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Night garden, anyone?

flowers that bloom in the night

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Please help save Roman!

My girl @govaxyourself is drowning in vet bills after her cat needed emergency surgery two nights ago. He’d somehow swallowed about five feet of yarn (that’s quite a lot of yarn for a cat to swallow) and it had gotten caught in his digestive tract, making him very, very ill. The cost of the surgery was already crushing, but they hadn’t even had him back home a full day before they needed to rush him back to the emergency vet with a fever and an internal infection.

Here are some of his vet bills as of now. He’s still in the hospital, and every day he has to stay only adds more fees.

@govaxyourself has maxed out her credit cards and taken out a new one to be able to pay for her cat’s medical care. The current total is nearing $6,000 already, and she’s going to have to apply for another card soon. She’s set up »a GoFundMe«, and everything raised will go directly toward paying off these vet bills and any further charges accrued. If, by some miracle of generosity, more money is raised than she needs, every last extra cent will be donated to the Humane Society where Roman was originally adopted.

Any reblogs and signal boosting you can do is greatly appreciated, and if you have the means, please consider »donating to her GoFundMe«! Every tiny bit helps so much!

I love architectural designs/landscaping like this, so cool.

Dear Archy, so you have anything to inspire some fantasy writing? I'm talking buildings made out of living trees or gardens that look super cool n’ stuff?

So many!

Here is a small selection of fantasy architecture and gardens. I would also recommend checking out the photography of Kilian Schönberger which is fantastic!

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This has to be my new favorite thread/story I've discovered on this crazy app.

This just hit me. I’m so Southern my family has a matriarch and no one in the family knows for sure how old she is. We all also got into a heated debate about the existence of her glass eye (still not confirmed). She’s in her 90s- we think- beat cancer, outlived two husbands, had seven children and has outlived three of them, survived The Great Depression, and either her dad or her grandfather was a full blooded Cherokee Indian… possibly the tribe’s leader but no one really knows for sure.

She also once lit into my dad’s school bus driver, cussing him black and blue about how he treated the kids and didn’t realize she had a butcher’s knife in her hand until he RAN away. She didn’t have any more trouble out of him.

I love these stylized chickens. They're accurate but cute.

Little feathered dinosaurs by Ekaterina Boguslavskaya

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Still not over this. . .

J.K. Rowling apologizes for killing Dobby in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [x]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqRSXNXpV7w/?igshid=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==

Mmmhmm 😎🍪🎂🍰🍪

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The Skeppsrå [Swedish mythology]

In Swedish folklore, the term ‘Rå’ is used to refer to a specific class of spirits. These beings are each tied to one specific habitat or domain, which they rule and protect. There is the Bergrå, the spirit of the mountains, who inhabits tall mountaintops. The Skogsrå is the guardian spirit of the forest, the Sjörå rules over a lake or other body of water, etc. But not all of the Rå spirits are tied to a natural habitat: some have become the spirit of man-made locations or buildings. There are guardian ‘Rå’ spirits of churches, stables, mine tunnels, etc. And then there is the Skeppsrå: the ship spirit. These beings are usually depicted as small, bearded men, often dressed in a sailor’s outfit. Some depictions give them some supernatural characteristics, such as elf-like pointed ears. 

True to their nature as protective spirits of a ship, a Skeppsrå warns the crew of a boat of storms, bad weather and disasters that will hit the ship. Each Skeppsrå is bound to one specific vessel. As the subject of folktales, they aren’t as common as their more powerful cousins which rule over a specific biome. As such, information about them is quite scarce. The most complete account that I could find is that of Johan Egerkrans in his book ‘Nordiska Väsen’, however this work was intended as entertainment rather than a historically accurate collection of old folktales, but he does cite his sources, which is more than I can say for most authors in that genre. In any case, he describes the creatures as follows:

The Skeppsrå, also sometimes called Skeppsnisse, maintains the woodwork of a ship, exterminating pests like woodworm and preventing the wood from rotting or deteriorating. It keeps the order on a boat and will therefore punish sailors and crewmembers who are drunk or careless. Still, having a Skeppsrå on board is an enormous boon.

A Skeppsrå does not choose an existing boat to inhabit, rather it will oversee the creation of a vessel while it is still in the shipyard. There is an old story that the Skeppsrå was originally a wood spirit bound to a tree. If a tree inhabited by such a being is chopped down and used as lumber to make a ship’s keel, the spirit will become a Skeppsrå and is usually bound to the ship for the rest of its existence. In rare cases, the lumber used to build a boat comes from two spirit-inhabited trees. When that happens, both of the spirits become Skeppsrå and will fight among themselves for the right to oversee the ship. If they are particularly violent spirit, their squabbles might even damage the boat. In one old folktale, two such spirits were careless and their argument was so loud that a sailor discovered them. The man questioned the two strange little men and patiently overheard their arguments. He resolved the argument by appointing one of the two spirits to become the ship’s Skeppsrå, and promised to build another vessel so that the other spirit could become the Skeppsrå of that ship.

Curiously, this last story is virtually identical to an old German myth about a similar spirit called a Klabautermann. When a child died unbaptized and a tree grew on top of its grave, the ghost of the infant would inhabit the tree. Sometimes, the lumber of such a tree would be used to build a ship, and the ghost would become a Klabautermann: a protective spirit bound to that ship. Much like the Skeppsrå, these beings would appear as small, bearded men. Thus, I believe that these two folktales differentiated from the same original story.

Sources: Klintberg, B. A., 2014, Svenska Folksägner, Norstedts, 529 pp. Egerkrans, J., 2013, Nordiska Väsen, B.Wahlströms, 126 pp. Lecouteux, C., 2016, Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic. (image source 1: Johan Egerkrans, illustration for Nordiska Väsen) (image source 2: a Klabautermann, by Hetman80 on Deviantart)