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[andallshallbewell]

[stonecrop]

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

[made-of-love-and-stars]

THIS.

[tr4shpandaa]

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

[dovewithscales]

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

[just-mythyk]

educational and salty. i like it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"wow i never would have guessed you're autistic" thanks! i traumatized myself throughout my developmental years learning maladaptive masking skills that have harmed me body and soul

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

so my corinthian post is going around again, and on rereading it something occured to me

so, he's asked at the cereal convention where the name comes from

and the leather line, that's just a joke, but the first two both reference the city of corinth (which was greek, not roman, it had a history long before the roman empire)

which, as i discussed in that post, ancient greece is around when the corinthian was created

and im not an expert on greek history, but from what i know, corinth was a very rich city, and had the ability therefore to invest in art and trade alongside military pursuits, it was very frequently visited by foreigners, and became known as both a lavish travel destination, and like the above kinda says, a place to indulge in whatever weird kinky possibly illegal shit you wanted to, without having to bring that home with you

which certainly paints a picture of what kind of person is from there

(i do also wonder about him being so clearly american, despite having been created long before america was what it is today, and whether he over the centuries has gravitated to whichever culture he feels is representing that best)

and like, to a modern audience, like the other collectors, corinth seems like a really obscure reference to name yourself after, and is suitably mysterious

but back when the corinthian was created? that shit was contemporary

dream was not being subtle in the slightest

he created what he saw at the time as his most perfect nightmare, ever hungry, a reflection of all of humanity's darkest impulses, the ones they want to keep hidden, even from themselves

and he basically called him "the man from sin city"

like that's his name

dream. oh my god.

[justwriteyoudummy]

[Fragments of Magic] . No cover with this particular post just yet but I wanted to get one of these out there into the world! Now that I’ve done all my intro posts I’m floundering on what I should do next. I might take it easy for a bit while i decide. . Been testing the waters of getting back into book 2 draft 2 so that will probably end up being where today’s energy is spent. . PS: when I say expanded elemental magic system I mean 12 full elements. ;)c 

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[pnwnativeplants]

My new stickers have arrived! A little late for fall, but always an important message. Moths and butterflies hibernate within fallen leaves, so disturbing those sites kills them. Let’s normalize fallen leaves as a beautiful part of the natural process, not something to be swept away or mown down into mulch. These stickers are 100% free for non-commercial use. Feel free to print your own to share this message. You can also buy them and help support us in printing more educational native plant stickers over on Redbubble! Or you can donate to the cause directly! This sticker was designed by my good friend @squeedgeart 

[neil-gaiman]

Hi! While discussing Good Omens, a friend of mine mentioned that many 19th century books with green covers contained arsenic, enough to kill multiple people. Agnes Nutter's book is from about the right time period and is described as green...we were wondering if "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter" ever killed anyone.

I'm glad to say that 1640s predates the 19th century, and the first use of Arsenic on book covers is late in the 18th century.

Also, it's the wrong shade of green -- Arsenic green books are a bright and glowing colour. Lots of helpful information here at

[valtsv]

haters mad because they paid $100k for a fast car while it cost me nothing but time and patience to tame and form a bond with an enormous winged beast that loves me

[valtsv]

haters seething because their girl would rather ride with me on dragonback with her arms wrapped around my waist than in the passenger seat of their lamborghini

[thenightling]

Happy Hanukah!

[foone]

Your throwing knife embeds itself in the wall behind the wizard's head, and he pulls a gun. Too late to get out of sight, he pulls the trigger, and you pray that it hurts.

You pray there's blood. That you need healing soon, that you'll be weak in that arm for months.

Because the alternative is so much worse. The last thing you want to happen when you go up against an artificer is that they shoot you with bullets that don't hurt. That means they have a gun that shoots something besides pain and death. Something worse.

You collect all the clues you can once the battle is over, the wizard breaking a pendant of escape and warping out of the continent. Various blueprints written in eldrich runes that hurt your mundane eyes to even look at, books that whisper in the night, prototypes labeled ominous things you worry about.

You make it back home, mission partially successful, fearful that the townspeople might attack you on sight. Worried that your loved ones might not remember you. You visit another, friendlier wizard, to have them examine your collected evidence. They pour over the items, getting excited about new branches of science, magic, and magical science. You angrily cut them off, saying you're not here for their PhD thesis, just tell you what that fucking gun did?

The light goes out of their eyes, but they pull up a final blueprint. Says here it's the Gun of Cold. Odd, you reply. It didn't feel cold when they shot you with it. You sneeze.

They offer you a handkerchief. No, not that kind of cold. Simon in the village makes some good chicken soup. You'll need it, magic can't cure this you know, but you'll be better in a week or two.

[party-gilmore]

It's come to my attention that a good portion of the younger generation has not been made aware of one of the greatest and most hated PILLARS of millennial society.

So I apologize, but I must take on this task. A new hand must touch the beacon. The knowledge must be passed on. The chain can not be broken.

