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Compendium de bestiis stelliferum vastitates @scyllascriptor · 18 hours ago

scyllascriptor:

amozon28:

bastart13:

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What I’d give for one of the Cinderella remakes to go into how when you’re in an isolated and abusive situation, sometimes you need to be saved and you’re not weak if you can’t escape by yourself

I’ve never been a fan of bad faith reinterpretations of fairy tales, especially ones which flatten the originals into “princesses is saved by a prince and nothing else”, to then go #girlboss. The princess can save herself because she’s a strong female character! (Implying if you’re in a bad situation, it’s because you’re not strong enough to get out)

Also the concept of the Prince over the course of like… a couple hours hanging out with Cinderella  going from ‘Haha nice I really like you’ to ‘oh fuck i can tell from context clues alone that your home situation is FUCKED UP’   it’s good shit   ‘I have just met you but ON GOD I’m gonna get you out of there beautiful mystery woman’   cinderella  makes desperately yelling into the night ‘how can I find you again!??!’ when she’s taking off that much more poignant really

He’s been trained to read the room. To read the context clues. To read politics and scheming and planning and people. He’s a Prince, it’s either that or accidentally drink poison by age 15. And he reads her and …

She’s impossibly wealthy. The dress isn’t a fabric he can recognize, but it’s beaded with cut diamonds, faintly milky opals that shimmer with a rainbow, little pale aquamarines, and somewhere are little bells gently ringing with each step - he’s a Prince and he can’t afford to dress like that. The slippers ring too … there is nothing like that crafted by the hands of humans. That’s fairy stuff. She has an in with them that eclipses royal politics. She is powerful in the Old Ways.

All this wraps around the poorest woman he’s ever seen in his entire life, and he’s seen some very, very, poor people in his time.

Poor in money, but poor in “oh you poor thing!” as well. This is someone who has been robbed blind. This is someone who carried themselves waiting for the lash, for a browbeating, for harsh, cruel, abrupt, punishment.

He expects her to be haughty, or hard, or meek or… something else… but she’s just nice. She’s just … nice.

The rigid posture comes out of his back, his tongue unsticks. She’s like sitting by the embers of a low, calm, fire. He feels warmed and rested simply speaking to her. He wonders if it’s magic, and it might be, but if it is it is magic that is her own.

And that terrifies him, because he’s trained to see these things and he knows someone with a cruel hand is waiting to douse her, and snuff her, and beat the last glimmer out of her shining eyes - eyes that put that dress to shame and and and and… she’s gone.

Oh god, she’s gone. It will be all over her sweet, kind, warm face that she transgressed and … oh god they’ll kill her, whoever they are. This will embarrass them and if there’s anything he knows, it’s that you don’t humiliate someone who has power over you and walk away unscathed.

And all he has is a fairy slipper that will only ever fit her foot (it’s not merely shoe size, it’s a kind of spiritual fit as well), and the vain hope that he can keep such a bright light from burning out. It doesn’t even touch his heart that what he’s feeling is a kind of pure philia, not until it enraptures him soul to bones, all at once. Oh god, oh no, oh shit… he’s reached well above his station, but…he can try to be good and worthy.

The way he sees it, sometimes even the strongest people can be brought low and need just… a little help. She had enough in her to do whatever she had to do to free herself of those evil relations if she had to, but she shouldn’t have to. There’s no glory in blood. Sometimes it’s okay for the ending to be happily ever after.

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els peixos a l'aigua i els amos al clot @no-passaran · 18 hours ago

no-passaran:

oneheadtoanother:

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FINALLY

🧑🏿‍🔬🧪

A POST-TRUTH

CRIME DOCUMENTARY

Netflix Uses Seemingly AI-Manipulated Images in True Crime Doc
Netflix has used what strongly appears to be AI-generated photos in a new murder-for-hire plot documentary called "What Jennifer Did."
Futurism

This is horrible and reminds us once again that there is no legislation for how truthful a documentary has to be. Other jobs like journalists have colleges where you have to face consequences if you lie or manipulate information, but documentaries don’t. That’s how we get fake documents being used like this AI-generated images of a real person, and also all the liars on Discovery Max and the History channel spewing anti-science stupidity and pretending like it has any basis.

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Sluggnya @sluggnya · 19 hours ago

sluggnya:

wormy-business:

I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.

If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?

Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can’t go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can’t work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.

How many bones do you give?

NONE MY BONES ARE MINE!!!!

Only one.

2-5

6-10

11-30

31-60

61-99

100-125

126-150

151-175

176+

Just take ‘em all

Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you’d let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.

if you want to test your luck, this site lets you choose a random human bone :)

https://randomlistgenerator.com/human-bones

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FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE @blackteachangeling · 22 hours ago

blackteachangeling:

desperate-acts-of-capitalism:

archibaldtuttle:

archibaldtuttle:

Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

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Hi this currently has 37 thousand notes and I just want to ask - why?

Big Things Are Coming

💷🥄🥔 BIG THINGS ARE COMING🥔🥄💷

✨ Abundance Spell✨ 

Wealth, weal, and plentiful spoons are coming to me 👏

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Like to charge Reblog to cast

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A MATHEMATICALLY PERFECT SLUR FOR ORPHANS @chaumas-deactivated20240115 · 23 hours ago

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

cloverandcrossbones:

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

last night my partner held a somber little passover seder to show me what it’s about and when they got to the part where they were supposed to open the door for elijah they paused, frowned, and said “oh. huh. there is a clown.” and I looked out. and sure enough. there was a clown.

not like, a clown we knew or could account for. not some kind of domesticated clown. a wild clown. feral. with green hair and a red nose and everything.

What

who am I to question these things

“did you fight the clown” no. the clown was not hostile.

I might not be Jewish but I’ve read enough fairy tales to know better than to offer hospitality and then rescind it just because the guest I receive does not appear to be the guest I expected.

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All Manner of Things @iris-collects · 23 hours ago

iris-collects:

davidkendall:

sixbucks:

When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?

Take a 2 minute break and read this:

Let’s say it’s 5:25 pm and you’re driving home after an unusually hard day’s work.

You are really tired and frustrated. All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You’re only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

Unfortunately you don’t know if you can make it..

Maybe you’ve taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn’t told you how to help yourself.

How do you survive a heart attack when you’re alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

1. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

2. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here’s how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment

3. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

4. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

Reblogging this, because it is helpful information, BUT, with a couple of additions and caveats. First, this:

How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone
Rhythmically coughing during a heart attack increases your chances of surviving it?
Snopes

And then this:

3 Ways to Survive a Heart Attack when Alone - wikiHow Health
As if the thought of having a heart attack isn't worrisome enough, what would happen if you had one while all alone? Thankfully, it is quite
wikihow.health

And yes, as you get older, these are things you actually start thinking about, and worrying about, so I always try to stay informed.

Important for younger people too!! I was in my 30’s, sitting in a waiting room, feeling sorry for myself because I was the youngest person at the cardiologist’s. Then a kid who couldn’t have been more than 16 walked in….

One of the most dangerous mistakes people make about their health is believing that a health problem doesn’t happen to people “their age”.

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