#incidental 60

[laserwalnut]

I'M NEW HERE! Have my fish

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Time to Die (6.7, ITC, 1968)

"The choice of lettering shows a particularly vulgar taste. You don't think it's a gag, do you, a chum trying to be funny?"

"Well, if it is, he just qualified as an ex-chum. No, Dinny, I think it's serious."

[xn--ko8h]

is this a "don't do drugs kids" movie? no, it's a "don't inject hippie cultists with rabies" movie

[vintagegeekculture]

I remember a friend of mine had some LPs that were Star Wars themed disco albums, and it brought back a very weird memory from back in the 70s (yes, I'm old!) of listening to a Star Wars disco mashup on the radio. What was all that about? I also remember something like that for Close Encounters, too.

You remember correctly, and this went on for a long while. In 1983, disk jockeys around the country played a record that involved an Ewok rapping the plot of Return of the Jedi in Ewokese. This made it to #60 in the Billboard Top 100.

This is hard to explain to people who weren’t there….but in the wake of Star Wars in the late 70s and early 80s, scifi was so beloved and mainstream that the orchestral music for nerdy scifi and fantasy movies about outer space were remixed and sampled into Giorgio Moroder-esque Italo-Disco dance numbers. And the most astonishing thing is, instead of being consigned to convention acts the way “horse famous” Brony dubstep acts are, this received national airplay on the radio, reached the pop music charts, and were played in discotheques. And incredibly, this continued for years and expanded from Star Wars into Star Trek, Wizard of Oz, Black Hole, Close Encounters….

All of this was the work of one specific person: Meco (or Dominico Monardo). The term “ahead of their time” is thrown around a lot, but Meco really was: a combination producer-songwriter and Italo-Disco pioneer in the style of Giorgio Moroder, he did several things that are now absolutely standard: he used remixes and sampling before hiphop made that standard for musicians, he wrote “fandom music” on a Moog synthesizer decades before Bronies turned their conventions into cringey dubstep concerts with songs like “Everypony Dance Now.”

It's stunning to me that Meco has not been rediscovered, considering every single trend in the culture essentially went his way.

The most startling thing about Meco’s Star Wars disco album, the one that got the ball rolling on this trend, is this: I always assumed it was some kind of cash in created by a record label mandate, a label executive’s completely cynical choice to hop on a hot new trend. That isn’t a crazy thing to think at all, since Star Wars is and always has been the most merchandized and sold out scifi property ever. But it wasn’t! You see, it was all the product of a single man’s specific vision: Meco had to convince his record label to make the record because they were skeptical.

When Meco went to see Star Wars in 1977 on Opening Day (what an experience that must have been) with his friend and fellow Italian chest hair/gold medallion enthusiast Tony Bongiovi, he was already an experienced producer-songwriter who had worked with Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, and formed DCA, the Disco Corporation of America. If you've ever listened to Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out," Meco actually played the trombone solo in that song. Seeing the Star Wars movie for the first time, though Meco thought the movie was nothing short of a religious experience. Originally, he wanted to do Star Wars music as a b-side on a Gloria Gaynor album, but expanded the idea into an entire album.

In Meco’s own words:

"When I think about what I did, nobody came to me, nobody said 'Meco, why don't you do this.' Nobody says 'Here's some money go make a record of this movie.' It was just my own... It was magical, it was just out of this world when all that happened."

Not only did this album hit platinum, not only did it actually outsell the Star Wars soundtrack, his remix of the Star Wars theme also went to #1 in the charts. It’s actually the best selling instrumental single of all time. A record, that, incidentally, it holds to this day.

Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand, had this to say about Meco:

"In 1977, Meco Monardo accomplished something no one else has ever done to the best of my knowledge. He was the first one in history to out-sell the soundtrack of a motion picture with his own distinctive version of a film's music. The music was totally danceable, and broke new ground. It's no wonder the STAR WARS THEME went to # 1. I loved his treatment of music from THE WIZARD OF OZ. Again, Meco created something innovative. The fun and the excitement gave a whole new feel to that totally familiar and well-loved music."

