#but if you want to

[samwisethewitch]

Friendly reminder to witches and pagans who want to incorporate ancestral beliefs into their practice: be mindful that a lot of modern nations and their current dominant culture are relatively new, and even the concept of a national identity is very, very modern. Modern borders may not necessarily reflect the world your ancestors lived in.

For example: immigration documents record my great-great-great grandparents immigrating from Germany in the 1870s. But my ancestors weren't German -- they were Bavarian. They were both born in the country of Bavaria and fled to the USA after the unification of the German Reich (no, not that one). They wouldn't have spoken German as a first language -- they would have spoken Bavarian. And if I wanted to incorporate their culture into my practice, I would need to narrow my search to Bavarian folk practices. Other regional practices from other parts of modern Germany wouldn't have been relevant to my ancestors.

There's a similar situation with another great-great-great grandfather, who immigrated in the 1850s iirc. He was from Lombardy, near Milan, and was fleeing the unification of the Kingdom of Italy. He probably very much did not identify as Italian.

And on the other side of my family we have a Northern English line we've been able to trace back to the 1100s, and those ancestors from the Middle Ages probably identified as Northumbrian rather than as English. My "Scottish" ancestry probably actually comes from that same line, because Northumbria was a border state between England and Scotland.

Modern resources like Ancestry.com and other genealogy sites will use modern country names and borders, which can sometimes give us false understandings of where our ancestors actually came from. This is why it's important to do your own research and fact-check outside the ancestry documents.

[thebennettdiaries]

Ship Bonnie Bennett with all the things and don’t let anyone ever try to take your fan card for it.  One of the amazing things about fandom is the ability to take someone you love, someone you are passionate about and just let her live in ways the show couldn’t be bothered to show.  You can explore so many facets and just have fun.  

[p-bee-writes]

the gods among us

I think being a writer is a bit like being a god - we spin worlds out of thin air and mould clay mounds into people who dance to our tunes and we push and pull against the boundaries of tradition and break people-

I think being a poet is a bit like being a god - we write in blood and carve out hearts with mere words and leave stains on the earth with every poem we rip out of our soul, and make people question their own sanity-

I think being a painter is a bit like being a god - we tell stories with no words and sing songs with no music, peer into the soul of the very universe. We stop time in its path and turn emotions into colours and breathe life onto empty canvases-

I think being a sculptor is a bit like being a god - we see trapped angels in blocks of marble and make deals with devils to free them, we break apart mountains with bare hands and trickle streams into cracks in stones-

I think being an architect is a bit like being a god - we build eternity into the earth and leave ruins of empires every century, singular creatures that help mark the presence of kings and gods and faes and apsaras. We weave homes, etch schools, raise hospitals, fabricate lives-

I think being a musician is a bit like being a god - voices to raise the dead and fingers so deft at enticing heaven and life out of dead things, with our very souls filling the air around us and keeping afloat cities. We lead choirs into war and sing epics of the ones who make it out-

[dc-rarepair-week]

Pssst, I want spoilers. Who's your rarepair? 🤭

[othellotron9000]

Send asks while I'm out ...?

[melodyofthevoid]

I never read your work I just assumed through following you you like to fuck with people (playfully)

Again, not incorrect I do love to toy with peoples’ emotions through tormenting my characters.

Although that’s 0/2 on people sending this who’ve read my stuff my ao3 is in my pinned post-

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[witchhickx]

Mean Girls (2004) House MD (2009)

[cadaverkeys]

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

[cemeterything]

"objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz" is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it's so great when there's an absurdly hot person who's just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you're so sucks.

[doccywhomst]

[theblob1958]

people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[more-raging-heart-than-grace]

you want what