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Myths, Creatures, and Folklore
Want to create a religion for your fictional world? Here are some references and resources!
General:
General Folklore
Various Folktales
Heroes
Weather Folklore
Trees in Mythology
Animals in Mythology
Birds in Mythology
Flowers in Mythology
Fruit in Mythology
Plants in Mythology
Folktales from Around the World
Africa:
Egyptian Mythology
African Mythology
More African Mythology
Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
The Gods of Africa
Even More African Mythology
West African Mythology
All About African Mythology
African Mythical Creatures
Gods and Goddesses
The Americas:
Aztec Mythology
Haitian Mythology
Inca Mythology
Maya Mythology
Native American Mythology
More Inca Mythology
More Native American Mythology
South American Mythical Creatures
North American Mythical Creatures
Aztec Gods and Goddesses
Asia:
Chinese Mythology
Hindu Mythology
Japanese Mythology
Korean Mythology
More Japanese Mythology
Chinese and Japanese Mythical Creatures
Indian Mythical Creatures
Chinese Gods and Goddesses
Hindu Gods and Goddesses
Korean Gods and Goddesses
Europe:
Basque Mythology
Celtic Mythology
Etruscan Mythology
Greek Mythology
Latvian Mythology
Norse Mythology
Roman Mythology
Arthurian Legends
Bestiary
Celtic Gods and Goddesses
Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic Lands
Finnish Mythology
Celtic Mythical Creatures
Gods and Goddesses
Middle East:
Islamic Mythology
Judaic Mythology
Mesopotamian Mythology
Persian Mythology
Middle Eastern Mythical Creatures
Oceania:
Aboriginal Mythology
Polynesian Mythology
More Polynesian Mythology
Mythology of the Polynesian Islands
Melanesian Mythology
Massive Polynesian Mythology Post
Maori Mythical Creatures
Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses
Hawaiian Goddesses
Gods and Goddesses
Creating a Fantasy Religion:
Creating Part 1
Creating Part 2
Creating Part 3
Creating Part 4
Fantasy Religion Design Guide
Using Religion in Fantasy
Religion in Fantasy
Creating Fantasy Worlds
Beliefs in Fantasy
Some superstitions:
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Africa:
Ancient Egypt: the Mythology
Egyptian Gods
Legendary Monsters of Africa
The Americas:
Aztec Mythology
Incan Mythology
Haitian Mythology
Mayan Mythology
Asia:
Chinese Mythology
Japanese Mythology
Korean Mythology
Hindu Mythology
Japanese Folklore and Mythology
Chinese Mythology
Europe:
Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology
The Olympians
Women in Greek Myths
Greek Mythology
More Greek Mythology
Even More Greek Mythology
Greek/Roman Mythology
Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas
Norse Mythology
The Muse
Creepy Irish Creatures
Irish Folklore
Norse Mythology
Arthurian Mythology
Celtic Mythology
Latvian Mythology
Norse Gods, Goddesses, and More
A Celtic Pantheon
Welsh Gods and Goddesses
Celtic Deities
Werewolf Legends from Germany
Welsh Deities
Celtic Gods and Goddesses
Oceanic:
Australian Mythology
Polynesian Mythology
General:
Ancient Myth and Magic
Massive List of Mythological Creatures
Mythical Creatures
Hairy Hominids
Cryptozoology
Mysterious Beings, Monsters, and Creatures
Amulets and Good Luck Charms A - Z
Modern Monsters
Myths and Legends
Folklore and Mythology (2)
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Reblogging because wow. What a resource.
going for long walks alone is probably the closest thing we have to a cure for the human condition
nothing frustrates me more than when adults refuse to even slightly indulge the questions and thoughts of children. i remember one time when one of my younger cousins accidentally stumbled across the concept of purchasing power parity because she realised 10 rupees which bought her 10 candies in India only bought her ~3 candies when we went on holiday to Japan, and when she asked her mother about “why the same things cost different amounts in different places” my aunt had the audacity to call her spoiled for not understanding the “”worth” of money, that’s not what she was ASKING damn it!! your daughter just set up her own big mac index and realised a key metric of macroeconomics!!! how do you not find that utterly fascinating !! why don’t adults talk to children !!
i just remembered this is the same young girl who discovered solipsism right before my eyes— she and i decided to go on a zipline together, but i’m slightly scared of heights, so i naturally didn’t enjoy it as much as she did (she LOVED it). once we got off she, still giggling and giddy, said something along the lines of “i’ll never feel the fear you just felt because i’m not scared of heights, and you will never know the happiness that i feel right now.” then she kind of just stood there quietly for a bit and said “wow, it’s crazy that i’ll only ever just be me.” and then she just… trotted off… to ride the zipline again, as if she hadn’t just realised and calmly accepted something that throws me into an existential crisis every time i think about it.
