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All the fandom things! And I also write spn, Voltron, and atla fics on Ao3 so DM me if you have a prompt!

[pinardenizs]

“She is not a bad person”

You Are My Glory , EP 16

[ahsung]

YOU ARE MY GLORY (2021, Dir. Wang Zhi)

[allthingslinguistic]

There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

Mx. Leah Velleman on twitter

[a-book-of-creatures]

Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise you’ll draw their attention.

[fidoruh]

Yall have evil whales?

[a-book-of-creatures]

Iceland does! They are the illhveli, literally “evil whales”, and they live to kill you. They love nothing more than killing and eating humans and sinking their ships. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (that’s blue whale to you), which is the greatest of the good whales and the protector of sailors.

All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. That’s right, they’re so evil, you can’t even eat them.

They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.

Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!

Or what about death from above? The stökkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.

Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hide…

… while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.

The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.

The same can’t be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.

The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.

How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.

For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.

https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/

Illhveli – A Book of Creatures

Posts about Illhveli written by abookofcreatures

[fixyourwritinghabits]

This is also why fairies were referred to as the ‘Good Neighbors’ and why there are so many nicknames for Satan.

The concept of avoidance speech is endlessly fascinating and rife with plot points for writing, but honestly I’m just thrilled about the EVIL WHALES.

[juansendizon]

“But a long-distance romance can be a beautiful thing. It builds trust and commitment very early on in the relationship and gives way for more deeper and meaningful conversations. There’s more time for solitude, self-exploration and inner growth for the both of you and there’s more room for appreciation and less space for possession. There’s more magic when you kiss the lips of the person you love after thirty days of not seeing each other knowing that he or she will always be your destination.”

— Juansen Dizon, A Long-Distance Romance

[tfatwsdaily]

Bucky Barnes: A summary

[truckloadoffrogs]

Maybe he’s reveling in the fact that he doesn’t have to be quiet anymore. He’s allowed to be loud, to express his frustration, to have emotions. He’s doing something for his own reasons, for once, and he’s allowed to be mad about it.

[rivers-creations]

.... well that hit my feels.

[vestiges-of-light]

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[aromantic-eight]

[id: Legit just screenshots of fanfic titles on AO3 that together spell out the entire lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, with no missing words. At the bottom is a screenshot that says “Search Results \ You searched for: Hallelujah sort by: best match descending \ 1570 found.” end id]

[rivers-creations]

[rivers-creations]

Samusa isn’t boring, it’s just not toxic.

It really frustrates me that people Rivusa to be a thing. Clearly the Riven from the live-action is different from the Riven in the animated, and would be a terrible fit for Musa especially since Musa already has a genuinely healthy relationship with Sam.

Is Samusa as dramatic as having a jealous Riven and some heart-wrenching breakup with Sam? No. But you know what, personally, I think there’s plenty of drama on the bloom x sky front as it is, and I don’t want to watch a soap opera where they make and break relationships just to make things more interesting. I’d rather have good plot and action for that.

Having a solid, unproblematic relationship on tv is refreshing. Musa literally says that Sam is her source of peace, that he is calming in the middle of her constant sensory overload life. Sam cares about her, respects her, yet gently pushes her to grow as a person. Musa is also there for Sam when he needs her most. There’s a nice balance of support and caring. Why on earth would you want to dump that for jealousy and toxic brooding with Riven (Granted, I would LOVE to see Riven develop into a good and mature character, however he definitely isn’t there yet.) The only convo we see between Riven and Musa, Riven takes out all his life’s frustrations out on her and its turns into him lashing out at her. That’s not healthy. Or sexy.

I’d much rather see ups and downs in the Samusa relationship and watch them build and grow together as a good couple should. Also Sam is not a boring character, not being a bad boy does not make him boring. Could he use more screen time to develop aspects of his character? Yes. But just cause they don’t talk about his past as much as Riven’s, doesn’t mean there’s not a story there. Overall, I think one of the main reasons Rivusa is shipped is people are projecting their ships from the animated show onto the live-action. But these are different character with different dynamics and should be viewed as such.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[drawingden]

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[rhv]

seduce me with ur history knowledge 

[simaraknows]

vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft

[danray002-deactivated20241205]

During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.

