#with all that said: if im presenting Research im giving the Things I Read regardless of how useful they were

[aesethewitch]

I always feel kinda bad that I don't usually have books to recommend on the subjects I study. I'm one of those "dive into science encyclopedias and obscure, unrelated articles and come out the other side with a whole other viewpoint on witchcraft" type of people. Stuff I can't really recommend other people read because it's... often too basic to be useful?? Stuff that needs extrapolation and personalization and Thought before it can be Used in a practical context.

Like, yeah, I read, but not really... witchcraft books. I have a handful for quick references, but most of what I've learned has been by trial and error, word of mouth, internet deep dives, and spirit work. The definition of self-taught-fuck-around-and-find-out. The things I feel most adept at (that I can/should share) are the ones for which I have little "further reading" -- because the "further reading" is "go out and talk to a river about it" or "cook a meal and see how it goes."

[pixeljade]

Look a lot of people are beginning to reblog this again, and a few are again trying to argue against what they *think* i said. I dont have the time nor energy to go one by one, so im going to say a few things, then mute all notifications on this post. Please reblog THIS version so people stop thinking im saying something i'm not. Leave the misinterpretation to Twitter as it dies in Elon's incapable hands, please.

1) I said "solid chunk" but a lot of you are interpreting this as me saying "most". I did not mean it as such. Trying to get a complete figure would be a practice in absurdity, as I doubt anyone but the most learned superhero experts could say theyve read EVERY superhero story.

2) I literally graduated Cum Laude with a degree in Comics and Narrative Practice, and recently too. I know the history of comics, including the highly Jewish origins of superheroes. I also am aware of Watchmen, and X-Men, and basically every other example to the contrary you are thinking of. I appreciate spreading the information as much as anyone, but I didnt make this post with an intent of making a discourse happen, merely a personal observation. So yes, tell people about different sides of the discourse, and relevant histories! But please do not think the nuance is lost on me. I am simply a human who doesnt feel the need to provide nuanced footnotes for every post I make. (Yet you have forced me into it here, by challenging me as though my statement was something meant for you specifically.)

3) I'm actually a fan of a lot of superhero media, believe it or not! I consider Into The Spider-Verse to be one of my top films of all time, and Watchmen is in my top ten graphic novels too. I simply believe in being critical of the things we love, because a pedestal is a good way to lose the plot on our own ideology. In fact, if I care enough to criticize something, it probably means its something very dear to me! Comics are basically my raison d'etre, and that includes those that are superhero stories as well as those that aren't.

4) Regarding the Jewish origins of superheroes, I think it is of note that I actually have been researching Judaism on my own with full intent to convert to Judaism (once time and money permit, it turns out you need to take classes of some kind?), as I find it aligns greatly with my views of the world and of a higher power. Obviously this does not make me Jewish, and certainly not an expert on Judaism...But I think it might help inform you all as to my overall opinion.

5) What I tried to say here as a casual observation is that the very concept of the superhero, regardless of original intent, betrays a certain individualist ideal which is distinctly capitalist. I do not think the originators were aware of this, debate on individualism vs collectivism was present back then, but as with many objects of the zeitgeist, it was seen by many through the lens of our social structures. To them, a superhuman was likely not a direct praise of individualism, but a fantasy which represented what America could be in the burgeoning battles against fascism. In fact, in the case of Captain America, thats explicitly what it is! However, death of the author means we must understand that intents outside those of the creators have impact. It is clear that while many superhero fans love the genre for perfectly reasonable aspects, there's also many who think it represents capitalist, randian, or even fascist ideals. Look at the punisher logos with thin blue lines on cars: do you think they give a fuck that the Punisher would hate their guts? No, they warp the Punisher to represent their ideals. Such is the norm for right-wing people, and refusal to acknowledge it is closing our minds to what is making them grow. They do not give a fuck about truth, they give a fuck about their reactions. Hence why they are reactionary.

6) These right-wing takes on superheroes are inevitable so long as superheroes are written uncritically, and as they have become more mainstream, they have become far more uncritical. Even the best, most critically-written superhero stories are not foolproof regarding this right-wing bastardization. Look at how many dudes worship Rorschach, despite Alan Moore explicitly writing him as an extreme example of Randian ideology. This is because of that fatal flaw that these stories include a core concept which romanticizes hyperindividualism! By the very nature of giving an individual power that is both unique and separates them from others, you have made an individualist fantasy, regardless of intent. I say this with great sorrow, mind you, because I think that the original intent was a noble one, and there's almost no way they could have known what would become of the genre! Heck, people back then could barely conceive of the media empires we now face outside of the most extreme science fiction. But we must admit the flaws if we are ever to take it back.

7) As simply put as I can I think we must reject the essentialization of superhero tropes (and heck, any kind of tropes), and ask ourselves 'why' as endlessly as a child figuring out the world, if we wish to have ANY chance of freeing ourselves from our capitalist shackles. The minute we applaud a crossover cameo appearance of Celebrity B in Series A, we have resigned ourselves not only to the commodification of art, but also to the concept that some people are simply worth more. If we had Professor X played by anyone other than Patrick Stewart* in Multiverse of Madness, would the story be any weaker? Of course not, but we applaud all the same because he has been elevated, turned into an individual we must place above others. This same idea is why they hesitate to recast problematic actors in popular series, as well as why they promote celebrity culture in the first place. It sells us the lie that we might someday be in their shoes, with the adoration of millions, one of the chosen few, if we just continue to slave away providing capital to those who exploit us. All of this is interconnected, because capitalism demands a SYSTEM, one which can shackle anyone into the control of the few. I do not think we need to abolish superheroes, anymore than I think we need to abolish any kind of media (and if you stick around, youll find I'm QUITE anti-censorship)! But I DO think we need to embrace critical thought, and that means fighting the urge to simply say "I like this so it is above critique to me". This applies to all things, even those with wonderful origins like Superheroes.

I hope this clears things up.

* - no shade meant to Patrick Stewart, who is by all acounts a pretty great guy, but I am against putting him on any pedestal. He is ultimately just some guy, and value judgments of people are inherently bullshit. Also yes I know he could also have been played by James McAvoy and there still would be applause because of the latter X-Men movies. My point is that celebrity should not be why we watch anything.

our modern society really needs to start understanding that a solid chunk of superhero media is straight up right wing propaganda. and no i dont just mean in the "MCU has a partnership with the military" way, I mean in the hyper-individualist "Some People Are Just Born Better" way.

[legend-tripper]

You don’t have to answer this but I read your tags and was super interested in the blood magic you mentioned on a post. I was wondering if you could tell me about that please? Thanks anyways (:

yeah absolutely, but let me preface this by saying i am in no way qualified to give spiritual advice lmao. my approach to spirituality and magic has been very "dive in and see what happens," which i REALLY dont recommend. its important to make informed decisions and take measures to protect yourself with anything, spirituality included - im just irresponsible and dont follow my own advice most of the time lmao.

also, this is gonna be a long one, so sorry in advance lol.

but uh yeah, i started getting into blood magic a few months after i started praying to the moon. i was sort of in a weird place with spirituality where i had left christianity a few years prior and wasnt sure what i believed or if i even believed anything, but the moon was always sort of there. like, the actual moon itself - not its energy or any associated deity, but like the actual moon. i always sort of felt grateful that it was such a beautiful natural constant, so i just sort of said fuck it, might as well just say thank you when i see it, y'know? from there, i sort of got more into mindfulness and meditation, and within a few months, my period had regulated and aligned with the full moon. it really caught me off guard, to be honest - just to recap those tags, my periods have always been majorly irregular for uh medical reasons, and nothing i ever did even came close to regulating my cycle until then.

so, long story short, i spent a few years researching and exploring different aspects of spirituality, but eventually, i started working with norse deities - namely odin, thor, and loki, but mostly odin. i researched the runes and found a lot of different stuff regarding the use of blood on the runes and giving blood as an offering, and it sort of resonated with my experience with the moon, so i started using blood in my spiritual practice.

uh, i feel like its worth mentioning here that theres a lot of information about the runes and blood magic that doesnt have any basis in historical paganism - which is fine, im not gonna sit here and tell anyone that their pagan/neo pagan practices are wrong, and frankly i dont know enough about them to really speak on them. unfortunately, most of the information we have about ancient pagan practices has been lost, and its hard to say how blood was actually used in traditional magic. i dont think that invalidates any modern blood-related practices, but i do think its important to just be aware that there is no "historical right way" to practice. just consume information with a critical eye and use your better judgement when researching, especially when it comes to norse traditions. lots of nazis out there will present "historical facts" about paganism that are just blatantly wrong, not to mention harmful and deeply entrenched in hatred, racism, and bigotry.

