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[starlightandstudies]

hey everyone!

just letting you know that i have officially moved my studyblr and main blog to @leaf-studies so go check out the new blog! i haven’t posted anything original yet, besides the intro post. all of my mutuals, i would love to have you guys on there!

i also changed my studygram to @leaf_studies_ in case you guys were wondering. i’ll probably leave this blog up so that you guys can scroll through and read all my old posts, but all the new content will be going on the new blog, so this will probably be the last thing i post on here.

have a great day, and i’ll see you on the other blog! <3

[chief-of-project-e]

Irish people; The faeries aren’t real

Irish people; No fucking way will I go in that faerie ring

[queer-trans-amazon-deactivated2]

#look#you don’t go in a fairy ring and you don’t fuck with a stone in the middle of a field#these are just facts#nobody does it#fairies will fuck you up#Ireland#folklore#fairies (Via @false-dawn)

[false-dawn]

Look, I don’t believe in God, but I will not disrespect the Good Gentlemen of the Hills. That’s just common sense.

[ohmeursault]

Between this and the Icelanders with their elves I do not understand what is going on above the 50th parallel.

[superindianslug]

My general rule of thumb: you don’t have to believe in everything, but don’t fuck with it, just in case.

[elocinneem-deactivated20160605]

^^^ that part

[dduane]

This is truer than true. Especially the Irish part.

Let me tell you what I know about this after living here for nearly thirty years.

This is a modern European country, the home of hot net startups, of Internet giants and (in some places, some very few places) the fastest broadband on Earth. People here live in this century, HARD.

Yet they get nervous about walking up that one hill close to their home after dark, because, you know… stuff happens there.

I know this because Peter and I live next to One Of Those Hills. There are people in our locality who wouldn’t go up our tiny country road on a dark night for love or money. What they make of us being so close to it for so long without harm coming to us, I have no idea. For all I know, it’s ascribed to us being writers (i.e. sort of bards) or mad folk (also in some kind of positive relationship with the Dangerous Side: don’t forget that the root word of “silly”, which used to be English for “crazy”, is the Old English _saelig_, “holy”…) or otherwise somehow weirdly exempt.

And you know what? I’m never going to ask. Because one does not discuss such things. Lest people from outside get the wrong idea about us, about normal modern Irish people living in normal modern Ireland.

You hear about this in whispers, though, in the pub, late at night, when all the tourists have gone to bed or gone away and no one but the locals are around. That hill. That curve in the road. That cold feeling you get in that one place. There is a deep understanding that there is something here older than us, that doesn’t care about us particularly, that (when we obtrude on it) is as willing to kick us in the slats as to let us pass by unmolested.

So you greet the magpies, singly or otherwise. You let stones in the middle of fields be. You apologize to the hawthorn bush when you’re pruning it. If you see something peculiar that cannot be otherwise explained, you are polite to it and pass onward about your business without further comment. And you don’t go on about it afterwards. Because it’s… unwise. Not that you personally know any examples of people who’ve screwed it up, of course. But you don’t meddle, and you learn when to look the other way, not to see, not to hear. Some things have just been here (for various values of “here” and various values of “been”) a lot longer than you have, and will be here still after you’re gone. That’s the way of it. When you hear the story about the idiots who for a prank chainsawed the centuries-old fairy tree a couple of counties over, you say – if asked by a neighbor – exactly what they’re probably thinking: “Poor fuckers. They’re doomed.” And if asked by anybody else you shake your head and say something anodyne about Kids These Days. (While thinking DOOMED all over again, because there are some particularly self-destructive ways to increase entropy.)

Meanwhile, in Iceland: the county council that carelessly knocked a known elf rock off a hillside when repairing a road has had to go dig the rock up from where it got buried during construction, because that road has had the most impossible damn stuff happen to it since that you ever heard of. Doubtless some nice person (maybe they’ll send out for the Priest of Thor or some such) will come along and do a little propitiatory sacrifice of some kind to the alfar, belatedly begging their pardon for the inconvenience.

They’re building the alfar a new temple, too.

Atlantic islands. Faerie: we haz it.

[pamisleyphd]

The Southwest is like this in some ways. You don’t go traveling along the highways at night with an empty car seat. Because an empty car seat is an invitation. You stick your luggage, your laptop bag, whatever you got in that seat. Else something best left undiscussed and unnamed (because to discuss it by name is to go ‘AY WE’RE TALKING BOUT YA WE’RE HERE AND ALSO IGNORANT OF WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF’ at the top of your damn lungs at them) will jump in to the car, after which you’re gonna have a bad time.

If you’re out in the woods, you keep constant, consistent count of your party and make sure you know everyone well enough that you can ID them by face alone, lest something imitating a person get at you. They like to insert themselves in the party and just observe before they strike. It’s a game to them. In general you don’t fuck with the weird, you ignore the lights in the sky (no, this isn’t a god damn night vale reference, yes I’m serious) and the woods, you lock up at night and you don’t answer the door for love or money. Whatever or whoever’s knocking ain’t your buddy.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ So much good advice in this post right here

[weirdo-city]

I live in the south and… you just… don’t go into the woods or fields at night.

Don’t go near big trees in the night

If you live on a farm, don’t look outside the windows at night

I have broken all these rules.

I’ve seen some shit.

