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HEY HOLD THE FUCK UP
You guys like mythological creatures, right?
A Book of Creatures is a brand new website which posts on a pretty regular basis – currently up to 14 entries since only mid-March – illustrating and describing some of the weirdest, most obscure mythical animals, races, fairies and goblins out there, with academic sources.
I’d never heard of ANY of these except for the Stymphalian birds.
Reblogging for AWESOME detailed drawings of fantastically obscure mythological creatures from all over the world. The author is drawing from primary and secondary sources in many different languages.
(full disclosure: I’m friends with the author and indeed was trying to help with some pretty unpleasant Latin for this project the other day)
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HEY HOLD THE FUCK UP
You guys like mythological creatures, right?
A Book of Creatures is a brand new website which posts on a pretty regular basis – currently up to 14 entries since only mid-March – illustrating and describing some of the weirdest, most obscure mythical animals, races, fairies and goblins out there, with academic sources.
I’d never heard of ANY of these except for the Stymphalian birds.
Reblogging for AWESOME detailed drawings of fantastically obscure mythological creatures from all over the world. The author is drawing from primary and secondary sources in many different languages.
(full disclosure: I’m friends with the author and indeed was trying to help with some pretty unpleasant Latin for this project the other day)
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Melungeons!
If your family has been in the Appalachian region for any long amount of time (like mine), you probably have some Melungeon in you. If you’re not sure what that is, let me explain.
Melungeons were originally of the Cumberland Gap area (Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia tri-state area). These people were tri-racial, usually being a mixture of European white, Native American, and sub-Saharan African. The mixture came into being when free people of color and Native Americans mixed with colonial Virginia settlers in the Cumberland area. It is estimated that some 200 Melungeon families were dispersed from this original group across Appalachia.
This racial group did not represent a phenotype of (that is, they didn’t LOOK like) any particular race. Today, most modern-day descendants of Appalachian families traditionally regarded as Melungeon are generally European American in appearance with dark hair and eyes and an olive complexion. Though this is most common, any appearance can result from a Melungeon heritage.
It is not known where the term Melungeon directly came from, but it is a popular theory that the French settlers in Virginia gave the name from the french word mélange, or mixture. The original Melungeon families did face some discrimination in the Cumberland region, though most were able to assimilate easily into early American culture and “marry white” to dilute appearances further.
The drawing pictured is courtesy of Will Allen Dromgoole, circa 1890.
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parisianmorningsmoroccannights:
((You guys don’t know steampunk until you head on over to this awesome little slice of heaven over here in Baltimore. This is a repurposed power plant that was built in 1900 that was converted into a Barnes and Nobel. It boasts a good selection of books, has the obligatory Starbucks inside with an awesome view of the city, but also has a really neat and informative aquarium that features wildlife you’d find in the bay! This is one awesome looking place to read. If you guys ever visit me up here in Maryland, we’d totally visit this Barnes and Noble.))
*barfs from over-excitement*
I would be in heaven.
What? Must. Get. There. Now.
i can verify when i have time i stop by truly awesome
I need to go here.
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WHAT IS THIS CALLED I’VE LOOKED FOREVER
IMMA TAG THIS SO SPECIFICALLY THAT I’LL NEVER LOOSE IT I’M SO PISSED.
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It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi…
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