I hate when parents don't explain death to their kids.
(This is all just personal opinion)
“It ran away.” No. That’s not fair. It’s dead. It’s not coming back. Don’t do that to a child. Death is really important to understand.
YES they might be heartbroken over it but you need explain the truth to them as best you can depending on their age. It will help them understand loss. I learned about death from an early age watching lions rip apart buffalo on animal planet. That bitch is DEAD. lol. When my cheap ass fish would die, they where dead. They went up to “fishy heaven”. When one of my cats died, it was dead. It went to “kitty heaven”. My mom used to read me a book about how things that die go to heaven. I was sad but my tiny, imaginative child brain could grasp the concept of my animals going to a “happier” place because they were sick.
I just don’t see why or how lying is better other than to protect their little feelings. No one wants to see their child sad but like I said before, I think it’s important to understand loss. Kids get hurt, it happens, it prepares them for adult life.
I’m no parenting expert and I know there are plenty of reasons I wouldn’t understand as to why people think lying would be better. This is all just a pet peeve of mine.
Okay so I’m a mortician-in-training and, right now, I’m taking the required thanatology class which is all about death, dying and bereavement. Our most recent readings were all about children and how to help them make sense of the loss and separation of a loved one. Apparently, most adults seem to think children don’t grieve but they do. Children essentially have seven stages of grief: shock, alarm, disbelief, yearning, searching, disorganization, and resolution. Their grief is harder to understand and assess because they have neither the vocabulary nor life experience to easily express their feelings and needs. A child’s belief structure and how they respond to death is determined by their age/developmental level, the manner of the death, and their relationship with the deceased.
Birth - 2 yrs: only non-specific distress reactions
2-5 yrs: don’t understand the permanence of death; concerned about physical well-being of deceased; not capable of cognitive reciprocity; may want to see and touch deceased’ repeatedly asks same questions about deceased; may act as if death never happened or in a regressive manner; may experience guilt (like, if they once said something like “I wish so-and-so would go away forever, they might think they caused the death)
6-9 yrs: more complex understanding; realize death is irreversible and that its universal; find it difficult to believe that death will happen to them (believe it happens only to older people); death can be personified and this allows them to run and hide from it; tendency to engage in “magical thinking” (don’t let them do this, its as bad as you lying to them; keep them grounded in the reality of the death), have strong feelings of loss but have extreme difficulty expressing it; often need permission to grieve
9-12 yrs: have cognitive understand to comprehend death is a final event; can understand and accept a mature, realistic explanation of death; short attention spans (they could be sad and grieving one moment and laughing joyfully the next, and someone could see that and negatively comment on it. Like, “how can so-and-so be acting like that?” This can intensify their already fluctuating emotions and present feelings of guilt and low self-worth); their vocabulary is advanced enough to express their feelings but they may not want to talk about what’s bothering them (they’ll let it build up and manifest in behavioral problems); interest in the physical aspect of death and what happens after; may imitate decreased’s mannerisms
13-18 yrs: understand the meaning of death; realize its irreversible and happens to everyone; normal puberty will intensify grief by adding to already conflicting emotions; often put in position of being the protector, comforter, caregiver (feel they must comfort others t their wen emotions are suppressed; they’ll look find on the outside but be falling apart inside); experience conflicting feelings about death (try to overcome fears by confirming control of their mortality; risk taking behavior); males are more likely to express grief in aggressive behaviors while females need comfort, to be held and reassured
There’s basically 10 rules:
Tell them ASAP: its important to start with what they know about death and then expand on that; be gentle and trustful; tell them in a comfortable, safe and familiar place and make sure its in language they’ll understand; never assume they understand the way you do
Be truthful: kids can sense dishonesty ok?! So don’t create lies to protect them; don’t make up stories that’ll have to be changed later on cause that only confuses them and promotes emotional instability; don’t withhold information either (within reason, see #3), place emphasis on the facts, and avoid euphemisms (i.e., “passed away”, “departed”, “went away”, “got sick” (they’ll associate illness and death go hand-in-hand and may think a common cold will kill them), etc)
