#different superstitions

[cam-the-orange-cat]

It's more common than you think. People are very wary and distrustful, and it's easy to buy into conspiracies when those theories are being perpetuated by people you consider educated and reputable. And especially if they're your boss. Quite a few of my medical field coworkers were antivax.

As a whole, though, my coworkers were incredibly superstitious. To some degree, I compare it to the level of superstition that professional athletes and sailors experience. But it's a whole new level listening to a surgeon explain how he got his surgery room Spotify playlist curated and blessed by his dog's psychic. That particular interaction lives rent free in my head to this day.

Whatever your position about the vax, I just want you to know that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[chysgoda]

Random FFXIV headcannon:

In Eorzea heterochromia is considered to be a sign that a child has a grand destiny of some kind. This is possibly why the adventurers guild has so many memebers with heterochromia.

[15-lizards]

hello hannah my beloved!!! i was wondering, do you have any thoughts on marriage/wedding costumes for the different regions? embroidery, colours, etc? we have the cloak of course, but would dorne follow this tradition too, considering it's so hot, would they use sheer material? does the bedding ceremony (and subsequent tearing of the dress...eugh) affect the choice of dress? kisses my wonderful friend from the puter 🫶

Ur in luck my dearest wife bc I’ve done a few wedding posts here and here and here already

Colors as symbols is Very Important to me. Black in Dorne bc in ancient Egypt black was a good and lucky color, used to represent fertility in such a dry arid place. Green often used in the north as another sign of spring and fertility. Riverlanders using multiple natural dyes in their dresses bc representative of blooming flowers :) Gold used by the upper classes so they can look more like they were blessed by the Maiden. White is fine for purity symbolism but I hate hate hate all white wedding dresses in medieval fantasy bc They Would Not Wear That Shit

Girls from all over the country probably embroider their dresses with their mothers and sisters and aunts and grandmothers. Every woman lends a hand in the coming of age of another. Maybe in the north the family matriarch gives them basically a Rushynk to wear around their neck during the wedding for happiness and protection. Many many traditions of being gifted something by your mother or elder sister or other female family member to have during the wedding and bring with you to your new home as a symbol of having a lifeline back to your family

[fictionadventurer]

Reasons I want to write a version of Jane Eyre that ends with Jane becoming a nun

She's used to living in an all-female community with basic attire

She has academic and artistic interests

She's religious

She needs a better religion than whatever Helen Burns had going on

She wouldn't have to marry Rochester

It would piss off Charlotte Bronte

[ifindus]

Culture - for the second day of @hetalia-rarepairweek ✨

I have recently been told about the British superstition of magpies and how of saluting magpies will ward off bad luck. The saluting is to show respect to the bird often connected with bad omens so that nothing bad will happen to you 🍂

[taegularities]

some men are textbook villains fr

[cosmiado]

alright y'all i want your thoughts. do we think Hermie is superstitious??? because i could see it going either way. on the one hand, with how seriously he takes theater, its VERY funny to picture some unaware freshman mentioning Macbeth and then getting side tackled by this scrawny ass joker bucko, but on the other hand, we know how dedicated to scams he is. part of me thinks he would find some hidden spot with good acoustics and just start whistling and slowly drive everyone wild

[sygiandepths]

The urge to make a bestiary of my object species and subspecies grgghrhgrhggg

[basaltbutch]

i love the little religions long-term travelers create.

[miralyk]

sorry for coming off as passive aggressive with that recent ask wrt the asian aspects (i'm mostly lighthearted but to be honest i am a little tired though), but,, yeah idk how to put this in words, especially for something that literally originated from art specifically made between two asian people who "get it", to people who aren't asian LMAO

asian superstition like ancestral spirits, hungry ghosts, urban legends, etc, even if you don't believe in them, can have more Acknowledgement and Presence in some asian people's daily lives, like festivals like lunar new years or mid-autumn festival being celebrated, attending a funeral even if you don't believe in ghosts, things like avoiding walking under ladders out of habit even if you don't believe in superstitions, etc!

superstitions and acknowledging spirits (especially ancestral spirits and hungry ghosts) rooted from asian mythology/superstition are just... a part of life? it's something we're accustomed to and thus why i and my friend joked w asian ghost veneration stuff. if this analogy makes sense, being rude to asian people demanding we explain why we’re making jokes about asian superstition is like being rude to someone drawing something as contemporary and common as a coffee shop au bc you personally aren't from a culture/area/etc with coffee shops LMAO

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

+ tag where you're from!!

[ohfugecannada]

Oddworld species idea: creature whose mothers lay their eggs among Mudokon egg clutches like how Cuckoos and other parasitic birds lay thier eggs in bird nests. the young superficially resemble Mudokons in their baby/adolescent/teenage stage until adulthood where they metamorphisize into a far larger, stronger and more messed up looking creature.

[keydekyie]

In Ruyak's old community, did they have any superstitions?

There's a blurry line between superstition and good practice. For example, Kanai don't have much knowledge of insect varieties or their purposes, but they're very aware that trees and plants can suffer from blights under certain management practices, and that having a variety of flowering/fruiting plants makes for a healthier forest. They don't know what pollinators are, which insects make honey, which insects decompose wood and detritus, or which insects bite. But they do know that certain plants attract insects for some reason, and others repel them, and that harvests are better when insect activity is at a certain balance.

So I'd say that given that, they have MANY superstitions, but they tend to be rooted in experience. It might seem silly for Kanai to have rules about not treading on the north side of a fen grove in spring (killing insect larva), not getting one's feet dusty in fall (fungi spores), or not eating carnivores without cooking them (parasites), but it all makes sense if you think about it.

[qrevo]

got curious and looked at the MILGRAM # on twitter. sorted by latest. worst mistake of my life 💀💀

[bucephaly]

Love seeing an argument on my dash where both sides are kinda stupid

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

sorta metal