#bedtime reads

[odettecarotte]

I will tell you about a satisfying ritual I've been doing.

I pull a tarot card about my vexations (as usual)

Instead of looking to Biddy Tarot (lol) or even Rachel Pollack, I look up the card on Spotify

I then usually listen to a Between the Worlds podcast about the card. Amanda Yates Garcia is brilliant and very grounded in reality but also folklore IMO. Her hour-long lectures or conversations devoted to a poetic understanding of one card are SYNCHRONICITY FACTORIES. She pulls so many associations from Greek myths, native California plants, geologic history, current political sentiments etc that always something sticks and illuminates!

I pulled the Devil for my sister, and there's a very reductive way of looking at that (nahhh your addictions and attachments nahhh)

But Amanda invited a Milton scholar on to talk about the political context of Paradise Lost, and they provided a sympathetic portrait of Satan. The seductive invitation to read the book being that Satan felt so betrayed that God would favor his only begotten son Jesus more than him, that he felt separation from God (which of course is the true meaning of sin), causing him to rebel and be cast into a lake of fire that God created just to punish him, but actually it's a good thing, since God is such a dick. Family matters!!!

(My daughter is in Scotland now, writing papers about Satanic Feminism, so we have a lot to discuss.)

#john milton #bedtime reads #amanda yates garcia #between the Worlds #tarot #rachel pollack #witchcraft #synchronicity #paradise lost #satan #satanic feminism

[uglygreenjacket]

*reads child a bedtime story*: I wonder when and why I stopped needing one of these.

*pulls up ao3 in bed like I’ve done every night for years*: Oh. OH.

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfiction #bedtime stories #on reading #on writing

[ask-spiderpool]

#ask-spiderpool #main #spideypool #britney #bedtime stories... #preferable to the times wade read fanfiction to peter before bed.

[guraveetee]

I am a young maiden desperately waiting for her husband to return from war. AO3 is down. I can't live laugh love in these worrying times. Please come home.

#ao3 #MY FAVORITE AUTHOR JUST UPDATED AND I CAN'T READ IT #MY BEDTIME STORIES! I WILL BE PLAGUED BY NIGHTMARES!!!

[mikeslawyer]

#babe pls #it’s my usual bedtime reading time #we need u pls #ao3

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Guide: Best Sleep Hygiene Habits & Tips For Better Sleep

Daytime Habits:

Stop drinking caffeine at least 8 hours before you want to go to sleep

Move daily: A 30-minute walk or a short pilates video is enough if that's all you can manage

Get some fresh air/natural light and/or supplement with vitamin D

Ensure you're getting adequate magnesium and vitamin B12 in your regular diet or through supplements

Nighttime Habits:

Tuck your phone in at its "bedtime": Leave your phone in the charger across the room. Out of sight, out of mind.

Have a physical book beside your bed to start reading at a certain time. Around 30-60 minutes before you actually want to go to bed. Find a book that puts you in a calm mood. A book that's too engaging will be counterproductive.

Have some "sleepytime" tea around 30 minutes before bed (Chamomile tea is a great choice. I love the Yogi Soothing Caramel Bedtime tea).

Limit the lights on for an hour or so before you want to go to bed. Only keep the light on near your bed if possible. Keep your curtains closed if necessary.

Practice deep breathing in bed: You can do a full 5-10 sleep meditation or just do a few sets of belly breaths (one hand on your chest and the other on your diaphragm or upper stomach)

Use meditation or a self-pleasure practice to relax enough to fall asleep.

To get on a proper sleep routine & fight insomnia:

Allow yourself one day to be exhausted, so you go to sleep "on time" and give yourself enough time to get (at least) around 6 hours of sleep. This helps your body "reset," at least for a few days.

When you close your eyes, picture one of your favorite memories and re-experience it without allowing other thoughts to enter your brain. This helps calm your mind, so you more easily drift off to sleep (I've been doing this for around 15-18 years and it's golden)

Have a journal or notebook with a pen by your bed: This allows you to write anything down that you forgot about or need to do, sudden inspiration that arises before you fall asleep, or a place to write out your feelings to help relax before going to sleep. It's better than having your phone and gives you no excuse to go pull it out.

