You've Got Ghosts in Your Blood

Rora, 33. She/Her. Demi/bi/poly. Capricorn/Aquarius. Teacher, editor, novelist, cat mom. Slightly obsessed with fictional boys. Deep as the ocean and twice as salty. CelticAurora on AO3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Reblog if you love “—” and have never used ChatGPT

[suigintou]

it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Parry this, you filthy Macedonian.

[celticaurora]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63596398/chapters/170562466

After nearly three months of hiatus (heh, whoops), chapter 3 of Werewolves, Biochemistry, and Other Things That Tried to Kill Me is now live!

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[propalitet]

fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

[revolutionarytea]

My brother and I trying to piece together our dad’s life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were “I told them they shouldn’t have hanged that woman. Well by damn they’re paying now” and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means

[bbcwhereareyou]

My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, “Oh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, she’ll be fine.” Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.

No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.

[indelen]

We were driving through Old Country once and my grandpa Sasha randomly went “oh this is where we blew up that bridge as kids, I guess it got rebuilt”

[mons7errr]

biting your forehead friday

[lionesshathor]

Actually that's very affectionate and careful grooming. Wolves and other carnivores use their incisor teeth to nibble out tangles and scratch itches in their fur. Doing so for someone else, especially on their very sensitive face, shows a highly intimate level of trust. These two are likely a mated pair, or possibly parent and child.

If you have a cat, you've probably had this happen to you. If they lick and then bite your arm, they're trying to groom you. Trouble is, we humans don't have fur, and those teeth are sharp!

[loumandliker]

one thing about americans is that they know how to make a fucking milkshake

[loumandliker]

i hate the stupid milk consistency shit you get here like if you give me a milkshake it better be rock fucking solid. i want that thang thick like concrete. it should piss me off trying to drink it through a straw. i should have to wait for it to thaw

[caltracat]

[behindnightmaresanddreams]

Americans are so good at making Beverage. One of our Foundational Moments was actually a party involving Making Beverage. Google "Boston Tea Party" for more

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[butt-berry]

Magnoliasaur

[darth-salem-emperor-of-earth]

@celticaurora

[parasitoidism]

Being a weird little girl as a kid provides two options to you: becoming transgender or becoming a weird adult woman. Both of which are things the world needs more of

[stellatheknave]

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[zanephillips]

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS 2.16 "Graveyard Shift"

[theonetheycallmatt]

That new Robert Eggers movie looks amazing

[wellingtonskeleton]

Merry 2000 Trained Rats, everybody

[deadly-vuu]

theres a ghost joke in there somewhere

[slowburncowboy]

She nos on my feratu till the first cock crows

[cherienymphe]

Nosferatu has something for everyone. Eye candy for the girlies who just like to watch sexy people. Great costume and set design for the historical girlies. If you're a monsterfucker this is for you. Angst lovers your time is now. If you simply enjoy Robert Eggers then prepare for this to be your favorite work from him. If you like your horror gross and disturbing and perverted then this is for you. Tragic romance girlies come get your juice. Gothic and dark romance girlies come get your juice.

[antarcticconfessions-deactivate]

I love how it doesn't matter what expedition it is.

They all turn into excited kids when they meet penguins.

[hawk-feathers]

This little bug has thoroughly stolen my heart.

[might-be-a-potato]

[bloo-the-dragon]

@crow-with-a-pencil

[originaljediinjeans]

[ariadne-mouse]

I CAST BOOP AT 9TH LEVEL

[gracefulfallen]

COUNTER BOOP

[foxqueen-katarian]

COUNTER BOOP YOUR COUNTER BOOP

[majohe85]

I counter boop your counter boop!

[playerkingsley]

twinned counter boop!!