“I’m going to drive through Appalachia, should I be scared of the inbred hill folk and the cryptids? 😱😱😱😱” no bitch, be scared of sliding off a mountain into a valley and not being found for months or years.
they’re going to be insinuating Bigfoot got you in YouTube docs while your Ford Taurus is upside down at the bottom of a mountain
The Western US has guard rails everywhere they could possibly be needed, but in Appalachia, guard rails are for sissies
I think a lot of us would like to have guard rails. It’s not a matter of pride but a matter of infamously shitty and neglected civil infrastructure in Appalachia as a product of local corruption and perpetual state underfunding.
In 1977, the mayor of Vulcan West Virginia wrote to the Soviet Union and East Germany requesting foreign aid to replace the only bridge leading into town, an old swinging footbridge that had collapsed. This was the final straw that forced the West Virginia Legislature to cough up $1.3 million dollars to replace the bridge. Not the fact residents had been fording the river or using unsecured crossings to get to their homes for two years, the bad press generated by a Soviet journalist visiting the area to assess the situation.
It’s been almost 50 years since that and to be honest not much has changed. A lot of the bridges that would have been considered unsound at that time are still up and being driven over everyday.
Driving on poorly maintained roads over flat land is scary enough but driving on a poorly maintained, cracked, potholed, far too narrow road up the side of a mountain with a sheer drop and no guard rail is enough to give anyone a panic attack. Driving over 125+ year old, narrow, rusty one lane bridges that span rushing rocky rivers is something you SHOULD be scared of in Appalachia.
I love that mayor. He’s my new hero. The BALLS you’d need to do that during the Cold War.
I totally understand why the infrastructure issues are dominating the comments but can we also talk about the stereotype that this hypothetical person believes about the PEOPLE and called them “inbred hill folk” like WTF 🙄🙄🙄
In my experience, the hill folk are often quite nice and not significantly more inbred than the average person.
Actually, the inbred hill folk stereotype has its roots in bigoted negative beliefs about West Virginia specifically, which is especially odd because West Virginia actually has stricter anti-consanguinity laws than many other US states. A lot of Americans would sooner believe a whole state suffers from dysgenic illness than consider the possibility of structural causes.
I’m Appalachian and there is a great degree of consanguinity in my bloodline and inherited genetic illness, not because we enjoy cousinfucking heartily but because my family lived in the same isolated area for 250 years and married into the same 6 nearby families. This is, of course, improving in the modern day. When you live in an area of rough terrain in a small rural community and you’re dirt poor with no way out, your only marital prospect may be your 3rd cousin and this may go on long enough for it to become a problem genetically speaking. This occurs in a lot of isolated communities, due to geographical isolation or social isolation due to bigotry. It’s not a mark of failing morals or backwardsness, it was born out of survival.
Also, this stereotype makes it really, really hard for survivors of incest to get help. Appalachian people are afraid of conforming to a stereotype. Plenty of Black people are convinced incest is a white person thing and that it doesn’t happen to Black people, which makes it harder to find a therapist or get sympathy.
Incest can occur in any group and isn’t more common in any demographic.
It’s really traumatic for the survivors and their families.
Please, please stop making incest jokes. It’s objectively, provably harmful.
Men will literally study Paracelsus, translate 1600s alchemical texts and distill potions for melancholy before going to therapy
Ok but legit the actual video is so good and goes pretty in depth of how they actually did it. It was a “potion for melancholy” and he explains some history behind it, including how much knowledge they really did have about certain plants and herbs and the benefits behind them. It goes into the process of This Particular way of extracting those plants properties(oils and stuff I think through distillation??). Pleeaaaaase go watch it if it sounds even slightly interesting to you. And he also does really try it.
Honestly just go listen to some of his videos. He’s great.
This is my legit favorite YouTuber. His entire channel is scholarly discussions on ancient and medieval religions, magic, the occult, and philosophy. he literally has a PhD in this stuff and provides a ton of information on how to find resources for further reading on topics
very, very often i delete large chunks of text before i submit my posts. you mother fuckers ought to be grateful that i care about dashboard etiquette, otherwise the deluge of near meaningless rhetorical meandering would NEVER see its end.
“The story tells you what happens” acceptable, expected, standard fare.
“They story never tells you what happens but the implications are there” losing my mind, chewing the drywall, punching patrons on the bus, throwing myself in the river
If you do this though people will message you for clarifications until the end of time
In fairness they will also do this about things that are perfectly clear in the text
Yeah it’s obvious that I’m treated differently than my friends who are cis men . When we go out to meet people guys are like HEY MANNN and DUDE and BRO to my friends and then I enter and they’re like ✨aww look a sweet little innocent BOY I pinch his cheeks a cute wittle BOY❤️✨ like SUDDENLY the voice changed that they talk to me in??? and it’s really annoying but my cis men friends are fucking awesome to me and they will call it out if they see me being treated like that LOL I am one of the guys and I love my cis friends too are great allies and I love them for sticking up for me like holy shit I’m lucky oh my god.
