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the liminality of an indoor water park at night

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I've got to do this more. It's hard getting yourself pumped for a water park when it's cold out, though.  But like...just the austerity of the walls contrasted with the color of the slide, the oppressive feeling of being trapped...and yet at the same time you look out at the beautiful city lights and feel so safe . This video in general was hypnotic to watch. The blurry lights amidst the darkness outside. The way the top of that spiral slide is shrouded in darkness. It makes you feel tired, like you need to rest and sleep for the night. And yet, there's just this sense of mystery. What happens if I go down it? What if I come out the other side and I'm not here  anymore? 
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happy halfway to Halloween!

Tonight's spooky music, just a small sampling: Motionless in White: Undead Ahead RCT3: Haunted House (I used to play this from the station of my childhood wooden coaster masterpiece, the Bone Breaker, while peeps avoided riding it because the design was terrible and it had an intensity and nausea rating of Uber-Extreme) Insane Clown Posse: Boogie Woogie Wu Insane Clown Posse: In My Room Blvck Ceiling: Cold  Cornbelly's announced on socials that there will be some new things this year, and they were cryptic. We shall see.  Fall activities I'm looking forward to: Frightmares, Cornbelly's, hayrides, Haunted Forest, pumpkins, St. George Marathon, the Haunted Half, Drawtober, indoor water sliding, walks in the forest, scary media.  writing sample from today, but super rough draft and kinda gross: Zanthi aimed his wand at a vase filled with red and pink flowers. The star atop it pulsated, its normal sapphire blue glow turned to swirling black. The flowers seemed to bend, as i...
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...owo what's this?

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NANI? Looks like we get our Friday before Memorial Day opening of Cornbelly's Spanish Fork after all! Thank you, corny crew. 
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This is why Disney adults and coaster enthusiasts are so different

Despite some of us being both.  Disney adult archetype = ESFJ 7w6 Coaster enthusiast archetype = INTP 5w6.  Look at that, man. Polar opposites. 
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your cultural hegemony is irrational

I'm still in OMG DISNEY mode, having gotten back from this year's Orlando trip a few days ago. That's fine, but I prefer to be equally balanced between all of my passions. The goal is not to turn down Disney, but rather just to turn everything else up. :)  However, this makes me think yet again of how irrational ideological hegemony is. Take the idea of "you're weird for being a man who does expensive RunDisney races which are dominated by women" which yes, I do experience. No one says it explicitly  but you can feel the side-eye. Never mind that I was 18th place out of over 12,700 people.  That statement has a few underlying assumptions that, when you take them apart, have no actual underlying logic.  Being "weird" is negative (why? weirdness is defined implicitly as deviation from the cultural norm, and what about that is inherently negative?)  what is wrong with doing something that has more women than men in it?  why do I need to be "mascu...
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Lyrics for 4/14.

One by one, you're all going down I'll make you see! Traveling alone since birth, and I've never felt so liberated - Ghostemane   I really hope he drops a new album when I'm employed again so that way I can get some merch for it. TBD.  Solo traveling tomorrow too, so that last line fits. 
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Evanescence: Who Will You Follow?

It's an awesome song. I am not the biggest fan of the album cover because it looks like cover art for "Random Fairly Decent YA Paranormal Romance You Picked Up On The Kindle Store For $1.99, Forgot About For A Year, Then Read Randomly After Binging A Kathryn Kingsley Series", aka DEATH AND SOUL OF BLOOD or something But the song is fantastic.  Wearing my bootleg Evanescence wristband from Etsy today in celebration lol because they still won't put an actual wristband on their store.  Also I am pretty sure based on the lyrics that my heavily upvoted Personality Database comment on Amy being a 4w5 is...not correct. There's just too much e6 when she has full lyrical control. Ope.  Excellent music though. 
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