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scatterghosts · 1 year

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Up The Wolves by The Mountain Goats // Minotauro by Jordi Garriga Mora

#lyrics edit #art #lyrics #collage art #tmg #tmg lyrics #tmg art history #Greek myth #minotaur #labyrinths #labyrinth #up the wolves #the sunset tree #the mountain goats #the mountain goats lyrics #the mountain goats art history #web weaving #orange

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potterandpromises · 1 year

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I’m reading an ARC of Winterland by Rae Meadows and I think I’ve pinned down why I don’t care about it: there’s nothing to respond to. That’s the pitfall when writing about hopelessness. It makes me once again appreciate History of Wolves and it’s atmospheric tension. It’s so hard to do well.

#it also doesn’t help that this book is labeled as a thriller when it really shouldn’t be #in my opinion #but that isn’t necessarily the author’s fault #currently reading #winterland #history of wolves

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wiproaringreading · 2 years

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I want to make a weird or dark YA shelf on Goodreads, but I might just be an old person who doesn’t understand every YA is weird and dark.

It would be

The Death of Bees (dark)

History of Wolves (weird)

#the death of bees #history of wolves

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cornbobber · 3 months

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EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY

#talking heads #Devo #david byrne #mark mothersbaugh #devo band #devo fanart #talking heads fanart #EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY #ADHD #VS #AUTISM #BEGIN!#the fact they kinda had beef in the 80s was funny #the infamous mark mothersbaugh david byrne hate poetry #shitpost #I'll disappear from tumblr for 2 months and post this then proceed to disappear once again #These are the two wolves inside me #Mark is winning btw he has the power of adhd and autism on his side #Sorry

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zytes · 8 months

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something’s wrong?

#heheh what a name for a town. borger. brother that is a samdwich!!#I could prob talk about what this means to me but I don’t wanna #actually nvm I just thought of a funny way to describe the feeling:#you have two wolves inside of you. one HATES everything it sees soooo much. the other only sees beauty. you’re jaded.#or something like that #I’m trying to be conscious about only bending man-made structures and objects #unless it just looks extra cool to bend the natural stuff too #not rly a critical commentary. the basic premise is to show you how fucked up these little towns are;#while also communicating how they’re typically found in naturally beautiful places.#weird right? like finding ruins. it’s like these places settled and then worldly-priorities changed and everything fell apart #but you can tell - usually - that somewhere in the history of these small towns someone said:#‘what a fucking sweet view. let’s make camp’#my art #glitch art #aesthetic #art #artwork #webcore #glitchcore #internetcore #abstract #artists on tumblr #photography #abstract art #distortioncore #glitch #weird art #americana #southern gothic #angels

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snowyfrostshadows · 2 years

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I think the biggest surprise reading Dracula is that Bram Stoker really said 'Actually, wolves are good. Not as good as dogs, but they got the spirit. If not for This Jerk running around, they wouldn't bother anyone'

#dracula daily #dracula #classic literature #listen; after going my whole life being a big ol nerd and seeing throughout history (and even modern day tbh)#wolves get portrayed negatively and evil incarnate #it was a pleasant surprise to see a book this old completely flip the script #especially after last chapter and johnathan's 'oh so fun and notmal stay' at dracula castle

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arcanespillo · 29 days

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American Attitudes Towards Wolves: A History of Misperception, V. M. Fogleman: Environmental Review, Vol. 13, No. 1

#Environmental Review #wolf article #American Attitudes Towards Wolves: A History of Misperception #Valerie M. Fogleman #Vol. 13 #No. 1 (Spring #1989)#pp. 63-94 (32 pages)#to use for future webweabings #perhaps #werewolves #wolves

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tammuz · 10 months

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Roman votive relief depicting the Persian deity Mithras slaying a bull. The all-male cult of Mithras was popular in the Roman army, and it was heavily featured in Raised by Wolves, a sci-fi TV show on HBO Max. The relief dates back to the 2nd century CE, and it was discovered in Rome in 1835. The Neues Museum, Berlin, GERMANY.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

#History #Persian #Rome #Berlin #Museums #Raised by Wolves #Germany #Archaeology

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authorbettyadams · 1 month

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Flying Sparks - A Novel - A Lost Boy, A Freak Storm, An Alien Warrior, Two Worlds Colliding

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#ScienceFiction #SciFi #Book #Reading #BettyAdams

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maverick-werewolf · 7 months

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NONFICTION BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - The Werewolf: Past and Future now available in HARDBACK!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT - my popular nonfiction werewolf book (on folklore and many things besides), The Werewolf: Past and Future - Lycanthropy's Lost History and Modern Devolution, is now available in hardback, in addition to paperback and ebook/digital!

Click here to purchase on Amazon.com!

Also check out the many pics of it in this post (plus the book received cat approval; pics included)! Note that pictures are, obviously, of a proof copy.

The book is very good quality! I'm impressed! You won't be disappointed. The hardcover is nice and hefty without being bulky, and the spine is sturdy and lovely.

And best of all, the book comes kitty certified, inspected by Ty Beanie Baby (yes, that is his name) himself.

He gave it a sniff.

And even honored it with a rub. Clearly it's a good book. And it didn't fall over! It's very sturdy.

