#different superstitions
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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
#i have no explanation#i dont remember what was on it specifically#but im pretty sure this one was his heavy metal playlist#which like#kudos to that dog psychic#but also#what#and thats just the beginning of my stories in this regard#also#different medical focuses#different superstitions#the superstitions of the orthopedics and the gastroenterologists are completely different flavors of zodiac shenanigans#i have learned so much#and yet at the same time#so little#lmao
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Put your hands together in prayer for me, ladies--I'm about to submit my first application for a full-time permanent grown-up academic job
#where i'm at in terms of job thoughts right now is: i'm just going to apply for things that might work#and let God and the search committees take it from there#there's two that i would really like for different reasons#and two that are just like fine and one that's fully not going to happen but i'm still gonna try for it#for idk. spite? superstition?#anyway. it's quite dizzying and i mean my brain is dizzy from the amount of things to do#also there's a conference paper that needs to be done and edited ideally by thursday morning ...#and i have 2.5 very bad pages (of 10 needed)#all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well!#why am i always doing really momentous things when i'm exhausted and busy and dressed weird#(i had a cute jumper [dress] on but i ditched it so now i'm vaguely shakespearean in leggings#and a very billowy shirt. and a college hoodie that clashes)
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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
#asoiaf hair and clothing#asoiaf#could talk ab weddings all day but I will need to make like a masterpost with twelve different sections and thirty different subsections#half of which are on the use of traditions and superstitions in weddings#the other half about color symbolism
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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 🍂
#hetalia#rarepairweek2023#hetalia-rarepairweek#scotnor#aph norway#aph scotland#hws norway#hws scotland#this should perhaps have been under day 4 with folklore??? but it fit okay with today as well ig#felt like playing around with colours and the autumn vibes going on atm 🥰🥰#the magpies were surprisingly fun to draw - I usually suck at drawing animals but birds are okay#So fun how different countries will have these kind of superstitions that are so specific and other countries won't have heard about#I wonder what things we do in Norway that's Norway-specific 🤔🤔#I need to read up on all my books about superstitions and folklore 😅😅 this is def the season for it
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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.
#ffxiv#ffxiv randomness#it’s like a trivia superstition#everyone knows it but it doesn’t actually affect to much#red head has a thought#inspired by the number of WoLs with different colored eyes
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#cylas speaks#optional add your country or region it whatever#i read that it's bad luck in Greece and Russia and Germany to say early#but opposite in... china?#poll#polls#tumblr poll#tumblr polls#birthday poll#random polls#cultural differences#superstition#superstitions#superstitious beliefs#cultural beliefs
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some men are textbook villains fr
#tw religion?#kinda need to rant.. kinda wanna explain what's going on#some ppl are part of humanity but don't know how to be humane... like the guy i started talking to almost 2 weeks ago#liked him a lot bc he was funny sickeningly sweet mature and understanding.. until he was not#tl dr version is that we somehow drifted to the topic religion and i told him im not too religious and don't believe in superstition much#i was extremely respectful and even when he said that he does believe a lot i was like 'thats cool!! different people believe in different#things!!' and at first it was a normal convo until man went all psycho on me (after one damn week!!!) and started talking about how#id have to be religious in a relationship with him.. my dude i barely know your fav food can we not talk about relationships yet#but he says he doesn't even need a woman who cooks/cleans just someone who believes.. n im like i get it but i can't change myself like that#and then guy moves to marriage and is all 'well my entire family is religious' n my mom and sister (who's 16) would be putting pressure on#you n force you to pray etc.. and I'm like???? who can force anyone to a thing like that are u kidding#things escalate and my absolute STUPID ass tells him about my deepest fkn trauma to explain what made me abandon religion bc#life just never got better and this trauma remained for yrs... and he gets so angry that he says he wants to stop talking to me just to spam#me all day next day.. he'd keep messaging me switching between 'i still want you we shouldn't throw this away i have feelings for you'#AFTER A WEEEEEEKKKK!!! and then goes back to 'i wasted my time with you you were so unnecessary im in a bad mood bc of you'#even said 'you'll never find a guy with a trauma and mindset like this. i will find a religious girl but no one will love you like that'#and the worst thing is that he told his friends and mom about the trauma i had just to spite me.. note that he promised to never tell anyone#(and then still asked for forgiveness and for me to rethink whether we want to end this after telling me 473626x he wanted to end it)#(nothing even ever started you bitchass)#also note that his mom knows my mom n basically most of my relatives.. so i was here trembling for days fearing they'd get to know about it#mom somehow convinced her to not tell anyone bc it's important to me and very very fucking personal..#but he harassed me all day - i wouldn't answer and he'd send 55 messages.. multiple missed calls like dude i got so fkn scared#my heart jumped whenever he texted he was so fkn aggressive and SO MEAN#'you just needed to adjust and we would've been okay' 'tell me are u gonna fkn be religious or not????' 'you ruined everything' kinda mean#i just :') it was the worst time and i don't think i've ever seen someone degrade me so much or make me feel this defective#but.. it's finally over. his mom called my mom and mine was like pls teach him some manners.. n since i couldn't and wouldn't text him back#and literally avoided whatsapp bc of him she ended it all for me and now it's hopefully done forever#anyway i saw jks gcf performance yday n him singing still with you put a genuine smile on my face.. ill stick to THAT boyfriend honestly lol#def gonna delete later#but ty for reading if u did <3
