George Barker (1844-1894) ~ Niagara Falls, ca. 1888 Albumen silver print from glass negative | src The Met
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George Barker ~ Cave of the winds, ca. 1888. Rushing waterfalls leading down to a bridge with large rocks in the foreground. | Library of Congress
George Barker ~ [Niagara Falls], ca. 1888. Albumen print. View of Niagara Falls taken from the base of the falls, with large boulder in foreground and footbridge in the background. | src Getty Museum
Clive Barker: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the billionaire who
George Romero: boooo
Barker: shut up george let me finish
Romero: billionaires shouldn't be
Barker: oh my god LET ME FINISH
Romero: billionaires are bad
Barker: george where do you think i'm going with this story
Barker: do you think the point is gonna be that billionaires are good?
Romero:
Romero: only a dictatorship of the proletariat can stop the excesses of capital
Barker: so there's this super rich guy
Romero: only rich through the toil of the worker, i'll bet
Romero: labor is entitled to the value it creates!
Barker: oh my god will you stop interrupting me?
Poe: not so fun when it happens to you huh
Romero: you know what happens if the workers of the world unite?
Romero: they probably should, they only have one thing to lose
Dean Koontz: gosh, what's that?
Romero: their chains
Koontz: whoaaa
Barker: anyway there's this super rich guy
Barker: he's like
Barker: mega rich
Barker: like he's got like 20 scottish castles
Barker: each one with a room dedicated to big confectionery bins of bag-it-yourself candy
King: wow i didn't know you could be THAT rich
Barker: but get this
Barker: this rich guy is spiritually unfulfilled
Barker: you might find this surprising
Koontz: gosh i guess it goes to show money can't buy happiness
King: you sure said a mouthful, dean!
King: [to Poe] from the mouths of babes
Barker: so this rich guy decides to build a hell on earth to assuage his own spiritual torpor
King: wow clive that's wild!
King: where do you get your ideas?
Barker: oh you know just
Barker: just lookin' around
Barker: his whole plan is that the hell on earth will attract satan
Barker: so that will compel god to appear to rescue him
Barker: cuz he's the most important guy
Barker: you know, being rich and all
King: right, right
[meanwhile]
Elon Musk: eyyy mama mia
Musk: i feela da spiritually unfulfilled
Musk: i feela da spiritual torpor
Musk: what if i builda da hell on earth?
Musk: then da god, he come tella me i ama da good boy
Musk: looking into this
Musk: eyyyy i maka da hell on earth
Musk: with alla da besta torture implements
Musk: i calla it da x
Musk: now i waita for god to rescue me
[5 minutes later]
Musk: oops i torture alla da people!
Musk: disruptiano!
Musk: i wassa scared offa da roko's basilisk
Musk: but dissa whole time
Musk: da basilisk, he wassa me!!!
Musk: [looks in mirror, roko's basilisk reflected back] concerning!
♇ cancer in the first house, conveys about how an individual is first perceived by those who are around them, or by those they meet by the first time. those with cancer in the first angular house will have people think of them to be kept to themselves, private, comforting and protective of themselves and their surroundings. on the other hand, there can be people who'll have negative first perspectives of people who have cancer in the first house and view them to be individuals who are sarcastic and easily offended.
♇ touching the topic of self-identity, it is mostly believed that people with cancer in the first house self-identify themselves as people who are "nurturers" or even "protectors" protecting themselves, guarding the people around them along with their possessions, it could be viewed that whatever cancer is in someone's chart is where someone is most protective of, for example, an individual with cancer in the first house are protective over their life path, what they want to achieve in life, their identity and creations. let's look at angelina jolie, aside from her movies, we known for sure that she is protective over the name she makes of herself and that being a woman who cares about children and those in-need.
♇ along with the impression natives with cancer in the first house make to the audience, when opening up, these people give other people the idea that they are vulnerable and emotional behind that hard crab cloak and are individuals who are affectionate, devoted and sympathetic. it can be debated that people with cancer in the first house are viewed as "fake" because of the hard crab skin that hides their true identity under, other people could have the concept that the particular with cancer in the ascendant are like onions, every time you peel there's a layer.
♇ moving from the topic of how other natives perceive them and singularly to the topic of personality, the ascendant is one of the many things in astrology that conveys the persona stance of someone. it can be debated that cancerian people are comical, howbeit, their persona includes them being of hard-working, generous, nostalgic and sentimental. having the traits that are viewed as smothering, controlling or manipulative, this mostly comes down to the specific individual in if they want to become the best version of themselves, along with afflicted aspects with the ascendant.
♇ the planetary ruler of cancer is known to be the moon, the moon isnt really considered as a planet but in astrology it is viewed as a celestial planet. [along with the sun], with the moon being the ruling planet, this entails that there could be somewhat of a womanish grace every cancer rising has, it doesnt necessarily need to be something feminine but as something that could be viewed as sustenance and providing. that'll always have a handful of people looking up to the cancerian natives. the moon has always been worshipped so people with cancer in the first house might find themselves being adored a lot or might find themselves worshipping something or someone, could be themselves, their partners, a God, a celebrity etc.
♇ coming to what the first house is usually known about, the appearance, i have gathered that a lot of cancer ascendant natives have big eyes, or sometimes their features could be too big for their face, they're sometimes clowned about having a gerbil/baby face. aside from the young features, many cancer risings normally have pointy/long chins, or their chin just has a lot of meat/fat in it [or just a lot of meat in their face] their heads shape is either circular or very structured but still circular, might even have a double chin.
♇ the ascendant in astrology rules over one's personal ambition, it could be beheld that cancer risings personal ambitions would include them being comfortable in their own skin and comfortable in their atmosphere. for example cher, she is expressive about how she is comfortable being without a man, whether she has one or not, and sees men as a "luxury" but not as a necessity, it could be deemed that cancer risings personal ambitions is to live a life where not having something in specific wont internally hurt them and make them insecure.
