The Skellingcorner

[sweetlittlevampire]

[spacemuffinz]

why are ball jointed dolls so pretty i don’t even like dolls i want to punch myself in the eyes this isn’t fair stop being prettier than me you are made of plastic and the repurposed souls of dead poetry 

[thedarklordemma]

oh boy wait til you hear about the dragon ones

They’re about the size of cats. and you can get them here 

[spacemuffinz]

*cries for eternity*

[thranduildweebleaf]

I NEED ONE OH MY GOD I WOULD LOVE FOREVER ANYONE WHO GOT ME A BALL JOINT DRAGON HOLY SHIT

[thehistorymonks]

[mortisia]

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

[its-a-writer-thing]

136 Roman Gods & Goddesses (updated)

[jess12985]

The Dii Consentes ( The 12 Major Gods )

• Iuppiter /Jupiter / Jove (”father”) - Supreme god of the roman empire, ruler of all mortals and immortals, ruler of the sky, daylight, weather, law, order, justice and the divine witness to oaths.
• Iuno / Juno (”young”) - Queen of the gods, protector of women, marriage & childbirth. Protector & councillor of the Roman state and goddess of the new moon  & women’s menstrual cycles.
• Neptunus / Neptune (”wet, damp, clouds”) - God of water, drought, horses and the roman cavalry. Races were held in his honour.
  
• Ceres (”to grow”) -Goddess of the earth as a source of fertility & abundance. Rules over agriculture, the harvest, nourishment and motherly relationships.
  
• Vesta (”hearth”) - Goddess of the hearth fire and the home.
  
• Minerva (”intellect”) - Goddess of wisdom, numbers, science, medicine, inspiration, dyeing and weaving, genius and war.
  
• Mars (’male’) - God of war and father of the roman people.Originally, a god of agriculture.
  
• Phoebus / Apollo - (”to destroy. strength, father light ”)- God of the sun, light, truth, music, healing, plague, prophecy and oracles.
  
• Diana (”heavenly, divine”) - Goddess of the moon, nature, animals, childbirth & freer of slaves.
  
• Venus (”love, sexual desire”) - Goddess of love, desire, sex, beauty, spring, gardens and vineyards.
  
• Vulcan (”to flash”) - God of fire (especially destructive fire) and volcanoes.
  
• Mercurius / Mercury (”to trade, wages”) - God of commerce, trade, profit, merchants, roads, travellers, athletes, dexterity and thieves.

Other Major Roman Divinities

• Pluto / Dis (”wealth”) - God of the underworld, judge of the dead and a god of wealth.
• Ianus / Janus ( ”covered passageway” ) - God of gates and doors, beginnings and endings. The month January is named after him.
• Bellona  (”war”)- Goddess of war. Accompanied Mars on the battlefield.
• Quirinus (“spear”) - Mystery war god who was worshipped by the Sabines and had a popular cult following in Rome. Possibly Romulus deified.
• Liber (“free”)- God of vegetation, male fertility, viniculture, wine and ecstasy. Guardian of plebeian freedoms. Worshipped alongside Libera and Ceres.
• Libera - Consort of Liber. Goddess of wine, fertility and freedom. Worshipped alongside Liber and Ceres.
• Flora ( “flower”) - Goddess of flowers and spring. Protected the early blossoms.
• Terra / Tellus ( “earth”) - Personified goddess of the earth. The first mother.
• Saturnus / Saturn - God of time and ages. Minor agricultural deity who sowed the seeds and ruled during the Golden Age.
• Fortuna (”fortunate”) - Goddess of good fortune and luck.
  
  

Minor Roman Divinities (this list is not complete)

• Abundantia ( “abundance”) - The goddess of abundance and prosperity.
  
• Aeolus - God of the four winds.
• Aequitas (”equal, even”) - God of fair dealing, equality, conformity and symmetry.
• Aera Cura - Goddess associated with the infernal regions and underworld.
• Amor (also known as Cupid - ”love”)- Winged archer god of love. Son of Venus
  
• Angita - Early goddess of healing and witchcraft
• Antevorte - goddess of the future.
• Antinous - Deified lover of the emperor Hadrian & god of homosexuality.
• Aquilo (”the north”) - God of the north wind.
  
