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Random old finnish folklore I recall reading: The reason you have to close someone’s eyes after they…

homunculus-argument:

audriuska12:

homunculus-argument:

Random old finnish folklore I recall reading: The reason you have to close someone’s eyes after they die, or cover their eyes with a cloth if you can’t, is because the spirit of the newly passed is still in the body and even though it can’t move the eyes anymore, it can still see. You must avoid making eye contact with the dead body, because the soul of the newly dead is scared to go alone, and is looking for someone to come with them. If you lock eyes with the corpse, you will be the next to die.

…So is the second corpse still hazardous, then, or are they fine since they have the first one for company?

I must confess I don’t really know about the more exact details of the undead buddy system.

If anyone wondered what Ice-10 in Ragnarok was a play on. It’s also a lampshade on the whole Ares…

land-of-reads:

land-of-reads:

From “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut

If anyone wondered what Ice-10 in Ragnarok was a play on. It’s also a lampshade on the whole Ares plot device being a rip off of Vonnegut.

@arach-tinilith You made me believe for a second.

orgasmolepsy:

orgasmolepsy:

the horror zine quite literally NAMED “the horror zine” having such stringent restrictions on submission content is stupid as fuck. What do you mean I can’t submit horror with political or religious themes? Are we playing pretend where the entire structural foundation of horror as a genre is just a lie?

like what are we doing here

@arach-tinilith You made me believe for a second.

We need to bring up that Ursula K LeGuin quote about commodified fantasy more often. We need to be…

andthentheywilleatthestars:

andthentheywilleatthestars:

We need to bring up that Ursula K LeGuin quote about commodified fantasy more often. We need to be meaner.

ALT

You may rub Umberto… Once.

inebubble:

immortalbeingz:

@the-walrus-squad

You may rub Umberto… Once.

May we all aspire in speculative fiction. Except that part in mine where the bad guy genuflects when…

whydidisavethistomyphone:

marlinspirkhall:

lesserjoke:

Today in obscure Doctor Who jokes:

Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the Big Finish companion Hex is canonically from the year 2021, so when he occasionally abbreviates the word “suspicious” to “sus,” it’s probably an Among Us reference.

The punchline is that this character was actually introduced back in 2004. It was made-up future slang that they happened to get right.

“British writer invents time travel and uses it on One Joke”

May we all aspire in speculative fiction. Except that part in mine where the bad guy genuflects when mentioning trump. Crap.

setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious…

scumrunner:

dialupmodern:

goqmir:

setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can’t wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

it feels so good loading the gun when you’re Chekhov

This happened on my dash

Bathing Napalm spotted IRL

Bathing Napalm spotted IRL

Amen to that.

steampunkskull:

sharkchunks:

People when I explain my interests (Ashley Laurence in Hellraiser)

Or after they ask me “what’s your book about?”

Amen to that.

For no reason here is a library story

theprofessional-amateur:

theprofessional-amateur:

For no reason here is a library story

There will be millions of actions like this over the coming years. An important thing to remember is that for them to work (anywhere, not just libraries) is people absolutely can’t announce that this is what they are doing.

Not seeing constant acts of resistance doesn’t mean it isn’t happening all around you all the time. Some very effective methods require silence and secrecy.

Something to keep in mind.