#tw crowds

[livinginteo]

A user in my Fin Fin discord, Bex, found many images of a previously unknown Fin Fin doll. It was apparently designed by Maru Yacco (a queer female artist!).

Happy Fin Fin Friday!

Sources: 1, 2.

[epilepsyculture-is]

epilepsy culture is being horrified by crowds and developing a fear of it. one time i was stuck in a huge crowd and i started having non-stopping seizures. i vaguely remember 30 people around me pushing me down with their hands so i can stop moving, putting stuff in my mouth, shouting and screaming about what to do. 5 people together had to carry me to the ambulance because paramedics couldn't get there because of crowd. i spent the night at ER that day, and since that day, i have an anxiety attack whenever i'm too close to a crowd.

Oh anon :((

[sophsun1]

Interview With The Vampire – 2.08: And That's The End Of It. There's Nothing Else

[frownyalfred]

"Holy shit, there's a whole army of injured people lying on the floor in here" / "Why is the Bat fighting so hard to protect that one door?" / "He can't keep this up forever" / "Oh shit, his Robin is in there, isn't he?"

-- a GCPD patrolman making a decision to walk into an active crime scene he is about to regret so, so much (he pulls a gun and helps scare off the last 3-4 goons before Bruce basically collapses in front of the door, covered in blood)

[mythtakens]

so here's a scenario if a character was, completely random example, shot by a sniper in the street and they had one singular coherent thing they said in between getting hit and waking up in the hospital days later. what do you think is the most absolutely sickening heartwrenching line you could have that character say. like for instance to their closest friend. who is let's say idk covered in the blood that just sprayed out of them straight into said friend's face. a best friend who is actively trying to stop them from continuing to bleed out in that moment because they were just SHOT by a SNIPER and they're DYING. let's chew on this hypothetical situation for a minute or five. what is the most insane yet still fully in character thing a person could use the last of their energy to say in the chaos of everything that's happening before passing out. they're in pain, they're in shock, hell they're not even fully aware at this point right and this is something that could easily easily be the last words they ever speak. what do you think would be the version of those words that would clock me in the face the hardest and why did Eddie Diaz from 9-1-1 say it on network television in 2021

[triona-tribblescore]

TW// Blood, Mentions of gun use

Let Donnie have his theatre kid moment-

(Yo-Ho-Ho) A Ninjas Life For Me

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[joonie]

JUST DANCE

[lady-raziel]

hilarious that with each new day that passes a new bit of dirt from JD Vance's past gets discovered and plastered over the internet...it's almost as if this is why presidential campaigns have always announced their running mates well before the convention...so that if glaring issues with a candidate came to light quickly there would be time to replace them on the ticket before they were officially locked in...it's almost as if certain things in political campaigns were done for a reason, donald...because the very same critical failures had happened before...but no i'm sure you and your guys attempt to recreate a fantasy version of history while ignoring all the reasons that history was a disaster will work this time...because you are built different and the 10000th time trying fascism will work like a charm...

[faeriekit]

Writing the Occult: quick notes for non-practicing hobby authors and other nerds🕯️

Hey. Real talk. If you're writing about occult rituals, magic, the works, whatever, there are some great ways to clean up your act and get some better, more aware accuracy in there. A lot of stuff in the wider consciousness of pop culture is kind of...not correct, or, uh. Should be something you're aware of. For instance:

G*psy is still a slur! No, Romani people aren't more likely to be fortune tellers than anyone else. Quit it with the weird stereotypes. The "g*psy fortune teller" thing hasnt even been on trend since the early 1900s. Move on.

"Voodoo" dolls are a racist perspective of an African-derived traditional religious practice. Vodun is a religion. It's not even a gone or far away religion either; Vodun and Santería have followers and priests all over the US, as do other ATRs. Since. You know. Slavery. The word you're probably looking for is "poppet", which is the term for the tool itself (tiny cloth doll for magical use) as opposed to, like, a whole religion.

A wendigo isn't a catch-all cannibalistic creature; it's part of a wider religious worldview of the Algonquian peoples. Native people have requested that you Stop Talking Abou That— yes, even asking that one YouTuber to Stop That, not that he seems to care. White people seem to cannibalize other people all the time anyway, so I don't see why there's a huge need for a Native scapegoat... There are other supernatural creatures and shapeshifters that eat humans. Pick anything else.

A lot of higher-level occult rituals as writ are just. Straight up antisemitic! If you're writing rituals and your magical language of choice is in Hebrew...hey. Stop that. Same thing goes for "elites who eat babies/drink blood." A some of it is a clumsily handled metaphor for the cannibalistic nature of having an upper class in a society, but a lot of it really is just dressed-up antisemitism in a trench coat. If you're looking up real rituals for worldbuilding...FYI, you may want to glance again before adding it to your work.

Just because ten dudes are standing next to each other in order to do a weird ritual doesn't make them a cult. That's just a ritual. Cults have more specific requirements; ie, whether or not there's religious abuse going on. You can make your weird spooky org have religious abuse, but if they're just, like, high schoolers, they're probably just novice occultists who occasionally hang out together.

I haven't seen anyone use "spirit animal" in a couple years, so that's great! Native people have also requested that we Stop That. Spirit Animal is a specific religious concept we don't have to tread on. Think of a synonym for the concept you're trying to convey; don't steal a word that's already in use for a religious practice. (Same thing goes for totem FYI.)

Hallucinogens often make you throw up. Like. A lot. People do certainly attribute religious visions to them, but also like drink a lot of water and keep a bucket nearby, because the whole scenario is just super disorienting. Most spiritual circles who utilize similar substances will have a trip sitter (someone sober to call 911 if there's an emergency) if they've got the resources.