• Arcus ( “bow, arch” ) - Goddess of rainbows.
• Aura / Aurae (”breeze”) - Divinities who symbolized breezes.
• Aurora (”gold, dawn”) - Goddess of the dawn.
  
• Auster (”southerly”) - God of the south wind.
• Bona Dea (”the good goddess”) -  Popular goddess among the upper class. Goddess of female fertility and good health.
• Bubona (“ox, cow”) Goddess of cattle and livestock.
  
• Candelifera ( “She who bears the candle” ) -  One of the many childbirth goddesses.
  
• Carmenta ( “magic spell, oracle or song” ) - Goddess of Childbirth and Prophecy. But also associated with the protection of mothers, children & midwives.
  
• Clementia (”humanity”) - Goddess of forgiveness and mercy.
• Cloacina -The Goddess who presides over the sewers in Rome.
  
• Coelus (”heavens”)- Personified god of the sky. The first father.
  
• Concordia (”agreement”) - Goddess of concord and harmony.
  
• Conditor - God who stores the grain. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Convector - God who carries the grain. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Devera - Goddess that rules the brooms used to purify ritual sites.
  
• Discordia (“discord”) - Goddess of strife and discord.
  
• Disciplina - Goddess of discipline.
• Dius Fidus (””) - God of oaths.
  
• Edesia ( “eat” ) - Goddess of food who presides over banquets.
  
• Epona - Foreign celtic goddess of horses, mules, ponies a donkeys.
• Fabulinus - The God of children.
  
• Fama (”to speak”) - Goddess of fame and popular rumour.
  
• Fauna - Goddess of Prophecy with ties to the forest and fields and the animals found there.
  
• Faunus {“strangler”} - God of wild nature and fertility.
  
• Favonius (”favorable”) - God of the western wind, the herald of spring.
  
• Fides ( “faith” ) - Goddess of loyalty.
• Fontus / Fons (”source”) - god of wells and springs
  
• Furor (”the anger”) - Goddess of anger and rage.
  
• Hesperia (“western land”) - The goddess of dusk.
  
• Hippona ( “horse” ) - Goddess of horses.
  
• Honos (”honour”)- God of morality and military honour.
  
• Imporcitor -  God of the third ploughing. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Insitor - God who plants the seeds. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Invidia (”envy”) - Goddess of envy and jealousy.
• Justitia (”justice,fairness”) - Goddess of justice.
  
• Juturna (’nymph’) - goddess of lakes,wells and springs.
• Juventus (”youth”) - Goddess of youth.
  
• Lares (”homes”) - Deities who protected the home.
• Larunda - Nymph who became Mother of the Lares.
• Latona (”latium”) - Mother of Apollo & Diana. Goddess of Womanly Demure and Motherhood.
• Libertas ( “liberty” ) - Goddess of freedom.
• Libitina - Goddess of death, corpses and funerals.
  
• Lucifer (”morning star”) - God of the morning star ( Not to be confused with the hebrew god of hell )
• Luna (”moon”) - personified titan goddess of the moon. Blended with Diana.
• Lympha - Goddess of fresh water
• Magna Mater (”great mother”) - Foreign Anatolian goddess of untamed nature and lions.
  
• Maia (’daughter of atlas’) -The goddess of whom the month of May is probably named after. Associated with blossoming nature and spring.
• Meditrina - Goddess of wine and health.
  
• Mellona (”honey”) - Goddess of bees and honey.
  
• Mens ( “mind”) - Goddess of the mind and consciousness.
  
• Mors (”death”) - Personified god of death.
• Messor - God who reaps. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Muta (”change”) - Goddess of silence.
• Naenia (”dirge”) - Goddess of funerals.
  
• Necessitas (”unavoidableness,”) - Goddess of destiny.
  
• Nox (”night”) - Personified goddess of the night.
  
• Obarator - God who traces the first ploughing. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Occator - God who harrows the fields. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Ops / Opis (”plenty”) - Wife of Saturn. Goddess of opulence and abundance. Worshipped together with her daughter Ceres at the harvest.
• Orcus - God of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths. Sometimes interchangeable with Pluto.
• Pales - Goddess of shepherds and flocks.
  
• Patalena - Goddess or god who protects the blossoms.
• Pax (”peace”) - Goddess of peace.
  
• Penates (”inner part of house”) - Patron gods of the storeroom.
• Pomona (”fruit”) - Goddess of fruit trees. Wife of Vertumnus.
  
