The Day of the Dead is one of my most favorite holidays. It’s a celebration acknowledging the seasonal nature of human life, how nobody is getting out of embodiment alive, so to speak. 🙂 Instead of seeing this as a tragedy, as something to mourn and be afraid of or fight against which steals what…
Happy Halloween everyone! A great many people see today’s holiday as the day when they can dress up as someone or something else. It’s the day for costumes and makeup and creativity and fun. It’s a time of masks. What people don’t think about is that the lives they’ve constructed for themselves is actually the…
There is so much symbolism in vampires it has to be grouped into categories: sexual, destruction/consumption, transformation/assimilation, and parasite. At this point there is an entire genre of vampires as thinly veiled male sexuality out there and the leading example of them sparkle. The destruction/consumption category is what we would deem the classical monster variety. …
Plenty of people have confronted Frankenstein’s Monster in their lives. Anyone that has taken that pause and thought “How did that happen?” or “How did I end up here like this?” has stood in those shoes. Many of us think, like Dr. Frankenstein, that building a new life from the remnants of an old life…
For me some of the scariest bad things out there are zombies. Not that I have a problem with zombie movies or TV. Waking Dead, it’s all good. World War Z, I love the book. The movie was horrible but that wasn’t the fault of the zombies. Bad writing is bad writing and you can’t…
Are there werewolves among us? Yep. Do they change into a wolf form at the full moon and rampage around killing people? Not that I’m aware of. Werewolves are people who are habituated to drama. They don’t seem like it. They can seem like anybody else and that’s part of how they disarm and harm…
Besides being a fun topic for Halloween costumes, classic horror movies, and summer schlock busters Mummies are people we have to deal with in life. Mummies are people who cut themselves off from the world around them. Not necessarily literally although there are some that becomes hermits entombing themselves in their safe environments, many times…
Yay!!!????? *sigh* I knew it was time, but the last day of Mercury Retrograde pushed more poor limping baby over the edge. So today is all about getting everything set up, ported over, reinstalled, reconfigured….It’s not that I can’t do it. I can. *mumble grumble* Not the way I wanted to spend my Saturday…*mumble grumble* …
Most people have a visceral reaction to the concept of incest. It’s lizard brain stuff to some extent because we’re wired to not want to have progeny that would be unhealthy and having a family tree that doesn’t branch causes those kind of problems. Then there’s the higher level things like broken trust, destroyed boundaries,…
Most everyone has head of co-dependence whether they actually know what it means or not. Thank you, Intervention. It seems so much like caring for the other person. They have such troubles and can’t seem to get out of them, everyone needs support sometimes and so it’s necessary to help them through this time and…