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thepleasuregoblin

You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

deletededed-direwolf

If there's one vampire, it's horror. If there's 100+ and they have politics, it's urban fantasy.

razielim

that's it that's the nutshell genai is in

internetslug

cyborb

arceus day…

thoughtcascades

you are allowed to outgrow the version of yourself everyone else got comfortable with

blue-pikmin-gaming

WHY is there a huge exspolion ebery time i cut an atom in half. is it me? am i th prabelm?

pokemon

Here's a dancing Totodile to brighten your day ☀️

fulda-gap-express

who is the Toronto baseball warlock

sheepiebeepie-deactivated202603

Dj sepsis playing the deep cuts that get under your skin

derinthescarletpescatarian

the-little-armored-one

thestuffedalligator

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

dementian

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)

impossiblepackage

this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.

liminalbeauty

In trad Irish music circles knowing more songs than anyone else gives more relative prestige than just playing well.

I’d argue that this comes from the Irish bardic tradition, where a Harper was graded by how many songs they knew. I forget off the top of my head exactly how it went (it’s been well over 15 years since was into this), but a top-level Harper had to know at least 300 songs by heart. All information was memorized- poetry, laws, religion… everything. It was a largely pre-literate society. (Ogham was used for boundary stones and grave markers only until the 14th century romantic renaissance).

And since Appalachia had a high number of Irish immigrants this is a very logical tale.

this-is-not-a-slow-burn

Dear reader, if you don't already know, please read up on how the American music genres known as bluegrass, country, folk, americana, (and many more) are rooted in the folk songs brought here by the Irish immigrants of the Appalachia, and how all of these genres are related and connected.

Listening to bluegrass and Irish folk songs makes the connection very clear with even the barest of attention.

It's dearly interesting.

higglety

You should also read up on how those traditions mingled specifically with African American music traditions that enslaved peoples brought with them from their home cultures. The banjo, for example, is an evolution of an African instrument. In dance, too, there is an African American stepping which is closely related to Irish stepping, which come together in Appalachain clog dance (which is associated with bluegrass) and eventually evolved into modern tap dance. Bluegrass (and from it, modern country music) doesn't exist without both African AND Irish Americans.

moethh

die die die

rememberlemons

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javascript-official

Fuck this job man, I sentenced this guy called Theseus to life in prison for murder and then I get a call from the prison that he has systematically replaced every organ in his body including his brain and is now claiming he is not the same person who committed the crime. They are letting him go free, fuck this. Worst of all is he also then took all of the parts that he discarded and made a second Theseus who is also claiming he did not commit the crime and they are also being let free. Now there's two of them out there and you just KNOW they are murdering people and then having gay sex. I fucking quit man...