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mutuals do this!!!!

me to a certain someone

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Jack-o'-lanterns have such a grab bag of lore, i love it

Fire, of course, has a long history of offering protection from evil forces. During the Celtic festival of Samhain (from which many Halloween traditions originate), the veil between worlds was considered thin, and ritual bonfires reminded the spooks to stay on their side of the lane.

Many a lantern has protected the lonely traveler on a dark moonless night. But lanterns can be dangerous too—especially the supernatural ones. in certain folklore 'jack-o'-lantern' was another name for will-o'-the-wisps, atmospheric ghost lights (or as legend has it, lost souls) that appear above bogs and lure unwise wanderers into sinkholes.

Then there's the 18th cent Irish folktale of Stingy Jack, a mischievous fellow who tricked the Devil twice, exacting a promise that hell would never claim his soul. So Jack goes on his cheerful way, and dies (as humans are prone to do), and ends up at the pearly gates. Now Heaven, it turns out, doesn't want a damn thing to do with him. So Jack jaunts on down and goes knocking on the gates of hell—only to have Satan slam the door in his face! How this leads to Stingy Jack being doomed to wander the earth carrying a hollowed out rutabaga lit by an ember of the flames of hell, I couldn't tell you. But that is how the story goes.

Whether the legend of Stingy Jack inspired or fueled or was created-by the gourd-carving practice, by the 19th cent, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh alike were annually carving jack-o'-lanterns out of turnips & rutabaga & beets & potatoes, and lighting them up to ward off Jack and other wandering spirits. Immigrants carried the tradition to North America, where pumpkins were indigenous and much easier to carve.

And so the modern Jack-o'-Lantern was born!

Not that gourd lanterns were anything new. Metalwork was expensive, after all, and gourds worked as-well-as and better-than-most crops when it came to carving a poor farmer's lantern.

As for carving human faces into vegetables, that supposedly goes back thousands of years in certain Celtic cultures. It may even have evolved from head veneration, or been used to represent the severed skulls of enemies defeated in battle. Or maybe not! Like many human traditions, jack-o'-lanterns evolved over multiple eras and cultures and regions, in some ways we can trace and others we can only guess at. But at the end of the day, it makes a damn good story, and a spooky way to celebrate—which is as good a reason as any (and a better reason than most!) to keep a tradition going.

In conclusion: happy spooky season, and remind me to tell yall about plastered human skulls one of these days 🎃

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happy ocotober

i've went a little ham on the microsoft paint tonight so i wont ham no longer

what it says if its too small:

"in memory of the strawberry i eated today"

"this stinker doesn't get colored!!!!! take that"

@solpuyo told me how to upload images better

fanart part 2 (heart eyes emoji)

My kirby fanart

Ples don’t you not real blog I mean don not repost I mean do not steal 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

HELL YEAH! GIRBY

What do Melanie Martinez and February 28 have in common? They don’t exist

What’s to stop me from going to an apple orchard during fruiting season and take a bite? Just a mouthful. I didn’t steal the whole apple, just a bite.

I redededesigned King dededededede de what you think 🤔

art is my passion

‘Tis my Kirby portrait.

:3 uwu!!! I wuv colon threeing

reblog this post if you're strong enough to :3 in 2023

I want a bar of the chocolate they put in mint chocolate chip ice cream

This one will be a real hit with thy ladies

i think the milk at my school is turning me lactose intolerant

just graduated therapy

hey why is my phone so light shouldn’t it be noticeable in my hand???

i hate you. rage courses through my veins like icy lava. you scum, you foul, foul bass.

i remember in my first AC New Leaf save I had Deli and he was my favorite and I talked to him every day and then one day, after a lot of time jumping, he moved out and I cried. I was behind my grandparents couch with my Nintendo 2DS, sobbing on the screen while I hear “Lunch is ready!” I walk in, face puffy as I sip my chocolate milkshake. I miss Deli the monkey.

i don’t know

last day of gay month :(

waddle wednesday

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Today’s Gender

(found on my kitchen floor)