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EXCLUSIVE JERSEY DEVIL EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT As the Executive Producer of "The Legend Lives: The True Story Of The Jersey Devil", I'm thrilled
The Jersey Devil: EXCLUSIVE JERSEY DEVIL EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT.....
PINEYS: Audience Interest Survey
Hi all, one of my close friends is finally making the film project that he's had in the oven for a long time, and has launched a brief audience interest survey for anyone who would like to stay updated on the project or provide support. The synopsis of the film is below:
Ten years ago, trans man Avery left his rural New Jersey hometown and never looked back. When he returns on the night of his high school reunion, Avery struggles to reconnect with a place he no longer recognizes and with people who no longer recognize him. To make things worse, a supernatural force seems to be warping the town's memories—and even reality itself. With both his past and present at stake, an encounter with the legendary Jersey Devil sends Avery and his former best friend on a surreal journey to discover what might have been if their lives had turned out differently—and what they might have lost along the way. Pineys is Ryan Coogler's Sinners meets Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow: a feature-length, horror-tinged narrative drama about returning home, (un)belonging, and the alienation of growing up queer and trans in a small town. Set against the haunted real-world landscape of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Pineys uses theatre, puppetry, and folklore to explore a little-understood region and the people who, growing up there, feel little-understood themselves.
in my free time, ive been working on yet another comic i will never finish nor give context for
Friendly reminder to anyone playing Havenfall Is For Lovers on Lovestruck: JD is not a cryptid, everyone from the pine barrens looks like that.
ignorant thoughts on ignorance
I am not a smart man. Before I go any further, it must be recorded that not only am I not a smart man, I know I am not a smart man.
I’m just smart enough to:
Know how ignorant I am.
Be embarrassed at how little I used to question things.
Engage in a really riveting argument with 8 year olds.
That being said, why are we so bad at accepting beliefs that are different than the ones we already have? I don’t even mean when someone tries to convince you their way of seeing the world is the right way. Trying to convince someone they are wrong is a fool’s errand. That is a journey of self-discovery each person must take on their own.
No, I mean the discovery that somebody believes something that is different than what you believe. I grew up with a very simple set of beliefs that can all be boiled down to “nobody is going to look out for you like you are.”
It was only recently that I started asking questions that may or may not have any provable answers. How did we get here? Why are we here?
Magic is real. I did not grow up believing in it, but I have seen it, I have stolen knowledge of it, and I have begun practicing it. I can feel it when I use it. I feel a connection to something bigger than me, but what is it? Is it simply an aspect of nature we haven’t fully explored and discovered yet? Am I connecting to a forgotten, unknown deity?
The Piney, Skyler tells me, do not believe in gods or goddesses. They are beings of magic, though. Who they are and what they can do comes from the forest. It’s something, she says, anyone can open themselves to, but it is not easily and readily apparent. It takes time. Skyler is cut off from this magic.
She will not tell me why or how that’s possible, only that she does not think she will ever be welcomed back. She is an exile from her community and from the forest. It has softened her, she says, weakened her. She feels more human than piney these days. But she could never blend in as a human and the pineys will not have her. She is a person without a people.
“Which is fine,” she says. “The complete and utter hostility pineys have for anyone who isn’t one of them -- who doesn’t believe what they believe, who maybe worships a god or goddess or who lives by a code that doesn’t respect the forest and every living thing in it as its top priority or tenet . . .” Skyler shook her head, looking more exhausted than disgusted. “They can be a very warm an open and accepting people, willing to help in whatever way they can . . . as long as you’re one of them.”
It’s what keeps them in the woods, what keeps them separate -- not that they would be greeted with open arms should they choose to come out. It’s hard to imagine the different races of men and their myriad of belief systems having much room or acceptance for the pineys.
But why? If a person is not hurting someone else, what does it matter what they believe? We all speak different languages and while that can lead to misunderstandings, they are rarely anything beyond a mild frustration. Is a world view anything other than just a different way to describe something? Is it not just a different language?
We love to learn other languages! How many times have I seen someone’s eyes light up when they learn a foreign phrase? They’re suddenly able to express something new — not just make a new sound but an actual, new idea. Or they’re finally able to express something they’ve always known, always felt, but their language doesn’t have a word for it.
Yet when we presented with an opportunity to learn how another culture explains or understands aspects of life, we get angry. We get defensive. We build walls. We see it as a challenge or attack on us personally.
I’m not a smart man, so maybe I’ll never understand why, but WHY!?
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