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HAPPY NEIL BANGING OUT THE TUNES DAY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Trees aren’t pagan…So why are people so obsessed with this myth?

Before you respond in anger, ask yourself:

- do I think this because it feels right or because I have evidence?

- is the evidence a blog post without citations? (See also TikTok, tumblr post, etc)

- do I think this bc I’ve thought it for a long time?

- what evidence do I actually have?

- how much time have I spent researching this? (again: opinion pieces without citations don’t count as research)

Scholars agree: there is no solid evidence linking Christmas trees to previous pagan traditions…

Let’s trace its origins back to the German nationalists of the 1800s, to the Nazis who promoted this myth, & let’s debunk the supposed origins — Saturnalia, Yule, Sol Invictus, the Yule Log….all with citations galore.

somethign something reincarnations see themselves at a museum something something

oh yeah of course everyone knows about the group of famous builders that run off into the middle of nowhere and build massive monoliths and structures and presenting it to a group of faceless beings that speak in symbols and numbers

like yeah obviously we’ve all heard of the blood god and the potato war and the Antarctic empire who hasn’t???

of course we all know some dude is with the goddess of death and died by a baby zombie after thousands of years of never dying once

『 Psychopomp 』

Inspired by Souls on the Banks of the Acheron by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Something possessed me and I was like "I must come up with in-world symbolism of colours from the perspective of the Overworld (so illagers and villagers).

Dracula book: an evil count who only sees the world as a resource to be drained for his own pleasure is stopped by the group of people who deeply care for each other

Dracula in media: a tragic romantic hero, main love interest of one of the protagonists who must be liberated from her dull little life

Frankenstein book: any human has capacity for evil when completely abandoned and shunned by the world and the people who brought him into it

Frankenstein in media: don't play God because it's against nature's laws

Jekyll and Hyde book: repression and only caring about external appearances can cause your worst impulses to indulge themselves in dangerous ways if ignored for too long

Phil: “This place sucks. This place sucks. I hate Antarctica so much. It’s so shit. Nothing can spawn here, dude. Fuck, It’s just a death- death zone.

Also Phil: “But it’s home 🥺”

Bonus from Techno: “It’s terrible but it’s home. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!”