Like a lot of studio producers, Meco had an insane work ethic and hit when the iron was hot: he did an album about Close Encounters that exact same year, but also did a Star Wars Christmas Album, one of the strangest pieces of Star Wars kitsch around.

One of the most interesting things about the Star Wars Christmas album is that one of the songs, “R2D2’s Wish You a Merry Christmas” is the first professional vocals by John Bon Jovi, who was Meco’s friend Tony Bongiovi’s seventeen year old younger cousin (he was initially known as John Bongiovi). It's incredible to hear a squeaky voiced teen Bon Jovi on a kitsch album about a robot Christmas.

1978-1979 was really his best year. Meco made an Italo-Disco remix album entirely devoted to Superman, and at this point, Meco had the pull to get access to John Williams's sheet music for the score before the music even came out. In my personal opinion it's the best of them because he has to recreate it entirely with his own instruments, leading to a very unique sound.

He also did an album based on the Wizard of Oz:

And a combination album of Star Trek/Black Hole. It's probably the earliest remixing date of Goldsmith pieces of music: the Motion Picture Theme (which is now associated with the Next Generation - hearing it done in Italodisco is uncanny) and the Klingon Theme:

Incidentally, I think the design here of the Meco Enterprise, which had to be modified for legal reasons, would make a wonderful canon starship if anyone wants to be inspired by it. It reminds me of the same concept that would be used in the very next film for the Reliant-class of ships.

Meco eventually retired from music in 1985, but unfortunately he is no longer with us, as he passed into the next dimension in 2023. I think he showed us that creativity is often about transformation, and was inspired to make his art by a legitimate awe of space, the cosmos, and human imagination that the scifi movies of the 1970s and 80s provoke.

[agneswarda]

golden girls is so amazing i even made a powerpoint

(I copy-pasted the main text under the cut. unfortunately, I can't find the time for a proper alt text. life is stressful rn)

-Picture it: Miami, late 80s/early 90s. four 60+ women

-living together.

-Sure, they talk a lot about (straight) sex

-but what we see on screen is their dynamic. Their deep friendship. Their love also they often act quite gay with eachother. amazing

-Did i mention they are old. They are old and deal with getting sick and aging. A lot.

-But their life isn‘t over. They might not be related. But they are family, and they are here for each other

-These four women are the Golden Girls.

-You are in for a treat. A 7 seasons 25 episodes long treat

Introducing the girls: Dorothy Zbornak

-not to be a lesbian but omg

-Tall soft butch

-quick-witted

-sarcastic

-her voice *swoons*

-would make numbers on tumblr

-> her idea of a good time is being Alone wiht a book in her room

-> Huge dorky nerd

- Being vulnerable is not her strength but when she is It‘s amazing. Soft. makes me cry

Introducing the girls: Blanche Devereaux

-slutty

-sexy

-selfish

-sensitive

-Sensual

-Did i mention slutty

-And proud of it

-All these things are her strenghts as well as her weaknesses

 -She is actually quite complex

Introducing the girls: Rose Nylund

-Sweet

-Loving

-Kind

-caring

-Everyone says she‘s Dumb

-I think she might just Be neurodivergent?!??!!!! With her special interest

-Being St. Olaf

-The place she comes from

-Has amazing st olaf stories for everything

-Can also be a judgy bitch sometimes

Introducing the girls: Sophia Petrillo

-SHE WOULD MAKE NUMBERS ON TUMBLR

-„You're a funny little gnome, and we feed you too much.”

-This quote describes her perfectly

-It’s Dorothy who says it to her

-Who is incidentally her daughter

-Trickster energy

-Don‘t know if she is gay. But she commits crimes

-It‘s her way of dealing with old age

-And all the limitations it brings

-The show would just be half as funny without her

But op. Is it really this good. It‘s so old

I will admit: not everything aged well. Be also prepared for:

-it‘s v white. If they have characters of color, they sometimes work well. And sometimes it‘s embarassing to watch bc harmful stereotypes (not often but yeah. It happens.)

