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@hexbear.netAs someone who's been around a lot of blood (at work) it does have a smell but yeah you usually need a lot of it before you smell it or for it to be around you a long time to smell it. Its metallic smelling
Been thinking about monsters lately, it's getting to SPOOKY season so it's on my mind.
I think it's pretty well known that monsters generally represent the neuroticisms and anxieties of a given culture. Two of the best known are: Vampires, old perverse aristocrats literally sucking the life blood of the peasants/working class and seemingly unable to enjoy any of the wealth or food they've pulled together; Zombies (more Romero on), representing mindless consumerism and the loss of individuality.
Mummies come about out of colonial guilt and fascination with Egypt, the guilt of plundering ancient resting places and grinding ancient kings into paint (and also food). And of course, Indian Burial Grounds in King and pop culture more generally giving rise to cursed land that drive out or kill white settlers like in Poltergeist or Pet Semetary. Or Frankenstein coming about at the frontier of biological sciences, if they can make microbes come back to life and make dead frogs and their legs bounce about with the application of electricty - why not a human? Or even more recently, Jurassic Park (now more child friendly because of the movies but the original book is quite horrific) showing we are fucking around with things we don't understand on the edge of microbiological sciences. I remember a similar feeling when I was in a genetics lab and we were inserting vectors in E Coli to make them antibiotic resistant and glow in UV light and thinking "mkay this is way too prosaic of a setting, an early morning lab in a 2nd year Bachelor's degree course, for us to be messing this closely with genes, cause across the way they're inserting fluorescent anti-cancer antibodies and messing around with HeLa cells, and etc."
And then the way more recent, like the past couple decades, monsters are like Slenderman or the momo challenge or the backrooms seem to be more about the leaking of computer/the internet with the real world with usually terrifying or deadly consequences.
Anyway, that's my yapping
If she's not talking and not responding, her action of not wanting to remain friends (as in friends who communicate regularly I suppose) should speak much louder than her telling you she wants to remain friends. Sounds like she wants you out of her life, I'm sorry.
Of course, texting and calling etiquette are so wild to me with the under 25 set I have no idea what y'all consider a "normal" amount of communication and what counts as ghosting. Apparently not answering in the same day or two is considered a slight, so take what I had to say with a grain of salt lol
Why? If you're exes and presumably moved out and physically separated, what's there to feel frustrated about?
I've heard this before. From the girl who turned on heating in a heat wave. She didn't think it was a problem lol
No I love the cold. A fellow cold lover would be welcome
The cat box schedule is convenient so we're only doing litter boxes half as often but the kitties get a clean box every day (or every other day, whatever) and they'll be better about pissing in places they shouldn't. Also if you're not bringing cats, of course you're not expected to do their boxes~
I have grown so much worse about shower stuff which is why I must insist on having more than 1 bathroom. E has made my sink and shower adjacent products... multitudinous.
I wash my dishes as I cook~ never any dishes, always put the dry away, cook, clean the dishes and let air dry. Sink is always clean at the end of the day. The only weird thing I have about dishes that would drive someone crazy is I do leave a cup out now that I'm alone which is more convenient than getting a new one every time wanna drink some water.