imanes:

omg this reminds me of this one girl from high school who was like always on the prowl for a man and i told her if i had a bf i’d never introduce her to him and she said in all seriousness that i was right bc she’d do everything she could to suck his dick. cold calculating bitch alkjkjfgdf she was so messy i can’t believe we were friends i shouldn’t have let her borrow my pen on the first day of hs. but yeah this read is entertaining bc miss heather havrilesky did NOT come to play

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Anonymous asked: this is kind of old news by now but i was recently rewatching it, so. have you heard of theatre of coolty? aka the dirk strider existential drama/dialogue acted out with ken dolls. its really good. i am... unfortunately not smart enough to dig very deep into its meaning besides what it gives us on the surface level lol, but i was wondering what you thought about it? if you have seen it, that is. if not i definitely suggest you do bc it seems right up your alley!

mmmmalo:

I haven’t read/watched ToC in ages but I mostly remember being charmed by the dryly marinated word salads thrown together by a gaggle of Dirk-adjacent entities pointing fingers at one another. 

Looking at it again, I’d say the story kind of plays with the ways that stupid/unfair/pointless narratives intersect with the anxiety that life itself is stupid/unfair/pointless. The Dirks alternately suffer from, bargain with, and kill the authorly arbiter of meaning, who is also Dirk. Every move and counter-move is mocked relentlessly, in part to deter you from taking any particular piece of the story “seriously”, ie as the author’s final pronouncement, imbued with the meaning you were intended to take. There’s a certain irritation with this very function of humor that pervades. Yes, yes, the author is dead, meaning is mine to make, I know, I know! But nonetheless? I swear to God he’s hiding something. And you know what else? I don’t even want to know.

Or to ignore Barthes’s warning, I’m inclined to read ToC as a dramatization of the author’s unrequited hate-crush on Hussie.

tamascotchi:

animals-riding-animals:

toads riding snake

they took midnight train goin anywhere

purified-zone:

its-me-the-sad-one:

tacobelltylerr:

themightyrancho:

heartofthecoolkids:

I cant rn….

NEW YORK

BABY….

BOOOOOOOOOI.

Did Elmo just hit that Whip

DID ELMO JUST HIT THAT WHIP

*stumbles into brother’s room at 3 am* Y-You gotta see this

WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS EYES

enevun:

aeiou

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mercurialvoid:

Title: Let the Man Sleep.
From: Darlighl / Mercurialvoid
To: @bethany-sensei
Rating: Gen
Warnings: No Warnings Apply.

smugplankton:

Journals, articles, books & texts, on folklore, mythology, occult, and related -to- general anthropology, history, archaeology. 

Some good and/or interesting (or hokey) ‘examples’ included for most resources.
tryin to organize & share stuff that was floating around onenote.

Journals (open access)
– Folklore, Occult, etc

• Culutural Analysis - folklore, popular culture, anthropology
  – The Mythical Ghoul in Arabic Culture
  
• Folklore - folklore, anthropology, archaeology
  – The Making of a Bewitchment Narrative, Grecian Riddle Jokes
  
• Incantatio - journal on charms, charmers, and charming
  – Verbal Charms from a 17th Century Manuscript
• Oral Tradition
  – Jewish Folk Literature, Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry
• Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
  – Nani Fairtyales about the Cruel Bride, Energy as the Mediator between Natural and Supernatural Realms
• International Journal of Intangible Heritage 
• Studia Mythologica Slavica (many articles not English)
  – Dragon and Hero, Fertility Rites in the Raining Cave, The Grateful Wolf and Venetic Horses in Strabo’s Geography
• Folklorica - Slavic & Eastern European folklore association
  – Ritual: The Role of Plant Characteristics in Slavic Folk Medicine, Animal Magic
• Esoterica - The Journal of Esoteric Studies
  – The Curious Case of Hermetic Graffiti in Valladolid Cathedral 
• The Esoteric Quarterly
• Mythological Studies Journal
• Luvah - Journal of the Creative Imagination
  – A More Poetical Character Than Satan
• Transpersonal Studies
  – Shamanic Cosmology as an Evolutionary Neurocognitive Epistemology, Dreamscapes
• Beyond Borderlands 
  – tumblr
• Paranthropology
• GOLEM - Journal of Religion and Monsters
  – The Religious Functions of Pokemon, Anti-Semitism and Vampires in British Popular Culture 1875-1914
• Correspondences - Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism
  – Kriegsmann’s Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom 

