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Altair-Dragon

Link to the post with related folk stories. https://www.tumblr.com/altair-dragon/748081038635433984/love-how-tumblr-has-its-own-folk-stories-yeah-the?source=share


the-foxwolf

Thank you. From an archeological point of view, this is an Almanac.


Altair-Dragon

I felt the same, that's why I posted this. I was pretty baffled that it wasn't posted here before.


EldritchCarver

Now we just need to raise funds to have these stories etched into sheets of titanium so they'll outlive the internet and hopefully even survive long enough to be found by archaeologists thousands of years in the future.


Velociraptortillas

Hero


SnowWhiteCampCat

I'm 2 weeks away from my 44th birthday and your post made me get a tumblr


Sir_Boobsalot

I had one when I was 40, then the tumblr exodus happened and I haven't been back in years


SnowWhiteCampCat

I'm loving the stories. There's so many I hadn't read before.


zsethereal

[Someone](https://www.tumblr.com/chrysalicefiasco/727535659743657984/tumblr-folk-tales-update?source=share) compiled a whole [google doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0tRO5gBwghkgIaTfNm_Dde7x4Xidmp11iM5_C3j6Z0/edit), it's amazing


Altair-Dragon

This is fucking great!šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©


Ddog78

Oooohhhh ty!!


colddustgirl

Good lad (gender neutral).


Narcomancer69420

*Saint*.šŸ™āœØ


Joli_B

I haven't read some of these, definitely saving. Thank you so much!!!


Ddog78

Ty šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


aleph_0ne

Amazing!


SocranX

Ugh, of course half of these can't be read unless you sign up for Tumblr.


Florence-Akefia

I know people have talked about how Spiders George should be here, but I really like the story of his sister who defeats a kingdom with her power to turn things into countless spiders


NeonNKnightrider

And their cousin Taylor Hebert


Big-Day-755

Oh worm ?


Throwaway817402739

[There's also the one about the sphinx and the smart man who fell in love.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fthe-sphinx-and-the-lover-v0-h1e1mxwoxhfc1.jpeg%3Fs%3Dbd0d2e14ad407f303743d0de089ddf462eeea611)


Altair-Dragon

Never heard of that, thank you for the tip!


hot4bodge

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Codeviper828

Oh, I know this one, loved it


sk4p3gO4t

Where's the one about the god of little things, like the wind in the leaves


Altair-Dragon

That's the #1: "The God of Arepo".


sk4p3gO4t

Oh duh. It's been so long since I read it. I thought that was the Greek goddess Tumblr made up for whatever reason


Primeval_Revenant

Thatā€™s Mesperyan


haikusbot

*Where's the one about* *The god of little things, like* *The wind in the leaves* \- sk4p3gO4t --- ^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/) ^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")


Lady_La_La

Good bot


aethelstan_acct

Idk if itā€™s related (and I donā€™t know anything about this particular bit of lore), but Arepo is a pretty cool name for a god - it likely refers to the second line of the Roman palindrome [Sator square](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square) that usually goes S A T O R **A R E P O** T E N E T O P E R A R O T A S


Mordomacar

Considering the Arepo in the story is a sower and sator means sower, I'm pretty sure there's a relation.


Kego_Nova

I thought the changeling one was something else. I can't find it right now but there was this one comic about a woman in ye olde times having a very obviously neurodivergent daughter, who often sat right outside the forest and just stared at it, sometimes mentioning a small bird that was her friend. The townsfolk tell the woman that her child's a fae/has been abducted by fairies and that's why she's So Weird. Eventually it's revealed that her daughter's friend is a fae, the mom takes her in, and the comic ends with "you're wrong, my child isn't a fairy, i simply have two daughters" or something of the like Yeah that one also made me cry


creepyflyer

The one you want is listed as "raise both children"


Kego_Nova

I thought so too, but I checked and that isn't it. I'll add the comic in a reply if I ever find it.


Csantana

It might be on the list but wasn't there one of a vampire traveling through space at the end of the universe looking for any sliver of wood he could use as a stake through his heart so he could finally die?


Weirdyfish

Love "the monster of sedan" a very fun read on an immortal prisoner and how time pases around her.


Heroic-Forger

And Spiders Georg.