[lapisbitch]

raphael, the renaissance painter, literally fucked himself to death

[sirl33te]

during the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after ONE of them slept with another man.

[verysadskeleton]

The earths carbon levels fell by 700 million tons because Genghis Khan killed so many people

[stitch-n-time]

King James (the one known for revising the Bible) liked to watch women give birth. That’s where the “tradition” of women laying on their backs to give birth comes from.

Previous to that it was common for women to have chairs with holes in them and straw underneath, so they could sit on this special chair and let gravity help with the birthing process.

[kanthia]

Spicy foods were thought to increase libido and cause children to masturbate. To prevent kids from touching themselves at night, a man named Kellogg invented the blandest combination of cereals, marketed it at kids, and called it Corn Flakes

[spockyykins]

At the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers had run out of ammo against a large group of the Confederate Army. In a panic, the Union soldiers sprinted at them, screaming, with only bayonets drawn. The entire Confederate Army that was present turned and ran away in fear, not knowing that they had literally no ammunition.

[obaewankenope]

When the Roman Emperor Caligula went to invade Britain he stood on the coast of Gaul with his army and suddenly declared war on Neptune, God of the Sea. He had his men collect sea shells from the shore as “spoils from the Ocean”.

Oh and he appointed his horse to the senate.

[nat-20s]

During the Austro-Prussian war of 1868, Liechtenstein sent over an army of 80 people, but ended up coming back with 81 people because they befriended a guy on the other side.

[aphony-cree]

People refused to send art and sculptures to be displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair because of Chicago’s history with fire. They had to fireproof the Fine Arts building to get people to agree to loan them their art. A year after the fair closed most of the grounds were destroyed by fire but the Fine Arts building survived. It’s now the Museum of Science and Industry.

[naphula]

The carbon emissions thing from Ghenghis Khan is not the whole story. He also planted trees wherever he conquered land because he liked trees and thought they were important. He conquered enough to make an impact on the global climate.

[givemeunicorns]

Radu III, brother of Vlad III( Vlad the Impaler)  nearly killed Mehmed II, the future Sultan of the Ottoman’s, after Mehmed invited him up to his chambers. Radu, seemingly unaware that the offer was sexual in nature, was startled when Mehmed embraced and then tried to kiss him. Radu stabbed the prince in the leg, then ran and hid in a tree. They later became lovers, and maintained a relationship for the rest of their lives

[queerstorian]

Just googled the last one because holy shit that’s magnificent and seemed to good to be true, but not only did it actually happen, but I also learned that radu was known as “radu the beautiful”

[afewreelthoughts]

fun date idea: stab him in the leg

[ifyouarefree]

Vlad: If you liked him, why did you stab him, for fuck sake?

Radu: I fucking panicked.

[corwining]

History was wild  folks

[k-banning-kellum]

Jack Churchill, known as Mad Jack, was a British Officer during WW2. He loved hunting nazis, playing the bagpipes, and archery. He loved them so much that he did them all at the same time.

Churchill killed a nazi with a long bow in battle as well. Maybe his gun jammed, but more likely he did it because when you’re a badass you do badass shit.

He was captured multiple times and tossed in concentration camps. He escaped everytime. One of his escapes wasn’t so much an escape as just an exit. He just walked on out of there. Who the fuck going to stop him after all.

He snuck out off base one night in Italy with his claymore sword because I guess he couldn’t sleep and figured capturing 42 nazi officers with only his sword would be a good way to overcome insomnia. So he did that.

He so loved his sword that he is famous for saying no soldier is properly dressed for battle without one.

Oh - and he worked as a male model too.

[bouncyirwin]

This has been a rollercoaster

[fadingnebula]

Back when Rome was still a Republic (so a democratic form of government without an emperor and the Senate was actually in charge) they had a special hill with a big special rock at the bottom.

The purpose of this was that whenever anyone tried to threaten the democracy of the Roman republic they would throw them off the hill so that their bodies would be dashed against the rock and die. This was done even to senators that tried to fuck with the citizens etc through their position.

