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Today the Owls Come: Norse Myth Masterpost

The Norse myths we know today are taken from a variety of different sources. Most were taken down or translated some time after Christianity had largely replaced Norse pagan religions in Scandinavia, and often show the effects of outside influence. Structure, narrative, and even characters…

Reblogged 5 days ago from calluvion

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guess who didn't read these properly when she was supposed to back during her norse myth course, me, stories,

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

- T.S. Eliot (via mirroir)

Reblogged 5 days ago from asbutt

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quotes, t.s. eliot,

whaoanon:

captaincrapster:

A lot of people asked for the process on foam robotics, so here ya go. Click through for captions.

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Reblogged 6 days ago from calluvion

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tutorial, holy shit that's super easy......,

Fifteen ways to stay alive

1. Offer the wolves your arm only from the elbow down. Leave tourniquet space. Do not offer them your calves. Do not offer them your side. Do not let them near your femoral artery, your jugular. Give them only your arm.

2. Wear chapstick when kissing the bomb.

3. Pretend you don’t know English.

4. Pretend you never met her.

5. Offer the bomb to the wolves. Offer the wolves to the zombies.

6. Only insert a clean knife into your chest. Rusty ones will cause tetanus. Or infection.

7. Don’t inhale.

8. Realize that this love was not your trainwreck, was not the truck that flattened you, was not your Waterloo, did not cause massive hemorrhaging from a rusty knife. That love is still to come.

9. Use a rusty knife to cut through most of the noose in a strategic place so that it breaks when your weight is on it.

10. Practice desperate pleas for attention, louder calls for help. Learn them in English, French, Spanish: May Day, Aidez-Moi, Ayúdame.

11. Don’t kiss trainwrecks. Don’t kiss knives. Don’t kiss.

12. Pretend you made up the zombies, and only superheroes exist.

13. Pretend there is no kryptonite.

14. Pretend there was no love so sweet that you would have died for it, pretend that it does not belong to someone else now, pretend like your heart depends on it because it does. Pretend there is no wreck — you watched the train go by and felt the air brush your face and that was it. Another train passing. You do not need trains. You can fly. You are a superhero. And there is no kryptonite.

15. Forget her name.

- Daphne Gottlieb (via opendrawer)

(Source: cuntext)

Reblogged 1 week ago from maturins

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oh, beautiful, stories, quotes, daphne gottlieb,

by request, here’s that character-appearance thingy as a text post

bigbigtruck:

derxder asked: Hi, EK. I’ve been a fan of your work for awhile now and I was wondering if you could maybe pass along some tips? I realized, recently, that I have a horrible case of same-face (when all my characters…well, have the same face. The only identifying factors about them are their hair/clothes etc) when drawing. Do you have any tips or resources that might help me break out of this habit and make my characters look unique from one another?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (pdf)

melon-lord:

A really good short story

Warnings for descriptions of gore and body horror also evil machines if that’s something that spooks you too

Reblogged 2 weeks ago from caligulas-aquariums

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harlan ellison, i have no mouth and i must scream, stories,

art-of-swords:

The Urumi

The urumi (meaning, “curling blade”) is a long sword made of flexible steel, sharp enough to cut into flesh, but flexible enough to be rolled into a tight coil. Originating in South India, it was most popular in the North Malabar Coast of Kerala and is often mentioned in the ballads of the region.

In kalaripayat, the urumi is always the last weapon taught because of the danger it poses to the wielder. The weapon is called urumi in northern kalaripayattu and chuttuval in the southern style. The word chuttuval is derived from the Malayalam words chuttu (coil/spin) and vaal (sword).

The sword is a flexible band of steel three-quarters to one inch in width, and long enough to reach from the fingertip of one hand to the finger tip of the other hand when the hands are held outstretched (usually about four or five and a half feet).

It has a small handle with a cover. Often there are multiple belts on a single handle, which makes it more dangerous to the opponents and wielders alike. In modern times it is often made from used band-saw blades and packing bands.

Agility and skill are more important to master the weapon rather than strength or aggression. Twirling and controlling the urumi is a difficult and dangerous art, and is therefore taught only to the best. Incorrect use can result in the flexible sword wounding its wielder, and great concentration is required during use, even by experts. The urumi is most useful against multiple opponents.

When not in use, the urumi is worn around the waist like a belt. Since women often wore belts it was a convenient weapon for them to carry. Unniyarcha, one of the heroines of the ballads of the northern Malabar coast, was said to have been adept at wielding the urumi. It was also a good weapon for duels since thrusting with the point of the sword was not permitted in duels in South India.

Source: Wikipedia

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weapons,