Share only details they’re ready to hear: truthfulness should be balanced with their readiness for details (like, tell them someone died in a horrible auto accident but maybe not say they were decapitated and their head flew off down the highway in the process); children with actualize a crisis like an adult; its not uncommon for them to ask about a death later in life and that provides the opportunity to deliver info that wasn’t previously shared (i.e., the decapitation)
Encourage expression of feelings: a child will experience stages of grief very similar to those of adults (adults typically follow the Kubler-Ross 5 stages while kids have 7, seen above) and they rely on adults for permission to “feel” loss; best way is for them to learn is to hear and watch adults because they get their understanding of grief through their senses; its not unusual for them to go up to people and just make a statement like “My dad died” cause they want to see how that person will react and give them a clue as to how they should react, so its important for adults to “feel” their grief in the presence of the child; explain why you’re sad and reassure them that its okay for them to feel sad and cry and that its okay if they aren’t
Take child to the funeral: seeing is believing; they should be given the option to view the body but don’t force them; a funeral can be a positive experience but their level of involvement in the funeral process should be their individual decision; give them the choice as to the extent of their involvement
Take child to the cemetery: it can be comforting to them to know where the body is buried and how it got there; it can also help them direct their grief at an appropriate object (this lessens emotional disorganization), and it lessens the child’s chances of denying or avoiding the death
Let them tell others about death: adults “talking over” kids creates anxiety; when the child can explain it to another person, in their own words, they feel more in control and have a greater understanding; let them speak!
Encourage talk of the loss: this allows feelings to be expressed and incorrect ideas about any aspect of the loss to be corrected
Be available to answer questions: you need to answer each question as sincerely and accurately as possible; understand that some can’t be answered but simply being available is important; and be patient cause they will ask the same question repeatedly
Never tell them how they should or shouldn’t feel: you don’t like it when people do it to you, so don’t do it to kids; they should be encouraged to express any feeling and they should feel accepted for it; being told “not to feel” a certain way leads to emotionally “playing dead” and that’ll create repression, which creates interpersonal conflicts in later life due to inability to communicate emotions
This was a super interesting read.
23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain
Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.
I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.
Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.
(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)
But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.
There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:
Novice
Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:
Dash - by General Assembly
CodeAcademy
w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)
Intermediate
Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:
Khan Academy
CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP
Difficult
If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.
Programming problems
Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems
Talentbuddy
TopCoder
Web Applications
If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.
Django Tutorial
I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.
Rails Guide
If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:
Cake PHP Book
Symfony 2 - Get Started
Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide
Conclusion
If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.
If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.
Best of luck!
What D and D should have included in Daenerys’ arc but didn’t...
1) Her ordering the Unsullied to kill all freeborn teenage boys (those wearing a tokar) in Astapor. And then showing them killing those children - because teenagers are still children!
“Unsullied!” Dany galloped before them, her silver-gold braid flying behind her, her bell chiming with every stride. “Slay the Good Masters, slay the soldiers, slay every man who wears a tokar or holds a whip, but harm no child under twelve, and strike the chains off every slave you see.” She raised the harpy’s fingers in the air … and then she flung the scourge aside. “Freedom!” she sang out. “Dracarys! Dracarys!” (ASoS, Daenerys III)
2) Dany not only allowing people to sell themselves into servitude but also taking a portion of the profits from the sales. Thus she becomes part of the slave trade without even realizing it.
