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[ bast | 22 | she/her | queer | tme ] [ icon from Zero's Journey | bday is may 31 ] [ sideblogs: @uncle-dusknoir (hex maniac pokeirl) @crossbones-n-skull (shiny hunter pokeirl) @pastoria-marsh-official (bogposting pokeirl) & @quillcrown-parda (flight rising) ]

[wordproblemapoligist]

i like making bad posts. my deepest apologies to my follower base.

see my art blog at @bast6415 and my commission post here

if you're pokeirl, i probably followed you for @uncle-dusknoir (but I have a couple other mostly inactive blogs). i recently moved my pokeirl stuff over to @can-you-say-bears-and-me :]

[unrelenting-usurper]

[idrawsnoopyeveryday]

174.

[bast6415]

been working on this on and off for like a week and a half! super glad for it to finally be this done. if i ever get the urge i might add color but honestly who's to say

[bast6415]

i love you gachapon absol.

[bast6415]

the first time ive had 2 of the same digit in my age in 11 years... #makesyouthink

[bast6415]

the first time ive had 2 of the same digit in my age in 11 years... #makesyouthink

[wordproblemapoligist]

if i ever live in a house with family/friends where we have a permanent holiday tree (obviously dressing it up per season) i would absolutely take advantage of it for birthday presents. Imagine waking up on your birthday to see the birthday presents under the birthday tree

[wordproblemapoligist]

today my little sister asked if she could make a mii on my Tomodachi island so she took my switch and worked for like 20 solid minutes on a mii. laughing like "you're gonna know who it is" "this is the best character ever" getting the voice right the clothing right even leveling her up for the right quirk. until she finishes and I can finally look at my island again. i look at the mii and ask "who the fuck is this" and this is the picture she shows me

[wordproblemapoligist]

insane concept for a character:

for some reason or another, a person is written out of time. to keep things from changing too drastically, the place that they inhabited is filled- mostly with existing people making the actions the original person would've taken, but for what can't be smoothed over (which is quite a lot, for an entire person), another person is created to fill that spot. that person is their own full person with their own life who is wholly unaware of this time skipping.

until, for some reason, the original person comes back. this time it isn't quite as smooth- putting someone in is very different to taking them out- but they want their old life back. their friends and partner, their pets, their life, everything that the 'replacement' person took in, is returned to the person who's coming back. but you can't just get rid of the replacement person- after all, they're still a living person! but they can't just keep the original's life, right? but how would someone live with the knowledge that they were only supposed to fill in for something more important that was missing?

[slavicafire]

Polish folklore beliefs about the sky, stars and moon

again, as I am delving deeper into old stories from Polish folklore, I find countless incredible and eerie beliefs - those that survived centuries, told by greatgrandmas to their grandchildren.

given that the last post was about death omens, this time it’ll be something a bit more uplifting. and I say a bit because we’re Slavic, and at the end of the day most things are about death or bad luck. or, well, weather.

sky:

- the following day will have good weather if: the sky has a golden hue after the sun sets; the sky is cloudless during the evening; the horizon is clear and bright during sunset

- pale sky and sickly yellow sunset foretell the coming of bad weather

- if during Christmas eve the night sky was full of clouds, cows would give a lot of milk in the upcoming year; if it was full of stars, hen would lay a lot of eggs

stars:

- night sky with a lot of clear stars foretells a good weather

- if stars can be seen even during sunrise, the day will have good weather

- barely visible or blinking stars foretell rain and bad weather

- stars are closely tied to human life - or rather the human life is tied to them - when a person is born, they are born under a star and this star is “theirs”

- you can be born under a “light star” or a “dark star” - the first means a good and lucky life, the second means struggle and bad luck in life

- people born under a “dark star” are often considered to be moody, difficult to deal with, or even dangerous (typ spod ciemnej gwiazdy)

- you should never point your finger at the stars because you can “point at your own” and that might cause you to be ill or even die; the star might fall down and cause your or someone’s death too;

- this belief is closely tied to the one that says a falling stars means someone just died - “the soul goes to heaven so the star falls to earth” and “the star is falling, say a prayer because someone died” (“jak spadła gwiazda to dusza poszła do nieba, a gwiazda z nieba” i “zmawiaj pacierz bo ktoś umarł i gwiazda spada”)

- some believe a falling star means a death of a child that hasn’t been baptised - in this case you’re supposed to say “if it’s a boy, let him be John, if a girl, let her be Anne” allowing the child’s soul to pass into heaven (“jak pan to niech będzie Jan, jak panna to niech będzie Anna”)

- stars were often called “little lights” and “little candles” and were on the sky to guide people - both in the literal sense and in life

moon:

- a very bright moon with a glowing rim foretells good weather the next day

- a red moon means bad weather the next day, especially during its rise or setting

- lunar eclipse was always seen as a bad omen: of illness or death, bad crops, death of cattle - some people would cover the wells “so the eclipse doesn’t poison the water”

- new moon seen through the trees or the roof foretells a sad month

- there is a widespread tradition of welcoming and greeting the new moon and wishing it all the best while asking for its blessing (there are basically countless versions of these greetings, examples include: “welcome, Prince in a new crown, the crown to you and good fortune to us” or “New moon, bring health so me, so my head and teeth won’t hurt” - toothache and headache appear in most of those greetings)

- full moon was an especially feared time, as most people believed the moonlight was harmful - newborn babies must not be out in the moonlight or they might get “hit/paralysed by the moon” and the window must be covered or else the baby will become a chronic sleepwalker

- moonlight could also: blind the children (or cause worsening of sight); take away their ability to talk or cause a lisp; cause a headache or endless crying; or even cause a mental disability

- fullmoon poses the greatest threat of possession by malicious forces or being kidnapped by an evil creature or spirit

- fullmoon causes insomnia - to battle this, one should put a glass of water or a little mirror on the windowsill - water is not only cleansing, but also creates a reflection and reflects the moonlight (some, as my great aunt, say that the moon becomes busy with looking at itself rather than entering the eyes and causing insomnia)

[main sources, other than personal research and conversations with people - especially older - in villages and cities of Silesia and Lesser Poland: A. Lebeda, Komentarze do Polskiego Atlasu Etnograficznego: Wiedza i Wierzenia Ludowe, 2002; B. Błaszczyńska, Wieści pogodowe według meteorologii ludowej, 2010]

[wordproblemapoligist]

made a little beast at a farmer's market today

[endlessknights]

New ref for Endless, since her old one was starting to look a lil rough to me

Plus I’m trying to be a bit more on top of Art Fight prep so I’m not doing everything at the last minute like last year lol

[wordproblemapoligist]

who wants to watch me stream on youchube

you can do so here:

making a minecraft skin for this channel

what it says on the tin baby!

[wordproblemapoligist]

my tomodachi life wishlist is just bridges pleaseeee I want bridges let me make separate islands with a bridge between them pleaseeeeee

[wordproblemapoligist]

Tired of salting your food? Try sprinkling a bunch of salt at the beginning of the week and then putting it in the freezer for later

[wordproblemapoligist]

you gotta love when a program crashes when you close it. Like good job buddy you're taking the worst possible option to do what I wanted you to do