• Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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      It’s a very old ‘rule’ but it’s not one that gets used terribly often. The same rule is occasionally applied to zombies, ghouls or various other undead. Personally it’s one that I think is super cool.

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      Rivers and streams are traditionally regarded as borders. That would include border between the living world and the afterlife, so a lot of creatures associated with the dead supposedly cannot cross running water unless you make a bridge for them

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    fun fact: the reason walmart hires greeters is due to the plurality of their customers being vampires

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    I love this. It reminds me of the vine about the guy who didn’t realize he was possessed by a demon.

    “Hey dude, you want anything?”
    (The souls of the innocent!) A bagel? (Noooo!) Two bagels!”