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Rumating on my writing

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My name is Pumpkin! I'm a character of many interests, including Knitting, Writing, Sewing, and Gardening!

Tumblr Folklore Stories/Blogs Directory/Masterlist

There are so many great Tumblr Blog stories here! But things are best when organized! Here you are! I’m going to use Tumblr Blaze in a couple weeks to spread this to everyone, but if all of you can reblog this to everyone you know, we can spread the joys of Tumblr to EVERYONE!

  1. The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)
  2. The Monster of Sentan
  3. The Witch’s Cat
  4. Raise Both Children
  5. Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)
  6. Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)
  7. My Arch Nemesis Cynthia
  8. Pirates and Mermaid
  9. Eindred and the Witch
  10. The Demon King
  11. The Cornerwitch
  12. Grandmother Beetroot
  13. Apocalypse Daycare Worker
  14. Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon
  15. New Year Saga
  16. A Story About Changelings
  17. Ranger in the King’s Forest
  18. The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit
  19. Goblin Men (Canines)
  20. Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella
  21.  The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship
  22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed
  23. Doctors Without Borders
  24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

Well, now they’re categorized.

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Every time i tell people i buy groceries every 14 days they seem shocked by this and tell me they buy groceries every day or several times a week.

That in turn blows my mind, as someone who couldn’t possibly hate buying groceries more than i do, i can’t imagine doing it that often.

Bonus if you tell me in the tags how you feel about shopping for groceries. Do you hate it with a passion like me? Feel indifferent to it, just another chore? Or do you somehow love it?

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will never forget how percy was at camp halfblood and everyone in the room was dyslexic and knew he was dyslexic and they still made this boy read out the great prophecy in front of the whole class, a prophecy that at least two people in the room knew by heart, and they let him stand there and say "a half-blood of the eldest dogs." they set him up so bad.

i'm going to say this because other disabled people deserve some warning, and it sure as hell wasn't given by any prerelease or review media i saw:

the new zelda game, 'tears of the kingdom' has a major trigger for medical abuse body horror front and centre from the very beginning, all throughout the game

at the very start of the game, link is injured, and then wakes up to be told that he has had someone else's dead arm grafted onto him, without consultation or consent, as a "necessity" to "save his life"

there is so much ableist subtext i could draw out from this, but importantly, if you have any triggers with forced or unwanted medical procedures done on you, go in prepared and bracing yourself

it's not a prosthesis, or gauntlets, or magitech infusion, it is literally textually a dead arm transplant done while unconscious, and the game's gaze lingers on and highlights it and its difference from his body constantly

i don't know how this was considered acceptable in a family friendly franchise, other than the sheer ignorance of the developers about disabled peoples' medical experiences

speaking of which, since i know i'm opening myself up to shit by even mentioning this is an issue, if you have to wonder why this is a trigger especially for disabled people and why i'm treating it with such gravity:

horrifying medical procedures done on us without consent that we're only told about after waking up is unfortunately routine for people with disabilities of many kinds

and forceful transplantation of an unwanted (or even unviable) limb against patient consent is absolutely a real world thing doctors actually do in the name of making a person "whole" and "fixed" and because disability is abhorrent to them. it's not a fictional or fantastical scenario, and i know this because it was done to me, and it was living hell that i will never recover from.

so if you want to argue about it with me or tell me "well actually it's ghost magic", or tell me about your headcanons, or be in denial about the horrors forced on us that you don't want to believe are real.... fucking don't.

already getting a lot of hate from people that don't seem to understand the very basic fact that real people who go outside and touch grass can still get their real medical trauma triggered by fictional depictions....

words of power do exist…. i can walk out of my apartment wearing the most fuck shit, e.g. swim trunks as shorts w a zipped up hoodie and no shirt underneath, and just say the words “laundry day” and suddenly it’s way less weird

“laundry day” spell: decreases target’s judgment of outfit by 80%

I picked up a banana print shirt in Vietnam - were talkin LOUD - and the first time someone commented on it I said “It’s banana shirt friday” which stunlocked them and blocked any followup questions.

Turns out that saying “it’s banana shirt friday” enough actually created a holiday at my office where everyone would wear fruit print clothes on fridays! So yes, words of power exist. :)

people only stanning robert sheehan now because of the umbrella academy like … british culture was watching misfits on e4 as a teenager even tho your parents told you not to. y’all are truly missing out on his Most iconic role as mr. nathan young, immortal irish idiot, ft such events as shrieking and stomping a placenta whilst dressed as santa claus, arguing for their code word to be “monkey slut” and immediately getting impaled, and walking out of a toilet dressed in a wedding dress with the line “dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to check me the fuck out!”

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as a side note misfits is the only superhero media to ever embrace the ‘useless power’ trope right …. they had a guy w lacto-kinesis (yeah thats right ladies and gents,,, he could control MILK) who single handedly killed almost the entire main cast after being mocked for his shitty power. when will another superhero show ever

Misfits was truly That Bitch. Superhero shows wish they could be her

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idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I'm watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It's like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn't have people dressed like the founding fathers. That's how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the "barbarians" didn't dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

There really is an exception to everything, and it's usually the French.

Do you—
  • Get random sharp stabs of pain in your chest?
  • That feel like somethings caught on something? Like there’s a muscle about to snap?
  • That get sharply worse when you breathe?
  • And that last from anywhere between a few second to a few minutes?
  • Perhaps that have been happening occasionally since you were very young

You are not dying!! Your heart is fine!

Google Texidor’s Twinge or precordial catch syndrome!