There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.
Olives have a stone pit in their center. Are they a fruit?
Discuss
Huh.
So apparently olives are a fruit.
Olive oil is juice.
Discuss.
Max, this is cursed.
Truly, truly cursed.
I absolutely love it.
The notes go in so many different directions too.
Like I’m really enjoying the results of having put this out there in the world.
The lead up with the innocent question. EVERYONE affirms it is, in fact, a fruit. Some use science.
Then bam. The follow up.
Beautiful.
One of my friends said people should drink it, which…
Not wrong.
I like your friend. My exact brand of chaos.
this is cursed but yeah, im gonna have to say that olive oil is a juice if olives are a fruit
Olives are ground into paste to extract the oil, but the juice that comes out with it, as well as the pith itself, is removed, and the oil separated. Oil is not the water-based juice of the olive.
*grumbles*
Meat, on the other hand, is said to have juice
What, exactly, is being implied here?
Olive oil isn’t juice but ground beef is a smoothie
Does that mean sausages are meat-fruit roll ups?
*whispers* What have I created? */whisper*
And I thought I was an unholy being of eternal chaos. I tip my hat to you in recognition.
Now, does that mean that vampires are the cryptid version of those weird health nuts that juice everything.
Vampirism. Not a virus, not a monster, but a parasite.
The parasite starts its life cycle… somewhere. The soil, perhaps. Perhaps the act of burying and unburying your dead exposes you to the dormant parasite, and you become its first host. The parasite worms its way into your brain and starts making adjustments to your physiology and behavior. Maybe it exudes its own chemical pheromones that have been adapted to be wildly attractive to humans, or maybe it boosts your own magnetic characteristics. Maybe the parasite is photosensitive, or cannot tolerate temperatures much warmer than the average human body – you find yourself avoiding the light and sticking to dark, cool places during the day. Maybe the parasite feeds upon some minerals or proteins or other components in fresh blood, so you find yourself craving human flesh to replace the nutrients being robbed from your own system. Maybe the parasite must be transferred from its primary host to a secondary host before it can reach the final stage in its life cycle. Perhaps it enters your saliva and is transferred to the bloodstream of your prey, where it consumes them from the inside and reproduces in their dying body before being returned to the soil during to start the cycle anew. Perhaps complicated burial practices aim to halt the parasite’s life cycle at this stage, and vampirism only spreads when these practices are shirked.
