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"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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Magic System

I don't really have a hard magic system, but there's some good whump in it so I thought I could explain that anyway

Aether is a magical energy that exists within everything. Most people have only trace amounts, but it can be trained to become stronger. So while technically anyone could learn to do magic, only a few could become truly great. However, learning magic is dangerous, time-consuming and to attend a school -a legal requirement in Aenora- very expensive. So most people don't bother at all.

Using magic will consume aether which gradually replenishes overtime. As you train, you will hold more aether allowing you to cast more magic before fatigue. Fatigue means your aether is running low, and you should not cast anymore. Not only does magic exhaustion come with an array of dangerous effects -which we'll get into later- it also runs the risk of using all your aether. You must have at least a little bit for it to replenish. If your aether runs out entirely, you will never use magic again, and experience life-long difficulties.

Some people are born without aether. While the effects are not as severe as they would be in someone who ran out, being born without aether will still affect your quality of life. Such people experience higher rates of depression, have weaker immune systems, and are more likely to develop a chronic illness. Aether is in itself a sort of lifeforce; you can survive without it, but you'll always feel as though something is missing. This is harder in people who lost their aether through overuse - you don't know how important it is to you until it's gone. And the stronger you were, the harder you fall.

I said that training magic is dangerous. That's because aether is like a parasite. Or maybe more like rabies.

It's very important to be properly trained in magic - not only does all the usual dangers come with it, but it's also crucial to find the balance. You want to be strong, of course; but not too strong. Most mages are quite similar in strength, but there are some natural outliers with more or less.

If your aether grows too powerful, it begins to override the brains shutdown systems. Instead of the body shutting down aether access, the aether takes command of the body to shut down other systems. Overusing aether makes you feel cold anyway, now you simply can't retain any body heat. It's cold, so so cold, a chill buried deep within your bones and there's nothing you can do. Your limbs suddenly become so heavy, until it seems you can't move them at all.

Brain fog that can linger for days, weeks afterwards. A drastically reduced healing rate as the magic steals your lifeforce for itself. You must eat more, to keep replenishing stolen energy but you're not hungry, your stomach swirls with nausea and you're so tired, you can barely even lift your head.

Your vision fades, the world going dark and blurry. You are not the priority anymore. You are merely the host, and It doesn't care if you live or die. Because It's stronger than you, now. Magic is a lifeforce on it's own, you need It; It doesn't need you. You are temporary; It is eternal.

You shouldn't use any magic now, not until a complete recovery. Just relax, let it happen and you'll soon bounce back. Should you insist on using magic anyway, your organs will slowly shut down, unable to keep up, it's so much work with so little to work with. Eventually, your mind will degrade, giving into corruption. You are no longer a mage. You are a vessel, controlled entirely by the arcane forces you were meant to command.

There are stories of animated corpses... puppets of their own power, the only thing keeping the rotting flesh together...

But those are exceptionally rare. When all is said and done, the aether is quite happy to return back to the earth; It is, after all, Everything.

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Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

> Don’t give him a baby for a while.

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the fact that Jesper is written to have aspects of adhd beyond the "haha he can't focus" part a lot of people tend to reduce it to is genuinely so important to me. AND that those things actually affect him and his self esteem realistically. he's not reduced to dumb comic relief that has adhd because it's quirky and gets diversity points, he's an actual character, and his adhd is an actual part of him, not a label they slapped on to make him more relatable.

he has time blindness, he's impulsive, he stims/fidgets (and i mean actually fidgets), he's forgetful, he has rsd, he has emotional dysregulation, and he has an addiction (people with untreated adhd are more likely to develop addictions because of under stimulation and seeking dopamine). he is a vibrant, real character, with real struggles that i relate to so deeply. he will always be so very special to me.

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So apparently Tumblr ate my original post about this but:

A couple weeks ago I’m going to get lunch and as I open the fridge, my mother attempts to communicate to me that any chicken currently in the fridge is ok for people to eat, because the chicken that was intended for the dog to eat has been used up.

What she actually says is, “That’s human chicken.”

After taking a minute to process all horrible implications of the phrase “human chicken”, I decide to go a different route and hold the tupperware of chicken out to my sister, saying, “Behold, a man!”

