Sundog Running

Illustrator/Writer/Studies Nordic Shamanism/Gamer Dame

[syringavulgaris]

Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

[krtrs]

podcasts are so fucking strange cause if you stop paying attention for like .5 seconds you miss so much information. like, i fell asleep listening to night vale once and woke up to cecil talking abt sex ed for spiders

[sussura]

But to be fair that’s just how nightvale is

[ghost-cassette]

You didn’t actually miss anything, Cecil waited for you to wake up and that was just the next thing he was going to say

[krtrs]

that’s so ominous and i hate that but thank you

[lackadaisycats]

Some Rocky roughs from the animated film project. I really love how much character this captures in such a short span of time. ——————————- Follow along and support us at the Little Daisy Cafe!

[catchymemes]

Risky boopness

[jumpingjacktrash]

a danger boop

[90377]

Winter trees by Massimo Discepoli website | facebook | Instagram

[escapekit]

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Beautiful Surreal Photography

Self taught Chicago based photographer Kyle Thompson work is mostly composed of surreal and bizarre self portraits, often taking place in empty forests and abandoned homes. 

Well this is a bit unnerving. Good work, artist person!

[byzantienne]

More than a bit. (The upward flow of paper. All the hands.)

[tag-your-oc]

Tag your oc who has scars/marks that constantly remind them of horrible backstory you probably gave them.

You know the one.

[return-victorious]

<looks at...all of them>

[aeronik]

Don’t disturb the kenku druid at night.

There is a version with a camera move, but tumblr didn’t like it.

[bijoubratt]

Celestial Bodies/Zodiacs Crash Course

Sun: Influence: individuality, pride, success, energy, happiness/Colors: Gold, Yellow/ Tree:Oak

Moon: Influence: Personality, Sensitivity, Intuition, Desires,Cycles, Calm/Color:silver, white/Tree:Willow

Mercury: Influence: communication, skill, thinking, sensory, learning /Color:Yellow, Gray

Venus: Influence: Love, Social, Friendships,Art, Luxury, Emotion/ Color: Pink, Aqua

Mars: Influence:Aggressiveness, Sex drive, Willpower, dynamic energy /Color:Red, Orange

Saturn: Influence: Ambitions, Self-Control, Realism,business /Color:Black, Indigo

Jupiter: Influence:Finances, health, Opportunity, Idealism /Color:Violet, Dark Blue

Neptune: Influence: Psychic energy, Subconscious, Spirit, Creativity/Color:Purple, Lavender

Uranus: Influence: Sudden change, news, tension, knowledge /Color:Green

Pluto: Influence:Rebirth, Underworld, originality, Life cycle free from bondage /Color:Black,brown

The Zodiacs

this section gets long, so…

Keep reading

[earthstory]

A nearly tangible sense of serenity surrounds this ruby red cabin tucked into the forests of the Snoqualmie Pass, a slow-flowing river singing nature’s quiet song. The pass winds its way through the Cascade Range of Washington, brushing the dense forests and tranquil lakes that the Pacific Northwest is known for. Travel tip: If you’re up for a challenge, lace up your most comfortable hiking boots and make your way to Snoqualmie Mountain — the 6-mile roundtrip hike totals almost 950 meters of elevation gain from start to finish, and is sure to satisfy even the most adventurous of spirits. (🎥: @michaelmatti 📍: Snoqualmie Pass, Washington)

beautifuldestinations

[nobodysflower]

here is your gentle reminder that there are dandelions growing through cracks in the sidewalk. there is a fence lizard on the porch who is growing a new tail. there are trees growing through an abandoned house, branches tearing through the ceiling, ferns carpeting the floor. there is life pushing forward, pushing through. 

[jewish-people-problems]

Jewish People Problem #20

When you can’t find a single book with a Jewish protagonist that isn’t about the holocaust

[gayjewishbish]

I actually read a really nice novel that had decent Jewish representation when I was in college and its story was about a murder mystery. Due to how my memory works, I lost the book and I forgot the title :( :( :(

[overgoldengroveunleaving]

okay I wrote a really long thing and my phone deleted it so here is take 2 of my MASTERPOST OF NON-HOLOCAUST-CENTRIC JEWISH MC’s:

Historical Fiction

“All Other Nights” by Dara Horn - Jewish spy for the union in the civil war

“Shylock’s Daughter” by Marjam Pressler - retelling of the Merchant of Venice with a sympathetic Shylock and a historically accurate look at the Ashkenazi AND Sephardic Jewish community in 16th century Italy

