space jellyfish monstrosity

jelly maiden || adult

[pomegranatepeachpie]

Jack of all trades is NOT a bad thing. I am a Barbie aisle!!! I can write a book and crochet and code in C# (badly) and draw a picture and write a poem and perform a monologue and make a song or a conlang and make a paper mache sculpture and bake pretty good bread and I don't feel the need to pour my whole life into just one thing!!! It's awesome if you do! That's not what I'm saying! But I want to live in a world that is entirely my creation. I don't even know what I'll do next!!!

[pomegranatepeachpie]

Lately, I've been reading Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires by Michael Bell which has me thinking a lot about what we do when life is out of our control.

CW: illness, death, consumption of cremated remains.

When tuberculosis was rampant, in some towns they would be completely over taken by the disease. Whole families would pass away in a matter of a few years. Without anywhere to turn, and without any real medical solutions, people would blame the spread of the disease on those who had already died. The spirit, they said, would remotely drain the life force of their closest loved ones from the grave. As a preventative method (among other similar methods), they would exhume the body, remove the heart (and sometimes lungs), burn them, and have those who were ill ingest the ashes. This was thought of less as a fight against monsters and more of a medical practice.

What would you do, though, if you didn't understand and couldn't stop anything that was going on around you? Would you adopt a magical worldview?

As Michael Bell said in the book, "People find themselves in dire situations, where they're no recourse through regular channels. The folk system offers an alternative, a choice."

I feel like this could make an interesting premise for a modern story. What do you do when your life isn't in your control?

Pls let me know if you know of any further reading on this subject!

[chic-beyond-the-wall]

More medieval dyes for y'all!

[pomegranatepeachpie]

a lazy sophie doodle!!!

[pomegranatepeachpie]

i made some art of my ocs! he is her dad so like be normal. i love them

[coldraindropsss]

They are so cute I couldn't help my self and did a little fan-art.

[pomegranatepeachpie]

OMG OMG IM OBSESSED THANK YOU!!!! YOU DID THEM SUCH JUSTICE IM CRYING

[angelicdewdrop]

[coldraindropsss]

"Being married for ten years, it didn't mean the fire that they had was ever diminished"

"It only made it stronger and sometimes irresistible to one another. They would often go to their country house for long periods of weeks without a care for the world"

[pomegranatepeachpie]

This is a GORGEOUS art style

[referencetaurus]

soda tab chain mail

[xxdrowninglessonsxx]

crochet aquarium

[seven-meds]

Examples of marble production errors in which hot marbles become stuck together either during the rolling process or as the glass gob is cut from the stream.

[bambibllog]

vivienne westwood ss97 & samuel cirnansck spring 2012

[making-friendos]

Local goat discovers joy of painting

[pomegranatepeachpie]

lovely sophie!

[pomegranatepeachpie]

Please remember that if someone commissions you seemingly out of blue, ask at least some questions. I got a message asking for a commission despite the fact that I do not have a commission sheet, and when I agreed, they offered $200 for four cartoon-style drawings of their daughter. They then proceeded to ask for my real name, email, and PayPal, which is when I promptly ended the conversation. Thank you to this post for letting me know what was up with this scam! Customers should not need your real name, yall.

[pomegranatepeachpie]

i made some art of my ocs! he is her dad so like be normal. i love them

[jadedfadedalmostgone]