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mirrorbuck · 8 months ago

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9-1-1 characters as sharks❕🦈

As a shark nerd, I had to. Enjoy! :)

1 - ✭ Bobby ; angel shark

• They spend most of their time hiding in mud and dust

2 - ✭ Athena ; leopard shark

• Their rough skin makes it hard for stuff to settle on them.

3 - ✭ May ; zebra shark

• As they mature, their stripes fade and then become small dark spots, which is why they are often mistaken for leopard sharks

4 - ✭ Hen ; mako shark

• They are very fast and smart sharks

5 - ✭ Karen ; silky shark

• They have a great hearing

6 - ✭ Chimney ; spiny dogfish shark

• They’re quite small

7 - ✭ Maddie ; blue shark

• They will attack if they feel threatened

8 - ✭ Daniel ; whale shark

• Only 10% of whale sharks make it to adulthood

9 - ✭ Buck ; lemon shark

• They are very loyal to their home, are highly social and can be jealous of other lemon sharks. They’ve also been known to help out humans who are lost and in danger

10 - ✭ Eddie ; white tip shark

• They swim away when swimmers or divers approach

11 - ✭ Ravi ; nurse shark

• Really friendly and social

12 - ✭ Albert ; bluntnose six gills shark

• Their ability to handle a variety of temperatures and depths allows them to go wherever they like

13 - ✭ Lucy ; megalodon

• There’s still a lot we don’t know about them

14 - ✭ Josh ; horn shark

• They have a tough exterior and sharp spines to protect themselves

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The end 🦈🌊 Thank you for reading <3

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icewindandboringhorror · 9 months ago

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examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

#BEGONE!!! *wizard beam blast leaving a black smoking crater in the middle of the tumblr dashboard*#I think another downside to everyone doing everything on phone apps on shitty tiny screens nowadays is the inability to really see details #of an image and thus its easier to share BLATANTLY fake things like.. even 'good' ai art has pretty obvious tells at this point #but especially MOST of it is not even 'good' and will have details that are clearly off or lines that dont make sense/uneven (like the imag #of a house interior and in the corner there's a cabinet and it has handles as if it has doors that open but there #are no actual doors visible. or both handles are slightly different shapes. So much stuff that looks 'normal' at first glance #but then you can clearly tell it's just added details with no intention or thought behind it. a pattern that starts and then just abruptly #doesn't go anywhere. etc. etc. )#the same thing with how YEARS ago when I followed more fashion type blogs on tumblr and 'colored hair' was a cool ''''New Thing''' instead #of being the norm now basically. and people would share photos of like ombre hair designs and stuff that were CLEARLY photoshop like #you could LITERally see the coloring outside of the lines. blurs of color that extend past the hair line to the rest of the image #or etc. But people would just share them regardless and comment like 'omg i wish I could do this to my hair!' or 'hair goallzzzz!! i #wonder what salon they went to !!' which would make me want to scream and correct them everytime ( i did not lol)#hhhhhhggh... literally view the image on anything close to a full sized screen and You Will SEe #I don't know why it's such a pet peeve of mine. I think just as always I'm obsessed with the reality and truth of things. most of the thing #that annoy me most about people are situations in which people are misinterpreting/misunderstanding how something works or having a misconc #eption about somehting thats easily provable as false or etc. etc. Even if it's harmless for some random woman on facebook to believe that #this AI generated image of a cat shaped coffee machine is actually a real product she could buy somewhere ... I still urgently #wish I could be like 'IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION. YOU SEE???? ITS NOT REALL!!!!! AAAAA' hjhjnj #Like those AI shoes that went around for a while with 1000000s of comments like 'omg LOVE these where can i get them!?' and it's like YOU #CANT!!! YOU CANT GET THEM!!! THEY DONT EXIST!!! THE EYELETS DONT EVEN LINE UP THE SHOES DONT EVEN #MATCH THE PATTERNS ARE GIBBERISH!! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THEY ARE NOT REAL!??!!' *sobbing in the rain like in some drama movie*#Sorry I'm a pedantic hater who loves truth and accuracy of interpretation and collecting information lol #I think moreso the lacking of context? Like for example I find the enneagram interesting but I nearly ALWAYS preface any talking about it #with ''and I know this is not scientifically accurate it's just an interesting system humans invented to classify ourselve and our traits #and I find it sociologically fascinating the same way I find religion fascinating'. If someone presented personality typing information wit #out that sort of context or was purporting that enneagram types are like 100% solid scientific truth and people should be classified by the #unquestionaingly in daily life or something then.. yeah fuck that. If these images had like disclaimers BIG in the image description somewh #re like 'this is not a real thing it's just an AI generated image I made up' then fine. I still largely disagree with the ethics behind AI #art but at least it's informed. It's the fact that people just post images w/o context or beleive a falsehood about it.. then its aAAAAAA