“My queen?” Daario stepped forward. “The riverside is full of Meereenese, begging leave to be allowed to sell themselves to this Qartheen. They are thicker than the flies. “Dany was shocked. “They want to be slaves?” “The ones who come are well spoken and gently born, sweet queen. Such slaves are prized. In the Free Cities they will be tutors, scribes, bed slaves, even healers and priests. They will sleep in soft beds, eat rich foods, and dwell in manses. Here they have lost all, and live in fear and squalor.” “I see.” Perhaps it was not so shocking, if these tales of Astapor were true. Dany thought a moment. “Any man who wishes to sell himself into slavery may do so. Or woman.”She raised a hand. “But they may not sell their children, nor a man his wife.” “In Astapor the city took a tenth part of the price, each time a slave changed hands,” Missandei told her. “We’ll do the same,” Dany decided. Wars were won with gold as much as swords. “A tenth part. In gold or silver coin, or ivory. Meereen has no need of saffron, cloves, or zorse hides.” (ASoS, Daenerys VI)
3) Dany’s rare moments of insight and self-doubt, the moments where she recognizes her brutality but then justifies them to herself or represses them.
She had them nailed to wooden posts around the plaza, each man pointing at the next. The anger was fierce and hot inside her when she gave the command; it made her feel like an avenging dragon. But later, when she passed the men dying on the posts, when she heard their moans and smelled their bowels and blood … Dany put the glass aside, frowning. It was just. It was. I did it for the children. (ASoS, Daenerys VI)
Dany remembered the horror she had felt when she had seen the Plaza of Punishment in Astapor. I made a horror just as great, but surely they deserved it. Harsh justice is still justice. (ASoS, Daenerys VI)
“I made a horror just as great!”
All my victories turn to dross in my hands, she thought. Whatever I do, all I make is death and horror. … The way before her was fraught with hardship, bloodshed, and danger. Ser Jorah had warned her of that. He’d warned her of so many things … he’d … No, I will not think of Jorah Mormont. (ASoS, Daenerys VI)
Mother of dragons, Daenerys thought. Mother of monsters. What have I unleashed upon the world? A queen I am, but my throne is made of burned bones, and it rests on quicksand. Without dragons, how could she hope to hold Meereen, much less win back Westeros? I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I. (ADwD, Daenerys II)
4) What happened in Astapor AFTER she left for Meereen. They should have showed us this, not just told us - and they did neither.
The master of the Indigo Star was Qartheen, so he wept copiously when asked about Astapor. ”The city bleeds. Dead men rot unburied in the streets, each pyramid is an armed camp, and the markets have neither food nor slaves for sale. And the poor children! King Cleaver’s thugs have seized every highborn boy in Astapor to make new Unsullied for the trade, though it will be years before they are trained.“ (ASoS, Daenerys VI)
Frog would be glad to put Astapor behind him. The Red City was the closest thing to hell he ever hoped to know. The Yunkai'i had sealed the broken gates to keep the dead and dying inside the city, but the sights that he had seen riding down those red brick streets would haunt Quentyn Martell forever. A river choked with corpses. The priestess in her torn robes, impaled upon a stake and attended by a cloud of glistening green flies. Dying men staggering through the streets, bloody and befouled. Children fighting over half-cooked puppies. The last free king of Astapor, screaming naked in the pit as he was set on by a score of starving dogs. And fires, fires everywhere. He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes. When the wind blew from the south, the air smelled of smoke even here, three miles from the city. Behind its crumbling red brick walls, Astapor was still asmolder, though by now most of the great fires had burned out. Ashes floated lazy on the breeze like fat grey snowflakes. (ADwD, The Windblown)
5) Her authorizing the torture of the wineseller’s daughters.
Mercy, thought Dany. They will have the dragon’s mercy. “Skahaz, I have changed my mind. Question the man sharply.” “I could. Or I could question the daughters sharply whilst the father looks on. That will wring some names from him.” “Do as you think best, but bring me names.” Her fury was a fire in her belly. (ADwD, Daenerys II)
6) They should have SHOWED us the sack of Meereen:
She heard the city fall from half a league away, though, when the defenders’ shouts of defiance changed to cries of fear. Her dragons had roared as one in that moment, filling the night with flame. The slaves are rising, she knew at once. My sewer rats have gnawed off their chains.