So.

The Game.

The following are the rules of The Game:

there is no winning The Game

once you know of The Game, you are always playing the game

the point of The Game is to not think about The Game

if you think about The Game, you have lost The Game, and must announce this to those around you - causing them to also lose The Game

A "reset period" of roughly an hour or two before loss announcements is common in colloquial rules to allow yourself and those around you to properly temporarily "forget" about The Game, however that is not an official rule.

Go forth, you next generation, and I am sorry.

[hartsnkises]

What have you done

[f1rstperson]

Randomly skim reading posts like this and then seeing

The Game

does actually give me an entire rush of aggression and anger tho.

[dragontamer22]

Hey everyone I lost the game

[nudityandnerdery]

I like thinking that OP loses The Game every time they get a notification for this post.

[sincognito]

Noooo I already lost the game today, twice is just cruel D’:

[thefloatingstone]

FUCK YOU. Every one following me gets to lose now too. >:(

[godbirdart]

the reason the Bye Bye Man wasn't scary was because millennials had already been playin Dont Think it Dont Say it for decades

[upyrica]

Introduction to traditional playing card fortune-telling

Naughty children, today I shall be your good Ukrainian grandmother teaching you how to read playing cards - or, this is your introduction post to this list of meanings.

Begin with taking a new deck of cards; once selected for telling fortunes, it must not be used for games. It has to contain thirty-six cards, thus, if a full deck, take out the Jokers and cards two to five.

While every card has its own meaning, they follow certain general guidelines. Cards are to be read in groupings, modifying each other’s meanings, so start your practice with pairs and groups of three. Traditionally, the King and the Queen of the suit of Hearts are used as significators.

♥️ Love, emotions, relationships, joy, family; air; timing: springtime, morning, hours to days

♦️ Money, material possessions, physical health; fire; timing: summer, daytime, days to weeks; people young, unmarried, wealthy, in good health

♣️ Legal matters, social status, achievements, learning; earth; timing: autumn, evening, weeks to months; people middle-aged, married, benevolent

♠️ Sorrow, selfishness, cruelty, vice and loud, drunken festivities; water; timing: winter, nighttime, years; people over 55, with power or status, hostile or selfish

Ace - initiation, sudden happening, a place or an item

6 - a path, a time frame

7 - conversation, first steps of a process

8 - meetings, development of the process

9 - an event, first results, difficulties can be resolved

10 - full development of a process, something of interest

Jacks - accidents, news, lack of expertise

Queens and Kings - people or states

[theartofanimation]

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[endopyre]

More Rain doodles 😌

[thehmn]

Santa’s reindeer having the ability to turn into humans or being human looking spirits who can turn into reindeer is one of those ideas I like to play around with every winter and has spent too much time thinking about. Like, they always fly in an upright position as if they were ice skating thought the air unless they have to go faster than usual at which point they lean forward because at that point they are basically falling and aren’t in as much control of their movements.

Also, Pentatonix’s version of Carol of The Bells (YouTube link) is my go to soundtrack when thinking about this version of the reindeer because it has differently pitched voices and makes it very easy to imagine them singing to themselves Disney style while gliding though the air, being thrown about in a snowstorm and taking a tour though Santa’s workshop.

[headspace-hotel]

Count me on the dogpile of people who got what you were saying about basic natural literacy. And it's so frustrating, because on almost any other topic of how the world around you works - digital media, automotive mechanics, even urban planning and politics - most people will readily agree, "oh yeah, I should have a basic literacy in that, which is different from a deep interest, but still provides a huge personal and society benefit for a small investment." That doesn't mean the person has a basic literacy in the thing, mind you - people are busy and tired all the time, and that's by design in this world. I just mean that there's a value being recognized. It's a should.

But nature's somehow not "a thing I should know at least a little." Nature is somehow categorized as a niche you might not need in life. An optional thing to have in your existence. People know so little about it, and have so little meaningful exposure, that even the most basic knowledge sounds pro to them. And that's a problem when the world is modernizing and grandpa says "e-mail? I'm no expert, and I don't wanna be. Save that for the nerds," except that for natural awareness, nearly everybody is grandpa, and the cost of ignorance is that the world burns around us with nobody noticing until it's gone.

And I know I'm going on too long, and you phrased it very differently. But I also love you for how you said it - focusing on joy over necessity wherever possible. That it feels genuinely good and eye-opening to look out at wild biology with a willingness (and impulse) to ask questions. I love that you took that angle on it. You're not crazy. The world's just really, really sick right now.

...Yeah. This.

Like yes, i think you should have basic nature literacy in the same way you should know a few recipes to cook for yourself or which cleaning supplies you shouldn't mix. But this shouldn't be a burden. Look how much beauty is available to you if you're willing to put in baseline mental investment in learning a thing

[sainamoonshine]

POV: mister Devon Price, PhD, telling me that I am right about everything

Source: Unmasking Autism, discovering the new faces of neurodiversity