a destructive Other by literally taming them with love.

Thinking about how this can fit Gotham Rogues.

A lot of them had tragic pasts. Pasts that could very well have killed them.

So the Rogues can be the vengeful Others. Jack Napier who died falling into that chemical vat, Harleen Quinzel killed by a trigger happy cop during an Arkham Breakout when she was trying to protect her patients, Harvey Dent dying after the acid attack, etc.

Batman starts out hunting the vengeful Others, wanting to lock them away forever (Arkham has special units which work better than normal cells would but not good enough), but his method of dealing with Others has to change when he sees the Graysons die.

Dick falls too. And unlike his parents, he won't move on, becoming an Other... on the way to becoming one of the vengeful Others, one of the demons.

Bruce can't lock a child away in Arkham - even an Other child.

So he and Alfred basically calls in every contact they have, trying to figure out some way to prevent the kid from turning into one of the haunters.

And finds out it is possible for an Other to become a guardian spirit, if enough positive emotions are directed their way. Love and worship.

Hence, Robin.

The Light of Gotham. Adorable, popular. Hero-worshipped.

Turning from vengeance to Guardian spirit...

[ancientorigins]

As ambiguous as she is hideous, Baba Yaga is an anomaly – both a maternal, mother-nature figure and an evil villain who enjoys eating those who fail to complete her tasks.

[florencewellch]

A tale that becomes folklore is one that is passed down and whispered around. Sometimes even sung about. The lines between fantasy and reality blur and the boundaries between truth and diction become almost indiscernible. Speculation, over time, becomes fact. Myths, ghost stories, and fables. Fairytales and parables. Gossip and legend. Someone's secrets written in the sky for all to behold.In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result, a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness. Picking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history, and memory. I've told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder, and whimsy they deserve. Now it's up to you to pass them down.

folklore (2020) - Redesign

[summerineras]

SUMMER IN ERAS: A SEASONAL SWIFTIE EVENT FOR THE AGES!

hi! this is the blog for a new event made by swifties, for swifties, called the SUMMER IN ERAS. the summer in eras is a 12 week long event meant to bring everyone together and discuss each and every era.

here's how this works: each of the 12 weeks is for an era, from debut to ttpd. the last week is for the eras tour! we have weekly days on almost every day of the week, and we'll be doing events in the second half of this event, the discord server!

the discord server will have events and will just be a place for tumblr swifties to come together and chat. we also plan to have competition and games going on in the server. stay tuned for that!!!

we hope you'll join us this summer and partake in the fun! more info will be coming soon. the estimated start date is ~june 2nd :)

reblog this please!! we want as many people as we can for this!!

[comparativetarot]

Air Elemental. Art by Amélia Leonards, from the 78 Tarot 10th Anniversary Deck.

[booksmartstreetdummy]

🍓☕