Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

Guys I reblogged this and then wrote an 8000 word story I didn’t even have a solid plan for. Reblog this shit.

SO. MANY. FRENCH. KNOTS. by a_warm_garlic_yurt

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.

YOOOOOOO

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS

holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS. 

I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT 

SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP

WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????

ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE

THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN. AND ITS IN THIS POST.

I wish for someone to leave something in my ask.

OKAY SO I ASKED FOR A HEDGEHOG AND NOW GUESS WHO HAS A PET HEDGEHOG

I WISHED FOR SNK MERCH THE FIRST TIME. I GOT A JACKET.

I WISHED FOR MY GIRLFRIEND THE SECOND TIME. I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

THIS WORKs I WISHED I WAS MOVING TO NORTH CAROLINA AND GUESS WHAT GUYS IM MOVING TO NC IN AUGUST I PROMISE U IM NOT LYING

guys ok ur probably thinking that this is all just bs right? WELL I THOUGHT SO TOO BUT I WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD CHAT ME AND HE DID AND IM FREAKING OUT not even kidding i swear on my grampas grave this works

I love this it always works for me yey thank u shooting star :’)

woah the notes let’s hope my wish comes true

Please🤞🤞🤞🥰🥰

im so sorry i always reblog this shit but i need to break this plateau and i need some weed, lets hope :))

*crossing fingers* please let me do well on my math exam tomorrow

p l e a s e 🤞🤞

Yall already know my wish 💫

i really hope this works, otherwise im gonan cry

Omg pleaseeee work I–

I wish for samurai sushi! I want the gator roll!

i wish for my gf to be able to trick-or-treat with me tomorrow

guess who was just trick-or-treating with their girlfriend for two and a half hours

hope this works

i wish for…..

:)

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

“See him face”

I sure fucking do see him face

Him face

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)

REBLOG HIM FACE FOR MOST EXCELLENT LUCK ALL 2022 🖤

So I found one of my favorite childhood anime again!

I have an entire au to go along with this drawing that I might post later if anyone’s interested

FREE ROMANCE WRITING CONFERENCE

Hey dudes, dudettes, and nonbinary dues,

The past few days ProWritingAid hosted an online conference on writing, with a focus on writing romance. I have watched everything and I filled nearly half my study notebook with interesting learnings.

The best thing is, it's free, it's online, and it's available until (I think) the 24th on a laptop screen near you. You can watch it on YouTube or on the ProWritingAid Romance Writers' Week hub. The hub also has some freebies YouTube doesn't have.

What if you don't have the time to watch 20 hours in the next 7 days? No problem, I have provided you with a shortlist. The best sessions, in my opinion, were:

Some other sessions, to give you an idea:

Please take some time next week to watch these, because I have learned SO much and I wish the same for you.

Here's the link again, so you won't have to scroll up: https://prowritingaid.com/romanceweekhub (cue angels vocalizing)

Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in sharing this event, I just want to be helpful. Conferences like these usually cost hundreds of euros/pounds/dollars.

Spread the word to help a fellow writer!

nothing induces more fear in a pianist than hearing someone play the first bar of "winter wind" by chopin

i think at this point just hearing a single E sends my brain into fight or flight mode

winter wind is one of the most difficult songs to pull off on piano. it's considered the ultimate "show-off" tune because the beginning is so unassuming and then BAM 4 pages of complete fuckery follows

here is the first passage. as you can see the piece is written in the key of what i assume is Am (aka no black keys/no sharps or flats) but however the interesting thing is that the paper is absolutely fucking LITTERED with chromatic notes and other sharps and massive leaps because chopin took one look at his piano and went, "i paid for all 88 keys so im gonna use all 88 keys goddamnit"

anyways cool piece, one of my all-time favorites.

So I was curious about this because I only saw “Winter Wind” at first and don’t know the etude numbers well enough to recognize it unless I hear it (this is what I get for being a violinist with a pianist mother). Heard the first two notes and immediately started grinning because I knew what was coming immediately.

