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SOUP! SOUP! SOUP!

mutuals do this!!!!

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me to a certain someone

pspspspspspsspss come here

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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

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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"

#bologna #kirby #marx #i like to eat ham #im kinda ungry #kirby fanart

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@solpuyo told me how to upload images better

fanart part 2 (heart eyes emoji)

#king dedede #kirby #escargoon #hoshii no kaabii #i really like pickles my mom bought me more #i worked very gard on this pls like

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My kirby fanart

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

#kirby #meta knight #star rod #hoshii no kaabii #I just murdered my wife #stars

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HELL YEAH! GIRBY

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

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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.

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I redededesigned King dededededede de what you think 🤔

#dedede #king dedede #waddlededede #hisroyalhighnesskingdedede

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art is my passion

#meta knight #good art #Kirby #halberd

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‘Tis my Kirby portrait.

#kirby #hoshii no kaabii #pink demon #look at them

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:3 uwu!!! I wuv colon threeing

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

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

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This one will be a real hit with thy ladies

#kirby #waddle dee wednesday #sailor dee