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Lil rat with a hat

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Agender | Pan | Minor | Alex | This is a multi fandom blog but I'll mostly post incorrect magisterium quotes. I have a sideblog that I run with a friend, stanning-one-wing-fanchu. You can give me submissions for like anything. I've read more things than you think. I love cheese like a lactose intolerant

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Okay, I just wanted to boost my Youtube channel, which does Speedpaints. I do accept prompts from the fandoms that I'm in which are Magisterium, H.I.V.E., Arrowverse, RWBY, Voltron, Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Divergent, Percy Jackson and all the other series, Maximum Ride, Miraculous Ladybug, Marvel, KotLC, Fablehaven, Inheritance Cycle, A Wrinkle in Time series, Sanders Sides, Avatar the Last Airbender, Hamilton, Six of Crows duology, Wings of Fire, The Hate U Give, Wonder, The Hunger Games, Young Justice, and probably a few more I forgot about.

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since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

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after lots of frantic googling of “were samurais gay” “were cowboys gay” “how did gay samurais work” “did gay cowboys love each other” ad nauseam i have decided that it’s actually funnier if both the cowboy AND the samurai are gay but not for each other and also they both have their very culturally specific understandings of gay social politics so both of them still are equally like “dude why are you like this” to each other

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samurai, trying to comfort the cowboy who just got dumped over pony express: when my lover left me for another man, i killed both him and his new lover, and proved to all in shudo that it is what happens when you leave me for another, and i felt much lighter. would doing that also help you?

cowboy, absolutely reeking of the flask, who stopped howling purely out of confusion to try and figure out if the samurai was being serious: dude what the fuck is wrong with you

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the depictions of homosexual identity at the time are painstakingly accurate and very clearly heavily researched, and this is purposefully in direct contrast to how absolutely absurd and crazy the entire rest of the premise of the comic is

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subtle ways to include foreshadowing

  • one character knowing something offhandedly that they shouldn't, isn't addressed until later
  • the crow rhyme
  • colours!! esp if like, blue is evil in your world and the mc's best friend is always noted to wear blue...betrayal?
  • write with the ending in mind
  • use patterns from tragic past events to warn of the future
  • keep the characters distracted! run it in the background until the grand reveal
  • WEATHER.
  • do some research into Chekhov's gun
  • mention something that the mc dismisses over and over
  • KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOU PUT. don't leave things hanging.
  • unreliable characters giving information that turn out to be true
  • flowers and names with meanings
  • anything with meanings actually
  • metaphors. if one character describes another as "a real demon" and the other turns out to be the bad guy, you're kind of like...ohhh yeahhh
  • anyways add anything else in the tags
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I'd also add:

  • something that your character thinks can't apply to them
  • information mentioned when they're talking about something else
  • doing something for thing x that then becomes relevant in situation y
  • a character avoiding avoid a topic
  • having characters who look alike but not drawing attention to it (e.g., two characters introduced five chapters apart who have red hair in a world where red hair is unusual)
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Things I thought were common knowledge but apparently aren't, based off working with the public, because I'm fucking cranky:

