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beer bottle castle enthusiast; too dead to bury.

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According to this, Magnús Stephensen was of the opinion that the northern lights awakened the power of people's imaginations exceedingly. The belief in the reddish northern lights as a forewarning of misfortune doubtless bears the explanation in the colour of the lights that may occasionally resemble blood. Such an example can be seen in the description of reddish lights in the sky that split up and took upon themselves on the one hand the colour of the blood of the living and on the other that of the dead. The description recalls the older narrative mentioned earlier, recorded in an annal from the seventeenth or eighteenth century about the fishermen. Completely red northern lights in the sky are rarer than green, blue and violet, and it is understandable that they have been granted predictive power, at least beyond more common colours, and many examples show that red northern lights were considered blazes (Akasofu 1979:13). In the nineteenth century, people were aware of the belief that blood-red northern lights were thought to be an omen of good weather conditions, and that faint, ruddy northern lights foreboded snow (Sigurður Ægisson 2001:B 13). In his travel account, Richard F. Burton says that the Icelanders used to call scarlet red northern lights lofteldur [skyfire], and that they predicted losses." -Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir, from "Of Wavering Flames and Fires: Northern Lights in Icelandic Sources"
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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did not get to see them personally, but since a lot of people apparently saw a red sky this evening:
"Generally it was especially red northern lights that were associated with misfortune, though it has not been in all cases. In Scandinavia, testimonies about red northern lights were already recorded in the period between 1538 and 1602 by Joen Petri Klint, where they are specifically associated with war and even red clothes and burning blood (Gustafsson 2018:126-28). In Iceland, reddish light heralded uncommon events, such as war or strife and, moreover, volcanic eruptions and seasonal weather conditions. It was thought that the belief in red northern lights as an augur of conflict was common anywhere they were seen, and from the testimony of Magnús Stephensen it is clear that the same understanding was in place in Iceland in the eighteenth century. On the other hand, he criticizes the old superstition that is related to what is known as northern redness [norðurroði] and northern lights, as if they had something to do with conflicts, plagues, and the like. He says (Magnús Stephensen 1783:164-165): At nordr-rodinn bodi fyrir stríd, blóds-úthellingu, drepsótt edr hallæri; og at sá skuli gánga af vitinu, sem stari á norðr-liós edr stiørnur, eru gamlar kerlinga-villur og fíflslig hiátru, sem á eingum foeti stendr; eingu at sídr er hún nógu krøptug til at giøra allrahanda síonhverfingar, og sýna uppi í loptinu strídandi her, elldlig vopn og vagna, og annat þeßháttar. [That northern redness boded conflict, the spilling of blood, plague or famine; and that people would go out of their wits if they stared at the northern lights or stars, are old wives' tales and foolish superstitions, which do not stand on solid ground; still they are strong enough to cause all kinds of optical illusions, and reflect in the heavens combatting armies, fiery weapons and wagons, and other things of this kind.]
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it
The cover of Sturgill Simpson's album "SOUND & FURY." On it is a car with old car radio buttons on the grille, driving away from a massive mushroom cloud of fire erupting within a cityscape.
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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@thiefofvoices.bsky.social we're good to go; will get back to that DM after they free me from the egg nog mines later this morning
A still from the George Romero movie "Knightriders," with a helmeted and masked person driving an old motorcycle with a sidecar. The sidecar is carrying another helmeted person brandishing a large metal hammer.
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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tonight's edition of "could a depressed person make THIS- apparently yes."

figured I've studded enough straight lines in my life so we'd try something else this time; WIP and the whole edge won't be as jumbled, but decent proof of concept so far imo
A close-up shot of a black back patch with a blue/white glitch design on a black jacket. The corner is bordered with an assortment of oxidized and gunmetal studs.
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I meant to do this earlier but got caught up in impending-AFI-show-time-blindness but *points* two nickels!!!!
The front cover of the Blanck Mass album "World Eater," on a record being pulled off of a shelf containing many others. The cover has a close up picture of a dog's teeth snarling on it.
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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the norns sharing our musical recommendations
Three figures in black hooded robes face a projector screen that has three other figures in black hooded robes on it while performing a chaos magic ritual that uses videoconferencing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
A promotional shot for the 1995 movie Hackers, with the six protagonist hackers leaning against a wall covered in looped wire and staring with various degrees of skepticism at the camera.
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre?
Right answers only.
An illustration from the Icelandic manuscript Nks 1867 4to, of the god Óðinn, disguised as Bölverkr, standing by while Baugi uses an auger named Rati to drill into Hnitbjörg. This scene is from the theft of the mead of poetry myth in Skáldskaparmál in Snorri's Edda.
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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very in the "Rugrats dad making pudding" vein but over my weekend I ended up deep cleaning this thing. one nice/weird discovery is that I have more storage than shit; some of the storage (like empty totes) is just taking up floorspace