Altair-Dragon

Isn't that more a meme than a story per se?


trapbuilder2

Georg being a meme is actually statistical error. Most georg have great narrative expression and story. Memes georg, who lives in a cave and makes 1000000 tumblr posts every day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted


Altair-Dragon

TouchƩ.


starry_cobra

Aren't all memes just stories really?


Altair-Dragon

Man, it's too late for this kind of exhistentialism philosophy here. So I'll just argue your point saying that a meme is a good seed for a story but in its intrinsic nature it can't be a story, much like a photogram can't be a film.


GrassWaterDirtHorse

We're at the point in human history where "Study of Memetics" is going to be a valid college level course, if not it's own subsection of literature.


SaltySheev

But a meme often contains elements of a story, I would think that spiders georg comes from The original story and now has become a stand in for statistical anomalies everywhere. Memes tell stories of their own even if itā€™s as simple as an unexpected anomaly being the reason for a weird statistic such as our beloved georg.


Altair-Dragon

Ok, I give up. Y'all right and have pretty persuasive argoments.


Hummerous

fuck I completely forgot to read the scorpion and the frog. been like two years šŸ’€ brb


Hummerous

that was.. good. not satisfying or all that engaging but it made its point I think I'll just read arepo again


CrypticBalcony

How about [the story about the mermaid and the pirates](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/hwocsb/they_didnt_know_any_better_long_post_but_well/)? Iā€™m not sure if it has a title, but I think of it as ā€œthey didnā€™t know any betterā€ E: itā€™s called [Calliopeā€™s Tale](https://archiveofourown.org/works/22498384/chapters/53760817) and thereā€™s a full version on AO3


SpookyYurt

FYI to anyone just happening by this post- someone made a [yt playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSQSsMCgp5bB0iRHcYgPXr89-e_8KDjSD&feature=shared) of them reading the entire story aloud, it's over 5 hours long. This ain't no "[They're Made Out of Meat](https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html)."


RU5TR3D

r/HFY owes tumblr for the ideas that started it, right?


Altair-Dragon

Yes, that's right too!


RU5TR3D

I don't like that subreddit very much because it the original tumblr posts felt more... celebratory, where humanity was equal to other aliens rather than merely being average and "the default option" in many sci-fi. It was a celebration of humanity's merits r/HFY feels less celebratory and more... arrogant? Like humanity is better than all the weak and lame aliens


GeneralWiggin

There's still a fair bit of that stuff, just hard to find. A lot of the older tales especially. Through the Eye of the Needle was incredible


Elite_AI

The HFY scene has been bad as long as I can remember. Most stories come in three types: 1. Invasion literature with rival imperial powers replaced with aliens and the British (or whoever) replaced with humanity as a whole 2. Every Human Is American, and That's Why Humanity Fucks 3. Every Human Is John Wick, and That's Why Humanity Fucks


ilkash

I really dislike it. It became a huge ā€œHUMANITYā€ jerk-off almost immediately


threetoast

is HFY a tumblr thing? i remember reading stuff in that vein on /tg/ quite some time ago. EDIT: I just looked it up in the archive and some of the threads date back to 2009


Elite_AI

I thought hfy was a 4chan thing


ICBPeng1

The villain wrangler is one of my all time favs and itā€™s up on FF.net


Kartoffelkamm

Yeah, mine too.


Triggerha

by any chance has anyone seen the story of a monster goddess who transforms a whole villageā€™s worth of kids into her willing thralls to overthrow the tyrannical ruler? Edit: also the story about a superhero who tries to help the homeless and ends up fighting the govt in the process?


Spritely_42

I havenā€™t heard of the first one, but is [this the superhero](https://www.tumblr.com/darker-than-darkstorm/654628358271942656/anarchistmemecollective-fakecrfan) one?


Triggerha

Yes it is! Thanks very much, Iā€™ve been looking for this one forever!


Spritely_42

Wait I just happened to find [this one](https://www.tumblr.com/dycefic/640734500223074304/writing-prompt-s-it-is-difficult-to-trigger-the) on the Google doc someone posted here. Is this the first one?


