Watching a movie called One Big Snake. Right away, it shows off one big snake. Not a giant snake, or a huge snake, but a big snake. So far it's 10/10 on delivering what it promised.
I can't say for sure if One Big Snake is a better film than Together, but the first thing the family does on discovering giant snake eggs (film cancelled there are going to be multiple big snakes) is to LEAVE and call an exterminator the next day. Maybe I'm asking too little but I think you have to hand it to them for reacting in a slightly sensible way.
Mom you are awfully skeptical about your son having seen a giant snake for someone who found basketball sized reptile eggs 24 hours ago.
Both parents are like, sorry slothful teenage son, our reaction to giant reptile eggs is normal and correct, but we need not trouble ourselves with your claims of sighting a giant egg laying reptile. No more hotel wi-fi for you. Which on reflection is a pretty realistic parent reaction.
I feel as if this movie is hinting at some kind of weresnake situation, don't ask, there's far too much going on to get into all that, so I went to look up information about it and I think it may have been released as "Snake Infestation" but in Charlie Steeds' illustrious career of what can only be called weapons grade schlock, there's no movie called One Big Snake. It exists in a state of almost complete internet blackout aside from Tubi.
We have reached the critical stage of "make the rubber snake look like it's chewing on a dude by having the actor kpve around to jiggle the snake" stage. This snake is wreaking a highly respectable amount of chaos truth be told. High marks for having such a cheap effect kick so much ass.
Oh man. There's baby giant snakes, and they're adorable!
I don't want to get too excited but dad just set out a chainsaw, two huge knives, and a nailgun on a workbench like Eleanor fucking Ripley. And a buzz saw with the steel chair???
The flannel shirt is OFF dad is pissed now.
You probably shouldn't watch this one if you're a big fan of reptiles, also content warning for a lot of animal death.
Like, the good luck charms that many baseball fans practice are absolutely a form of ritual magic from an anthropological standpoint, there's no question there, but imagine what American baseball would look like if Protestants didn't have this whole hangup about ritual magic being Satanic and thus didn't need to maintain plausible deniability. Just openly casting curses on the opposing team, Roman style.
I believe with the recent Etsy Witch situation, it could be argued that we are moving in the direction of Openly Casting Spells For Teams. Still a bit to go towards fans engaging in ritual in the stands, but I 100% believe American society can get there.
That is neither a positive or negative statement, just an observation about the trends in our society, and the intensity with which people identify with The Sportsteams.
Yeah, the Etsy witch thing still falls safely within the bounds of plausible deniability; folks selling spellcasting services on Etsy are popularly understood as offering an entertainment service, so you can play it off as a goof if you have to. It's a far cry from fans openly getting together to inscribe exploding scrotum curses on leaden tablets; I don't share your optimism that we'll get there soon, but I'd love to be proven wrong!
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I was just thinking about the old Japanese censorship laws that gave birth to tentacle porn...
So for anyone not in the know, the Japanese government decided to fight perversion with censorship.
Specifically you weren't allowed to draw penises.
So they drew things that WEREN'T penises instead. Like tentacles. Fast forward to today and tentacle porn is an entire standalone genre with thousands upon thousands of examples and enjoyers.
The attempt at censorship did not quell perversion, it only caused it to mutate.
And now I'm thinking about tumblr's decision to ban porn and of all the people leaving captions under videos of heavy machinery and industrial accidents like "I need someone to do this to me" and "this wouldn't fix me but it would help" or "everything reminds me of her"
All this to say that without porn on Tumblr
The perverts are mutating again
if i think for too long about how VAL's introduction to both the characters and the audience is a scene where she's demonstrably proven to be capable of using the power of a god to force people to believe her lies, and therefore it's reasonable to conclude that you shouldn't believe a word she says and consider yourself lucky if you can still exercise that judgement, rendering her with effectively zero nonviolent or noninvasive options to convince people to listen to her, i start to feel so sick i can't move. here's the power to make anyone believe you, which means that no one will ever actually believe you!
i think it's really telling as well that carson immediately takes advantage of this to psychologically and sexually abuse shrue by using her as an objectified tool to achieve that. like idk it just says something that a man in a position of authority and near-total impunity's first assertion of that dominance and the threat it poses to his subjects should they consider openly questioning it is a blatantly misogynistic and extremely violating act of public humiliation using the mutilated body of a dehumanised woman.
do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light
sometimes a post makes you get out of bed at 230am to spend a quick hour on something like this
[Image description: A color image in portrait orientation. The background transitions smoothly from a starfield on black at the top, through dark blue, medium blue, lighter blue, then back to medium, dark, and another starfield at the bottom. In the very center is a black silhouette of a human figure, appearing to float on its back as on the surface of water. Above it in the blue "sky" area are a curved, thin white line like the contrail of a jet aircraft, and two small black silhouettes of seabirds. Below in the deep dark blue, just before the starfield, are some silhouettes of fish. /end description]
When I was 11, I got to see the Hope Diamond in person and my first thought was “youch, that’s tacky” and you know what? I just looked at it and it still is. They butchered that gorgeous diamond and that neckless is ugly as fuck.
everybody is saying it in the notes but I’d be cursed too if they trapped me in this ugly tacky setting. plastic pirate’s booty prop jewelry.
debating if it would be funnier to have a bumper sticker saying "my other ride is a [exact make and model of the car the sticker is on]" or "my other ride is a [equally shitty but different car]"
2008 Honda Civic with the bumper sticker "My other ride is a 2007 Honda Civic"
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The key to understanding history and geopolitics is to remember: just because one side is bad, doesn't mean the other side is good
Just because an official narrative is suspect doesn’t mean the most popular counter narrative is automatically true
One thing you should do is save up the money for a really nice pair of boots. Make sure they're properly sized, comfortable, provide ankle support, and are made of real leather or rawhide. Here in the US you can get army combat boots from like surplus stores pretty easy and those are decent; I've been maintaining the same pair of ACU summer boots for about 15 years now. Otherwise anything marketed as a work or hiking boot should be sufficient if it's well-constructed and meets the above criteria. I don't recommend steelies or metatarsals because they can be kinda hard on your feet after a few miles' march but they'll do if that's all you've got. Also get a boot kit with a brush, oil, etc., put them away clean and dry in an open and well-ventilated space when you take them off, clean and oil them regularly. Also get a tube of shoe goo and some thimbles and leatherworker's needles (the mattress and sailcloth needles in most sewing kits will usually suffice if ur strong).
Boots. Think abt it.