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The Witcher 3 remains the most accurate representation of witchcraft, herbalism, and potion brewing I’ve seen yet in a video game.

All the herbs? Real things, or near enough. Their uses in the game? Are their uses IRL, with of course the addition of some of their more occult uses. And the potions? You brew them with strong alcohol, which is precisely how you brew tinctures IRL. Some of the methods of curse breaking or divination? Spot fucking on. 

And of course, the names of the runestones are real things, or at least many of them are. Perun? The god of thunder and lightning. Svarog? The rune you use to improve your ability to strike through armor? The god of fire and blacksmithing. It goes on like that. 

CD Projekt Red did their fucking research. But then of course, they are Polish, and many of the Slavic countries still have a strong tradition of folk witchcraft that’s an integral part of daily life yet. 

Still. It’s a delight to play, though I wish you could see more diversity, and places such as Zerrikania.

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Bog, what's the creepiest sea animal you can think of? Besides dolphins, of course.

That absolutely goes to Stygiomedusa gigantea (most photos by mbari:)

It doesn’t sting but the thought of this flowing, blind, black gelatinous being slowly flying through the vastness of the deep sea abyss is awe-inspiringly haunting

Especially because it gets thirty feet long

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FINALLY FINISHED SOMETHING YES. Kinda finished. I mean, it’s asfar as I intended this piece to go it’s nowhere near perfectly polished and rendered and ehhhhh....

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Today I hate everyone and everything, just a little bit. Everything is worthy of a thin layer of loathing lately. I should draw. I keep forgetting to eat.

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honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

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Cognitive Biases. Which of these are you familiar with?

[MY Psychology ]

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Jade Mere on Tumblr and Society6

See our ‘artists on Tumblr’ tag

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SAIID KOBEISY RTW SPRING-SUMMER 2015

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You didn’t need your heart today, right? Good.

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Fun Facts About Honey

- Honey is mostly sugar (WoW!) it is 80% sugar and 20% water (double WoW!)

- There are over 20,000 species of bees, but only 4 make HONEY

-Honey is the ONLY food that contains all the substances you need to survive (Including WATER)

-Children under the age of 1 should not eat honey… why? because sometimes it contains bad stuff called botulism and can cause them to get botulism poisoning (that sucks, even infants should taste the deliciousness that is honey)

-Honey will crystallize under optimum temperatures (this has a lot to do with how you store it)

-Bees produce honey to eat during the winter when there are no flowers and no nectar for them.

-A honeybee would only need an ounce of honey to be able to fuel a flight around the world (this makes for a very cultural bee!)

-A typical beehive can make up to 400 pounds of honey a year! (Wowza!)

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Rebecca Yanovskaya x INPRNT.

The glowing, amazing work of artist Rebecca Yanovskaya is all available as fine art prints in her INPRNT Shop!

This is a sponsored post by INPRNT (Don’t miss them on Tumblr!) but I’m still choosing and writing about the artists :)

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Food and maneater jokes.

I feel as if

I ought to make a list of all the inside or common jokes new readers are meant to know. It’s getting rather complicated.

Contribute. I cannot list them all myself.

I can say:

My battle with Siri. My dealings with spawn. Puns. But what else?

I cannot think of any, though I know there are more.

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“Metamorphosis” is now on my Society6 ! 

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...wait what.

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That moment when the Toronto edition of Metro thinks that the Elvish alphabet Tengwar, used to write Tolkien’s made-up language Quenya, is in fact used to write Scottish Gaelic …