Darkness as a corrupting horror: oh cool
Blinding light as a corrupting horror: OOOOOOGGGGGHOODSHITOOHOOHOOHOOHEHEHE
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I just want to see something that's so numinously beautiful that I'm unable to look away and it burns out my eyes and central nervous system and uses my body as a meat puppet.
YES YES YES YES
the lighthouse was a hell of a film
normalise disliking celebrities for no reason. they don’t have to be ‘problematic’ or ‘cancelled’ I just find them annoying
I think it’s really important. If you dislike something/someone, and it isn’t because of harm being caused, you don’t have to make up a pretend harm they cause to justify it. You’re allowed to not like things or people.
It’s actually really funny how many cultures have fox spirits and how many mostly consider them Complete Assholes, whether actively malicious or just dickheads that trick people
You’ve got the Kitsune that can be anywhere from incomprehensibly evil and powerful to doting mothers and good wives,
You’ve got the Huli Jing in China which were believed to be entirely female and needed male energy to survive, and did so by corrupting high-level politicians- and the Jiuweihu, the big girls that took to leading souls away from Dharma,
You’ve got the Gumiho in Korea, who just straight up eat people’s livers or steal their life force,
In Scandinavia, specifically Finland, fox spirits were believed to be the cause of Aurora Borealis, revontulet, the “fox fire”, as well as just usually messing with people, and then also the Brunnmigi for the Norse which poisoned water because fuck you,
The Celts also attributed them to be wily little bastards that existed to make fools of hunters and apparently that’s where the word “Shenanigan” came from, originally being sionnachuighim, “I play the fox” in irish gaelic,
In Europe you’ve got Reynard the asshole baron,
and from what I’ve seen a lot of native american tribes also just consider them dicks on the level of coyotes
it’s like every human that sees one of these
is just like “wow, what an asshole”, it’s great
Okay, so, I have no leg to stand on when it comes to history, but I have encountered many a fox in my childhood and have plenty of neighbors with farms who have plenty to say about foxes, so I may shed some light on why every single human who saw a fox declared it a bastard.
It has to do with two things:
1) Foxes are notorious thieves, because why would you invest energy into running something down and then fighting it to death for dinner, if you can take someone else’s dinner with much less effort? So foxes steal any livestock they can, because to them human farms are like an all you can eat buffet. All of the prey animals are corralled in, fat and much slower than those in the woods. It’s practically an invitation!
This has, as you can imagine, rather vexed every single farmer in the history of farming. Probably longer. And the more used to humans they are, the more audacious foxes are. Which brings us to the next point.
2) Foxes laugh. Go ahead, google a video. What does it sound like? That’s right, suspiciously like laughter. Suspiciously like mocking laughter.
It’s not actually laughter, or at least not in the way humans use that word, but to an average human who has not been poisoned by the horrors of biological sciences, it sure sounds like laughter.
So imagine this: you’re a farmer. You have chickens that you care for and care about. You want them fat and happy to lay you eggs and one day become dinner. They are your chickens, and you guard them jealously.
Enter something red and furry and hungry. It burrows under your defenses and sends your chickens into a frenzy. You run out to defend them but the damage has already been done. There are blood and feathers everywhere and there, over the hill and just out of your reach, is the blasted red furry thing, mouth full of your beloved chickens, and it only lets them down on the ground long enough to laugh at you before running away with them.
Damn right you are going to tell all of your buddies what a bastard that fox was, and they are going to nod and agree and lament about all the other red bastards that have stolen their chickens.
And when your children ask you why you hate those bastardous foxes so much, you are going to sit them down and tell them all about it.
And that is how foxes have gained their reputation as Complete Assholes all around the world. Because humans laid out a buffet, and then got mad foxes helped themselves to it.
So fellow worldbuilders, what animals has your folklore declared Complete Assholes?
Here's an evil Drow, who's name I wasn't told. I guess you make yourself a bit obviously evil if you walk around in raven feathers and a tattered cape, but maybe drow don't care. My commissions are open, if anyone is interested, but will be closing at the end of the month. Hit me up if there's anything you'd like :)
Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like "if you think you might lose, avoid doing that", "being outnumbered is bad generally", and "consider lying."
hey guys I need you to see this slide from my brother’s college’s mandatory sexual assault prevention training video which was so bad that the school had to release an official apology . everything about it has me fucked up
everyone sit down i found the original
narutocore
World Heritage Post
German place-names rendered into English (morphologically reconstructed with attention to ultimate etymology and sound evolution processes).
by u/topherette
In case you have forgotten the German England one:
brinigi
This man is very strong because every word out of her mouth was a perfectly positioned missile and he’s still alive
Decadent
i rediscovered the purpose of this site
Never let them know your next move!
Please, you gotta watch Eddie Williams' audition on Australia's Got Talent 2019 until the end!
The way she stood up and said "What!?" I felt that. We all felt that.