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It can be heard in silence only

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It cannot be taught. It is a secret kept in silence. Resident Tumblr Occultist. Theythem

Hey I'm CT. I study magic, mysticism, esoterica, cults, conspiracy theories, and con-artists, and I post about it here.

PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/cryptotheism (get access to all my research, drafts, notes, sources, and whatnot)

TAROT DECKS https://www.pubgobshop.com/shop/Divination/5 (I designed some divination decks)

DISCORD https://discord.gg/paXqmVE3DX (everything else!)

(My promo image and header are the work of @terrafey)

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TRAPPED IN A DEADLY MACHINE

500 FINGER FILLET is a horror roguelite about being handcuffed to a hand-stabbing machine that won't unlock itself until you've stabbed your hand 500 times. With 20 minutes on the clock, what lengths are you willing to go to to escape? Will you make it out with all your fingers, or will you bleed out on the table?

This demo features:

  • The first 20 knives unlocked in the game
  • The first 20 rings unlocked in the game
  • The first five difficulty levels (out of the full game's 10)
  • Intense roguelite strategy
  • Multiple endings
  • ███ █████ ████████ ██ ███ WEIRD ████ ███████
  • ███ ███ CONSEQUENCES ███ ███ ████ ████
  • ████ ████ ████ ████ DO NOT ████ ████ ████ ████

CHOOSE YOUR OWN STABBING IMPLEMENT

Your captor is not without mercy. Every so often, you get to choose what the machine stabs you with next, from the dull Rusty Fork to the all-seeing Ritual Knife. You'll earn pitiful amounts of money through stabbing your hand, which you can spend on items and rings to improve your chances.

ESCAPE AT ALL COSTS

You'll lose fingers. You'll black out from pain. You'll bleed and bleed and bleed until there's nothing left in you. Every stab carries a risk. Every stab brings you closer to salvation. You must beat the clock against all odds.

All that stands between you and freedom is 500 stabs. Do you have what it takes?

PLAY IT NOW ON STEAM:

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Happy Herc

In a lot of northern Indian Buddhist art, Hercules is depicted as the Buddha’s bodyguard. 

This tradition of depicting Hercules as Buddha’s bodyguard started in the Greco-Bactrian kingdom of Gandhara, a part of Northern India conquered by Alexander the Great. This is important because Gandhara just happens to be the place Buddhism spread to the far east (it’s “the west” in the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West). 

Hercules acquired a scary, bestial mien and thunderbolt swords in Asia via association with Buddhist guardian monsters, the Vajrapani, who had the traditional job of protecting the Buddha. Hercules and the Vajrapani were confused with each other and traits of one rubbed off on the other. This slowly transformed him into a thunderer all the way to Japan and Vietnam.

So in essence, these Buddhist temple guard statues found as far away as Vietnam and Japan started as statues of Hercules. That’s why the original illustration is so fascinating to me; depicting Hercules as monster-like and fierce-faced with a double-weapon.

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I made a two hour video essay about renaissance cartography and english magic

Also this is my face hi

Watch my edit.

Jamie edited this. You should watch it for this reason alone.

i'm on the last ~20min of your video rn and i just wanted to shout out how good your narration is. when i checked my timestamp, i couldn't believe i was an hour and a half in already. you have a tone that makes the video feel like you just walked into a really engaging conversation; this person is deeply engaged and excited about what they're talking about and they're bursting with inside jokes they know you wouldn't get just yet, but you can tell they dropped a few anyways. it makes me feel the sort of excitement in my chest that i get when my friend shows up and goes "okay, GET THIS," the same feeling i got from my best professors in college.

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Thank you! It makes me happy that I could get you excited for this wierd little corner of history.

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I made a two hour video essay about renaissance cartography and english magic

Also this is my face hi

Watch my edit.

Jamie edited this. You should watch it for this reason alone.

I made a two hour video essay about renaissance cartography and english magic

Also this is my face hi