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queencaramilflinda · 2 years ago

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Everyone during neverafter 15: oh my god these social interactions are going horribly they’re all doing so bad!

Me, neurodivergent and cannot read social cues: idk mostly these seem fine

#like… Pinocchio overshared for sure #but I didn’t think the rest of them were too bad? like they rolled poorly yes but the actual conversations went fine? I thought?#i at least didn’t think they were as bad as everyone else seems to think #like… with ylfa. when you are a young girl and you meet an older woman who is Like You and successful you are drawn to that #her questions didn’t seem invalid if a bit personal #like ‘how did this happen to u? how do u find the answers and the strength to be successful when your like this the way we are now?’#that was fair to ask! there was a moment before that where they even clocked eachother as beasts! and then ylfa asked about Pib #which seemed fine to me. like she was genuinely asking advice and she got shutdown with like a one word answer #I feel like la bête did worse in that interaction than ylfa did #none of the stuff with gerard was really his fault within that interaction. Brennan surprised Murph with the read the cards outloud thing #he handled it the best he could under the circumstances #Pib did great. Pinocchio overshared but his intentions and actual words were sweet! traumabonding!#Rosamund did great! she was kind and she said what she wanted like yeah! not too bad!#i don’t think Ally intended to actually put dirt in the cookies Brennan kind of pushed that and I don’t think a lot of what he said was bad #I think ally could’ve handled it better in the sense that they could’ve just told the truth and been vague abt the questions being abt #the book but the stuff about being so overly nice and a bit unnerving seemed like an accurate and not very offensive way of putting it #even before they knew about the nihilistic princess cabal stuff they thought rapunzel was creepy #cienna talks #neverafter

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raiiny-bay · 11 months ago

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updated my simself specifically to make this

#i've actually been wanting to do a render of me & the boys for a while #but i hate that kelly is taller than me #like. the audacity of him yk #but also i just can't find an accurate hair for myself #i'm just gonna have to learn how to make stuff bc kel & i both need proper curly hair #n e way. i had the urge to try my hand at animation again so. that's probably what i'll be doing in my free time for a bit #kel's birthday & the boys' 10 year anniversary is in april so i gotta plan something fun for that at some point #i realize that's still a couple of months away but #i have no idea what i want to do for either of those yet & i would really like to plan ahead #i'm not much of a plan ahead kind of person #rainyrambles #dl maybe

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hollowsart · 4 months ago

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-cracks knuckles-

I don't have twitter and I've never drawn a Miku before in my life, but I adore that trend happening rn and wanna drop down my two cents, so let's go with the research to make a Hatsune Miku: but she is from my family (hard to explain, but it's absolutely Texan)

#ghostie mumbles #looking up some native american jewelry from the ones in my genealogy to be accurate and true #as well as merging it with some casual wear and subtle cowboy stuff.#culture stuff for me and my family is very lowkey and more in what you'd see as little details scattered around the house--#--and houses of my relatives. so this is gonna be a very tame Miku but it's gonna be a nice little depiction of my heritage n stuff #I am going to have at least 1 piece of jewelry that represents the native american tribe sin my genealogy which is..#tbh.. as close as I am with that side of me. I'm so far removed that my physical features are so subtle you'd have to look closely to see i #everything I know came from my grandma on my dad's side and the powwows we have gone to when I was younger before they all--#--kinda.. stopped happening and moved to the big one called 'red earth' which is out of state for me #I liked the small ones.. the smells. the food. the music. getting to see the regalia of dancers.. the beautiful art and jewelry and trinket #--and figures you could buy.. it was always so nice getting to go.#at least the state fair has some stalls dedicated to native american artists who craft and sell similar things #one thing they don't have tho is the fry bread. and now I really want some. :(#ANYWAYS Gonna mark down the jewelry and the tribe name next to it as I find it and get that noted before moving on with everything else #I wanna make her look cute and interesting. will also definitely be looking into hairstyles and clothing. taking inspo from my own family #all this just for a dumb miku drawing #I do my best to try and do research for my pieces!!!! mostly.

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mechanichuntsman · 9 months ago

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some small comparison

(they're not all accurate and some may be missing some stuff because I have enough/am too tired + this old and I just finished it recently)

bedroom

living room

kitchen

#and the basement? NOTHING #I probably gave up on the basement a long time because I couldn't find some stuff for it ToT #but yeah here are some comparison to the old session that I almost abandoned it #it may look shitty but man I must say #young me is impressive for almost trying to get it accurate #also there's barely any lighting because I recreated the last scene where Ranboo and Charlie found the set #(while I finished the bedroom ToT)#don't know if I want to post the full one soon but am just gonna drop the comparisons for now #(and man I got worse with the lighting)#//#sfm #source filmmaker #generation loss #gen loss #references #comparisons #(and yes am posting this to my alt blog xdd)#one of the weakest tbh but heyyy #also I know genloss its kind of deadd but I still love it and jsut really want to finish this q-q))

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vshushmshu · 3 months ago

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starting b.r. chopra’s mahabharat after years of being afraid of the family tree .wish me luck chat

#kam bol vishu #i want to know all the stories and stuff but also #fear #i always just stuck to the ramayan as a kid cause it was easier for me to comprehend #and i was hyperfixated on hanuman cause i thought he was the coolest (still do)#LMAOO #but yeah #hopefully krishna shows up some time soon and makes everything awesome sauce #i know that most of these serials and dramas and stuff are more just d r a m a than anything and aren’t really fully accurate #but i think i’ve spent too long making excuses not to start learning about it already so i’ll just find the most accurate version of it #that i can .at some point later down the line #quora had some indian guy that made some pretty good points to dive in at as well #i wanna read the amar chitra katha comics so bad ……….#we will get there chat #just gotta start learning bit by bit

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artsy-dreamer · 10 months ago

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Some fun facts and tidbits from “Where Am I Meow?”

Snowball’s favorite goodies are warm and fluffy things to snuggle with

Smokey’s favorite goodies are moving toys and mouse toys

Ginger’s favorite goodies are boxes and tents to hide in

Mack’s favorite goodies are noisy moving toys

Pickles’ favorite goodie is the Head Space

Patches’ favorite goodie is the Cardboard House

Spots loves tunnels, but gets stuck in them sometimes

Callie, Tabitha, Misty and Pickles all spend lots of time napping

Fred is a friendly and good-looking kitty who’s popular with everyone

Callie likes to take a long, leisurely walk down the same path every day

Gabriel is a routine-oriented cat who always likes to visit the fish market at the same time every day for some fish scraps

Marshmallow enjoys jumping in your lap and stepping on your book when you’re trying to read

Bolt is a gluttonous little kitty who travels from house to house looking for some tasty morsels

Breezy is an observant kitty who often notices things that no one else does

Princess is a nature-loving cat who enjoys playing on the beach in summer, and goes up on a hill to catch some sun during other seasons

Willie is a very smart kitty who can sense how you’re feeling

Joe DiMeowgio is holding a megaphone, not a baseball bat

Bob the Cat comes from a family of mountaineers who climb peaks all over the world

The book is pro-Tubbs and reminds you that letting Tubbs finish sleeping will earn you a generous gift of fish

Mr. Meowgi’s owner runs a souvenir shop, and he earns his keep by carving wooden sculptures to sell in the shop and keeping his owner’s floor cushion warm

Lady Meow-Meow is a famous cat model

The pizza Guy Furry makes is topped with many different kinds of fish

Kathmandu loves to write poetry about all the beautiful and colorful things he sees

Xerxes IX looks like some king of… somewhere, but we may never know where, because apparently a chunk of text in his description somehow got deleted and the proofreader didn’t catch it XD

#neko atsume #where am I meow #one of only two books to be released in English… I believe it’s still available to buy if you want to see more :D #it’s mostly a look-and-find book and all this info is toward the back of the book… and it comes with stickers too :3 #the info is worded a bit differently and this isn’t all of it… but it is a pretty good chunk #I wanted to just add stuff I thought was interesting enough to put in a post but I may have gotten a little carried away XD #a few of the cats are implied or confirmed to have owners (like mr meowgi obviously) but they didn’t all feel #*quite* concrete enough to add… and I should leave more for you avid fans to find out yourself :p #but yeah this is a really cute book i enjoy it :)#it doesn’t have every cat since the original book came out before an English translation of the game even existed #but it has a lot of them!#I’m actually curious how many of the favorite goodies are accurate to the datamine XD it’s prob not too far off though #long post

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halogalopaghost · 1 year ago

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I just found out that a tilt table test isn't like, getting tilted back and forth for a while, you lay there for thirty minutes and then they tilt you upright REAL QUICK, im gonna fail that test so hard lmao

#at first I'm like hmmmm idk if I meet the criteria for orthostatic intolerance idkkk #and tested my HR a few times from laying/standing with a few minutes in between #but if it's THIRTY MINS at rest before they flip me?#I'm fucked lmao #the biggest increase from sitting to standing that I've seen in the last two days #was 24bpm #that's like...not the worst. it's outside the normal range but it's not BAD #it's not pre syncope levels of bad #but I've also deliberately increased my salt intake ever since the PT said POTS to me on Tuesday so #hmmmmm #sometimes I feel like my fucking around and finding out isn't very science based and k can't possibly accurately diagnose myself and then #this stuff happens...#I'm so fucking tired bro #I got so confused and frustrated about a really stupid and simple thing today that I just started crying #I've been crying a LOT in the last two weeks #BUT #only two more shifts and then I'm free from this job forEVER!!!#and I can focus on my health or lack thereof #I don't expect cures or even really effective treatments at this point I just want to know WHY #like WHAT is happening with my body bro #it's never worked particularly well or normal but the last time I felt physically healthy was early 2022 #it's been almost TWO years since I felt healthy and I'm 25 #and I feel like it's getting progressively worse. not by huge increments but enough #maybe that's just symptoms stacking? idk #maybe it's just extended fatigue without really feeling rested #I have no clue which is why I would loooove to know bro #sigh #little Victorian boy wasting disease

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flowery-king · 2 years ago

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HEY noticed The woodcarver from Inscryption could possible have Native American elements inspired for her design so I wanted to do some research before I make a design and outfit for her and stumbled across a fact that seemed pretty cool: that wood carving are primarily done by the guys?? Is this correct?

#I'm trying to do thorough research because I like accurately portraying cultures when doing character designs n stuff #and also cause i rly like learning of different cultures in general gah #but cause I'm not familiar with any of the cultures personally it's hard to find accurate sources #idk i just think it'd be cool to use this fact as an indication that she's trans?#Basically what im saying is -#fELLOW GAYS Where can i find cool real facts and not get got by false facts #i really want to actually learn and not be dumb #please feel free to call my an idiot if this fact is infact false djdj #inscryption #maybe i completely misread her design in general and she's suppose to be from another background #could we discuss would that be okay #also forgot to add that i know all tribes are different in their own way #but this seems to be a thing in northeastern woodland tribes according to some sources #???

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animnightmare · 1 year ago

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The discomfort as a white person of trying to place a character of color into my fic set in the 60s

I am. So uncomfortable. How do people write accurately about times like this I feel icky and I havnt even done anything yet

also im sleep deprived that probobly. Isnt helping

#I am not comfortable with the accurate verbage #but I dont want to make it sound modern #None of the characters are racist but the polite terms have long since changed #Im determined to make this character black though #im not just going to cut out the representation because i find it difficult to write #But this is a challange I havnt had before #i dont write often as it is and ive never tried to write a period peice before #so this is new for me #if anybody has advice I would deffidently appreciate it #My biggest fear on the internet is offending people I would rather crawl into a hole than upset anybody #im rambling #anyway #rambles #mash #m*a*s*h #I didnt really mention this was a mash post did I #its sort of implied though #now that i think about it idk if this specifically has anything to do with me being white #but I assume that people of color would be more comfortable using that sort of language if they were wanting to write accurately #Cause of reclaiming and stuff #none of the words I was considering are slurs #but they are like #very outdated ykwim?

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lakemichigans · 2 years ago

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why did no one tell me call me by your name is a horror movie

#this is not a joke i was feeling true fear and disgust and despair throughout #my anxiety when elio started crying was at an all time high i felt like i was about to see someone get murdered #i have no idea what the creators intentions were but to me this felt like an accurate depiction of grooming #its the way oliver makes him think ELIO is the one who started all of this #he pretends to reject him because he knows elio will come back for more #and we find out later oliver WAS touching him on purpose to test the waters #and he was making elio think he was going out partying when really he was alone #INSIDIOUS !!!!#and the parents are the strongest source of anxiety for me #they want to do right by their son and be supportive #but THEY invited oliver into their home. they helped him pursue their son #they gave implicit permission for them to be together #and when it ended his dad told him to hold onto those feelings forever #because someone like oliver is a once in a lifetime occurrence #its sooo crazy my jaw was dropping every 5 minutes i swear #i don't think it would feel this crazy if it weren't so mainstream #with the mainstream opinion being sooo different to what i took away from the movie #wow. crazy stuff truly #🎬

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icewindandboringhorror · 1 year ago

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There's always a slight yearning in the back of my mind wishing I had been born in the right place, time, family situation, income level, etc. to have just lived in one single house for my entire life. Imagine being born in a place that still suits you, even through all of your personal evolutions and etc. The idea of deep familiarity with an area because you've lived and explored it for 40+ years, being encased in a web of memories and connections. Being able to clean out your old childhood bedroom and find personal artifacts, to dig in the yard and remember. I know those lives can still be plenty imperfect, but there's just something so seemingly solid and stable and Grounding about it that I sometimes wish I could have.. (At least from my outside perspective as someone who's moved around a bit geographically and even within the same area, never lives in the same house/ apartment /etc. for more than a few years usually.) Like... having a place that is printed upon, fully your own, rather than chronically a visitor, every thought of a space always tempered with the notion that one day soon you'll have to pack it all up again, etc. There's something peaceful about the permanence.

#I think also because I'm a very nostalgic person - THOUGH not in the way that somep poeple mean when they say nostalgia because I've realiz #ed that to some people apparently it means like.. more of a sad emotional thing? Or when I talk about being nostalgic they say 'me too' and #then describe how they're always depressed dwelling on the past wishing they could revisit it and replaying it and feeling sad and etc.#Whereas for me - it's not in a deep or emotional way at all. It's very detached - kind of like someone who is doing like a scientific #cataloguing of something? I don't feel any remorse or sadness or longing or sitting there sobbing for hours over people/pets I've lost or #etc. It's more like a fun contemplative excercise and extension of self analysis plus just documentation. Like I know your memory fades as #you get older OR even as stuff is actively ongoing humans have terrible recall - even the ones who are less emotional/more focused on #accuracy our minds still twist things or etc. SO I looove to have documentations of everything possible so that in the future I will have #as full and complete of a view of myself as I possibly can. sure the image will undoubtedly be a little distorted but having real evidence #of how something was at a time is very valuable. You look through old messages or letters or something and you always find other alternate #versions of yourself. Not in a worse way like inherently inferior Previous Models Of You who haven't yet been perfected but even just in a #neutral way like 'what they're saying is not a BAd thing but also is not how I would say that today.' etc. ANYWAY I find it really interest #ing to document and remember things and love revisiting the past - not in a sad way - but just like. curiosity. reminiscing and recalling #and filling in gaps. or trying to have the same feeling I felt at a previous time so I can remember what it was. Collecting information for #documentation purposes. Like for example - I would love to go back and tour all of my old childhood houses/apartments. Not to like #sit in the middleof them and cry and go 'ohhh my childhood waughhh' - but literally because I want to take detailed photographs so I #can remeber exatly what they looked like and recreate them in sims or some other digital way. Why? idk. just to gather the information. If #I ever live to like 80 years old and I'm still reflecting on my life curious about the dteails of it. I want to be able to fire up my #ancient windows 10 laptop I've kept all these years and open up the sims 4 and tour my old home with accuracy etc. ??#Not sure why really. Maybe an extension of how I generally care a lot about having an 'accurate' view of things? Like I would rather be #accurate than be happy. I don't understand 'ignorance is bliss' because I would always rather know. I always always in any situation am mor #focused on 'what is the well researched practical truth' than about 'how does this make me feel' or etc. Truth above ALL else even if it #were to make me miserable. Aka why I'm a 'boring' 'annoying' 'UM actually..' type of killjoy lol because it's very hard for me to understan #that some people can enjoy something or have a good time even not knowing the full facts of a situation or etc. BUT anyway. since that is #some core driver of my personality for whatever reason (just the plague of ennegram type 5 perhaps lol) maybe that also drives me to my #kind of minor obsession with like 'I must have a complete view and calatoguing of my life that is as accurate as possible within the means #i have' . Is it REALLY important for me to know the exact layout of on of my first childhood bedrooms? no. materially it does nothing for m #in life. BUT hey. it would make a great addition to the Accurate Life Story Catalogue lol. ANYWAY.. But I think a lot of wanting to live in #one place forever is not just the ease of documentation. but the sense of having a constant. Much of what i crave most in life is stability #& familiarity &routine bc of how my brain works. And it just would feel so good to be Settled. Never uproot again. One little place FOREVER

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bucephaly · 19 days ago

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Hey I think I'm a little late but you asked about history book recs I think? Is there a time period or something specific you're interested in? I read almost exclusively nonfiction and a lot of history/philosophy so I might be able to help find something specific for you

Oh yea! I love prehistory in general, paleolithic, then some prechristian religion studies, old English/ anglo saxon, indigenous north america, uhh and general religious studies stuff particularly europe and the middle east. Not history but linguistics too are really cool, I've been particularly interested in old English linguistics. I'd love to find some good books on pre christian anglo saxon culture, an anthropology / religious studies perspective on European folklore and what has roots in pre christian culture and what doesn't, etc. I guess I'm more interested in specifically prehistory and religious studies more than regular history haha. And it'd be cool to find some cool research on indigenous north america religious studies or culture that is fairly modern, or preferably from an indigenous perspective, but I kinda don't have much hope that that exists. I may look into that book about paleolithic north america or whatever it's called, I need to see if that's considered accurate and trustworthy

I just wanna make sure any books I get are reliable and well researched and not just a guy writing what he thinks. I've found a few books that caught my eye on particular topics, but they're often like. Upwards of $100 and sometimes up to like $500 lol.

#my siblings do a secret santa thing every year and i feel bad for whoever got me #because i had One big thing on there until someone else got it for me and so like. now my entire wishlist for the $100 gift is #'some cool books maybe (:'#idk im into very particular topics and many of these topics are full of misinfo. decades and sometimes centuries of it in some cases #and i just want a good well researched and proper book on them but idk if that even exists for most of these topics #but religious studies stuff has been of particular interest to me #i like learning about early christianity as well as prechristian stuff and what still survives from that in europe #i think. if i could find a really good accurate well researched book about european folklore that doesnt just make random guesses #as to whether certain things are pagan or not. thatd be really cool #for right now im having fun reading early accounts of cherokee culture from europeans in the 1700s #most of which is luckily free online #asks #i know that doesnt help much lol. i say history but uh. more anthropology and religious studies than history #tbh i find a lot of regular history to be dry. lol

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areyouwho-ithinkyouare · 6 months ago

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okok i’m doing prep for d&d later and they’re arriving in a new town so i’m working on that community and ohhhhhh my god i think this is my favourite npc i’ve ever created i hope they dont ignore her or kill her bcus i want 2 be her more than once pleaase

