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Modern Mullet For Men

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Modern Mullet For Men
What is Modern Mullet For Men?

The modern mullet is a contemporary hairstyle for men that features short hair on the front and sides, with longer hair at the back. It is a reimagined version of the classic mullet, often styled in a more refined and fashionable way.

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How much search volume does it get?
Google searches
12.1K/mo
Who is interested in this?
Gender
Male
64%
Female
31%
Unspecified
5%
Age
18-24
56%
25-34
32%
35-44
7%
45-49
4%
50-54
4%
55-64
4%
65+
4%

Is Modern Mullet For Men trending?

Yes. Modern Mullet For Men growing with a month-over-month change of 0.06% over the past 5 years, with approximately 12,100 monthly searches.

This is a seasonal trend that peaks every July. The seasonal demand is forecasted to grow over the next year.


Why is Modern Mullet For Men trending?

1
Nostalgia and Retro Revival
The modern mullet taps into the nostalgia of the 1980s and 1990s, appealing to those who want to embrace retro styles while adding a modern twist.
2
Versatile Styling Options
The modern mullet offers versatility, allowing for various styling options, from sleek and polished to messy and textured, making it suitable for different occasions.
3
Celebrity Influence
Influential celebrities and fashion icons have been spotted sporting modern mullets, which has contributed to its rising popularity and acceptance in mainstream culture.
4
Expressive Individuality
The modern mullet allows men to express their individuality and creativity, making it a popular choice among those looking to stand out and make a statement with their hairstyle.
5
Low Maintenance
Compared to other trendy hairstyles, the modern mullet can be relatively low maintenance, requiring less frequent trips to the barber while still looking stylish.

Where is this trending?

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Demographics
Gender
Male
64%
Female
31%
Unspecified
5%
Age
18-24
56%
25-34
32%
35-44
7%
45-49
4%
50-54
4%
55-64
4%
65+
4%

What are people saying?

25 threads
AI Insights Mixed sentiment
Discussions around the modern mullet for men focus on finding skilled barbers or stylists who can execute the haircut well, along with shared experiences of both satisfaction and disappointment with past haircuts.
Barber Recommendations
Many users are seeking suggestions for barbers who can effectively cut modern mullets and similar styles, indicating a demand for skilled hairstylists.
Haircut Experiences
Participants share personal stories about their past haircut experiences, highlighting both successful and unsuccessful outcomes.
Style Variations
There is interest in different variations of modern mullets, including low/mid taper and wolf cuts, showcasing the hairstyle's versatility.
Frustration with Stylists
Several users express frustration over previous haircuts that did not meet their expectations, leading to a search for better stylists.
Social Media Influence
Some discussions reference haircuts seen on platforms like TikTok, illustrating how social media trends influence hairstyle choices.
Common questions
  • Where can I find a good barber for a modern mullet?
  • What is the best way to style a modern mullet?
  • How do I communicate my desired modern mullet to a stylist?
  • Are there specific barbershops known for modern mullet cuts?
  • What should I avoid when getting a modern mullet?
Pain points
  • Difficulty finding skilled barbers who can cut modern mullets.
  • Disappointment with past haircut results.
  • Concerns about stylists not understanding the desired style.
  • Frustration with barbershops that primarily use trimmers.
  • Inconsistent experiences with different hairstylists.
