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[coughing up blood] please, I require... media that will make me feel as bad as is physically possible...

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tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

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🏺🌊Beach pottery🌊🏺

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Rewatching The Wicker Man (1973), it's really striking to me how much the ritual is for Lord Summerisle's own benefit as much as anything else. In fact, I would argue that, in some sense, the sacrifice is for and to him (as he himself blurs the distinction in Aphrodite's case).

Just as the ritual is meant to appease both Nuada and Avellenau, both gods and men, both Lord Summerisle's hedonistic thirst for life and the people of the island's hunger for both produce and worship (Summerisle the man, the people of Summerisle, and the island of Summerisle itself), so too I think Lord Summerisle's motivation is double: both expediency and love. The film leaves it ambiguous whether he believes or not in what he preaches, and I think he does and does not. As a politician and a zealot, he believes in the way a really good actor has to believe in what he's doing, and he's both. Because he loves the drama of it most of all, I'd say, and the difference between a ritual and a play is so thin.

He loses himself in it! He does, and he looks so thrilled when he's singing and burning Howie. His hair flares out in a corona and he's wearing yellow and his head overlaps with the sun in one shot. The sacrifice is for himself because he's the sun.

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I think it's a common misconception that Granda Summerisle invented the island's religion - he didn't! In and out of universe! Howie reads about the May Day rituals in a book that describes them as taking place all across Britain! Lord Summerisle describes his grandfather as "giving [the people] back their joyous old gods"! Extensive research was done re Paganism to write the story!

Granda Summerisle effectively revived a dead religion, he didn't invent one from scratch.

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lord summerisle text posts

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let's be punk with mama

photo credit: https://bsky.app/profile/jocelynanderson.bsky.social [one of my favorite bird photographers! check out her stuff :) ]

note: YES I know that "mama" is a male pileated woodpecker. I simply do not care

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Turdus thrush - round 1, section 4

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"now you're part of the found family" but as horror. discuss

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real adult™ tip from a real adult™ with executive dysfunction

do stuff while waiting for other stuff

like that sounds intuitive and vague but so much of the day is spent in a period of wait and if you struggle to motivate yourself to do things then this is the best time

waiting for your water to boil? bag up your garbage. waiting for your coffee to drip? wipe down your counters. roommate taking up the bathroom? scoop the cat box. waiting for your food to cook in the microwave? do however many dishes you can while it’s in there. 

waiting is the perfect time to do a limited amount of something for yourself where you would be otherwise just standing around doing fuck-all

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HAPPY MAY DAY EVERYONE

🍎🐇🍏

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You'll let me have a little nibble right? Just an itty bitty chomp?

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Merops bee-eater - round 1, section 3

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Fordite, born from the discarded paint layers of Detroit's car factories. This stunning specimen showcases the intricate patterns formed over decades of industrial history.

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A Tiger and His Boy

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Doctors are like: ughhhhh. You're confusing. Come back if you die