Myths, Creatures, and Folklore

Want to create a religion for your fictional world? Here are some references and resources!

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Reblogging because wow. What a resource.

I can feel…the serotonin and dopamine dropping…i need to make…Crafts

i must make…

B…

B e a d l i z a r d

I have seen these things for years but never knew how to make them so I must thank op for this new knowledge

op has given me the best gift possible

ive been making them for four days

Am… am I back in the 90’s?

Bead animals were my JAM in the 90’s!! And you don’t have to limit your creativity to lizards, either! With a few adjustments, you can make anything!

AND with a little practice, you can even make them 3D shaped (especially with the smaller beads and wire, though you can make them with the bigger beads and string, to an extent) 

craft ye some frend

Fun fact, did y'all know that nobody spoke about The Economy™ until the 1920s or so?

When it's released in the depression, this wonky statistic becomes an overnight sensation. A report on national income submitted to Congress becomes a bestselling book.. And pretty soon, you can't turn on the radio without hearing those numbers and what they're measuring.

In the decades that follow, national income becomes gross national product and eventually GDP — and it sweeps the world. "The first thing you do in 1950s and '60s if you're a new nation is you open a national airline, you create a national army, and you start measuring GDP," Karabell says.

You need to calculate GDP because if you want help from the World Bank or the United Nations, they're going want to know: What does their help do for your country's economy?

It's somewhere around this time, Karabell says, that people start to make too much of GDP. Rather than a limited measure of the economy, it becomes this Cold War gauge of who's doing better, who's winning. And, so, perhaps inevitably, all that success leads to a backlash.

In one of the most famous moments of that backlash, Robert Kennedy enumerated the shortcomings of what was then known as Gross National Product.

"Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play," he said. "It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate, or the integrity of our public officials."

Is this what tik tok is really intended for!

caleb came in clutch

Phonetic Map of the Mouth.

I remember doing this as a theatre exercise. Make all those sounds, in order, so you can feel it moving further back into your mouth. Then, reverse it.

Oh, *excellent.*

you want want Murphy has.

the Maestro

No matter how transfixingly beautiful or talented a person you desire might be, remember that you are drinking them in during moments of peak performance, and no matter how perfect and enigmatic and interesting they seem during those fleeting moments, they still spend 90% of their time fucking around on their phone and struggling to decide what to eat, just like anybody else 

also even if you do get with your ideal fantasy engima of a person, they will not save you from your relationship with yourself

if you’re lucky, they’ll be a great person to sit beside while fucking around on your phone and failing to decide what to eat, and that’s important and special too, but it won’t save you, you gotta love yourself and find yourself interesting and worthy of adoration 

escapes for when you feel anxious

I heard something the other day that I had never really thought about before. Someone mentioned to me that whenever you catch yourself missing someone who left your life, you should remind yourself that them not being part of your present is a consistent choice they make every day. They wake up and decide to maintain the silence. They’re indifferent as to whether the space between you gets larger. And that in itself is pretty powerful closure.

gently bap your passum

i dfont understand

bap youre pasum

But gently

When the last human is finally destroyed

those are some killer moves!

i dont like how it looked back at me while it was shaking its ass

imagine Humans sending this on exploratory probes of distant planets and extraterrestrials making contact with this as their first introduction to our species

Technology 

yall ever heard of beetle jelly

theyre these little cups of jelly ppl use to feed their pet beetles and they come in like 30 flavors

beetle keeping is so ordinary in Japan that you can buy beetle jelly at their equivalent to 99 cent stores :(

You’re telling me there are these cute and colorful and ridiculously tiny cups of jelly that are solely and specifically made for BEETLE CONSUMPTION

on days where you’re in pain and seemingly haunted by shadows and overcast thoughts, be gentle and overtly kind to yourself. remember moments where you’ve felt unbridled bliss, with cotton candy and honey coursing through your veins as dripping golden skies illuminated your wondrous, bright life. one day, you’ll embrace that warmth and pure joy time and time again. take small steps, be patient and embrace your kaleidoscope of emotions, tending to them whether they are brimming with dark hues or coated in light. take care, balance and bloom.

•••• this fall we are finally going back on the road. 

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THE NEW ERA BEGINS - ARE YOU STILL SLEEPING? 

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