– History, Archaeology

• Adoranten - pre-historic rock art
• Chitrolekha - India art & design history
  – Gomira Dance Mask
• Silk Road
  – Centaurs on the Silk Road: Hellenistic Textiles in Western China
• Sino-Platonic - East Asian languages and civilizations
  – Discursive Weaving Women in Chinese and Greek Traditions
• MELA Notes - Middle East Librarians Association
• Didaskalia - Journal for Ancient Performance
• Ancient Narrative - Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions
  – The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel
• Akroterion - Greek, Roman
  – The Deer Hunter: A Portrait of Aeneas
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 
  – Erotic and Separation Spells, The Ancients’ One-Horned Ass
• Roman Legal Tradition - medieval civil law
  – Between Slavery and Freedom 
• Phronimon - South African society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities
  – Special Issue vol. 13 #2, Greek philosophy in dialogue with African+ philosophy
• The Heroic Age - Early medieval Northwestern Europe
  – Icelandic Sword in the Stone
• Peregrinations - Medieval Art and Architecture
  – Special Issue vol. 4 #1, Mappings 
• Tiresas - Medieval and Classical
  – Sexuality in the Natural and Demonic Magic of the Middle Ages
• Essays in Medieval Studies 
  – The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances, The Sweet Song of Satan
• Hortulus - Medieval studies
  – Courtliness & the Deployment of Sodomy in 12th-Century Histories of Britain, Monsters & Monstrosities issue, Magic & Witchcraft issue
• Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU
• Medieval Archaeology
  – Divided and Galleried Hall-Houses, The Hall of the Knights Templar at Temple Balsall
• Medieval Feminist Forum 
  – multiculturalism issue; Gender, Skin Color and the Power of Place … Romance of Moriaen, Writing Novels About Medieval Women for Modern Readers, Amazons & Guerilleres
• Quidditas - medieval and renaissance 
• Medieval Warfare
• The Viking Society - ridiculous amount of articles from 1895-2011

Journals (limited free/sub/institution access)

• Al-Masaq - Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean
  – Piracy as Statecraft: The Policies of Taifa of Denia, free issue
• Mythical Creatures of Europe - article + map
• Folklore - limited free access
  – Volume 122 #3, On the Ambiguity of Elves
• Digital Philology -  a journal of medieval cultures
  – Saracens & Race in Roman de la Rose Iconography
• Pomegranate - International Journal for Pagan Studies
• Transcultural Psychiatry
• European Journal of English Studies 
  – Myths East of Venice issue, Esotericism issue

Books, Texts, Images etc.
– Folklore, Occult etc.

• Magical Gem Database - Greek/Egyptian gems & talismans [x] [x]
• Biblioteca Aracana - (mostly) Greek pagan history, rituals, poetry etc.
  – Greater Tool Consecration, The Yew-Demon
• Curse Tablets from Roman Britain - [x]
• The Gnostic Society Library
  – The Corpus Hermeticum, Hymn of the Robe of Glory
• Grimoar - vast occult text library
  – Grimoires, Greek & Roman Necromancy, Queer Theology, Ancient Christian Magic
• Internet Sacred Text Archive - religion, occult, folklore, etc. ancient texts
• Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry

– History

• The Internet Classics Archive - mainly Greco-Roman, some Persian & Chinese translated texts
• Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collection - [x] [x] [x]
• Virtual Magic Bowl Archive - Jewish-Aramaic incantation bowl text and images [x] [x] 
• Vindolanda Tablets - images and translations of tablets from 1st & 2nd c. [x]
• Corsair - online catalog of the Piedmont Morgan library (manuscripts) [x] [x]
• Beinecke rare book & manuscripts 
  – Wagstaff miscellany, al-Qur'ān–1813
• LUNA - tonnes from Byzantine manuscripts to Arabic cartography
• Maps on the web - Oxford Library [x] [x] [x]
• Bodleian Library manuscripts - photographs of 11th-17th c. manuscripts
  – Treatises on Heraldry, The Worcester Fragments (polyphonic music), 12 c. misc medical and herbal texts
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford U - very high quality photographs
  – (view through bottom left) Military texts by Athenaeus Mechanicus 16th c. [x] [x], MS Douce 195 Roman de la Rose [x] [x]
• Trinity College digital manuscript library 
  – Mathematica Medica, 15th c.
• eTOME - primary sources about Celtic peoples

Websites, Blogs
– Folklore, Occult etc.