If it sounds like your mom, but you didn’t realize your mom is home…. it’s not your mom. Promise.

One walked onto the porch once. Wasn’t fun. But they’re not super keen on guns. Typically bolt when they see one.

You think it’s the neighbor kids.

It’s not the neighbor kids.

Might sound like coyotes but you never really /see/ the coyotes but then wow that one cow was reaaaaaally fucked up this morning. The next night when you hear another one screaming you just turn the tv up a little more. Maybe fire a gun in the air but you don’t go after it. If it is coyotes then it’s probably a pack and you seriously don’t want to fuck with that and if it’s the other thing you seriously REALLY don’t want to fuck with that.

So in the south, especially near the mountains, you just go straight from your car to inside your house, draw your curtains and watch tv.

If you see lights in the fields just fucking leave it alone.

Eyes forward. Don’t be fucking stupid. Mind your own business. Call your neighbors and tell them to bring the cats in. There’s coyotes out. Some of them know. Most of them don’t.

Other than that everything’s a ghost and they died in the civil war. Literally all of everything else is just the civil war. We used to smell old perfume and pipe tobacco in the weeks leading up to the battle anniversaries.

Shit’s wild and I sound fucking crazy but I swear to god it’s true.

[witchy-woman]

Every time this post comes around, it’s my favorite to open up the notes and read the stories. Probably shouldn’t have since I’m sleeping alone tonight, but you know, it’s fine. 😂

[mistresstrevelyan]

Austrian girl here who has lived in Ireland for 5+ years. This shit is LEGIT. I’ve seen it with my own two Catholic eyes. 

Sure, visit during the day. That’s alright as long as you’re respectful. But you couldn’t PAY ME ENOUGH to go there at night. These are also the last places where you wanna start littering. 

[gayantlers]

I grew up in southwest Pennsylvania which is a weird mixture of American cultures and environments. I was in the heavily forested mountains (northern Appalachia) but had lots and lots of corn fields and cow pastures. Like the Smoky Mountains and fields of Kansas combined. And being so cut off from a lot of the world, we had our fair share of ghost stories.

We had ‘witches’ in the mountains (more like ghost-women who will snatch you up by making you wander in a daze around the forest like the Blair Witch before killing you or letting you back out into society but you’re… different). Or devils in springs or abandoned wells (don’t look too long into one or something will follow you). 

But we also had the cornfield demons. I’ve witnessed this many times. You’ll be in the passenger seat looking out the window and see red glowing eyes in the cornfield. No light shining in that direction. Just two red dots a few inches apart faintly glowing in a pitch black cornfield. They’re not the glow of deer eyes in the headlights. More like the embers of a dying fire. Sometimes, as you drive away, you’ll look out the back window or side mirror and you can see the eyes have moved to the edge of the corn field, still watching you. If you bring it up with the driver, they’ll call you paranoid, but grip the wheel a bit tighter and driver a little faster.

I was walking to a friend’s house one night. It was about 20 minutes down a dirt road with forest on one side and a cornfield on the other. I’ve walked past it many times and wasn’t really concerned. My main worry was coming across a skunk or porcupine. I didn’t have a flashlight because the moonlight was bright enough and I knew the walk really well. Then I saw the eyes. I immediately averted mine (because for some reason that’s how to not annoy it) but they kept wandering back. They were still there, watching. I heard rustling and saw the eyes come closer and I took off running. I got to my friends without a scratch, but I was terrified. I mentioned it to my friend and that’s when I found out it was A Thing. Her parents agreed and shared their stories. I brought it up more and almost everyone knew what I was talking about. It was a phenomenon a lot of folks around town experienced but never mentioned. To this day, I don’t linger around poorly light cornfields at night. 

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

@thedevilinthealchemy and I are very old friends. I used to live in the same town as her, in Southern California. One night, a few years ago, we were celebrating the end of finals and the start of winter break, and we just hanging out in her car, killing ourselves with late night Taco Bell. Well, we decide we don’t want to go home just yet, so we start driving. We drive up a canyon, near her place. Now, we both had made this trip many, many times, in daylight and dark. A local tourist trap is in that canyon, and there’s a shortcut to a college campus that goes through that canyon. It was a normal winter night in SoCal. 

Well, about halfway through I start to get scared. For no reason. Within the span of two heartbeats I grew so terrified that my palms were shaking and my mouth was dry and for some reason I couldn’t take my eyes off the wood to the driver’s side. 

“Turn around.” I say, quickly. 

“Dude, already on it.” Kama said, doing a quick three point turn. I look in the mirror as she’s pealing away and see the creature. It was vaguely humanoid, and hairless, with elongated limbs and pitch black eyes, on all four limbs, loping after us. Now, if you’re in the know, you might be thinking “hey that’s like the creatures from Until Dawn, I call bullshit on this.” Well, Until Dawn was four years away, and it wasn’t even in development yet, so shush. 

I rip my eyes away from it and hold on tight as she drives. Then, at the same time, both of us get this instinct and we speak. 

“Don’t look in the backseat.” Needless to say, neither of us did. She drove damn near 90 on a dark canyon until we saw the lights of her complex at the mouth of it. 