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

AJDHNFNCKWFKSNC,JAKD;FA ALWAYS REBLOG

Be a hero y'all! Just liking a post doesn’t help creators nearly as much as a reblog

‘boy i sure wish i was asleep,’ i whisper, clicking Next Chapter fourteen fucking times

i was initially ashamed of myself but now after seeing how many reblogs there are im ashamed of all of us

I’m finally reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and why did no one tell me this epic work of magical fantasy is written in the style of a Jane Austen comedy?

this is so funny almost all the characters are completely reprehensible. Mr Norell is a BITCH

the only characters I like keep getting kidnapped by the fae  >:(

Susanna Clarke really woke up and said “I am going to create a once-in-a-century epic work of English fantasy with world building to rival Tolkien, and I shall do it in the style of a 19th century comedy of manners. Oh, and I am going to do so in the most Sarcastic way possible.”

I always pitch it to people as “Imagine if Jane Austen grew up reading Terry Pratchett books”

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

Darlings I love your enthusiasm but just because something has tentacles doesn’t make it “eldritch”

Eldritch is more about “ancient and unfathomable, impossible to completely understand with a mortal human mind”. If something is just a very cool but entirely knowable monster with a lot of wiggly bits, like that’s tight but it’s not necessarily eldritch. We often use tentacles for eldritch horrors because tentacles remind us of the unknowable and alien depths of the ocean, and that’s cool as hell, but like. An octopus isn’t eldritch.

For example. Hm. Pyramid Head is a cool ass monster who is also a god, but on a scale of Eldritch to Euclidian (where 0 is entirely mundane and 10 is unknowable Lovecraftian horror terror) Pyramid Head is probably a 4? He can’t do anything without physically manifesting, and his manifestation basically follows the rules of physics when it engages with the world. The big knife is just a big knife. He gets points for manifesting randomly, existing in a state of unknowable limbo when he’s not tormenting you, and having an absolutely unknowable internal life if he has one at all. (I know the games did something with there being a red and a yellow pyramid head but tbh I can’t remember how any of that works so I’m just going off 2 and the good movie)

The dimension of Silent Hill itself, though, is like a 9. It’s mysterious, unknowable except in a state of madness. Madness, or communion with the divine, which is ecstatic madness. It’s a place with a mind of its own, whose manifestations are both literal and allegorical. It corrupts whatever it touches. It occupies stretching liminal spaces, defies its own boundaries at the worst times.

Fairies can be Euclidean or they can be eldritch depending on the writer—Euclidean fairies are born and (probably die) in the same body without changing, have powers with cleanly defined limits, may be wise but are limited to their own scope of experience from which to draw this wisdom. Eldritch fairies by contrast may have confusing, fundamentally inhuman bodies; they may have powers that don’t make any sense, or which are terrifying to think about too hard; their desires and goals do not line up with human desires and goals; to fully understand their perspective on the world would break a human mind and drive one to madness.

The eldritch is either profoundly horrific, or sublime—or both. It is uncanny. The more knowable it is, the less eldritch it is. Which is fine! There’s degrees. I’d put most Hive Minds somewhere on the scale, usually the lower end, by the way

#long post#a good breakdown!#because yeah the key to eldritch horror is its inability to be fully understood by human minds#a 10 on the eldritch scale is something that absolutely breaks your mind if you try to fully comprehend it#and there are differences between eldritch and cosmic horror!#eldritch is about the strange and unknowable#cosmic is about like. scale.#like in actual size but also in like 'infinitely more powerful than us and unstoppable in its might'#it's about inevitability and the relative insignificance of humans in a vast universe#full of vast forces that are uncaring at best and actively malevolent at worst#they just coincide a lot because y'know#it stands to reason an ancient and endlessly powerful cosmic horror god being's true nature would be beyond our mere mortal comprehension I like this, this is also a good point. You can put the cosmic horror on a Y axis and Eldritch quotient on an X axis and chart a lot of things together

well this was a fun way to waste half an hour

*stands mezmerized in the lowes lighting fixtures section*

god is real

Everyone who reblogged this is a moth

I’ve been thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle and how Sophie’s curse is a physical symbol of her self belief of being romantically unlovable (especially after growing up with beautiful, sought after women in her family.) How Howl tries to undo the curse the moment she steps into his castle but he *cant* because Sophie doesn’t want it to be broken. How, in the film, Sophie gets so close to breaking the curse in the field, but hearing Howl call her beautiful went against her self views, so she reinforces her sense of self by turning 90 again.

