Feng Shui and Chinese Geomancy: A Guide to a Better Life? - Historic Mysteries

Feng Shui and Chinese Geomancy: A Guide to a Better Life? – Historic Mysteries

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I will never get over mdzs. The hold wangxian has on me is insane

I wonder what flowers would bloom over me when I'm six feet under.

Hey Jekyll and Hyde moots, can I please interest you in the Dr Jekyll knock off from my childhood

His name is Dr Phoenix and he is the slimiest bastard ever I’m going feral over him again

(I’ll have better art soon take this please)

- Roe Gardner

on losing elders

Whale Rider (2002), dir. Niki Caro // Crying In H Mart (2021), Michelle Zauner // Daughters of the Dust (1991), dir. Julie Dash // Muttererde (2018), dir. Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor // The Burial of Kojo (2018), dir. Blitz Bazawule // Crying In H Mart (2021), Michelle Zauner // The Farewell (2019), dir. Lulu Wang // Black Indian (2019), Shonda Buchanan // Bandits (1997), dir. Katja von Garnier

Afterlife a History of Death Exhibition- Physicians Gallery, Edinburgh

design for the track ‘fall for me’ by sleep token | whale fall | from here to eternity, caitlin doughty | midtnight mass, mike flanagan | the amber spyglass, philip pullman

seeing as people actually paid attention to my book 2 mdzs rant, let’s do one more~~

book 3 of mdzs review😋

lotus pier arc???? i hate madam yu but her character art is also like kinda hot 🥵 but girl literally abuses her ward verbally and THEN WHIPS HIM?? WITH A SPIRITUAL WEAPON?? LIKE WTF my poor baby wwx 😭

the whole wen indoctrination part like omg jin zixuan is actually kind of cool??? and then lan zhan being emo bc CLOUD RECESSES BURNT DOWN 😭 OMG i felt so bad, and the way he just closed himself off despite the pain in his leg until wwx comes along and annoys it out of him <3 also side note loved the part where wei ying quotes wen mao and totally destroys wen chao like 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

fighting the xuanwu of slaughter and having a little tension between my boys 🤌🤌 AND LWJ LET HIM SLEEP ON HIS LAP?!?!😫😫😫 i can’t fr they’re too cute 🥰 and also like the way they both credited killing it to each other like too pure ugh

this might be just me but i feel like mxtx has a lot of opportunities to angst more with like wwx getting whipped or like branded and all those injuries?? maybe its just me being a monster obsessed with angst 😥 but i would’ve liked more emphasis on how much they actually suffered from these injuries bc ik they’re cultivators with strong cores but like. ??? pain is a thing

once more i dislike madam yu BUT when she faces off against wang lingjiao in this scene??? queen????

i feel super bad for jiang cheng but like. bro. please don’t strangle ur brother. and then wwx risked so much to rescue him :((

WWX GOT YEETED INTO THE BURIAL MOUNDS OMFG??!?!?!! HOW DID HE SURVIVE OM SO CURIOUS??? his dark emo era as the yiling patriarch is actually so legendary tho. also like i was highkey touched by how jiang cheng just immediately supported him even if he was a bit 🤏 crazy yk 🤪

lan xichen’s intense flute solo. that’s it. you can’t convince me that he doesn’t ship wangxian.

WWX’S DOMESTIC FANTASIES WAH 😩

the siege hunt 😍😍😍 first wwx throwing the flowers, then absolutely annihilating everyone at archery blindfolded, and then. THE KISS?!?!? HAHSHAJFKEKDHAJSH being the kind person that i am, i’ve included the image below so feast your eyes once more on this gorgeous art

JIANG YANLI POP OFF OMG LITERALLY AMAZING I LOVE HER SO MUCH YOU GO GIRL

that cliffhanger ending omg 😦

i was up all night bingeing this and it was so so worth it, probably my favourite book of the series so far!!! this was super long so thank you for reading if you did 🥺

What if...

Grisha tradition of burning their dead stems from otkazat'sya belief in vampires?

Excerpt uses "vampire" and "werewolf" interchangeably.