• Portunes - God of keys.
• Portunus (”swimming, crab ”) - God of harbours and ports.
  
• Priapus - God of gardens, viniculture, sailors, fishermen, the penis, male fertility.
  
• Pietas - The Goddess of duty.
  
• Promitor - God who distributes the grain. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Proserpina (”to emerge”) - Goddess of Spring and queen of the underworld.Wife of Pluto and daughter of Ceres.
• Providentia (”foreknowledge”) - Goddess of forethought.
  
• Pudicitia- Goddess of modesty and chastity.
  
• Reparator - God who prepares the earth for ploughing. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Robigus (”reddish”) - God who prevented agricultural disease.
• Roma - Personified goddess of Rome.
• Salacia (“salt, salty”) - Goddess of salt water and the depths of the ocean. Wife of Neptune.
  
• Salus (”safety, salvation”) -  Goddess of safety and wellbeing.
• Sarnus - God of the Sarno river.
  
• Sanctus ( “holy” ) - God of loyalty, honesty, and oaths.
  
• Serritor - God who digs the soil. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Silvanus (”forest, of the woods”) - God of forests and fields.
  
• Sol (’sun’) - Personified titan god of the sun. Blended with Apollo.
• Sol Invictus ( “invincible sun”) - A sun god who is either Apollo (Phoebus) or Sol.
  
• Somnia (“dreams”) - God of dreams.
  
• Somnus (“sleep”) - God of sleep.
  
• Sors - God of luck.
• Spes (“hope”) - Goddess of hope.
• Subruncinator - God who weeds. One of Ceres helper gods.
  
• Summanus (”before the morning”) - God of the night sky and nightly thunder. His precise nature was unclear even to Ovid.
• Tellumo- God of earthly regeneration and reproduction. Consort of Tellus / Terra.
• Tempestes ( “weather; bad weather; storm, tempest” ) - A goddess of storms but also used to describe storm spirits.
• Terminus (“border”) - God of boundaries and borders.
• Tranquillitas - Goddess of peace and tranquillity.
  
• Tiberinus - God of the Tiber river.
  
• Trivia (”three roads”) - Goddess of crossroads, graveyards, sorcery and witchcraft.
  
• Ultio (“vengeance”) - Goddess of vengeance.
  
• Vejovis - A god of healing. Believed to be one of the first gods.
  
• Veritas ( “truth” ) - Goddess of virtue and truth.
• Vertumnus (”green, seasons”) - God who symbolized the changes in seasons, protector of vegetation, gardens and orchards.
  
• Vervactor - God of the first ploughing. One of Ceres helper gods.
• Vesper (”evening, supper, evening star, west”) - God of the evening star.
• Victoria (“victory”) - Goddess of victory.
  
• Volturnus - Water god.
• Vulturnus (”south-east”) - God of the east wind.

[aphroditepandemos]

The wonderful Roman Gods! 

[its-a-writer-thing]

[stdyngs]

so as an aspiring classicist (slash medievalist) i like roman history A Lot, and i read about it A Lot, and over time i’ve come up with A Lot of reliable resources for studying it. 

online:

• ancient history encyclopedia
  
• fordham ancient history sourcebook (rome)
• fordham ancient history sourcebook (byzantium)
• de imperatoribus romanis
• illustrated history of the roman empire

ancient sources:

• the history of rome (livy) - covers from rome’s (obscure, semimythological) early history all the way up to the reign of augustus. long, dull, but relatively worth it.
  
• lives of the twelve caesars (suetonius) - deals with the lives of julius caesar through to emperor domitian. fair warning: people don’t call suetonius an ancient gossip columnist for nothing, so take him with a grain of salt.
• annals (tacitus) - reign of tiberius to reign of nero, everyone loves this one.
• de bello gallico (julius caesar) - caesar’s own record of his campaign in gaul, aka roman war propaganda. short but important part of roman history.

books:

i’ve read most of these and been recommended the rest, but they reflect my own interest in specific subjects. you can find a more comprehensive list here.

