i have been noticing dates like this more on websites - youtube, soundcloud, and so on: “19 years ago”. although i understand it intellectually, it feels totally incongruous with the nature of the internet. a two decade old link or file that hasnt moved or changed. seems wrong: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7c10a8a40c54d7bbadc06acbbc04764aab1a4dc298942335c34a87fa65a3d15e.file

just got hit with some american historical culinary arcana: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e0dd082b1b06f4a6c6a3b53a4e19f0388d76e612684bf3b94b04ee85b1b1f36e.file

thanks man. being a jester-artist has its moments. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b118dfcd85466ca0bf2bdebc571e386b491629fc30ef9e169e01e46422319050.file

my favorite obscure cryptid might be the blue tiger. no wings, horns, shifting dimensions: just guys coming back from china like “yeah, we saw a blue tiger”. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/39e5ec0a45e57f6120fb60b0c03a5e571b0c3ae8b7f1cc544ef549baa453af9f.file

november studio update: 1. preview of our newest book is up on all subscriber feeds. it should be out by december 1st - possibly by black (cat) friday. 2. our current christmas gift offering is below (thread, many images, reviews). https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b8a14dcfa941ac2da3084f94757d40ce76f9b85b8860edcd04135a028ae6be35.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a7a9535fb79db933aab6a64f3bcfc4b1b4541fb7199f55669b5da9c7d7ba7509.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9d8282f6940a7030c3007cb6c4bd01d9ee29df9ceb692c316036818b0f4df186.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ca6b8bdaed4fb0238f6a3115b473a03b4e608ce0c3f4f1567e64179b4b078be9.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3f6bdcbbf5d5dd56b575873f08109751333e9d1d95d9e2422f2c99b7a317d99a.file

if you just stay the course and don’t get sucked into the abyss, you and your kids are going to be tiger like specimens. guy is already “signaling” by just reading a book on a plane. the bar is so low, you’re going to clear it by a mile. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/415656c2dbf57ff0d5f93f9b42949c12e800ad30c498def0948439b208b13c84.file

i heard the japanese syncretic instinct was so strong there was no attempt to separate buddhism as foreign until the 1800s. theres some of that mindset here, as though a europe could exist where a witch with a black cat was just part of the spiritual landscape, like anything else https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4af5e86069d38ae821149fc602c2bf2f714968aaa7274c4f9fc40f6cfa497175.file

or, perhaps we’re supposed to imagine that this is a europe where christianity never happened. i cant remember if there is any explicit christian images in it, but this seems unlikely, given how european it is. it really is just europe, not some alternate dimension europe proxy. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/44255dcf821576ac80f41bb71a683843830cb166acf9a876ce9be67ae4d6f253.file

she clearly lives in europe. but in an actual european countryside, people would obviously view “a witch” as something malevolent, or at least some would. in this fictional syncretic europe, i suppose we are supposed to imagine that witches were just integrated positively. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a5fb86e1482ff036d8a76e2d77623068d12d9f58929aade6a85decefffe97703.file

in ‘kiki’s delivery service’, miyazaki seems to bring the japanese syncretic instinct to the western spiritual world: its an alternate europe, where paradoxically witches are more real - yet apparently also exist without the typical negative Christian view attached to them. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/332b342ab673228b5bbe4d2c776e6190e2acc5b643717c303796acffe88ccbc5.file