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New favorite #FolktaleMoment form Iran:
A princess really wants a pet donkey but her father refuses. Her magical aunt finds a way to convince the father (with some clever spells) to allow the donkey anyway.
When princess kisses the donkey on the nose, it turns into a handsome prince. Turns out he had been cursed.
In return for saving him, the princess asks the prince to buy her a new donkey.
#folklore #folktales
#StorytellingPSA
AI as a research tool for storytelling is useless.
You ask it for folktales, it makes stories up. You ask it for sources for those tales, it makes books up. You ask for real books, it gives you books that don't contain the story you want.
It also misattributes made-up stories to existing cultures. Often indigenous ones.
I have had several conversations with actual storytellers using ChatGPT to find "authentic" myths and folktales. It scares me.
#AI #Storytelling
We are fast approaching the holidays, probably the most lucrative time in the book publishing business.
The market is about to be flooded with Christmas books with AI generated images.
Don't buy Christmas books with AI generated images.*
*Or any AI gift books for the winter holidays, actually
#AI #books #bookstodon #art
I am remembering the time I got dogpiled on the birb site for asking why people insist on romanticizing Hades and Persephone.
If I did another thesis, I would write it on the internet popularity of this couple, and the underlying cultural and psychological reasons... 😄
It continues to baffle and fascinate me that this is the ship people chose as their favorite.
#Kaos #mythology #romance #storytelling
Am I the only one weirded out that the Cocomelon kids take a bath fully clothed?...
Research PSA:
ChatGPT is not Google, people.
Even Google is not Google.
I am finding relevant hits for my searches on the 8th page of Google Books. And then along comes someone like "ChatGPT told me about this folktale..."
Doesn't exist.
#AI #research #searchengines #ChatGPT
I was struggling with a toddler meltdown on the train when a very helpful (sarcasm) mom walked over with her own kid and yelled at me to "make it stop" and that "her kid never does this".
Gee, lady. Thanks.
#parenting #stressed
I reported 5+ "great nature photography!" pages on FB today. All of them were posting ridiculous AI generated animal images. I am so sick and tired of this.
(And yes, I'm on FB, because as a freelancer it's hard not to be. But it's just a glorified email account by now.)
#SocialMedia #AI #AIart #nature #photography
First flight trip since the kid. Going to Brussels for a gig. Flight anxiety is real 😬😬 But yay travel 😄
#travel #anxiety #storytelling
"Hopefully I will be less busy starting next week" will be written on my tombstone
So there's this Greek myth that says Zeus was fed by bees when he was born. In gratitude, he blessed them with the color of "shining bronze", and made them immune to cold and harsh winds. These bees lived in Zeus' sacred cave in Crete, and aggressively chased away anyone who tried to steal their honey.
Any #apiarist or #entomology expert out there who could tell me what these bees are by any chance?...
#mythology #biology #nature #folklore #bees
Also, rhodochrosite has its own card in the Telluric Tarot too 😊 It's the Knight of Cups.
#minerals #MinCup23 #tarot #image
The story is quite long, and it is part of the King Dietrich legend cycle. I blogged about it extensively:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2016/10/epic-lovers-reunite.html
Basically it is a story of cultures clashing, prejudice, revenge, regret, and reconciliation. The human knights trample King Laurin's rose garden, and get into a battle with the king defending his honor and his property. The story unfolds from here, but the point is, I always imagined King Laurin's kingdom full of rhodochrosite roses...
#MinCup23 #folktales
Today's#MinCup23 vote has my favorite: Rhodochrosite!
#Thread
There's a legend from South Tyrol about King Laurin's Rose Garden. (That part of the Dolomites is actually called Rosengarten).
The legend tells about a Dwarf king who falls in love with a human woman and elopes with her. However, her human relatives decide she must have been kidnapped, and mount a rescue mission.
King Laurin has a famous rose garden in the mountains, planted in honor of a daughter he lost.
#folklore #folktales
nostr:npub17czt0gwf5lfr6v3fj06teh8tlhvzy8gs4duzg09gex5uxll420mq9lutc6 And they all have very happy birthdays 🤣
I just found out that more than 6000 people have downloaded my PhD dissertation on forum-based role-playing games, and my mind is blown 🤯
(I never thought to check)
And more than 17,000 for my master's thesis on #ttrpg in the high school classroom 🤯
I read a lot of theses and dissertations when I research. It's good to see others are getting use out of what I wrote. And I'm glad it's freely available. It should be.
#RPG #gaming #games #gamer #academia #research
#FolktaleMoment of the day:
Exploding pears
I read a Hungarian Roma folktale today that featured an evil dragon woman trying to kill a man by cursing him with hunger, and planting an enticing pear tree in his way.
Luckily a girl knocked the pear out of the man's hand. The pear screamed so loud it made trees snap. Had he eaten it, she says, he would have exploded from the sound.
#DnD writers take note 😂
#folklore #folktales #ttrpg
Today I'm voting for bischofite because it's Permian sea salt evaporate, which is pretty cool.
No specific #folklore for it, but it reminded me of a Colombian folktale about a boy who carries salt for a chief, and gets caught in a rain that washes he salt away. The boy prays to the god Bochica, who takes him on a journey, shows him the hidden riches under the earh, and on a beach teaches him how to create salt pans to collect sea salt.
#MinCup23 #folktales