I can shapeshift with no need for following law of conservation of matter, and no issues of animal instincts like animorphs, and be visually indistinguishable from an actual specimen of what I shapeshift into.
You can only do that if you are wearing sage green socks on a Monday.
I can melt into the shadows to disappear, like if I do do something cringe.
You can only do that one minute after doing something you would consider “cringe.”
I can teleport, with no ill effects from conservation of energy, conservation of mass, and with a 0% chance of ending up inside already occupied space.
You break a random bone every time you teleport
I can completely control the subatomic constructions of matter, no restraints.
Cure cancer, turn an apple into gold, turn air into water, whatever you want.
You have every sickness and can’t cure them
I have the ability to swap bodies with anyone and retain all my memories and information
you also gain a random chronic illness, like digestive problems or bad joints.
complete control over all energy, including converting it into matter and vice versa
For conversions by your method, E = mc**2 is converted to E = mc**10, causing any mass converted to energy to be an extreme amount.
I can shapeshift into any given form, real or false, ignoring the laws of physics for said transformation and also retaining my ordinary intelligence, thought patterns and overall mentally being identical aside from the fact that I will know exactly how to use the body I shapeshift into. I can do this at any time with no restrictions on when, how, where, why and what I can transform into.
Everything sweet now tastes sour
I can teleport into any fictional universe I want and be a main character at said universe. This world will stay frozen until I get back, in the fictional universe I don’t age
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer isn’t a very good superpower
No I was just doing a side-effect
Prostate cancer to you as well
I can push the course of events at any scale into whatever direction I wish by automatically altering the results of anything that humanity could possibly chalk up to random chance into the results that further the direction I’ve decided (basically fate manipulation, but with plausible deniability)
I was just telling my coworkers today about how part of the official Passover cedar is literally summoning an ancient ghost to get drunk with you and I didn’t quite realize how wild Judaism is until I had to explain that
Objection: Elijah never died, so whatever he is, it isn’t a ghost.
look i googled “passover elijah” and this is the first image result
if it looks like a ghost and quacks like a ghost it’s a fuckin g ghost
That’s my grandpa
Elijah Never Died He Tucked His Arms And Legs Into His Belley. Curled Up Into A Ball. And He Just Rolled Away.
We have no conclusive proof that Elijah wasn’t always eight feet tall and translucent.
Hot dog water - there’s a Tumblr post out there I’ve seen saying hot dog water is the opposite of holy water, due to the fact that a single drop of it will contaminate what it touches. I assume this was partly inspired by this allusion but who knows for sure.
Also the the idea of holy water as inhuman and cleaning vs hot dog water as the remains of feeding someone - often a child - and entirely human. It may be dirty and I do not want it on me but God hot dog water has some memories. You will not wash away my sins. They’re mine. Also, anyone can make hot dog water but holy water is refined, restricted (yes anyone can make it in an emergency but lay people are restricted from it)
“you and I both know”
Unlike baptism for babies, this one is done between two people who are both aware of what is happening. The one receiving the baptism gives the orders about what they want to happen. The giver and receiver are portrayed as equals. They are equally aware of their humanity.
“the holy stuff won’t take”
Ooof heartbreaking, amazing line. Raises so many questions. What does it mean when the water “takes”? What has the receiver done that makes them unfit for holy water? Or, what has the holy water done that makes it to weak to help, to be a part of your life?
The poem as a whole - I love the lack of capitalization. It adds a sort of intimacy to the poem, and the statement from the speaker. The high words “baptise” and “holy” being offset by “take” and “hot dog”. Also “hot dog water” vs “holy stuff.” The cadence! I would lick it.
I love the serious analysis, and I think I find it persuasive.
This also sheds a lot of light on some plot points in Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
Not to turn this into another house full of chintz, but I'mma fuck this poem on the floor.
Meter
There are two readings of the poem’s meter that I immediately identify, the first is how I’d want to read it, and the second is how a normal person would probably read it, but both make the same point.
In my interpretation (left), the first line is four wholely irregular feet: an iamb into a dibrach into two trochees; The second line is two trouches into a hanging stressed syllable; And the third line is three iambs.
In the more normal interpretation(right), the first line and second line are six trochees all together plus that hanging syllable in ‘knowing’ which transitions the poem to iambic trimeter.
And look at the interesting result of that laid bare:
In English poetry there’s a tradition, all other things being equal, that iambs are considered the sophisticated foot with trochees often being contrasted as the vulgar or common foot.