I haven’t gone back in there since, and that canyon got shut down about a year ago due to a landslide and it hasn’t opened back up. I’m a history major, and research always has been my first love, so I go digging. I visit the local history society, talk about my tale. Turns out the whole valley used to belong to a people called the Tativam. One day, after the Spanish arrived, they vanished. Without a trace. We have a graveyard of theirs that we know of. One of my professors was trying to stop the houses that were being built on it. Spoiler alert: he didn’t, and the houses are hella haunted, and nobody wants to live there. 

Personally I do think the creature is a wendigo. That chain of mountains is park of unbroken chain that leads right up the Serra Nevadas and Donner Pass. 

THE Donner Pass. 

You do the math. 

[poisonousdame]

@carolinemb88

[dryadgurrl]

I’m from Northern California myself, state capitol, and while we don’t have much by way of critters (sure, we’ve got Bigfoot up in the redwoods, but those guys are mostly harmless).

Most of what we’ve got is due to the Gold Rush, and not just the hauntings (though there are plenty of those, a great many of them are theatre ghosts, most of whom are harmless, though some are very particular).  What we’ve got by way of Things were brought along on the trail from the Old Country to the East Coast and then along thousands of miles of wagon trail.

We’ve got our fair share of phantom hitchhikers and women in white, but mostly what we’ve got are the Things That Survived The Flood.  There was a flood in the early 1860s, one that caused the state capitol to actually be relocated for a while, and when it was over and the floodwaters receded, there was enough sediment left behind that what had been the second floor of buildings was now the ground floor.

There are a handful of places in Old Town that you Do Not Go after dark (despite being safe during the day).  When I worked in Old Town, giving comedic history tours, we started from and returned to a restaurant that had a club downstairs (in what had been the ground floor before The Flood) and there was a storeroom down there that got locked at sunset and no one questioned it, but the door to that storeroom was pretty much right next to the portable shed we changed clothes in, and I know, more than once, I heard knocking and scratching and one of my very last tours I got a facefull of wet-plant rot smell (not quite mildew, but not stinky like rotting meat gets) so bad I couldn’t breathe. It’s one of the reasons I stopped doing the tours, really, because I was starting to get the feeling I was being singled out, and I didn’t want to find out what by.

[teaboot]

When I was like 17, I lived in the woods on the northwest coast of canada. One day, I decided to go for a walk in a part of the woods I had never been to before. Because sometimes I see weird things out there, I made sure to bring my grandma’s dog with me, just running free and off-leash. These are wild woods, too, not parkland, so the only clear areas are deer trails. I stuck along to those because, you know, I don’t want to get lost, and about an hour in I hear this strange whistling. Just a short call- One long, sharp whistle followed quickly by a short, piping one. Now, I’m in a good mood and I figure it must be some new kind of bird, so I whistle back: long call, short call. It whistles again. I’m amused, so I whistle again. Long call, short call, and then just to be fun, I throw in a little trill at the end. It whistles back. It whistles back the exact same pattern. Now, normally that would freak me out, but I was in a REALLY good mood. A really weirdly good mood. So, I whistled again. And when it whistled back to me, I giggled. I… Don’t giggle. Not alone in the woods over basically nothing. The whistle came again, and there was a rustle in the distance. Seeing a shady outcrop, I ran to hide, feeling like I was playing hide-and-seek with someone. It whistled, I whistled back. Another rustle. Closer. I suddenly realized I hadn’t seen the dog in a while. I looked around, and saw him a few feet away, staring point-blank and totally still into the forest. The whistle came again, closer this time, and suddenly my weirdly bubbly feeling was gone. Instant fear. I got the dog’s attention and we absolutely booked it out of there, all the way back to the eight-foot-high gate that marked the start of the wild land. I locked it behind me, and we never went back. I never really had any idea what was whistling with me in the forest. Maybe some kind of mimic bird that had escaped home, or a squatter hiding out there sewhere messing with this kid and their dog. I only just remembered that when I was a kid, we learned about the Tsonoqua woman. The Tsonoqua woman is supposed to be an old woman who lives in the woods. She carries a basket on her back and has long, tangled hair. When children wander away from camp, it is said that she snatches them up in her basket and steals them away forever. But because she has bad sight, she uses her keen ears to hunt, and calls out with a birdlike whistle.

[normal-horoscopes]

I have lived in southern California for a lifetime. There are things here that even I don’t understand. Things I can’t describe. If you ever take any advice from my blog, please, please, remember this.

Coyotes don’t hunt in packs.

[persephone-is-here-omg]

Yeah, you lil fuckers. There’s shit you don’t fuck with. You just don’t.

Like I am not a religious person, but I do nit fuck with Ouija boards. 1) My mom would kill me. She would literally murder me and 2) I’m a chicken shit.

[whatsallthisnow]

I have a fear of skylights. Yes, skylights, aka windows on your ceiling. Why? Because when I was 10-14 I had one in my bedroom.

At first it was right above my bed and I cannot tell you how many times I was woken up from a dead sleep, absolutely convinced that something was watching me. Of course I moved my bed against the far wall but there were still times when I would spend hours staring out into the pitch black, feeling something else stare back.

Eventually I covered it. I took an old fleece blanket and I tacked it up to cover the opening. My parents tried to get me to take it down. I cried. Because there WAS something out there. And maybe it was a raccoon or an owl… But maybe it wasn’t. And the maybe is enough to not take chances.

[alvie-pines]

I feel you.