nice to look over and not see 3yrs of built up junk tho, ngl
A black storage cabinet with 9 square cubbies, filled with various records, DVDs, tapes, and CDs. There is a small record player and speakers on top of the cabinet.
October 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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she usually takes a nap around 4:30-5 but lately she seems to enjoy the full "tucked into the covers with a head smooch" experience for it as well
A small black cat sleeping with their head tucked in beneath a black comforter. A sleepy black cat. They have one eye half open and their head poking out from under a red comforter. A small black cat sleeping, with their head poking out from under a red comforter.
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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oof yeah that's rough. I'm trying something similar on the concert/morale front but I have them pretty spaced out/no big events preceding (I know it would probably be a PitA, but y'all are welcome to join me @ the Denver show)
A meme of Ryan Gosling looking forlorn in a white T-shirt, with the text "When you accidentally socialized on the weekend n now you have to disappear for the next 3 months in order to restore your aura" above him.
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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A screenshot of the poem "To The Stone-Cutters" by Robinson Jeffers. Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore-defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly: For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth dies, the brave sun Die blind, his heart blackening: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey peace in old poems.
October 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Post a non-religious photo that you think of as holy
October 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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admittedly stopped to take this because the wind/dark walk home added a little something, but these guys do this every morning. so not specifically ominous beyond the fact that you usually can't -see- where most of them are.
October 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I have to presume this is indeed happening to a lot of other people possibly dealing with it with more grace than me, but my main mindfuck experience of the last decade or so has been seeing shit first in a small subcultural context rebubble up into a national headline, but man I am so tired of it
A panel from a comic based on the video game Bloodborne, with the Hunter kneeling and saying "To sleep. I desire to sleep. Forever."
October 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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still feels weird to get excited about going "home." see prev posts and about 30 years of not ever really being excited about that general concept. it's definitely not bad. just still strange

anyway, long shot view of Riverview Cemetery and the foothills that's hard to get off the rails
October 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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had the room until noon and did manage to drag my ass out beforehand to visit an old friend or two, which was nice. suspect my shirt may be somewhat geographically confused at this point but we're headed back home/west in 1.5 hrs
Three sculptures of brightly colored harlequin trapeze artists in an alley. They are suspended at various heights as if swinging across from building to building. Chicago skyline as seen from the BP Bridge over Hwy 41. Under the Cloudgate sculpture at Millennium Park in Chicago, a vortex of curved mirrored surfaces. A person taking a picture of their reflection in the bottom of the Cloudgate sculpture.
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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nature doing its own glitch job yesterday in the corn maze
October 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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relatedly I really need to get my hands on that book, but as a pleasant semi-related surprise the usually meh-at-best book pile in the room actually had this in it and I'm half tempted to ask if I can just throw them a few bucks and take it home
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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that said much as the year of licking past wounds was prob necessary, at some point you do start to ouroboros on yourself. or I do. and at least over said year I figured/worked out a lot of process shit so it wasn't all bad

but alright alright alright probably time to crawl out of the grave again
October 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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forgot to check one scheduling thing and it's not the end of the world but I still feel somewhat bleh for doing so considering it required some alternate plan making. that said this was an excellent palate... distractor, at least, and I need that on occasion
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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great news I brought a thing. used to be a sticker; put one thin coat/weird semi bioelectric looking glob on before hitting it with rust/paint, then a few more recoats (personally might not have gone with quite as much glitter but Venger wanted to Participate so, y'know)
September 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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currently leaving Omaha; sleep levels about as good as it looks
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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correction: just checked and apparently they're planning on making up another 2 hrs between here and Chicago in which case I just get an hour knocked off my layover. fingers crossed
September 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM