#and he lives in Louisiana ��

[doueverwonder]

back to thinking about Gov making the regions intermingle, the Midwest and South was somehow the worst and best of all of them. What started off as Country Folk Shenanigans(TM) and a worrying amount of jello and/or cool whip based salads ended with a stand-off to see who was going to be impolite and leave first. They ended up having to send other states in to break it up.

[atlasthecactus]

edgar sketch!!

@goodluckclove

[sunnysssol]

Alfred and Marcelo going hiking in the Philippine wilderness and Alfred complaining about the mosquitoes, but happily walking along anyway 😔🫶

[vermin-fangs]

I want people reading anything that I type on here and on my website to know that I actually speak with an incredibly thick drawl. That is an important and amusing aspect of who I am

[sophisticatedswifts]

I’m can’t wait to start using this

[jiyoos]

my friend who was best man at my wedding just stopped by my house after years 😭😭😭😭 hello friend hello ooh i’m so happie. apparently his friend also plays ffxiv and i told him abt the free trial so he may play it and get his gf who was also my friend to play too!!!!! that would be so amazing 😭😭😭 i’m so happie

[rextheravenous]

Sosososo mad at myself. When we went to the fnaf movie I didn't realize it but Andy Field (VA of the Hand Unit is Sister Location) was literally sitting right in front of us. Shame on me big time

[schwazombie]

Thinking about that one time I was at a community college taking a public speaking class and the professor was going around the room asking all the POC whether they preferred to be called black or African American & the prof got to this one guy and asked the same thing, black of African American, dude just looked him dead in the eye and said, Creole.

[drawing-hearts]

Taybrina hurt my boyfriend’s feelings. Do they know how to fight…….

[malocclusive]

Texted my dad about not going to last year's Mac and cheese cook-off bc I was at Katelynn's wedding

Idk if he knows my cousin is trans, but I still haven't come out to him

I don't have the balls to yet

[sageofthestarz]

I love that my dad and I both have habits of naming stuff in Latin

A lot of my playlists are named in Latin just because I think it's a very pretty and direct language for emotions / feelings

My dad's actual album he did a few years back is also named in Latin. We got into a long conversation about the meaning behind the language itself not long ago

It's weird now that I'm older I can actually have these kinds of conversations with him, I was never really into any of this stuff when I was younger and now I'm hounding him with music questions and wish I got more involved as a kid

[stonedopossums]

craving gumbo.... where is ollie's uncle when you need him

[he11bambi]

something something Alastor having a southern accent, but when he started to do radio he trained himself out of it to the transatlantic accent.

[libraford]

The word 'rural' is in the public consciousness again and every time people start going in about the 'rural values' 'rural way of life' I remember just how subjective that word is.

I have a friend that lives in LA. He considers Columbus, OH to be 'rural.' A population of over 900k. Thriving arts community, tons of culture festivals, every kind of restaurant you can think of, one of the most annoying college campuses ever, several smaller colleges, lots of queer spaces, comic book conventions, huge concerts... rural.

The town I live in considers itself 'rural.' 38k population. Arts festival every year, a small pride celebration, monthly gallery hop, big Halloween festival. Five ice cream shops, three coffee shops, a couple fancy bars, so many grocery stores. Huge library, conservation and sustainability advocates, queer spaces, a hospital, one private college. Rural.

The town we nearly annexed, but lost the deal considers us 'urban' compared to them. Less than 5k. They have a limited hospital, often send their surgeries here. Downtown has hardware store, bars, craft supply store, a couple grocery stores, pizza places. There's some farmland, but much of the square acreage is golf. Mega churches. The houses here are 500k. Most people drive ATVs. They have a handful of festivals in the summer.

A town I would often get sent to to cover their high school sports- a little over 2k. There's a Subway, a Domino's, Family Dollar. Some bars, some corner stores. Some local crafts. All the students grow up knowing each other, most of them stay there. But they have craft fairs and art galleries, still.

Less rural still than the town I go through to get there, population of around 600. Houses, farmland, post office, general store.

Who would still look down upon the town of about 400 that I would go to sometimes- post office. Gas station. Bar. The school is the only big thing there.

And yet still, I have seen towns with population in the double digits that have a church and a post office.

Even just looking at the numbers doesn't lend accuracy to what 'rural' actually looks like. Because this is what it looks like in ohio, but it's different in West Virginia- where your closest neighbor might be a mile down a hill. Or in Montana, where your town might be planned very tightly and your neighbors are very close, but the nearest grocery store is an hour and a half away. These are places I've been, friends that I've talked to. I've never been to Missouri or Alabama or Louisiana- I'm sure they have a unique experience of being 'rural.'

So my point is that when people talk about 'the rural experience' or 'rural values,' they are talking about millions of people across the entire country who all have lived unique lives- and who may not even agree on what 'rural' is.

Think about who is talking, and who is being talked over, and who isn't even being asked to join the conversation.

[highlifeboat]

I keep wondering, if that scene of Alastor eating a deer is a reference to Algernon Blackwood's novell "Wendigo".

Now, I think there's no doubt, that Alastor is based of Westernised image of Wendigo :p

But, in the novell, it said, that Wendigo translates to "Moose Eater" (Which I'm pretty sure is a complete BS, because that's the only source where I heard that :p Author in general doesn't seem to know actual legend, since he describes Wendigo as "Demon of wind, capable to run so fast his legs literally burn. It kidnaps people and drags them to the sky and ones who unfortunate to witness it loose they mind". And it eats moose, obviously:p So, not much connection to actual myth).

Now, obviously what Alastor eats is in fact a deer. But then again, Alastor himself is based of a deer, even tho western depiction of Wendigo usually associates it with moose :p

I mean, it's a reference to some art Vivs did of him before. I don't know if there was any actual reason behind it besides "Haha deer boy eat deer"

I don't think the joke is that deep.

Honestly, I thought it was because he was a cannibal.

Because, if I remember, Alastor's lore is that he was a serial killer who ate his victims.

And now he's half deer.

Therefore... deer cannibalism.

It is funny that it seems to be just a normal deer, though. I mean, I guess he also made half his room the swampland of Louisiana so I shouldn't question it too much it's just interesting.

[rextheravenous]

Sosososo mad at myself. When we went to the fnaf movie I didn't realize it but Andy Field (VA of the Hand Unit is Sister Location) was literally sitting right in front of us. Shame on me big time