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Scrivenings & Illuminations

@scarletdisciple / scarletdisciple.tumblr.com

A personal blog of things I do and things I find interesting.
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xelayxes
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dracophile

For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner–I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones

great poast every one👍

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shirecorn

I have drawn him…. The High Geologist

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syberfire117

Can’t believe he’s ace

He is now And here’s the photo evidence:

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aphorisnt

the high geologist has ascended

every time i see this post it gets…. better? but also weirder.

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segasister

I always gotta reblog the High Geologist once in a while.

I love this too much.

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cruelfeast

the worst trope is when a woman kills someone and keeps hitting or stabbing the body and then somebody else stops her and tries to calm her down like. let her continue.

no see, if you keep doing that you’ll get enough blood on your hands that your grip will slip and you might cut the end of your finger off or gash up your hand something fierce. It could get infected!

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silkirose

:/

A little update <3

I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!

I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Happy halloween 2021 everyone!! As for some good news, I came out as genderfluid this year!! I hope everyone has a magical halloween!! Patreon

I didn’t know what to do for the update this year as I felt I would just be repeating myself from last year, so I was advised to go balls to the wall

Happy Halloween!!

happy balls to the wall halloween everyon!

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shipperwolf1

The ffxiv community is aggressively wholesome like:

*group of complete strangers enters a dungeon*

the Sprout™️: hi I'm new and this is my first mmo

the rest of the party, practically typing over each other in chat: OMG HI HELLO WELCOME PLS ADD US AS FRIENDS WE WANT TO HELP ALSO WE LOVE YOU

LET ME TELL YOU THE SAGA OF THE IDYLLSHIRE ROCK

So in front of the House of Splendors in Idyllshire, there is a large rock monument that, with a little practice, you can parkour on top of, and it makes a great a little AFK spot. Whilst still a sprout, I was in Idyllshire and saw some folks dancing up top on the rock and naturally I wanted to join them. After a few failed attempts, one of them hops down and offers to show me how to get up. It took a bit of practice but she patiently sat and waited while I got it, cheering me on the whole time. We added each other and have been casually friends ever since.

Well the other day I was in Idyllshire hanging out on the rock as is my wont when sprout comes up and starts futilely jumping up to get on top of the rock. As Ive done many times at this point, I show them how to do the jump to get up and whip out my glowsticks to cheer them on. While I’m watching my new lil hrothgar friend WHO SHOWS UP but the person who initially taught me. She says “how funny that I would find you here of all places” and I assure her I am passing on the good word of the Idyllshire rock.

Together we both cheer on this sprout until after about ten minutes or so they finally manage to get up to much emoting and applause, with the solemn promise that they now must teach people how to get up. And so the student becomes the teacher, and the cycle of the Idyllshire rock continues onward.

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It always surprises me how many deactivated users there are here. And maybe most of them are the natural consequence of URL-hopping, but beyond those, the ones that intentionally deactivated--just the idea of actively deciding to terminate an account is so foreign to me.

I'm in the business of atrophy.

My Neopets exist, and persist, and are dying and continue to die for the last ten years my account has been dark. My penguin lived until the day Club Penguin died, immobile in its igloo, decoration among the puffles. My Webkinz stand in rooms which time refuses to allow even the dignity of gathering dust. My footprint stuffs the digital shelves of datacenters for sites and accounts I do not remember making.

I've made a horde of scattered exoskeletons, shells which I cannot even call ghosts because that implies a presence. They are husks. They are archives. They are records. I do not ever consider the mercy of allowing them to die.

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pure-egg

Well this got real eldritch real fast

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Honestly I always wanted to do this at an anime con. Get like 4-5 friends and put together an obviously thematic bunch of original costumes (with very clear color identities), and when people ask us what we’re cosplaying be like ‘oh what, you haven’t seen Magical Wonder Cat Robot Academy’ yet? Wow, it’s the absolute best! You should ask your local shop about it.’

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dajo42

if you dont have me on facebook you are probably not missing out on any posts but the comment section is important too lmao

I went to the Renaissance faire dressed as a warrior.  I had a real sword with me, too.  I was standing (in character) next to a sword-fighting ring, where kids of all ages got the chance to pick up a sword and challenge the champion.  Some woman walks by, with her little girl.  The girl starts walking towards the ring, saying she wants to fight.  But the mom pulled her away hella sharply, and was like, “That’s for boys.”  You don’t want to be a BOY, do you?”    And the girl looked around and saw me.  I think she thought I was a boy; I had my hair in a ponytail, and was wearing a hood.  So she comes up to me and asks me, “Do you think girls can be fighters, too?”  And her mom looks like she’s silently gloating.  Like she thinks I’m going to say no.  So I take off my hood, untie my hair so that it flows freely, and kneel before her.  And I’m like, “Milady, anyone can be a fighter.”  I swear, the look on that mother’s face made my day.