• Demonthings - Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project 
• Invocatio - (mostly) western esotericism
• Heterodoxology - history, esotericism, science
  – Religion in the Age of Cyborgs
• The Recipes Project - food, magic, science, medicine
  – The Medieval Invisible Man (invisibility recipes)
• Morbid Anatomy - museum/library in Brooklyn

– History 

• Islamic Philosophy Online - tonnes of texts, articles, links, utilities, this belongs in every section; mostly English
• Medicina Antiqua - Graeco-Roman medicine
• History of the Ancient World - news and resources
  – The So-called Galatae, Gauls, Celts in Early Hellenistic Balkans; Maidens, Matrons Magicians: Women & Personal Ritual Power in Late Antique Egypt
• Διοτίμα - Women & Gender in Antiquity
• Bodleian Library Exhibitions Online
  – Khusraw & Shirin, Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-Place of Cultures
• Medievalists
  – folk studies, witchcraft, mythology, science tags
• Atlas Obscura
  – Bats and Vampiric Lore of Pére Lachaise Cemetery 

aph-awesomeprussia asked: What are the stages of drafts? I'm trying to write my own book but I dont know how to draft properly and I feel like I'm gonna be stuck in a gutter if I don't know

thescalex:

Yesssssssssssssss someone finally asked it!!!

I’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to explain this and show everybody my inverted pyramid :D :D :D

I present, The Inverted Pyramid of Revising a Book

Now I’ll explain each section of the inverted pyramid:

THE FIRST DRAFT

• This should be self-explanatory. You write the first draft. For novels, 75-150,000+ words of the world inside your head.
  

PLOT, CONTENT, SCENES, AND MAJOR CHARACTERS

• Go back and fix it all up. Did you tell the story you wanted to tell? Did you include scenes and events that add up to the conclusion you present?
• Are there any unnecessary scenes you could delete, or scenes that are redundant to other scenes? Get rid of them. If this means entire chapters have to go, wave bye-bye.
• Do your main characters have believable back stories and arcs, and do they act appropriately in character at all times?
• Is there any point in time when your characters do something that they literally WOULD NOT DO? Change that up.
  

WORLD-BUILDING, CHARACTERIZATION, HONING IN PLOT POINTS

• Now pay attention to the deeper aspects of the story. Delve into the world your characters live in. Do they react appropriately? Does any part of society influence them more than others?
• What does your world look like? Delve into the setting. The cultures, the technology, the history.
• Work with your secondary characters and how they interact with your main characters. What role do they serve overall? Does the main character’s journey affect them at all, or vice versa?
• Tighten up plot points. Stay concise if possible.
  

SENTENCE STRUCTURE, FLOW AND PACING OF SCENES

• Now that the major parts of your story have been patted down, you can begin focusing on the technical stuff. Start broad.
• Do you have redundant sentences? Do you start multiple sentences the same way?
• Throw in short sentences.
• Drop the pronoun from the beginning of a sentence every now and then.
• Use commas instead of ‘and’ if you find you use ‘and’ a lot.
• Does the flow of sentences and paragraphs fit with the tone of the scene?
• Chop sentences apart. Use quick, sharp words.
• Or combine sentences and flowery language and soft words.
  

BETA READER CRITIQUES AND SUGGESTIONS

• Now that you’ve really patted this thing down, find people willing to read your work (hopefully for free).
• Ask them to point out inconsistencies. Are they confused by anything?
• Beta readers can tell you when things are boring or exciting. They’ll laugh. They’ll fangirl. They’ll beg you for more chapters.
• Your brain is soft from so much revising. Beta readers are fresh, and will pick out things you’ve glossed over from seeing it so many times.
• Shake things up and host a video chat for you and your betas! It’s a great way to make friends :)

PUNCTUATION AND MISSING WORDS

• NOWWWWW you’ve finished all the major revisions and your story makes sense!!! All that’s left to do is get the broom and sweep it up (or the vacuum cleaner, or generate a black hole from the Large Hadron Collider to suck out all the errors because that’s super-effective**).
• This is the nitty gritty stuff, and I highly recommend either forcing yourself to read really, really slow, or better yet, read your book out loud, start to finish.
• You’ll trip up over misplaced commas and periods.
• You’ll literally hear when a sentence is awkward.
• Your brain will get confused when there’s a missing word.
• Fill in the gaps, hammer down the boards, tidy up the place like you’ve got guests coming over.
  

THE FINAL DRAFT

• OMG
• OMG
• OMG
• OMG IT’S FINISHED AND YOU CAN SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD AND BUY PHYSICAL COPIES THAT YOU CAN HOLD AND SMELL AND RUB ALL OVER YOUR FACE AND DRAW IN AND DOG-EAR AND TOTE AROUND TO SHOW PEOPLE AND SIGN AUTOGRAPHS AND BECOME YOUR OWN LITTLE CELEBRITY!!!
• Email the newspaper (I’ve appeared multiple times).
• Email the local TV station (I’ve appeared on live TV).
• Email book talk radio shows (I’ve had a Q&A for an hour on live radio).
• ……..Marketing is hard.
  

I hope that helps!

N.B. **please do not ask CERN for permission to use the Large Hadron Collider to create black holes that suck out all the errors in your book. You’ll look silly, and you might destroy Earth in the process.