Writing, geeky stuff, folklore, storytelling. Ideally most of what you find here will be things that I find bring a smile to my face (or a groan in the event of puns). For reference (and because I am currently mimicking a friend's profile setup): white agnostic cis male of undisclosed political opinion and with allegiances to groups are you likely to never hear about. Folklorist,writer and barista, I really need to find a better header to put here. If you have questions ask away.
Privileged folk ridiculing safe spaces is so funny as if men don’t refuse to enter “girly” stores and have “man caves”, as if white people don’t avoid black neighbourhoods, as if straight people don’t ostracise gay people from their social circles, like who’s really the one with the safe spaces lol
I know it has been talked about before but I want to talk about wizarding tattoos and piercing again. Here’s just a couple ideas.
A tongue ring that you wear to ward off minor hexes and jinxes.
A Tattoo of a tree where the leaves change depending on the season.
A pair of matching tattoos of a piece of parchment that can be wrote on to send messages.
You see this dagger I have tattooed on my calf? It comes off into my hand as a real weapon when I’m in danger.
A little dragon that flies around your left forearm.
A pin-up witch that winks and waves at you.
A tattoo that starts off as a rune but once you fall asleep and wake up in changes into something that is similar to your patronus, something that symbolizes who you are.
A tattoo on somebodies wrist that warms up and changes color when they need to take their medications.
Ear piercings that translate everything around you into your native language.
Lip piercing that do the same, except when you speak you speak the language of whoever you’re speaking to.
A small bird tattoo behind your ear that chirps and whistles to you when you’re anxious.
A tattoo of your child that ages with them.
A tattoo for those that are hard of hearing or deaf and are unable to read lips at that moment that displays the words of the person speaking to them on their hand.
A nose ring that is charmed that long as you are wearing it you will never lose your keys.
A flower scene where some flowers only will bloom at certain times.
little nocturnal animal tattoos like raccoons that only show up on your skin after dark.
a tattoo of digital numbers on your wrist that tell the time.
i love cutthroat kitchen but bingewatching makes it really stand out how often alton brown refers to himself as ‘daddy’ and makes contestants wear spreader bars
Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America
Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police in recent years.
Well he already had practice as Death in Soul Music
I will always remember Christopher Lee as that horrifying moment in the LOTR commentaries where Peter Jackson says he started to direct him on how to act like he’d been stabbed and Christopher Lee goes “no no peter dear, when someone is stabbed like this, THIS is how they look, they don’t make a sound, air just leaves them all at once” and peter jackson remembers in that moment that lee was in the secret service and just slowly backs away.
I will always remember Christopher Lee as that horrifying moment in the LOTR commentaries where Peter Jackson says he started to direct him on how to act like he’d been stabbed and Christopher Lee goes “no no peter dear, when someone is stabbed like this, THIS is how they look, they don’t make a sound, air just leaves them all at once” and peter jackson remembers in that moment that lee was in the secret service and just slowly backs away.