  1. If you sneeze into your open palm instead of your elbow and continue to touch things in a store without sanitizing, you're gross. That's pre-covid, too. It's gross and you're an asshole.
  2. If you can't find a sample in the cosmetics department, so you choose to open a product you haven't paid for and don't intend to pay for and smear it on your face and hands, only to leave it open and used on a shelf, you're gross and you're an asshole.
  3. If you uncap perfumes and body sprays and aerosol deodorants in a store and spray them around, you're an asshole.
  4. If you open shampoos and conditioners to smell before you buy that's fine, but if you remove the sanitary seal or break the packaging to do it then you're an asshole.
  5. If you open a multipack of something and only steal one, you're an asshole. If you're going to steal a granola bar just steal a single individual packaged granola bar, the rest of that box is going in the trash when you leave don't be a fuckin dick
  6. If you park in a handicap spot and aren't either the driver of a disabled passenger or a disabled driver yourself, youre an asshole. I don't care if you're 'just going to be a second' or if youre a delivery person or whatever the fuck, if it's not for health and safety reasons don't fucking park there
  7. Don't leave your car in the fucking fire lane I swear to christ, and if someone calls you on it, don't fucking ask, "oh, is there a fire?" because there was a fire you wouldn't be the first fucking person to know and I will absolutely smile and wave while the fire truck fucks your fender
  8. If you decide you don't want a frozen item and choose to leave it in a fridge/room temp display, you're an asshole and you're fucking stupid
  9. If you decide you don't want a fridge/room temp item and you choose to leave it in a freezer, see above
  10. If you decide you don't want a fucking aerosol product and choose to leave it in a goddamned fucking freezer I will hunt you down like Liam Neeson and shove it up your ass because that shit explodes
  11. If a bus is totally full and you refuse to move your backpack off an open seat and onto your lap despite being fully able to do so, you're an asshole.
  12. If you are fully mobile and abled and capable of standing on public transport and you are aware of someone nearby with a mobility aid or difficulty standing and you *could* easily offer them your seat , nothing holding you back, and you don't, you're an asshole
  13. I get that raising kids is exhausting but if you take your kids to a restaurant or store and just set them loose to roam free and wreck shit with total abandon, then expect staff to babysit, you're an asshole
  14. Stores and restaurants can get shut down if an inspector comes in and finds a non-service animal so no I do not care how well-behaved your pet is, if it is not vital to your health and safety, take it outside
  15. On that note, if you KNOW your animal has severe separation anxiety or that it isn't trained to be in public and you tie it outside and leave it there unattended to bark and cry and shake and piss so you can go browsing inside for an hour, you're an asshole, and you shouldn't have animals, and I will steal it. Leave to poor thing at home or put the fucking care and time in, you massive dick
  16. Snakes and lizards don't have fur, but they still aren't service animals, and also? They have legs and salmonella. Don't bring it into a fucking food retailer. Or a hospital, oh my christ
  17. Don't?? Ride your bike??? In a mother fucking store????
  18. Don't let your *kids* ride a bike in a mother fucking store
  19. Don't yell at staff. Please do not yell at staff. There are so few legit fucking reasons to yell at staff that I'm willing to say that about 90% of the time if you find yourself yelling at staff you can rest assured that you are an asshole. If they're a kid or a new person or bottom of the food chain especially, and if you make them cry then holy shit, dude
  20. Don't park your motorcycle inside of a store
  21. Don't park your motorcycle on an accessibility ramp
  22. Don't bring your bike inside and lean it on a display while you shop, mother fucking shit fuck. 'ohhh it might get stolen'. That's what bike locks are for, dickhead. 'People can cut those off'. Get a better bike lock. 'Can't afford one'. Shop fast, then, mother fucker, because nobody is going to wait forty minutes for you to come back and grab it, staff isn't allowed to touch it and customers don't give a fuck. You think anyone wants to write a report for an hour about how an old lady collapsed under your clown ass double ended unicycle and broke her hip cause she *really* wanted that apple juice behind it? No. Absolutely fucking not. I hate you. 'This bike cost five grand!" Sounds like someone can afford a pretty swanky bike lock, then. Get the fuck out of my store
  23. There is no reason to fuck anyone anywhere near a public toilet.
  24. If you smoke in front of a doorway, you're an asshole.
  25. I don't give a shit if it's a vape and a vape isn't a cigarette. Don't smoke it in front if a doorway.
  26. I know weed is legal in Canada now. Don't fucking smoke it in front of a doorway.
  27. You know what I don't give a lukewarm shit if you're smoking a roll of crushed up rockets or crystal fucking meth, don't fucking smoke it in front of a fucking doorway, you massive fucking asshole, holy fuck.
  28. If something is priced by weight and you eat it before weighing and paying you're a dick.
  29. If you steal from small family businesses, you're a dick.
  30. Also not a general thing but more of a personal peeve but if I can smell your cologne from ten feet away you're wearing too much cologne and I hate you
  31. Don't take video of strangers unless you believe someone is in danger or for evidence of wrongdoing
  32. Don't take video or recordings of or around strangers but especially not in a hospital, pharmacy, shelter, or sex shop, you turd
  33. If you come into my store with garbage and that garbage gets purposefully left on a shelf or on the floor then not only are you an asshole, you're a tacky asshole
  34. Wear. Your. FUCKING. Headphones. You ASS.
  35. If you're making a phone call and holding your phone in front of your face with speakerphone on and talking into it's ass instead of keeping it on normal settings and holding it to your ear so everyone can writhe in the glorious ecstasy of hearing both sides of your stupid ass milquetoast bitch ass conversation at 3pm on a Thursday in the middle of the goddamn bakery I'm just going to flat out assume you're fucking stupid
  36. When you leave your shopping cart in the middle of buttfuck nowhere when you have both the time and the ability to put it away, you are not "creating jobs", you're making a minimum wage bottom-of-the-totem-poll guy go out in the hot sun or snow or pouring rain to do it for you instead of his regular work, which he also has to do, and you're an asshole.
  37. Wear your goddamn shoes in the store. I shouldn't have to say this.
  38. Wear your goddamn clothes in the store. Same sentiment
  39. IF THE CHANGE ROOMS ARE CLOSED, YOU DO NOT GET FREE REIGN TO GET NAKED IN THE ACTIVEWEAR AREA
  40. IF THE BATHROOMS ARE CLOSED, YOU DO NOT GET FREE REIGN TO PISS AND SHIT IN A FUCKING CORNER, AND NO MATTER HOW ELOQUENTLY YOU ARGUE YOUR JUSTIFICATIONS YOU WILL STILL BE THE PERSON WHO PISSED AND SHIT IN A CORNER IN THE GODDAMN STORE, I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU
  41. If you throw up on the ground, that is unfortunate and unpleasant but I get it, shit happens. If you keep coming back to throw up in the same spot four more times over the next three days I will kill you
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IT'S GONNA FUCK IT