When the last resistance had been crushed by the Unsullied and the sack had run its course, Dany entered her city. The dead were heaped so high before the broken gate that it took her freedmen near an hour to make a path for her silver. Joso’s Cock and the great wooden turtle that had protected it, covered with horsehides, lay abandoned within. She rode past burned buildings and broken windows, through brick streets where the gutters were choked with the stiff and swollen dead. Cheering slaves lifted bloodstained hands to her as she went by, and called her “Mother.” (ASoS, Daenerys VI)
These details would have made her descent into darkness more coherent but they wanted to have their cake and eat it too… They wanted the “badass” YAS KWEEN moments that powered the marketing of the show - but they also wanted her descent into villainy. And thus we got a narrative arc that zig-zagged between extremes of heroism and villainy in a way that had a large portion of the audience confused.
Her story is a tragedy where she ends up becoming what she originally opposed - all because her methods were as brutal as the people she fought against. She has become what she abhorred because she chose to fight inhuman brutality with her own brand of inhuman brutality. That is utterly tragic but it wasn’t something that happened overnight and not just because she lost loved ones. It was a path she stepped on when she decided to treat the Masters just as inhumanely as they treated their slaves. She didn’t rise above their brutality and savagery, she joined them - and that is her tragedy.
funny how jon’s a targaryen too but he doesn’t have anyone questioning his sanity every single second of every single day
It couldn’t possibly be because Jon is not the Targaryen who was given too much power at a young age? I mean I guess anything goes for Dany stans at this point, let’s pretend that Jon and Dany were given the exact same circumstances, except they weren’t. One got too much power at a young age, then that power was never kept in check, she was allowed to climb up and up, then she was never really taught the truth of how horrible her ancestors really were since viserys fed her biased lies… in season 7 she straight up compared herself to Gods… Dany gets followers in her journey while Jon has to earn friendships. Dany gets put on a pedestal while Jon is told to sit down and be humble….
So yeah MAYBE if you actually spent a brain cell thinking about it you’ll realise that the Targaryen who doesn’t go “Fire and blood” is the Targaryen who is a Stark… who never grew up thinking he has to fulfil some extraordinary Destiny… Jon Snow is the anti- Dany…. just like how Harry Potter is the Anti-Tom Riddle. They were foils Vanessa! One thinks he doesn’t even deserve winterfell while other is so far gone they associate the throne and power with victory. That’s why people don’t question Jon’s sanity. It’s literally that simple.
People seriously out here pretending it’s because he’s a man when it’s because he doesn’t burn people alive and scream about taking shit with fire and blood. I mean, the show has sexism issues, but this ain’t one of them.
Also he’s not fully born of incest so there’s that.
Angsty Assholes in an Arranged Marriage Au Fic Recs
@bisansastarks requested future!fic recs where Jon and Sansa are infuriating, ridiculous, pining idiots in an arranged marriage who refuse to admit they are madly in love and bang each others’ brains out. Given that is MY SHIT, clearly I had to deliver as is right and just!
*Disclaimer: Some of these are WIP’s, and while the ratings vary they are mostly of the M/E variety because obviously. Also I am sure I forgot some, but if i remember I will add them later.
And the Geese Are Headed North Again by yeoldecockshoppe
the quiet balance of wolves by sevenfoxes
The End, Bitter and Sweet by pardonmymannerssir
Angsty Arranged Marriage Au by historicbellamyblake
you stole the sun from my heart by xylodemon
lights still shining in the room, you left me here by mon-blanchetts
Broken and Breaking by rusalkkas
Broken Pieces and Navigating by justadram
Finding Home by jxnsnows
An Arrow Through the Heart by lunaplath
winter’s queen by manbunjon
Snow Kisses by caesia
Honor, we must unlearn the constellations (to see the stars) and half a kingdom and a princess by misshoneywheeler
This Is How Our Dreams Arrive by thefairfleming and misshoneywheeler
And All This Devotion, I Never Knew At All and Tell the Ones That Need to Know (We Are Headed North) by vixleonard
Hard times for Dreamers, Playing Pretend, and stars flutter into dust by sansapotter
Give Me Hope In The Darkness and Worth The Wait To Give You My Heart by thefairfleming
time’s been kind to you, my love by dialux
All the Pretty, Pretty Pieces by jillypups
A Political Betrothal, a Marriage of Love by sassylorastyrell
Made New by kik283
and when we’re in the dark, it echoes in your heart by blackfyre
baby, you’re so cruel (but I’m bound to you) you by @defyingthelawofgravity
Winter leaves with the Snow by the-eagle-girl
speak it out loud; by alrightachilles
Five Nights by mysticowl
Mayhaps, in time… by emmiemac
Only You by prettieparker86
The Spaces Between Us (Are Filled With My Love For You) by maesterlemoncake
A Convenient Inconvenience by RoseFairy
That's a list you should share! XD
Heheee ooohhh, I GUESS I COULD DO THAT… And I just recently updated it too! This list got me through countless law school exams AND the Bar Exam. Ok here goes, ~*ahem*~
A (Non-Comprehensive) List of Smutty-Feel-Better Fanfic:
THE THREESOME IN THE NORTH by @thefairfleming and @misshoneywheeler- always my first go-to!