Actually reading this made me realize (its kind of a ‘well duh’ moment) that my awful fear of uncovered dark windows probably stems from my own experience with staring into the darkness and, for lack of a better description, feeling the darkness stare back. I talked about it here and I’m too lazy to copy it

[moonbeamnn]

as i was reading this, i got to where @normal-horoscopes says “coyotes don’t hunt in packs” and i got chills, especially after quickly researching and learning that despite the fact that coyotes have a complex social structure and often form packs, they usually hunt alone or in pairs.

i’m from texas, and just like most southerners, i know the iconic yip of a coyote. a couple years ago, we moved to middle of nowhere wisconsin for my dad’s work in the summer of 2017. we were the first to move into a new area of Ft. Mc Coy, so my entire neighborhood was empty for a few weeks until my dad’s boss would move in next to us.

this area didn’t have a fenced in yard, so i began taking my dog out for walks in the woods. one time, during sunset, we went for a walk when i heard the yipping of a coyote. i paused my music and made sure my small terrier was close to me while i listened for a bit. it was dead silent, so i began walking again however this time i kept my music off and my dog on a shorter leash just in case. all of a sudden, i heared the yipping again but this time it was surrounding me. it legit sounded like i was surrounded by atleast 5 to 7 coyotes.

you best believe i picked up my puppy and ran for my fucking life (even though i knew that running from a coyote is stupid because a coyote would definitely be faster than a 16 year old girl holding her petrified 30 ibs dog) i just had to get me and my dog to safety. i also had this strange fear of looking behind me the whole time. like i would see something i shouldn’t.

i figured that it was just a pack of coyotes who were hunting my small dog, who originally was off his leash and wandering the woods, but now knowing that coyotes don’t hunt in packs, i have no idea what that was. i still went to walk my dog in the woods, because i’ve always been a big fan of nature, but i often felt eyes on me, and i noticed the deer in those woods looked at me in a weird way i can’t describe. i just thought the animals there were weird.

if anyone has any explanation please share that with me

[isa-ghost]

I’m a Chicagoan. Now I dont know too much about our history, or history in general (its just never been a topic my adhd brain can stick to) but I’ve heard stories from other Chicagoans, watched fuckloads of paranormal investigations and watched creepy documentaries. Bachelor’s Grove? Real shit.

My dad’s seen the infamous blue light. People my family know, some of my friends, or people my friends know have seen it. Its uncommon for one of us to not have AT LEAST one person we know with a Bachelor’s Grove story. Multiple reputable paranormal investigators I watch have seen the light. I want to see it but I have a strong feeling I shouldn’t. There’s literally so many things people have seen and experienced in BG that it’d be hard to list them all here. But one of them I will mention is that there were confirmed occult activities being performed in BG on and off throughout time, said to have primarily gone on in the 60s and 70s.

The unexplainable things of the grove are real enough that certain areas of it have been closed off so you can’t go in. It wasn’t always closed off. Whether it was stupid people or something(s) in the grove, those restrictions suddenly came to be for a reason.

There’s also Resurrection Cemetery. And Resurrection Mary. She and its hauntings are very real too. Pretty sure a bar near there is mega haunted as well cause of Al Capone Things or something like that. Anyone who drives down Archer Avenue at night will agree with the southerners above saying to occupy your seats. I haven’t heard any stories about Resurrection Mary harming drivers or passengers, but its better not to take chances. Especially considering the story of the Resurrection Mary sighting at the cemetery. She was seen clutching the gates as if she were trapped in the cemetery and upon later inspection, the gates had handprints burned on the bars. It attracted so much attention from people (I’m sure locals and tourists alike) that the bars had to be replaced. If there’s one thing I know about spirits, its that they are cold. The implications that she burned prints into the bars is.. scary. And I don’t trust like that.

I don’t really have ominous advice like the rest of these additions- But I will say a) Research these locations! And b) If you’re crazy brave enough to investigate, don’t go alone. Have some form of protection/self-defense. Have access to emergency services. Have SOMEONE not there know where you’re going. Just in case.

[queerspeculativefiction]

I’m Swedish, and I grew up in the countryside of south Småland. Old viking grounds, graves everywhere. I never felt that the forests were unkind, I grew up in them, and as long as you respected them, there was never any issue. And sure, there were stories about what happened to people (or institutions) that disturbed the graves, but who would be that stupid? And sure, my best friend’s ancestral home (now their summer house) had to be moved ten yards because they built in the wrong spot originally, but that’s just common sense. Sometimes you build in the wrong spot, and then you have to move and start over. And you made sure to be polite to nature, and to never toss out boiling water, and leave a little something out in case stuff around the house suddenly started breaking. Just what people did.

I was never scared. Not even in the long dark of winter when I played outside in the show, because the moon was bright, and the snow was white and you could see almost as well as during the day, and you were just playing. And if you got worried, all you have to do was to sing a bit, and those tensions would go away. Singing always helps.

I was a scout. And in the 4H. Countryside kid. There was this old farm near a river that was used as sort of a guest house for clubs like that, and schools who would come visiting. Old farmhouse, large, filled with bunk beds for kids. Most of the time we set up tents outside, and the teachers/instructors lived in the house. There were ghost stories. Of course. People who had died there. Been killed.Just stories adults told to kids. Never saw anything weird. Never felt unsafe, even in a tent, in the dark.

