Spirits

Spirits: A Drunken Dive into Myths & Legends is a boozy podcast about mythology, folklore, and urban legends hosted by history geeks Julia and Amanda.

[kaijuno]

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[shieldfoss]

#oh thats what he meant by wine-dark sea

[lost-wandering-historian]

[bookandyarndragon]

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[reimenaashelyee]

My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.

[caliharte]

It never gets old and it always makes me cry.

[weshallbekind]

@ilgalantuomo ❤️

[sittingonmybed]

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[reallyreallyreallytrying]

hurrying home to my castle when i see lightning and remember that i left the frankenstein plugged in on the slab

[acosmodot]

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[artbyblastweave]

What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys

[eikotheblue]

these tags are gold omg

[rhysintherain]

It's a misconception that the mimics are hunting humans when they trail along at the back of hiking groups.

In fact, the creature you'll find suddenly walking beside you and acting as if they've always been there is almost certainly a juvenile, as the adults lose the ability when they reach reproductive age.

Recent studies suggest the forest mimic is less like a preying mantis (mimicry as a hunting strategy) and more like a cuckoo (mimicry as a protective strategy for their young). Adult forest mimics will leave their offspring near a group of hikers while they forage during the day, and retrieve them near trailheads in the evening. Groups of hikers provide safety from predators and allow the parents of the species the freedom to forage more widely.

For this reason, the traditional advice to never let a mimic into your vehicle is still very important, as this would separate the young mimic from its mother. If a juvenile forest mimic does follow your group to the parking lot, you can keep it entertained with trail snacks, dad jokes, and simple goofs. The mother will usually collect them shortly before sunset.

When you notice the woods around the trailhead go silent and feel a sense of nameless foreboding, find an excuse to avert your attention from the juvenile so it can sneak back into the forest to rejoin its mother, convinced it's fooled another party of unsuspecting humans.

[fandomcompass]

surprisingly wholesome takes from the cryptid community here

[doggeddetermination]

@monstrousproductions

[bookandyarndragon]

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[1-800-daylon]

[bookandyarndragon]

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[orion-archives]

"I want to be a dragon."

[bookandyarndragon]

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[attackfish]

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

[koshercosplay]

[penrosesun]

I think it’s also important that people know that one of the other theories put forward in the Talmud was that the plague was originally a single, normal-sized frog, but then it did a little whistle to all its friends (as frogs do), and every other frog in Egypt heard the siren call of “hey let’s fuck shit up” and came out to party.

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

Frog be like:

[cynicalclassicist]

I'm not even Jewish, and I'm interested here!

[shavingangrypirates]

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[cicadako]

Stabbed! A short comic

made for an anthology awhile ago

[thefitzandthegeralds]

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[mollyostertag-deactivated202310]

I’m putting together a book of all the short comics I’ve drawn over the past year to have for sale at my spring conventions! Not sure what the title will be yet, but the uniting themes of all the stories seem to be Girls and Magic.

I drew this selkie comic really fast and it bounced all around tumblr which was cool, but the messy lettering and simple coloring bugged me so I cleaned it up a bit. 

[chlora-boii]

going through the tags, it looks like a lot of people don’t know that molly published a whole comic novel in 2021 based (i assume) on this short comic

it’s called The Girl From The Sea, and it’s really good, you should check it out!

[shavingangrypirates]

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[aaloosshitposting]

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

[acosmodot]

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[zooophagous]

I didn't ask if it made sense to keep going. I said I'm going to kick your twisted evil ass.

[pea-gravel]

@thatlittleegyptologist

[sittingonmybed]

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[kleinergeist]

Hey. Don't cry. Weird teenage girl somewhere out there reading Frankenstein for the first time. Ok?

[acosmodot]

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[unexplained-occurrences]

[mini-wrants]

For good measure.

[dracophile]

Distilled spirits

[assorted-thoughts-and-feelings]

@spiritspodcast maybe reviewing haunted alcohol could be a patreon goal?

[enki2]

[gossamerorigins]

Coffin Text Spell 714 says Trans Rights

[assorted-thoughts-and-feelings]

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[grandenchanterfiona]

I feel like the reason there aren’t any ‘Jewish hero fights the Fair Folk’ stories is because we’d easily get out of that situation.

Like, put Hershel of Ostropol in any situation involving the Fair Folk and bro would talk his way out.

[shiraglassman]

This is why I’m not really scared of paranormal beasties. But yes, I’d enjoy reading this happen.

[chuuyaphobic]

Names have power? Give them your secular name and not your Hebrew one.

If you eat their food you’re trapped? It’s not kosher anyways.

They speak in riddles? What, and you didn’t grow up answering a question with a question?

Confuse the Fair Folk with impossible halachic questions: if a man falls off a roof and onto a woman and as a result she becomes pregnant, is he obligated to marry her and is the child a mamzer? If meat is grown in a laboratory from a mix of various animal cells is it kosher, and is it even meat, and what bracha would you even say on it? Is a unicorn permitted to cleanse a poisoned stream on Shabbat using the innate purifying powers of its horn or does it count as work? Can it be justified as pikuach nefesh? Can necromancy be justified as pikuach nefesh, if one approaches necromancy with the understanding that it is just delayed medical assistance?

And if all else fails, you can always get out a fleischig pan, kick ass and take names, and don’t forget to say the blessing for fucking someone’s day up:

BARUCH ATA ADO-NOT TODAY ASSHOLE

[thefitzandthegeralds]

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[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

[krchov]

(by @mhalachai)

[degenerate-perturbation]

It is a truth universally acknowledged,

[bookandyarndragon]

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[dajo42]

using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

[computationalcalculator]

my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament

[sittingonmybed]

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