Why do people never want to tell you their middle name like who gives a shit its not a nuclear launch code its your damn name
reblog with your middle name in the tags
Actually, the practice dates back to the reason we have middle names in the first place!
Some time around the dark ages, everyone believed in witchcraft and wizardry, like ya do. A big principle of magic was the idea of “true names.” If a spellcaster knew your full name, they could do whatever the hell they wanted to you. Of course, people didn’t want that, but there were enough people with the same first names that you had to give people your surname as well, to avoid confusion.
The solution? A secret name in the middle that you don’t tell anyone (unless you believe that they’re not able to do magic and/or you trust them enough that if they DID do magic, you’d be fine).
this is some death note shit
Is that why when a parent uses your full name (or even just first and middle name) when they’re angry with you, it feels like they just cast some serious mojo on your soul and you know you are in deep shit?
The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical sculpture in Lancashire, England. It is made of galvanized steel pipes that produce a dischordant choral sound that simultaneously resonates a range of several octaves whenever the wind blows through. Source
EXCELLENT. We’ll need at least sixteen more. And can you equip them with vuvuzelas?
….Why did we, as a race, do this? This is DEFINITELY going to summon something down from the void beyond the stars to feed upon us all.
Why are we so sure that this void-dwelling horror is coming to eat us, tho? Prey drawing in a predator with vocalizations is not usually how things work. (Granted, most preys are less stupid than humans, but the point stands.)
It’s more likely that the Singing Ringing Tree is going to accidentally function as a transgalactic mating call, a siren song that resonates into the void and draws some monstrous alien leviathan from the abyss between stars to copulate with the Earth, hoping our planet will sire a vicious clutch of discordant-voiced offspring to unleash upon the stars.
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