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jupitersmusings

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

overlord-fire-bubble

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

essenceofrose

Okay I reblogged and got into the entrepreneurship program I wanted. This WORKS

stepfordgeek

I reblogged this recently and boy have things fallen into place. And not just in one spot. In 2 at the same time. It’s almost uncannily perfect.

mimiadraws

SMASHIN’ FASHION was an 8-page smash bros. fashion zine I had at ECCC a few weeks ago! If you’re interested in grabbing a copy, I have a few extras available for sale here. All these were a lot of fun to work on! 💃✨

jurassicsunsets

Who wants to see an extremely rude looking diagram from wikipedia?

jurassicsunsets

They’re sawfish teeth, of course! What else would they be?

stephanemiroux

filibusterfrog

orc lady commish for a cool customer

space-dragon14

RODAN - King of the Monsters

thelittlemonsterlover

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asomdpoakdoakd-deactivated20180

why would i fuck a demon? simple, the status. imagine rolling up into hell already havin had ur back blown out by one of their own. imagine you and a gang of other losers standin at the gates of hell, they’re all crying, scared to death about having a pitchfork up their ass for eternity and you just walk into the arms of your sugar demon? legendary.

l0v3-r3v9

this post spoke to me on levels many of you will never understand

razz-ma-tazz-berry

@momolady

thelittlemonsterlover

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sunshinetrooper-deactivated2016

black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

shrewreadings

Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa.

Why?

Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO.

note-a-bear

Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.

Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.

We KNOW this.

There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.

prokopetz

Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.

hogna-lenta-deactivated20160930

Islamic Ring in Viking Grave

Vikings in Persia

Black Vikings

Vikings in North Africa

Buddha statue in Viking hoard

Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe

Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings

Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan

More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)

Viking technology came from Afghanistan

More on trade route determination via metallurgy

… is that enough? :)

queer-wizard-dad

Yet another on the pile of reasons why it monumentally honks me off when pusillanimous, pseudointellectual white supremacist scum try to use Scandinavian culture as a crutch for their arguments and act like Norse mythology agrees with their biases. No it fucking doesn’t, bitch. Odin would personally kick you in the dick for being a witless coward and then send your ass to the Realm of the Dishonored Dead.

armory-rasa

I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this thread makes me so happy. See, I love the Viking aesthetic – I love the fusion of organic and geometric in its designs, I love the natural colors, the complexity of textures you get from juxtaposing metal/leather/cloth/fur–

–and I hate how the entire subculture has been so thoroughly co-opted by white supremacists. To the point where I, a person who likes viking stuff, am deeply and immediately suspect of anyone else who likes viking stuff, guilty until proven innocent, cuz that’s what the odds are these days.

Anyway.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone can be a viking, and thus I am so, so pleased to find that the historical record backs me up.

(And amused that Arab intellectual Ahmad ibn Fadlan was so thirsty for vikings.)

ayellowbirds

reclaim vikings from racists 2kForever

coolmariadotcom

Thank, I thought I was gonna have to add some things, but I’m pretty satisfied. Atleast one Roman dude I know of has been dug out of a viking grave being buried with stuff that both labelled him clearly as of roman ancestry, aswell as integrated into viking life. Muslim coins were found in Sweden. Just. Lots. There’s so much proof of actual logical and interesting stuff. Imagine a society that shut out every other cultural infuence and remain uhhh… “pure”? How boring?? How unrealistic??

otherwindow

Mermaids with hair over their eyes are usually from deeper waters. The sea floor has almost no light, so deep sea mermaids (few of which have functional eyes) visiting the surface would be blinded by the sun.

To mermaids, covering their eyes with hair is similar to sunglasses.

otherwindow

Deep sea mermaids are also shy, accustomed to dark waters for hiding their monstrous appearances. Freshwater Mermaid: Howdy y'all, I’d like you to meet my cousin. She’s a little shy :) 30ft Tall Deep Sea Mermaid with hair so long it turns the water black: ᴴᵉʷʷᵒ

ghostyboo-two

i took the liberty to add on to this thread

momolady

Crocman Boyfriend Jason

A commission for @ban23 and features characters they created. This story was so much fun to do and hit a lot of things I’ve been wanting to write! I hope you enjoy some of the winks and nods to other stories as well as this cute couple.

It’s usually dark as I head home. I’ve gotten used to the late shifts, it’s quiet, and I don’t get the weird stares I usually do. Being a seven-foot-tall croc monster, you’d think people wouldn’t stare. But they do.

I take the train in the evenings when I get off work, it’s easier than trying to find a ride because well…no one really wants to pick a guy like me up. Back when I had the morning shift, I used to try and avoid the more crowded areas. Being on the train in the morning made me feel extremely self-conscious about myself.

I had grown up in a small rural town where mostly everyone was like my family and me. It wasn’t until my mom got a great job that we moved to the city when I was in high school. There were a lot less people like us in the community we moved in to. The suburban area where our house was made me feel like I was in some odd Twilight Zone kind of episode. So much blonde hair, so many bleached teeth.

Anyways, I’ve learned to cope with things as much as possible. But there is one thing that is bothering me. The girl in the corner of the train.

Over the past couple of weeks, she’s appeared there every time I’m on the train. She wears the same pastel purple hoodie and always has a cup of coffee between her thighs. She looks at her phone screen, illuminating her soft, rough face.

Her eyes are dark brown and beautiful. Well, I mean, so someone so weird that is. I can’t make heads or tails of her. Her hair is usually tied back, but I notice that it’s dyed purple in some places. I don’t know who she is, where she gets on the train or even if she gets off it. For all I know I’m seeing some new ghost who has appeared on the train. Some poor soul who died getting her Starbucks fix.

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