And then they cleared the field. It was old grazing grounds, but had been overgrown by bushes and young trees for as long as I had been there. It was a small field, but it had separated the main building from the river. Part of a reclaiming effort, making the place more open and farm like once again. Now the main building had a view. A view of the river…

I was staying in the main building. It was a school trip. Autumn, too cold for tents. I was in one of the top bunk beds, and if I turned my head right, I had a view of the river now. And of the trail leading down to it. 

I was laying in my bed, reading. As I did. People were sleeping. And something was walking up that trail. Something human shaped, but glowing faintly. I remember thinking that it looked like molten wax, the way a candle glows when the wick is so deep inside it that you can’t see the open flame. I lay there in quiet dread, watching it walk up the path until it passed the edge of the building. The entrance was on the front, not facing the river, so I snuck out of bed to go and make sure it wouldn’t get in. The teachers were in the kitchen drinking coffee, and I remember pretending that I was thirsty, while peeking out the tiny window, terrified, but seeing nothing. Then life went on as normal.

Years later, the last term of high school, our class had an adventure trip together, canoeing down that same river. The end stop, where we should drop off our canoes, was at that same place. That same river. All my classmates stripped down and swam around, and I remember sitting terrified in the canoe despite the heat, just knowing that there was something down there. It was a visceral reaction, I hadn’t thought of that incident in years, but being there it came back in full force.

I haven’t been back since. I don’t want to.

So yeah, Sweden is old, and I think in most parts we’ve got a working relationship with things. It feels old and kind, like a grandparent that takes care of you as long as you follow the rules. But then there are spots.

In my life I have found three. And I am not going back to two of them. Ever.

[starlightandstudies]

I remember first seeing this post on freaking Pinterest and becoming super interested in wood crytids and stuff, you know, you always have that phase. Well, I kinda started remembered little instances where these had happened to me. You don’t recognize them right away, you think you’re silly for being superstitious, but then you find it happens to other people and... what you see is real.

I live in East Texas, practically in the middle of the woods. There are a total of two houses that are on the same street as us. It’s completely forest. And let me tell you, you see weird crap in those woods.

The coyotes hunting in packs thing? I’ve seen that before. We put the dogs and cat up at night, predictably, because that’s when the coyotes surround the house and start barking. You’ll occasionally hear the wolf. Several times my dad has shot coyotes that came up to our front yard in a daze- probably rabid. I always thought they traveled and hunted in packs like that. Apparently not.

The occupy your seats thing? It’s instinctual. East Texas, so practically everyone hear is Baptist and is raised in a Baptist home, so you don’t think of being aware of this. But I’ve never been in a car where one or more of the seats is just completely empty.

Oh, and the Not Deer. They absolutely love the country roads that we frequent. I’ve experienced so many that we’re used to it by now.

There’s also the extremely creepy lakes and rivers that you pass by on the streets. They’re in secluded woods, with narrow concrete bridges for you to drive over. In fact, two days ago we were riding over one on four-wheelers and I just got the most creepy feeling. I could tell my mom and sister felt the same way- they were withdrawn and pale. “A good fishing spot”, my dad said. But you could tell that it was A Spot.

Oh, and don’t even mention the houses. Victorian style houses, still nice and three stories, but the yards are overgrown. The paint is peeling. There are holes in the roof. Some of them have historical marker sights. Old churches too. Heck, I just drove by a house like this writing this post. They’re in every neighborhood.

I have lots of family in Louisiana and Arkansas, and it’s the exact same way. The only difference is a matter of ghosts. Also, Louisiana has really bad gas stations. Like really, really, really bad gas stations. The three of us (sister, mom, and I) were harassed by an old guy all the way back to the car.

The small, old towns are the most cryptic. Marthaville for instance. Only old people still live there- the kids have grown and moved away. The prices and everything are stuck back in the nineties. Everyone knows everyone. My great grandfathers house is kinda creepy, but a lot of that accounted for my older cousin telling me about giant, red eyed rats that chewed on your face when we were sleeping on the floor.

You have to be careful about walking around graveyards and cemeteries. You absolutely never step in front of a gravestone. Something about respect, or the ghosts of the cemetery. Also, in places like Marthaville, specific places in cemeteries are absolutely covered by one family. They’ve been there for generations and generations.

You never swim in lake water. You just don’t.

There’s lots of abandoned barns too, with the longhorn skulls stuck in the trees. You regularly pass by them, standing lonely in fields.

And most importantly, you NEVER go through the woods at night. Don’t look behind you. Just turn around and go another way. Everyone knows it.

[eintsein]

some helpful links for quarantine

For taking care of your health

How to fix your sleep schedule

The mandatory midday break

How to deal with study burnout

For when you can’t seem to get anything done

Staying focused: tips for maintaining focus while studying

Getting stuff done: how to deal with lack of motivation

How to beat procrastination

For organizing all the stuff you have to do

Energy management: a human-based organization method

Flexible time-blocking: a more breathable way to get things done

The ABCDE method: accomplish tasks more efficiently

Get organized with Notion: the all-encompassing productivity app

[bvkspine]

jumped on the bandwagon. tell me about your reading habits and I’ll tell you if we can be friends

[bvkspine]

y'all. I am reading your tags so be careful

[scholarstudy]

reblog so your followers won’t forget to drink water

[starlightandstudies]

Hello everyone!