anyway, for me personally, blood has always held a certain level of importance both physically and spiritually. without diving too deep into my medical history on an already-too-personal tumblr post (lol), ive always had to work with and be very aware of my own blood as part of my health care. blood is also one of those things that i always associated with "magic" before i really understood what that meant for me. it was sort of the same as staring at the moon or looking out at the ocean and feeling a power or significance to it that was - and still is - inexplicable. i always got the sense that these things were alive, perhaps not in the same way that we are alive, but alive in and of themselves nonetheless. regardless of what they are and what we are in a magical, spiritual, cosmic, or whatever type of sense, we are all "alive" in this world. to me, that simply means that we have the potential to communicate with one another in some way shape or form.

so, for me, offering blood is a means of communication. i see my blood as the sort of vessel for my life force, in both a physical and spiritual sense. my spiritual practice sort of relies on honoring the fact that the physical and the spiritual are not separate, and using blood is a big part of that. my blood carries oxygen, iron, water, salt, sugar, and a million other chemicals through my body to keep me alive. to me, that in and of itself is inherently magical. assuming that what we believe about the universe is correct, those same chemicals have been part of reality for as long as it has existed, simply transformed and converted between energy and matter and who knows what else. to me, offering my own blood, which is so intensely connected to my life and existence as i currently am in this universe, is a way to express a desire to connect with and learn from other forces of nature.

uh, as far as actual practices go though, im pretty lax about making offerings lmao. mostly, i'll put a few drops of blood in a wine offering for odin, put blood on the runes as an offering to them, or put blood on candles, crystals, or other spiritual tools to strengthen our connection or express gratitude. i dont really do a lot of "magic" in the sense of enacting change in my life, so i cant really speak on a majority of blood practices or rituals, to be honest. i mostly do divination, and i use blood as a means to express that sense of connection between myself and the universe in order to learn whatever its willing to show me as a result, if anything. really, i just use blood when it feels right to do so, so i dont have a consistent practice or ritual for using blood spiritually.

since im posting this on a public blog, i do want to make a note about health and safety when it comes to blood. aside from the health and sanitation aspects (make sure you clean any wounds, dont mix your blood with other peoples, etc), its important to take care of yourself mentally when engaging in blood practices. theres a difference between offering blood and self harm, and its important to be aware of that distinction, especially if you have a history of self harm or related mental health issues. no entity, deity, spiritual or religious group, or any other party in spiritual/metaphysical practice should ever demand blood or require you to hurt yourself in order to practice, either. it should be a choice made with mutual trust, desire, and respect on both sides.

anyway, sorry that was such a long-winded response, but i hope i answered your question!

[vore-scientist]

In Which Sophia Makes Some New Friends

A tale of the Mystic Woods

(read the other stories/comics here, and all posts related to Mystic Woods can be found here)

THIS IS A DIRECT SEQUEL TO THIS STORY

Content warnings: No actual vore in this story, sorry! But discussion of both safe and fatal (I tried to make it humorous/light hearted, it makes sense). Also GT cuddles at the end ;) 

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Sophia paced around Yonah’s desk. After the unfortunate encounter with the meddlesome prince, Yonah had wandered off to get a healing potion. That was fine, while she waited she admired all the little things on the desk, and the books in languages that she had only begun to learn to read, but that someday she would be fluent in.

“Yonah?” came a voice. “Hey Yonah, you there?”

It was a man’s voice, and it was near. Sophia froze and looked around. The mirror, the small mirror on Yonah’s desk! She ran to it, and saw in it the face of what could only be another wizard.

The man had a red and black mustache, kind green eyes, a big floppy wizard’s hat, and beautiful yellow and blue wizard’s robes, which were accented with silver and black. His hands were behind his back and he was looking around expectantly, until he saw Sophia, and he startled, but recovered fast.

“Sayyyyyyy! You’re not Yonah!” said the man, smiling with suspicion, “Who are you?”

“I’m, I’m Princess Sophia of the Kingdom of Orr!” she declared without thinking. Then a terrible thought struck her, what if this man in the mirror was an evil wizard. Those existed! A continent to the west had an entire Society of Wizards who were always up to some evil.

“A princess...” then the man grinned like an idiot, “WAIT A PRINCESS? No shit!”

His face turned away and he shouted at someone out of view, “SHOSH! HEY SHOSH! YONAH WENT AND KIDNAPPED A PRINCESS!”

“HE DID WHAT! YOU BETTER NOT BE FUCKING WITH ME MICA!”

“IM SERIOUS COME TO THE MIRROR!”

A moment later a woman, also wearing a wizard’s hat appeared next to Mica and gasped. “oh dear gods that’s a princess alright!” Except for her ruby red lipstick, she had no makeup on, but she had numerous facial piercings. She had wild brown hair and large oval spectacles that made her green-brown eyes appear buggy.

Sophia fidgeted with her gown, she wasn’t some spectacle to be gawked at by whoever these people were. She wished she wasn’t in a blood spattered nightgown. She wished that Yonah was here.

“And who,” said Sophia, as sweet as she could, “are you?”

“Oh how terribly rude of us!” said Mica, still smiling, “I’m Mica, Mica Cohen! And this is Shoshana Jaffe, we’re friends of Yonah and we were hoping to talk to him,”

Sophia was stunned “Yonah has friends!?”

Mica and Shoshana burst out laughing.

“Yes dear girl, he has friends,” said Shoshana, “you can’t stay sane in a prison without them.”

“I’ve been here for two months! How have I not heard of you?” Sophia was planning to chew Yonah out about this when he felt better. What else was he hiding. Probably a lot, wizards liked their secrets... But why would he hide friends from her! How many more friends did he have?

“You mean you’re serious. Yonah hasn’t mentioned us?” Shoshana looked genuinely hurt.

“No! until now I thought he was a sad lonely man!”

The wizards laughed again.

“Well he’s not sad” said Shoshana, “angry more like, but not anymore than your average firewitch.”

“Nor is he really a man, kinda, half a man,” said Mica, thoughtfully.

“Lonely, well now, we wish we could visit more often, he is kinda stuck in one place.”

/Yeah, you can thank my dad for that/ thought Sophia. But thought it was better not to mention Yonah’s semi-house arrest sentence was handed down by her father.

“But now you’re there! This is so wonderful!” said Shoshana with glee, before turning serious, “unless, you’re lying and you’re a giant slayer, disguised as a princess.”

“What?”

“Whose blood are you currently wearing?” she narrowed her eyes.

What an odd way to phrase that, “it’s, well it’s Yonah’s but”

Shoshana raised an eyebrow, something about her presence, even through a mirror grew dark and threatening. Mica remained bright, if scared.

“Um, well you see, there was an incident this morning, with a prince, and…”

She told them what happened. They were a good audience, gasping and cheering at all the right places, and they didn’t interrupt her. Until she got to the part where Yonah ate the prince. They both looked a little green.

“He, ate the prince?” Mica’s voice shook. He and Shoshana exchanged worried looks.

Uh oh. Guess Yonah’s friends didn’t know. Too late now.

“Y-yes, but he spit him out! He ran off after that.” They relaxed, a bit, but continued to look at her suspiciously.

“And then you called” Sophia ended lamely, “that’s it!”

“And the blood?” Shoshana hadn’t noticed that Sophia failed to explain it.

In reality Sophia just forgot.

“Yonah’s… insides got roughed up by the prince’s armor and I ended up in the line of fire when he coughed”

She looked up from her gown to see the two wizard staring past her. Shoshana grinned wickedly.

“Ah, Yonah, Sophia here has been telling us all about your adventure from not moments ago!”

/“SHE WHAT!”/ cried Yonah. Except, as the words made it to his lips a stabbing pain in his throat stopped him, closing his airways as he coughed himself catatonic. So instead he just sat down and stared at the mirror through a slightly teary haze.

“Yonah, this young woman says that you’re a man-eating giant now! Can you lend credence to this? Has our Yonah truly become the monster that the professors said he would? Yonah, eater of men, kidnapper of princesses!” the sarcasm heavy in Shoshana’s voice.

No. no no no no no. no NO. This was not happening. This day was so crappy to begin with.

“He’s not denying it, so it must be true!” Mica said, matter a factly.

This wasn’t at all how he expected this to go down. He had kept his instances of “man-eating” hidden from his friends, sure that they would never speak to him again if they found out that he’d ever eaten a human.

