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fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?
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if you were gonna completely reimagine wizards, what implement would you replace staves and sticks with?
Play station 2 controller
Playstation 4 controller would be better because it's wireless and has gyro functions for rotating Wizard Things (i dont do wizard stuff)
What's interesting is that the gyro controls represent the four watchtower spirits (north south east west) along with the spiritual dimension (outer, inner). Pitch, Yaw, and Roll represent Jachim, Boaz, and the Da'ath-Tifareth path respectively.
Triangle before me, X behind me, Circle at my right hand, Square at my left hand. For about me flames the PLAYSTATION.
guys pls don't die from the heat i love playing tumblr with you
And then you canβt even say shit about bc people start trying to put you in a jacket and shit. Like omg itβs so strict???
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hey.. two people were asking about you⦠so i gave them your address and phone number⦠their names were Skeletal Warrior and Skeletal Ice Mage
I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. Heβs like the mayor character in a cartoon whoβs always dressed as The Mayor. If I didnβt know who he was and he biked past me in NYC Iβd be like holy shit was that the mayor
he jumped in a pool in the suit yesterday to celebrate the public pools opening for the summer btw
I am DONE with FACEBOOK these moms I went to high school with have ZERO CLUE theyβre sharing fetish art as a cute mommy meme
Soβ¦ Instead of informing said FB moms of what theyβre actually posting, you just bitch to Tumblr because they donβt know everything you do? Thatβs super mature of you!
yeah lemme just go tell this woman I talked to twice when we were 17 that I recognized her harmless repost as my little pony porn thatβll brighten her day
something about Toy Story toys is so strange to me. versions of animated characters based on real world toys, turned back into toys that are slightly different than the actual toys. slinky dog with a rubber spiral instead of a classic metal slinky. the porcelain bo peep and cloth woody turned into jointed plastic action figures. when toy story 4 came out and i saw a $30 talking action figure of forky, a character made out of a spork and a pipe cleaner, i stood in the walmart toy aisle staring at it like cameron from ferris bueller's day off staring at that painting in the art museum
"We want more complicated female characters!"
Ya'll couldn't even handle HER.
Important tags to include actually.
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yep, my video games company is making the spiritual sequel to disco elysium. the gameplay? heh... you guide water to an alligator so he can take a bath π
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The Creepy and The Freaky is one of the strangest manga I've ever read. It has such a distinct vision that is, despite it's clear intention and forethought, utterly buckwild. It is plagued with pacing and worldbuilding issues reminiscent of an indie webcomic you would stumble across in 2009, but I read the whole thing in one sitting.
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That post going around about the history of voodoo dolls as a tool used by Black doctors to keep track of their patients in a time when Black people were legally kept from literacy got me thinking. A lot of stuff about what sources we consider reliable, prejudice against oral traditions, the ways that tour guides are allowed to make things up. But I found an interesting source about voodoo dolls that I wanted to share. I don't have the full book, so I may be missing important evidence, but here's a quick summary what I could glean from what's on Google Books.
The use of human-shaped figures to harm or curse people is well-attested in European magical traditions, often mentioned in accusations of witchcraft. So to the European mind, stabbing a nail into a doll = trying to kill the person the doll represents. But for the Bakongo people, there's a figure called the nkisi nkondi, which is (usually) a figure with nails pounded in it that houses a spirit to hunt down disease-causing evildoers. It's superficially similar, yes, but the underlying belief system is different.
When white colonizers saw the Kongo people with their nail-covered "fetishes" (a derogatory term for ritual objects in a maligned culture), they made the assumption that they must have been used for the same purpose as poppets in medieval European belief. And since, by that time, belief in curses was seen as primitive, it was transposed by the colonizers onto African religion as a way to call it evil. As descendants of West African people, kidnapped and dragged to the Americas, Black Americans who preserved these traditions were subject to the same racist stereotypes.
Armitage ends the essay by stating that, while the nkisi nkondi is not the direct origin of the concept of the voodoo doll, its misinterpretation by Europeans led to negative assertions about African religions that became widespread in popular culture. The survival of these practices through hundreds of years of oppression in a white supremacist society is a fascinating topic, and I worry that, by accepting one tour guide's explanation as an unquestionable final word, we're shutting ourselves out of learning.
Source: Armitage, Natalie (2015). "European and African Figural Ritual Magic: The Beginnings of the Voodoo Doll Myth". In Ceri Houlbrook; Natalie Armitage (eds.). The Materiality of Magic: An Artifactual Investigation into Ritual Practices and Popular Beliefs. Oxford: Oxbow. pp.Β 85β101.
