Let Death bypass the brave

anyway gimme a story about a demon trying to get home to hell but she keeps getting foiled by immigration control

it's a natural gas crater formed by a collapsed cavern. it's been burning for over 50 years!

I mean shit, dude's living it up you gotta give him that

[the seizing hand grabs the runner by the ankle, he falls down and proceeds to get unceremoniously beaten to death. The protagonist brushes the dust off their clothes and the rest of the movie continues normally. The killing at the beginning scene is never mentioned again.]

Religion irl: Technically it’s heresy for me to worship this skeleton but my spiritual advisor said that it’s legit so I’m gonna keep giving it offerings of yogurt

Religion irl: We’ve gotta pour water over this statue? Why? Idk man that’s just what you do. Just do it alright.

Religion irl: Okay you say that there are “rules” but how exactly are we defining “rules” here? Like is a suggestion a rule? How are we defining suggestion? No come back. Listen. Are we going by nuance in the original language or are translations fine or-

High control religions/cults recruiting irl: We have free snacks. That shirt looks sooo cute on you btw. What, you heard that we wanna eat the moon? The media is always telling lies about us you know. We may have some unorthodox opinions about the moon but, tell you what. Come get some snacks, make some new friends, maybe chat about the moon a bit. See what you think. We’ve got pizza.

Religions irl: We must make a sacrifice to appease the gods! *has a communal barbecue*

As a Christian myself I’ll remind you that religion does not automatically equal Christianity. And in fact that sort of assumption is sort of what annoys me about fantasy religions. I have my faith but I also have an interest in world religions in general and human spirituality in fantasy media is often just completely flattened out to being a misunderstanding of Christianity or a satanic panic view of satanism sloppily copy pasted over a misunderstanding of how paganism or spiritualism works.

"How did this tradition get started? I'll tell you: .......I don't know. But it's a tradition." --Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof, aka an extremely not-Christian story

And the not really religous one: "Pour one out for the homies." which could be considered a form of ancestor worship, but that's stretching it to a lot of people.

I first learned about it from a crime podcast because no matter what the subject there's always gotta be That One Guy who goes "do you know what this needs? Murder," but most practitioners use the nganga for healing or protective magic. I'm not sure what happens to the bodies of the animals, but I know the blood is poured into the nganga and remains there.

In any case it’s an extremely ancient practice.

The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”

they come up with the flood plan to stop cortez when bibo pushed a glass over in front of them

With that in mind: my dad was sleeping last night and was woken up by his bed shaking and his closet doors swinging open on their own and his first, immediate thought was “Holy shit, it’s a poltergeist!” and the way his half-asleep brain decided to deal with the situation was by screaming “FUCK OFF GHOST!!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE BITCH!!!” at the top of his lungs.

Sometimes paper wins

I had an idea for a traveling photo stand with Magnus. Now I can have this man explain the world to me and his sons

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