r/Norwich
Best hairdresser for young teens
Today I took my teen into crop shop on castle meadow,after checking a few others it was half the price of other salons.so we go in and I asked for 'the best hairdresser you have',a lady with beautiful pink hair did the cut and its fantastic!my teen wanted a Japanese style (K pop has alot to answer for)and took in pics.The cut is incredible,beautiful and I'd definitely recommend taking your young ladies to see the pink haired hairdresser (she said she does modern mullets on men too🥰).People complain about cuts from there but just ask for the best..I now have a teen exited about going to school on Monday ❤️(cannot share pic as they'd be angry lol) submitted by /u/BeaksFalcone to r/Norwich [link] [comments]
BeaksFalcone · May 29, 2026
r/TalesFromTheCreeps
Aestuarium Sanctorum or The Story of a Dying Man in the Crescent Isles PART ONE (Book One chapters 1-4)
PROLOGUE She didn’t make it. An excerpt from the interrogation of a man in small town Indiana June 12 2000 Officer Roberts (OR): So it was around 4 o’clock when you made contact? Unknown Subject (UK): *unintelligible* OR: Again, I am here to help you, but you gotta help me help you. We have the witnesses, you’re on camera. I mean, it was the middle of the freaking day. The DA is going to want to prosecute, and stuff like this? Stuff with a little boy? They are going to want to put you under the jail. UK: You can’t help me. OR: Look, I’ve told you, it’s your right, okay? You don’t have to talk to us. But before this gets messy and it spirals out of control this is your only chance to get your side of the story out. UK: Won’t matter. OR: Fine. But just for me. Just so I can understand, can you tell me what happened? What made you just wake up on this random day and try to do something like this? UK: It needed to be stopped. OR: What did? UK: Them. OR: Who’s them? You gotta help me understand here. UK: This story didn’t start today. Started a long time ago. Tried to end it today, but I didn’t. I failed. I can tell you but it won’t matter anyway. Not to the people still living out there, not to those little girls. OR: What little girls? UK: You got a cigarette? — Thank you. OR: What little girls? When does this story start? UK: Depends. OR: On what? UK: Which story you want to hear. OR: Well, let’s start with your story. When does that start? UK: March 9th 1992. OR: Okay, is that when the boy was born? He is 7 years old right? UK: No. It’s when I saw her standing out there in the rain. The woman - the girl - the mother of the boy. It was pissing down rain, and I was 100, 150 yards from her, but I could still see her cryin. Standing there, I was up in the trees, like, she didn’t know I was there. I wasn’t supposed to be, I was supposed to be back in the chapel. Something about that girl though. She wore sadness different than the rest of them. She seemed so innocent. So pure. The rain was comin down so hard and that little baptism dress was soaking wet and stickin to her body. That was when she saw them crawlin up out of the marshes. It was too late, they had already hatched, there wasn’t nothin could be done. She came runnin right towards me, trying to make it into the trees, but they were comin up fast as a shark cuttin through water. Just inky black. All hate. You ever seen evil like that? Evil that just don’t have no reason to be, it just is? She’s running at me as fast as her little feet can go, but the dress was long and it was getting all tangled in the mud and the sticks. She grabbed up at the shoulders of the dress and ripped it off and just kept running. She just needed to get to the trees, but them things were comin up on her. They wouldn’t stop. She just needed to get to the trees. She didn’t make it. Genesis Chapter I 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And She moved even then in the depths. And it was good. Book One The First Gospel of the Sacred Crescent Obediah, The Letter, Campfire Stories, The Exchange, An Angel, An Old Man and a Demon I His name was Obediah Thomas, but everyone called him Obie. The first name was a holdover from biological benefactors, the surname a gift given to him in his adoption. The Thomas’s had given this name to six children turned adults over the course of their lives, and had fostered 11 additional children in succession over the course of a dozen or so years. This period overlapped with the developmental years of a young Obediah. He had never known solitude or loneliness until he was a man, but at no point did he ever feel as if he had found a home. This was, of course, not the fault of his adoptive family. Many abandoned and refound children spend their lives feeling a sense of homelessness. This is the story of how he died. Obie found himself not only existentially homeless, but the only place he could call his domicile was a 1991 Volvo 740 GL. At the time in which we find ourselves in Obie’s unfortunate life this vehicle is 34 years old, three years older than Obediah himself. It was not much as far as a means of transportation, and less so a home. It leaked oil and squeaked like a hungry mouse in a cage whenever it made a lefthand turn. As Obie drove his home towards Reverend John Thomas’s church on the first day of the new year of our lord 2025, the Volvo had three gallons of gas in the tank and one quart too little oil in the engine block. It housed three button-down shirts, four stained t-shirts, two pairs of slacks, one pair of denim jeans, a half-pack of Marlboro cigarettes, 23 copies of the May 2024 addition of Sexy Cinephiles and the pitiful pilot of the vessel. Obie slapped the steering wheel in time with the songs of the 70’s on rocking 103.4 and pulled the ember of his cigarette closer to the cotton filter tucked into the corner of his unshaven mouth. He kept one eye on the road and the other kept pulling itself towards the adult magazines stacked on his passenger seat. The reason the magazines had made their home in his car was as simple as it was depressing. Sexy Cinephiles was the only publication willing to publish anything with Obediah Thomas as its author. It was a failing publication which housed short stories and movie reviews between pictures of women recreating famous movie scenes in the nude. The reason it was failing is two-fold: one, no one purchased pictures of naked women in print anymore, as there is an endless supply of naked women on the internet; two,very few people wanted to buy sexually explicit material with the suffix -phile in the title due to the number of nasty sexual proclivities with that suffix in their name. Obediah had been writing for them for some time, and had made a name enough for himself that on the front cover of the May 2024 issue there was in bold type face a blurb which read “Featuring the short stories of Obediah Thomas” directly below a woman petting a very strategically placed cat recreating the iconic scene from the Godfather - in the nude. When Obie had last visited the good Reverend John Thomas he had purchased every copy of Sexy Cinephiles available in the small town of Winter Spring Indiana to ensure that neither his parents nor the parishioners would stumble on a copy of a naked woman advertising the literary works of a prodigal son. Even though Obie was not particularly proud of his writing in the May issue of Sexy Cinephiles he found it difficult to throw away published work with his byline, given how rare of an item published works with his byline are. The published works in question here were as follows: “10 Most Overrated Movies of the Past 10 Years”, “Slashers of the 80’s: Nudity in Film” and a short erotic parody of James Bond titled “James Bones”. Each of these were couched between pictures of naked women spreading their legs and fucking each other in cheap Halloween costumes. Obediah pulled hard on the cigarette, burning the last of the tobacco before shoving the butt into the already over stuffed ash tray. He turned up the radio as the Eagles began telling him to take it easy in an ear worm of a melody. The cigarettes and dolcite tones help ease the nausea ridden anxiety that bubbles up whenever Obie returns to Winter Spring to see his parents. The occasion which drew him back to Winter Springs this time was an annual New Years Day party at his father’s church and a voicemail from his mother which was as follows: “Hey little man! When in the world do you plan on coming back home to see us. Your dad is planning a big party -” there was some indistinct murmuring from someone too far from the receiver to be audible. “I know, I know, I’ll tell him. We got a letter from uhm, your birth family. We’d like to talk about it here. In person.” II Obediah’s trip to the good reverends congregation had been brief and fairly uneventful. Upon arrival he was greeted by a familiar face equally dreading the festivities inside - a woman by the name of Willow Mills. Willow stood fore longingly under a banner which had been erected three days previous on the side of the church which read “Pray in the New Year”. She had skin like sweet pralines and hair that cascaded in kinks and curls just past her shoulders. She, like Obediah, had found herself here under parental obligation, and had little interest in praying for the New Year or anything else for that matter. When they were much younger, a lifetime ago by Obadiah's estimation, they had used each other's bodies to learn about erections and orgasms and the things that become wet and hard and expel fluids and lust. They had used each other’s hearts to learn about heartache and the kind of loneliness that can only come when you love someone so completely, and disappoint them in equal measure. Now she stood with pursed lips as he approached and scolded him for being ‘such a stranger’ for over a decade. She asked if he could spare her a cigarette. He did. They smoked in silence punctuated occasionally by small talk. Where are you living now? How is work? Have you begun loving anyone new? Why didn’t you call me after I let you take my virginity? And so on. “If my mother smells cigarettes on either of us it’s your white ass” she said in a joking tone. She wasn’t joking. Inside Obediah was greeted by familiar faces from the past. Sister Parsons had sold him his first car when her husband had died and no longer needed it. Brother