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Sometimes I wonder if the ghosts and ghouls living in my ancient building think I'm calling to them when I say such things as, "Woe is me! Pity me, Creatures of the Night!" but actually I'm talking to my cats

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This is one of my favorite comics ever so I just had to reblog. Now, I leaveeeee for many eonnnsssss once againnnnn

lost in the moss

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In this world it is eep or be eepen

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Anxiety lies to us-- remember that you mean so much to your friends, no matter how much the voices in your head try to tell you otherwise.

People don’t owe you their downtime! And I don’t mean this in a harsh way, but in a “quit breaking your own heart” way.

It’s so easy to see a friend “active” and reblogging on tumblr, or maybe making a status update on Facebook and feel hurt they haven’t replied to our messages.

Different things take different energy. And someone being “online” but not actively talking to you does not mean they no longer love or care about you.

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In case you're completely lost.

Also, here's my favorite version.

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

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This is what we love to see, and is one of the big reasons why archeological research is so important to having a well-rounded understanding of history.

This source on Tlatilco Figurines seems to be pretty well-researched if anyone wants more information.

Because not everything in Meso America

was warriors fighting in combat

A Tlatilca woman carrying her doggie

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Having my name attached to a well-known literary trope is the highest dream I aspire to.

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

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Source because I wanted it.

I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than ever when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

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War and Peas is a weird, dark, and very much dry-humor comic, which appeals to me greatly.

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I can't find the original post that helped me to discover this community, but I wanted to spread the word in case anyone else doing research for writing projects needs to know about it!

I recently posted there if anyone here happens to know the answers to my questions:

Signal Boost for Writers: Research & Fact-checking comm on Dreamwidth

There used to be a great Livejournal community called "Little Details" that helped all kinds of fiction writers (fanfiction, original works, DMs etc.) with their research and fact-checking.

That comm no longer exists, but it has now opened again on Dreamwidth!

It's also possible to ask a question anonymously, the moderator has made an extra post for that; it's explained in the rules and guidelines post at the top of the page.

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Holy hell this is cool af. I had no idea tarot cards were this old.

More info here:

Fifteenth century tarot cards, possibly the oldest known deck. Look how beautiful they are! These are from way back before they were used for cartomancy.

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I genuinely don't know much about Polish culture, but I was doing some research yesterday on werewolves and found three werewolf stories from Kolberg-Körlin involving a wolf strap.

According to F. Asmus and O. Knoop, authors of Sagen und Erzählungen aus dem Kreise Kolberg-Körlin,

"By using a so-called wolf strap, any person could transform himself into a werewolf. Whoever fastened such a strap around himself would turn into a wolf. If someone called out the name of a person who had turned himself into a wolf, that person would regain his human form."

D. L. Ashlimann coming in clutch with the English translation.

outcast of the village

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One common tale about will-o'-the-wisps (according to William Wells Newell) is that they are the souls of a local individual who died recently, usually ones with interesting stories attached to their deaths:

"The idea underlying these personal and local appellations is that wandering flames belong to the souls of persons well known and recently deceased, of whom can be related histories explanatory of the reason which caused them to undergo such transformation."

Newell references that this type of tale might be what is described in Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau (1856) by Ernst Ludwig Rochholz. His notes say that "the illumination [from a wisp] was thought to be the soul of a miller deceased twenty years before." In Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau, Rochholz mentions a "mullers von Rynfelden." My guess is that that phrase translates to "the miller of Rheinfelden," since Rheinfelden is a municipality in Aargau, Switzerland.

Of course, Swiss German is famously difficult to decipher even for someone who knows German, and I'm what some may call "not even close to knowing enough German to decipher Swiss German." So, this should be taken with a grain of salt. (In other news, if you know German, and especially if you know Swiss German, I'll be forever grateful if you would check me on this.)

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This is how I do everything.

fucking adhd. I have to run a con on my own brain to get anything done.

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Me trying to find almost every mention of folkloric will-o'-the-wisps is thwarted by exactly what this quote describes. What do you MEAN "fire drakes" were considered wisps? I thought they were like dragons or fire salamanders or some shit. What does "drake" even MEAN if not DRAGON?

AMONG the many sources of superstition in this and other countries, the phenomenon well known as the Will-o'-the Wisp has from time immemorial held a prominent place. Indeed, it would be no easy task to enumerate the various shapes in which the imagination has pictured this mysterious appearance, not to mention the manifold legends that have clustered round it.

- T. F. Thiselton Dyers, "The Will-o'-the-Wisp and Its Folk-Lore"

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AMONG the many sources of superstition in this and other countries, the phenomenon well known as the Will-o'-the Wisp has from time immemorial held a prominent place. Indeed, it would be no easy task to enumerate the various shapes in which the imagination has pictured this mysterious appearance, not to mention the manifold legends that have clustered round it.

- T. F. Thiselton Dyers, "The Will-o'-the-Wisp and Its Folk-Lore"

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The Legend of Zelda video game series has had "poes" since A Link to the Past (released in 1991 in Japan, 1992 in North America and Europe). They have only more recently evolved from being cartoonish ghostly figures carrying lamps to these little floating blue fires (found in the most recent game, Tears of the Kingdom, released in 2023):

Part of my research in the last week has been dedicated to trying to find out where the word "poe" comes from, especially in relation to ghostly figures carrying lamps or floating blue fires. However, the only thing that I've found has been that no one on the English side of the internet seems to know what it means, aside from a possible connection to Edgar Allen Poe.

I run into a similar problem here that I ran into with Pokémon: I don't know Japanese at all, so I can only make connections based on English sources. Does anyone happen to be willing to translate Japanese for me? I will pay you with an explanation of medieval cheese witches (which are definitely a thing and not something I made up).