Reblog If You Have Read Fan Fiction Better Than Some Published Books

Harry James Potter + character tropes

The Shapes of Stories, Kurt Vonnegut’s theories about archetypal stories.

to 134 more years of the never-ending cycle of first meetings and comfortable domesticity

to holmes and watson, in all their forms

Give a man a guitar and he’ll play for a day, teach a man guitar and today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you.

Bragi, probably. (via incorrectedda)

Legit.

I don’t know much about the world, but it seems like if you take #know your lore and add it to #writing tips, you end up with #mercyverse.

Interview: Finding Hope and Healing in Tranquil Forests with David Anthony Hall

my mom’s friend: you don’t want kids? my kids don’t want kids either. what’s wrong with you?

me: I am responsible for the residency and daily lives of some 37 trillion cells Deborah, not including the survival of innumerable microbes and the maintenance of the complexly constructed biome with which they inhabit. I am a very busy human Deborah, my schedule is a bit full, and I don’t have the attention to spare for the well-being of another complex multi-cellular organism. 

As for the lately siblings typing and them being Fe-dom really reminds me of why I always feel high Fe users (especially Fe-dom ones) are rather... hard-to-like. The thing about how they are extremely vocal about their dislike is actually correct and common for high Fe users I have ever met in my life...

You understand why, though, right? Fe needs and wants to address what upsets it and processes their feelings while they talk, so they do so in order to work through it, resolve it, and clear the air. They don't understand emotional repression or silence and want others to respond in kind. Most EFJs who do not study typology can't understand why other people are not more open with their emotions, both good and bad. They need and want "signals" that come from other people and their emotional reactions, in order to know where they stand with people and how to adjust their behavior to fit the situation. Their entire life is about molding themselves to fit social, emotional, and relational cues. It's as normal for them to say "you hurt my feelings" as it is for them to exclaim in rapturous delight "I love being here with you!!!" Their emotional reaction to everything is immediate -- and they are sensitive, not only to insults against themselves or slights, but other people having an impact on those around them. (You hurt my daughter/girlfriend/boyfriend/friend, you are Enemy Number 1.)

As a Fi user and a 9 who avoids conflict, I understand that they can seem "intense" and "loud" and "confrontational," but you can't change them or expect them to be different than they are. It's as unnatural for them to repress their emotions and not be direct with them, as it would be for you to talk your way through your feelings "in real time" and be combative while doing it. All you can do is try to understand them, and focus on your own growth as a 9 -- learning that not all confrontation is bad, that not all raised voices are full of rage, that it's okay for other people to engage in conflict (it's not about me), and that you are likely "over-sensitive" to them due to being a 9.

I guarantee if you find some EFJ 9s and give them a chance, you will find out that not all of them are direct. One EFJ 9 I know is super sweet, tolerant, open-minded, easy-going, and never raises her voice.

Even given potential foreign influences, however, the fact that boars and herds of swine became memorialized in both narrative and placenames in Iceland undoubtedly reflects the sacrality of pigs as symbols of successful pioneering behaviours and reproduction. The Vanic associations of pigs extended both to nomenclature and to myths. In poetic diction, boars could be called vaningi (sons of the Vanir), while an epithet of Freyja was sýrr (sow).

Diet and Deities Contrastive Livelihoods and Animal Symbolism in Nordic Pre-Christian Religions by Thomas A. DuBois (via hyacinth-halcyon)