This was both a form of punishment of course, but was also a symbolic gesture to set a clear example, that if you try and break the people’s will, the people and land itself will break you instead.

It was a cool rock.

[fadingnebula]

Also, because topical, the American pledge of allegiance was made as a marketing campaign to sell flags to schools. It was literally an advertising scheme, and we just went with it

[whatsaconsequence]

German empress Richenza of Northheim’s husband, emperor Lothar of Süpplingenburg died in the alps on his way back from Italy but he wanted to be buried in Königslutter which was far, far away. Because it would’ve been humiliating to bring back a stinking, rotting body, the empress had her husband skinned and his flesh removed so they would only carry the bones in the coffin.

[justheretobreakthings]

Hey friend! Just wanted to say that I love your Voltron fics ("Remember Me" is so good???) and I had a quick question, if you're up for it and this isn't out of line? What are some of your favorite hurt Keith fics? I'm pretty new to Voltron, and so I've read the top-rated ones that have had years to gain kudos, but I'm curious if you know of any gems that are maybe newer and/or less well known, but are still really well-written! Thanks a bunch and have an awesome day!

Thank you very much! =D And no, don’t worry, it’s not out of line at all! Some suggestions for you:

SilenceIsGolden15 has a good collection of Keith whump and Keith angst. I’ve got a couple of them in my bookmarks, and keep an eye out for new fics from them. A couple I especially enjoyed are Rebel Yell, in which Keith becomes sick from a virus bioengineered to affect only Galra, and Kuron, where Keith winds up as Lotor’s hostage when a Blade mission goes south.

Callaeidae3 is another great source for Keith suffering. My favorites here are Your Extraction Mission Became Mine, where Krolia does not manage to get Keith back after Trugg overtakes him in the fight, and things just escalate from there, and Under the Radar, in which the Galaxy Garrison notices anomolies in Keith’s biology and he ends up captured as a lab rat (and that one has an ongoing sequel).

Cocopops1995 has a ton of fics to pick from, and highlights include A Cry in the Dark, where Hunk finds Keith locked in a trunk post-torture after going missing on a Blade mission, and The Noise That Echoes, where Keith is sound-sensitive while recovering from torture and is dealing with sensory overload.

GriffinRose is another with a wide selection of fics under their belt, and some of my personal favorites include Insomnia, where Keith is unable to sleep due to lingering paranoia from being on a planet where he was constantly on the run, Prison Bonds, where Keith and Lance are captured by aliens who feed off negative emotions, and Drowning Icarus, a modern/college AU in which Keith is in a devastating motorbike accident.

FroldGapp has a fantastic collection of fics featuring Keith hurting, especially if you’re looking for hurt of the emotional kind, and the one that I have re-read multiple times and still tear up about is Patty Cake, where Hunk sees Keith in a new light after his life is put in grave danger.

BlackFriar has two fics up for Voltron, both fantastic. Where the Wild Things Lurk, where Keith and Lance are made the prey of horrifying creatures that have overrun a ship, and Casting Shadows, which features Keith going through hell in the present while also detailing his life at the time he met Shiro, which was also chock-full of hurt.

keep_swinging has the Tallies series, featuring one fic about Keith trying to survive his imprisonment by the Galra, and a second fic about the emotional and psychological recovery following his rescue.

Bandity is excellent at making Voltron characters suffer, and some where Keith gets the short end of the stick are Connect, where he gets sick after helping aliens in a dangerous quarantine area, Darkness and Danger, where Shiro accidentally injures Keith when he wakes from a nightmare, and A Long Rain, where Keith finds himself reliving a childhood trauma during a bad storm.

Rangergirl3 is another with a vast selection of fics to choose from, so you’ll get some great content taking a stroll through that library. Of special note is the Lost Paladins series, which gives you some nice big helpings of Keith hurt/comfort and is just fun to read all around.

