#mercurystudies

[breelandwalker]

i thought of this and i just need to share it with everyone but witch tip: play the Ghostbusters theme to ward spirits from your home

......I had not even thought of that until this very moment and I am SO FUCKING HERE FOR IT!!!!!

[thegodskeeper]

hi, i'm a Hellene and i'm brand brand new to anything Norse mythology. however, a tarot reading told me that Odin is someone i should reach out to. i am completely lost, and any information you can spare would be amazing. also, i know a lot of Hellenes do this, but do Heathens capitalize pronouns when talking about gods? say if i'm speaking about Apollon, i'd capitalize it when i say Him

Hello! Welcome to the... norse polytheist side of witchblr? [jazz hands]

What kind of information are you looking for? I do have a resources page that you’re welcome to peruse, and I will always happily answer any questions that you (or anyone!) has. When it comes to gods “reaching out to you” my advice is always to get a second, maybe even a third opinion. Of course I’m not going to try and scare anyone off working with Odin - I’m not a hypocrite - but he’s a deity where you want to know the temperature of the water before you get in the bath.

As to the question about capitalization, in my experience it seems to be a matter of preference. I don’t, but people that I know do; mind you, my practice is quite irreverent, as you might be able to tell. If you’re looking to take a more reconstructionist approach - which I know is common amongst hellenic polytheists - then it wouldn’t go amiss to capitalize names, no. And I know that the hellenic deities are the sort to expect the same degree of respect awarded to them as you would to others, so I imagine if you feel you capitalize names for them then you should for the norse, too.

[nessiesnessiness]

What is your motivation?

Everyone struggles from time to time. Is it worth the effort, the time - and in case of studying at the university- the money/loan? Lately I thought about my expectations. I am studying art history. It is no secret, that this isn’t the big money field. But sadly it is the field my heart goes to 😊 So yes, for me it is worth the struggle. This is what fascinates and interests me. And this is my motivation to keep going. Keep it up 💝

[mercury-studies-blog]

1/19/2017- ♫ Mamamoo- Taller than You

I have my English Midterm tomorrow so I decided to find a practice reading comp. test. English isn’t really my strength so I’m a little stressed, but I’ll survive.

I kind of wished I had some studyblr friends on here but I’m not really sure what to do. (I’m also really awkward honestly)

[akoumi]

[ HALF-LIFE ]

                  ↳ a wip reintro by @holotones

“Don’t expect too much from me, doc. I’m only human.”

“Human?” Marlen laughs, low and agonized. He steps forward. “No, Jericho. You are a missile. Roaring, unpredictable - full of fire and light and danger. You change the lives of anyone who’s ever come into contact with you. You are the only thing anyone can ever pay attention to. That I can ever pay attention to.”

I grab his collar and pull him in until my lips are grazing the shell of his ear. “And eventually,” I whisper, my breath stirring his hair. “Eventually, I’m going to explode. And when I do, I will destroy everything and everyone around me. That’s a promise.”

CATEGORY: YA/NA

GENRE: POST APOCALYPTIC, LOW CYBERPUNK, SCI-FI 

STATUS: DRAFT ONE

THEMES: BODY HORROR, VENGEANCE, VIOLENCE, SURVIVAL, MORALITY, THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS, GUILT, EAT THE RICH, WHAT MAKES A GOOD MAN? 

SYNOPSIS: 

126 years after WW3, humanity is still rebuilding. The world is in shambles, and the American city of Reich is no exception. 

JERICHO has lived here for all their life, in relative peace. As much peace as they can get living in the cutthroat slums of Reich, not knowing which day is going to be their last, of course. At least until a mysterious illness begins to spread, one that threatens to destroy the entire city. Luckily for them, the richest man in town - JACK HUDSKIN - opens up all his labs, offering to test and cure the people of Reich for free.

Jericho has never trusted doctors. 

It’s terrifying, putting your life in the hands of a stranger. Letting them knock you out to put god knows what inside your body. Seeing the glint of their tools, the immaculate white of their lab coats, the fake, politely dead smiles. 