But… they weren’t mad.

Didn’t matter. Getting teased about it was almost worse. He rubbed the moisture from his eyes.

“It’s not like you go around hunting humans” said Mica before getting serious “and it’s not like you were keeping this hidden while in school. You weren’t, right? You didn’t eat anyone at school? Was tasting us not enough?”

For the first time, Mica and Shoshana looked genuinely worried. Maybe they HAD been wrong about Yonah.

“No, No. I-I didnt eat anyone.” said Yonah, his voice high and quiet, he looked scared, “typically, giants only eat those who break into their houses, to steal or to kill” he recited. They’d heard the line before.

And regardless, the school was never his home, Of course he wasn’t ever interested in eating his fellow students. Tasting them was another matter, plenty of them smelled incredible. His friends did and still do occasionally allow him a taste, just to tease him.

Up until Sophia he wouldn’t have even dared to eat them! It was too dangerous. A thief he could risk swallowing and spitting back up before they died. Standard procedure to shock and punish them. And a Slayer’s life was forfeit. When they failed and escaped they usually returned and one way or another someone would end up dead.

“What about professors? I feel like some of them deserve to be eaten” Mica continued, all previous concern now gone, he was back to antagonizing.

“N-no, I just said that-“ but apparently Mica wasn’t listening and Yonah’s interjections fell upon uncaring ears.

“Like Professor Thuorbir! What a prick.” said Mica.

“I think he was also a giant slayer!” said Shoshana, her voice containing energy that Mica’s didn’t even come close to, “you should totally eat him, he’s still an asshole. Fucker rejected my research proposal for a third time!”

Gods this was not happening. Yonah put his now burning face into his hands.

“I’m not gonna eat Mr.Thuorbir,” Yonah managed to say through is stupor. Though he silently agreed that the man certainly deserved it, regardless of giant slaying. His head was buzzing.

Mica looked at Shoshana incredulously

“Shosh, that was because your proposal was to research a spell that would have turned the entire Mystic Woods PINK, down to the littlest ant! None of the professors would have approved that” he said before turning to Sophia. “The one before that, she wanted to propose researching a spell that would give the caster dominion over all bees. All of them. Knowing full well that attempting godhood is ILLEGAL.”

Sophia giggled and tried to imagine her father’s kingdom becoming a uniform shade of pink. Oh dear. Maybe she should tell her father, in case Shoshana actually attempted it.

“Well, just because they don’t want an army of bees” said Shoshana, nose in the air, arms crossed. “And it wasn’t a proposal to actually do it, just to design a spell that could.”

“I hate you both, you know that,” said Yonah.

“We know you mean love!” said Shoshana.

“Anyways, it can’t have really happened,” said Shoshana. “Not the way you said it did at the very least.”

“What do you mean?” Asked Yonah.

Mica looked at her in shock, he had clearly believed the story. This wouldn’t be the first time Shoshana had gone along with a ridiculous farce just for the drama of it, but as far as he knew, Yonah hadn’t spoken to Shoshana that recently, not without him present. And Yonah’s pain was real, his embarrassment was real.

Shoshana sighed and rubbed at her glasses.

“You don’t believe-“ Sophia started to say

“Oh I believe he’s eaten people. Comes with the territory at this point. But you’re” she eyed Yonah, “You’re kind of, too small to swallow a person whole, right? You’d have to, oh I don’t know, rip into them with your teeth like they were a prime rib.”

/Ugh, what a great image, thanks Shosh/ thought Yonah.

“It’s not really worth trying to claim the prince survived for our benefit. If eating people was a dealbreaker we wouldn’t be friends with dragons or ogres or that Sphinx that guards the gates to the tunnels of-“

“Yonah did swallow the prince whole!” Sophia wasn’t about to let the wizards think she had lied, “And yes, he’s killed a few assholes that way but he let the prince live! And thieves too! He eats them all the time but always lets them go!” She was almost shouting now, “And! And Yonah swallows me all the time! And if you haven’t noticed, I’m in one piece.”

All eyes were on her and everyone was silent, no one moved or blinked, but Yonah’s face became scarlet. Sophia played with her dress in her hands, and looked up at Yonah.

“Um, was I not supposed to tell them that?” she squeaked out.

“Yonah HaEsh, how could you!?” Shoshana yelled, no longer playful, “eat a princess!? You could kill her! She’s not a knight or a giant slayer! What on earth were you thinking? So we need to rescue her from you?”

Yonah’s embarrassment had turned to anger as his hair started to smoke and the roots glowed orange. He was breathing sharp breaths, seething with anger, until one got caught sending him into a into another coughing fit and onto the floor. Sophia took the opportunity to rectify her mistake.

But there was no need. Shoshana has gone white.

“Oh dear, I think I overdid it!”

“You think? Now Yonah thinks we hate him! Next time don’t seem so serious,” Mica chided her. Shoshana muttered something about wasting her skills and addressed Sophia again.

“But seriously, how!” she said, “How does he physically manage to swallow a person whole? And you said he eats you all the time! How the fuck has he managed to avoid fucking up and killing you or the thieves!” color had returned to her face. No longer bothered by Yonah’s plight, even though she had caused it. Mica shot her a death glare.

“Oh like you weren’t thinking the same thing!”

Mica sighed. “I was but I have the manners not to voice it. We could have called back tomorrow. But it’s too late now.”

They both looked at Sophia expectantly.

“Oh um, well, the thieves he just spits up real quick but myself... Yonah, enchanted me, so that he can’t hurt me” Sophia explained everything as Yonah wheezed in the background, still on the floor, but no longer in danger of coughing up a lung.

Shoshana’s eyes sparkled with greed. Mica was deep in thought.

“Wait are you sure this was an enchantment, because it sounds like curse.” Mica finally said.

“Well,” said Sophia, “the difference is a matter of perspective isn’t it.”

Which was true. One could see gems falling from ones mouth when one talked as a blessing, until everyone in the kingdom wanted you as their piggy bank and your voice was hoarse from being made to talk non stop and the economy is ruined by your gem contributions. Then it’s a curse. Becoming a glass statue would be a curse, but that’s not how it worked.

“That must have been an expensive procedure,” said Mica.

“It was, but he got the money from my dad,” Sophia made the last few words harsh and final. She was still bitter that her dad had instructed and funded Yonah to traumatize her into running back home. Jokes on him, it hadn’t worked and Yonah was her friend now! Showed him!

“He managed to only cast half a curse! He could publish with a trick like that” she said thoughtfully, but with a touch of envy.

“There would be a problem with rational,” Mica pointed out, “he would have to invent a fake reason! He can’t say he did it so he could eat one specific person and not worry about them dying!”

Shoshana nodded and laughed.

“To answer your other question, I don't know how he does it, because you’re right, by all means he shouldn’t. But even he doesn’t know.” Sophia said, the wizards were disappointed. Sophia tried to brighten their mood by suggesting they investigate it. They considered this with great pleasure.

“I’m just unable to picture it,” She was talking to Sophia again. “I-“ she shuddered with wicked glee as she had a new thought. “ Yes, I’d like to see it for myself. I don’t suppose, since it was your idea to research this, that you would be willing to give us a demonstration?”

That surprised both Sophia and Mica, but Mica’s grin said that he liked that idea.

Now it was Sophia’s turn to go red. Sophia rubbed her back of her head. Let someone watch? Having just seen Yonah eat the prince, she wasn’t sure if she wanted Yonah’s friends to see it. Even if they had joked about him giving into his more monstrous heritage. Sophia had seen it. That side of him did exist. But it had been her idea. She regretted planting the idea in their stupid wizard brains.

“I’ll, consider it, but Yonah’s in no condition right now.”

“Oh of course not dear! Just call us or something, there’s not rush,” Shoshana winked, “especially if it’s a regular occurrence, plenty of opportunities to observe.”

Yes, Sophia was realizing that about the thieves as well. She wondered how regular they were too, and if she could get involved in thief catching. 

Shaking badly, Yonah got up from the floor, pulling himself up to his stool. His face was very red, and his eyes glistened, tears steaming up his face.

Sophia turned to him “They’re over it, I explained it, you can stop being such a big baby and extinguish yourself”

Yonah glared at her but his head stopped smoldering and his eyes were back to brown.

“I think,” he wheezed, “I think I need to lie down, let the healing drought actually take effect.”

