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Albin Grau (1884–1971) - Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, 1922

advert artwork from Czech film exhibitors’ book, c. 1926

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running errands like kurt vonnegut

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American Tastefood - Yakuza 0 (2015)

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I'm in St. Joseph, Missouri. Went to a few museums here, all oddly curated.

The town is entirely made of one-way streets so you have to have to drive like some kind of brain puzzle.

Also saw Temple Adath Joseph, the recently closed last synagogue in the city, down from a historic five.

Apparently, there were three waves, starting with a German reform congregation in the late 1860s that came with the massive German immigration to the state, followed by Russian Jews, and then a group from Poland and Lithuania that continued into the 20s. Somewhere down the line, around 1900ish, a Conservative congregation formed and the non-Russian Eastern Europeans briefly wanted their own synagogue.

The city is pretty eerie. Rather Southern Gothic feeling, with big estates and old houses in states of decay, frozen with this odd blend of 1860s and 1970s aesthetics. It's sprawling but feels empty and haunted, especially in this early spring Missouri weather.

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I hate Bruce's "I don't kill because once I start, I wouldn't be able to stop"

Like I simply do not buy it. Murder is not a potato chip Bruce. I think he is full of shit and a messy bitch who lives for the drama. I am certain Bruce has some kind of valid reason for not killing, but I don't believe that this is it.

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Spellcasters hate this fact but if you just stick your fingers in their mouth while they're casting a spell with a verbal component it's literally more effective than a counter spell.

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a talk with monkey

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Facts about your body after you turn 25, AKA things I wish someone had told me:

you will get hair in fun new places. this is normal and fine.

these places include (but are not limited to) if you don't already have them: your asscrack, your back, your ears, and moles. it's fine.

some of you, dick or not, will also lose hair. this is normal, but also if you have ovaries maybe get this checked out for PCOS.

your acne will probably change. some people get better. some people get worse. it's fine.

your nails will probably get an infection or a fungus at least once in your life. this is fine. (but also let your doc know).

how you gain and lose fat and where you do so will change. this is fine.

how you smell will change. this is fine. (fishy or rotten smells mean doctor time though)

if you have a prostate: it gets harder to pee. prostates enlarge as you age (get this checked regularly). this is fine.

if you do not have a prostate: it gets easier to pee but not in a good way. as in as you get older, your pelvic floor muscles tend to lose some of their strength. this makes it harder to keep pee in. this is fine.

all breasts and pectorals eventually sag, with the rest of your body. this is fine.

a decent percent of the population will experience a cyst at least once. some of you will make up for the rest with multiple. this is fine, but keep them checked out by a doctor. (sometimes this is a condition! get checked for that too!)

almost half of everyone gets hemorrhoids. it's a good idea to just expect them since your chances of getting them get higher the older you are. your toilet will look like a murder scene. definitely get your booty checked out BUT this is almost always perfectly normal. just eat more fiber. "but I already-" eat more fiber. and maybe suck it up and buy some hemorrhoid cream, you'll thank me later.

yes, this means you will probably need to make an appointment for a doctor to see your butthole. it's okay. not only do they really not care but 1. they've seen weirder that day and 2. they'd far rather you see them now than later when it's been going on for forty years and now it might be colon cancer. it's okay. consider it a rite of passage.

adults need more sleep than children. don't believe the myth that you need less than they do. that is capitalist propaganda to make you give up more of your life to the work grind, comrade.

vitamins and medicine, something you are more likely to take as you get older, sometimes make the toilet turn weird colors. it's okay.

if you still have your tonsils and get those little stones and get sore throats more than once a year you should plan on getting those suckers out before the tonsils cause an infection and go septic. if you're getting stones at all you should get those reevaluated every year, especially if the stones are bigger than a needlehead (or get bigger over time). it's gross and yucky. I don't care. get them looked at before you end up in the hospital.

you'll probably need to add foot support to your shoes if you don't already do. this is fine.

your body changes. sometimes it can feel sorta weird and upsetting that it isn't what it used to be. that is okay, and it is okay to be upset. just know that this is normal, it's normal to be upset or not upset, but don't let it hinder your quality of life. trans or cis, there is a certain level of acceptance you just gotta give your body and forgive your body for as you get older. it's okay.

it's okay. I promise.

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Rammstein - Zick Zack

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Was watching a video of people playing R.E.P.O., the players struggling to move a tall, thin box that gains damage if not kept upright, and was suddenly struck by the memory of posts you've made about old-school D&D having segments regarding the logistics of getting loot out of dungeons.

... I don't really have any greater thought to expound on there, unfortunately.

I maintain that you haven't truly played old-school Dungeons & Dragons until you've found yourself trying to to recover an 11th Dynasty aristocratic dining table from the fifth level of a dungeon without scratching the finish and all of the encumbrance, travel, light source, and random encounter rules are in play.

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love watching ad services fumble my identity based on my most recent browser history. went on a multi-week research binge on west african diaspora religions and now half my ads are dietary supplements for hoteps with ai generated swole anubis labels and names like pharaoh phuel

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Lewis Pulsipher’s rules for playing a pack of blink dogs as a single player character in AD&D (from “My Life as a Werebear:  D&D Monster Character Classes”, White Dwarf 17, Feb/Mar 1980; with Tom Wham’s illustration)  The same article covered werebear, lammasu, and stone giant PCs.

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