But it’s worse, wondering constantly whether the ache in your bones is because you’re sick, whether the blood dripping out of your nose is because you’re sick, if the constant itch on your skin is because you’re sick.

So Hudskin’s labs it is. 

There, Jericho meets shy, young DR. MARLEN NOVAK, and from him, they learn that they are sick. Fatally so. One quick shot and off they drift, ready for the surgery. And when Jericho wakes up, something is terribly wrong; stitches and stumps and searing pain in their chest whenever they breathe. Body parts, missing - stolen, as they come to find out from Novak. And according to him, they aren’t the only one. Jericho isn’t the only one whose body was destroyed, cut open and picked through to find the ideal body parts - but they are the only one who survived. 

Unable to follow through with the orders from Hudskin to every doctor in his labs, Novak had smuggled Jericho back to his home, where he patched up their broken, dismembered body as best as he could - which wasn’t much. And despite Novak’s warnings that Jericho’s body is pretty much held together with floss and duct tape, despite Novak’s pleas to just lie back and rest until their inevitable death in a few months, despite Novak’s hints about something about to take Reich by storm that maybe it’s better Jericho won’t be alive for - they make plans. Plans to go find Hudskin. Plans to kick his fucking ass for this. For everything he’s done to them. for everything they’ve lost. 

And so Jericho must embark on a desperate, suicidal quest for revenge, racing against the clock, their own body, and the shadowy forces in Reich that may have taken notice of them a little too soon - and the only question is what’ll give out first: their body, or their luck?

taglist below cut: 

@feedingontherose @whorizcn @unlike-clockwork @mercurystudying @quilloftheclouds @demonites  @omgbrekkerkaz @semblanche @qelizhus @liarede @storelmykva  @emdrabbles @writers-lovers @sunlight-and-starskies @adrestaie @rcvolutions @themillionthdraft @summersromance @ladywithalamp @pperegrines @the-ichor-of-ruination @calmertimes @percvalx @morgan-s-writes @burningapollos @kowlazovdi 

[rewrit]

TITLE: creature of fire

GENRE: urban fantasy / superheroes humans / action/adventure

MAIN THEMES: found family, it is cool to be nice, differences, (fantasy) politics? Mostly it’s just an excuse for me to hurt myself and write combat scenes. I’m sure I will have about twenty other themes when I actually start writing. I don’t plan a lot.

ROMANCE?: some! established couples and ships that develop, wlw and everything else. some fwbs / fuckbuddies.

WORLD / SETTING: Earth with powers / UK-based

SUMMARY: The existence of superpowers and creatures with powers will make any world more dangerous, and in response to this, the Superhumans of the UK decide that their best option is to take charge of this and found a group which soon comes to be known as The Agency, dealing with all sorts of powered threats to public safety.

Now, decades down the line, the group is a fixed part of a somewhat tense UK, where humans and Superhumans never did fully integrate into each others’ lives, and Julia Rosenberg has assumed control of The Agency’s direction. As the years of her leadership progress, the number of volatile and violent attacks perpetrated by the creatures underground on the people above has grown, and interest in signing your life off to a life of fighting has decreased. But when Julia sends two of her Agents to deal with a threat in Scotland, they come back with a prize she never expected:

A young woman rumoured to be an exceptionally powerful Superhuman they call a Phoenix.

Perhaps the tides have just turned in The Agency’s favour.

TAGLIST: reblog/comment to be added!

also going to ping everyone i can from my old blog because this had a fair amount of interest iirc. if y’all wanna be removed or kept, just lmk!

@riftversus @reeseweston @reininginthefirewriting @drowsy-quill @ditzysworld @mercurystudying @lexwritesgayshit @therecouldbecolorsandlove @dove-actually @esoteric-eclectic-eccentric @cirianne @sunlight-and-starskies

[visualyze]

Long time, no update! I was busy obsessing over this lovely planner by Woman, Create. I’m not exactly a planner person, but seeing the beautiful art in its pages I just had to get it for myself! 💓

[chayscribbles-archive]

howdy here’s a thing. may god have mercy on my soul this november

the in-between tag | the in-between official intro 

⬇taglist below the cut; lmk if you want to be added/removed!

@planets-and-prose​ @extra-magichours​ @heyabella​ @donovyn--nox​ @writing-instead-of-fighting​ @rhetowreck​ @nattletak​ @writablefish​ @skeleton-writer​ @rossealina @quantumlandbook​ @mercurystudying​

[the-bard-writes]

A classical ethical quandary! Always good for any story! Wings of Steam has some similar currents in its thematic elements.

I love blue-orange morality systems! I think exploring the idea of moral growth vs moral essence through a blue-orange system is a lot more interesting and I’ve seen less of it in media, personally. Out of curiosity, what’s the blue-orange spectrum in Four Lost Things?

What kind of thematic questions do you guys like to explore with your projects?

With Dove I really like playing with the kind of cultural theory of ethics that basically says that "right and wrong" are determined by what keeps a society healthy and stable as a community. When should people air their grievances and when should they act on them, and how should they do so? Is it OK to kill someone if they're a threat to the community? Stuff like that.

With Very Fat Cat it's more about redemption and justice in a society without a judicial system to pass incontestable judgment. When nobody and therefore everybody gets to decide who is worthy of forgiveness, how does that work? Can someone be forgiven for irreversible violence? Do they NEED to be forgiven to become better?

Wings of Steam is so thematically complicated I'd need a whole post just for it but I guess the big overarching question is, how can a people come together when there's so much difference between them? I don't mean that in the usual sense of like, racism or anything like that, more just the general issue of sentient beings having so much diversity in belief and opinion.

[zwritesstuff]

uhhhhhhhhh Hound Isle snippet because this is the first section I’ve written that I don’t think is absolute garbage

i’m still not done writing for today but i’m already past the 13k mark

tag list: @ditzysworld​, @vviciously​, @yourwriters​, @patiwritesstuff​, @mercurystudying​, @writeblrbraindump​, @ought-to-be-studying​ (please let me know if you’d like to be added/removed)

[quilloftheclouds]

World Building Wednesday for Sindre!

[Send me a character name, and I’ll fill out this template for them!]

YO, I DID NOT EXPECT ONE FOR SINDRE. NEAT. But also. Difficult. Because this child is one of my most spoilery characters. ouo Beware spoilers ahead!!

Also, @mercurystudying you also requested Sindre, so I’ll tag you in this one!

B A S I C S

full name: Aw, heck. He can’t remember. Where a full name is necessary, Sindre Strǫnd.

gender: Cis male

sexuality: Gay

pronouns: He/Him/They/Them

O T H E R S

family: Deceased. He was an only child and his parents passed away when he was fairly young.

birthplace: … somewhere in Norway… (aka Quill hasn’t made up a name yet)

job: Third Mate aboard the Royal Navy’s Compass

phobias: It doesn’t come up very often, but cleithrophobia.

guilty pleasures: Tying the ship’s wheel to watch the stars when he’s supposed to be manning the helm (only when it’s calm, though ^^); catching fireflies when on land; pretending to talk to seals/turtles/other marine life when no one’s looking~

M O R A L S

morality alignment?: Neutral Good

sins - lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath

virtues - chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S - O R - T H A T

introvert/extrovert

organized/disorganized

close minded/open-minded

calm/anxious

disagreeable/agreeable

cautious/reckless

patient/impatient

outspoken/reserved

leader/follower

empathetic/unemphatic

optimistic/pessimistic

traditional/modern

hard-working/lazy

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

otp: Uuuuuuhhhhh… idk mate I don’t have anyone on my cast near enough to his age…

ot3: See above ^

brotp: Someone named… “Little Cloud”??

notp: Xuân heckin’ terrifies him.

Anyways have a bean!!

[vvillowvvwriter]

idk if i ever mentioned this but i moved to @mercurystudying

[akoumi]

HALFLIFE - 1/? 

By the time morning comes, I am a holy mess.

