they pick up animals from people who rescue them or from shelters to kill them. Black cats being common ones but not necessarily the only ones. If the priest thats scamming them tells them they need to kill a large dog naked at moonlight and they see one rescued dog on twitter looking for a home they'll go "what luck! the stars are aligned!" and go pick up that dog for the sacrifice.
Wish i had some. i recount about it mostly through lived experience and knowing a lot of local animal people when i was younger. That stuff hardly ever gets any media attention here in venezuela , specially since crime is already so common most of it is not reported on and outside in places like the USA it is extremely whitewashed ans ties to poc sjw politics now, santeria is seen as some grassroots afro caribbean fight the power identity politics crap . Maybe they do only kill goats with a kosher permit there but things get wild the more south you go. Sjws writting about it are like usually disregard how descentralized and syncretic santero cults are so they always go "akshually the yoruba lore says you can't sacrifice this animal that way and so so Not True Scotsman DEBUNK and if you hate paleria you are a nazi bigot white supremacist ignorant conspiracy theorist who hates wakandan culture check your priviledge, downvote" but even stuff like having female priests and gay people is purely revisionism and western santeros will still frame it as a feminist lgbt friendly religion though by their logic that is not true yoruba either.
I guess the case of Jesus Constanzo in Mexico is the one most notorious but the only reason it was brought to light was because he killed an american tourist to feed the nganga. Otherwise even he went completely under the radar and would have continue that way working the cartels were not for crossing that line. Similar types are very common and even middle class people have stories of some crazy santero coming to them trying to get money saying they are cursed and offering some crazy ritual with exotic ingredients to get back at the source of the curse. (Happened to my dad after a dumb series of life events i wont go in. Witch was told to go fuck herself but other people do pay and do believe in that stuff,) There is a hard incentive for making up rituals with sacrifices, exotic animals, bones. Hard to find stuff. The more sensational the more money they charge and the more well connected with crime the more they get away with it and can procure their bones and exotic animals And in santeria is all about money money money. Is the one dogma across all denominations, everything is 100% transactional. Is the most consoom religion except maybe for televangelists
I was always told growing up that black cats were sacrificed by Satanists who I always imagined were pasty white edgelords wearing black with pentagram necklaces. I never knew it was actually a group of really weird black people LARPing as voodoo priests..
Hahaha I love this wacky funko man. He's a like a Chris-chan from another life, a crazy autistic hoarder, but in a strange twist has a comic store and manages to move enough plastic to keep the lights on. He doesn't have to e-beg, but instead he has a circle of equally autistic friends looking to lap up his plastic leftovers.
What he said about the inevitable crash of funkos is pure gold. He straight-up doesn't care that funkos will crash, and his argument is that he sells weird outdated stuff anyway. He talks about profit margins and how cheap some of his inventory is compared to funkos, but somehow forgets that he's already spent a huge upfront cost on funkos, and how he's in deep shit if those stop moving.
I also love how he reads some of these names. Really shows how removed he is from the media that each funko represents, but it's gotta go in the collection. He straight up won't read names of some of the anime ones because "people will get mad at me" for pronouncing it wrong.
Something I forgot to mention earlier when talking about plant consoomers, was scamming in the plant community.
Video about the trend of selling leaf cuttings that don't grow.
Video about chemically treating plants to make them appear like rare variants.
Timestamped this video to skip over repeat information. Another video about fake plant products.
I have a morbid fascination with Funko Pops and have found a new “favorite” channel, Top Pops.
I think I like him more because his face doesn’t give me the heeby-jeebies like Funko Man’s creepy beard does.
But the one thing I picked up from this video is that this nigga stacks his entire collection two layers thick. As in like, each shelf has an entire layer that’s completely covered up and hidden from view.
Something about that just rubs me the wrong way, the idea of buying something not even to display it, but to hide it behind other shit.
I have a morbid fascination with Funko Pops and have found a new “favorite” channel, Top Pops.
I think I like him more because his face doesn’t give me the heeby-jeebies like Funko Man’s creepy beard does.
But the one thing I picked up from this video is that this nigga stacks his entire collection two layers thick. As in like, each shelf has an entire layer that’s completely covered up and hidden from view.
Something about that just rubs me the wrong way, the idea of buying something not even to display it, but to hide it behind other shit.
No, I think Funko Pops are shit. I just find the humans that consoom them to be fascinating in their own way, and through watching their videos have learned quite a bit about Funko pops.
I wouldn’t call it hate-watching because I don’t really have any “hate” for anything other than Funko Man’s disaster of a beard. I guess I enjoy it the same way one might enjoy an animal documentary.
Is like the cottagecore trend where they just take a bunch of old lady hobbies like baking, gardening and stiching and rebrand them for zoomers sprinkled with sjw bullshit for clout and incorporating a ton of advertising and expensive shit that was never necessary to begin with. Nothing can be left untouched , all need to be assimilated, even houseplants of all things.
If the "cottagecore" people were actually sat out in the middle of the woods and had to build their cottage and live off the land, they'd cry and scream and stomp their feet. They want all of the aesthetics and idealized fantasy of something, and none of the effort.
If the "cottagecore" people were actually sat out in the middle of the woods and had to build their cottage and live off the land, they'd cry and scream and stomp their feet. They want all of the aesthetics and idealized fantasy of something, and none of the effort.