“Yonah darling you do look awful, we’ll get out of your hair, but don’t think we are done talking about this! Next time I expect a demonstration!” said Shoshana “goodbye Princess Sophia it was an absolute pleasure meeting your highness!” and before Mica could say a word she waved a hand in front of the mirror, turning it back to a normally mirror.

“Thank you Mirror” Sophia said, placing a hand on the golden edge. It made a small hum of acknowledgement.

“Come on let’s get you to bed,” Sophia looked up at the disheveled and gaunt wizard who picked her up and held her close to his chest as he walked back to his room. The sun had been up for an only hour yet the day felt like it was already over. He needed a nap.

He released Sophia onto the night stand, took off his hat, did not take off his slightly blood stained night robe, and collapsed face forward on the bed, breathing heavily.

Sophia sighed and climbed down the nightstand and using the still loose bed sheets, climbed onto the bed and onto Yonah. He didn’t protest, or make any sign that he knew she was there, but he had to know.

“Hey, you did good today, and your friends still love you, and I’m still your friend. I don’t think you made friends with that prince but he seemed like a dick so who cares.”

A painful chuckle shook from beneath her as Yonah rolled onto his back, Sophia scrambling to keep up with the rotation. Sitting on his chest as he stared up at the ceiling with his eyes closed. he brought his hand up to pet Sophia gently. His hand was warm and rough, and Sophia leaned into it, tickling his palm.

She fell asleep like that, Yonah’s warm hand of a weighted blanket.

Yonah had one last panicked thought before sleep took him.

/Had Shosh said DEMONSTRATION?/

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[thesundowncrew]

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Who the heck is/are my muse(s) anyway:

In the main crew, we have Sammy, a nerdy ghoul boi who is the embodiment of Samhain (of the Celtic calendar) and Guardian of the Veil; Nightshade, his soul-sister and cat-turned-human witchy familiar; and last but not least Axel, the sadistic, cannibal crow mythos who’s only interested in revenge and fucking people (up).

They’re all super old and supernatural and 2/3 are always happy to meet new people!

Points of interest:

Samhain & Nightshade: guarding the Veil, keeping the balance, protecting innocent humans and mythos alike, adventuring and exploring new places, meeting people and learning new things. Sammy enjoys reading, treasure-hunting and getting lost in his research. Nightshade enjoys cooking, eating, listening to music, and keeping up with the latest memes.

Axel: looking for the biggest, baddest, toughest rivals he can fight to the death with, enjoys challenges, exploring new places, witnessing genocides and mass-murders, causing genocides and mass-murders, fucking people (up) psychologically and physically.

What they’ve been up to recently:

Samhain & Nightshade: their work and responsibilities as Guardians of the Veil. Though the Veil is at its thinnest during Hallow’s Eve (31st Oct), they work 24/7 by hunting malicious spirits and whatever dangerous creatures threatening both humans and mythos that are already existing in the world. When not on the job, they’re either out sight-seeing and visiting friends or chilling at home. They also run a small business from home by making potions, charms and selling spells or rare ingredients. Merchants and traveling caravans often stop by their place so they always have a lot of stock to trade.

Axel: whatever the fuck he wants. Mostly spends his time hunting down prey in the human world, or spreading his wings and exploring new and faraway lands/dimensions. He’s still on his quest to journey to Hell and get his revenge on the demoness who killed his whole family. Always easier said than done, but he’s patient and he plays the long game better than anyone.

Where to find them:

The crew live on an abandoned, magickal island called Sundown. Geographically, it’s somewhere up in Northern Ireland but can’t be marked on any human map. It was magickal long before any of them settled there and because of its supernatural properties, it can hide itself from the naked eye. At the same time the island and its forests are connected to every labyrinth, maze and neck of the woods across worlds and dimensions.

Samhain is always saying that the island has a mind of its own and likes to spirit people away, regardless if their living or dead. People either end up in Sundown when they least expect it, or because it’s where they’re supposed to go.

While you can easily find Samhain and Nightshade at home, Axel can’t stay cooped up in once place too long and travels all over the place. When he’s not hunting, he escapes to the quiet of the wild or the bustling big cities.

Current plans:

The narrative starts with Samhain and Nightshade already experts in their fields and doing their jobs as Guardians of the Veil, and continues with them helping Axel achieve his goal of ultimate payback. The timeline for this blog is infinite after that because I haven’t quite figured out the endgame for anything just yet. Which is why any plot that involves Axel killing Ketele, getting his heart back, and even Nightshade’s life after Samhain’s death, is considered an AU.

In terms of plans for this blog, I’m still working on things so that they can fall into place and serve as proper material for a comic. Once I’ve gotten all my ideas sorted out, those AUs might probably not stay AUs and end up being one huge main timeline.

Desired interactions:

I’d love more threads that explore the darker side of Samhain, whether it’s in the Mainverse or in any of the AUs where he’s not his usual, warm, friendly self or where he’s morally grey. Which is why I love writing him in his criminal verses! Some of my faves are: - Pirate AU: He’s the first-mate and quartermaster who has the gift of ‘Sight’ but he’s as pirate as they come. - Green Eyed Devil: Human-Ghoul hybrid bandit whose crew would do almost anything for money. - Mobprince AU: Classy and more reserved, the quiet but bloodthirsty type. I’ve always been a fan of mobs/gangs/syndicates. - Dark!Samhain: Angsty, overpowered hermit. I rarely get opportunities to write him in this verse which is a shame because I’d like to develop it more.

Nightshade’s all fun and games but once in a while, it’d be refreshing for Nightshade to do a serious thread. Like maybe deal with heavier, more sensitive topics. I’ve emphasized how she’s seen the same amount of horror Samhain has seen but comes out more mentally resilient in comparison, so I’d really like to explore that more about her. I also feel like she hasn’t been able to really connect with anyone as a real friend?? Idk how to explain it but like, I feel like she just floats between different muses and she’s so friendly with everyone, it’s hard to pinpoint whether there is a real connection between them or if it’s just Nightshade being...Nightshade? It’s none of my partners’ faults BTW! I’m reminding me to fix that about myself and how I write her.

Speaking of darker topics, I don’t mind pushing the boundaries when it comes to Axel as long as it doesn’t make anyone uncomfortable. I used to write some disturbing shit with him back in the day (like he broke into a drug lord’s flat and killed everyone in it so he could use it as his personal nest, killed and ate two police officers who were investigating the break-in, mutilated, tortured and ate a rapist alive after catching him in the act etc.). But the partners I used to write with are long gone and I feel like Axel needs to get back into the game again.

Offered interactions:

All of the above as well as anything else from my list of AUs! As mentioned on the page, that list is not the TOTAL list of AUs I’ve got. Some are just really small and still in development, and not enough to justify getting a spot on that list. Honestly, I’m open to plotting and coming up with more AUs so if you’ve got an idea, just hmu! I’ve also got a tag for ‘au ideas’ so you can browse there too if you like and tell me if anything strikes your fancy~

Current open post/s:

I don’t make open posts or starters. I prefer writing starters once my partner and I have something in mind and we’ve plotted enough to go about it.

Anything else?:

Though the blog is advertised as a WEEKEND blog (cus I work 9-5 on weekdays), I am usually lurking online thanks to mobile and will answer IMs when free. I don’t like replying to threads on mobile so I’ll usually reply on the weekends. Unless I’m busy that weekend, then sometimes I change up the rules and reply on a Friday or whenever I’m able.

When I reply to threads, I like to release a bunch at a time and then I’ll tag my partners so that they can see how many threads I’ve replied to out of the total count, like so! The total count often changes because we could have dropped threads in between, or partners go on hiatus and they get moved from ‘ongoing’ to ‘cold’ threads. Because of this, I have a threads page which I try my best to update.

Tagged by Stolen from: @bengalisms

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Replies to ‘Flowers for the Emperor’

So I’m hideously behind on my replies. (Seriously. So far behind that the folks I’m replying to probably don’t even remember what they said, lol.) But dang it, I’m getting them done! Eventually.

I’m gonna do a post for each fic I owe people replies to, so I don’t spam people.

Here’s the replies for the last DAV fic, Flowers for the Emperor.

@w3-4r3-th3-f1r3 said

AAAAAAAAAAAAAH OH MY GOD GUYS GUYS THE FLOWERS OH MY GOD

OHHHH MY GOD I LOVE THE IDEA OF THE WHOLE FLOWER LANGUAGE BEING WRAPPED UP IN FOLK HISTORY SO MUCH

AND THAT POOJA COULD RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE SHZ KNEW THE STORIES THATS SOMETHING THAT MAKZS MY RESEARCH-HAPPY HEART FUCKING SOAR I SWEAR TO GODDDDD

and Leia’s line, “and we’ll have flowers”.. I PUNCHED THE AIR SO HARD I HURT MY ELBOW BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I HEAR HER SAY THAT CLZAR AS DAY IN MY HEAR. AND IT WAS GLORIOUS

Thank you! :) Apparently the moral of this story (and arguably the entire DAV universe) is that it pays to be a nerd. The revolution is fought (and won) with folk tales and poetry and flowers.

