I’ve been playing NMS too long I thought that was to increase or decrease purchase amount.
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Honestly, you’d be surprised at how little of either is required when you don’t have a choice. You find yourself in a very binary situation - either you fight back, or you give up and die.
When I was in hospital, I was on a ward with a bunch of other guys. A couple of them were no sicker than me, and yet they clearly weren’t going to make it - they’d given up. I find it incomprehensible that anyone would make that choice, but some people clearly do.
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I live with chronic pain. Back issues. I saw a post from a doctor about being kind to people because many are in pain but in denial about their condition. Well intentioned comment… A woman responded, I disagree. Every time I have a pain, I could run to the hospital and spend a few days there, have tests run, come away with the same results every time and spend all my days laying in a hospital or I can go hiking and keep busy enjoying what is left of my life. I don’t live in denial of my condition. I choose to live with the pain and enjoy what I have left.
I amen that thought.
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Roadtrip buddies! Highway Patrol will be pulling you over just to get selfies with 'em.
Motorways that straight are a myth in Europe. In Ireland particularly; it was considered bad luck to knock down Fairy Forts so our main roads take ridiculous routes around rather than through 
I don’t think we do that anymore though, but we have better reasons for guidelines with major road works and development. Not messing up the local biodiversity. Which I’m sure includes fairies 
I blame the toadstool for the fairy talk.
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Fairy forts are only part of it. On the family farm in Tyrone, they wouldn’t disturb the lonesome bush. There must be thousands of acres of land underused, for fear of upsetting the Sidhe.
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During the troubles superstitious people often got accused of hiding arms for the IRA '^_ ^
“Oh right, we cant dig up the fields because of a magical kingdom. Did Gerry Adams teach ya to lie like that? Now for the last time, where are the weapons buried?”
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Thanks…
Now I have a vision of Tinkerbell & her friends glittering in the evening air atop a fantasy castle wielding large automatic weapons & looking somewhat hopeful old Farmer Joe is going to try & plough his field.
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Would it help to know our word for Fairy basically just refers to the “spirit world” or ghouls and ghoblins and what have you? From a Puca to a Leprechaun, they’re all fairies.
The Aos Si (spelling?!) are I think our closest things to actual fairies or maybe even elves. They live in a parallel universe amongst the living accessed via the Fairy Forts. It has a name but I forget, basically a Celtic Otherworld between life and death, but it’s where you might find places like Tir Na Nog.
In Scotland they’re called the Aos Sith, which for sci fi fans, is obviously way cooler.
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Pssst, dude, are you insane? Do you have a deathwish? They’re the fair folk! Just… call them the fair folk, alright? Jesus, god knows what they’re gonna do when they hear you calling them names, you fool!
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As a youngling I was quite intiqued by legends & myths & fairy type lore. Admittedly, some decades later & I’m somewhat rusty as to all the nomenclature & details.
All over the world so many cultures have their own fascinating versions & cultural interweavings.
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I just imagine my own lore and pretend Willow and The Dark Crystal are set in the same world and are also just Ireland in the past. Also wherever the kid in Neverending story goes is the afterlife. Forget what any teacher told me about actual local myth and legend, tv cemented that in my head early, it’s not coming out. Not that it can’t it’s just fun to imagine and pretend I live in ignorant bliss
Maybe showing all those films to a toddler wasn’t the best move in hindsight… I’m sure I’ll be fine.
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The never ending story is basically an allegory of someone who gets obsessed with a story, is essentially forced to read it over and over and over again, finally starts writing fan fiction with themselves as the biggest marry sue protagonist ever, and loses themselves so much in this imagined world that they almost go insane (the very literal kind of insane). It’s a pretty dark book, actually, only offset by Bastian making it out in the end, clinging on to the barest shred of connection he still has to the real world.
The movie, incorporating only half the book and having had to come up with some satisfying ending, burries that point rather deep, I’m afraid.
And there is only that one movie. There never has been a movie of the second half of the book! I’ll fight you on this!
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My introduction to the tale was via the 80’s movie which was quite fun & wholesome.
The book however… 
There was a very stinky abomination though…
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I envy all of you and your wee fairy folk. All we have over here is bigfoot. And he stinks. I mean like really smelly stinky.
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When Europeans migrated into America, what on Earth makes you think the fairies didn’t come with them ?
We haven’t always lived here. 12,000 years ago, nobody lived in northern Europe - it was under a mile of ice. Where do you think our fairies came from?
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I stand corrected
Each Native American Tribe has their own name for them. To the Iroquois, they are called Jogahoh; to the Comanche, they are called Nunnupi and to the Cherokee, they are the Yunwi Tsundi.
Cindy Thorrington Haggerty of Indian heritage says the Little People are classified into three groups: the Dogwood People, the Laurel People and the Rock People. She said, “The Dogwood People are kind and always doing good things for people; the Laurel People are the ones always playing tricks and are mischievous; the Rock People are mean and should be avoided.”
Lula Owle, Cherokee Elder, told us about growing up on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, NC. She said when she and her mother would go into the forest to gather chestnuts, berries and greens, her mother would always caution her to watch for the “Little People” because the mean ones might do something bad to them. Lula said, “I never seen no little people” but she minded her mother and kept a keen eye as she gathered in the forest. Fellow researcher, Lamar Marshall, was hiking some Cherokee trails in the forest one day using his hand-held GPS. He said all of a sudden he felt like he was tripped and down he went into a small creek. When he got up, he searched diligently for his GPS. He never found it. He said the "Little People” took it.
Some tribes believe that in order to keep the Little People happy, one should leave a gift for the Little People before entering the forest. Jerry Wolfe, Elder of the Eastern Band of the Cherokees told us it was important to sprinkle tobacco on the ground before entering the forest as a payment to enter.
Legend says that the Little People like music and especially drumming, singing and dancing. The Cherokee legend says, “Sometimes their drums are heard in lonely places in the mountains, but it is not safe to follow it, for they do not like to be disturbed at home. They will throw a spell over the stranger so that he is bewildered and loses his way, and even if he finally gets back to the settlement he will be like one dazed forever after.” The legend goes on to say if you find something in the forest such as knife or trinket, you must ask the Little People if you can have it. If you don’t ask, they may throw stones at you on your way home.
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Final result armchair
Before & After
Buttons done! Added some additional filler to the seat towards the base. Attached a velcro strip to the back (loop) and cushion (hook).
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Van Gogh Immersive Experience
This would change every few seconds
Physically 3D
Van Gogh’s life thru his art
I actually forgot to keep snapping pics
It got rather intense as he sank into mental issues.
Then there was a VR trip thru his paintings with the Oculus. It was rather fun.
Now, look at this lion made of silver.
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