And the way that her love and kindness make her younger again and again. How film Sophie sacrifices her long hair, perhaps what past Sophie would have seen as her only beauty, for Howl but she’s grown so much that she still remains young, perhaps even confident about her grey hair, showing that Sophie no longer links her appearance to her lovability or worth and she learned to accept herself as she is. In this essay I-

This essay is a group project now and y’all are pulling your weight

Sometimes it might bother you that when you’re finished writing a story, you end up with enough discarded and unused material to make a whole second story.

Do not think of this as a failing. Those leftover bits are the Mirror Universe version of your story, and the fact that you defeated it is ultimately a good thing. Its goatee was silly, anyway.

the bits you cut out aren’t like building scrap that is only good for birdhouses and bonfires. they’re like cookie dough. you can mash them up, roll them out again, and cut out a whole new story.

use the fish shaped cutter this time. that one’s my favorite.

protip: If you’re writing or creating anything in a specific area of the world and need a list of plants and animals, just google “______  inaturalist” for an extensive list of native organisms with photos you can even sort by clade! I do this all the time

Item: Fist of the Beeholder

Headline reads “Man Transports Bee Colony By Holding Queen In Fist – Letting The Insects Swarm His Arm”

i mean that’s basically how you do it. they don’t have a hive to defend, so they’re nonviolent, and they’ll just follow wherever the queen goes.

well now I wonder how you put her back down, do you just get as close to where you wanna put her without smooshing anyone, then let go?, does she fall through the other bees do they move aside or is she just held there now, I know swarming bees are pretty chill so you could scoop the, m off with your other hand, but idk how clingy they are and I’m in the mind of that video of the Chinese zookeeper trying to clean up a panda habitat, insects, Queue87.

disclaimer: i am not a beekeeper. i just like bees a lot and occasionally go through spasms of bee research wishing i could keep bees, though for Reasons i can’t. ok so as i understand it, hives swarm when their population gets too big. they feed some female larvae royal jelly, which makes them grow up to be queens, and then they take some of the hive with them and go off to find a new living situation. unfortunately, most swarms don’t find a good spot, and die off. that’s nature for ya. it’s one of the reasons beekeepers take honey; surplus honey encourages swarming, and you lose a lot of your bees.

but ok, say your hive swarms and you want this. you have space for them and you want a new hive. when the new queen emerges, you find her, pick her up – people usually use a container of some kind to avoid accidentally hurting her, but if you’re gentle you can just hold her in your hand like this guy. you take her to where you’ve prepared an empty hive and let her go, she inspects it and declares it good, and they all move in! new hive established!

the bees don’t particularly want to stay on you. you’re just scenery. they’re waiting on the boss to find a housing solution. so when she does, they go with her, and you just walk away.

maybe with an extra check through your hair and shirt in case some silly babies dozed off in there. :D

Bees transmit their hormone through touch and it only takes a minute of the ‘pulse’ of hormone to be missing before they notice. It’ll be the mother queen who has been laying eggs in a hive for a while who leaves as her hormones are stronger. When she lands somewhere the other bees will ‘ball’ up around her to keep her warm (or possibly kill her if they decide to) in the centre of the swarm. If he has a hive box ready, he can just open his hand over the top or at the entrance of the box and she’ll march right in over everyone else because she’ll be looking for a dark hole to hide in, his fist is perfectly dark and warm to keep her safe.

oh, thank you for this clarification! i didn’t know it was the old queen who leaves. for some reason i really like that. “all this is yours now, my daughter; serve them well.” and then she buzzes majestically off toward the sunset, to do or die in the great wide open like the fierce monarch she is – and some guy catches her in a matchbox and takes her to a pre-furnished condo twenty meters away. and she’s like. oh. well. i mean. it’s free real estate?

That is exactly how bees are and I LOVE THEM for it

I just learned that the term for when a hive has a queen they like and everything is good is “queenright” and I think that’s really pretty.