This is the slug that lives in a lush forest on top of a plateau in the middle of barren desert. It’s such an isolated inaccessible forest that it’s full of species found nowhere else, just like an island in the ocean. People who have been there talk about the slugs being more intensely pink in person than can actually be captured in any photo or video and how thousands of them climb the trees every morning at once.
underappreciated source of comedy are those really over the top love live ita bags that often have multiple of the same type of merch and are like symmetrical n shit as this geometric eldritch monstrosity of cute anime girls
doubletranquility
here comes a new challenger
the-addiction-to-happiness
In 1400s a dog dueled who he suspected to be the murderer of his owner
and won
Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis
Le petit soldat (1963) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
A short list of extremely-specific lesser-known mythical monster tropes which I didn’t expect to be super widespread:
1. Ogres which, when slain, spawn huge amounts of mosquitoes out of their bodies.
2. Humanoid horrors that lurk at the tops of cliffs and kick passerbies down off of the ledge so that their mates and/or offspring can kill them.
3. Depraved ex-human cannibals for whom one of their feet has rotten away into a spike of bone which they then stab people with.
4. Creatures which resemble pitiful old men and beg people to carry them but their legs are actually tentacle-like “straps” which they use to kill or enslave their victims.
5. Hairy ogres with axe-heads sticking out of their chests.
6. Grotesque female humanoids with enormous, pendulous breasts, one of which they throw over their shoulder. (That last detail specifically shows up more times than you would think possible.)
7. Flying detachable heads. Organs hanging down frequent but optional.
8. The “animal that cannot lie down,” i.e. a monster without joints in its limbs that, you guessed it, cannot lie down and has to lean on things.
10. So. Many. Backwards. Feet. Usually as a means of making trackers think they went in the opposite direction.
11. Swallowers. I.e., monsters that swallow huge amounts of victims but keep them inside in their stomachs before spitting them out when slain. Most famously present in Sub-Saharan Africa, but basically everywhere.
12. Bisected humanoids. Creatures with only half a physical body, cut vertically.
13. Headless monsters with faces on their chests.
14. Natal revenants. The undead remains of women who die in childbirth, usually as some sort of ghostly Succubus.
15. Female creatures with hollow backs, the main giveaway of their supernatural nature.
16. Living meteor demons that spread disease.
17. Chicken-snake hybrids.
18. Rattite-snake hybrids.
19. Parrot-snake hybrids.
20. Monsters that fly around in the atmosphere, and if you look at them you die. (Related to number 16.)
21. In arid regions, RAINBOW TASTE YOU. (Because it signals the end of much-needed rain and is therefore seen in a negative light and personified as something malicious.
22. Owl demons! Tend to be witchy/hag-like.
23. Succubi whose only giveaway of their monstrousness is a single hooved foot.
24. People cursed into becoming weird donkey-things.
25. River blockers. Monsters who block off water supplies in order to cause droughts, and must be slain for that reason.
26. Monsters who inflict some kind of seemingly unsurvivable body horror on you, before resurrecting you long enough to go home at which point you promptly die for reals this time.
And many, many, more, but I’m tired right now. Might update later.
I recognize all but a couple of these, but would still want specific examples for all of them
solomonic tomato soup 🤭
(credits to @BluehairCoffee on twitter)
This is so much fun. I love the spirit. I unironically love the solomonic tomato soup array.
ASSIGNMENT FOR MY FELLOW OCCULTISTS:
Recreate the Tomato Soup Sigil in your magical system of choice. Show me the runic soup array. A Tomato Cross. A Tomatvesir.
i fucking hate when people attribute a lot of the good stuff about indigenous culture to some inexorable Race Quality.
as if having a sustainable, beneficial, harmonious relationship to the land is due to some sort of Magic Race Genes. I mean it's a continuation of the idea that indigenous people couldn't have possibly done all this cultural stuff themselves so it must be hardwired into their biology.
its literally just racism and essentialism.
it's so gross and yet i keep seeing people make this mistake
yes actually this also goes for people who are like "anyone who isn't already an Indigenous Race is fundamentally ontologically incapable of understanding indigenous perspectives or having any sort of non-evil relationship with land."
that's literally just the "native people are strange and alien and incomprehensible and *primitive* and of a fundamentally different Kind Of Human than us civilized people" argument but then you say "and indigenous people are good". like. that's still race realism bro.
some ppl will frame it more as “it’s not that you’re fundamentally incapable, but due to your upbringing and society you’re stuck in your ways and now you can’t hope to understand” at which point it’s like, cool, now tell me how you feel abt immigrants
posting this on twitter will get you put into witness protection
Surgeries and operations are being cancelled on the day of the queen’s funeral. These patients will have been on a waiting list for months if not years.
Everyone should be absolutely seething with rage.
i want you guys to GUESS what this anon says. because seeing this notification itself could not have prepared me for the full thing
all wonderful guesses!
but alas, no, it was:
mixed reactions on this one
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I posted this this morning and since then scheduled screenings have been pulled from TIFF cuz WB served a cease and desist this is so fucked up
Of all the places I could be, I just want to be here with you.
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
i want you guys to GUESS what this anon says. because seeing this notification itself could not have prepared me for the full thing
all wonderful guesses!
but alas, no, it was:
mixed reactions on this one
Hey check this out