Is like all those fancy high class cosmopolitans salons in 19th century europe where rich people drank champagne around paintings of pastoral people doing peasant things. Nowadays people get those views from advertising. Brand of flour is not just a generic flour made in a factory farm by underpaid illegals, is an earthy product of our god given soil brought to us by our noble peasantry with the values of the good old days because we love our country so buy Flour™ the real rustic flavor for real cowboys. Cue in the horses , the lady in the sundress dancing in golden fields of wheat
Holy shit. Does it feel like there are much more Disney superfans then we expected? Disney is doing a great job at marketing nostalgia.
We need good stories, be it fairy tales, folk stories, tragedies or other shit but it seems that outsourcing that to companies like Disney was a mistake.
On January 30, 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill man who thought the ad campaign was a personal attack on himself, entered a Domino's restaurant in Chamblee, Georgia, armed with a .357 Magnum and held two employees hostage for over five hours. After telling the employees that Domino's owner Tom Monaghan had stolen his name, he forced them to call Domino's headquarters and demand $100,000 and a white limousine as getaway transportation. After offering to exchange one hostage for a copy of The Widow's Son, Noid reneged on his offer after a police officer brought him the book. Noid eventually became hungry and forced the employees to make him two special pizzas. While Noid ate the pizzas with his gun in his lap, the hostages escaped. Noid surrendered to the police shortly after. Two shots were fired by Kenneth during the incident. After the incident, Police Chief Reed Miller told reporters, "He's paranoid." Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion, and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Noid spent time in a mental institution, but committed suicide in 1995. This incident has been insinuated to have caused Domino's Pizza to discontinue advertising using the Noid as their mascot, though this has been rejected by the company and advertisers.
Ironically enough that's also what Tumblr ”activists” want. They want to be treated like the next MLK just for signing a few petitions and retweeting a post by a troon asking for money.
Disneyland, California's world-famous theme park, reopened to excited and emotional visitors Friday after an unprecedented 13-month closure in what tourism officials hope is a sign of the state's rebound from the pandemic.
The reopening came just four months after the nation's most populous state was struggling to combat a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations that packed patients into outdoor tents and killed hundreds of people each day.
Some visitors cheered and screamed with happiness as they entered Disneyland, with a few visitors even seen crying with emotion....
...Zach Bolger, 35, is among them. Before the closure, he took the half-hour drive down from Los Angeles County two or three times a week with his girlfriend, whom he met trading collectible pins at Disneyland.
'Just walking down Main Street and looking at the bricks on Main Street and looking at the stores or up at Walt's window with the candle in it, all those things bring us a lot of happiness,' said Bolger, who has opening tickets for the park.
'We're definitely looking forward to the rides, but if Disneyland opened up and said, 'All rides are closed, you can only walk around,' we still would have bought tickets.'
Theres something similar with certain artists who have wall to wall covered in expensive copic markers, expensive tubes of oil paint, expensive cans of spray paint, the latest imac, the latest Cintiq and their actual art looks like it was made by a 10 yr old with downs syndrome.
There's some artcows who are like this and are laughingstock, they keep doing unboxings and showcases of art supplies they will never use or won't even use properly because their art is basic af. A beginner can have all the supplies they need from some office store to draw every day for weeks for like 10 bucks, that really doesn't matter for someone who doesn't even have their foundation studies down and just needs to draw a lot.
i don't remember any names right now, i avoid arttube like the plague but Baylee Jae comes to mind.
That Betty Boop commercial is criminally bad.
It's hard for me to watch these commercials without thinking of this.
Speaking of strange nostalgia, Dominos brought the Noid back and he is fucking ugly.
Hahaha I love this wacky funko man. He's a like a Chris-chan from another life, a crazy autistic hoarder, but in a strange twist has a comic store and manages to move enough plastic to keep the lights on. He doesn't have to e-beg, but instead he has a circle of equally autistic friends looking to lap up his plastic leftovers.
What he said about the inevitable crash of funkos is pure gold. He straight-up doesn't care that funkos will crash, and his argument is that he sells weird outdated stuff anyway. He talks about profit margins and how cheap some of his inventory is compared to funkos, but somehow forgets that he's already spent a huge upfront cost on funkos, and how he's in deep shit if those stop moving.
I also love how he reads some of these names. Really shows how removed he is from the media that each funko represents, but it's gotta go in the collection. He straight up won't read names of some of the anime ones because "people will get mad at me" for pronouncing it wrong.
Something I forgot to mention earlier when talking about plant consoomers, was scamming in the plant community.
Video about the trend of selling leaf cuttings that don't grow.
Video about chemically treating plants to make them appear like rare variants.
Timestamped this video to skip over repeat information. Another video about fake plant products.
Headline: "VIDEO: You May Need Tissues for Disney’s Latest TikTok"
The video in question: View attachment 2134823
More videos from the grand reopening that apparently warrants international news stories.
Those official videos. They're really forcing all employees to 'social distance' and wear the mask still? And I'm assuming they already required them to vaccinate and wait. And they also appear to be forcing patrons to also at least mask up. What the hell was the point of the wait, then?
Is the third video in the long videos tab an actual official tiktok from Disney? Do they think that is good for their image? Watching a manchild kick and scream around various locations?
Disney is actually these people's religions. Waking up at 6 am to go to disney, buying everything they wear and most of what they own there, even as far as 'neeeeeeeding' to go there just to eat food. I've been to disney. Don't remember the food being anything special other than being overpriced. In fact, absolutely everything is. You can see this in the star wars store video. A god damn stick with a lamp on it costs the price of a cheap smartphone, and these people eat it up. And it's something that's probably just going to be hung on a wall for the remainder of the time it's owned by them or put into storage. What does Disney have other than theming of their parks?
It's not just Disney; because we, as a society, turned away from God and are looking for someone to fill His place, lots of people deify consooming or ideologies.