“The Chosen” by Chaim Potok - Hassidic + Modern Orthodox Jewish boys ‘friendship’ (lbr we all ship it) in 1945-1948 NYC

“My Name is Asher Lev” by Chaim Potok - ultra-orthodox Jewish boy takes up art, paints a crucifixion scene, and sh*t hits the fan

“The Museum of Extraordinary Things” - Jewish photographer + (non-Jewish) daughter of a sideshow owner meet and fall in love in turn of the century Brooklyn, and also a subplot about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

“Escape from Egypt” by Sonia Levitin - retelling of the Passover story

“Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot - it’s like Jane Austen. With Jews! (And while everything is not all hunky-dory, it’s also not the antisemitic travesty I’ve come to expect from 19th century gentile writers).

Contemporary

“Hacking Harvard” by Robin Wasserman - 3 nerds take on a bet to get a slacker/stoner into Harvard (also a really nice critique of the college admissions process tbh)

“The Pact” by Jodi Picoult - (suicide tw) A tragedy hits 2 families. The novel centers on a trial and flashbacks to the event in question. 

“Someone to Run With” by David Grossman - set on the streets of Jerusalem, a boy tries to return a lost dog to its owner, a girl who has run away from home in search of her brother (this is the English translation, obviously, but if you can read novels in Hebrew I highly recommend reading the original, משהו לרוץ איתו)

Urban Fantasy/Fantasy/SciFi

“The Mediator” series by Meg Cabot - teenaged girl starts seeing ghosts / YA romance (although the fact that the MC is Jewish is not even remotely relevant to the plot, it is mentioned outright several times which is more than most books)

“The Cure” by Sonia Levitin - futuristic dystopian society tries to cure one young man’s appreciation of music by sending him to a Jewish shtetl in 13th century Poland (fair warning for dystopian fans, though, the middle 2/3rds reads like historical fiction, so.)

Children’s (Middle Grade) Books

“All of a Kind Family” by Sydney Taylor - the classic “1920s NYC Jewish family”

“Dave at Night” by Gail Carson Levine - boy sneaks out of an orphanage in early 20th century NYC

“Witness” by Karen Taylor Hesse - told in free verse, the KKK visits a small town  (I’m including it because it’s not a Holocaust book, and it’s really good, but it still might  will set off your antisemitism sensors so fair warning)

“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” by Judy Blume - Classic. (Also, takes on an interfaith family in a really interesting and nuanced way!)

“Samir and Yonatan” by Daniella Carmi - two boys (one Israeli, one Palestinian) end up in the same hospital and learn that they have more in common than they thought

Plays

“Angels in America” by Harold Kushner - I can’t even begin to describe this one just google it. (or: Jewish and Mormon gay people in NYC during the AIDS epidemic, and also angels)

“Thirteen: The Musical” by Dan Elish and Robert Horn, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown - Jewish boy’s parents get divorced and he moves from NYC to Appleton, Indiana right before his Bar Mitzvah

[annekewrites]

Also for children’s books: Rebecca in the American Girl historical collection is a Russian Jewish immigrant.

Also for weird epic romances, I remember Cynthia Freeman having a lot of Jewish protagonists.  One of her books (Illusions of Love) slightly discusses the Holocaust but it is from the perspective of an American Jewish character who served in World War II and it’s not presented as *the* thing that defines him.  (Most of that book is a love triangle between this character, the Nice Jewish Girl his parents want him to marry, and an Irish-Catholic woman from a poor background who works her way into an advertising career.)

[thedappercat]

I haven’t read them [yet? to-read list miles long, concentration about an inch long] but if you’re down with indie-pub check out @shiraglassman who authors a series of fantasy novels featuring f/f couples. I’ll bet she knows more novels t add to the list too!

(sorry hope it’s cool i @’ed you ms glassman)

[shiraglassman]

It is definitely cool! I actually didn’t get the @ notification for some reason but I found this post just poking around Jumblr and then checked the notes to see what people were saying on it. I do have books to add to this list; not just my own–as you said, fluffy f/f-focused fantasy starring Mostly Jews–but also:

Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn (review) - Regency-era spy romance about escaping from France and getting back to England. Hero and heroine are both Jewish and although they’re Ashkies, it has Sephardic rep as well

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (review) - 1900′s fantasy set in the immigrant communities of NYC. Beautiful epic drama about friendship.

…and wonderful graphic novels like The Rabbi’s Cat, the Rabbi Harvey books (our legends told as if they were set in the American Wild West), and the Mirka books (fantasy starring an Orthodox pre-teen girl.)

