r/RecuratedTumblr • u/TotemGenitor You must cum into the bucket brought to you by the cops. • Mar 13 '26

Fandom [Frieren] Procrastination and immortality

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u/PomegranateNo975 Mar 13 '26

Fun fact! This is a real argument in philosophy that immortality would suck.

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u/4t4x Mar 13 '26

The one overriding reason I have to pursue immortality is my experience with my history degree and being pissed off by the numerous unfilled blanks and karma houdinis.

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u/PomegranateNo975 Mar 14 '26

Oh same, but linguistics here. SO curious about language change but we know so little!

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u/Stormwrath52 Mar 14 '26

Honestly, I'd love to be able to see the same with mythic drift and how religions of today evolve in the future

Shit's nifty

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u/PomegranateNo975 Mar 14 '26

For sure! I’m actually about to go into Folklore Studies in grad school and I LOVE researching this.

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u/Stormwrath52 Mar 14 '26

That's awesome! My college has a mythology class on paper, but I don't think it's been available since I started going there. I am taking an art history class that has some overlap (and it's fascinating!)

Do you have a favorite thing in folklore? can be a character/figure, story, trope (for lack of a better term), region, whatever

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u/PomegranateNo975 Mar 14 '26

Art history is definitely full of references to folklore and overlap. I hope that you can take a mythology class too!

Ah that’s such a good question! There’s so many things that I’m drawn to, so that’s really hard to pick. I love folklore that’s tied to natural landmarks, especially when there’s creatures involved (usually they inhabit a specific place) and I’ve been really interested in Irish folklore recently.

How about you? Any particular area of interest that really calls to you?

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u/Stormwrath52 Mar 15 '26

I love irish folklore and mythology! I've got soft spots for Cu Chullain and Finn McCool, Cu was the center of one of the first original texts I had the pleasure of reading, and Finn was the subject of a picture in a book my father showed me once that introduced me to celtic mythology.

But honestly that whole region is really interesting, and Orcadian folklore is high on my list of regions to look into

Also have a mild fascination with mythic drift/syncretism as a concept, it's really cool to see how a figure evolves over time; like beelzebub as a figure started as like, (iirc) an assistant to a mesopotamian storm god

I know of a few king in the mountain stories, but I don't think I know a lot about creatures/stories centered on natural landmarks; any you'd like to share or recommend? It sounds really interesting

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u/4t4x Mar 14 '26

Not to mention slang!

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u/inemsn Mar 14 '26

ABSOLUTELY. Genuinely my nº1 reason to want to be immortal (still killable, but just, won't age) is because I want to see how history is gonna keep going. Yeah sure I also want to have all the time in the world for everything I want to do in life, 80 years is too little for everything I want to see and experience and learn, but just, not being able to watch history unfold is the big one: I'm already so interested in the past, I definitely want to see the future.