This was evidently the wrong choice, as it meant I had to explain to my parents who Diogenes was, thereby cementing the incident in their minds and leading to me, just now, opening the fridge to see the following incredibly cursed image:

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hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

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Every time this post gets a note I'll drink some water

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I know Wylan’s line of ‘just girls?’ seems to imply that Kerch is a heteronormative society but I think it would be objectively funny and also incredibly in character for Wylan to assume he managed to fall for the one straight guy in all of Ketterdam. Like yeah queerness is the standard but Wylan is over here thinking with his luck he’ll have managed to find the one fucking guy who only likes girls. And then the guy in question is the most overt bisexual you’ve ever seen.

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I've never seen a bigger example of rich and miserable. She has nothing better to do than be a straight white woman that feels entitled to every space.

"I stand for women's rights... except those asexual ones because according to me who doesn't even identify with the community, they aren't real even though asexual women speak on the challenges they face and hardships they go through, but because I'm a straight white women I feel entitled to every space!"

Like fuck off. Anyone who agrees with her fuck off. If you think you're a feminist for supporting this behavior your not. You don't stand with a miserable rich woman who feels like attacking random communities at different hours of the day. That is not what a feminist does.

She and her supporters can kiss my natural black asexual ass 💋

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I.. what is with people and downplaying what Andre did while trying to pin more blame on chloe??

A few reasons

1.) the general bias of teenage girls vs grown men

2.) Situations like this tend to lean this way because just. People wanna put things in boxes. Blaming one or the other can feel like excusing someone's actions. Yes Chloé needs to take responsibility for her actions, while the adults who put her in this situation need to take more responsibility.

But /saying/ that can easily be put as 'Chloé did nothing wrong blame her parents instead'. Or vice versa in 'sure her parents sucked but it's not like they held her hand through the whole event to make her do it'.

It's a situation that has nuance and a lot of people don't really like that.

3.) Andre's abuse is very....... insidious. Like up until the last bit of blaming her and saying she deserves to be abused and disowning her, it almost doesn't /feel/ like abuse. After all, he's showering her with gifts and using his authority to do things in her name. Surely that's the sign of a loving parent wanting to do everything for their child, right?

But when you look closer. Chloé's emotional needs are not being taken care of. She's not being taught how to regulate her feelings and deal with situations that don't go her way. She's not getting any education either because he's making sure teachers just blindly pass her. She's being taught how to lie and cheat and abuse power to get what she wants and to treat her peers horribly.

But it's not like he's constantly insulting her like Audrey is. It's not like either parent is causing her physical harm. And whether Andre's actions are intentional, a result of his own victimization, or genuinely him thinking he's doing a good job.... it's still abusive.

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Reblog if its ok for your moots to stalk your blog and interact with everything you've posted.

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Genuinely don't know what it's called but there's a particular way of violating reality that doesn't work. For example, I am willing to accept an omegaverse university AU of nearly any fandom you care to name (except, for some reason, Sherlock, because I have an inexplicable hatred for unilock). However, a lot of Star Wars university AUs specifically fail on this aspect: they make Anakin an engineering PhD student and Obi-Wan something like literature or classics, and then they make Anakin his TA or GA.

You can't do that. Absolutely not. Anakin is unqualified for that and a university would not do it in any case. A university would literally hire a junior or senior undergraduate workstudy student to do as much of that work as possible first. They would do NOTHING other than do that and make the prof do all his own grading.

Is there a name for "I will accept [wild fantasy premise] but not [ordinary wrong thing]?" Please tell me there's a name for this. Probably someone who studies lit will know? I'm a systems person I don't know from lit theory just like Anakin

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hate J K Rowling button. love asexuals button.

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NEW MIRACULOUS OC ALERT

disclaimer: i have not watched s6 and probably won't anytime soon.

Kim Tae-Yong (김 태용), originally from Seoul in South Korea. Came to Paris with her parents at the end of S3. Kind of obsessed with superheroes, followed all kinds of blogs about them back in Korea. She's probably going to end up with a miraculous, I'm just not sure which one, and she loves indie horror movies and trashy romance books. Uhhhh, a bio for her is coming soon, but that's all I have for now.

I will draw her soon, I swear, I just kind of ended up making her on picrew, oops. Anyways, it's called Rkane Picrew, and I don't currently have the link. I have other ocs in the works, don't worry.

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MOTHER?