@threadsketchier said

  #I HAVE NEVER HIT REBLOG SO HARD IN MY LIFE    #i'm so thirsty for naberrie family fics  #& my thirst is slaked  #night: made  #crack!fic goals  #majestic    #*flaming elmo gif*  #it's ok that we're still not at bespin   #because we get more quality content like this   #the family that slays together  #say it with flowers  #that may be my new tag for this lol  #lastly  #YAAAASSSSSSSSSS

Ha ha thanks. :) This fic basically turned into a vehicle for all my Naberrie headcanons, with a side of double agent Vader shenanigans, so I’m glad you enjoyed that.

Also “say it with flowers” sounds like a catchy advertising slogan and now I’m picturing Darth Vader doing TV ads, so thanks for that.

@miriannemiri said

fabulous!  absolutely fabulous!  the way he told her to get out was fabulous  and just all the inside jokes possible with this  and the way he almost tested her the first time!  Also   as someone who used flower language in literary analysis while getting my master's   this just tickles me   fabulous addition 

Oh my goodness, I’m delighted to get a seal of approval from somebody who actually knows flower language!

I imagine the scene just after the end of the fic is Pooja telling Ryoo all about the different bouquets, and Ryoo cracking up laughing at each one.

@themoosejthm said

#A NEW FIC  #AND IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD  #READ THE THING  #ALSO THAT FAM REUNION IS GOING TO BE AWKWARD AS FUCK  #we also see more of Anakin being an awkward duck and just...swanning away from conversations midway through them  #the language of flowers on naboo is also a thing of beauty  #also it was really beautiful how present Padme was in this piece even though she's been dead for years  #just...FIA AT IT AGAIN WITH THE GOOD FIC   

Yessss, I’m so glad people are commenting on awkward turtleduck Anakin. He’s so awkward, but he gets away with it because people are so terrified that they think he’s being intimidating, when in fact he just...doesn’t know how to end a conversation.

Padme keeps popping up in dreams and memories because the idea of writing a story without her in it at all is just too terrible to contemplate.

@stereden said

#when someone who married into your culture knows your flower language better than you Palpatine it may be time to admit that you're an idiot #can I just say how much I adore the idea of Ekkreth basically telling Palpatine TO HISFACE that he's acting against him and will kill him #FOR PADME #and using Padme's culture to do so #imagine Anakin and Padme spending time together and Padme teaching him about Naboo and her traditions #and Anakin tells her stories of Tatooine #because for all that he hates the planet and what it represents #he learned a lot there #and in his darkest hours it's those lessons he remembers and uses to free himself #one story at a time #one bouquet at a time 

Thank you for these lovely tags!

Palpatine is a Serious Galactic Political Force, the inane superstitions and provincial traditions of villagers and slaves do not concern him.

By the time Pooja sees her first bouquet, Anakin’s been sending them for several years already and got his delivery down to a science, but I think the first time he sent the flowers he actually thought that Palpatine would be able to read them, and he fully expected his Master to take his anger out on him, even if he didn’t suspect Vader as the sender. Anakin was just too depressed to care. But then to his surprise it turned out that Palpatine couldn’t read the secret language of his own people (which, to an Anakin who’s now thinking largely in Tatooine terms, is practically a moral judgment itself). And once he knew he could get away with it, he got really into it.

Both Pooja and Anakin think of the bouquets as Padme’s flowers, though for different reasons.

kiralamouse said

Y’all, if you aren’t reading Double Agent Vader, you’re missing out. It’s fractally beautiful, the little details mirroring the big picture mirroring the middle-ground means, that injustice must be shattered (and shall be, by the reassembled broken bits reforged into immutable objects). Also, secret admirer flowers being secret death threats. Details.

#best au  #incidentally thanks fia for the fact that i can no longer not see your religious worldbuilding in canon  #no seriously thanks  #this fills the hole so perfectly that canon has yet to contradict

Thank you so much for this really beautiful image, wow. I’m flustered.

Also delighted that you like the Tatooine culture. :)

@thecookiemonster77 said

#!!!!!!!!!! #EEEEEEEEE DAV UPDATE!!!!! :DDDDDDD #IM YELL #I love ani what a nerd #*enters conversation* *doesn't know what to do* #*scuttles away* #same ani #same #but also!!!!!!! padmes family!!!!!! pooja!!!!!!!!!!!! #and flower fic!!!!!! #I'm so excited the hate bouquets became an official part of this installment omg #ani u nerd #I'm just. so in love w how they throw their disdain in palatines face #literally #like???? I just love their resistance and how they take whatever humor they can get #and!!!!!! using tales and flowers for rebellion!!!!!!!!!!! #dex as a part of the rebellion!!!!!!!!! #ITS WONDERFUL 

:D I’m so glad people enjoyed awkward!Vader because honestly, he’s so much fun. A giant terrifying nerd. Someday in the future, once a lot of things have come out, Pooja is going to tease him so hard about this.

There’s an old saying that the thing that infuriates the Devil most is being laughed at. I feel like that’s true for Palpatine, as well. Of course, right now he doesn’t realize he’s being laughed at, but there’s a certain satisfaction in that, too. And it keeps people going. Laughter is important for a rebellion.

Also I am literally incapable of not name-dropping Dex at some point in my AUs, so the biggest surprise here is that he took so long to show up.

@fairandfatalasfair said

This was fantastic.

I love the parallel between Ryoo’s research and the traditional stories of Naboo, ignored because how could romantic poetry be relevant? and the insignificant folk stories that inspired Anakin’s change of alleigance.

I love the awkward conversation between Pooja and Anakin, and her complete unpreparedness for being questioned on the floral arrangements by the emperor’s right hand. (I’m not totally sure whether he’s reminding her not to give away the joke, or just checking whether she shared her aunt’s interest in flower language, or something else entirely, but regardless it’s a delightful exchange.)

I love the flower Pooja leaves behind - a last message for the emperor. It’s so in keeping with the rest of what we see of her in this, very different in tone from the gloating, personal hatred of Vader’s bouquets. That principled declaration of unflinching intent to see democracy victorious, hidden in something fragile and beautiful and insignificant, is exactly what she’s been doing here all along. And Palpatine will never know.

#Stories are important

#And everyone knows this except Palpatine

#I'm not even going to go into the dramatic irony because at this point that's just the defining reality of the AU

#But it's still simultaneously delightful and also killing me

#because Pooja's like inches from putting together who sent the flowers and misses it because it just seems too implausible

#okay maybe I'm going into it a little bit

#anyway beautiful story

Thank you for such an epic comment!

This entire AU is not so secretly centered around the power of stories to inspire and create resistance, so I’m glad people are enjoying that. :)

Also I imagine that to someone like Palpatine, things like flower language and folk tales and poetry are all considered childish and feminine, and therefore unimportant. So there’s a double sense of enjoyment in seeing those things lead to his downfall.

Anakin originally approached Pooja in that awkward exchange because he wanted to see if she really understood the meaning of the flowers - and if that meant he actually had an audience for them now. (Anakin’s a little bit of a showboat, tbh, and he hasn’t really been able to exercise that tendency in a long time. Sending messages to Palpatine that the Emperor can’t understand is satisfying, in its way, but it’s much more satisfying to known someone else does understand.)

Only once he’s confirmed that yes, she definitely can read the message, he has no idea how to end the conversation. So he just kind of...leaves. Like the awkward duck he is.

I’m glad you like Pooja’s flower at the end. :) And the important difference, ultimately, between her (and Leia) and Anakin. Anakin’s doing this in some sense for Padme - she loved the Republic so he’ll fight to bring it back - but ultimately, he still doesn’t really believe in the ideal of the Republic, and democracy is still a pretty meaningless concept to him. He’s out for a personal revenge, and he is actually invested in the Tatooine revolution, but the Rebellion as an organization is a lot more abstract to him.

Pooja, though, is really Padme’s ideological heir, even if she’s crafted her public image to be Padme’s opposite. She is fighting for democracy, for a core set of principles, for the ideal of the Republic she genuinely hopes to create.