You may have already read In the Hands of Hatred by Haleykim84, since it’s a popular one especially among Keith fans who like to see him suffer, but if you haven’t, then you’re in for a treat. Aliens on a planet Voltron helps do not take kindly to Keith being part-Galra, and decide to take out their feelings against the Galra empire on him. This author’s other Voltron fics are excellent for hurty-Keith too, and they’ve been teasing a couple of upcoming fics on their tumblr that I’m quite excited for.

And for some other specific fics:

Dulce et Decorum Est by eugyne - Keith is hit by the effects of a dangerous chemical weapon.

Would You Be So Kind? by Simply Essa - Keith is tortured in front of Coran in an effort to get Coran to give up information about Voltron, and they bond.

Red Paladin(s) by starsinthegutter - Keith is captured after being injured in a Blade mission, and then is tortured and held as a hostage in exchange for Voltron

Elementary by LittleWhiteTie - Keith and Allura are captured and Keith is sick from poison. Allura has to be the one to comfort and care for Keith with some long-distance assistance from Lance.

Munacan’s Disease by SilverArson - Sickfic where Keith is suffering from a severe and mysterious disease and the team is losing their minds with worry.

Pillar in the Dark by VelkynKarma - Keith gradually grows more and more ill while on a strange mission with Hunk.

Hold Me Close by SerenePhenix - Keith is stuck out in the cold and winds up with hypothermia.

Cheek Painted Red by wordsaplenty - Keith is gravely injured but tries to keep it hidden from Shiro to avoid jeopardizing the mission.

Muzzled by Emls479 - Keith is tormented while imprisoned and has a lot of difficulty adjusting after being rescued.

Recoil/Release by Cheshyr - A bite from an alien creature heightens Keith’s primary emotion (the one he feels most), and his turns out to be fear. Things go very badly as the effects of the bite continue to escalate.

Additionally, I’m currently a co-mod for @badthingshappenbingo, and several of the participants are writing for Voltron. We’ve already gotten one great entry for Keith, and I know there will be more to come, so stay tuned.

[claryfairhild]

i’m so done with the way girls in twenties are treated. i’m so done with people who literally create timetable for us. 20- 24  find a guy, 24-26 make him propose to you, 27-29 get married. i’m so done. i’m do not want to get 2 a.m texts from my best friend who is freaking out that she is gonna die alone. i do not want see my 20 years old friend wasting her time on some guys who are not even interested in her. i do not want see us falling for every nice guy who does not look creepy. i do not want to see girls get sad or paranoid just bcos they do not fill in the schedule. you are ok. you should enjoy your life at its fullest and one day you will find 10/10 so do not pursue 6 just because you do not want to be single. it is ok and one day you will find someone. do not split your love with people who does not deserve it. keep it for yourself and when time will come you will know. i know it hurts. i know you wish u could just open part of yourself and release the buzzing love. but not every kind of love is romantic. show it to your family, friends, plants, yourself.

[kaerya]

Not a real criticism, just an expansion really, but …  it’s not just the timetables we need to get away from, but the goal itself, I think.  “One day you will find someone,” sounds comforting, but the reason it doesn’t lay fears to rest is because we are all smart enough to know it’s not necessarily true.

My aunt is over sixty, never married, and never, so far as I am aware, ever even had a great romance.  She dated a lot, but never clicked and now seems to have given up.  My mentor is over seventy, divorced her asshole husband more than half her life ago and has never found anyone since.

We all know women (and men) like these.  And because we know them, we know that “one day you will find someone,” is just … hogwash.  Because sometimes you just … don’t.  Or sometimes you do, but he turns out to be a cad.  Or you do and the universe rips you apart in the most unfair way possible.  And because society has us so fixated on finding “our other half” or whatever, we view these women as cautionary tales.

But … 

My aunt trains dogs.  Her schipperke is the national champion for his breed.  She spent so much of her life as a librarian, nurturing the love of books in kids, myself among them.  I ride horses because of her, and it’s one of the very few things I do that makes my soul feel at peace.

My mentor is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in her state.  She has devoted her life to fighting to ensure that everyone gets a vigorous defense.  Because of her countless people have had the opportunity to turn their lives around.  Because of her, they’ve had a life to turn around.  Because of her, the prosecution and the police in her jurisdiction are forced to behave ethically and adhere to the rule of law.  She’s still, even now fighting to abolish the death penalty.  It’s because of her that I am pursuing the life I am.

