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i had a dream about fucking… vampire discourse on tumblr like;

“reminder that blood sucker is a slur”

“vamp-born-vamps are valid if u got bitten later in life you’re not part of the vamp community” 

“support vamps who drink human blood, support vamps who drink animal blood, support vamps who drink animal and human blood”

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so I thought I left my bag on my bus with my phone and notebook in it

I was more immediately concerned about the notebook o////o

#writeblr #I feel like this could be relatable #but mostly I feel dumb #notebook

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I need an excuse to write about dragons

but I don’t have a good plot that involves dragons

hyelp

#writeblr #dragon #dragons #fantasy

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In Which Diversity Isn't a Myth

Ok. I’m tired of the typical vampire, werewolf and fairy.I’m also tired of the occidental-centrism in mythology. Hence, this list. 

I tried to included as many cultural variants as I could find and think of. (Unfortunately, I was restricted by language. Some Russian creatures looked very interesting but I don’t speak Russian…) Please, add creatures from your culture when reblogguing (if not already present). It took me a while to gather all those sites but I know it could be more expansive. I intend on periodically editing this list. 

Of note: I did not include specific legendary creatures (Merlin, Pegasus, ect), gods/goddesses/deities and heroes.

Dragons

The Chinese Dragon

The Japanese Dragon

The Korean Dragon

The Vietnamese Dragon

The Greek Dragon

The Indian Dragon

The Polish Dragon

The Austrian Dragon

The British Dragon

The Ancient Dragon (Egypt, Babylon and Sumer)

The Spanish Basque Dragon

Of the Cockatrice (creature with the body of a dragon)

Alphabetical List of Dragons Across Myths (Great way to start)

Little creatures (without wings)

The Legend of the Leprechauns, The Leprechaun

Chanaque /Alux (the equivalent of leprechauns in Aztec/Mayan folklore)

Elves

Elves in Mythology and Fantasy

Elves in Germanic Mythology

Kabeiroi or Cabeiri (Dwarf-like minor gods in Greek mythology)

Norse Dwarves

The Myth of Loki and the Dwarves

Ten Types of Goblins

Goblins

Tengu: Japanese Goblins

Gnomes 

More on Gnomes

Pooka: an Irish phantom

Creatures with wings (except dragons)

Fairies

All sorts of Cultural Fairies

Fairies in Old French Mythology 

A Fairy List

Bendith Y Mamau (Welsh fairies)

Welsh Fairies

Peri (Persian fairies)

Yü Nü (Chinese fairies)

The Celtic Pixie

Angels in Judaism

Angels in Christianity

Hierarchy of Angels

Angels in Islam

Irish Sylph

Garuda (Bird-like creature in Hindu and Buddhist myths)

Bean Nighe (a Scottish fairy; the equivalent of a banshee in Celtic mythology)

Harpies

Spirited Creatures

Druids

Jinn (Genies in Arabic folklore)

Types of Djinns

Aisha Qandisha and Djinn in Moroccan Folklore

Oni (demons in Japanese folklore)

Nymphs

Spirits in Asturian Mythology

Valkyries

Lesovik

Boggarts: The British Poltergeist

Phantom black dogs (the Grim)

Demons in Babylonian and Assyrian Mythology (list)

Demons in the Americas (list)

European Demons (list)

Middle-East and Asia Demons (list)

Judeo-Christian Demons (list)

Nephilim, more on Nephilim

Mahaha (a demon in Inuit mythology)

Flying Head (a demon in Iroquois mythology)

Ghosts

Toyol (a dead baby ghost in Malay folklore)

Malay Ghosts

Yuki-onna (a ghost in Japanese folklore)

The Pontianak (a ghost in Malay mythology)

Funayurei (a ghost in Japanese folklore)

Zagaz (ghosts in Moroccan folklore)

Japanese Ghosts

Mexican Ghosts

Horse-like mythical creatures

Chinese Unicorns

Unicorns

The Kelpie (Could have also fitted in the sea creatures category)

The Centaur

The Female Centaur

Hippocamps (sea horses in Greek mythology)

Horse-like creatures (a list)

Karkadann, more on the Karkadann (a persian unicorn)