-Bodyshaming: the girls tease each other about their height, weight etc. and sometimes it can really become a lot/too much.

-Rose is so often the butt of the joke for not understanding situations. I think a lot of neurodivergent folks can relate. And it can hurt to hear the same old mean comments again and again

BUT

-This is a series which was never afraid of complicated topics

-First and foremost: the queer advocacy and topics were and still are amazing. The found family of it all alone.

-Also: death,being sick, being disabled. Getting old. Not performing the gender The way one would like to (anymore) (so. yes. Dysphoria. In a way). The financial aspect of it all. These are important topics which are treated with humor (of course) but also with respect

-it‘s a kind show which has its heart in the right place

-And i mean

-4 old women who are „just“ friends living together, supporting eachother?

-That shit is still revolutionary in the year of our lord 2024

So give it a chance!!!!11!!!!!111

[underthehedge]

I stg if anyone trots out the grandmother hypothesis you will end up in anthropology rant hell

Ok but, if you'd like to rant about it (or have a good rant you've already posted) I'd be interested in hearing it. Like, I was under the impression that the grandmother hypothesis was relatively well accepted, which, I guess it isn't?

Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

[odinsblog]

Were it not for white supremacy, America would have single payer health care. In the wake of the assassination of United Health CEO Brian Thompson, Americans are wondering out loud why we're getting ripped off by giant insurance companies when every other developed country in the world has health care as a right and pays an average of about half of what we do, and gets better outcomes. America is the only developed country in the world that doesn't recognize health care as a human right.

The only country with more than two-thirds of its population lacking access to affordable health care and a half million families facing bankruptcy every year because somebody got sick. The only country in the developed world where over 40% of the population carries $220 billion in medical debt. And the only country in the developed world that has since its founding enslaved and then legally oppressed and disenfranchised a large majority of its population because of their race.

These things, along with the United Health's $370 billion in revenue and $32 billion in profit, are connected. Roughly 60% of Americans would have had to take out a loan or otherwise borrow or beg for money to deal with a single unexpected $1,000 expense. Yet annual family medical co-pays and out-of-pocket deductibles averaged $6,575 in 2023, when the Kaiser Family Foundation did a comprehensive survey of Americans.

This strikes minorities particularly hard, which, it turns out, is not an accident. The simple fact is that, were it not for slavery, white supremacy, and the legacy of scientific racism, America would have had a national single-payer health care system in 1915, just 31 years after Germany put into place the modern world's first such program. At the center of the effort to prevent a national health care system, or any form of government assistance that may incidentally offer benefit to African Americans, were Frederick Ludwig Hoffman and the Prudential Life Insurance Company, which promoted his science-based racial theories to successfully fight single-payer health insurance.

Racism is the main reason that America doesn't consider health care a human right and provide it to all citizens, in contrast to every other developed country in the world. Racist whites, particularly in the South, have worked for over a century to make sure that health care is hard for Black people and other minorities to get.

Were it not for so-called scientific racism, America would long ago have joined the rest of the developed world with a competent and efficient national health care system. Instead, we're stuck with for-profit health insurance giants attached like giant leeches to our backs.

—Anti-Blackness is the reason we don’t have Universal Healthcare

[theodysseyofhomer]

Do you have any article related to the odyssey you'd reccommend as complementary to the source?

sorry i've been sitting on your ask for so long! i am not and never have been a classics student; i came across most of these articles incidentally or here on tumblr:

"the odysseys within the odyssey" by italo calvino

"a note on memory and reciprocity in homer's odyssey" by anita nikkanen

"penelope and the poetics of remembering" by melissa mueller

"a glossary of haunting" by eve tuck and c. ree (this is mostly about horror fiction and settler-colonialism but it has a gloss on the cyclops that i think everyone, certainly everyone american, should read)

silence in the land of logos by silvia montiglio chapter 8: "silence, ruse, and endurance: odysseus and beyond"

"the name of odysseus" by g.e. dimock, jr.

also ok it's very much not "good" but there's an article by w.b. stanford called "personal relationships" that just lists all his hot takes about the relationships in the odyssey for 25 pages. it reads just like scrolling the blog of a mutual twice removed. they let men publish ANYTHING in the 60s. i love this essay. i would read this essay out loud over discord right now if someone asked me.