These women’s lives are not nothing.  In fact they are a whole lot of something, and it makes my heart hurt that I ever, in my dark 3 am’s, thought of their lives as something to be avoided at all costs.

So love your family, your friends, your pets, your gardens.  Love your job or your hobby or your raison d’ etre, whatever it is.  Love sunsets and the smell of rain and yourself, and don’t love these as something to do as a placeholder until the buzzing, romantic love comes, but love these as things worth loving all in themselves.

It’s fucking hard some days.  The dark 3 am’s still come sometimes.  But most days, I am so much more at peace knowing that I am not incomplete or waiting, but that my life, if it ended today, is worth it because of the platonic, familial, friendship love I have shared.  And if the other kind does come someday, that’ll be nice, but it won’t make any of the others less.  It’ll just be caramel sauce on a sundae–tasty and wonderful, but the sundae was perfect without it too.

[sarahviehmann]

I needed this today.

[counterfetts]

[elysmi]

Sokka : I used to think I was straight

Zuko: breathes fire in the boiler

Sokka : but everything changed when the fire nation attacked

[rivers-creations]

[all-this-panic-still-no-disco]

Keith: You look pretty...

Lance: What was that?

Keith: I SAID YOU LOOK SHITTY GOODNIGHT!!!

[rivers-creations]

Social Media is like Group Therapy

People always underestimate the value of talking about mutual problems with strangers on social media. For example: posting about how a specific thing makes you feel depressed and then some anon will reply with a similar story. Suddenly you don’t feel so alone, or you feel more understood, or less broken, or SOMETHING that just changes your perspective on your situation.

This is the same dynamic and science behind group therapy. Exactly the same, actually.

So YES. Screaming into the void of the internet isn’t always a waste of time. We help each other by relating to each other.

[radiqueer]

one fairly common experience of gifted children is wishing for pain. wishing you had some great big horrible thing in your past so that you can justify the pain you’re in, and so that you’ll deserve help. it’s exhausting and it fucks you up and to anyone out there who feels like they haven’t suffered enough to get help: you’re allowed to want help. you’re in enough pain. you deserve to feel better

[rexieboii]

holy shit yeah

[homoslovenc]

[skiinny-bird]

is this one of those things that everyone actually does?? i just assumed i was a shitty person

[sir-ghost-the-green]

Wait that’s normal?

[star-anise]

It’s not “normal” as in “everybody feels this way so suck it up and quit whining”.

It’s “normal” as in “many people experience pain, loneliness, anxiety, self-hatred, and other symptoms of mental illness that feel like they ‘don’t count’ because there’s no real Thing they can point to to explain it, but their pain and suffering are real and ought to be taken seriously.”

However, when I say “many people” I actually mean “less than a quarter of the population”. The vast majority of people aren’t in massive internal pain most of the time. If this post resonates with you, I super recommend you look into mental health resources, because nobody deserves to feel this way, and there’s a very real hope that information, understanding, therapy, and/or medication can work together to help you feel better.

[star-anise]

Fantasizing about being hurt or dying in some way so that everyone realizes how much pain you’re in isn’t a sign that you’re a terrible person. It’s a sign that YOU’RE IN A LOT OF PAIN. Pain that deserves help and that CAN be helped.

The notes on this post today make me wanna CRY.

[rivers-creations]

I’ve felt this way ever since I was in middle school because I felt like my life was too perfect and my family too nice so obviously I didn’t deserve to have mental illness. I used to make up scenarios in my head of car crashes and house fires that would happen so that I would have a real reason to be in pain.

Now I’m an adult, taking care of my mother with cancer, and I STILL can’t convince myself that I have a right to be messed up. I still make up scenarios and think about how someone would wrap their arms around me after some tragic event and finally give me support.

It’s pretty messed, now that I think about it. But it’s nice to know that other people do this too.

[lady-of-the-spirit]

What appeals to me about whump: an incomplete list