The YA LGBT contemporaries Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz and My Year Zero by Rachel Gold have Jewish MC’s. And non-LGBT but YA about Orthodox teenager is Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen.

By the way, @dappercat, your concentration may have an easier time with the standalone short stories in my universe than my full-length novels: Tales from Perach. They range from 900 to 9000 words and 6 of the 7 of them have Jewish MC’s.

[windcalling]

@kuttithevangu I assume you’ve seen/read most or all of these but you’re also my brain’s automatic ‘who wants to know about jewish books’ connection also i can’t remember the name of The Really Good Historical Fiction YA, You Know, The Dybbuk One, which along with Kavalier & Clay is the stuff i can think of offhand as missing on this list

[kuttithevangu]

The Really Good Historical Fiction YA is The Inquisitor’s Apprentice+The Watcher in the Shadows, by Chris Moriarty–Jewish family in 1910s NYC where magic is a thing!!

(Moriarty also has an adult sci-fi series featuring a Jewish AI character who did something mysterious in Tel Aviv back in the day–adult sci-fi is not my thing so I only read the first book but it’s worth mentioning!)

There is also a prominent Jewish character in Sarah Zettel’s American Fairy Trilogy (1930s historical fiction, but with fairies!)

I always have to mention that I Am J, a trans YA that people talk about fairly often, has a patrilineal protagonist–his mother is catholic and he’s baptized, but he actually has a complicated relationship with his Jewishness and says a shechehiyanu for his first hormone shot, and people don’t usually mention that as a draw to the book. The author credits Joy Ladin in her acknowledgments so you know she learned a thing or two about trans Jews probably. I like this book, it’s not super revolutionary but it has its charms.

There are also a good number of YA featuring the triangle shirtwaist factory fire which usually have at least one Jewish protagonist. Lost is my favorite of those (forget the author atm but it’s the one with a green cover with a picture of a feathered hat).

[tora42]

adding to this list The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner, it’s on my to-read pile but it’s jewish historical fantasy

[warriorsofmidgard]

[lemonbalmgirl]

Chad Nelson - Nordic Nightsong III, multicolor woodcut print, 2015

http://vinlandprints.com/

[strangehunger]

love how all of hozier’s lyrics imply that either a. he will one day be murdered and buried by the hands of his lover, a beautiful and mysterious woman who renders him utterly powerless or b. it’s already happened

[return-victorious]

His girlfriend is Ireland.

[inkonablock]

OH GOD HEADCANON ACCEPTED SO HARD OH MY GOD YES GOOD OH MY GOD

[inkonablock]

REALLY THOUGH IM RE-ANALYZING ALL HIS SONGS WITH THIS CONTEXT O H M Y G O D

[return-victorious]

[wickedlittlecritta]

Hozier as the continuation of Aisling poetry is the best thing, and makes so much sense.

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[exxomoons]

Roseanne Supernault and Eric Schweig in a scene from “Maïna” (2012) The film also stars Tantoo Cardinal and Graham Greene. From Perspective Canada: 

Following a bloody confrontation between her clan and the clan of “Men from the Land of Ice,” Maïna, daughter of Innu Grand Chief Mishtenapuu, finds herself unwillingly drawn into a mission that will change her life.

Click here to see the preview.

[apihtawikosisan-deactivated2014]

Ooh ooh ooh!

[bankuei]

First contact stories that don’t involve white folks?  DOPENESS.

[frank-e-sleep-no-more]

did I reblog this??? so what.

[tuttuvak-deactivated20140219]

It was filmed in Kuujjuak and the dogs in it are owned by an actual dog sledder, they did their research. The actors are mainly from Nunavut and they had to learn the Nunavik dialect to make their lines more seamless since Inuit have varied words. They also consulted Innu people to be as true to the cultures as they could. They hired first nations women who know how to sew and consulted elders on how to work with animal hide the way it was done before settlers. The amount of effort put into the movie is great and I can’t wait to see it.

[isaia]

THE INTENSITY WITH WHICH I WANT THIS HAS SURPRISED EVEN MYSELF. 

[queenklu]

THIS LOOKS AMAZING AND HERE’S ANOTHER LINK IF THE VIDEO ABOVE DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I figure since we're living in the last days of Rome I might as well fiddle while it burns

do wonderwall

[worddevourer]

Anyway, here’s Hadrian’s Wall.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

nerd

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

Some of my fave sketches I’ve drawn.

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