The vulgar in specificity “hot dog water” is put in trochee, while the respectably vague “the holy stuff” is afforded iambs. Without the poet having thought of the stress things the pattern actively, this incapulation of the English poetic tradition is astounding. Especially when you consider the
Chiasmus
Chiasmus is a figure of rhetorical construction, in which two pairs of ideas are laid across each other, A B B A. It’s one of the more popular figures of rhetoric and if you’re looking for it you’ll see it everywhere.
In the most literal sense, it’s about repetition; but, you can apply it more liberally to ideas, thoughts, or in this case, parts of speech:
The nouns and verb pairs in the first and third lines crossover each other. They are in chiasmus. Structurally, the inversion makes the poem feel more solid, while still furthering emphasizing the contrast between the idea of hot dog water and the holy stuff.
Opening with a command and closing with a result.
as soon as I find the perfect fabric this bitch is getting cross stitched right on it
You cannot live alone on the fantasies you feed to your mind, eventually you have to touch your life for real, assess and analyze your habits, understand your character, try not to hate yourself for your character as it was shaped when you were very young by circumstances outside of you, and begin learning how to cope with your character, how to build habits that work for you, finish small projects, finish big projects, expose yourself to more uncomfortable situations, assess why you want to leave that friendship before you leave it, raise your anxiety levels on purpose, so that you can grow, raise your work load on purpose, so that you can grow, so that you can build resilience, so that your life expands, and can be experienced by you in full and in reality
when artist consistently draws the same pattern of things for a long time like… Puppies or something.. and then gets interested in skeletons and starts consistently drawing skeletons….
Thats when a lot of people start to really be mean or show entitlement it’s clear they view artists as “art dispenser” and not and actual person with a consciousness that flows like a river. It’s like they think the art machine is broken and it used to give me puppy art but it’s broken now and I get skeleton art so someone should fix it ?
People go through phases of things they like sometimes people really are into something for years and then they’re into something else for years and then they go back to the old thing for a week and then they do something else again
Artists aren’t brands they aren’t corporations you aren’t consuming them … They’re human people and they’re trying to connect or get thoughts out or any number of reasons to create and share things and a lot of artists aren’t even interested in making money off it..
when artist consistently draws the same pattern of things for a long time like… Puppies or something.. and then gets interested in skeletons and starts consistently drawing skeletons….
Thats when a lot of people start to really be mean or show entitlement it’s clear they view artists as “art dispenser” and not and actual person with a consciousness that flows like a river. It’s like they think the art machine is broken and it used to give me puppy art but it’s broken now and I get skeleton art so someone should fix it ?
People go through phases of things they like sometimes people really are into something for years and then they’re into something else for years and then they go back to the old thing for a week and then they do something else again
Artists aren’t brands they aren’t corporations you aren’t consuming them … They’re human people and they’re trying to connect or get thoughts out or any number of reasons to create and share things and a lot of artists aren’t even interested in making money off it..
when artist consistently draws the same pattern of things for a long time like… Puppies or something.. and then gets interested in skeletons and starts consistently drawing skeletons….
Thats when a lot of people start to really be mean or show entitlement it’s clear they view artists as “art dispenser” and not and actual person with a consciousness that flows like a river. It’s like they think the art machine is broken and it used to give me puppy art but it’s broken now and I get skeleton art so someone should fix it ?
People go through phases of things they like sometimes people really are into something for years and then they’re into something else for years and then they go back to the old thing for a week and then they do something else again
Artists aren’t brands they aren’t corporations you aren’t consuming them … They’re human people and they’re trying to connect or get thoughts out or any number of reasons to create and share things and a lot of artists aren’t even interested in making money off it..
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman
This has 200k notes but none of you know the truth of the I Hate Rubber Boots Guy. This man lives in my city. He wears this outfit constantly. The Weird Toronto photo group has a ban on posting him because he’s always like this. He has done this for years. Every so often he buys a taller pair of rubber boots.
Rebloging with my own previous tags above again because i forgot to mention some stuff
Genuinely some of the kindest compliments I’ve ever received on a piece of my art; I had to reblog so I could thank you!!!! Means more than I can say when people type up whole paragraphs abt something I created. I’m very happy it means something to you. Thought I’d answer your question in the meantime: this was done on a 12x24 canvas, if I recall correctly! So, decently sized, but not too huge (cannot imagine the hell that would be). I spent roughly 2 weeks nonstop working on this I’d say? Put some major crunch time in due to the exhibition it was for being way closer than initially anticipated lol. And I did have to custom color mix all my colors ^^;; definitely took a huge chunk of my time…. but not quite as much as me having to redo a lot of my line art that kept getting painted over haha. Fun fact for you! The blue background is actually just the initial wash i had planned to put over everything! I planned to go back over it fully, and thicken it, but winded up liking the wash look too much so I kept it. Thank you again for being so nice