♇ strengths and weaknesses being a vital point of the ascendant, cancer natives durability being their affectionate, creative, protective and tough self where their weak traits could be studied as them being people who are controlling, smothering, inconsistent and defensive.
♇ the first house in astrology is also centred around how a specific person projects their personality into life; and cancer placements, especially cancer risings are very specific about how they launch themselves, they're very aware, like they can be considered as people who play chess whilst others are playing checkers. they empathise with other people making other people feel like that cancer in the first house native understands them for who they are; they present themselves of being people who are nurturing and receptive, which causes other people to lean onto them or you could say depend on them a lot.
♇ people with cancer in the first house view the world as somewhat unfair, they're emotional and receptive people and are likely people who can easily point out when someone or something is being treated unfairly. besides unjustified treatment, cancer risings discern the world as a place to make memories in, dont be surprised whenever a cancer placement is holding a camera to capture an event, they're people who like to hold onto nostalgia so whenever they feel down, there is a happy moment they can look back onto that reminds me why they can keep pushing.
♇ self-imagery, an important matter of the first house, as the moon that naturally rules cancer is always in the sight of people's gaze, it wont be surprising if there would be cancer ascendants who are insecure with the way people might view them. as cancer is a celestial sign, they might've had to be in the front row of something, there it be a school, family, siblings etc, there was just always something in specific people watched the cancer rising for. which makes up to why they want to, well not necessarily manipulate, but alter the way people perceive them because if they do behave in a way that is considered as wrong, it'll never be unseen so they do feel stressed about self-image, majority of them, but as they grow they'll learn that they cannot always change everyone's perspective of them and comprehend to live with what they know about themselves.
♇ closing off this post with the impact they leave on others, i have forespoken about cancer risings making other people feel understood, it could be stereotypically commented that they make others feel that way because of the feminine or "matriarch" energy they own; the effect they leave on others is to aid other individuals to perceive various outlooks differently and with a more understanding perspective. in my opinion, i feel like their ability to help the way people see specific things in life is the reason why they tend to get worshipped a lot. or think of it as a way of the moon being the only light in the darkness, giving me another reason to why people adore them as such because there could be countless of people who think of them "as the way".
i watched george hearn/angela lansbury proshot with my best friend last night — HOLY SHIT??? we were both a puddle of tears by the end. he is absolutely beautiful. oh my god. he wasn’t afraid to get very real and ugly and emotional with it. AMAZING. his sweeney was so human and so hurt and so self loathing. I LOVED IT.
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: tonight I'm going to tell you more about cormorant ssstrike's latessst adventure
King: there's more?
Rowling: there'sss lotss more
Rowling: itsss 961 pagesss
Rowling: do not give me sshit sssteve
Rowling: you of all people
Rowling: in thiss book, cormorant ssstrike makesss a whole lot of phone callsss and hangss out in a whole bunch of fancccy resstaurantsss
Rowling: he doessn't actually do the detective work, he hiresss freelancersss for that
Rowling: cormorant sstrike is a job creator
Rowling: so this guy hires cormorant ssstrike to get his autistic sson out of a cult
Rowling: funny thing about this sson
Rowling: he'sss really sssmart when he'ss making decisionss i agree with
Rowling: but he'sss alssso a naive child when he'ss making deicionss i dissagree with
Rowling: so the guy is all 'i want to get my autistic son declared mentally incompetent because. c'mon, he's autistic he can't be trusted to think'
Rowling: 'as evidence of his mental incompetence, you should know that he previously dabbled in socialism'
George Romero:
Rowling: asss we all know
Rowling: only really ssstupid people would fall for sssocialisssm
Rowling: and abandon the good common sssense of blairite centrissm
Romero: [eyes flashing, L'Internationale plays] what did you say joanne
Romero: what did you fucking say
Romero: you got a problem with the dictatorship of the proletariot joanne?!
Rowling: i don't know anything about that
Rowling: i just know they're annoying online
Romero: that's not a fair judgement!
Romero: posting is not praxis!
Rowling: ugh i jussst hate the sssocialissstss, the transss, the autissticsss, the dissabledss...
Barker: did you just write and publish a 961 page book about your internet enemies
Rowling: correction
Rowling: i wrote and published ANOTHER 961 page book about my internet enemies
Barker: why don't you just keep a burn book like a normal person
Rowling: sshut up
Rowling: it'sss perfectly acceptable to write a book to sshit on my internet enemies
Rowling: dante did it
Dante Alighieri: this is a call-out post for Boniface VIII
Dante: highly problematic pope
Dante: check it out, you know that pope i don't like?
Dante: what if he was in hell
Dante: haha got 'im
Barker: which pope is this?
Dante: oh i dunno, all of them
Dante: they all suck
Roald Dahl: ee hee hee i don't know what you're all mad about
Dahl: writing petty grievances as literature is an upstanding british tradition ee hee hee
Rowling: thank you roald
Dahl: are you gonna say anything about the vegetarians ee hee hee
Rowling:
Dahl: i fucking HATE them
CS Lewis: oh yeah the FUCKING vegetarians
Lewis: i wish they'd all fucking die
Dahl: ee hee hee die PAINFULLY ee hee hee
Dahl: oh you don't wanna eat an animal ee hee hee? what if you were DEAD instead ee hee hee King:
King: huh british culture is kind of different isn't it
Dahl: so you gonna give those fucking vegetarians what they got coming ee hee hee
Rowling: they're
Rowling: not really a high priority for me
Dahl: oh
Dahl: what about the jews
Rowling: oh yeah i got wordss about them
Rowling: jussst you wait!