YOU ARE THE START OF SOMETHING NEW by @thefairfleming- aka the SEX LAKE HOUSE, my co-go-to!
City of Illusions, This Is How Our Dreams Arrive, Tennis Au, and Bedroom Hymns by @thefairfleming and @misshoneywheeler
Wretched, Paint My Spirit Gold, and Thinking of Englandby @alienor-woods
Honor, what spring does with the cherry trees, your bordeaux dress uncorked, we must unlearn the constellations (to see the stars), your body is my orchard, half a kingdom and a princess, heavenly creatures, The North Wind’s Howl and those who wish to sing always find a songby @misshoneywheeler
And All This Devotion, I Never Knew At All and Horny College Kids Can’t Be Tamed by @vixleonard
Burn With Me and never fallen from quite this high by @tchallafalcon
In Charge by @jeeno2
Gods, Let Me Try, Snow, Celebrating, and Homecoming by @justadram
under the skin, i can kiss you there, i know where to put it, and In the Still of the Night by @manbunjon
Closer, What Lies Beneath, Dizzy, Let’s Make A Little Noise, Darling, Strange Bedfellows and Consent by @myriddin
The End, Bitter and Sweet by @pardonmymannerssir
Phenomena by @rideswraptors
A Favor, framed in twilight, gold and glittering, A wish so sweet, a sweet sort of death, The longer we linger, and Kiss the Duskby @sansapotter
Six Inch Heels and The Crusade Against Adorable Underwear by @theasexualscorpio
London’s Fairest Maid, Hold The One You Love, In Your Never-Ending Song, I’m Not In Love (I Just Want To Be Touched), Come Apart, Undone, Got a Secret (Can You Keep It), Come Raise Your Flag Upon Me (~DISMISS YOUR LADIES~ gaaahhalsakjsldgh), and A Great and Gruesome Height by @thefairfleming
This Is His Body, This Is His Love by @subjunctivemood
Curiosityby melanoradrood
The Here and the Now, Paper Faces on Parade, and Bright Lights, Big Cityby @jillypups
for now we rest and Stagesby @paperflowercrowns
Tapeby @riahchan
Made New by kik283
you stole the sun from my heart by @xylodemon
Much Abidesand I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm by @blackholeofprocrastination
Ill for your Attention, The Wolf Maiden and Her Dragon, and To Fade by @buttercup–bee
Heat Wave by @lydiamartenism
Kingdom by @mattysigh
If you keep looking at me like that we won’t make it to a bed, Agelast, Las Vegas, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind, Wedding Night, and First Time by @ladyannabethstark
And I am sure I am forgetting some but GOOD GOD this is sooo much longer than the last time I updated it! Lol idk if that means that I have a lot of bad days, or that I just really love smutty fanfic… Probably that I just really LOVE smutty fanfic :)
~Anyway~ these are all different kinds of au’s, but they are all DEFINITELY not safe for work! Obvs :)))
History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less
because being a linguist, fleet commander, and powerful ruler doesn’t matter, only her looks
Her Arab contemporaries raved about her being very interested and knowledgeable in the sciences.
She completely reformed the system in Alexandria, and Egypt at large; making it much more of a functional powerhouse.
She did what 300 years of her ancestors couldn’t: Managed to get the support of both the Greek AND Egyptian subjects she ruled.
There is a sculpture that has been identified as her, through comparisons to coins minted under her rule, that proves beyond a doubt that she wasn’t particularly beautiful.
