Top: in Super Mario World and Super Mario Run, Fishin’ Boos are enemies similar to Fishin’ Lakitus, except they have a flame that hurts Mario at the end of their rods instead of a lure like the Fishin’ Lakitus do. While at first this appears to be simply a combination of the concepts of fishing and ghostly fires such as will-o’-the-wisps, there is a possibility it is actually inspired by a real type of fishing from Japan.
Bottom: cormorant fishing is a tradition in Japan and some other countries such as China whereby trained cormorant birds are used to catch a type of fish called sweetfish. The fishing is done at night, where a basket of flaming wood is swung over the river to cause the sweetfish to start stirring from their sleep, which allows the cormorant to attempt to catch them.
I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.
this is nelson no-jaw. he’s the result of a horrific glitch i encountered during a late night of troubleshooting. he runs around the commonwealth with his robot butler, causing as much trouble as he can with his grubby little criminal hands. he doesn’t have a mouth but he does have telepathy
moment of silence for nelson no-jaw. his files are lost and probably buried forever when i retired my old laptop. i miss him so bad