I thought that I would let you all know that I have created a studygram! I’ve posted a couple little things, but I thought that it’d be pretty cool to track some progress and goals on there, so if you’d like, follow it @starlightandstudies!

Have a great day, and be prepared for a few posts for today. ;)

[stcrlghts]

i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

[captainofstudies]

I really wanna find some smaller studyblrs to follow (I’ll follow from my main @cosimodmedici ) so please reblog if you’re a fledgling studyblr!

[yongxtr]

💐🌷🌹🌺 send this to ten other bloggers you think are wonderful. Keep the game going!!! 🌺🌹🌷💐

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH SWEETS!! 🥰 I’m sending this right back at ya! 💕 ~ I  will tag here instead if its alright ~ I know everyone’s being impacted by this pandemic one way or another, be it physically, emotionally etc. I truly hope all of you and your loved ones are safe and sound. Stay healthy everyone! 😘😊 - Mona  : @nqseo @groovyroom @gothbfkeonah @doublevybh @kris-colde @f-ngrl @seopoetic @gneocchi @viinxen @mesurech2ffon @jooyoungtual @fvllmxxn @fine-sser @boiiicold @ashislands @kkul-bee @44png @indigo-khh @artisticgrroove @min-yoongi @sour-nostalgia @music-is-a-painkiller @minhyun @babybloomoon @abeo @vernon-van-chwe and anyone who sees this! 💕

[kkul-bee-deactivated20220330]

This cheered me up~~

Sending out good vibes!

@bookworm-with-glasses @birdkoskincare @studylikegeller @radiantly-rory @raebae-studies @classical-dyke @ghostscostextra @kbeauty-blogger @borahaestudying @mintchocolatemika

Also everyone else who sees this 🥰🌸🌻

[sage-studies]

Me?? 😭💕💗💓💖 tysm!!!

@phoebe-does @a-students-lifebuoy @starrystvdy @chai-studying @kncwledge @sammaystudays @nerdinaomi @obsidianstudy @kopi-kue-studies @study-van @adelinestudiess @athenastudying @myhoneststudyblr @flowerais @dungeonstudy @thinkdeeplyandstudy

[adelinestudiess]

Thank you for tagging me!

@coralstudiies @oblivionstudy @coffeeandpies @gloomstudy @hannybstudies @elleandhermione @goodniht @peachblossomstudy @tbhstudying @emili-a-a

[emili-a-a]

thank you for tagging me 🍄♥️

@hannybstudies @thekingsstudy @coffeeandpies @tbhstudying @lawyerd @studymlk @peachblossomstudy @study-van @serendistudy @gudetama-studies

i hope you all have a lovely day! ♥️♥️

[basilesroom]

Ahh thank you 💕💕

@theonlysaylor @pinetreestudies @rivkahstudies @student-succulent @jungcinema @problematicprocrastinator @staedyhan @hannybstudies @faultypoet @bentostudy

[flashilybuggy]

Hey thank you charlie 💙💙💙

@blackgrad @orangeblossomstudies @cyclicstudies @filmmakign @rylie-studies @actuarystudies @kaylareads @psychologyhermione @golden-studying @thomastudies

[filmmakign]

aw thanks lovely! ✨i’ll be tagging

@byologee @artskyde @studyblease @genjistudies @moviemagus @tatumstudiesfilm @cals-desk @bujo-ie @graystudie @studywithrage ! 

happy studying, drink water, and stay healthy loves 💖

[genjistudies-deactivated2024012]

this is so sweet omg!!! tysm!!!!! 🥺💓 i tag

@noodledesk @clabujo @bludaisies @wilstudies @dayllights @pinetreestudies @cesarewrites @smilestudy @kjemi @univursity

take care n stay safe!!! sending u all lots of love 💘

[shootthesos]

thank u so much for tagging me (*´-`) back at ya girlie!

i tag @coralstudiies @lunaadore @books-and-wisteria @studyfajr @studyingdawn @kaylareads @typicalstudent @katistudies @diaryofastemstudent @sonderstudy and everyone else who sees this ♡ remember to stay healthy & stay at home (if u can!)

[kat-grows]

nurin this is so so sweet!! thank you so much!! 🌼

i’m tagging: @charlieestudies, @rivkahstudies, @lime-learns-languages, @imnotstoppingthistime, @athenastudying, @goodvibestudying, @starlightandstudies, @parleonstudies, @germanellewoods, and anyone and everyone else who sees this post! please stay healthy, happy, and safe :) love you all :)

[starlightandstudies]

i love you guys! i’m tagging @mini-emmie @athena4ambitious @elliotstudies @emilyacademia @eintsein @emmastudies @cottage-core-honey @artisticlog @studybuddiesareoverrated @myhoneststudyblr and of course, all of you that see this! spread the love ♡´･ᴗ･`♡

[starlightandstudies]

4 | 14 | 2020

making notes in bed. i’ve been trying my best to relax a bit more, so i’m about to make some tea after i finish typing these up. mobile absolutely slaughters photo quality, so click to see these better.