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was originally gonna go with "dog" but decided to go for a longer word with more "reasonable" mispronunciations instead, but that ended up backfiring and now like half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this. guess you could say it was a bit of a. a b. it was a

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it was a bit of a self-own

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READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

  1. why might op have said that she wanted to choose a word with "more 'reasonable' mispronounciations"? what could the quotes around "reasonable" indicate? why did she say mispronunciations instead of pronounciations?
  2. op writes that the post "backfired" and now "half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this." what might the word "backfired" mean in this context?
  3. what words could "self-own" sound similar to, and how could that relate to the rest of the post?

Daughter of fantasy villains decides to rebel against her parents by actually going through with her arranged marriage to a local golden retriever of a prince instead of running off with some local villain-to-be or conquering said golden retriever’s kingdom and ruling it solo like her parents expect her to. Plus, sue her, she’s into the clean-cut earnest look.

At the same time, local prince charming discovers that he’s actually very into the gothic fiance his parents have landed him with in order to try and establish peace with the local evil lair down the lane, he would never have guessed a spiderweb pattern could look so fetching on a ball gown…?

Meanwhile, two pairs of parents in a tizzy because they both expected their offspring to whole-heartedly reject this union and give them an excuse to conquer their goody-two-shoes/evil neighbours, they’re not supposed to actually like each other-!

respective friend groups undergoing culture clash like all of prince charming’s knights are like what vile spell has been used to ensorcel our prince.  we must be on our guard for surely this is but a ruse for an assassination attempt

meanwhile the villain bride’s friends are all like clearly he loves you not, why do you persist in a manner that will ensure your own heart break, i mean if he was taking this seriously there would be at least three assassination attempts by now.  it’s like he doesn’t even notice that you have massive amounts of dark power to covet for his own

smashcut to

fully armored knight, clanging through the hallways in attempts at stealth, blades drawn: i’m just saying, i took an oath of protection.  this feels wrong.

prince charming: it’s not wrong, it’s celebrating cross cultural traditions for my beloved bride

knight: it’s attempted murder

prince charming: it’s a loving attempted murder

@chucktaylorupset  Meanwhile the bride has a bouquet of roses, cornflowers, and wheat sheaves on her desk in her room, and she’s not coming out until she’s written a beautiful and moving poem about how they favourably compare to her groom. It’s been three days. She’s gone through an entire raven’s worth of quills (unethically sourced). The ‘toads who used to be my friends’ list has gone up by one. But she’s bent dark forces and eldritch spirits to her will and, by the powers obscene, this will not be the thing that breaks her.

Sorceress friend: Please, just get him an amulet that will double his power at the cost of his soul, no one’s worth this.