• rubicon (tom holland)
• a history of rome (m. cary and h.h. scullard)
• the roman republic (michael crawford)
• who’s who in the roman world (john hazel)
• spqr (mary beard)
• the classical world (robin lane fox)
• cicero (anthony everitt)

audio:

• the history of rome (mike duncan)
• the history of byzantium

[weneeddiversebooks]

theguardian.com

Top 10 books by transgender authors featuring trans characters

Cisgender authors can write great trans characters, but trans authors live the experiences of their characters every day and their voices need to be the loudest on trans issues, argues teen writer John Hansen. So here’s a list of the best trans YA and middle grade books by trans and non-binary authors

[creativeprompts]

75+ Bad Habits for Your Characters

Since I started this blog, I’ve been trying to figure out something that I could do that hasn’t been done a thousand times before. All the advice I know has been given by far better bloggers than I and far better than I’m capable of. The Moments of the Week slowed to a boring crawl. I don’t want to be the jerk who just talks about me.

But you know what I’ve realized? I am really good at making lists. And between writing and years of playing tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons, I’ve come to enjoy making characters and helping others make them. So why not continue making lists like the hobbies one to help other people with their character creation? Most likely, this won’t be a long-running thing, as there are only so many lists needed for character and world building, but I guarantee, you’ll be able to find it here.

Today, we’re looking at bad habits. No character is perfect. Everyone’s got these little quirks that they know they should work on fixing. Pick one or two (or more!) for your characters to make them more well-rounded and maybe give them something to improve about themselves.

Read the list at The Wandering Quille

[punkasshunter]

Bioshock: Fake Irish man turns into Handsome Squidward and fucking dies

Bioshock 2: Harvest your dad’s blood so that he may live on in you forever

Bioshock Infinite: Life has many doors, Ed-boy

[lkeke35]

The Glorification of White Crime

[daughterofmulan]

Take a facet of crime, and then look at television shows/movies that feature those criminals as protagonists.

White mobs.

White pirates.

White serial killers.

White political corruption

White drug dealers

I mostly want to talk about this as a TV phenomenon, but pick a crime, any crime, and Western media has probably made a movie/TV series/play/etc. with a white person that romanticizes the criminal activity. No matter what, a white person can do whatever terrible crimes and still have a TV/movie fanbase that loves them.

When you see black or brown people committing crimes on screen, you are to see them thugs and criminal masterminds and people to be beat down.

When you see white people committing crimes on screen, you see a three-dimensional portrait of why someone might commit that crime, how criminals are people too, and how you should even love them for the crimes that they commit because they’re just providing for their families or they’ve wronged or they’re just people and not perfect. This is particularly a luxury given to white male characters, since there few white female criminals as protagonists.

If and of the above shows were about black or brown folks, there would be a backlash of (white) people claiming that TV and movies are romanticizing criminals and are treating them too much like heroes and that it will affect viewers and encourage violence and “thuggish” behavior. And yet fictional white criminals get to have a deep fanbase who loves these white criminals, receive accolades and awards, get called amazing television that portray the complexities of human nature. Viewers of these characters see past the atrocious crimes and into their humanity, a luxury that white characters always have while characters of color rarely do. The closest that mainstream TV has come to showing black criminals as main characters is probably The Wire, and even then, the criminals share equal screen time and equal status as main characters as the police trying to stop them.

The idea that crime can be so heavily romanticized and glorified to such a degree is undoubtedly a privilege given to white characters. The next time you hear someone talk about Dexter Morgan or Walter White in a positive way, it may be an opportunity to rethink how white people can always able to be seen as people no matter what they do, while everyone else can be boiled down to nothing but a criminal.

[lkeke35]

If you don’t believe this is true then look at the reaction America had to Rock and Rap music. When Rock was being produced by black people it was the sign of the coming apocalypse. Or at least it was until white men appropriated the music and then it became the best thing ever invented. The subjects remained the same, sex and criminal activity. Only the races of the performaers changed. So much so that almost no one remembers that black people invented rock n roll.

When rap music started its rise to in popularity in the 80s, it was performed almost exclusively by black people. It and the performers were vilified by the media, people tried to ban it and place restrictions on it. The same reaction they had when Jazz (also invented by black people) rose in popularity, when rock music got popular and now rap music. Notice that these musical styles only go mainstream once they’ve been adopted by white performers.

This humanization of white pathology happens in all forms of media.

[mynameisgoliath]

[jolleydolley]

this is my 5000th post on this account so i decided to shitpost be educational and make yall a powerpoint about the french bourbons.

Enjoy!

[mynameisgoliath]

@pilferingapples