[myhoneststudyblr]

✨With most schools, colleges and unis closed around the globe and most studyblr students now having school at home I thought I would create a challenge to help everyone stay focused and productive and also to connect with people so even though most people are self-isolating, we don’t feel lonely✨

✨Info✨

Because no one really knows when we’re going to be able to go back to schools and I know it will depend very much on where you live, I’m going to do a month of daily ‘challenges’ starting on Monday 23rd March 2020 but if the quarantine keeps going I’ll try to add as the weeks/months go on

I want to see what y’all are posting so please use the tag #2020 quarantine challenge and I’ll track this tag and reboot as much as possible!

On this note, I will reblog basically everything even if you don’t think it is ‘aesthetic’ cause I love seeing how everyone does their notes and stuff so please get involved 💕

✨Week 1 - Questions✨

Mon - Have you made a study schedule to help you study at home?

Tue - How are you being taught your lessons? (google classroom, teams etc.)

Wed - What’s your favourite study snack?

Thu - How are you keeping active?

Fri - What is your favourite subject/topic to study at the moment?

Sat - Where in your house is your favourite place to study?

Sun - What are you doing to relax?

✨Week 2 - Pictures✨

Mon - Take a picture of your desk/study space

Tue - Take a picture of the book you are currently reading

Wed - Take a picture of your most colourful notes

Thu - Take a picture of the pens/highlighters that you could not live without

Fri - Take a picture of the view outside your window

Sat - Take a picture of a meal you’ve cooked or something you’ve baked

Sun - Take a picture of some of your art or doodles

✨Week 3 - Questions✨

Mon - What is your favourite food to cook or prepare?

Tue - If you could go anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go?

Wed - What is your biggest goal for this year? Have you done anything so far to achieve this?

Thu - What is the song that makes you happy no matter what?

Fri - What is your favourite TV programme at the moment (on Netflix etc)?

Sat - Where is your favourite place in the world (eg a city you’ve been to, a restaurant, or a particular hiking spot)?

Sun - What is your favourite joke?

✨Week 4 - Tips advice ✨

Mon - What is your biggest tip for staying focused?

Tue - What is your biggest tip for not getting cabin fever?

Wed - What would be your advice to you from five years ago?

Thu - What is the best advice you’ve ever been given (e.g. from a teacher of friend)?

Fri - What is your biggest tip for organising your study space/study materials?

Sat - What is your best tip on how to relax?

Sun - What is you biggest tip to someone starting to learn your major/favourite subject/degree?

✨This is the first month but I might add to this later as the quarantine continues. Let’s all support each other through this difficult time✨

[myhoneststudyblr]

✨Month 2✨

I’ve been overwhelmed with all the studyblrs who have joined in on this challenge and how supportive everyone is 💕

SO HERE’S MONTH 2

✨Week 5 - Questions✨

Mon - What is your favourite film?

Tue - What is your favourite book?

Wed - What is your favourite song?

Thu - Who is your hero?

Fri - What is your favourite thing about your subject/major/degree?

Sat - What is your favourite game or sport to watch and play?

Sun - What is your favourite childhood memory?

✨Week 6 - Pictures✨

Mon - Take a picture of your pet (if you don’t have one share a pciture of your favourite animal)

Tue - Take a picture of the sunset

Wed - Take a picture of your bookshelf

Thu - Take a picture of your plants/flowers

Fri - Take a picture of your binders

Sat - Take a picture of a title for some of your notes

Sun - Take a picture of something super close up

✨Week 7 - Questions✨

Mon - What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten?

Tue - Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

Wed - Does your family have a “motto” – spoken or unspoken?

Thu - If you were ruler of your own country what would be the first law you would introduce?

Fri - Do you love or hate rollercoasters?

Sat - If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?

Sun - If you were a super-hero, what powers would you have?

✨Week 8 - What Would You Rather✨

Mon - Would you rather be the funniest person in the room or the most intelligent?

Tue - Would you rather win $50,000 or let your best friend win $500,000?

Wed - Would you rather have a dog with a cat’s personality or a cat with a dog’s personality?

Thu - Would you rather have free Wi-Fi wherever you go or have free coffee where/whenever you want?

Fri - Would you rather speak all languages or be able to speak to all animals?

Sat - Would you rather get away with lying every time or always know that someone is lying?

Sun - Would you rather read minds or accurately predict future?

This is month 2 and i will be starting it on Monday 20th April 2020

If you haven’t done month 1 feel free to just start with month 2 anyway and i hope that we can continue to support each other!!!

[tagging some studyblrs under the cut that i know have been taking part - please reblog so we can spread the message! (sorry if you were tagged twice i accidentally posted this on my main the first time around)]

@lattesandlearning @bookmadmochi​@captainofstudies​ @coffeeandpies​ @smileystudies​​ @jeonchemstudy​​ @books-typo-and-so-on​@learning-to-think​​ @seoulightstudies​​ @rivkahstudies​​ @southfence​​ @amerioxfordan​​ @eveistudying​​ @anti-social-sciences​​ @germanellewoods​​ @abbieestudia​​ @teapenguin​​ @an-attempt-to-study​​ @chai-studying​​ @positivity-studies​​ @medstudentstudycorner​​ @bulletnotestudies​​ @almost-rory-gilmore​​ @nr-studies​​ @study-sleep-tea-repeat​​ @teaandanightowl​​

[thundersnowstorm]

anyway since we’re all baking bread and dealing with a plague, here’s a quiz on who you would be in the middle ages

[starlightandstudies]

#14, 15, and 16 for the ask game!

hello dear!