All the villagers gather with hawthorn stakes (for he only fears a hawthorn stake – a saying goes ‘let him find hawthorn and madder on his way’, because hawthorn grows above madder), and then they open the coffin. If they find a man who did not decompose, they run the stakes through him, throw the remains into a fire and let it burn. They say that sometimes they’ll find a werewolf who grew fat, bloated and rubicund with human blood (a saying goes ‘red as a vampire’). A werewolf might visit his wife, especially if she is pretty and young, to sleep with her and they also say that a child conceived with a werewolf would be born without bones. In times of hunger, a werewolf is often seen around mills, wheat and corn reserves.

The Slavic Myths- Vampires (Noah Charney, Svetlana Slapšak) quoting Vuk Karadžić, Srpski rječnik

What if thanks to their connection to the Making, it takes longer for the decomposition to settle, so Grisha burn their dead to prevent desecration and suspicion of vampirism? Especially since that might implicate the deceased's family.

Peter’s death in 1725 was followed by the sudden deaths of nine other people over the course of eight days – each of whom had appeared ill for less than a single day. Several of the victims claimed before dying that Peter had appeared in their rooms and choked them. His wife, too, claimed that he had visited her after his death and requested his shoes. She moved to another village to escape him, but Peter’s son then claimed that he had returned to his house and demanded food. The son had refused, and soon afterwards he became Peter’s next victim.

The Slavic Myths- Vampires (Noah Charney, Svetlana Slapšak)

Again- this aspect of the myth is shared with Slavic "werewolf"

‘But what happened to the village? Where is the rest of your family?’ She looked like she was crying but shed no tears. ‘It is horrible,’ she began. ‘And it is Father’s fault.’ ‘You mean that Gorča lives?’ ‘Oh, no,’ she continued. ‘He is well and truly buried. A stake driven through his heart. But he drained the blood of Đorđe’s son, as you will recall.’ ‘Yes, I’m so sorry. We buried him the day I left.’ ‘Indeed. So you can imagine our surprise when he came back the next night, crying at the window, calling to his mother, saying he was cold and wanted to come in. This was before Đorđe returned from the forest, where he had chased our father. You cannot blame the child’s mother. She may have seen him buried with her own eyes, but it was only hours earlier. We all thought that he had been deemed dead prematurely and, most horribly, buried alive. But he had managed to burst out of his coffin and clear the earth above him. So, of course, she invited him in. No sooner did he cross the threshold than he attacked her and drained her blood. Petar managed to scare him off and he fled to the woods, running on all fours. His mother was buried soon afterwards. For a while.’

The Slavic Myths-At Stake (Noah Charney, Svetlana Slapšak)

Better to burn the corpse immediately, than risk both the trauma of watching one's beloved's remains dragged out of their grave AND face the angry mob, who believes they're banishing future threat.

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

“One of the agreements tacitly made by consumers with [global extractive] industries is that extraction and its costs will remain mostly out of sight, and therefore undisturbing to its beneficiaries. Those industries understand the market need for alienated labour, hidden infrastructure and the strategic concealment of both the slow violence of environmental degradation and the quick violence of accidents.” 

Underland, Robert Macfarlane

me in the middle of uni induced delirium: i should write an anthropologist seb x travel vlogger lewis

If there’s one thing we know about the ancient Egyptians for sure it’s that they were obsessed with death. Their burial practices ranged from the strange to magnificent.

Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 by horror journalist Chris Alexander is out now in paperback and e-book via Headpress.

It explores the series of eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptions directed by Roger Corman: House of Usher, The Pit and The Pendulum, Tales of Terror, Premature Burial, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The Masque of the Red Death, and Tomb of Ligeia.

The 150-page book features in-depth interviews with Corman book-ended by critical analyses of each of the eight films along with photographs and stills. Corman also provides a foreword.

Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories were popular in their time as escapist horror cinema. Most starred horror icon Vincent Price and were written (and "freely adapted") by the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and Robert Towne. Today the series is recognized as unique and sophisticated, one that delivers decadent Gothic chills while exploring ideas of faith, sexuality, psychology and the supernatural.

Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960–1964 is the only book to fully examine this important chapter in horror film history. In-depth conversations with the maverick Roger Corman are book-ended by engaging critical analyses of each of the eight films, which together stand as a fully realized and consistent creative vision.

The book is illustrated with dozens of photographs and stills, many of which have never been published before, and features a brand-new foreword from Corman.

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