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Where's the line between dark academia and mental instability? 22 - (they/them)

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[the-thread-of-the-infinite]

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

[death-of-the-endless]

Oh, love that story, adding it to the list: 20. Princess Talia and adding a few more contenders 21. Thyme 22. The Monster under the Bed 23. A Meaningful Death 24. Humans are unstoppable…until they aren’t 25. The Monster under the Fridge 26. Antler Guy 27. Cleric slamming healing spells

[death-of-the-endless]

Adding a few more I remembered:  28. The Frog and the Scorpion 29. HSTHETE 30. The First Witch in the World 31. Imagine that Oceans were replaced by Forests  32. A Faerie taking a Name  33. The Dragon on the Farm  34. Synovus & Menace  35. Raising the Anti-Christ  36. Aliens vs. Flora & Fauna of Earth (pretty sure there are even more additions to the original post but I had this one saved)  37. Doctors without Borders…in Space!  38. The Villain-Wrangler  39. The Last Contact  40. The 100 Parent-Point Children  41. And the Heavens Wept  42. The Night Gentleman  43. The Serpent God and their Priestess 

[micromontage]

We have so little time

[starjasmines]

let's waste as much of it as we can while we still can

[ranni-thewitch]

words we ought to say more often:

apocryphal

[ranni-thewitch]

anatine

[ranni-thewitch]

wherewithal

[ranni-thewitch]

grotto

[ranni-thewitch]

umstroke

[ranni-thewitch]

posthaste

[ranni-thewitch]

superlative

[shabririfrenzy]

beastmode

[ranni-thewitch]

fuck OFF. WHO ASKED FOR THY OPINION

[ranni-thewitch]

crepuscular

[ranni-thewitch]

peripatetic

[ranni-thewitch]

apropos

[ranni-thewitch]

effervescent

[ranni-thewitch]

taciturn

[appalachiananarchist]

I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.

[ocean-glint]

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[coughloop]

[icaseybaybee]

[aletheyass]

tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

[apas-95]

wgat did u say

[etirabys]

can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy

[mentalwires]

It's from the "Maxims of Ptahhotep", purportedly written by a 96-year-old vizier to pass on his wisdom to his son:

If you marry a good-time girl

A joyful woman known to her town,

If she is wayward,

and revels in the moment,

do not reject her, but instead let her enjoy;

joyfulness is what marks calm water.

[etirabys]

yay ty. Between the above and the links in the mentions we have 3 translations total

[fatsexybitch]

Happy Wife Happy Life is 4.5k years old

[dr-gaytorius]

"I'm looking respectfully" well can you look at me like you're dying of a fever. like you're delirious and it hurts. like you're fighting desperately for your life.

[neenarchive]

maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

[neenarchive]

starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost

[elektrashocktherapy]

At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again

[intellectualpoaching]

“I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

[homunculus-argument]

"Well sir, you are still horribly young."

"Horribly?"

"Are you not?"

"I don't believe I have ever heard someone use those words, 'horribly young', outside of deeply tragic circumstances."

"As far as I am concerned, sir, merely being that young is a deeply tragic circumstance. I remember being twenty. It was fucking appalling."

[wintercorrybriea2]

[ayeforscotland]

Man, can’t even spell whisky properly.

[theknightlywolfe]

Whiskey is one of the few example of the US dialect of English adding letters instead of removing them in relation to the origin dialect. So, DJT can fuck off, but this is one time he actually is spelling things correctly. His capitalization and everything else is off, but for his native dialect of the language, he actually has managed to spell correctly for once. This is, afterall, the man who posted "covfefe".

[maddiexhatter]

Just to be pedantic:

If you're talking about Irish whiskey, keep the 'e'.

In Scotland we spell it whisky, no 'e'. He is specifically talking here about Scottish whisky.

So, in fact, he is incorrect.

[dead-dove-ble]

Actually you SHOULD make problematic content. You SHOULD explore dark or taboo topics. You SHOULD have a space where you can cope with your traumas or explore sensitive topics in a way that doesn't hurt anyone.

[shiptillyoudie]

Also you should make problematic content for funsies. You don't need to have had trauma or need to be coping in order to explore dark creativity. You can just be a human who wants to explore dark and taboo topics because you want to. That's completely normal, btw.

Every single person on this planet thinks about dark and taboo things. It's literally the most normal thing in the world.

Go draw the horror porn and be free.

[tackypies]

we should all be more like david cronenberg and write fucked up stuff. For Funsies

[dngrcpckwithmurdericing]

image id: A screenshot of an interview with David Cronenberg (unsourced) that says:

Have you ever done therapy? No. Never.

Have you purposely avoided it? No. I just honestly - I felt I didn't need it.

You're just all good. Yeah, I'm totally cool. No problems. I had no problems to solve. My parents were really sweet, very sensitive, very understanding and supportive. They were lovely. I had a lovely childhood.

So you've never stayed up at night being like, "Why do I make movies where people pull each other's organs out of their bodies?" No, because I know that as George Bernard Shaw said, "Conflict is the essence of drama." You don't make a movie about nice people who are all nice to each other. That'd be so boring. You might want to live like that. But you don't make a movie like that.

I yearn for your placidity. Well, the placid nature is genuine.

[latriviata]

The source is this Vulture interview, btw! Also recommended for him being very trans-affirming in trademark weird lil artsy guy fashion.

David Cronenberg Explains Himself

He says his latest film Crimes of the Future works on multiple levels. “But I really do think we’re kind of destroying the earth.”