It isn’t that people just happen to believe it by mistake. Rome was fucking terrified of her and painted her as a vapid, scheming, beautiful, sex obsessed queen to discredit her to their people. She was a threat, and that was how they handled it. The unfortunate thing is that that is the most surviving record of her. A smear campaign against one of the smartest, most powerful women in human history.
This is a woman who became her father’s co-ruler at nearly 14 years old in order to train for her actual ascension to the throne, who was forced to marry her own siblings in order to keep her power, and it’s widely believed that she poisoned them so she could rule alone. She’s a Pharaoh who led Egypt into a new era of wealth, who went fearlessly into war to protect her rule and Egypt’s independence from the Roman empire, a woman who took her own life rather than face being raped and tortured by her conquerors, knowing full well that she was leaving her surviving children in their uncertain mercy. Cleopatra is one of the most interesting, morally ambiguous, complexing historical figures we have and the media has turned her into a tantalizing sex object for the male gaze.
Even after Cleopatra died her influence on those around her lived on: her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, was the only child of Cleopatra’s to live to adulthood, and she became queen of Mauretania along with her husband Juba and it’s believed they married for love, which was extremely rare for that time period, especially among nobles/the upper class. Not only did she grow up in the house of her mother’s worst enemy and technical murderer, but she still went on to become a queen who possessed an equal amount of political power as her husband, even having her face minted on coins on the opposite side of his likeness, showing they were equal rulers.
Cleopatra and her influence on history, and her daughter’s legacy, have both been brushed aside in favour of the sexy Cleopatra visage. It’s bullshit. Egyptian mythology is interesting and vivid, and full of powerful women and it’s bullshit that we take some of the most powerful women in Africa’s history and try to turn them into fashion icons or sluts who only ruled through toying with men.
I LIVE FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THIS, people still refuse to believe that a woman can/could have achieved anything without beauty or fucking magical powers
Always reblog
I’d never heard about her daughter before. That’s cool.
They should make another movie about her with an actor who actually looks like she did and mae it obvious in the script how good she was at being pharoah.
So you can put a face to the name. This is what scientists believe she actually looked like. In my opinion she was probably much darker. But those are the coins and busts that were made of her and that’s what you should think of. Curly hair, a hooked nose, a woman who did EXTRAORDINARY things. You don’t have to be beautiful to accomplish greatness.
You don’t have to be beautiful to accomplish greatness.
LOUDER, PLEASE!
Men be like “Let me just play Devil’s Advocate” like no, Shut up. You are the Devil
This post Has Influenced Me Beyond Reason.. Yesterday a man said to me “well, to be devil’s advocate-” and I said “there’s no ‘advocate’, men are the devil and when you speak its with his tongue” and he stared at me until be both awkwardly laughed bc i momentarily was haunted by a Victorian feminist ghost
I once had a guy I was arguing with tell me he was being the devils advocate and I replied “self advocating? that’s a bold move.” and I don’t think I’ve ever felt that powerful in my life
Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts
well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?
this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.
the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.
It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.
Well, no people find hard to understand that one of the earliest civilizations could build a boat sturdy enough and reliable enough to cross a 8,766 mile stretch that gave people thousands of years of technological progress later great difficulty.
The notion that technology is a steady upward climb of “progress” is, itself, part of a Eurocentric historical narrative revolving around the tacit teleological assertion that Western European civilisation represents the culmination and endpoint of history.
In reality, technologies are frequently discovered, lost and rediscovered, often multiple times, and frequently in parallel. A Dark Age in one region may be a time of rapid technological development in another region, and it’s not uncommon to encounter evidence of ancient civlisations using technologies a thousand years out of whack with the “proper” order of discovery… where “proper” is defined in terms of the order in which those technologies were discovered in Western Europe - there’s that Eurocentrism again.
I mean, just to give you an idea of how flexible the order in which technologies are developed can be and how ultimately wrong-headed the notion of linear technological progress is, there are Central American civilisations that had indoor plumbing, central heating and hot and cold running water before inventing the wheel. Some of the First Nations in what is now Eastern Canada had sophisticated climate models and reliable weather prediction - including functioning barometers and other simple meteorological instruments - before they figured out metallurgy.
So no, it’s not particularly incredible that the ancient Egyptians had boats far more advanced than they “should” have given their overall level of technology. That stuff happens all the time.
