i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven’t had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there’s somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they’re the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they’re possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can’t tell me that.
on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they’re free for all the town to pick whenever they’d like.
someone comes up behind us. It’s the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn’t Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren’t making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don’t do piracy or something ok please
people might think creating OC lore involves a lot of thinking & planning, but in my personal experience, OC development is more like a divine vision from a god slamming you over the head with a mallet while ur doing the fuckin dishes or folding laundry
You know, as the concept of “zombifying fungi” becomes more and more popular, I notice it still referred to everywhere as like a “brain parasite.” So I guess a lot of people overlooked or forgot how in 2019 it was discovered that cordyceps and other similar fungal parasites leave the brain and nervous system completely untouched. They only control the muscles. They use chemical signals to make the muscles flex in real time where they want to go :)
It’s funny how many people are replying “but that’s worse!” like you didn’t know that’s exactly why I put a smiley
on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport the first person on the moon went there by accident and promptly died. The next dozen or so people also went by accident, and also died. Number 14 figured out that people who go to the moon die and very cleverly brought a sword and six weeks of travel rations. This did not help.
No one on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport ever figured out why people die in space because they don’t need airplanes and never found it particularly interesting to climb tall mountains. Astronomers use telescopes to take pictures of the ever-growing pile of corpses on the moon.
“why don’t they teleport back” because they’re not on the planet where everyone can teleport anymore. try to keep up dumbass
yes! these are usually referred to as niche perfumes because they’re not really meant to be marketable or enjoyable to most people. they’re more akin to collector’s art pieces, rather than something you’re meant to wear.
toskovat is really interesting - he’s a romanian perfumer whose perfumes are meant to tell stories about different traumas. each one comes with a different short story.
for example, inexcusable evil - the one with the blood and iodine and concrete and gunpowder - is supposed to be about war:
each note is meant to be a different aspect of war: blood & iodine from amputated limbs, concrete from collapsed buildings, gunpowder and ozone from the guns firing.
another one of his i find interesting is age of innocence:
which, according to the description, is about about a car accident that kills a child:
what’s interesting is that the perfume is designed to change as you wear it. when you first spray it, it smells like very sweet bubblegum and cotton candy. the gasoline, burnt rubber, and metal get stronger and stronger as it dries. there’s a beginning, middle, and end.
it’s all very interesting!
more generally than that, there’s a lot of different reasons why bad smelling perfumes exist.
some of them react completely differently to peoples’ body chemistry. breath of god by lush is one i’ve posted that has this problem. for some people, it smells like a refreshing, smoky herbs. but for whatever reason, when other people try to wear it, it turns into nothing but smoke and cat pee on their skin.
a lot of others end up being controversial because they’re animalic, which is exactly what it sounds like. historically, people made these fragrances using ingredients derived straight from animals, like castoreum (oil from a beaver’s anal glands) and ambergris (waxy waste product expelled by sperm whales). nowadays, they’re almost always synthetic for ethical reasons. adding a little bit of animal to perfumes can make them smell more complicated and sexual (apparently - i’ve never been a fan), but too much will make it smell like straight up barnyard. what counts as “too much” depends on person to person.
“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”
“childlike sense of wonder” this and that. Personally, I’m cultivating my elderly sense of wonder. Hence my excitement over a perfectly ordinary bird in my backyard or an above-average-sized vegetable.
This isn’t about whether you think it’s likely that you’ll die in this body of water; it’s about which body of water you would give the right to take you.