Ceffyl Dwfr (fairy-like water horse creatures in Cymric mythology)

Undead creatures

The Melanesian Vampire 

The Ewe Myth��: Vampires

The Germanic Alp

The Indonesian Vampire

Asanbosam and Sasabonsam (Vampires from West Africa)

The Aswang: The Filipino Vampire

Folklore Vampires Versus Literary Vampires

Callicantzaros: The Greek Vampire

Vampires in Malaysia

Loogaroo/Socouyant: The Haitian Vampire

Incubi and Sucubi Across Cultures

Varacolaci: The Romanian Vampire

Brahmaparusha: The Indian Vampire

Genesis of the Word “Vampire”

The Ghoul in Middle East Mythology

Slavic Vampires

Vampires A-Z

The Medical Truth Behind the Vampire Myths

Zombies in Haitian Culture

Shape-shifters and half-human creatures (except mermaids) 

Satyrs (half-man, half-goat)

Sirens in Greek Mythology (half-woman and half-bird creatures)

The Original Werewolf in Greek Mythology

Werewolves Across Cultures

Werewolf Syndrome: A Medical Explanation to the Myth

Nagas Across Cultures

The Kumiho (half fox and half woman creatures)

The Sphinx

Criosphinx

Scorpion Men (warriors from Babylonian mythology)

Pooka: an Irish changelings

Domovoi (a shape-shifter in Russian folklore)

Aatxe (Basque mythology; red bull that can shift in a human)

Yech (Native American folklore)

Ijiraat (shapeshifters in Inuit mythology)

Sea creatures

Selkies (Norse mermaids)

Mermaids in many cultures

More about mermaids

Mermen

The Kraken (a sea monster)

Nuckelavee (a Scottish elf who mainly lives in the sea)

Lamiak (sea nymphs in Basque mythology)

Bunyip (sea monster in Aboriginal mythology)

Apkallu/abgal (Sumerian mermen)

An assemblage of myths and legends on water and water creatures

Slavic Water Creatures

The Encantado (water spirits in Ancient Amazon River mythology)

Zin (water spirit in Nigerian folklore)

Qallupilluk (sea creatures in Inuit mythology)

Monsters That Don’t Fit in Any Other Category

Aigamuxa, more details on Aigamuxa

Amphisabaena

Abere

Bonnacon

Myrmidons (ant warriors)

Troll, More on Trolls

Golems 

Golems in Judaism

Giants: The Mystery and the Myth (50 min long documentary)

Inupasugjuk (giants in Inuit mythology)

Fomorians (an Irish divine race of giants)

The Minotaur

The Manticore, The Manticore and The Leucrouta

The Ogre

The Orthus (two-headed serpent-tailed dog)

The Windigo

The Windigo Psychosis

Rakshasa (humanoids in Hindu and Buddhist mythology)

Yakshas (warriors in Hindu mythology)

Taqriaqsuit (“Shadow people” in Inuit mythology)

References on Folklore and Mythology Across the Globe

Creatures of Irish Folklore 

Folklore and Fairytales

An Overview of Persian Folklore

Filipino Folklore

Myths, Creatures and Folklore

Alaska Folklore

Spanish (Spain) Mythology

Mythical Archive

Mythology Dictionary

List of Medieval and Ancient Monsters

Native American Animals of Myth and Legends

Native American Myths

Bestiary of Ancient Greek Mythology

Mythology, Legend, Folklore and Ghosts

Angels and Demons

List of Sea Creatures

Yoruba Mythology

Ghosts Around the World, Ghosts From A to Z

Strange (Fantastic) Animals of Ancient Egypt

Egyptian Mythology

Creatures from West Africa

On the Legendary Creatures of Africa

Myths, Creatures and Folklore

References on writing a myth or mythical creatures

Writing a MYTHology in your novel?

How to Write a Myth

10 Steps to Creating Realistic Fantasy Creatures

Creating Fantasy Creatures or Alien Species

Legendary Creature Generator

Book Recommendations With Underrated Mythical Creatures

(I have stumbled upon web sites that believed some of these mythical creatures exist today… Especially dragons, in fact. I just had to share the love and scepticism.)

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Can you reblog this if you are a writeblr, pleaaase?

