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Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds– whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index– Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B– Stepmother and Stepdaughter)

Vasilisa, Vasilisa the Wise (or Beautiful) (Slavic)

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I feel like there’s needs to be, like, handbook for authors who post on Ao3 for effective metatext.

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

I think it would do fandom a lot of good.

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I reference this meme so often and nobody ever gets the reference. It's so distressing

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writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

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This is how white women talk to each other when they want each other DEAD

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did nobimaru ever do anything wrong. really. like idk i think we can make a compelling argument hes just the worlds most special little girl

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Summer Thin by @hoshikumas!

also closer look at thinsue chibis

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“hes a woman to me” IS HE? or are you equating women with submissive character traits you've arbitrarily put on a random man

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u/Emotional-Macaroon64

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The criticisms of warrior cats that includes acknowledgement of the racism in the series since the beginning makes Warrior cats fans mad because it’s very likely due to the fact that that they themselves oddly equate “Liking a book series being criticized for its racism” to “These people are calling Me racist”. So pushback is inevitable because they are preoccupied with not being called racist

Of course we can properly respond back with telling it how it is: No you’re not racist for being a fan of a book series with racism in the writing this is a criticism towards the writing choices and authors

But also at this point it happens in such large waves and with such insane amounts of aggressive pushback from the opposing side, that we should just start agreeing with these people that they are in fact racist for liking warrior cats and they’re going to die and we’re going to kill then

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sometimes men are obsessed with other men not because theyre secretly gay but because theyre so misogynistic that they literally dont view women as people worthy of any degree of attention or value

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So lately I’ve noticed all the different kinds of girls on tumblr. The ones that have the pictures with all the notes? These five types of girls are basically all the types of girls I see on my dash. Minus the nekked girls, but I didn’t really want to draw that so :T 

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Minas insta feed (pt 1 )

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I think about that post with the guy who said “as a Croatian I found a job inland processing uranium” and everybody was like “Croatia isn’t inland and it doesn’t produce uranium” and someone posted an article about the discovery of an illegal uranium refinery in the inland part of Croatia a year after the original reblog on a daily basis

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the resurrection (2025) by ben tuna (via ig)