[fataldrum]

So I was looking into the Magnus Protocol Episode Hard Reset, and I am losing my shit for so many reasons.

1. The statement giver is Robert Hooke, one of the first people to publish research on microscopy. He was the person who coined the word "cell" in biology, because he thought they looked like the cells where monks lived.

2. The statement takes place in 1694. Hook references using the Protocol on London to stop a plague. Between 1665 and 1666, the Great Plague killed about 20% of the British population. In 1666, the Great Fire of London destroyed 60% of the city.

3. You know who made a ton of money from the fire? Robert Hooke. He made his fortune as a surveyor and architect in the aftermath of the fire, performing over half the property surveys. How fortunate for him.

4. Incidentally, there are no confirmed surviving portraits of Robert Hooke, only ones that may be him. This is rumored to be Isaac Newton's fault, because after Newton took over the Royal Society, they moved to a new location, and Hooke's portrait was "lost." No other portraits went missing.

5. The statement is addressed to Robert Boyle, who you may recognize for Boyle's Law in chemistry. There's a sculpture in Dublin of a young boy who is thought to be Boyle, and it's horrific.

6. This time period is significant for Isaac Newton, because between 1692 and 1693, he suffered "a breakdown of nervous functioning," with insomnia, poor digestion, and "signs of irrationality" in his letters. Incidentally, hair samples from Newton's body later contained high levels of mercury, lead, arsenic, and antimony. Probably because he was literally tasting mercury samples as part of his research.

7. During the statement, I was picturing a scrappy little terrier. It occurred to me that we probably know what kind of dog Isaac Newton had. His favorite dog was a pomeranian. A fucking. Pomeranian. Just picture this little guy developing sentience and sprouting branches.

8. The dog's name was Diamond, and he has his own Wikipedia page. Why? Because (likely apocryphal) stories claim Diamond knocked over a candle and burned over a year's worth of Newton's notes. The fire appears to be real, but blaming Diamond is unfair. Here's an engraving of the alleged incident.

9. After the fire, Newton was said to have exclaimed, "O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done." But Diamond would know if he ate from the Tree of Knowledge.

10. Remember Flamsteed from the Maxwell Raynor statement? He and Newton were bitter enemies.

[edupunkn00b]

@seeyoube's tags! XD

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“In countries where most schools require students to wear uniforms, fewer young people reach the World Health Organization’s minimum recommendation of 60 minutes of physical activity a day across a whole week, according to a study by University of Cambridge.

There was a greater difference between girls and boys of primary-school age in countries where uniforms were common. The finding was not replicated among children of secondary-school age.

This may be because of the incidental exercise that younger children get throughout the school day, for example, through running, climbing and active play at break and lunchtimes.

The findings confirm earlier evidence that girls feel less comfortable participating in active play if they are wearing certain types of clothing such as skirts or dresses.”

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Hallmarks of the “New Hollywood” film movement of the 60s/70s as summed up by author Todd Berliner:

Seventies films show a perverse tendency to integrate, in narrative incidental ways, story information and stylistic devices counterproductive to the films' overt and essential narrative purposes.

Hollywood filmmakers of the 1970s often situate their film-making practices in between those of classical Hollywood and those of European and Asian art cinema.

Seventies films prompt spectator responses more uncertain and discomforting than those of more typical Hollywood cinema.

Seventies narratives place an uncommon emphasis on irresolution, particularly at the moment of climax or in epilogues, when more conventional Hollywood movies busy themselves tying up loose ends.

Seventies cinema hinders narrative linearity and momentum and scuttles its potential to generate suspense and excitement.