The Korean people have had heated floors, called ondol, since the 15th century. African physicians in what is now Egypt had perfected cataract removal surgery hundreds of years before the rise of ANY western civilization with surgical knowledge. The Aztecs had sophisticated enough technology to perform cranial surgery to do everything from reducing swelling of the brain to removing foreign objects.
We still aren’t 100% sure how the Romans made their (damn-near-everlasting) cement, or the exact composition of original Damascus steel, iirc. And often Roman houses belonging to the wealthy would have heated floors, as well. Plus, there was that…whole little thing with the Roman Aqueducts, when they just…decided to move several hundred thousand tons of water, several hundred miles, over valleys and mountains. You know. Like you do.
The Romans had heated public baths! Everyone loved soap and perfume! The soap was apparently fantastic! You could go anywhere there was a market and buy body oil and even food from vending machines–in ancient Greece!
Your average European house in the 1900s, supposedly at the “peak” of their ‘exploratory’ (imperialism) boom, were cold and drafty, with no plumbing, and no heating. Sanitation amounted to literally shitting in a fancy pot and then throwing it out into the yard, or the street.
There were no sewers, so when this happened, the shit would just…chill there, until it rained, and then things got ugly.
The Minoans, hundreds and hundreds of years before, had complex city-wide plumbing systems, and flushing toilets.
The River Thames was so polluted with literal, actual human fecal matter that in the 1800s, the English government had to pass a law banning people from dumping shit directly into the river.
Eurocentrism is such a weird idea, especially when you lay out a timeline of what other people were doing in the rest of the world, before and during the rise of the various European countries.
Jily Recs 3
Her Oddest Customer by @sunaprincess7 Summary: Lily Evans has just opened a new cafe which serves models, musicians…and Royalty, apparently. Jily AU, Royalty Jily. My Notes: A MUST READ!! Seriously this fic has all the feels. I have read it multiple times already and know I’ll read it many more.
Easy, Bloody Easy by @ghost-of-bambi Summary: Answer to the prompt: Head Boy James is trying to keep his cool because some Slytherins are causing trouble and he doesn’t want to hex them but Lily sails in to the rescue. My Notes: A MUST READ! I love, love, love cannon moments like these!!
Quidditch Club by @sunaprincess7 Summary: The first rule of Quidditch Club is ‘no falling for a student’s mum’. Jily AU. Single Mum AU. Smut if you squint. My Notes: So, so cute! Just adorable
Slip of Tongue by @alrightginger Summary: Lily wonders if, perhaps, you have to be mad to consider what such a thing as another person’s sweat would taste like against your own lips. Smut.
Time Lapse by @apalapucian Summary: three years ago, lily discovered that she could fly. two years ago, james stopped flying. the first time they meet, he’s twenty four, and she literally falls from the sky. he thinks it’s love at first sight. it’s not—it rarely ever is—but close.
The Not-So Distant Future by @tosca1390 Summary: This year was different. Beyond James, beyond the watery future that lay before her; there was a change in the air of the school, of the world outside that she couldn’t place.
Firelight by @rosierues Summary: “It’s late, Sirius. Peter’s already gone to sleep and I’m tired, too. Are you coming?”
Summer Fever by @petalsandfishes Summary: She’s not ready to spend the rest of her summer waiting on him and he’s not sure if he remembers a time when he wasn’t waiting on her.
Anticipation by @petalsandfishes Summary: He knew the feeling in the pit of his stomach, the one that made him feel like he was simultaneously flying and falling all at once. He was in love with his best friend.
Love Is Here For a Visit by @southsidestory Summary: James knows better than to hope for impossible things, but he can’t stop himself from wanting Lily anyway.
Isn’t It Neat by @sunaprincess7 Summary: Lily Evans has been playing Ariel the mermaid at Disney World Orlando for six months. She’s about to meet her new Prince Eric. Jily AU, Disney AU.
A Tapestry of Bruises by @nasimwrites Summary: It’s September 1st, and a tired Lily Evans finds herself locked in the Prefect’s Bathroom with none other than Sirius Black. Frienship fic. My Notes: A Lily/Sirius brotp fic.
Colour Me Surprised by @october31st1981 Summary: A moment after a full moon My Notes: Again I am a sucker for these moments between the 2 at Hogwarts … in his bed.