@astudyinimagination said

#dammit uncle ani pls talk to your niece like a normal person#honestly when everything finally comes out this is going to be the most awkward family reunion in history#in other news#yes that is a washington post reference#i couldn’t resist#and of course the naboo have multiple flowers representing democracy#of course they do#the lyane rose is the flower padme’s parade dress in tpm is made to look like#also i’m continuing my one person campaign to write fema baab as a master spy#in all universes apparently#and finally it’s possible the bits with mon mothma at the end#conflict in minor ways with rogue one

Well, for starters, this is an AU so if anybody minds that it conflicts with Rogue One, that’s just… silly. (And I adored the movie and I ain’t bothered. ;) )

YES ANAKIN TALK TO YOUR NIECE AND DON’T BE SO RUDE. PADME IS PROBABLY FACEPALMING. HONESTLY, ANAKIN.

And what I probably should have started this sort-of review with is that I’m SO GLAD that one tumblr post snowballed into something that made you want to write something as glorious as this. Thank you so much for actually doing it!

AND POOJA IS SO AMAZING. I just… I love the potential of Padme’s nieces as characters. I bet they were amazing. <3 And I love the way you flesh out the Naberries. *gives them all some much-needed hugs*

Oh yes, and the way that this fic is predominantly female characters is lovely. That’s always a plus. :) (Mon Mothma was great. I loved her. And she’s totally enjoying the knowledge that Darth Vader sent an important message through flowers. :D )

I love Pooja’s assessment that Palpatine had never forgiven Padme for being a better person and not being as ambitious as he was. That’s great. :D

I love Leia and Pooja being friends (oh my gosh, they’re cousins and they don’t even know it and cousins who are good friends is a thing I love). And Leia being so gleeful about her bestie’s symbolic shenanigans is wonderful. (I just… it’s odd, maybe, but I just feel like Leia and Anakin are sort of besties—they have a lot that they share with each other that they can’t share with anyone else. They’re unknowingly biological father and daughter, basically adoptive father and daughter… and they’re besties. And that makes me so happy. :) )

“One day we’ll tell all the stories again. And we’ll have flowers.” —I LOVE THIS LINE.

I have to admit, I wouldn’t have thought that there could be a purge of Senators when the Senate is abolished, but it makes sense. And honestly, that part was truly scary in a way that I haven’t felt from any fics in a long time. Maybe because it was a little more real? Pooja’s amazing, but she’s not Force-sensitive and she doesn’t exactly have the Skywalker luck to get out of Situations. (Heck, maybe it even connected with some old recurring nightmares of mine subconsciously, now that I think about it.) That was genuinely scary. *shivers*

So thank goodness Anakin could give Pooja that message, and thank goodness Pooja and her handmaidens and her family got safely away! Here’s hoping she and Anakin saved a lot of lives!

Oh my goodness this comment is epic! :)

Anakin’s always had an awkward streak, but combined with the additional awkwardness of interacting with someone he hasn’t seen in years, who happens to think he’s dead and to be terrified of the person she thinks he is...and then on top of that the realization that, having determined she can indeed read the flower message, he has no idea where to take the conversation next.... Welp. Better to just nope on out of there.

(Also Darth Vader is frequently awkward in the movies and I feel like fandom doesn’t talk about that enough, so I’m on a quest to write awkward!Vader as often as possible.)

I’m glad you enjoyed all my Naberrie headcanons! I had lots of fun with them and I really need to write them more.

Mon Mothma was great. I loved her. And she’s totally enjoying the knowledge that Darth Vader sent an important message through flowers. :D 

She so is. Honestly she’s probably hoping for The Reveal just so she can finally tell people this ridiculous but true story.

I love Pooja’s assessment that Palpatine had never forgiven Padme for being a better person and not being as ambitious as he was. That’s great. :D 

Thanks! I suspect Pooja is right on the money, too, though of course she doesn’t know that Palpatine also has the joy of tormenting Anakin with his endless parties on the anniversary of Padme’s death. But I think he’d have done the same thing even without Anakin, because he really did hate Padme on her own account.

Pooja and Leia already having a pretty close friendship is going to make at least one part of The Reveal easier. And yeah, I think Leia and Anakin do see each other primarily as friends, with a father-daughter dynamic because it’s a friendship with that level of age gap. It’s not unlike the relationship between Shmi and Anakin, actually: a parent-child relationship that’s really a partnership, a relationship between equals. Leia calls Anakin her teacher, and he does consider her his student (though he’s never actually used that language), but the relationship doesn’t look anything like any teacher-student relationship in his experience. He’s not her master, and neither of them have ever called her his apprentice. He doesn’t give her orders. He doesn’t tell her not to ask questions. They’re friends.

My headcanon for this ‘verse is that the entire Senatorial contingent of the Rebellion got out before Palpatine dissolved the Senate, so this operation, at least, was a resounding success. :) And while Palps must think that someone tipped them off, it certainly couldn’t have been Vader, who was light years away chasing down Princess Leia above Tatooine, and who has always hated politicians anyway.

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Exam Lifehacks: When You Still Have a Month Left

i know lot of people did this before, but i like the visual poster so yeah here yo go, with my kind of words tho:

Music is Instrumental

most of us like to listen to music while studying, when some people dont. but let me tell you, it helped me a lot to get focus on what im studying. you could choose yourself the genre(s) you like because this is super subjective. i personally dont like slow music, yes all those ambient and classical also video game soundtracks! (even the video game soundtracks are upbeat ha still no.) ive tried it before but it ended up with my head upside my books and im in the dreamland yall. in the picture it suggests you to choose between these genres:

- downtempo

- post rock

- ambient

- classical

- instrumental hiphop

- video game soundtracks

- movie scores

- deep house

but here you go all i’ll give you my personal choice of playlist while studying! (spotify only)

Punk Goes Pop Vol. 1-6

Hardstyle Baby

Zoedic 2017 

A Sudden Rainstorm (yes i love hearing the sound of a rain! imagining the smell of the road when its raining~ how lovely)

Pomodoro Technique

this technique is basically everywhere. but i dont really use this pomodoro since im such an unplanned person (i do get rest whenever i want lol) but i’ll try this technique more! ive read lot of masterposts said it works! so i guess i dont really have to explain what is this technique.

Distraction Apps

Forest: Stay Focused, Be Present

personally my fav because theres still the whitelists i really need to, like LINE and Browser. and its cute omg who doesnt like to plant a tree?

SelfControl

block spesific websites for up to 24 hours; unfortunately Mac user only.

Cold Turkey

“Cold turkey” describes the abrupt cessation of a substance dependence and the resulting unpleasant experience, as opposed to gradually easing the process through reduction over time or by using replacement medication. hah lol nah thats a wikipedia description lol sorry im such an awkward;( yeah it blocks spesific websites for a scheduled time, this app? offers lot of features.

Freedom

it prevents from using internet at all. paid but theres a free trial.

i dont really know the others since the only thing i use for this is Forest, yay to Forest *cheers*!

The Seinfeld X Technique

its basically just dont break the habits challenge! with all the x-s in your calendar or bullet journal or monthly spread or everything you want to! which you use for studying.

Light Exercise

wow? do anyone really exercise while studying? oh god… how (ok this makes nonsense)

but here’s what the pic tells to do while studying (dont do all choose one i know you dont have thousand legs and thousand arms)

- treadmill

- stationary bike

- chair squats

- abdominal lifts

- trapezius squeeze

- bicep curls

goodluck if you trying this method ok i dont have any idea what those things are lol (sorry another nonsense)

Change of Scenery

… Many study skills courses insist that students find a specific place, a study room or a quiet corner of the library, to take their work. The research finds just the opposite. In one classic 1978 experiment, psychologists found that college students who studied a list of 40 vocabulary words in two different rooms - one windowless and cluttered, the other modern, with a view on a courtyard - did far better on a test than students who studied the words twice, in the same room. Later studies have confirmed the finding, for a variety of topics.

The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious. It colors the terms of the Versailles Treaty with the wasted fluorescent glow of the dorm study room, say; or the elements of the Marshall Plan with the jade-curtain shade of the willow tree in the backyard. Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding.

“What we think is happening here is that, when the outside context is varied, the information is enriched, and this slows down forgetting,” said Dr. Bjork, the senior author of the two-room experiment.

GODNESS i sound so smart lol nah i dont know how to explain so i search that for yall, source is here. but the warning is unbelievably true! do not study on that comfort zone because it brings you to your lovely neverland aka sleep, i usually sit on a woody chair or just sit on the floor (but sometimes in bed too but this require much willing to study.)