Making up rituals for your story is totally cool. People invent new rituals all the time. There isn't a standard to be held to on that front unless you outright name a real life religious or occult group they're meant to be part of; THEN people will want standards. Until then, though, you're probably good.

Most TYPES of rituals have, like, a label, though. A ward prevents something from entering a protected space, an invocation brings something forth from within you, a banishment pushes something away from you, a consecration makes something sacred...A lot of these may be obvious to you from pop culture, but if you're going to try and make a character an expert on magic, adding the vocabulary to their lexicon makes their expertise more believable.

There are a ton of ways to exorcise ghosts! Basically every religion has, like, ten of them. If you want to add a little extra flavor on banishing/preventing evil spirits, google [character's religion/culture] [ghosts/spirits] to see what sort of flavor you can add to their specific person.

Occultists and witches and wizards and priests who do magic argue all the time. ALL the time. Interpersonal drama is real and it can Get You.

It's traditional to do certain specific rituals naked. Just FYI. It's not required. Just traditional. Utilize this knowledge for narrative potential... or don't. I'm not your boss.

Yeah, sometimes there's blood; your mileage may vary narratively. Most people don't go for the whole knife thing —you can get lancets at any drug store—but maybe your character is especially dumb or otherwise desperate. Palms and fingers hurt the most knife-wise; if your character knows what they're doing, it won't be their hands.

The keeping skulls around thing is real too, if legally and financially difficult to arrange in many cases. It's usually animal though. Human remains have a lot of laws in the states and, obviously, relatives want to keep their family close to their family — still, narratively, your mileage may vary.

The "White magic" and "Black magic" dichotomy is racialized. No, seriously. The things people demonize about dark magic— soul magic, necromancy, zombies, love/control spells, etc— are all really warped versions of Ancestor worship and other spiritual practices from African Traditional Religious beliefs. Well, the whole Zombie thing is actually a holdover from slavery and it's more about forcing ex-slaved peoples into performing more labor even after their death while White people are afraid of traditional Black spiritual resistance against colonial religious oppression— I'm going too deep into this, just trust me that if a dichotomy says that White is good and Black is bad, there's probably something hinky going on.

And, finally:

Ouija boards are sold at Barnes and Noble by Hasbro for $25, and a tarot deck can retail for as little as $20 from Spirit Halloween or Spencer's. No, they can't summon demons from the astral into your house. Can they talk to ghosts? Up to you; it's your story. Are cheap paper board and plastic planchette powerful enough to murder people, though...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My magic 8 ball says that the odds are unlikely.

Obviously, you can do whatever you want with your work— I'm not your dad and I can't stop you, but if you're the kind of person who's like, hey, maybe I do want to prune out accidental racial slurs from my vocabulary...hey! This list is for you! Halloween is a time to get spooky! Get scary! Get booped, even; still, if you want to have an underlying thread of what the occult looks like in practice, you might want to dust off a couple of mid Magic/Witchcraft/Spiritual/Occult books from your local library and flip through 'em for ideas. There's some fun stuff in there.

Like the sacred blowtorch ;)

Happy Halloween, everyone! 👻

[vagueconfusion]

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[shalida]

my full piece for the @/queeroczine ! 💕👄🔪

[dingbatnix]

What do you do if your half dragon friend goes feral in the heat of battle?

Fucking run.

1 (you're here!), 2

Anyway I am loving this style rn. I have the colored versions too, which look dope, so let me know if y'all wanna see those too (the colored verz's will be after the comic is finished tho)

Taglist!

@brick-a-doodle-do @i-am-beckyu @da3dm @kayla-crazy-stuffs @local-squishmallow @skullsnbruises @munchkin1156 @gt-daboss

[clarinettispaghetti]

waow.. easter and tdov on the same day..

[rathonk]

triple threat!💥

[salpho]

Ooiiurrhhhhhhhg.... owwwiee my head...,,,,, owwwww... .. . hhoiuhgghhh

[stevesbipanic]

@steddielovemonth Day 17: Love is about a hand reaching out to you so you don't get lost @yournowheregirl

It's weird, how trauma works. Eddie has become quite familiar with this since the spring break from hell. Like how he can have days he doesn't even think about it, no nightmares, nothing, but then the next day he can't even get out of bed because of it.

Days where he wakes up in a cold sweat, the feeling of bats still digging into him, others he just gets to wake up to see his sweet boyfriend's sleeping face.

There are triggers he doesn't even think about compared to the ones he can avoid. He knows that flickering lights and dogs at night will leave him reeling. He didn't expect to have the air swept out of him in the middle of a grocery store though.

He and Steve had gone to get ingredients to make Wayne his favourite dinner for his birthday. Today had even been a good day, woken up by soft kisses and a cup of coffee.

They were halfway through their shop, Steve had realised he forgot flour and had popped back a couple aisles leaving Eddie to get the pasta. Two kids had rushed past him, only about ten or so years old.

"Eddie!" One of them had screamed, chasing after the other. But Eddie didn't hear a young child, innocently running through the grocery store. Instead he could hear Dustin, cold air surrounding him, bats screeching. He couldn't breathe, he couldn't move. Dustin, Dustin was calling him and he couldn't help him, he was dying.

"Eddie?"

If Vecna ever returned let it be known no song could save him more than that voice.

"Stevie?" He choked out, he felt a hand gently take his, fingers soothing over his knuckles instead of bites.

The air was warmer, lights bright and white overhead instead of red lightning.

"You looked a little lost up there," Steve said tilting his head up to Eddie's own.

"Just for a minute, you found me though."

"Always will, Eds."