Have a bottle of water by your bed, so you can have a few sips if you can't sleep from being (even a little) dehydrated.

#femme fatale #dark femininity #dark feminine energy #sleep tips #bedtime mode #bedtime routine #bedtime reading #healthy habits #it girl #queen energy #dream girl #that girl #wellness #sleep hygiene #female excellence #female power #the feminine urge #femmefatalevibe #healthyhabits #new habits #self improvement #self love #health and wellness #sleep well

[randomminty]

If pokemon wont give me bea and allister siblingisms ill just make it MYSELF

#siblignsf…… real #art tag #pokemon #pokemon swsh #gym leader bea #gym leader allister #started thinking abt leon/sonia/nessa/raihan/piers friend group while drawing this theyre all great #or polycule. either or #i think all the version exclusive gym leaders has their own found family going on #besides the literal family #melony definitely spoils bea and allister and i think gordie babysits and acts like a cool older brother to them both #raihan babysat allister once and got him addicted to subway surfers and mr beast and bea hasnt let him near allister since #all of the swsh gym leaders are just one big family when u think abt it #bea reads allister bedtime stories but the stories allister suggests are infinitely more horrifying than bea can handle #in allisters concept art theres a part that maybe suggests beas scared of ghosts. i like that i think its funny. have u seen ur brother #i could make a whole post abt these two i bet anyway. i need to wak eup at 6am tmrw. gootnighth :>

[squishbug]

@strawbubbysugar

I literally couldn’t sleep after reading chapter 54 so take this frantic 4am fanart <3

(featuring my y/n cuz I’m weak)

#I haven’t read the new chapter yet #I’m gonna save that for a bedtime story :] #so(u)l fanart #fnaf moon #moondrop #moon x reader #moon x y/n #squishbugs art

[staghunters]

zombie jackie fic got me in the artsy feels again

#it's good bedtime reading #TO ME #feral jackie enjoyers pls rise #yellowjackets #jackie taylor #doodl

[shittysawtraps]

Can you help me to animate again? I've been feeling unmotivated and I don't honestly like myself so it's probs fair that I get a push from someone

hey, speaking as a former animation major, animation is hard as hell. for me, it was always a struggle to work on a project that slowly, to put consideration into every frame, rather than blowing through it as fast as i could in order to finish it before i lost motivation. it can be very frustrating to commit yourself long-term to something that will only be a couple of minutes long.

that being said, you're not animating for current you, you're animating for future you. for the you who looks at the finished project and says, "wow, i made THAT?" it's like with any art form– you write or draw or animate or sew for the version of yourself who has forgotten how hard it was and only sees art that's cool as hell. just make something that excites you a lot, even if it's not as polished as you would want it to be, because rewatching/rereading/re-looking/re-wearing the final product will continue to excite you a lot. it's free serotonin. i still look at the archvillain animatics i made when i was 14-17, for an audience of maybe five people, and get HYPE.

idk if this helps, but you should make something that makes you feel like you just snorted coke, because even if you get frustrated making it, at the end of the process (and every time you revisit it) you will get that !!! feeling again.

#mod amanda #this is how i think abt my writing anyway #i have so much shit that will never be seen by anyone but me #but it's GREAT bedtime or airplane reading #and makes me happy that i wrote it

[sketchy-entertainer]

From a person who had unfiltered access to the internet as a kid growing up, I can tell you if I was told I could have a PC friend, I would install that with little hesitation. So, I'm hard pressed to say some random kid would install Kinito seeing how silly he looked. I doodled some of that for y'all today.

Some more spoilery things down below, mayhaps.

We love to see cute platonic stuff of a lad and their virtual assistant axolotl friend.

#kinitopet #kinito pet #kinitopet spoilers #kinito pet spoilers #kinito the axolotl #10 foot tall kinito is just tucking Jo in. #he's so tall that he has to crouch #but it also makes his legs wobble #kinito probably sings lullabies to a kid before they sleep. #or reads them bedtime stories. #kinito is the best friend ever.

[wannaeatramyeon]

Gun and Goo with Reader: Manga Raws

G/N. Silly.

