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my latest hyperfixation is indigenous and ethnic folklore from non-western countries and cultures and it is so fascinating how so many beliefs and superstitions are essentially just about respecting nature and the dead so that nothing bad happens to you and spirits don’t get mad at you.
Nov 5, 2024
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Created by researchers from the Polish Academy of Sciences to indicate the places drawn from ethnographic and folklore sources linked to demonic and mythological creatures.
Jan 15, 2025
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👻I grew up in a haunted house so I am obsessed w the paranormal. I'm also always looking for UFOS. There’s also been a duende following me around since I was in London last month and misplacing all my belongings.
Oct 18, 2022
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🎃There‘s no headless horseman in Sleepy Hollow. Aliens aren’t snatching people up in Pine Bush. The angel statue in Iowa City isn’t killing teenage lovers but the stories give the town personality. So, maybe you start telling people there are fairies under the bridge, or that the fountain in the park stops aging for a day. Maybe it will stick and become a part of real town history.
May 25, 2024
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📖reading is a habit of building and developing your empathy and critical thinking skills. you’re forced to sit with an idea for however long you are reading it and forced to contextualise it and comprehend it within your own life and perspective. You can’t just scroll away or pause or put it on 2x speed. you have to sit with it. it’s super underrated, but genuinely I’ve made this a habit for the last year and feel like a totally different person. also you come out of it having learned something new or seeing the world in a slightly new way. I literally do not see any downsides to reading. make reading cool again! also you don’t have to do it in one big block, you can space it out — 15 mins here, 45 there — whatever works for you!
Dec 9, 2024
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🐦i don't think anyone ever intends to become a recreational ornithologist. but i've noticed that it definitely creeps up on you slowly in your mid-twenties. it starts with noticing how funny pigeons are, then learning pigeon lore, and suddenly you're feeding your neighbourhood birds every morning and buying books on birds. as a child i idolised the pigeon lady in home alone 2, and i woke up this morning and realised — i AM the pigeon lady 🐦
Mar 6, 2025
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🪞our cultural obsession with being perceived as cool is a disease. its peak capitalistic/consumerist propaganda. fuck being cool. like what you like and who cares if it's cool or not. it's tiresome and we need to leave it in 2024. literally nothing gives me the ick more than people who betray themselves in an attempt to be perceived as cool by the masses. be yourself — even if it means you're 'uncool'.
Jan 3, 2025