—-thank you for reading this! i hope it helps somehow, i love yall

oh and…

picture creds.

anyway this masterpost is made because i just hit 100 followers! well actually 106 only in 2 days yall are so wonderful

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We have been frequently thinking about how precisely better to organise that which we need to state

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flip your presentation format

Conference presentations. We nearly also have one approaching someplace.

Now, there’s a complete great deal discussing seminar https://domyhomework.services presentations and exactly what can make a mistake together with them. People read dull papers. They usually have interminable and defectively designed slides. And additionally they come to an end of the time to have their key point around. You don’t might like to do any one of that. You desire visitors to be interested and also to pay attention.

It is beneficial to consider a seminar presentation to be an account – a tremendously specific kind of narrative – it is an account you will inform a real real time market regarding the work. So just how does the whole tale get?

Well, let’s have a look at exactly what many people do, the educational equivalent of when upon a period… a lot of people have a tendency to provide their empirical work with the exact same purchase that they normally use to write a journal article. They normally use sort of standard IMRaD framework which appears nearly the same as your order of things below.

This format is needless to say definitely fine. absolutely absolutely Nothing incorrect along with it after all. As soon as upon time will bring you going. And also this default framework is exactly what lot of men and women expect you’ll see in a presentation.

However the issue is that for those who haven’t got a whole lot of the time then you can end up rushing by the end to try and create your heavily weighed. You are doing IMR and hurry the advertising.

It is very easy to do. You simply need to spend a few minutes a long time on the literature or concept or practices or in the outcomes, and also you end up abbreviating probably the most thing that is important want your market to learn – your point. Along with your market has received to wait patiently a reasonable time you then race through for you to get to that point which.

One alternative would be to flip your order regarding the narrative. Yes that’s right. Flip it. Get the part of very very very early. Grab your attention that is audience’s right the beginning.

The flipped narrative begins exactly the same way while the standard. You pose your issue or concern and explain why it is crucial. However now, you offer your solution instantly. After this you invest the rest associated with the right time showing your market the manner in which you reached that summary.

As well as the end that is very just require a few momemts to share with individuals whatever they – or someone else – has to do. It is possible to truncate the outcomes pretty effortlessly and proceed the to just what exactly.

When you flip the story, you might well keep down a little regarding the literature work (as above) – and perhaps that is not such a negative thing for a presentation. In the end, folks have started to hear your message that is big the way you surely got to it.

And when you come to an end of the time, at the least individuals understand what you researched and everything you claim, regardless of if they don’t understand all the information regarding exactly how and just why. When they understand the point, in addition to form of the argument, they might very well be more likely to adhere to up afterwards – presenting a lengthy preamble and telegraphing the punch-line may possibly not be therefore conducive to help expand research of one’s work.

Now, message first as above isn’t the way that is only flip a presentation narrative. You could try out different ways of moving the standard order around, taking into consideration the story line it is possible to build with every variation.

We usually do variants in the message first format whenever I’m keynotes that are doing generally weave relevant literatures through my narrative rather than provide them individually. We often perform some issue and practices ahead of the a key point and then explain exactly just just how this had become. This seems to be work nicely for big tasks with lots of information.

You additionally have a close friend in Powerpoint in contemplating tale. Slides are excellent for shuffling your presentation narrative order. And while you have fun with your order of activities in your tale, consider carefully your market and also the message you truly want them to listen to and get hold of using them. Rehearse the narrative in your mind you can use to make your information work best as you think about which order.

Give it a shot if the works that are flip you.

summer reading – or – not totally all reading is the identical

Academics frequently anticipate doing their very own operate in summer time – the task they can’t reach during term time. We compose bids, documents and publications during our . And something associated with the means we have ourselves in to the right writing framework of thoughts are to read – and look at the reading.

I’ve got a few things that are reading the look at summer time. I’ve a bid to publish, and a few documents. Indulge me personally while We describe exactly what this really means i’m doing. I really hope to demonstrate you that most reading just isn’t the exact exact same. We read things that are various different purposes, and as a result of that, we do various things using the texts.

The bid – reading for what’s not there

The bid Im focusing on has been a outside research partner. I have worked together with her a whole lot. We now have understood one another for approximately fifteen years but started really collaborating about eight years back. We’ve now done research that is funded written together and co-supervised. This will be a term that is long relationship and therefore means i’ve a reasonable concept of the types of items that she and her organisation are thinking about.

Recently, and without specially wanting to, I experienced concept for a study task. It simply is actually something that my research partner and I also have idly discussed over time. In a small Eureka minute, We realised that the idle conversation had been really a research-project-in-waiting. We emailed my colleague and sketched out of the concept. She ended up being enthusiastic, when I knew she will be. Then again she stated that she was especially enthusiastic about one facet of the concept. In reality, it absolutely was something that concerned her. Plus it had been something her organization is thinking about having examined.

It was feedback that is great. This is now our concept. I let her remarks sit for a time after which had another aha minute. We went back once again to her by e-mail once again and said “ Well why don’t we make that the research concern?” As well as a response that is affirmative straight straight back.

We ‘d started at that time to find yourself in the literatures. I wasn’t starting from scratch right right right here. We currently knew a great deal of areas and texts We had a need to consist of, and I also knew a number of the key article writers. But I could see that there was almost nothing about the very thing we were/are looking at as I systematically noted and mapped. (a hooray that is small. But there clearly was loads of material about associated topics which tellingly left it down. Therefore, for us to complete. once we thought, there was clearly one thing) we also discovered someone noting the gap – very useful. We could be confident in saying that there clearly was nevertheless an important in addition to of good use share we are able to make through our proposed task.

We delivered my initial scoping to my research partner. We then came across one on one to talk, decide whether or not to continue and in case so, to concur a possible research design. My research partner also promised to incorporate some more texts for me personally to consider. August my job now, as this IS my job, as my research partner has another job, is to write a draft by the end of.

Composing the bid will involve more reading thus. Only if half of that which we read goes into the bid text, that does not matter, we know the fields we are straddling and say that to the reviewers through carefully selected references as we have to be sure.

The reading and reasoning I’m doing listed below are to start up and place work that is new. We clarified an “industry” issue after which seemed to see just what research there currently had been. And right right right here, we had been looking just as much for just what there was clearly– that is n’t exactly what could possibly be – in addition to just just what there was clearly.

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Any 17 year olds just got car insurance? (UK)?

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Health and life insurance?

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Car insurance for a 16 year old?

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How can I lower my insurance rates at 19?

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How long until my insurance drops back down after you have an accident?

How long does it take for it to go back down to where it was before you had the accident?

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Will women protest being forced to pay LESS for life and auto insurance than men?

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How do I advertise to people in California qualified to buy car insurance?

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Is it cheaper insurance for you to be a named driver if your parent owns the car?

Im 17, a boy and i want cheap car insurance, is that a better way to get it?""

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Obviously a Harleys insurance is going to be huge, but what would be cheaper a 125cc supermoto, a 125cc naked bike or a 125cc sports bike? Also what make of bike would be cheapest like yamaha or Suzuki, but none of the Chinese crap""

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Two years ago, I was sitting in a parking space waiting for my friend. He pulled in on the left side, and his right front fender crashed into my rear left quarter panel, causing some ugly damage. Long story short, I didn't get his insurance information. He said he would give it to me later. It has been two years, and the past few weeks I've really gotten on his case to get the information or for him to fix the damage. It has been excuse after excuse, and he now wont answer phone calls. I can get his license number, name and address, so I'm wondering if I need to call my insurance company or the police to get this fixed. I don't need friends like this but I'm wondering if the statute of limitations in california has run out, or if I won't have any luck calling the police. I just want the car fixed, and the damage is estimated at 500 dollars. Any ideas?""

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  Optimization is the act of making the best or most effective use of a situation or resource. As consumer behavior and technology changes, we must focus on digital branding optimization to ensure we are meeting the needs of our audience.

This article will outline 3 tips for digital branding optimization. Use these tips to get more customers, clients, and leads.

Optimization plays a major role in how we do business and live our lives. Whether it’s analyzing our business for inefficiencies or going to the doctor for a checkup, we naturally try to optimize all aspects of our lives. Simply put, if we don’t optimize, we don’t get better.

Regardless if you have developed a few pieces of your digital brand or have fully established one, you need to focus on digital branding optimization to effectively grow your brand and connect with your audience.

Digital branding is about establishing your brand’s story and presence in the digital space. It is the key to establishing a meaningful connection with your target audience. It’s about using your unique proposition to differentiate yourself and your offerings from the competition.

