Hellenistic Pagans: ornate glass chalices of wine, soft puffy clouds, prayers made at night wrapped in silk and candles
Norse Pagans: *banging pots together* C'mon grandpa I’m 5 cents away from enough money for waffle fries come in clutch here you blind bastard!
when magnus is in the archives idk i’ve never listened to it
I want Dune 2020 to include Sting, in this year of our Lord in the blue Harkonan loincloth with ZERO context.
Only then will I be truly happy with the film.
One man's trash is an archaeologist's dissertation
people are still patriotic in 2020? grow up? do not ask for what you can do for your country but what human rights violations they are currently committing and why you should hate them.
#Preview the next arrival Chic New #ChineseFashion Dress #FullSet “Lotus Campus”.
I think this is possibly the most Urizen lolita coordinate I’ve ever seen.
keltaithecrafty reblogged your post:
I like this idea, but I ’m perplexed - why owls? @keltaithecrafty
Because it’s suitably ridiculous.
I had the pattern, know that they brilliant scrap fabric using things, can make them in reasonable time, and have previously joked with my partners about sending the scrap fabric owls to politicians who frustrate me. Owls do, also, come with associations of watchfulness, wisdom, and a few other ‘watch it’ connotations. Mostly, however, it is because it’s ridiculous and something that, even if it goes nowhere ‘properly’...can you envision folks faces as they get variations on a theme of handmade owls? (That and they’re less messy than glitter cards, less mechanical than sending a Rickroll in a box, less likely to be read as a threat than a potato with a message on it....and, well, don’t hurt anyone) Times are gonna get a lot less happyfun than they are now. We might as well make our laughs in confusing and softly chaotic manner.
I have a pattern for scrap fabric owls that take about 5 odd mins to make on a sewing machine. (and a pile of scrap fabric and stuffing) Office addresses are public. I am more than willing to make over 360 owls, write a form letter, and keep making/sending them.
Who fancies joining me?
I absolutely will, can you send me the pattern?
I can’t afford to do this, because international shipping, but signal boosting for anyone who can.
@gingerautie Sorry that it’s a photo- scanner is currently packed in a box ready for the move…but hopefully this works
Match the diagonal lines up, stitch ‘em together, flip them the right way round, fold the top over, stitch that in place, stuff it, and sew the bottom up Completed, they kinda look like this:
Hope this helps
I also feel the need to add: If you don’t sew/don’t have scrap fabric lying around, origami owls also will have similar effect ...(https://www.origamiway.com/origami-owl.shtml )
Basically. Refuge in audacity. Amusement in protest. And above all things, mildly ominous owls with limited cultural backing.
I have a pattern for scrap fabric owls that take about 5 odd mins to make on a sewing machine. (and a pile of scrap fabric and stuffing) Office addresses are public. I am more than willing to make over 360 owls, write a form letter, and keep making/sending them.
Who fancies joining me?
I absolutely will, can you send me the pattern?
I can’t afford to do this, because international shipping, but signal boosting for anyone who can.
@gingerautie Sorry that it’s a photo- scanner is currently packed in a box ready for the move...but hopefully this works
Match the diagonal lines up, stitch ‘em together, flip them the right way round, fold the top over, stitch that in place, stuff it, and sew the bottom up Completed, they kinda look like this:
Hope this helps
I have a pattern for scrap fabric owls that take about 5 odd mins to make on a sewing machine. (and a pile of scrap fabric and stuffing) Office addresses are public. I am more than willing to make over 360 owls, write a form letter, and keep making/sending them.
Who fancies joining me?
Disclaimers: I don’t actually play 40K I just follow it for the trashfire of the Lore and whatever is happening in the Art. Further disclaimers: I’m bad at math and have never once organized an event for more than 10 people.
So I remember a while back there was a Cardgame (I want to say Legend of the 5 Rings?) that did Lore in an interesting way: They’d hold a tournament of thier most elite players, and then determine the new Lore by the results and dramatics that happened during the tournament. Did a lesser-known faction have a stunning upset? They’re major players now. Canon character die during the game? They’re dead in Canon now. People were HYPE, the drama was INTENSE.
So lately I see a lot of grumbling about “Xenos factions not getting a fair shake” this and “oh god not the ultramarines AGAIN” that and “So uh. when’s it going to be M42 already?” those. So i feel like GW could do with some Spicing Up of Canon, and since they already have buttloads of players and even tournaments already, my idea is this:
The torunament starts locally, at your nearest GW shop. Players compete to become the Best in their area, and to qualify for the INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT. I’m gonna say that the top… eh, 50? players are selected in this fashion, with a few ringers added in to play factions GW wants to do something with (there’s… a lot of factions*), and everyone travels to the UK for the Minatures Showdown.
