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irelandseyeonmyths

Hey folks!

gazeratstars

I’m devoting the year to an exploration of paganism and related paths, and this blog is part of that that journey. I’m hoping to use it as a place to ask questions and collect resources, among other things.

My main focus for the time being is Celtic paganism, due both to my heritage and my existing interest in the culture and folklore of the Celtic nations, although I’m also interested in broader-scope topics that relate to the pagan community as a whole as well.

Hoping to learn as much as I can over the next 12 months!

irelandseyeonmyths

Are you doing the ADF dedicants?

National folklore archive

www.duchas.ie

Mythology

http://homepage.eircom.net/~seabhacaille/Craobh_Crua/lit.html

Mythology

https://celt.ucc.ie//publishd.html

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superheroesincolor

How Long ‘til Black Future Month?: Stories (2018)

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.

by N. K. Jemisin

Order it  now here

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in the genre’s history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, all for her Broken Earth trilogy. Her work has also won the Nebula, Locus, and Goodreads Choice Awards. She is currently a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, and she has been an instructor for the Clarion and Clarion West writing workshops. In her spare time she is a gamer and gardener, and she is also single-handedly responsible for saving the world from King Ozzymandias, her dangerously intelligent ginger cat, and his phenomenally destructive sidekick Magpie.

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captainkirkmccoy

I made some of my best friends in fandom by commenting on their work and telling them how much it meant to me. Seriously. I know most of you read fic on your phone at night like I do, eyes blurry with grit as you yawn your way through the last words of whatever length fic you devoured–the last thing you want to do before going to bed or going back to work is write a comment. BUT.

Try. Save that fic’s URL in the note section of your phone or a draft email or whatever, comment when you have a moment to think about what you read or maybe when you reread it after a part got stuck in your head. It will make the author’s day, most likely. Maybe even their year. 

It doesn’t matter if a fic was abandoned a month ago, a year ago, six years ago. Doesn’t matter if it was a completed 200K word epic or a 500 word gut punch. The comment still matters. 

And no, you don’t have to make stuff up. You don’t have to be rude if you hated it or tear it apart. But if you really loved it. If it helped you out, share that with the author. Please?

You never know what might happen, what you might inspire that author to do, what discussions might be started. 

Thanks. <3

tough-girl9

This is very, very true. Almost every single good friendship I have had in any fandom I’ve ever been in was initiated by a review - either them reviewing one of my fics or me reviewing one of theirs.

And this has been weighing on me of late, because I haven’t been nearly as good about reviewing as I used to back before I had a full-time job and all the adult responsibilities of life. The truth is that I love reviewing people’s stories, both because I know every review makes their day and encourages them to create more content and also because I genuinely love critiquing and gushing over a good fic that brought me entertainment, joy, and/or feels.

All too often nowadays, I get overwhelmed by wanting to comment on every single thing I loved about a fic and so I simply don’t write anything because I don’t have the time anymore for what I consider a “full-length” review. My reviews used to average around 800 words a piece (closer to 1100 if it was a fic I really liked and had a lot of good content, characterization, etc). I struggle to remember that an author would probably be absolutely delighted to get a 100 word review, if I don’t have time for 800 words (which is most of the time now), definitely more so than getting no review at all.

One of my New Year resolutions is to get back to reviewing the fics I love. I keep a physical list of all the stories I want to leave reviews on, and I’m going to see if I can leave a review on every fic I’ve read this past year and enjoyed and written down on my list. They may not be the essays I used to write once upon a time, but I miss so much getting to know people and meeting new people through reviews.

brightlotusmoon

I made my 2019 resolutions to finish fics I began in 2018, and to start the half dozen fics that were borne out of headcanons.

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tomato-bird

italicamericanpsycho777 asked:

I've noticed a lot of your art style centers around Angels. Is there a reason for it? Just curious.

tomato-bird answered:

there’s a lot of cool things when it comes to angels, visually, both in traditional humanistic religious art depictions as well as more abstract, speculative, monstrous imaginings. I love exploring both in my work, and I also feel like I’m maybe less interested in angels themselves as much as I am interested in how decisions and assumptions of how angels are depicted in art and media reveal our own human ideas of what constitutes beauty and otherworldliness, and our relationship to that, especially when it comes to a western/Christian context of imagining divinity in a visual way. I’m fond of exploring abstractness in angels in my art, and glad people like it and respond well to it, but I don’t really like seeing people automatically discard human-like depictions of angels as well, since to claim my abstract, monstrous angels (as well as similar angel art by other artists) are necessarily more “accurate” to biblical depictions is incorrect and kind of a pet peeve of mine. The human form itself can be eerie and fascinating and interesting in its own way and in my art I’d like to maybe try and explore more of that in the future in my angel depictions as well.