As hard and as ruthless as a rose petal

Your blood, what matter is it made of?

It's just the changing density of the air refracting light weirdly, so it looks like there's a reflection of the sky on the ground, which our brains often interpret as a pool of water. It can also happen upwards instead of downwards, especially at sea, when the air is much colder near the surface and a warm front appears above it:

Here's Fata Morgana

…Palpatine’s office is a womb right? Its where Sidious’ perfect apprentice is developed. He’s nurtured in this space by Palpatine until he Anakin leaves it reborn Vader.

Like there’s really so much to say about Palpatine and yonic symbolism.

He’s also almost an anti-mother. With Anakin only knowing a mother’s love, and both of his major conflicts being about saving his mother and the mother of his children, Palpatine is a perversion of both. With Palpatine eventually replacing both Shmi and Padmé. Initially taking a nurturing role throughout his conflict over his mother, and eventually becoming the person Vader is most dedicated to through his conflict over Padmé.

Shmi’s child (Anakin) dies and is reborn Darth Vader. Idk it’s just paired with the raw bloody entrance like outfit we wears. They’re in this red organ like office and Vader is being born through Sidious. Its almost a gory birth scene.

Then there’s like the inverse of Anakin with his mother happening in this scene. With Palpatine arriving on time.

Mixed results from the Americans because this shit is legal in only 30 states and almost impossible to get past a zoning committee so while they exist, they're extremely localized. Lots of yelling at Ohio.

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Saskatchewan: "What's insane to me is that you have these with the population density you have. What am I going to hit in Turtleford?"

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Bahia and Sao Paulo: "I'm stunned we don't have these tbh."

Prague: "We have these in my city, but only for boats."

Manaus: "My uncle has one of these! He also has a window on the other side so you can drive your boat up too :)"

(much Brazilian and Czech high-fiving)

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Brisbane: "There's an astonishing level of trust being displayed that people aren't just going to open a beer immediately"

Tallahassee: "Oh no, there is 100% cop camped like half a mile down the road to arrest people who didn't stow the booze correctly."

Brisbane: "Oh it's an invasive policing operation! Yeah, that's the USA."

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Newcastle: "No, this looks correct for the country that has bears breaking into your house". (The Australians and Africans have a bit where every time someone mentions their wildlife, they mass @me (who had a bear in my house) and the guy from Singapore whose mom adopted a wild water monitor and says it's her favorite son now)

The aforementioned Singaporean: "How am I exposed to an onslaught of your media and culture at all times and you STILL find new ways to horrify me?"

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Vatican City: "You can ride your bike through the brewery to get beer but the abbot in charge doesn't like it"

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Jakarta: "We don't have this because we're Muslim but we do have drive-thru Marijuana"

Kyoto: "We don't have these because we have public transportation. You can buy liquor from vending machines at the stations though."

Munich: "We don't have these because we are disciplined enough to pack our beer with us if we are going somewhere that drinking is acceptable, or there will be beer at that location when we arrive."

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India: "Why have drive-thru Liquor, when you can have liquor delivered to your vehicle? GET ON OUR LEVEL" (no less than nine different images from across the country of people in trucks that have been specifically modified to operate the business of driving up to other vehicles in traffic and selling them liquor)

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Pudasjävi: "...I should open one of these."

Everyone: "NO!!!"

For example, a ship might be referred to as a “wave’s horse”; a sword, a “wound-serpent”; a shield, “the shame of swords”, and so forth. Sometimes, kennings could be embedded in other kennings - thus, one might have “feeder of war-gulls” = “feeder of ravens” = “warrior”; this is known as a doubled or extended kenning.

Though many conventions of English literature can be traced back to Old Norse roots, kenning isn’t much encountered these days - at least, not in most genres. There’s one particular genre where the art of kenning is alive and well, though.

I’m speaking, of course, of erotic fanfic.

Whether you’re referring to a penis as a “pork-truncheon” or a vagina as a “squish-pocket” (both examples I’ve seen employed in all apparent seriousness, incidentally), that perfectly fits the form and function of a kenning. Indeed, these examples even adhere to the idiosyncratic grammatical structure of many Old Norse kennings, with the base word being modified by an uninflected noun determinant inserted as a compound prefix.

Euphemisms for sex acts, meanwhile, can be even more baroque, forming multi-level allusions in the manner of doubled/extended kennings. “To ride the baloney pony”, for example, employs the act of riding a horse as an allusion to penetrative sexual intercourse - but the contained phrase “baloney pony” is, itself, a kenning of the simple type, with “pony” as the base word and “baloney” as the determinant, making the whole phrase a doubled kenning.

Who let Nosferatu become a cornerstone of vampire cinema? Literally The Worst vampire representation ever put to celluloid. I tell people I’m a vampire and they don’t believe me because I’m not bald and surrounded by an army of rats. Vampires don’t look like that!!!!! And we can control rats obviously but we don’t have them follow us around.

Also, the movie was using the rats as a visual metaphor for the plague, perpetuating yet another harmful stereotype.

And!! Nosferatu doesn’t even mean vampire.

I wish Florence Stoker succeeded in getting every copy of that horrid film destroyed. If people want to understand what vampirism is really like there is already the perfect five film saga.

🧑🏽‍🦲 bald-ur-gayass-tarion Follow

speak for yourself op

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op fuck your entire unlife

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@edwards-colon is a fakefanger FYI.

here’s a link to the ghoulgle doc.

tldr; they’ve been making posts romanticizing vampirism for years. they talk about older vampire issues to fit in with the undead community but they’re mortal. block and report.

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I got turned dumbass. And my sire is 103, it’s the one who told me about this shit. Keep your fangs out of necks they don’t belong in.

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103? so it was a baby when nosferatu came out? a little baby? little babybat vampire going to the cinema? to watch nosferatu symphony of horror? as a little baby? little baby vampire?

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wait backup nosferatu doesn’t mean vampire?

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the word nosferatu was popularized by bram stoker’s novel to mean undead in romanian, he got it from a travelogue by emily gerard, no one’s really sure where she got it.

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Good L*rd, I knew Miss Gerard! She was a dear friend of mine. 😃 Oh my, I remember Emily telling me all about her The Land Beyond The Forest research. It’s a funny story, actually, the etymology of Nosferatu.

I’ll tell you all about it in just a heartbeat— A sweet young damsel has wandered into my castle and I must perform my duties as hostess.

I’ll return shortly.

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hey chrissy make sure it’s not a hunter. lotta slayers are damsels nowadays

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chrissy????

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THEY SLAYED CHRISSY

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now we’re never gonna figure out where nosferatu came from this fucking sucks

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fucking sucks 😳🥴🥵🤤🫦

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