[thecreaturecodex]

Nyktera

Image © Paizo Publishing, accessed at Archives of Nethys here

[The Pathfinder 2e Bestiary 3 introduces three new sprite lineages, all of which are some manner of anthro. I love all three of them and will be retro-converting them all to 1e. I like how the bat sprites are neutral good by nature, reflecting how the image of bats has changed from their universally monstrous nature in the days of 1e D&D. Also, it's scientifically accurate! Vampire bats practice altruistic bloodfeeding, and sometimes even adopt orphaned kits]

Nyktera CR 1/3 NG Fey This tiny humanoid has a wrinkly face with large ears and little fangs. Bat wings grow from their back, and they have furry arms and legs.

Nykteras are sometimes referred to as “bat sprites” by lay people. Despite their sometimes frightening appearance, they are kindly creatures who value hospitality among all other things. They nest in caves or trees with mundane bats, especially those with similar physical features and ecologies. Different colonies of nyktera feed on different foods, usually fruit or insects, but occasionally fish, frogs, nectar or even blood.

Nyktera colonies are seen as oases of calm, and even evil creatures will often behave themselves in a nyktera colony for the promise of a safe place to sleep, fresh water and even minor healing services. That being said, if a nyktera’s hospitality is abused, the creatures will fly into a rage and fight. Their physical attacks are fairly weak, but nyktera are capable of firing sonic bolts from their mouths at range. Nyktera families are large and often extend over whole continents, and those who have abused the hospitality of one nyktera will usually find themselves spurned by all bat sprites in turn until they make amends.

Nyktera CR 1/3 XP 133 NG Tiny fey Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft.,low light vision, Perception +7 (+11 when hearing)

Defense AC 15, touch 15, flat-footed 12 (+2 size, +3 Dex) hp 7 (2d6) Fort +0, Ref +6, Will +5 DR 2/cold iron Weakness wrath of spurned hospitality

Offense Speed 10 ft.; fly 40 ft. (good) Melee slam +0 (1d6-3) Ranged sonic pulse +4 touch (1d4 sonic) Space 2 ½ ft.; Reach 0 ft. Spell Like Abilities CL 1st, concentration +4 Constant—speak with animals (bats only) At will—dancing lights, ghost sound (DC 13) 1/day—create water, cure light wounds (DC 14)

Statistics Str 4, Dex 16, Con 11, Int 11, Wis 14, Cha 17 Base Atk +1; CMB +2; CMD 9 Feats Skill Focus (heal) Skills Acrobatics +8, Diplomacy +8,Fly +16, Heal +7, Perception +7 (+11 when hearing), Stealth +12; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception when hearing Languages Common, Sylvan, speak with animals (bats only)

Ecology Environment any land andunderground Organization solitary, pair, flight (3-12) or colony (13-48) Treasure incidental

Special Abilities Sonic Pulse (Su) As a standard action, a nyktera can fire a pulse of sonic energy. Treat this as a ranged touch attack with a range of 20 feet and no range increment. A creature struck takes 1d4 points of sonic damage. Wrath of Spurned Hospitality (Ex) If a nyktera is betrayed, it must succeed a DC 20 Will save. If it fails, it flies into a rage, as per the spell, attacking its betrayer each round until it succeeds a DC 20 Will save, the nyktera or the target of its ire is slain, or if the traitor flees.

[monstersdownthepath]

Homebrew Horror: Qlippoth, Gor'glurin

(Art by @chasm-connected!)

Also called "Gore Orbs" or "Gorgans" by those with a hideous sense of humor, Gor'glurin are a breed of qlippoth which were created as a weapon of traumatic transformation by Yamasoth, the Polymorph Plague, in an attempt to scour mortal worlds of sinful life, though they work just as well against their hated demonic foes. The first of their numbers were created with cooperation from Oaur-Ooung, and they have been purposely spread by mad cultists of both entities ever since, sometimes in the form of a "blessing," sometimes as a curse, for both ally and enemy alike.