*some additional ringers might be brought in if like, in the chaos of the local tournaments, no Kroot qualified for the international games, then GW can send in a Kroot Ringer. Also: More than one player of the same faction? Cool! They have the potential to end up fighting eachother, which is excellent Drama. Also Also: As the tournament progresses, you can add in higher-level ringers: near the end of the tournament, you can try invading the imperial palace or maybe actually killing one of the gods!
At the INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT there will be 2-3 days before hand where the players get to meet the writing/art/marketing staff and THEN SHENANIGANS:
-Every player is given, let’s say 5 “Secret Alliance” cards. -So lets say a T’au player and a Harelquin player hit it off and think they have compatible armies, they can fill out each other’s Secret Alliance cards, and call over a writer to come up with a narrative in-universe reason WHY they’d have an alliance. -Role-Playing at the table is HEAVILY ENCOURAGED -Later in the tournament, T’au are getting whopped by a Chaos legion? They can play thier alliance card and HONK HONK IT’S THE CLOWN CAR FROM HELL here to help out thier buddies as the Harlequins deploy onto the table. -Now, once your ally is on the table you can fight along side them… OR BETRAY THEM TO YOUR OPPONENT WITH WHOM YOU ALSO HAVE A SECRET ALLIANCE. -THAT’S RIGHT -STACK ALLIANCES AND COUNTER-ALLIANCES -CAUSE MAJOR ALIGNMENT SHIFTS WITH CANON CHARACTERS IF YOU CAN MAKE THEM A GOOD ENOUGH OFFER -DAEMON PRIMARCH RETURNS TO THE FORCES OF MAN! -A KROOT EATS NURGLE! -TRYANIDS JOIN THE GREATER GOOD!!
-THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS The lore gets jumbled up nicely, people prbably improv some great lines, the writers essentially end up writing fancfic of tabletop adventures but tbh every fantasy book I’ve read based on a D&D game has been pretty great, we probably get to watch ultramarines punch each other, and I think this would really liven up the scene.
Paganism requires so much research and critical thinking, you guys. Most religions should require it, blindly following anything is a terrible idea, but the nature of something that’s so build-your-own and often practiced in solitude is that it’s going to require a lot of hard work.
A writer not being on one of those “don’t touch with a ten-foot-pole” lists doesn’t guarantee that they’re right about everything. Read carefully, and read widely, not just in your tradition!
Not even just within paganism! Read science! Read–don’t take willy-nilly, but read–from other faiths! Read about logic and how rhetoric functions!
Read about medicine, and for the love of all the gods, don’t take medical advice, including mental health advice, from anybody who hasn’t been properly trained, especially if you’re putting materials in your body (herbs are drugs, charcoal absorbs everything, essential oils SHOULD NOT BE INGESTED)! FIND OUT WHAT PROPER TRAINING LOOKS LIKE!
Just. Be hungry for information, and remember that healthy doubt is good for a spiritual life.
how i think i write: using interesting descriptions and a normal amount of commas
how i actually write: and there they were, standing there, and they were there, in the field, and the sun shone shiningly down on them, where they were, in, the field, and the sky was blue, and there were clouds in the sky, and the field and the sky and them and us and you and me were all there, standing,
I would just like to remind everyone that on this day, 128 years ago, Sarah Susan Philips Lovecraft gave birth to what would become one of the greatest pissboys in all of western literature. Not only would this child grow into a massive antisemite, racist, xenophobe and class elitist, but he would also manage to weasel his way into the english literary canon with an oeuvre of almost pure purple prose, peppered with aforementioned shitty opinions. This shitty son of Providence, Rhode Island would later be hailed for his innovative approach to horror by utilizing the fear of the unknown, something he had in heaps, and it really is a tragedy that, apart from ethnic and racial minorities, he was not more acquainted with the sensation of a fist in his face or a good kick in the knees. So this 20th of August, let us remember the start of a rightfully sad life of one of the scummiest pricks to ever hold a pen, and be thankful that literally everything he ever did was done better by someone else after him.
Does anyone else with autism get that brain thing where their mental dictionary just randomly decides to become unavailable? And all you're left with is describing the word or saying close approximations until someone says it for you?
"The big... Cleaner. In that room."
"The washing machine?"
"YES!"
this is called anomic aphasia, which ironically i had to type various approximations of into google to remember.
“The table that you sit on” ... “You mean the stool, don’t you?” “The oven for keeping food cold” “The thing that makes the sucky noises” “The thing that goes round and round and eventually goes ‘ding!’
I want to know why I only ever seem to do it with household items and emotion words. Like, nothing else.
reblog this and in the tags, write the band that comes to mind first when you think back to being 13 years old
“what are the chances of EVERYONE in a group of friends being queer” you do realize that we all tend to flock together like penguins huddling for warmth in a cold, heteronormative world, right
