Art Deco Liminal Space

Mystical Eerie Vampire • Hopeless Romantic Gentle Poetic

[cupidsquilll]

[sungl0ry]

The Devil has been a yoke on the neck of humanity since we first began to think and dream.

[gothredy]

[writersisland]

Awesome Online Resources for Writers & other Creatives

papyr.com: freely accessible and summarized classroom materials in rhetoric, composition, grammar, and linguistics from a retired english professor

typelit.io: practice writing speed and accuracy by copying entire classical books

wordhippo: thesaurus where synonyms are separated by specific meaning and connotation, making it very easy to find a variety of words

adjectives for: get a selection of adjectives matching to any word you need them for

Heraldicon: create your own coat of arms

A Soft Murmur: make your own personalized ambience music

dmnes.org: database of names found in historical sources all across Europe from the middle ages

foodtimeline.org: timeline of the development of human foods and from when the first evidence we have of a food being consumed

Google News Newspaper Archive: archive of old newspaper pages, some dating back to the 19th century

Green’s Dictionary of Slang: a history of slang and insults in the english language

HathiTrust: digital library and archive with an extremely wide variety of topics and archived books and articles - eg. Fashion Periodicals: an archive of fashion magazines dating back to the 19th century

Marginalia Search: search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content (forums, blogs, and academia) and does not use genAi

[killer-buzz-queen]

Today is the only day you can reblog this

[bewitched-moonlight]

"Later, after I married and had a child, I learned to find... meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire. Cooking. All those soufflés, all that creme caramel, all those daubes and albondigas and gumbos. Clean sheets, stacks of clean towels, hurricane lamps for storms, enough water and food to see us through whatever geological event came our way. These fragments I have shored against my ruins, were the words that came to mind then. These fragments mattered to me. I believed in them."

─ Joan Didion

[roycohn]

inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:

what's "your" shakespeare play?

hamlet

macbeth

the tempest

merchant of venice

midsummer night's dream

twelfth night

richard iii

othello

julius caesar

king lear

another not listed (specify in tags) (i really just put my own top 10 here nbd)

i have no particular feelings about any shakespeare play/results tag

Remaining time: 4 days 9 hours

[foxglove-mistress]

Really hard to choose, honestly. I love so many of them so much.

I had to choose A Midsummer Night’s Dream though because that was the theme of my wedding 🥰 ✨ 🧚‍♀️ 🌸

[academic-vampire]

If you’re reading this… congratulations, you survived Ray Bradbury’s doomsday!

“‘Today is August 4, 2026,’ said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling…”

-Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”

Today is August 4th, 2026–the day that Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” is based on. I have included the short story below for anyone desiring to read it. Please feel free to let me know what you think in the comments! Happy doomsday;)

Art credits: “House Fire” by beccastadtlander (Etsy)

[jstor]

An open access engraving to wish you all a happy and healthy August!

Image: Months of the Year: August. After Pieter Stevens. Engraving. Wellcome Collection.

[glorkums]

I’m not asking for much, just full tender hearted commitment that makes others wonder if soulmates are real…

[bewitched-moonlight]

🐞 Insects and their magical associations 🐞

Let's be clear. I'm obviously *not* advocating to use them in your spells, rituals and concoctions. Even tiny, these are living beings that deserve respect and care! But if you spot one in your path and are looking for a specific message, here's what it could mean...

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🐞 Bee - love, luck, community, communication, family, messages.

🐞 Spider - conjuration, creation, creativity, destiny, femininity, illusion, inspiration, mysticism.

🐞 Ladybug - happiness, luck, dreams, wishes.

🐞 Cricket - abundance, instinct, intelligence, resourcefulness, transformation.

🐞 Snail - chance, determination, divination, meditation, birth, peace.

🐞 Ant - discipline, energy, strength, industry, organisation, patience, power, work, team work.

🐞 Wasp - warning, strength, independence, curse, attack.

🐞 Dragonfly - air, acceleration, speed, change, learning, energy, wisdom.

🐞 Firefly - love, communication with spirits, fire, illumination, freedom, moon.

🐞 Praying Mentis - beginnings, direction, navigation, peace.

🐞 Fly - travels, flights.

🐞 Butterfly - beauty, change, transformation, balance, grace, youth, death and rebirth, transition.

🐞 Moth - happiness, moon, night, passion, truth.

🐞 Grasshopper - air, freedom.

🐞 Beetle - creativity, immortality, rebirth.

🐞 Earthworm - growth, fertility, underworld, life.

[you-need-not-apply]

Actually no how the fuck is it august

[you-need-not-apply]

Pack it up everyone you’ll never be this funny

[you-need-not-apply]

Happy “how the fuck is it august” to those who celebrate!

[sapphling]

hey dude, idk how much you remember from the party last night but- yeah, everyone saw your want. yeah no it was pretty late and winding down so it was quiet enough that every single person there saw it throbbing and twitching in your chest and so wet with hunger it was glistening under the kitchen light. they said it looked like it was reaching for something

[writersisland]

Dark Sides of Character Strengths

protective → reacting with excessive violence to small provocations and retaliating disproportionately

curious → disregard for safety and boundaries

determined → dooming self and even others when refusing to let a lost cause be lost

vigilant → paranoid control and distrust

independent → isolated and unable to ask for or accept help

decisive → coldblooded, reckless, and taking extreme measures without considering less lethal methods

forgiving → inability to hold peoole accountable and never learning from past mistakes

easygoing → unserious and not taken seriously by others even when warranted

optimistic → denial of real danger and damage

disciplined → rigid expectations of perfectionism from self and others

heroic → meddles even when told not to and ignoring people’s autonomy

generous and helpful → inability to say ‘no’ and stretching self thin trying to help everyone

loyal → blind trust to the point of complicity

[pmamtraveller]

Spring Bloom by Ester Tartar

[midnightinshadow]

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

[ninewheels]

#at least once a month I think about that one post about laminating a paper towel#and how that makes it immortal but also forever prevents it from fulfilling its true purpose#yes you will live. but at the cost of everything that makes you You

(courtesy of noknowshame)