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Writes fic about JGL's and Tom Hardy's myriad fictional incarnations. Blogs about comics and films every now and then.

[cradleghost]

Saw those bts photos and had a need

[cradleghost]

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[glumshoe]

Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.

[greatrazinsofthesunne]

For your consideration: cornfields

[glumshoe]

Cornfields are less mystical than wheat fields but more mystical than soybean fields. Two-bit monsters congregate in corn fields to eat people, but their power is nothing compared to the things that manifest in wheat fields. 

[systlin]

Have been in both wheat and cornfields; can confirm. Cornfields host monsters who eat people. Wheat fields attract old gods. 

[whadyameanhesdead]

I have a theory that this is because the notions most of us have of “old gods” are pretty intrinsically European, and wheat was (and is) the staple crop of European life. It is quite literally tied to the ancestral rituals and beliefs of most white people. Odin, the Morrigan, and even Zeus are actually linked to a set of peoples who cultivated wheat.

Meanwhile, corn (maize) is a crop native to the Americas. It features in the white cultural imagination in a very different way. Corn is a motif seen not in our ancestral myths, but in a much newer genre: the American Gothic. With its focus on the tensions between man and nature and—perhaps more importantly—the United States’s history of genocide against its indigenous population and trade in enslaved Africans, the American Gothic is VERY preoccupied with agriculture. Our monsters come out of corn fields because corn is a symbol for not only what we did to the Native Americans (who were the first to grow the crop), but of what we are doing to the very land itself. Corn is a monument to our cultural sins.

Meanwhile, I suspect that corn features very differently in the imaginations of people of color. If you asked a Native American person or a Latinx person what sort of mysticism they associate with corn fields, I imagine their answer would be very different than ours.

TLDR: White people associate wheat with our ancestors’ gods because our ancestors grew wheat. We associate corn with terrible monsters because it is a literal sign of our own monstrosity.

[moniquill]

Native American here, can confirm that small plots of corn feel safe and homey; ideally they should be interplanted with other crops. You find turkeys and possums and raccoons in the corn. It might tell you important knowledge.

However.

Giant monocultures of corn, where the corn grows unbroken for miles and miles, not near human habitation, devoid of local wildlife, just corn on corn in the soft wind? Corn mega monocultures? Those sound like screaming.

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

“monocultures attract people-eating monsters” is not the take I expected to see today but I’m glad I saw it

[dressesandalchemy]

The anthropological analysis and discussion on folklore is spot on. 10/10

[roseofmyeye]

Corn lore

[criterioncollected]

I AM A SECOND CHILD

season 1 - the bear / joseph gordon-levitt (@melt-in-places)

[uzuriartonline]

“To me, my X-Men.”

[ayeforscotland]

I hope the AI scrapers like pornbots cause there’s no way those are opting out

[ayeforscotland]

I know I made it but I've laughed at this every single fucking time someone's reblogged it and I've clicked the notification.

[ikarakie]

if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light

[deepshitpostsnine]

Me n the boys heading into 2024

[ninja-potato-shelby-solomons]

[dandelionfool]

(they are Not getting work done)

[carpethedamndiem]

[ruushes]

sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)

plus:

[secondlina]

She regrets nothing.

Please check out Crow Time for more immaculate bird vibes.

[dullahandyke]

Shoutout to incredibly contrived set-ups for kink stories, I respect the grind so much. One time I was frolicking in a field of flowers and I found a fic whose summary started w 'IN A WORLD WHERE THE LOSING ATTORNEY HAS TO SUCK OFF THEIR OPPOSITION' and it's been stuck on my mind ever since

[inkedmyths]

One of the hard parts about being a writer with a vivid imagination is that there are So Many Ideas, and they fall into so many categories, such as

Fics I want to write

Fics I want to read

There is just One Scene and I could write it but it would be waaaay more cool if I had all the build up to the scene but unfortunately. I can only figure out the Scene

I keep changing my mind. Where am I going with this

This has been done a million times before. But. Hear me out

I will 100% Never Write This. This is just my Emotional Support Idea no one can ever know about bc it makes sense only to me

Would be better as a comic...

This will be my magnum opus if I can just get my 50 pages of ideas into a coherent narrative

All I have are vibes

And, of course

WIP I started and haven't updated in 2 years and oh god its beEN TWO YEARS???

[benepla-deactivated20200506]

fav customer is old gay man who’s lived in boystown since the 70s. he was talking abt how he used to be basically a skinny twink who killed at clubs. i said “must be tough to be gorgeous” and he said “well i was gorgeous!” and i said “no you still are!!” and he said “oh please. when i come out of the shower and see myself in the mirror i sit shiva”

[batshit-auspol]

Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen