Oddbean new post about login | logout @c09f86d3 That would make one hell of a pub quiz. 🤣
@551afd26 if they only asked these types of questions instead of asking about an Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift song. What’s worst is I like to pepper my research finds into conversations. That never goes well. 😆
@c09f86d3 I can imagine. You will need a certain type of person to enjoy discussing the speed of putrification with you, for example. 😅 I know someone whose passion seems to be puss. I always open YouTube links from her with a degree of trepidation. I just never know what I'll end up looking at.
@551afd26 ew! It’s like those pimple popper shows. I read a British pathologist’s biography once and that was fodder for writing research and equally harrowing.
@c09f86d3 @551afd26 This is a *much* more interesting list than anything I'm ever approached about in a pub. If I've heard a Taylor Swift song I didn't know it was her, and I had to look up Ed Sheeran, but I could keep a conversation on psychopomps going until the wee hours.
@3b678e16 @c09f86d3 @551afd26 One of my characters got psychopomps and psychopaths confused. Fortunately, one was present to explain the differences to him.
@96b4330b @3b678e16 @551afd26 was the one present a psychopath or a psychopomp?
@c09f86d3 @3b678e16 @551afd26 A psychopomp. The Goddess of Death.
@96b4330b @3b678e16 @551afd26 I've a character who ends up becoming something akin to a psychopomp, but more in the style of the Wild Hunt or Old Crocken than a guide to the afterlife. I'm about to write a bit more of his story now. https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/2016/03/26/old_crockern/