Rebellious villainess: (nearly in tears) No, he brought his best knights to the castle and tried to kill me last week, at midnight, I can’t ignore something like that! He even kicked Cathulhu!

Sorceress friend: He nudged it with his foot. And then he apologized to it. In tears.

Rebellious villainess: (actually in tears now, for reasons of feels instead of poetic torment) He’s trying so hard!!!

Villainess: Beloathed, I need a goat.

Prince: Of course, darling - may I inquire as to what for?

Villainess: Blood sacrifice to the dark gods, you know how it is.

Prince: …

Prince: …darling, you know I support your lifestyle choices, but I must say this before it potentially happens.

Prince: I’m not all right with human sacrifice. That’s one of my boundaries. I don’t know if you do that or not, but it seemed a topical time to bring it up.

Villainess: (carefree laugh) Oh beloathed, don’t worry yourself about such things, I would never!

Villainess: (leading him off to the goat market) Only incompetents use actual humans. Skilled practitioners of the dark arts know that a goat is not only a sufficient sacrifice, but the superior one.

Prince: You don’t say? Fascinating!

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french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you

italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house

american recipes: buy these three cans of stuff and put them in a pan congrats you cooked

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chinese recipes, as handed down from mother to child: season it with a pinch of this and some of that. you want to know the exact amount? feel it in your heart. ask the stars. yell into the void. 

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English recipes: boil and salt it. Okay that’s it enjoy

Greek recipes: You followed all the right steps but this isn’t quite right. I don’t know what to tell you.

Australia recipes: chuck it on the barbie

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pajarosdelamancha

Latinx recipes: you will never make it better than your abuela, face the facts

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Filipino recipes: add rice and soy sauce and some more rice MORE RICE MORE RICE MORE

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zora-zen

Serbian Recipes: everything is salad. Ajvar? Salad. A single whole hot pepper covered in oil? Salad. Cabbage? Salad. Kajmak? Salad.

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oddybutgoodie

Lebanese recipes: If you don’t have at least 3 family members cooking this dinner with you than you aren’t doing it right.

Indonesian recipes: have you added spices? Add some just in case. Eat with rice. It’s not a proper meal until there’s rice in it. You just had bread/burger/cake/pizza? Eat rice anyway or you’ll die of starvation

Bonus Javanese recipes: Have you added sugar? What do you mean it’s meant to be salty/sour/spicy/something else? ADD SUGAR.TO IT

Canadian recipes: Well part of the directions are in metric but you have imperial measuring cups. I hope you like math because we’re going to find out how many gallons in a litre and how many millimetres are in a cup.

Swedish recipes: Assemble all the beige items you have in your kitchen. Great. now add raw red onions, dill and salt and white pepper. if u prefer it blander, don’t do the last things. consider serving it with jam

Norwegian recipes: listen after three days skiing uphill you will eat anything so stop complaining.

Indian recipes: spend two weeks digging the required spices out of your cupboards. Chop onions until you cry. Fry onions with spices until evey pore in your body is open, let the fragrance seep into your skin, become one with the curry.

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athenastudying

german recipes: this meal isn’t what you think it is. it has 164 different names in different regions. it’s either made of potatoes, served with potatoes, or it’s cake. there’s a 50% chance it’s actually austrian, but don’t tell anyone.

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flyingmintteabag

belarusian recipes: “cook over a slow fire until done”. how many degrees is a slow fire? when is “done”? what am i even cooking there’s no picture and the only ingredients are honey and cornflower

turkish recipes: “if you do this, there’s really -REALLY- good change that you’ll die because everything is too spicy or too sweet but here we go”

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regulusblxcks

romanian recipes: if you don’t already know the ingredients and directions by heart then what are we doing here

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reguluz

Brazilian recipes: make an extra sweet (preferably with chocolate) version of other culture’s food (sushis, hot dogs, pizzas, kibes, sfeehas, spaghetti made of chocolate; strawberry sashimis, banana burritos…)

American South recipes: put a stick of butter in it.  Oh, you already put butter in? Well, bless your heart honey, but go ahead and put another stick of butter in there.

Polish Recipes: potato? Potato.

