Spooky season is here!
Have some Eldritch monster magical girls
Spooky season is here!
Have some Eldritch monster magical girls
Goals
the breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. don’t go back to sleep (x)
|| hanan || sister, tagalog goddess of morning, bringer of dawn ||
and i see fire, blood on the breeze, and i hope that you remember me (x)
lalahon || tagalog goddess of fire and volcanoes
I just got an ask about a Native spirit that many Natives have asked monsterfuckers to not use.
It starts with a W.
People from the culture it’s from do not say its name because in their culture, saying the name summons the spirit. Out of respect for my friends from that culture, I do not say/type the name either.
I would kindly ask you not put that creature in my ask box in the future. I know the person that submitted it likely didn’t know so there’s no hard feelings. It’s alright. I’m not upset.
I’m not really the best person to educate folks on this topic and I wish I had some resources on why that’s not a good thing for non-Native people to use for their fiction.
I’m sure even my wording here isn’t great. I know the spirit is from a specific Native culture (there’s a lot of them, for those that didn’t know lol) and I can’t remember which one(s) and my brain is still fuzzy from being sick.
So if any of my followers are familiar with this issue, please feel free to share the info of why this isn’t good.
Again, I understand the person that sent the ask likely didn’t know all this. I’m not upset. I just think it’s worth mentioning.
Ugh I’m trying to research to find resources of actually Native folks saying it’s bad for non-Native folks to use this spirit and instead I’m just finding Hot Takes like
“The *** may be a figure from American Indian mythology, but it belongs to all of humankind”
No? Like haven’t we (colonizers) taken enough from Indigenous people without also appropriating their spirits and misusing them? Fuck right off.
I’m too sick to deal with this shit today.
Hello! Hi! Yes! Maybe I can help here!
Here are some very basic things to help people understand this:
Wise Endymion with changing bends of his fingers will calculate the three varying phases of Selene.
Dark merriment and torment.
‘Circe Offering The Cup To Ulysses’ by John William Waterhouse.
a practice for maybe Ares?
what if unicorns were the size of cats?
and they just… lived with us, in our homes?
First of a new set of pride themed mermaids I’m working on!! I’m so excited to be working on these again.
as an aro person obviously this one is very close to my heart and I love them <3
Sᴇᴠᴇɴ Dᴇᴀᴅʟʏ Sɪɴs ◇ ──── I R A ;
“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
witches: medea
“Again she grew to be the sorceress Worker of fearful things, as she once was” - William Morris
Valfreyja, Lady of the slain.
loved when count dracula crawled down the outer wall of the castle and jonathan harker was like….. what a weird guy……