(Disclaimer: He did just want treats afterward, as he cannot read. Treats and pettings were of course given.)

Synopsis:

Since before recorded history, werewolves have captivated human imagination. Simultaneously, they represent our deepest fears as well as our desire to connect with our primal ancestry. Today, werewolves are portrayed negatively, associated with violence, cruelty, cannibalism, and general malevolence. However, in ages past, legends depicted them not as monsters, but as a range of neutral to benevolent individuals, such as traveling companions, guardians, and knights. The robust legacy of the werewolf spans from prehistory, through ancient Greece and Rome, to the Middle Ages, into the Early Modern period, and finally into present-day popular culture. Over the ages, the view of the werewolf has become distorted. Media treatment of werewolves is associated with inferior writing, lacking in thought, depth, and meaning. Werewolves as characters or creatures are now generally seen as single-minded and one-dimensional, and they want nothing more than to kill, devour, and possibly violate humans. Hollywood depictions have resulted in the destruction of the true meanings behind werewolf legends that fascinated and terrified humans for so many ages. If these negative trends were reversed, perhaps entertainment might not only discover again some of the true meanings behind the werewolf myth, but also take the first steps toward reversing negative portrayals of wolves themselves, which humans have, for eons, wrongfully stigmatized and portrayed as evil, resulting in wolves receiving crueler treatment than virtually any other animal. To revive the many questions posed by lycanthropy, entertainment must show respect to the rich history of so many cultures all around the world – and rediscover the legend of the werewolf.

Again, be sure to check out the book on Amazon.com!

If you would prefer to buy a signed copy directly from me, I'll have something very fun in store for you in October... along with another surprise: a brand new book! And it's more werewolf nonfiction. My big fiction publication is coming next year, and it's also werewolf-related. It's a great time to love werewolves.

Expect another big announcement soon about a brand new nonfiction werewolf folklore book!

So stay tuned for a whole lot more on the way! Be sure to give me a follow here and elsewhere on social media. I'll also have a newsletter coming very soon that'll help you keep up with my work, and it'll come with free reading!

Until next time, and happy fall!

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illustratus · 1 year

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Wolf Guarding the Head of St Edmund

by Doris Clare Zinkeisen

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the-faultofdaedalus · 2 months

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shadowheart is a werewolf you CANT change my mind

#listen. listen.#is it way more likely her dad is just a druid. yes.#do i think it’s super compelling if he’s a werewolf: also yes #LISTEN it’s about the MOON SYMBOLISM #it’s about shar making her afraid of wolves to supress that part of herself and her history #it’s about being taught that this thing that she is is terrible and violent and Bad #when it’s really just. part of who she is. a gift.#shar being unable to stop her transforming if she is under the full moon #but taking her memories of it anyways #shadowheart having a simultaneous longing and aversion to the full moon #also i think Big Puppy shadowheart is good #she’s NOT violent when she’s a wolf! that’s all a lie!#she just gets the zoomies #i think her and astarion should meet during Nighttime Sneak Away From Camp time #and then in the morning he confronts her like. you’re a werewolf wtf.#when shadowheart doesn’t even know she is and so she denies it #could be very funny pre-chomp time bc it’s not like astarion can explain why he was out in the woods either #but listen big pubby natural born werewolf shadowheart RIGHTS

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lionofchaeronea · 1 year

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A Pack of Wolves, Alfred Kowalski (1849-1915)

#art #art history #Alfred Kowalski #Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski #animalier #animals in art #wolf #wolves #wolf pack #genre painting #Munich School #Polish art #19th century art #20th century art #oil on canvas

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adarkrainbow · 11 months

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Some interesting facts taken from Jean-Marc Moriceau’s “Histoire du méchant loup, 3000 attaques sur l’homme en France, XVe-XXe siècles” (History of the bad wolf, 3000 attacks on men in France, 15th to 20th century)

1) Gustave Doré depicting the Wolf from “Little Red Riding Hood” as larger than the little girl might be more historically accurate than we think. According to the records, the average size of French people born between 1666 and 1694 was 1 meter 62 ( 5,3 feet). Meanwhile, the size of the wolves killed during this same period were said to be between 1 meter long (3,2 feet) and 2 meters 27 (7,4 feet).

2) Moriceau remembers that the threat of the wolf was something very real even at Perrault’s time. 1693 and 1694 were a duo of years that marked a true “wolf crisis” in France: each of these years, the number of people killed by wolves was of 50 people per a million of humans. Given there were 20 millions inhabitants of France at the time, it meant roughly a thousand deaths per year due to the wolves.

#little red riding hood #the big bad wolf #french history #wolves #red riding hood #wolf #wolf attacks #france #real life fairytales

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swiftsnowmane · 3 months

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Lithuanian woman with a wolf puppy. Poland, before World War II.

Photo by Adam Wislocki (1888-1943). Source.

#european wolves #eurasian wolves #european wolf #eurasian wolf #lithuanian history #polish history #1900s #20th century #this photo fills me with an almost unbearable melancholy

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heavensdoorways · 5 months

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Highclere Castle, Highclere, Hampshire, United Kingdom,

The front door of black walnut displays two wolves’ heads each holding the foot of a deer. The left hand one is a door-knocker, the right hand one purely decorative.

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