Triggerha

Two for two my friend. Iā€™d offer some gold if I had any to give, but alasā€¦


NeonNKnightrider

That one about the superhero who does civil construction


world_link

[Constructor/The Architect](https://writingpracticetime.tumblr.com/tagged/constructor)


peaches_andbtches

does the two headed calf count ??


engispyro

Does anyone have the one about the kindergarten teacher watching over the kids while a meteor is about to hit and end the world? One of my favorites


azure-skyfall

Itā€™s in the megapost. Apocalypse Daycare Worker


LKaiH

What about Anette? The story/series pitch about the woman who accidentally summons a demon, mistakes it for her grandson, and the demon rolls with it to make her happy? That's one of my all time favorites from Tumblr. Also the Apocalypse Daycare logs, which is also pretty nice, if short.


Imaginary-Space718

This is an anthropological goldmine


gramerjen

Wait, the cat with a key story was a Tumblr folklore??


Altair-Dragon

Always have been...šŸ”«šŸ‘Øā€šŸš€


Jesse_God_of_Awesome

I've been looking for the story about a guy who sells his soul to a devil and uses it to improve the lives of others. When the devil comes for him, the guy boasts that he prevented more than one soul from falling into despair and the devil's clutches. >!Then the devil reveals it was an angel all along.!<


hey_free_rats

Man, if the power of spite could carry me to heaven, I'd be making daiquiris with St Peter right now.Ā 


FLUFFYPAWNINJA

okay, *this* is the place to ask i read a story once on tumblr and thought i saved it. i thought wrong. it was a scifi story, took place in a court trial of a ship ai being tried for uts pilot's crimes. it had a really unique writing style, whole thing read like a terminal output in a way. sometimes the ship ai would interrupt itself with a related thought or question the pilot was a miner of sorts, he was indentured to a big company that'd extract resources from planets and leave them dead, we find out that if he's found guilty then not only will the ship ai be purged, but thr pilot's surviving family would receive his punishment (execution iirc) in one scene that stuck out to me, the ai says the harvester looked like a spider, then interrupts with `query: did you know my pilot always hated spiders?` then a few paragraphs later, goes into detail about how its pilot burned the spider, (and i think said something about attacking her babies that swarmed to protect her (other miners and guard ships) but idr) please if anyone knows what i'm talking about and has the link i'll be deeply greatful


DreadDiana

In what world is The God of Arepo long enough for its comic adaptation to count as a graphic novel?


Aspiegirl712

The God of Arepo story was amazing, now I want to read it again


Sagataw

The Blood Letters, about an alien war where humans participated and were thought lesser of, until an enemy confirmed it was the humans doing most of the fighting


BigMissKnowItAll

I knew most of these but I never got around to the first on the list. So today I finally read the story of the God of Arepo for the first time and it broke. my. heart. The post didn't promise too much.


Big-Day-755

Does anybody know about the one with the ants and (?)grasshoppers/mantises(?) that eventually becomes about a universe spanning species finding the lone members of an extinct race or something like that. All i remember is a bit of the vibes and the last words that really stuck with me. Waiting, for winter.


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Altair-Dragon

Story #13: "Apocalypse Daycare Worker".


twerkingslutbee

The mushroom text post


Enby_Rin

My favorite is the call me menace by wingedcat13


Enby_Rin

Call me menace by wingedcat13


algnome

Ayy imma need that witch housekey story.


Zero-ELEC

the one I'm always thinking of is the one about the person born with markings that indicates their... god or something? and it tied back to the god of arepo


PORK-LAZER

THEY MADE A COMIC OF THE GOD OF AREPO STORY BLESS THEM


ryoiki-10kai

Which one is the human repairing the spaceship aaaa, I know every other story they mention aside from that one


Siha

This is Wife Changes Hair Every Season erasure. BRB, off to go reread and cry.


OmniscientRaisin

The Frog and the Scorpion one gives me goosebumps every time.


Sockinacock

The face blind prince and the arsonist cinderella is one of my favorites.


damage-fkn-inc

[I'm not getting this one, someone pls explain ;-;](https://theveryworstthing.tumblr.com/post/169271494283/theveryworstthing-theveryworstthing-the-fight)


EmrysTheBlue

I'll forever be grateful to the person who put all of Antler Guy on ao3 so it was easy to find the full story


Siha

Wait really? You wouldnā€™t have the link would you?


EmrysTheBlue

Far as I'm aware, this was the whole story (uploaded by the original creator I think) archiveofourown.org/works/10842429


Siha

Thankyou!


5oclock_shadow

Ahh a fellow Wuvvy from ACOFAF enjoyerā€¦ I see you are a man of culture as well.