Gun has a headache. The type of throbbing that starts at the temples before spreading across his entire skull, his ears and jaw and neck, that would leave a weaker person debilitated.

Fortunately he is not weak. Unfortunately, he still needs to put up with you and Goo.

"Please?"

Goo takes one look at you, and mimics your expression, "Yeah, please?"

Gun peers, features not indicating any discomfort, impassively into yours and Goo's face. Both batting your eyelashes at him, mouth pulled down, bottom lip jutting out in a way some would describe as cute and pitiful.

He takes one drag of his cigarette then blows the smoke in your direction.

It has the desired effect.

Goo reels back, spluttering and waving the fumes away and pulling you back with him.

"Say something!" He stage-whispers into your ear.

"Like what?"

"Anything! I don't care. Do whatever. Get on your knees and beg or blow-"

"Stop if you don't want me to pluck out your tongue," You shove the blonde roughly, eyes narrowing at his words.

There's a huff of amusement behind you and you seize your opportunity.

"Gun," you coo, whirling round, "The manga raws are out, the translations are always shit and delayed. You're fluent in Japanese. Of course we were gonna ask you. It's gonna take five minutes, tops."  Your reasoning falls on deaf ears, charming smile ignored, and Gun raises an eyebrow in your direction.

It's time for your trump card.

"I know you have a headache. You know that we won't stop being annoying until you help us. And we all know that that headache can get much much worse."

Goo nods enthusiastically in your peripheral vision.

Letting out a sigh of defeat, Gun begrudging caves, "Fine-"

"Oh!" You weren't sure it was going to work, "Thanks-"

"Except," Gun throws Goo a smirk, "You can't tell Goo what happens."

You give Goo a thumbs up behind your back at the same time as you grin and say, "Deal!" 

#i just had this silly scenario. imagine during guns better moods if he reads the raw mangas to you and goo like bedtime stories #except its all deadpan. someone dies deadpan. hype moment deadpan. funny moment deadpan #lookism #lookism x reader #lookism webtoon #lookism manhwa #gun park x reader #lookism fic #gun park #goo kim #goo kim x reader #park jonggun #kim joongoo #wannaeatramyeon

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

#books #book photography #books of 2024 #welcome to your world #sarah williams goldhagen #i've stared at this caption for fourteen years and can't come up with anything reasonably concise to say lol #i like architecture as a concept! #i used to collect floor plan clippings out of newspapers when 1. we got paper newspapers and 2. that was a Section in them #my parents got me some floor plan books for my birthday one year and i still have those #i just. like architecture?? as a Thing?? #but i know very little about it so. i saw this (can't remember where) #and i'm hoping it will Tell Me More! #this has been on my shelf for a few years but i think it is Time #(brought to you by: i also got an architecture book about obsolescence that i want to read soon too) #(but i feel like i should Start With Background and THEN do technical textbook lol) #anyway! #excited!! this is not a one armed bedtime read though it is so fucking DENSE and has very thick high quality glossy paper XD #lots of pictures too #it feels like a LOT of book but it's not actually that long (~300pgs)

[medsteeth]

right so about 162 days ago i said i would draw fanart for the really fucking good bushmedicine fanfic "thou giveth fever" by @mickmundy and, like a dumbass, proceeded to do nothing and worry about school for that entire time 😭 i'll do more and better fanart very soon (god i hope) but have these silly ass drawings for the mean time. this fic gave me life to draw tf2 again after like... 3 years lol so thank you kind fellow ❤️❤️

#okay now i'll go read the new dovetail one #i have a drawing for that one medic dream sniper surgery he has with the crocodile btw #right. bedtime #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 sniper #bushmedicine #fanart #art #drawing

[grand-line-shenanigans]

astrophysicist mom <3

#trigun #trigun maximum #trigun 98 #rem saverem #vash the stampede #millions knives #my art #doodles #sketchy #id in alt #inspired by a tumblr post i read ages and ages ago about a dad telling his kid about atoms as a bedtime story #rem would do that. she would. #the boys would ASK her to do that

[eerna]

i bet the writers for the ATLA Live Action are gonna show the charred remains of Katara's mother

#eernask #eernanon #eernask talk atla #sorry this is a pretty grotesque thing to read about a kids' show right before bedtime