Understanding Your Digital Brand Footprint

As you begin the process of digital branding optimization, you must understand the components of your digital brand footprint.

A digital brand footprint is a visual map of how and where a brand lives online, where target groups spend time online, and how these properties are or are not connected via brand behavior and communication.

Specifically, your hub paid/owned/earned platforms, and overall brand health makes up your digital brand footprint map.

The Hub – Where we ultimately want consumers to find us and what we want them to accomplish while they’re there.

Paid Platforms – Where the brand purchases impressions or interactions online

Owned Platforms – Digital Beachheads That The Brand Has Either Built or converted and their relative traffic.

Earned Media – The Current Means, Volume, Sentiment, and Substance of Consumer Brand Mentions.

Brand Health – Visitation, Update Frequency, Interaction Levels, Audiences, and Interconnectivity.

Digital Branding Optimization Tip #1: Use Data to Create Content

It doesn’t matter who I’m working with.  Whether I’m working with an individual looking to build their business or a large company looking to enhance their digital brand, what I often find is that people continue to create more and more content. They believe the more content they create, the better the chance they have to connect with customers.  And they find themselves stuck on the content creation hamster wheel.

The need to continuously publish content often leads to brands creating content for content’s sake. They publish time after time and hold vanity metrics such as views and shares in high-regard. If one piece of content does not garner enough attention, they attempt to create one that will. This activity is detrimental to your brand as it will condition you to create content that based on your brand’s objectives and not your consumer’s.

This is the very reason why you should use data to create content from the beginning.

What do I mean by that exactly?

Well, start with the data that you’ve collected on your target audience and then create content around their wants, needs, and challenges.  For example, the questions that your audience ask via social media, the information was given to a call center representative, or things you overhear customers mention about your brand are all considered data points. Use these to fuel your content creation process. This digital branding optimization tip will increase conversions and brand reach as it focuses more on your audience and not your brand.

DBI TIP: If you find yourself creating content specifically for a campaign, you should determine if the campaign itself is based on consumer objectives and not solely on the brand.

  Digital Branding Optimization Tip #2: Showcase Brand Personality

If you notice your brand’s content is missing the mark or not getting the level of engagement you seek, try showcasing more of your brand personality.

As the adage goes, people like to do business with people they know like and trust. As brands engage with consumers in the digital space, they are expected to showcase more brand personality. At the end of the day, personality is what makes a memorable connection. Right?

For instance, if you’ve ever watched a reality show and noticed there’s always one person that attempts to overrun the show with their outgoing personality. Some of us may find them annoying but many somehow seem to make it to the next season or (even better) have their own spin-off series.

The point I’m trying to prove here is that reality show stars (or in this case brands) with personality are the most memorable. People gravitate toward these brands as their engagements seem to rise above all others. A good example

    How to Optimize Your Brand Personality

If you are looking to showcase more brand personality, I would focus on your objective, your promise, and  (of course) your personality.

Let me explain…

Objective

Ask yourself the following questions:

How will you deliver a unique message? Being different is what separates you from the competition (both literally and figuratively).

How will you be transparent? It is expected that brands are transparent when communicating on social media. So, in what ways do you think your brand can open up more and let your target audience understand you, your business processes, and the person or people behind the brand?

Promise

After you have engaged with your audience, how are you going to express your promise of helping the consumer? Similar to in the physical world, in the digital space sometimes people just aren’t inviting. They may have a voice that isn’t warm and welcoming. When asked a question, they may respond in short fashion and not elaborate to ensure the person understands. Ultimately, your digital brand voice should be the opposite.

Personality

Consider personality the window to the soul of your brand. It provides your audience with a glimpse of who/what your brand is and the relatability of your engagements. Ultimately, being relatable is the goal.

Ask yourself the following questions:

When people engage with your digital brand what impression will they walk away with?

Would you like to be seen as full of life or laid back?

Your brand’s tone of voice enhances your brand story. It distinguishes you from the competition by providing unique engagements with consumers. It makes you human, which allows you to cut through the clutter while simultaneously building authority. It also puts you at the forefront of digital communication by incorporating human interaction in the written text your customer will most likely consume before contacting your organization.

Personality Increases Visibility

If you noticed your reach and visibility on Facebook is less than optimal during your digital branding optimization efforts, please keep reading.

It is important to note the Facebook Newsfeed change will affect your visibility as promotional messages are inhibited from being displayed on user’s Newsfeeds.

Facebook has allowed brands the opportunity to reach niche consumers with marketing messages within a matter of minutes. As a result, brand posts on the network have sky-rocketed.

Facebook understands this uptick in brand posts and is taking action. Mark Zuckerberg has built a billion-dollar empire that provides a WAY for brands to advertise but cannot dictate HOW brands advertise.

We’ve heard from our community that people are still worried about missing important updates from the friends they care about. For people with many connections this is particularly important, as there are a lot of stories for them to see each day. – Lars Backstrom, Engineering Director at Facebook

The biggest threat to Facebook is probably the brand’s that advertise on the network.

Brands are taking over Facebook like the undead during the zombie apocalypse.

Like zombies, brands have started to consume the lives of Facebook users by incorporating brand messaging into the Facebook Newsfeed.

Facebook says you need to post what people what to see. If you’re really into the zombie thing, then post loads of promotional messages. Messages in which Facebook describes as:

Posts that solely push people to buy a product or install an app

Posts that push people to enter promotions and sweepstakes with no real context

Posts that reuse the exact same content from ads

Facebook differentiates between organic promotional posts and those that are paid ads, saying that ad content is controlled, so users are “used to” a certain amount of ads on their newsfeed.

However, when page owners push a lot of promotional content in their organic posts, it can be a turn-off to fans.

So, when executing your digital branding optimization, check to see if your brand messages and engagements can showcase more of your brand personality.

Digital Branding Optimization Tip #3: Improve Brand Signals

What Are Brand Signals?

Basically, the more a brand is mentioned from external sources, the more search engines will perceive it as important — which improves search results.

Rand Fishkin of Moz provides insight on how Google’s brand-signal algorithm might function:

Potential Brand Signals

There are several ways to increase the volume of brand searches to your site, and most methods involve your traditional digital brand building activities.

Some potential brand signals include:

Brand Name Anchor Text: Branded anchor text is a strong brand signal.

Branded Searches: If people search for your site in Google (ie. “DBI twitter”, DBI + “branding”), search engines may take this into consideration when determining a brand.

Brand has Facebook Page and Likes: Brands tend to have Facebook pages with lots of likes.

Brand has Twitter Profile with Followers: Twitter profiles with a lot of followers convey a popular brand.

Official Linkedin Company Page: Most real businesses have company Linkedin pages.

Employees Listed at Linkedin: Rand Fishkin thinks that having Linkedin profiles that say they work for your company is a brand signal.

Brand Mentions on News Sites: Really big brands get mentioned on Google News sites all the time.

Co-Citations: Brands get mentioned without getting linked to. Google likely looks at non-hyperlinked brand mentions as a brand signal.

How to Improve Brand Signals For Digital Branding Optimization

Now that you understand the importance of brand signals to increase visibility in search rankings, here are specific tactics to implement.

Produce Content on Brand’s Expertise. A brand’s content makes it easier for search engines to understand the brand, and allows the brand name to be associated with the search.

Get Press Coverage. Similar to human perception, search engines will also perceive someone as an authority if the press mentions the brand.

Become A Guest Contributor. This tactic is a way to generate traffic, brand impressions, and build trusted signals that search engines can use to gauge your site’s importance and expertise.

Build Your Social Media Following. One of your brand’s biggest sources of branded signals is the activities that take place on social media.

What types of signals might Google employ to determine if a site is a “brand” or not?

Have people working for you

Own your social pages (verified accounts)

Have you registered with relevant government or trade associations

Do you get branded search volume for your name

Do you run offline marketing and advertising campaigns

Do you have an office address and physical presence

When you conduct your digital branding optimization execution and find that your visibility is less than optimal, be sure to implement some of the aforementioned tips to enhance your visibility within search engine results.

Final Thoughts

Digital branding optimization is a great way to discover how your target audience is interacting with your brand. It provides an indication of their experience being converted from a prospect to a customer.

And great marketers know, until you truly understand your customers you’ll never be able to market to them effectively. So, instead of analyzing, tweaking, and optimizing our communications. Let’s start focusing on our consumers, and let that relationship drive our campaigns. And a great way to do this is through digital branding optimization.

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