#possible burial

[canisalbus]

i've returned for 2 seconds to tell you that they're not leaving my head. (sort of unrelated but i've been thinking as well. what if vasco died before machete ? what would go down)

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[jr-skeleton]

being goth will really have you saying shit like "yeah I've been really into The Shroud lately" like yeah okay nachzehrer go off

[batcavescolony]

I just explained this to someone and I thought I'd make a post for it on here too.

Shrouds in Percy Jackson are like this right?

But their siblings decorate and make them out of silks with decorative embellishments on them?

The empty ones are burned after a quest to symbolise that the person they were made for came back from a quest ALIVE.

The lack of cemetery at chb shows that when they burn Silena, Charlie, Luke, Lee, Castor, everyone's shrouds, they have their bodies in them. They're being cremated.

[mengyaos-defence-attorney]

I love the Hualian adopting wwx as much as the next mentally ill gay but I also do think it would change his entire attitude towards certain things

Like

Wwx getting in trouble in the Cloud Recesses for the 200th time in a row:

You feel me?

[szilverer]

@kinslayersadvocate you just gave me an excuse to post this doodle i had lying around

sim! :3c the classic lampião-style cangaceiro is from the 1920's so he doesnt get to match it 100%, but he grew up no sertão raised by his father's group in the 1880's and is fiercely attached to his culture. thinking about him reacting in ptbr to london's weird bullshit sparks joy

[lecinea]

My goodness there is a lot of bullshit in the Jiang Cheng tag again.

[rara-is-trying-art]

Part 2/2 For maximum hurt <3

I swear this we will be right back to my One Piece bullshit don't worry!

[ghostsockinit]

the evil indie game dev in my head keeps showing me tragic metaphors for loss via dreams structured like end of chapter minigames

[pigswithwings]

alright this one is a bit dark but. current spin sooo . out of the following options how would you most like to be remembered & reasoning if you'd like

sentient ai of you in a big computer

tree grown out of your grave/with your body

ashes scattered (where?)

bones fossilized for display

buried regularly / mausoleum

used to grow biodegradable bricks out of mushrooms

traditional burial

other?

FOSSILISE ME CAPTAIN

[wonder-worker]

It seems [Edward IV] wanted a form of tomb that included a figure of himself in death – a cadaver, a permanent memento mori for others, 'as I am so will ye be' – beneath a figure of himself alive, a double-tiered tomb which would include a chanty chapel and an altar.

— Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, "Laments for the Death of Edward IV: 'It was a world to see him ride about'"

[dayurno]

general hcs for aftg zombie apocalypse? me i think kevin would try to be leader but unfortunately no one would listen to him/take him seriously :(

now i think if we’re talking like a few years into the apocalypse then it gets interesting like how the characters would change physically like….and what weapons would they use!! they’d def run into people who use exy rackets as weapons and kevin would be disgusted with them i think.

i LOVE apocalypse aus but none center kevin or write him right i wanna know what you’d think he’d be like in one

SUCH A FUN ASK THANK YOUUUUUUU! first of all your idea for kevin is so funny i have to concede. its true no one would care for him at all even if he tries.... honestly though (thinking hard) i think what kevin lacks in leader charisma he makes up for in the department of giving the rest of the group a Reason To Live and creating schedule and purpose where there is neither, so maybe he ummm...... well he's not gonna be the leader of the pack but he can be like the mascot. the shiny thing to cling to. you know what i mean. kevin's indomitable human spirit!

not to be guy who is kandreil pilled but i do think kevin would be very important for andrew and neil to live beyond the survival! i will put a dollar in the kevin day bird motif jar for this but in a way hed be like their little canary in a coal mine... while the crew travels i think kevin would be the one to point out the scenery or the bits of history along or to go over peoples houses and find pieces of life that are useful and maybe even endearing. and yeah hed hate the racquets as weapons! the complaining and the grumbling about it is not as annoying as andreil thought it would be (they are pleasantly surprised kevin still has it in him to care about anything)

AHHH sorry u asked for fun hcs and i gave you a long poem about kevin day being everyones special little boy lets see hmmm... of course andrew has the knives but i think he would eventually pick up something more violent as the world falls deeper in despair. a mallet perhaps? a hammer? something heavy! neil would i think do well with a gun and not actual hand to hand combat, sniping behind them....... i think kevin would also have a weapon of sorts something like a switchblade or a baseball bat. non-lethal but definitely harmful

[t-u-i-t-c]

[beforeliteracytherewasdeez]

Me: This job you're telling me, the one in the middle of nowhere and away from every big city in the state... Well, I checked the map, and you'd actually be closer to this big city in the neighboring state

My girlfriend: I will not be going there

Me: There's a Jewish community

My girlfriend: I will be going there

[saints-who-never-existed]

“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often forever.

Earth! – Earth! – Earth!

Earth with thy folds, and hollows, and holes, into which a man may fling himself and crouch down. In the spasm of terror, under the hailing of annihilation, in the bellowing death of the explosions, O Earth, thou grantest us the great resisting surge of new-won life. Our being, almost utterly carried away by the fury of the storm, streams back through our hands from thee, and we, thy redeemed ones, bury ourselves in thee, and through the long minutes in a mute agony of hope bite into thee with our lips!”

– All Quiet On the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

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[burdellen]

the uffington horse is incredible, partly also because of its position in an ancient landscape!

it's very close to uffington castle, which is not a castle, it's a bronze age hill fort, possibly made by the same people who made the horse, at a time when the use of horses was really just starting in britain.

just below the horse is dragon hill, an artificially flattened hillock (likely iron age), which legend states is where saint george slew the dragon.

passing by uffington castle is the ridgeway, an ancient long-distance trackway that crosses england's southern chalk downs, from east to west, on an upland route that avoided what would have been areas of undrained marsh on the flats. the ridgeway also takes in avebury stone circle, which is the largest stone circle in the world (big enough to have a village in the middle of it) and part of a vast complex of ancient monuments. parts of the ridgeway are believed to be 5000 years old, and it continued to be used by the romans and then by medieval (and post-medieval) drovers, people who drove livestock long distances on foot to reach markets. it's now a national trail.

just a few miles from uffington, along the ridgeway, is wayland's smithy, actually an early neolithic chambered long barrow, said in legend to have been the forge of wayland, a germanic smith-god.

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

[homunculus-argument]

No wait, random worldbuilding idea:

A people who have an age-old tradition, that when warriors left home to go to war, their family that remains home prepare funeral goods for them while they wait, sewing them the clothes and preparing the tools and all that they will be buried with - to emotionally prepare them to the hard possibility that the one who left will not return home alive. If the warrior returns, their burial goods are all burned in a bonfire that is lit for the celebration of their return.

And to this modern day, mothers of the culture will tell their children "fine, but let me take your measures for burial clothes before you go" as a way of telling them that something they're about to do is lethally stupid. Sharing stories about just how dramatic their mothers are, someone tells their group of friends that his mother once actually took out a measuring tape to start taking his measures when he said he's leaving home for a work trip.

And another one goes "pfft, yeah. This one time I went to a rock concert and came back home to mom sitting on her sewing machine, fucking making me a funeral coat."