#if they do ignore her or kill her then. well. that’s their choice and i will accept it. but i will be sad about it.#and if that happens then maybe one day i’ll pull her out as a player character when i’m not GMing #BUTTT i really like her AS an npc so 🤞#my starting point with her was. enthusiastic local historian/journalist/record keeper who really WANTS to know everything there is to know #about her town and community #BUT (because of other worldbuilding stuff) there is very very little info about the actual history of the place #so she is piecing together what she can but the details are so hard to pin down that all her info is really only…. half-right #I want the party to like. go to ask her for info because she’s the person you’d expect to know what’s going on.#and she presents them with facts but some of those facts aren’t true and some are kinda just assumptions she’s made based on dodgy info #so the players can use it as a guide/starting point but can’t ever truuuuully take it word-for-word. it’s not the gospel truth it’s like….#missing a lot of important pieces.#like she can probably tell you WHERE something is pretty accurately. But she could not prepare you properly for what that thing IS.#and she’s come to some conclusions that are just plain wrong because she doesn’t have all the facts #and CRUCIALLY!!!! she is perfectly happy to be proven wrong. if the players find out any of this extra info/context that changes things #she will happily take that new detail on board and change her perspective #she WANTS all the info she just doesn’t have it #i like the idea that the party might start working for her a bit #probably not formally but just like…#if they uncover some local secrets they’d pass that on to her #and over time if they do that enough she probably WILL be able to put some important clues together #and help them figure out big-picture stuff that is important to the campaign #their reward for helping her build up her archives will be their own personal mystery solver who can tie all the threads of plot together #WHICH!!! is why i like her more as an npc than as an actual player character #she’s MEANT to be like… a collector of information who can eventually be a really useful resource for the party to turn to for information #but they have to work to get her there

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kindred-spirit-93 · 3 months ago

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HOO BOI. i desperately want to write volumes about this topic alone but ill stick to a tag rant because is have so much studying lol.

demeter they could never make me hate you. you were imo the only sensible person in the myth(s) actually and a good mum. fuck u zeus

The story of Hades and Persephone isn't an abduction romance, or even a tragedy of not being able to be in two places at the same time. It's about how fucking wild it would be to have a mother who gives a shit about whether you're dead or alive, and whether you are happy.

#hades and persephone #the ill get back to this eventually tag #sick with all the awful adaptations & retellings that romanticise aspects at the price of completely and irreversibly ruining others #look i dont care what u want to enjoy or wish to believe thats none of my business its all fun and games at the end of the day #but to so blatantly ignore the orignal mythos in favour of aesthetic or whatever and insisting *thats* the standard is just cruel #part of it falls on how much were missing in the critical thinking & media literacy department and tend to accept pop culture as is #again one of the beauties of literature is its potential for interpretations.. and storytelling relies on appeasing the masses #and reaching audiences and demographics and adapting to fit the everchanging social norms and all that jazz. i know #thats not what im referring to here #its the denial of nuance and refusal to acknowledge that hey sometimes a piece of media isnt really accurate? or right? like at all #(i for one as of late have been extremely fascinated w darkfics and heavy topics being explored in media.. esp in greek mythology)#and it honestly wouldnt matter if it werent for the vehement hate it breeds against the source material and the very valid #opinions on the other side of the coin. the least we can do is do some background reading and have some common sense guys.#in this case the erasure of justified rage and grief to accentuate rebellious femininity or whatever to me is just sad #making demeter the villain? a mother who was rightfully horrified after her (underage) daughter was stolen from her #making persephone who cried and mourned during her stay in the underworld a girlboss who waltzed in on her own volition?#in some versions of the myth hades tricked her into eating the seeds. she had no idea what the implications were. NOT COOL MY DUDE #look i actually like hades and persphone in terms of theme and symbolism. like a lot. im working on stuff with them in it #but keep in mind the people places and things at play when engaging with media. think of the prices that were paid and how it relates to us #myths serve to teach lessons and morals as well as explaining natural phenomena and other things. folklore doesnt exist in a void #also as much as i love to dunk on zeus for being a piece of shit and serial rapist #he is extremely complex and multifaceted as a god and king of the gods and much more than that. as is the case for everyone in the pantheon #agh i need to go before i go on a rabbit hole so deep i find iron lol

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