vampires are so full of shit. “oh the human race is beneath us, you’re just livestock to us” I don’t think you know what livestock is. do you feed us? care for us? protect us from predators? no. you just slink around dark alleys and ambush people. that’s not what a higher being does. that’s a bottom feeder. a parasite. karate punches your head off
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.
