Night of the Living Culter

Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

Help me find my friends

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

it's that day again

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

Philadelphia moment

[mytype.fyi @mytypefyi]

How did you guys even find these two?

[イトウ緑色@ばにけっと @nullexception5]

楽しい

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

@escapefrommelos No because I'd be hit by the fallout, firebomb it instead

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

@Ambrosia0004 @ZE_DENZEL billions must hug

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

I'm really cool online and it isn't working either

[name @JohnSmithm6hgn]

Unsurprisingly being a loser online hasn't resulted in attracting a girl

[Kayoko @Kayokodailys]

🎨: ru77094

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

Risepost

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Risepost

[海葡萄 @monthlypoipoi2]

イチカ誕生日、過ぎてしまったけど…(再掲)

[Talf 🐀 @mafleaenuition]

We need to be more thankful of Roman for giving us this shot of Omi

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

1 is terrible feng shui

[Abdullah @abd_ullah11112]

اختبار نفسي:

أي غرفة ستختار؟

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

@PalmyrPar Holed up in Pacifica of all places presumably to get away from his past but kept the name because I guess he's still proud of it, hell I would be too

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

big arms day at work and I'm feeling it now

[breezeh @briscoepark]

in honor of the s.s. united states sinking here is a photo i took of it back in 2021

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

Why would you collect dozens of slippery little pests and bring them all the way back and have them taxidermied? It's not cool, it's not a feat, there's no glory in it, there's nothing to be gained. We put effort into recreating physical frozen moments of a foreign land in its entirety simply because we can. So little Johnny can come see all the places we've conquered as we saw them, and read plaques that few care about. We study things, we display them accurately, we take photos and paint pictures and capture life so we can show other people, actions that are so far beyond any primitive need for survival that only we can comprehend them out of all the animals we put on display. The world is nothing but information to us, information we hoard and condense and pass around, because sharing information and building off the backs of others is the essence of humanity, it's why civilization exists. I like the frogs.

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

I like looking at the shrews and frogs and birds and bugs and all the non-trophy animals because not only are they cool and overlooked but the fact that they stand alongside the giraffes says more about the state of man's dominion over nature to me than a prize elephant does

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

natural history museums are fascinating culturally because today, people basically go to them to see dinosaur bones. that's really it.

or, you could say, virtually everyone going there wants to see the dinosaur bones.

but the bulk of their collections are always a huge amount of taxidermied animals that many average people find bizarre, distasteful, or just odd. the animals are all all old, because you can't just go shoot a giraffe and bring it back to a museum today - which just makes it odder. they're often visibly like, a century old.

you have massive halls of these things, and when you go, people are just kind of wandering around. there's the heavy hitters: an elephant, a lion - but even these have a shadow cast over them for the average museum goer, who - as people who have been to a modern zoo, find it odd to be looking at a dead gazelle, then a dead mountain goat, then a dead polar bear, and so on.

not everyone thinks about this, of course. but the vibe is there.

then you have the educated crowd, the kind of people who frequent museums, who either because of education or conditioning, however you want to say it, associate these displays with colonialism and a colonial mindset, or at least a mindset that's antithetical to modern environmental sensibilities. perhaps you've been online or in public recently and could deduce that rich white guys going out to shoot wildlife is not exactly celebrated at this time in major urban areas.

and then, those are the type of people that actually run the museum - those educated (or conditioned) individuals. so, they can't even zoom out and make these displays about the men who collected this stuff, because they're not going to pump the story of a white guy in 1922 who went to africa and shot a bunch of elephants and threw them onto a ship and brought them back to america. the natural history museum in new york famously removed a statue of teddy roosevelt around five years ago that i used to eat lunch under outside - and he's like, a "good" guy compared to most of the men who really were just rolling around foreign countries in the early 1900s doing whatever they wanted.

so, these places are generally packed - the museum itself: but it's all "sitting" on top of the dinosaur bones. that's really why people are there. the rest of the museum is, poetically, often just "bones", a skeleton - there because it's always been there, but just left abandoned and generally empty.

i've completely skipped over things like african cultural halls, full of african stuff collected in the early 1900s, or native american halls, full of native american stuff that was collected in the early 1900s. these are also usually swept under the rug. the most recent african cultural hall i went to referred to at least one country that i am absolutely positive no longer exists.

the natural history museum in new york is a great example of this. you walk in the front door: there's dinosaur bones. the whole top floor, which is all dinosaur bones, is always packed. but there are sections of the museum that are virtually always empty - massive sections of one of the largest cultural attractions in america's largest city, that are completely empty 99% of the time, because no one wants to walk around looking at weird dead birds (third floor, if i recall correctly). there are parts of that museum that i've never seen another human being in.

they even have a "hall of asian peoples" section. would they build this now? absolutely not. it's literally just: "woah, look at how asian people do stuff. that's crazy". but they can't just tear it down - it's one of the biggest halls in the museum. so it's just... there. waiting. for no one. this hall is so unfrequented that i'm confident you could sleep on the floor here or set up a small picnic lunch of something and easily go unnoticed for 2 - 3 hours. noteworthy as it's like, 100 or 200 feet from the main hall where the main entrance is.

i enjoy going to these places if they're in any city i go to. they're really world class - i'm not saying anything negative about them. everyone i've ever met that worked at any of them was always a super educated passionate person, and they have some of my favorite museum things (halls about geology, gems, are always very cool). but, unlike art, the idea and concept of "science" itself has changed at a breakneck pace since these places were built. they're like fractal science shrines, that contain in them the history of science itself. they're more about how our idea of science and the world has changed than about any particular item there.

they're almost museums that are about the idea of a museum.

and you can go back in time there, and visit an era when a guy could just roll up in africa, shoot a giraffe in the neck, shoot a baby giraffe right in the spine, and bring them back to america, and people would love it. they'd probably line up around the block to see these dead giraffes. there was a time when that was science, and that man wouldn't be a villain, he would be a hero. and although that's completely antithetical to modern sensibilities, the temples those men built are still standing.

[ちな @Tina_eraihito]

ロック！！！

[Anon @napehuffer83]

Btw when I say I want to have sex with a fictional character there is an implication that I also mean to marry her and love her forever and have kids with her, I am not a barbarian

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

just had lightning flash directly in my eyes and then the longest roll of thunder I have EVER heard

[Night of the Living Culter @SnapdragonLives]

@beers70285711

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Trick question, women can never be adults

[Bia. @biausa_]

Think carefully… the answer might be simpler than you expect! 🤔