Hey! I just went on a unfollowing spree and now i know why my dash was always so damn empty - most of the blogs I followed were without updates for months! So now I need more people to follow hehe… can you guys reblog this so I could check out your blog?

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The Anthill

The worker knows what it’s looking for, but it hasn’t found it yet. It’s been walking for a while now, and it should be going home. There’s a trail to follow, though, and it hasn’t reached its end.

A scout made this trail, a while ago, and the worker knows this from the pheromone spray around its antennae. It knows that there should be something at the end. That when it gets there, it will fill its social stomach, take it back to the colony.

But it hasn’t felt hungry in a while. Not since its legs got longer and it stopped feeling dirt beneath them; not since its antenna stopped sweeping for danger because there just wasn’t any, any more. It remembers things, now. More than it used to, more than it did before. But ‘before’ is nebulous. It knows, somewhere, that it happened, but it doesn’t know where.

The worker remembers things by asking a friendly-other and the friendly-other telling it things back, like how many steps it’s taken (though the worker’s own count is never wrong) and to ask for specific memories, like home-smell and concrete. The friendly-other doesn’t know the before, returns a negative if it ever tries to ask. But it knows other things.

At some point, the friendly-other stops waiting to tell it things and just starts doing it on its own, and it’s all things that the worker hasn’t heard from it before, like big-group-friendly-greeting and walk-appreciation. The ideas don’t make sense together, but it surmises that it means well and keeps walking, and it walks and it walks and it walks.

The worker doesn’t move when it walks. Not far, anyway. Sensors pick up its twitches and judgements. Machines transform those signals into pulses and maneuvers that guide a ship. But the worker doesn’t know the ship, it knows an abstraction. It knows what the ship tells it to.

Every so often, it feels vibrations. It feels them in its knees and in its mandible, and it reminds it that its knees are too high up and it doesn’t like it, but with the vibrations come the unsolicited messages. And it likes those, even if it doesn’t know what to do about them.

One time, the friendly-other sends it two-nurse-friendly-greeting and it’s so inexplicable that it responds, sending nest-query, and it thinks that it’s forgotten to respond. So it sends it again.

Empty-full-nest-giant-friendly-walk-nest, the friendly-other says. Pleasant[food]-greeting.

Before, it sends. Maybe the friendly-other can remember for it, now.

Walk-before-pleasant[food]-appreciation, it sends. And then it’s quiet again, and the vibrations stop. It goes back to following the trail, and asks the friendly-other to tell it about concrete.

The friendly-other remembers what it said before, and it plays and replays them but the messages don’t make more sense with repetition.

It concludes that the friendly-other is missing an antenna.

The worker remembers want. It remembers wanting things, like walking, and food. It does not remember wanting anything else, but it does, now. It wants the vibrations to return. It wants the indecipherable messages.

It wants to know what they mean.

It’s reaching the end of the trail. It thinks so because the scent is stronger around here, the mist more potent, and it thinks there may be more workers here already.

It hadn’t felt hungry in a while, but it feels hungry now, and the vibrations start again, more and more furiously, and the friendly-other tells it that appreciation-ten-nurse-greeting, and it sends appreciation-appreciation and hopes that maybe, just maybe, it understands.

Sun-concrete-[abstract]-grass, the friendly-other says. Two-sun-many-grass-appreciation.

[Abstract]-query, it replies, because it does not recognise the symbol.

[Abstract]-answer-grass-sun-concrete.

Appreciation-[abstract], it sends back. It doesn’t get an answer for a while, but the vibrations get stronger and stronger until they abruptly stop. And it can feel its own weight again.

Appreciation-appreciation-appreciation, the friendly-other sends. There are vibrations again, but different, this time. They feel closer. It feels a pressure on its sides, new-ground sliding under it, becoming enclosed. It sees a great, amorphous, being. It feels movement. It runs, and hits glass.

The movement stops, and it feels what it knows is sun, maybe two-sun, and the enclosure is removed and it feels grass-not-grass, and it runs further, and it feels concrete.

Somehow, even without asking, it remembers them.