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maneth985
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This post was good but then it got better

Okay, this is a slight topic diversion, but in response to the above comment. I’ve volunteered at the CT Ren Faire for years now. For the last 5 or so I’ve worked in the game section, and we have a game similar to the above comment called “Smite the Knight”. I’ve been in the ring before, it’s a ton of fun getting to run around with the kids. The main goal is entertainment. Have a good shtick, keep the crowd engaged, and let the kids have a good time.

In both work and observing, I have learned something about kids. A lot of parents try to get their boys to go fight. Of the young ones that do, they tend to be shy. You get the ones who just swing the boffer swords around with no regard for life, but, mostly, they’re reserved. It’s adorable. I mean, they’re kids.

But the girls. THE GIRLS. Holy crap. I swear, the pinker the dress, the more taffeta and glitter…the more intensity. I remember, the first year I worked there, one girl came in, grabbed the biggest sword she could, and WENT TO TOWN on our knight. Lifted it over head, let out this primal scream and mowed him down. Homeboy is 6′2″, she was FIVE. And once he was in the fetal position (He was fine. It was for show.) on the ground, she stopped, put her foot on his chest, and yelled “I AM A FIERCE PRINCESS!!”. Later in the day when she walked by a couple of us yelled “Ah! It’s the fierce princess!” and she stopped and flexed. It was the best, and I will never forget that girl.

OH MY GOD IT’S BACK YES

This has improved since last I reblogged.

I taught karate for like 5 years, and the girls were always, pound for pound, better than the boys. Even the girls who didn’t really want to do it and were only there because their parents made them were better than like 95% of the boys.

I was playing fiddle at a ren faire, and two little girls were really enjoying our set. After quite some time one of them walked up to me and shyly offered me her star tinsel tiara, because she “didn’t have any money. And this protects you from trolls!” I said “Thanks, that’s really sweet – but what about you? Don’t you need protection from trolls?”

At which point this six-ish-year-old girl whips out her certificate from the axe throwing booth and says “Nah, I’m fine.”

I still have that tinsel tiara. It’s draped over my modem. I figure it’ll protect me from the most trolls that way.

I’ve worked at haunted attractions (pro and amateur) for literal decades. One year I was out at Old Tucson Studios’ ‘Nightfall’, and given I had a very very fancy and realistic werewolf suit, was doing streetmosphere...wandering around up close and personal with the patrons. 

The boys? Almost universally would run away, screech, maybe, MAYBE dare each other to go poke the werewolf, and they’d always run up behind me when I wasn’t looking, poke or thump me, and then run like Satan himself was on their heels. The girls? No fear. None. A few of them would screech but then immediately start giggling. A lot of them wanted hugs and photos. I hugged a -lot- of little girls. It was pretty awesome honestly.

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monstercub

Wtf is that? A storm elemental?

Ball lightning fuck me all the way up

Excuse me what the fuck is this

you literally captured whats called “ball lightning” which is the rarest form of lighting

its so rare that we dont even know how it forms other than by heat, static electricity, and humidity

storm elemental it is

look guys this is how nature-based deities and spirits come about this is ridiculous

Are you aware that the first-ever video footage of ball lightning outside a laboratory was taken in 2014 and there are only like 3 or 4 videos like this in existence and this might be the most close-up one

THIS is yet another reason why shaming people for always filming stuff with their phones is dumb. People are documenting things we’ve rarely EVER seen, or have NEVER BEEN CAPTURED ON FILM BEFORE! It’s fantastic!

What a TIME TO BE ALIVE, folks! Ordinary people can capture footage that is of tremendous use for scientific documentation and research! I love this!

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dduane

…WOW.

Back when we still lived in TN, the power lines in front of our house were struck by lightning.

Ball lightning came into the house, out of the power sockets. My mother reported it chased itself around in circles on the kitchen floor before dispersing, and it also peeled all the foil wallpaper off the bathroom wall (it was the 80s, whaddya want) in erratic patterns. There was no such thing as ‘cel phone cameras’ at the time, but I wish she’d been able to capture it.

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