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just learned about the ginkgo trees that survived the nuclear blast in Hiroshima
you cannot kill me in a way that matters
Source: inverse.com
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the funny thing about Cats casting is that while there Are a lot of stereotypes about gay men and theater, the thing is that if you put out a casting call in the 1980s for male ballet dancers who are comfortable putting on a very skintight costume, applying a full face of makeup, wearing a wig, shaking major amounts of ass, and saying 'meow meow' in a seductive manner chances are you're not going to get a exclusive lineup of the most red-blooded heterosexual men in the area
Cats the Musical: it’s gayer than Grindr and it’ll never leave
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What are the elevator game and Three Kings?
They're modern folklore/urban legend ritual games games akin to Bloody Mary, spread by creepypasta memes across the internet for thrills and chills. (I actually love creepypasta. There's some excellent horror in the genre. Ted the Caver and Candle Cove are both super cool, those aren't hard to find.)
The Elevator Game supposedly originates in Japan or South Korea, and involves getting into an elevator and pressing the buttons in a certain sequence in order to reach a surreal otherworld, with dire consequences should they fail to follow all the rules. It doesn't have a goal or reward, just the appeal of accessing a creepy alternate reality. It's a fairly popular bit of modern folklore and I enjoy it for its modern yet classic feel and its specificity. This is a game that it is actually feasible to play, unlike a lot of other modern creepypasta ritual games, which can be very complicated.
The Three Kings Ritual is another creepypasta ritual game, and it's a fucking banger. I HIGHLY recommend you read it in full.
It has a great name, great symbolism, a creepy as shit setup, and a genuine chance, I think, at getting something fucked up to happen (in the sense that you could very easily experience some trippy visual distortion and possibly some auditory stuff as well from the white noise of the fan).
It genuinely put my hairs up the first time with these bits (the bolded and italicized bits are of particular note):
Place one chair in the center of the room. ....Place the other two chairs exactly to the left and right, facing your throne. The distance between your throne and that of your queen and fool should be about the length of your arm to each side, more or less. Place the two large mirrors on the queen and fool chairs left and right of you, facing you (and each other). Try your best to have them stand at a 90 degree angle (or else you may get more or less than three kings). If you sit on your throne facing straight ahead (north), you should be able to perceive your own reflection in each of the two mirrors without actually having to turn your head nor your eyes to do so. If you see your own reflection in the corner of your eye, just barely there, then you've done it right.
So you can see how this would lend itself to seeing things. Mirrors are already creepy. With a small light in a dark room, it gets worse. This isn't about a demon or vengeful spirit, just...presences, which is much creepier to me because on some level it feels more plausible.
Look straight ahead, at the darkness. Not at the candle, not at the mirrors, just straight ahead. Eagle-eyed readers surely noticed I didn't say during setup which chair was queen and which chair was fool. That's because it's your job to find out. And from their point of view, you are either their queen or their fool, too. Hence three kings.
Fucking hell.
Again the goal is nebulous. The original text leaves so many things unanswered. Are we to converse with these entities, to ask questions? What the actual fuck happens if you get the angle wrong and get more than two spirits?
All I know is that I am curious. This is absolutely my favorite ritual game.
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Who goes there
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you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.
You’ll all sleep a lot better when you realise that actually most people, rather than being purity in human form or evil incarnate, are in fact just some guy.
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“tumblr” “grindr” do the gays not like the letter e for some reason
tsarbucks
it’s lgbt not legbet
Bobbie how dare you hide this gem in the tags!
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just remember, one day you're going to open tumblr and the crabs will be raving like they never have before
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your honour i understand that it is treason to release classified documents about military equipment but you saw what that guy on the forum said i couldn't just let someone be that wrong
Has it been zero days again
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"We had been looking for success in record deals and stadium shows, but I guess we already had it, because we had each other. And because, We Are Lady Parts."
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Ok this is the best one i've seen.
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Undersea cable cross-sections h/t Fipi Lele
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Beautiful, right? When they first started laying this stuff across the Atlantic during the late Victorian, people made this stuff into souvenir jewelry:
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Don't think for a second, I'd forgotten about Poppy Watch.
Displays like these are outright disrespectful, and there's a whole new industry around producing these appalling silhouette cutouts that didn't exist when I was growing up.
The garden full of poppies straight up freaks me out. I get that in real life they grow all over the place and they are just flowers so flowers = garden is kind of a reasonable leap to make but in November when poppy=death all I can think is HOW MANY DEAD FRENCH PEOPLE ARE UNDER THERE???
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Behold, one of my best friend's Halloween costumes, recorded and uploaded by a complete stranger with over a million views on tiktok! (I'm so proud!!)
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we ( @esoanem @verbforverb @morkaischosen and a friend who is 'not on tumblr') have been performing experiments
30 seconds to read as many lines as possible. 1 point per line, half point for partial lines, 1 point deduction for mistakes or hesitation
asterisk indicates an attempt in old english. you will note most of us were not brave enough for this. we used the Heaney translation on the possibly erroneous grounds that it has good alliteration and that might make us faster
(the first number is our starting line number)
if you clip through the lacunae you can get it down to under an hour
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Spread this video
spread this video for awareness.
to me it's counter intuitive that little person and dwarf are more acceptable so it's really helpful to know.
also spread this video to appreciate the fucking killer mustache on that one guy in the suit. holy shit, it's like a work of art.
Allan is such a dapper fellow! I love this video.