Zoria

Zoria • 25 • she/they • bi & genderfluid • also disaster-studies • Other language pronouns: hi/ŵ (cym); sí/siad (gle); ono/jej (pol)

[sillysiluriforme]

Commission for @ofeliajuzniewroci !! it was really fun to work on

Find my price sheet here :3

[zoriaofthenight]

The Bene Gesserit would have fully succeeded if they only had the forethought and the ingenuity to implement mpreg into their breeding program tbh

[preservationofnormalcy]

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

[the-faultofdaedalus]

magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture

[roofbeams-deactivated20180202]

[sandersstudies]

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

[coldgoldlazarus]

[dduane]

Somewhere or other, C. S. Lewis points out (and I'm paraphrasing here) that every era of writing has its own tropes and its own blind spots; its own failings and its own successes. This is why it's important to read in lots of different eras: so you can see what does and doesn't work, in the long run, and be able to make your own informed choices about how to write.

[zoriaofthenight]

To all the nurses in the Good Omens fandom - have you considered pulling a Misery? Just like. A tiny bit. A small lil Misery. I'm not saying you should do it, just, like, consider it. You know. It's an option

[dramatic-dolphin]

i keep trying to phrase a post as like a helpful tip for people who like worldbuilding but. i have to be honest with myself. it is not a helpful tip because no one asked for it. i just want to rant about kinship terminologies.

[dramatic-dolphin]

i can't even phrase it, my brain rn is basically just. "THIS! LOOK AT THIS!"

^^ LOOK AT IT ^^

[dramatic-dolphin]

i am also presenting anyone who wants with the wikipedia page for australian aboriginal kinship. btw. if you care.

[of-aesa]

you couldve maybe posted a version without a slur

[colony-drop-program-deactivated]

Two slurs, actually. It's "Haudenosaunee," not "Iroquois."

Furthermore... I'm not sure how I feel about indigenous cultures being used for worldbuilding fiction, especially in a graph like this, divorced from a real knowledge of those cultures and the context required to understand them. Not everything about a culture is artistically "up for grabs." How Your ‘Interest’ in Other Cultures Can Perpetuate Racism with Cultural Voyeurism - Everyday Feminism I'm not saying "cultural appropriation" outright, but you need to be careful not to overgeneralize. Each Haudenosaunee nation is different, despite harboring fundamental similarities by virtue of being neighbors. It'd be like claiming social structures are the same in Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, and England because all of those countries so happen to belong to Europe.

[dramatic-dolphin]

I didn't phrase it well (but if I phrased it well it wouldn't have gotten any notes, which is the eternal curse of tumblr), but these are not actually six different examples cherrypicked from indigenous cultures, they are the general categories that all cultures fit into. (Or, well, maybe most, I'm not actually sure, I'm not an anthropologist.) So if they seem overgeneralized, that's actually their purpose. They have unfortunate names because they were named by a guy in the mid-19th century. I am not the academic authority on this either, sadly.

Rather than "here, this cultural thing is up for grabs", this post is meant as more of a "here are ways your experiences are not universal, and here are ways you have been making vaguely western-coded fictional cultures even when you didn't mean to".

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

We stan!!!!

chaotic good

[exploding-plastic-inevitable]

There’s a happy ending to, because the robbery was unsuccessful, the couple ended up getting the money Eden needed from a movie inspired by em! Also John only had to serve part of his sentence. Check out their wedding photos btw they’re beautiful.

[itsanidiom]

reblogging because I’ve seen this post a thousand times and I’ve never seen the happy ending!! 

[archibaldtuttle]

Everyone go watch Dog Day Afternoon please please please it’s the movie mentioned in this thread it’s Sidney Lumet’s best imo and Al Pacino plays John and he is heartbreakingly good in it.

[froginakettle]

Not only have we always existed, but there have always been people who loved us. Never forget that.

[gorbling]

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

[gorbling]

[hapalopus]

[fabionardini]

Stephanie Cunningham: Dog in the Wind

Posted by Paulo Vergueiro

[foxpost-generator]

IT

[deathsmallcaps]

FUCKEN

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WIMDY

[focsle]

Re: dramatically changing 19th century dress silhouettes, thinkin about the time a whaler finally came home from a 4 year voyage and was just like ‘WHAT IS GOING ON’ when reencountering hoop skirts.

[aunt-rat]

[mxbutchtwink]

Rb to give gender euphoria to the person you reblogged it from

[zoriaofthenight]

RIP Rachmaninoff. Shame you didn't live to see Michael Distortion. You would have loved him

[insomniac-arrest]

why are ghosts always person-sized in the movies? they don’t have bodies anymore. one of ‘em should have figured out how to work that shit. one of them could be … her 😳

[thedogeveryonehates]

kind of a milf. reblog

[asharomi]

[zoriaofthenight]

I started imagining a show, called super natural, about ppl who go around chasing supposedly supernatural occurrences, but alway find that it's just a normal thing and then realized I was just pitching scooby doo. Now I know how tech bros feel when sbdy tells them they invented trains for 213769th time

[killrockstar]

tiktok porn is so so funny.

why even try at this point

[doubleca5t]

Imo the funniest part about tiktok is that despite how ridiculous and pervasive the censorship is, there's no evidence that any of it actually works. People get videos with allegedly suppressed words to go viral all the time. The Washington Post's social media team even did an experiment where they tried to get a video suppressed or banned by saying as many "bad" words in it as possible only for it to become their most popular video by a wide margin. Hell, the only tiktok to crack a million views on my account is also one of my most profane, and some of my other most popular vids are jokes about BDSM with no censorship.

The practice of self-censorship was developed because people saw that their videos were flopping and assumed it was because they were getting shadowbanned for mature content rather than accept the reality that The Algorithm is random and unpredictable.

That entire app has made it standard practice to use Orwellian newspeak euphemisms for everything for literally no material reason. It's like the online equivalent of every desk fan in south korea coming with a timer because a huge swath of the population there believes with no evidence that you can asphyxiate if you sleep in a room with a fan running overnight.

[alleecatblues]

A similar phenomenon happened on Twitter. People straight up believe they can't say words like "commission" or "fundraiser" or "auction" or else the algorithm will hide their posts from people, but the fact is people just tend to interact less with posts asking for money or advertising a product. Despite several tweets debunking it, I still see people still to this day censoring the word commission because they think it will help more people see their posts.

[netherworldpost]

Mythology is not an ancient rock but an ongoing, unceasing river in the bloodstream of all humanity. Ignore the presence and flow at your own destruction.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Also, a lot of the time, even the algorithm has nothing to do with it.

The content just isn't good.

Maybe the video is poorly shot. Maybe it doesn't have a good hook. Maybe it takes too long to get to the point. Maybe the audio is hard to understand. Maybe it uses an obnoxious visual and/or audio filter. Maybe the content just isn't interesting.

[zoriaofthenight]

This thread started with 🐔s, went through panopticon and ended as a roast