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once-and-future–emrys

Lithuanian Recipes : You’ll need mushrooms from THIS EXACT forest , and good luck knowing what spices you need because every version of this recipe is different ,you’ll either cook it too long or too little and it won’t taste the way you remember it from childhood ADD MORE MUSHROOMS FROM THE ROOTS OF THE TWELFTH TREE IN THIS FOREST

Croatian recipes: add vegeta. did you put some vegeta? i need you to put some vegeta there

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akasztofaviragpor

Hungarian recipes: add more paprika and/or sour cream. More. More. MORE. And if you mention that you find it too greasy/spicy, you’re disrespecting our ancestors back to Attila the Hun.

Cajun recipes: go out to the bayou and kill three aquatic animals at random. make a roux. cook the aforementioned three animals in the roux with the entire contents of your spice cabinet

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npmp13

Bukharan recipes: get some rice, add some meat, at least 4 vegetables, and a dried fruit. Layer it. Do you have the cooking towel? What do you mean you want the recipe written down? 

austrian recipies: start with meat. that’s not enough meat. more grease. more meat. you think that’s enough grease? ok but have you considered intestines…. blood sausage… who can afford to waste a single hair of this pig? if you can’t handle more meat, just grind it and mix it with bread before adding it to the dish. needs more grease. fry it. is it black yet? hmm needs more butter. try a cheese coating. fry these onions. serve with sauerkraut

South Indian recipes : fry onions, add spices, blend it and turn it into a chutney.

Remember: everything can be turned into a chutney or a curry. Make sure you add enough chili powder, incase you think it isn’t enough, add some more…and then some more….. Just empty the bottle of chili powder.

If it’s not spicy enough, eat a raw chili and onion with your meal.

You’re not going to die,” Call told Aaron firmly. “Verity Torres died in a battle, a big battle. You’re at the Magisterium. The Masters won’t let you die.”

You don’t know that,” said Aaron.

White Acacia - Virtue, strength, innocence, purity, grief.
Yellow Acacia - Warmth, power, growth, joy, concealed love.
Red poppy - Rememberance, death, sacrifice, hope for a peaceful future.
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One of the best parts about working at a sex shop is the employee discount, and yeah that means excellent deals on sex supplies but that's not the big brain part.

You come to my house. Something is cooking in the kitchen- it smells wonderful. What is it? It's novelty dick-shaped pasta. I've set up a sensual sexy Italian dinner. There are candles set up on the table. They're melting too fast, dripping everywhere- they're low temp waxplay pillar candles. For dessert, I serve you a delicious ice cream topped in penis-shaped rainbow confetti sprinkles and strawberry body paint drizzle, and afterwards, serve coffee with roasted hazelnut warming lube.

We play a board game while we drink. It's sexy monopoly. It's your turn. You roll the dice. They come up as 'whisper into' and 'butt'. I lost the original dice. We're using the sexy dice. You move four spaces.

After dinner, I run you a bath. A bubble bath. The bubble gel? Sensual ocean breeze. There are candles lined up around the tub. The scent is overpowering. Why? They're three-in-one fruit flavored massage oil candles. I'm using so much. It's so wasteful. Do you want to shave? I have conditioning shave cream that smells like limes. And an electric body razor, but you can't use that in the tub.

How about a bath bomb? You toss one in. It's cherry blossom scented. As it dissolves, three sexy bath sex suggestion cards fall out. They're all variations on doggy style, probably because fucking in a bathtub is probably the easiest way to break your hip.

The water cools. You get out an dry off with a novelty towel. If you wrap it around your chest, it looks like you have gigantic tatas bursting through the fabric like the Hulk.

You walk into the bedroom. I'm there, reading an instructional book titled "The Housewife's Guide To Every Day Stripping". I'm wearing a neck pillow designed to look like a massive curved weiner. Also a pair of fake leather bondage leggings and an oversized men's christmas T-shirt that says "Jingle My Bells" across the front.

I see you come in. I put down the book, take off the pillow. Offer you a massage. You accept. I already burned up all the massage candles so I pop a new bottle of CBD massage oil that says something wrong about Chakras on it. It's very gritty. That's because there's little chunks of amethyst in it for some fucking reason. It's fine, though. You say you don't mind.

I don't do massages very often. It's bad. You end up more tense than before. One of your muscles starts to cramp- it's okay. I whip out a bottle of Lidocane topical masculine performance numbing spray. You immediately feel like your shoulder went to the dentist. It's not ideal, but it's better than cramping.