[Tagging: @elliewritesstories]

#my writing #writeblr #science fiction #scifi #fiction #writing #short story

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this is not a joke question x_x

what is an oc

what do you do with them

is it just a character you like to draw a lot

do you write about them?

I’m confuse

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what is an oc

what do you do with them

is it just a character you like to draw a lot

do you write about them?

I’m confuse

#oc #writeblr #confuse #please send help I have no idea what I'm doing

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Currently writing...

I’m working on a short story in the form of a long-form article, like the ones The Atlantic do--except, around the events surrounding the finding of an abandoned alien spaceship.

#writeblr

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I don’t usually soap-box, but I’m going to for a hot sec since this has been on my mind: 

Cults are getting better branding, prettier leaders, hipper-sounding cosmologies, and wider reaches due to social media. They’re not all deity-focused. Thoughtful, intelligent people can get sucked into them. Just…stay safe out there, guys. Do your research, look at all your options, and trust your gut, not your guru.

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hi ok so im new to the writeblr community and thought that my first post should be an introduction

im cheyenne; a 20 year old bi, college student. im here to share my writing and ideas, meet other writers, and read some amazing works that are shared on here. i really want to get back into writing since it is something i love very much. i normally tend to write young adult fiction with romance involved. i am currently planning to write a ya fiction novel with a f/f romance.

feel free to message me bc i love meeting new people and making friends!

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my mom is 61 and her bf is a huge nerd and he’s teaching her to play magic the gathering and he had her watch avatar the last airbender with him and his ringtone is terra’s theme from final fantasy 6 and he paints pictures of sephiroth. my mom’s bf is nerdier than i’ll ever be.

and she does all these pinterest crafts and now she makes little bejeweled vials of healing potions for him and his buddies. my little geek heart can’t handle all this.

edit: just picture a 60-something woman with a VERY thick minnesotan accent saying “mike is having me watch the naruto”

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[OFFER] Tech Jargon Help

Hey Writeblr! I’m a CS student and a hobbyist developer soon to become a professional programmer.

Is programming or hacking a plot point in your story? Do you need something to go wrong with a computer? Does your character need to spout some kind of “is this even english” tech talk?

I can help you with all of these! If you want to check plausibility, or need something techpicked (is that the word?) I’ll give it my best.

#writeblr #programming #writing help

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this didn’t work and I have no idea why

I tagged more than one person

10 Songs Tag

10 Songs Tag

wew let’s go

I was tagged by @authorisada​. Rules are to write down 10 songs you’re currently obsessed with, then tag 10 more people.

In no particular order…

1. The Funeral by Band of Horses

2. Kill V. Maim by Grimes

3. Evil by Interpol

4. Boy Like Me by The ACBs

5. Pick Me Apart by Active Bird Community

6. Backseat by Little Simz (this version!)

7. Animal by Miike Snow

8. Light Pollution by Bright Eyes

9. Francis - Coeur de Pirate

10. Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead

Tagging

@ethilite​

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10 Songs Tag

wew let’s go

I was tagged by @authorisada​. Rules are to write down 10 songs you’re currently obsessed with, then tag 10 more people.

In no particular order...

1. The Funeral by Band of Horses

2. Kill V. Maim by Grimes

3. Evil by Interpol

4. Boy Like Me by The ACBs

5. Pick Me Apart by Active Bird Community

6. Backseat by Little Simz (this version!)

7. Animal by Miike Snow

8. Light Pollution by Bright Eyes

9. Francis - Coeur de Pirate

10. Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead

Tagging

@ethilite​

10 Songs Tag

#tag meme #writeblr

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so many nice people aaaa

Writeblr introduction post!

Hi! I’m Jay. Someone told me this was a good place to talk about writing/talk to other writers/whatever, so I joined Tumblr. I saw a bunch of intros in the tag, so here’s mine…

I live in the UK!

I’m queer and my pronouns are they/them.

My favourite short stories are:

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi

My favourite books are:

Blindsight by Peter Watts

Lock In by John Scalzi

The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

I mostly write short stories, but I would like to write longer fiction as well.

I’m interested in following some interesting people, so let me know who’re some good people to follow and I’ll do that! Or like/reblog and I’ll probably follow you.

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it’s still hitting me that I never have to go back to school again how tf is this real