14. have you ever rode a horse?

i actually own two! i also used to be a horse girl (cringe) in the fourth grade so this question came as a pleasant surprise. i could talk for days about those two bratty mares if you let me! lol

15. do you have glasses?

i’m almost legally blind without them or my contacts (*screaming*).

16. what’s a language you’d like to speak?

i would love to speak French, German, Latin, and Korean someday!

thank you for the asks lovely!

[starlightandstudies]

6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 22, 27, 28, 29, and 30 for the soft tea asks

6. what does your umbrella look like?

my umbrella is small and portable, and black with white polka dots.

7. do you listen to ASMR?

no, i don’t.

9. what’s a little thing in life that you love?

just cuddling my cat- i love him, he’s so adorable and his purring is so peaceful.

10. favorite color aesthetic?

i love a soft white aesthetic, perhaps broken up by a soft yellow or blue or green- this is what my room looks like, haha.

13. do you have any candles? what scents are they?

i own one small candle that smells like vanilla.

16. what’s a language that you’d like to speak?

i would love to speak French, German, Latin, or Korean!

22. what’s an underrated show/ movie/ video game that you love and you think needs more attention?

the Emperor’s New Groove! it’s my absolute favorite movie, and i don’t think people recognize the comedy and humor a lot of the time.

27. do you like nicknames?

i love nicknames, but i unfortunately haven’t had any besides the embarrassing ones that my dad gave me and one i was stuck with on an inside joke in the seventh grade...

28. do you still watch shows that you watched as a kid?

from time to time i will watch the occasional Barbie movie with my sister, just to laugh and make fun of the cringiness of it!

29. do you still like old memes?

depends. i’m a strong believer that vine will NEVER die, and old tumblr jokes are my absolute favorites (oh, haven’t you heard?) but the Chuck Norris and Keanu Reeves reaction pics with the black and white script are only grandparent worth. lol

30. favorite Halloween costume you dressed as?

when i was in the fourth grade i dressed as a black cat. my mom made me a tulle skirt and i had little ears and a tail and a jingly collar and she painted on a nose and whiskers with eyeliner.

thank you so much for the asks! <3

[starlightandstudies]

21, 33, 39, and 50 for the asks :)

23. what snacks do you usually get at the theatre?

popcorn is a must, along with a chocolate bar and a water bottle!

33. cookies or brownies?

both! i’m a sucker for any kind of sweet.

39. what’s your favorite piece of random decor in your house?

i recently obtained a gorgeous portable record player that i absolutely love!

50. do you enjoy windy days?

if the skies are nice and clear i love windy days! but i absolutely hate it when it’s storming and the wind is howling!

have a great day love!

[sugarghosts]

Lovely calm asks to enjoy a nice up of tea to ☕

1: Golden mornings or peachy sunsets?

2: Sugar cones or waffle cones?

3: Do you wear scarves often? do you have a favorite?

4: How long do you lay in bed before you finally get up?

5: Is there a food you’ve never had but always wanted to try?

6: What does your umbrella look like?

7: Do you listen to ASMR?

8: Rain storms or a light drizzle?

9: What’s a little thing in life that you love? 

10: Favorite color aesthetic?

11: Wobbly lines or using a ruler?

12:  Bright colorful living room or neutral cozy living room?

13: Do you have any candles? what scents are they?

14: Have you ever rode a horse?

15: Do you have glasses? 

16: What’s a language you’d like to speak?

17: What’s your favorite season and favorite month in that season?

18: Do you have a favorite pair of socks?

19: Favorite Ghibli and/or disney movie

20: Disney, Dreamworks, or Pixar?

21: What snacks do you usually get at the theater?

22: What’s an underrated video game/ movie/ show you love and think it needs more recognition?

23: Would you fill your house with plants if you had a green thumb?

24; All plants are great but do you have a favorite?

25: Do you have a favorite type of art style? (eg: soft looking, no to little color, sketches, crisp and clean, minimalist, pixel art etc.)

26: What would you do if someone gave you flowers? 

27: Do you like nicknames? 

28: Do you still watch shows you watched when you were a kid? even from time to time?

29: Do you still like old memes? (tell the truth)

30: Favorite Halloween costume you dressed up as? (if you don’t celebrate halloween have you ever cosplayed or would you like to? who did you cosplay as?) 

31:  Are you a fashionable person? 

32: Do you like watching holiday movies? 

33:  Cookies or brownies?

34: Do you blow in the cold air just to see your breath?

35: Do you find the crickets chirping outside your window relaxing? 

36: Do you like cobblestone streets? 

37:  How often do you doodle? 

38: When was the last time you blew bubbles?

39: What’s your favorite random piece of decor in your house and room?

40: Do you bite your fingernails off or clip them more often?

41: Any birthmarks?

42: Thoughts on freckles?

43: First video game you ever played?

44: what type of bird do you hear most often outside your door?

45: Do you use gifs/ memes a lot when replying to people?

46: Thoughts on spring? 

47: Ideal temperature outside?

48: Cloudy, partly cloudy, or clear skies?

49: How often do you hear airplanes outside?

50: Do you enjoy windy days?

[studyingespresso]

ask me some!!

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

i made a quiz! which time of the day are you 🌙✨