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when you die, you walk into the cold unknown hand in hand with a girl you met once when you were five in a hotel pool and her hand is warm.

love is stored in the child you crossed paths with in a space midway to somewhere else and never saw again

Death and the Maiden, Marianne Stokes, 1908

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From “Hogfather” by Terry Pratchett. Just finished the annual Christmas reread. These passages never fail to grab me.

It’s a rare book that I love as much on the nth reread as the first. This is the only book so far to ingrain itself in my little traditions, and it never fails to make my laugh and tear up (the Hogswatch card from Death!! Bless!) and think. It’s a joy every time.

this was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my LIFE

Cabbot Cove

No violent pre-meditated murders here for

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You know, I just realized something. The series is called “Murder, she wrote” in English, right? And you know that theory about how she’s actually the killer in all of her cases (since people always seem to die when she’s around)?

Well, in the german dub they translated the show as “Mord ist ihr Hobby”, which literally means “Murder is her Hobby”. Which implies her being a very different sort of person.

HOW MANY HAS SHE KILLED

You can’t even just look up the number of episodes, because there are plenty of episodes where two, three, even four people get offed! 

Mrs. Fletcher, the Harbinger

I have no proof for this at all, but my theory is the Jessica Fletcher is either a manifestation of Death, or is beloved by death.  The action of her husband’s death forms the primium mobile of the series.  It is his death that compels her to write her first murder mystery, and it is only after her death that, seemingly, her life becomes peppered with dead bodies.  Please remember that the first horseman of the apocalypse in Revelation carries a bow, although he himself does not do the killing, he is only there to conquer, but death follows after him.  Her last name means ‘maker of arrows.’    

There appears to be a supernatural myopia surrounding the frequency of the murders.  The seemingly quaint town of Cabbot Cove, ME, population nobody, has several murders a year.  The per-capital murder rate is astronomical, but nobody seems to be aware of this.  Likewise, whenever she leaves town, somebody dies.  It’s never someone she loves directly, although persons she love may become caught up in the aftermath, falsely accused of murder.  

Jessica appears to be unaware of the strangeness of all of this as well.  This implies either 1. She is similarly under the same supernatural effect that is cast upon ever other person she is around, or, 2. She is play acting.

So, upon the death of her husband, the close association with death did one of two things – it attracted Death to her, and Death as a metaphysical force, enjoying her company, chooses to kill off dozens so that it may remain near her until finally she falls into her end, OR the experience awakened something inside of her/Death overshadowed her being, and now she has become an embodiment of Death, a sort of psychopomp for death-by-murder, with the rest of the world unaware of the sudden shift in policy.  

i love the internet, sometimes … @gowns

I saw the phrase “primium mobile” and I knew I was in for a fucking ride.

Omg!

Here for this.

Okay but like when you watch it, there are only two or three episodes where people are murdered in Cabot Cove per season–Jessica travels C O N S T A N T L Y all over the world and that is mostly where the murders are.

Death:The High Cost of Living 3 #

this was the funniest thing I have ever seen in my LIFE

Cabbot Cove

No violent pre-meditated murders here for

15

0 days

You know, I just realized something. The series is called “Murder, she wrote” in English, right? And you know that theory about how she’s actually the killer in all of her cases (since people always seem to die when she’s around)?

Well, in the german dub they translated the show as “Mord ist ihr Hobby”, which literally means “Murder is her Hobby”. Which implies her being a very different sort of person.

HOW MANY HAS SHE KILLED

You can’t even just look up the number of episodes, because there are plenty of episodes where two, three, even four people get offed! 

Mrs. Fletcher, the Harbinger

I have no proof for this at all, but my theory is the Jessica Fletcher is either a manifestation of Death, or is beloved by death.  The action of her husband’s death forms the primium mobile of the series.  It is his death that compels her to write her first murder mystery, and it is only after his death that, seemingly, her life becomes peppered with dead bodies.  Please remember that the first horseman of the apocalypse in Revelation carries a bow, although he himself does not do the killing, he is only there to conquer, but death follows after him.  Her last name means ‘maker of arrows.’    

There appears to be a supernatural myopia surrounding the frequency of the murders.  The seemingly quaint town of Cabbot Cove, ME, population nobody, has several murders a year.  The per-capital murder rate is astronomical, but nobody seems to be aware of this.  Likewise, whenever she leaves town, somebody dies.  It’s never someone she loves directly, although persons she love may become caught up in the aftermath, falsely accused of murder.  

Jessica appears to be unaware of the strangeness of all of this as well.  This implies either 1. She is similarly under the same supernatural effect that is cast upon ever other person she is around, or, 2. She is play acting.

So, upon the death of her husband, the close association with death did one of two things – it attracted Death to her, and Death as a metaphysical force, enjoying her company, chooses to kill off dozens so that it may remain near her until finally she falls into her end, OR the experience awakened something inside of her/Death overshadowed her being, and now she has become an embodiment of Death, a sort of psychopomp for death-by-murder, with the rest of the world unaware of the sudden shift in policy.  

a little comic about kisses and curses. happy halloween!

Death is gay

accurate 

truth

damn.

There is a department at my job called Death. They process the paperwork needed after someone dies, etc. But it’s always funny when I hear people say things like, “This document needs to be sent back to Death,” or “Consult Death before proceeding with this case.” Like yes, Death works here and he is a team player sort of guy. Very resourceful and a real go-getter. Corporate Death.

Corporate Death. Just. Wow….

Holiday’s nearly over…