by Kate Jarvik Birch @ Instagram
A road leading to the small town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, where an underground fire has been burning since 1962
[id : the first photograph shows a deserted road cracked and covered in vegetation with the words STAY OUT barring it. The second photograph shows a small town surrounded by forest with smoke rising from the ground. end id]
Anonymous asked:
Was having trouble getting my woodburning stove to pick up the other morning. Did all the normal fire reviving tricks like a normal person and got nothing. Wrote 火 on a post-it and tossed it in there in annoyance. Fire started back up. :)
normal-horoscopes answered:
Literally the correct way to do magic
"idk normal shit isn't working lemme try some fuckin uhhhhhh runes"
Abdullah ibn al-Muqaffa, Crows Trap the Owls in Cave by Lighting a Fire & Fanning it with Wings from Kalīla wa-Dimna or Kelileh va demneh (Arabic: كليلة ودمنة)
it’s just funny though that in The Before Times when the goat burned (or didn’t burn) there was very little fanfare except maybe some tongue in cheek celebration (or disappointment). but give it a few jokes about lack of ritual sacrifice and a five-year survival streak and two plague years and suddenly we’ve collectively tapped into the seasonal worship instincts of our ancestors from 36,000 BCE and created a new sacred ritual through sheer force of internet jokes and desperate hope. it’s like we’ve crowdfunded a god.