My whole body is drenched in sweat, and so are the sheets. My stitches must have split sometime in the night, because the front of my chest is slick with a mix of blood and sweat. I think I may have cracked one of my new teeth from how hard I clenched my jaw.

But I won’t call for him. I won’t.

My breathing is coming in short pants, and I think I might just kill myself if it’s going to be like this for much longer. I taste blood in my mouth, and I try to spit it out, but it just dribbles down my jaw. I want to scream.

I won’t call for him.

Every single part of me is on fire. My wrist is hurting again, and so are my stumps - my arm, my leg, all three fingers, and the line of my chest. Even the inside of my body hurts. I wish he would have just let me die.

I won’t call for him. I won’t, I won’t, I won’t.

“Doc?” I hate how fucking timid my voice is. How scratchy, how weak it is. How it hurts to even speak. “Hey, doc? Novak?” My voice cracks. “Marlen?”  

Fuck, fuck, fuck. Did he leave? I don’t hear his breathing anymore - he must have left and I didn’t even notice. Panic bubbles in my chest like bile. I can’t stay here alone until he comes back in the evening, I can’t, I can’t I can’t -

taglist below cut: 

@feedingontherose @whorizcn @unlike-clockwork @mercurystudying @quilloftheclouds @demonites @omgbrekkerkaz @semblanche @qelizhus @liarede @storelmykva  @emdrabbles @writers-lovers @piyawrites @adrestaie @rcvolutions @themillionthdraft @summersromance @ladywithalamp @pperegrines @the-ichor-of-ruination @calmertimes @percvalx @morgan-s-writes @burningapollos @kowlazovdi @incandescent-creativity

[academia-jpg-deactivated]

Chemistry exam in less than three hours! I woke up feeling unwell today 😷 hopefully that doesn’t affect me much in the exam session. Currently revising notes and important tips for the Alternative to Practical chem paper.

[chayscribbles-archive]

TIB writing update - December 13th

lol remember when i said i was gonna keep doing regular updates in December and then i didnt

current word count: 63 053 words

according to my fancy little writing log spreadsheet i made, i'm about 80% of the way through this first draft!

i finally got through those chapters in the middle that were bothering me (there's still a few transitions that i cant be bothered to write but that's a problem for editing me)

i really feel like Peach's character arc is only now starting to come together lol. i'm gonna have to smooth out a LOT of things when i edit though.

i'm taking a two-day break and then i'm diving into the climax! i might be able to finish this before January after all!!! yeehaw!!!!!

excerpt: my usually hyper polite Teejay has finally snapped and it is Glorious.

The chief nodded pensively. "Is it alright if we take your sister in for further questioning?"

"Absolutely not," Teejay snapped. "I get that you need details for the report, but I already told you everything that happened."

"Agent—"

"She's tired, she's not feeling well, and she already gets poked around by IBIP five times a week, so can everyone leave her alone for just one weekend?"

Forget that coffee. Forget meal prepping. As soon as he got home, he was going to dive into his bed and not leave until he had to go back to work on Monday morning.

it should be noted that he is somewhat hungover here and had his meal prep plans interrupted and is therefore a Very Grumpy Boy

taglist:

@planets-and-prose @extra-magichours @heyabella @donovyn–nox @writing-instead-of-fighting @rhetowreck @nattletak @writablefish @skeleton-writer @quillmancer @quantumlandbook @mercurystudying @tabbykatwrites @marlettwrites @ccwritesstuff @quilloftheclouds @zwritesstuff @stardustspiral @reininginthefirewriting @mycupofstarsandcoffee @morganwriteblr @hermiones-writeblrr​ @stand-inthe-rain​ @sunlight-and-starskies​ @summere21​ @hollie-writes​ @rachelswritings​ @bardicfool @sunny-with-a-chance-of-fiction @hwrfta @etheriiums @knightsofeclipse @ladywithalamp @lyssthewriter @qlpwrites @milkyway-writes @stuffaboutwriting @llesbianwrites @zburatorii

[visualyze]

quite late, but my here’s a glimpse of my march spread !