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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
#i NEED to know what the venn diagram of Hermie enjoyers and current/former theater people is#also i wanna know what weird superstition rules different productions have#my high school theater teacher used to make* kids run around the building (its not very big) if they whistled in the theater#*not like actually MADE them but shed tell them to and they usually did#we also knocked on wood a lot#i was the little asshole who would walk up to a friend during a performance and whisper “Macbeth” into their ear#because i think that's stupid but also i knew people would get actually genuinely angry at me if they knew i said it#anyway. hs theater is WILD#dndads#dndads s2#hermie the unworthy#hermposting
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Ryan:
Shane: *white judgement*
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We Investigated The Hinsdale House • Ghost Files Debrief (~31m55s)
#watcher#ghost files#ghost files debrief#ryan bergara#shane madej#lizzie lockard#¤#we asians have so many different cultures and superstitions and ghost stories man
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The urge to make a bestiary of my object species and subspecies grgghrhgrhggg
#updated my app since its been the 2023 August version#its easier to use that version thats why i keep on replying with my alt#mawkish pie#<- needs a name but I've settled on mawkish cuz my old url used to be mawkishly#but i want to catalog my species. memory issues so bad I'm starting to forget some...very irritating haha!#2022 aug version rgh typo#things work alot different in nargelia though. esp superstition and spritual concepts
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i love the little religions long-term travelers create.
#it speaks#traveler's religions. superstitions. sometimes they spread sometimes it's just one person who believes in it#hodgepodge of different beliefs all cobbled together into something new#good luck charms and rituals and brushes with death#you know how it is
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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
#THERE'S A REASON I SPECIFICALLY DREW GHOSTLY WISPS (A COMMON ASIAN DEPICTION AND SYMBOL OF SPIRITS) LIKE LMAO#i don't know if i'm conveying what i mean properly but like. yeah it's just cultural differences between us but please don't be rude y'know#i'm more than happy to ramble about superstitions esp being both asian and living in western society that treat ghosts differently but... h#text
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+ tag where you're from!!
#saw a reel where this woman was trying on dresses to wear to a wedding#and she had a red one and said she couldn't wear it bc of this which i had NEVER heard before#and then one of the dresses was black??? which i thought was a common wedding superstition#also my friend used to work in a clothing shop and she told me abt serving americans who were shopping for a wedding#and the woman bought a black dress for it? so i guess it's not a universal superstition#anyway am interested what the superstitions are in other countries bc i bet there are different ones everywhere#🧃#polls#pinkie's polls
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so ive been trying to wrap my head around what the more supernatural aspects of the world should look like, because ive been trying to think of ways to intertwine it with the rest of the setting (ironic, considering the importance of it)
but im thinking maybe at least i should start by leaning into more aspects around death, with thorough funerary rites and rituals created to combat post-death monstrosities,,
#monstrosities ranging from “can make you sick” to “will rise from the grave and kill you”#hmmmmm hmhmhm#maybe the integration with the setting comes with the funerary rites actually#the cats have an incomplete understanding of the supernatural so the way they interact with it#is limited by how little they able to know about monsters#and so maybe sometimes there is no difference from an animal or a monster in some cases#just all a matter of perspective#i need to read about death superstitions Immediately
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anyway a different sneaky plan worked out in that i was able to find old listing photos of my dream house and ough..... i need her .....
#she was last sold in 2018 but maybe by the time ive made my millions (through directing or winning the lottery or some other scheme)#she'll be for sale again. we can dream#realizing 2018 was six years ago and not like. 2. thats scary#but anyway i like this house a lot. good kitchen. could be bigger but its workable#built in bookshelves in the huge living room. thats for dvds babey#no pictures of the 2 bedrooms n bathrooms . come on man i need to know what storage space we're working with#very nice little outside pool area thats surrounded by bushes n plants. i like that.#one day ill learn how to swim so my pool will not be redundant#its nice. id love to see a floor plan but alas#this is a different house from that house in palm springs that was furnished to the max with gaudy 70s furniture and decor#that one is really fun. but its also way the hell out in palm springs#this house however is in the hollywood hills. ish . but the great thing about is that its down this private drive#and you cant even see it on google images. very secret i like that . im hidden away from the world#another thing going for this house is a silly little superstition ive inherited from my dad#multiple times in his life hes lived at places where the numbers in the address have added up to his lucky number (day of birth)#where we live now adds up to 13 which explains a lot#but this house the numbers add up to my lucky number. yay#anyway this is all very hypothetical but i have nothing else to do with my time (<- guy that could be doing far more productive things)
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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.
#oddworld#mudokon#mudokons#cuckoo bird#birds#Oddworld fan species#I imagine they’d be more common in native mudokon tribes#industrial societies would probably dismiss the existence of them as tribal superstition#…until a slig guard or two notices one of thier mudokon slaves acting off… maybe even looking a bit different…#until they learn the hard way not to dismiss “tribal superstition far too late.
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