You're not in the mood to bone after that. Which is good, cause I'm actually pretty asexual, but it hasn't come up yet so I'm relieved to avoid the conversation. Instead we get ready for bed. (The weather is terrible, and I insist you stay over.) I set up the futon, then realize it smells like cigarettes from the previous owner and shyly ask if you wanna cuddle in my room. You're down.

I crawl under the covers, placing my penis-shaped pink glitter pride bottle on the side table in case one of us wakes up thirsty. Once you're settled in, I turn off the glowing bare ass night light and the room goes black.

It takes a few seconds for your eyes to adjust, but when they do, you look up at the ceiling. It's dotted all over with little green flourescent lights. Are they plastic stars? No. I've pinned up a thousand glow in the dark condoms. God bless

stop listening to music and start listening to the sounds of nature. the “eagles?”The “rolling stones?” The “beetles?” Come into the beautiful forest with me and you will find all of those things friend…. I promise….If you just believe<3

In the beautiful forest you will also encounter the “mountain goats” and “corn” and “monkeys” and the “killers” and the-what do you mean what was that last one? Nothing haha don’t worry about it…………… <3

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Ok I love this???

"baptise me in hot dog water"

Hot dog water - there's a Tumblr post out there I've seen saying hot dog water is the opposite of holy water, due to the fact that a single drop of it will contaminate what it touches. I assume this was partly inspired by this allusion but who knows for sure.

Also the the idea of holy water as inhuman and cleaning vs hot dog water as the remains of feeding someone - often a child - and entirely human. It may be dirty and I do not want it on me but God hot dog water has some memories. You will not wash away my sins. They're mine. Also, anyone can make hot dog water but holy water is refined, restricted (yes anyone can make it in an emergency but lay people are restricted from it)

"you and I both know"

Unlike baptism for babies, this one is done between two people who are both aware of what is happening. The one receiving the baptism gives the orders about what they want to happen. The giver and receiver are portrayed as equals. They are equally aware of their humanity.

"the holy stuff won't take"

Ooof heartbreaking, amazing line. Raises so many questions. What does it mean when the water "takes"? What has the receiver done that makes them unfit for holy water? Or, what has the holy water done that makes it to weak to help, to be a part of your life?

The poem as a whole - I love the lack of capitalization. It adds a sort of intimacy to the poem, and the statement from the speaker. The high words "baptise" and "holy" being offset by "take" and "hot dog". Also "hot dog water" vs "holy stuff." The cadence! I would lick it.

I love the serious analysis, and I think I find it persuasive.

This also sheds a lot of light on some plot points in Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Not to turn this into another house full of chintz, but I'mma fuck this poem on the floor.

Meter

There are two readings of the poem's meter that I immediately identify, the first is how I'd want to read it, and the second is how a normal person would probably read it, but both make the same point.

In my interpretation (left), the first line is four wholely irregular feet: an iamb into a dibrach into two trochees; The second line is two trouches into a hanging stressed syllable; And the third line is three iambs.

In the more normal interpretation(right), the first line and second line are six trochees all together plus that hanging syllable in 'knowing' which transitions the poem to iambic trimeter.

And look at the interesting result of that laid bare:

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In English poetry there's a tradition, all other things being equal, that iambs are considered the sophisticated foot with trochees often being contrasted as the vulgar or common foot.

The vulgar in specificity "hot dog water" is put in trochee, while the respectably vague "the holy stuff" is afforded iambs. Without the poet having thought of the stress things the pattern actively, this incapulation of the English poetic tradition is astounding. Especially when you consider the

Chiasmus

Chiasmus is a figure of rhetorical construction, in which two pairs of ideas are laid across each other, A B B A. It's one of the more popular figures of rhetoric and if you're looking for it you'll see it everywhere.

In the most literal sense, it's about repetition; but, you can apply it more liberally to ideas, thoughts, or in this case, parts of speech:

The nouns and verb pairs in the first and third lines crossover each other. They are in chiasmus. Structurally, the inversion makes the poem feel more solid, while still furthering emphasizing the contrast between the idea of hot dog water and the holy stuff.

Opening with a command and closing with a result.