Gor'glurin begin their lives as tiny, microscopic flakes no larger than a mote of dust, easily slipping into others through their eyes, nose, or mouth, or even an open wound. They act as a disease within the body, causing tremors, fever, and nausea, appearing as a stomach bug as they slowly construct a larger body nestled within the victim. After just a few days, the qlippoth's growing body is visible as a lump rising from the stomach, and at this point only surgical or magical intervention can save the host's life. Wait too long and it will be too late, as tendrils of infected tissue will begin to weave around the victims' other organs to contaminate them like some eldritch, living tumor, turning them into parts of the qlippoth's body rather than the host's. Weaving itself a body from the stolen viscera, the Gor'glurin emerges from the host in a sickening display, but remains firmly attached, pulling the hapless victim behind them or even into the air as abyssal gas fills them like a gory balloon to finish the transformation. In just a short few minutes, the hosts' bodies are reduced to a limb of the qlippoth instead of the other way around while their minds are imprisoned within, unable to do anything but watch as the parasite lashes out at friends, family, and neighbors.

Once emerged, Gor'glurin exist to spread their infection to as many creatures as they possibly can while they use their host as both a vehicle and sustenance, slowly transmuting unneeded flesh and bone into more infectious cells. Worse still is that the qlippoth also steadily drains the victims' soul to prevent their sin from passing into the Abyss, rendering the soul down into a corrupted form of positive energy that allows the invader to sustain not only its life, but the lives of its qlippoth kin. Their spearing limbs and sprays of blood and bile carry their transformative infection, but once they've fully consumed the victims' soul, the qlippoth finds as high a perch as they can and detonates in a dramatic and disgusting display, casting their tiny, infectious brood into the winds to spread them for miles around.

GOR'GLURIN CR 7 Chaotic Evil Medium Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Qlippoth) Init: +10; Senses: Darkvision 60ft; Perception +15

------ Defense ------

AC 20, touch 17, flat-footed 13 (+6 Dex, +1 Dodge, +3 Natural Armor) HP 82 (9d10+36) fast healing 5 Fort +10 Ref +9 Will +9 DR 5/Lawful; Immune Cold, disease, mind-affecting effects, poison; Resist Acid 10, Electricity 10, Fire 10 Weaknesses Curative Vulnerability

------ Offense ------

Speed 30ft, fly 20ft (clumsy), climb 20ft Melee 4 stings +15 (1d6+1 plus disease) Ranged Bile spray +15 touch (1d8 Acid plus disease) Special Attacks Horrific Appearance (DC 17), Infectious Detonation Spell-like Abilities (CL 10; Concentration +12)

3/day--Cure Light Wounds 1/day--Cure Moderate Wounds

------ Statistics ------

Str 12 Dex 22 Con 18 Int 11 Wis 17 Cha 14 Base Atk: +9; CMB +10; CMD 26 Feats Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Weapon Finesse Skills Climb +20, Escape Artist +18, Fly +10, Knowledge (Nature) +12, Perception +15, Stealth +18 Languages Abyssal, primary language spoken by the host; Telepathy 80ft SQ Flailing Host

------ Ecology ------

Environment any (Abyss) Organization Solitary, pair, outbreak (3~10), or pandemic (20~60) Treasure Incidental (host's belongings)

------

Combat: Gor'glurin seek to spread their infection to as many creatures as possible, and will stealthily spray or stab victims when able. Once in combat proper, they divide their stings between as many targets within their reach as they can. They have no special ability to tell when a creature has been successfully infected, and thus tend to continue to attack until their victims fall unconscious before seeking new prey. When among other breeds of qlippoth, they will briefly pause their assaults to heal their injured kin with stolen life energy.

Morale: Gor'glurin always fight to the death in the hopes their Infectious Detonation spreads their spores to their killers. The sole exception is if they are in combat with Undead or Constructs, which they will flee as swiftly as possible from to seek viable hosts.

------ Special Abilities ------

Bile Spray (Ex): The Gor'glurin's bile spray is a ranged touch attack with a range of 40ft.

Curative Vulnerability (Ex): Gor'glurin are harmed by any spell or effect which attempts to cure diseases. If it fails its saving throw against the spell or effect, it takes 1d8 damage per caster level of the creature using the spell/effect. A Heal spell cast upon it slays it instantly without offering a saving throw. It never regains hit points from any such effects. If this damage reduces its HP to 0 or less, it dies instantly without triggering Infectious Detonation (see below) as its body shrinks back to nothingness, and the host regains control of their body, though the damage and drain done do them is not instantly undone.

Disease (Ex): Sting, bile spray, Infectious Detonation--Injury, inhaled; save Fortitude DC 19, onset 1d6 days, frequency 1/day, effect 1d4 Str and 1d4 Con damage, cure 2 consecutive saves. A creature that would be reduced to 0 or less Con by this disease instead stabilizes at 1 Con, stops taking damage from the disease, and transforms into a Gor'glurin Qlippoth over the course of 1d4 minutes. This disease has no effect on other qlippoth.

Flailing Host (Ex): The host of the Gor'glurins infection (see disease, above) remains attached to the qlippoth, but cannot take any actions, even purely mental ones. The qlippoth cannot use any of the host's abilities and uses its stats instead of the host's in all cases; the host is nothing more than a puppet. It uses the host's limbs to move, perform combat maneuvers, or manipulate objects. Despite this, the host is still alive, and the qlippoth feeds from them to sustain itself. The host suffers 1d6 points of Charisma drain each day as the qlippoth consumes its soul, and when the host reaches 0 Charisma, the qlippoth seeks a high place to use its Infectious Detonation ability (see below). If the Gor'glurin is slain, the host is slain as well unless the qlippoth was slain by its Curative Vulnerability.

Horrific Appearance (Su): A creature that succumbs to the Gor'glurin's Horrific Appearance feels as though their organs are shifting around within their body, becoming nauseated for 1 round, and sickening them for 1d4 rounds after.

Infectious Detonation (Ex): When the Gor'glurin is reduced to 0 HP, it explodes gruesomely. All creatures within 10ft of it must make a DC 19 Reflex save or take 2d8 bludgeoning and 1d8 Acid damage from the spraying viscera, and all creatures within 30ft must save against its disease as its spores spray in every direction. A Gor'glurin which has fully consumed its host's soul (see Flailing Host, above) can use this ability at any time it wishes by destroying itself as a full-round action, causing the same damaging explosion but spraying its spores in a 100ft cloud instead. In addition, the qlippoth will typically seek a high position to use this ability from, spreading its spores to the wind and potentially infecting creatures miles away (at the DMs discretion).

[ginogirolimoni]

Il 10 giugno del 1981 un bambino di 6 anni, Alfredino Rampi cadde accidentalmente in un pozzo artesiano e scivolò ad una profondità di circa 60 metri, in località Vermicino a Frascati.

Nonostante si fossero attivati tutti i soccorsi disponibili per tre giorni e diversi speleologi rischiarono la vita per trarlo fuori, il bambino mori dopo tre giorni.

Il fatto destò un enorme interesse, mobilitò molte persone e la Rai fece la diretta televisiva per ore; sebbene gran parte di quelle persone fossero mobilitate da una curiosità morbosa e fossero attratte più dal dolore e dalla disgrazia e non dalla pietà, nonostante tutto l’assembramento creatosi ostacolasse i soccorsi più di quanto li agevolasse, nessuno osò dire allora: chi paga per tutto questo dispiegamento di uomini e di mezzi?

Siamo diventati davvero così cinici e meschini e ci siamo imbarbariti così tanto da pensare chi paga nella vicenda della speleologa Ottavia Piana salvata di recente da una grotta nel bergamasco in cui era intrappolata? 

[maximura]

Hm. I've noticed a thing in dance practice videos. There's always one clown doing moves that nobody else is doing.

If you're learning new choreo, you can't look at San because he's always doing something non-approved. You have to look at Wooyoung or Yunho to check how the sequence was originally written to be.

You can't look at Hyunjin because he's always going at 200% and it's just not realistic. You have to look at Minho because he's doing it properly, like the underrated and perfectly balanced legend he is.

You can't look at Ni-Ki because it's like he was given a whole different choreo compared to the others, one that demands 60% more flexibility and has 80% more thrusting for some reason. You have to look at Heeseung for the sane and board approved reference version.

Incidentally, these are all the losers who make everything look so good. So what do I know.