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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • The circumstances of the universe and it’s existence in many ways lead to this image being created. Aeons passed, planets died, and earth had uncountable creature live and die apon it’s surface. All of this concurred and lead to the inextricable creation of this image via cause and effect from the time of the big bang, and yet I fucking hate it.





  • I don’t think most people under the age of 80 know, but I grew up around old bastards and am into antiques so it just kinda stuck out to me.

    Have a rather fancy ice box from the 1890s that would’ve used metal shelves you put ice between which would then cool and keep an insulated cubbard chilled refrigerating the food within, between that and the fact it had a hose to drain the cold water which gather in a lower sub area as the ice melted it’d be about as good as a modern ice chest though you’d have to fill it with new ice every morning. Though it’s currently being used for clothes storage.









  • It also doesn’t help that Lovecraft was at the tail end of an old style of writing while in many ways being a forerunner of a newer style. Makes his works kinda clunky if that makes sense, like I get the same feeling from Mark Twain for example. So the tedium probably comes from being not quite old not quite modern where it just ends up awkward, also tack on the fact he was revolutionizing suspense in a lot of ways and yeah… Not fun.


  • Just gonna add to your point but with a slightly different factor. Fanfiction, the Harry Potter fandom had a massive chunk that was almost entirely devoted to fanfiction from smut to viscous deconstruction it existed. This means that folks may have legit grown to respect fanfiction Slytherin and to a degree forgotten about the book/movie version because they were exposed to an entirely different interpretation.

    Also for those who don’t believe me go to A03, Fanfiction dot net, or fuck even space battle forums and look at the sheer numbers. It’s right fucken absurd to a degree, ain’t judging I’m a bitch for star wars fanfics but still it’s easy to forget just how big that section of the Harry Potter fandom was.