Simmons had bought his back-to-school clothes three summers in a row when the good reverend had found that new clothes were not a luxury he could provide. Brother White had taught him to drive a stick-shift in his old Ford Bronco. Each of these people were moral and good. The back bone of a type of America that had nearly gone extinct and Obediah felt the unparalleled crushing guilt and shame of having lived up to none of their expectations. He was not moral. He was not good. He was the backbone of the type of America that had been birthed with the invention of 24 hour news access and mobile phones and social media platforms. He had taught no one anything, and had never purchased anyone new clothes out of the kindness of his Christian heart. Never in his life did Obediah find himself feeling more like a lost soul than in the company of those whose souls had been found. In the back of the room filled with benevolent souls he found the shepherd of the flock sitting next to his First Lady at a table of honor. He was forking mindlessly at a hodgepodge plate of pot-luck casseroles. When the good reverend saw his son he sprung from his chair like a jack-in-the-box. He embraced him and slapped his back hard with a massive heavy hand. “Everybody act like you got some sense, we’re in the presence of a great author!” His mother stood to join her husband in the welcoming committee. They began a three person parade reintroducing Obediah to the kind souls he has known his whole life, each of them beaming with pride at the young author - none of them knew his accomplishments were wedged in between the cum stained pages of a soon to be bankrupt porno mag. Then it was the part of the evening to discuss the letter that had drawn Obediah across the country. “Ma, don’t you have something for me to look at?” “Hm?” “Ma. My parents?” Her face soured. His parents. Having raised Obediah his entire life, here he stands in front of her, having not been home in some time and is looking to see a letter from someone he’s never met. He had eaten none of the casserole. He had drunk none of the punch. Obediah’s mother, of course, didn’t understand the empty place that was and will always be in the heart of a boy once left abandoned. She sees only his ingratitude. “It’s in your father’s office.” They shuffled now towards the office, no longer a parade and now a procession. After some sorrowful mulling around the subject, Obediah’s mother handed him the envelope. This is what it read: Young Obediah, It has come to my attention that you have been sired by the seed of my seed. That is to say you are a descendant once removed. That is to say I am your grandfather. I have fallen ill. It has come time for legacy and bequeathments and the future and homecoming and homegoing. 1746 Chapel of the Unseen Crescent Isle, GA Take the first ferry from the mainland on January 9th. The ferry will be closed after for the festivities. Enclosed is the fare. Show this letter to the bridgemen. Your Grandfather, Yeshua Abraham Enclosed was twelve dollars and fifty cents. III Her name was Honesty. Her twin sister was named Truth. Neither may seem like standard names for those of us who live in the contiguous United States, or as the people who live in the Crescent Isles would call it the mainland. All of the girls of the isles are named for a virtue while the boys typically carry the name of prophet or biblical figure. This is likely an unintentional commentary on the place that the sexes maintain in their traditionally patriarchal society. Men are the priests of their homes, while women are virtues to obtain. It is the benign kind of misogyny that doesn’t exist in our modern society, with everyone being equally fucked by late stage capitalism. Honesty and Truth were both in the awkward years of changing bodies, and new hormones filling their gangly frames. Their limbs too long, their legs sprouting ungroomed hairs and their necks small towers for skulls that are filling quickly with ideas of mortality and sex and responsibility and their ever-shrinking futures. On top of each of their heads were mops of curls which would dance down in front of their large crystal blue eyes, and would balance on the shoulders of their hand woven dresses. Honesty was the more mature of the two, more world-weary, having been forced to grow up in order to protect her sister who was nine minutes her junior. This is the story of how she ended up killing the poor son of a bitch that was beckoned to the Crescent Isles by a cryptic letter from his grandfather. The twin sisters had decided that this morning was too sunny and beautiful to spend the entire day sitting in some boring class room, and that their youth would be better spent in the woods near the river known as St. Enoch's path. They came skipping down the soft clay hills towards the river bed where they were to meet their equally truant class mates: Patience, Serenity, who were themselves a pair of twin sisters only a few weeks older than Honesty and Truth. They were also meeting Isaiah, Samuel and Hunter. The boys were working hard on creating a small fire with a collection of small twigs and leaves which were carefully collected beneath a small teepee of larger sticks. Isaiah was holding a large magnifying glass above the twigs trying to harness the power of the bright beating sun. “Shouldn’t the camp fire be for later?” Honesty called as she came down the hill. “There you are!” Hunter called back. “Can’t do it later” Isaiah said before placing his tongue firmly back in his cheek to focus. “Why not?” called Truth. Isaiah sighed deeply, frustrated that he was having to explain something so simple to these two air-headed girls. “Don’t you check the weather? Gonna rain later. Now can I focus?!” He went back to starting the fire with a comically large magnifying glass. “He gets mad annoyed when he’s focusing, don't worry about it ladies” Hunter ran his fingers through his curly mullet trying to look cool and mysterious. Unfortunately for him when he lifted his arm his t-shirt came up showing his soft round pale belly. “Why did we even invite them?” Patience said, shouldering Isiah, desperate for his approval. He looked at her with a face like a fist, said absolutely nothing, and went back to his fire. He was a professional arsonist of the mundane variety. "Sorry," Patience said. It was a small, wet sound. She sat next to Serenity and they both hugged their knees as though they were afraid their legs might try to run away without them. Then they started whispering and giggling. This is a thing young girls do to convince themselves they are paragons of some meaner more serious adulthood that everyone else is too stupid or naive to appreciate. "Hey, Truth," Samuel said. He waved. His face turned the color of the freshly rising sun the group of truants had gathered under less than an hour ago. Truth waved back. Her face turned the exact same color. "Got some good shit for you ladies to try later in my bag," Hunter said. He stepped in front of Samuel, who was currently busy calculating his next move in convincing Truth he was a little boy worthy of her time and affection. "What is it?" Honesty asked. Now, Honesty would never tell a soul, but she found this chubby boy and his fumbling attempts at being a man almost charming. It was pathetic, really, which is often just another word for cute. "Can’t tell you yet," Hunter said, trying to look mysterious. "But trust me, it’s some fuckin good shit." Hunter had discovered profanity earlier that year. He used these new words like a man who had just been handed an eight pound hammer and was determined to find a nail in every sentence. He thought he sounded like a big muscle-bound badass. In reality, he sounded like a boy who was very excited to be alive and very afraid of being ignored. “Just show us!” Honesty pleaded. “No fuckin way! You gotta wait and shit, fuck-head” Hammer, meet nail. Honesty darted her eyes from Hunter’s round face, to his back pack and back to his face. She was a very fast runner. Hunter, on the other hand, had legs like two large hams poking out of denim shorts. She performed a brief, frantic dance of misdirection and then bolted for the bag. Hunter came fumbling after her, a clumsy machine of pasty meat. “No you freaking dickweed!” he whistled. The two ended up falling over each other in an impromptu wrestling match for the bag. During the scuffle, Hunter’s hand landed accidentally on Honesty’s newly budding breast. It was a very small event in the history of mankind, but it was a very large event for Hunter. It was the first time he had ever touched a breast. Neither of them said a word about it. Maybe because the passing brush didn’t even register to the young girl or maybe because to speak of it would be to admit that they were no longer just children playing in the dirt. Either way, the shock of the contact caused Hunter’s brain to short-circuit. It provided the opening Honesty needed to snatch the bag away and claim her prize. So she did. She stood quickly off the ground victorious. “Let’s see what we have here!” She began rummaging through a bag of crumpled up pages covered in doodles, several loose ink pens, Japanese comic books, a collection of cracker crumbs and in the middle of the horde a plastic bag filled with primary colored candies. “Are these what I think they are?” Honesty squealed. “Well what do you think they are?” Hunter tried and failed to conceal a shit-eating smirk. “Come on, seriously? Where did you get these?!” Her excitement was uncontainable. “Back on the mainland when we went and saw my mom’s cousin at Christmas. Saved them for you.” He was catching his breath still in a heap on the ground. “Come on, show us!” Called Samuel who had oh-so-casually moved himself over to stand next to Truth in all of the chaos. “It’s probably just something gross anyway” Scoffed Patience, and she and Serenity giggled. “It’s not gross!” Hunter snapped back. “I’m sure, piggy boy!” Another fit of giggles from the mean girls. “They’re…” Honesty paused for effect before ripping the candies from the backpack and holding them in the sun victorious “M&M’s!” “No. Freaking. Way.” Samuel stood stunned. “Freak yes!” Isaiah squealed, leaping to his feet over the small fire he had finally been able to start. “What the heck are you guys so excited about?” He asked wheeling around to see the group of tweens staring at the candies. “Are those–” Isaiah stammered his mouth agape. “They’re peanut.” Hunter said, beaming with pride. IV It had been twenty-or-so minutes from the initial discovery of candied treats, and everyone was doing their best to remain disciplined and think of anything else on Isiah’s insistence that the candy would be better suited for campfire stories once the flames were properly stoked. He had worked diligently, and now there was a small circle of kids around a much-too-large roaring fire. On one side sat the two, jaded and bitter, Patience and Serenity, with the former trying to coily inch herself nearer to Isiah. Next to them sat Samuel, who was too shy to sit directly next to his little crush, Truth, and opted to sit next to Hunter directly opposite her in the circle for optimal eye contact opportunities. Hunter was next to Honesty who was next to, as always, her twin sister. Isaiah sat opposite the entire semi-circle atop a tree stump ready to hold court. He motioned to Hunter to start passing out handfuls of candies as his little horror show was ready to begin. “Shouldn’t we be doing this at, like, night-time?” Serenity chided. “Can’t do it at nighttime yet, Serenity. I need the sun to make the fire, plus we can't see at night.” Isaiah scoffed. Stupid girls. “But,” he said with boyish glee, “for Aestuarium this year I asked my dad for a Zippo lighter and a pair of night vision goggles, and he promised as long as I got good grades he would get it for me, so this time next month- night time camp fires!” He licked his preposterous lips. He hoped to one day grow into them, but for now they less resembled human anatomy and looked more like a perpetually moist duck bill protruding from his round sun burnt face. “Whatever, just seems lame” she said jostling around a handful of Peanut M&M’s. “Whatever, Serenity, I didn’t even want girls here. Hunter made me invite you guys!” His facade of young man gave way to petulant little boy. “Don’t blame me if she’s being a freakin bitch!” Hunter yelled defensively. “Don’t call my sister a bitch! Maybe you two lame wads should be less-” she paused fumbling for an insult “lame!” “Guys!” Honesty chimed in through a mouthful of M&M’s “Can we stop fighting! I want to hear this story.” “Thank you, Honesty. Jeez.” Isaiah regathered his thoughts. “Do you ever ask yourself why we aren’t supposed to come out here near the water before Aestuarium every year?” “Reverend said the tides rise sometimes in flash floods, same reason we have to stay inside every night until after Aestuarium baptisms” Samuel answered matter-of-factly. “Sure,” Isaiah nodded, leaning closer to the flames, “but have you ever seen the tides raise?” Silent shrugs from the circle. “Exactly. Also, why is it none of us are allowed into the Aestuarium baptisms until after we’re thirteen? Why do we have to sit in the kiddy class in the sub-basement?” More shrugs. “Do you remember my cousin Ishmael?" “Yeah, we all remember Ishmael. Had your same freak mouth, but also had the most fucked buck teeth anyone has ever seen. How the hell could we forget that?!” Hunter laughed and pieces of peanuts fell out of his mouth. “Okay, is no one going to take this seriously?!” Isaiah crossed his arms. “Sorry, Jesus, tell us your story, storymaster” Hunter twisted the knife a little. He knew Isaiah would never pass up the chance to tell a scary story. “Fine.” He straightened his back. “Ishmael’s parents were at his baptism. They don’t usually let the parents in, but his dad was studying to be a deacon so they gave them a pass. It turns out the baptisms aren’t what we think they are at all. There’s something in the water.” He leaned forward again for effect. “Ghosts.” Skeptical scoffs from the crowd. “It’s true. It was a night just like every other Aestuarium, we were all in the kiddy class right next door when they brought him over. Apparently all of the old women in the village bring you into a stone room, and it’s cold. Like really cold. So cold you can see your breath, and they strip you down right there.” “Wait, they get you like butt-naked!?” Hunter interjected. “Yes. Now stop interrupting” Isaiah didn’t try to hide his growing disdain. “So there’s all of the old ladies, right? And they’re all wearing these white robes, but they have these black hoods over their heads so you can’t even see their faces, just their eyes staring at you. It’s so creepy, like haunting. They all get in this big circle and start holding hands and making this weird noise. It’s not even like singing, it’s like this deep screaming from their stomachs. Ishmael said it felt like the sound was trapping him in the room, like it was bouncing off the rocks on the walls and getting louder and louder. It was almost to prove that nobody could hear you scream, no matter how loud you were. And then they start getting closer. Like, really slow, inching closer and closer. When they get right up in his face, they start yelling in Latin - Fac illud purum. It means ‘make it pure’. Then two of them just grab him and won’t let go. Another lady goes to the back where there’s these clay pots on top of coals and she grabs these pots of actual boiling water. And she just starts pouring it right on your head. He said it was so hot he thought his skin was literally gonna melt off and slide onto the floor. He tried to fight them off, but they were holding his wrists so hard their fingernails dug into his skin. I’m serious, Ishmael showed me the scars and everything. The whole time, half of them are just screaming their heads off and the other half are chanting Fac illud purum over and over and over and over. They sat there and poured boiling water on him for like an hour. Ishmael said he was screaming so much that his throat started tasting like blood, but they didn’t even care. They wouldn’t stop. Then, his mom walks in. She carried the baptismal clothes folded in her arms. White linen sewn with gems and intricate lace. But he’s not even allowed to put them on himself. These old ladies have to do it for him. They worked the ties and the bone buttons without saying a word. He said when they were done he felt like a mummy. He could barely move.” “Wait, so that’s the baptism, just getting a bath by some old ladies?” Hunter scoffed trying to sound like he wasn’t scared. “No. That’s just them getting you ready for the baptism. After all of the washing, and getting him all dressed up they gave him this big golden goblet of wine. It was, like, almost black, and way thicker than a drink should be. He said it tasted like pennies and battery acid. For the actual baptism they pull you into the baptism hall, where there are pews set up and in the middle is the pool of Bethesda. But that’s where things get really really creepy. In the water there are the ghosts, the spirits. It’s all of the spirits of every person that ever lived here in the isles, and you can’t see them all but you can feel them. Ishmael said that as he was walking towards the pool it wasn’t like he was even moving himself, it was like hundreds of hands were moving his arms and legs and pulling him closer and closer to the pool. Then he saw it in the pool-” Isaiah paused to shove his first fist full of M&M’s into his mouth. “These are really freaking good.” “I know, the kids on the mainland eat them all the time, that’s how come they’re all so fat.” Hunter said. “What’s your excuse?” Serenity said, before she and Patience fell back into giggles. “What was in the freaking pool!?” Honesty finally yelled at Isaiah. The whole circle had been enjoying a little respite from another one of Isaiah’s creepy stories, but for Honesty the suspense was ratcheting in her brain. She was uninitiated to Isaiah’s horror stories as she wasn’t generally invited to these daytime bonfires. The suspense of the story was of course brought to a boiling point by the fact that they were all due to be baptised next week during Aestuarium. “Okay, okay -” Isaiah choked down his fistful of candy. “As he is coming up to the pool, he sees the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life slowly raising up out of the water, completely naked, and she’s calling to him. His dad is sitting right there watching it. Then all of the hands that he can’t even see throw him into the water and he is held down for like a really long time. His dad ended up lunging into the water and pulling him out and every one was screaming and yelling, all of the old women were screaming and crying and cutting themselves with knives. I guess they were like, going to kill them but then the Reverend stopped them and told them that they could stay in the chapel for the rest of the night but at sunrise they had to leave. Guess they were worried about killing them since Ishmael’s uncle is a lawyer back on the mainland. His whole family were converts here, weren’t even born here to begin with.” “Is that why none of us ever saw him after Asturarium?” Honesty whispered mostly to herself. “Yeah, exactly.” “That story doesn’t make any fuckin sense, Isaiah” Hunter retorted, mouth full of candy again. “My brother was baptised two years ago and he didn’t mention any of that spooky shit, said he got to drink some of the wine that the grown ups drink, then just got dipped in the water and it was fine.” “That’s the thing, Hunter.” He was visibly annoyed. “Ishmael thinks they just pulled him out too early. The water does weird shit to your brain, it screws with your thoughts and memory and stuff.” “What does that have to do with us not going near the river if it’s the water at the baptism.” “So, you know how we all get our water in those big tanks that come from the x_chng? Well, the Chapel is under the Reverends house, and I guess he’s like immune to the weirdness, or like he’s just able to drink the saltwater, I don’t know. Anyway, all of the water for his house comes straight out of the river, so obviously so does the baptism water.” “So what are you saying, there’s ghosts in the water.” Hunter leaned forward into a crouch. “Yup.” Isaiah replied bluntly. “You mean that water right…” he prepared his pounce “there!” He jumped towards Samuel sending him wheeling over backwards ass over tits rolling towards the river in a series of shrieks and screams. “What the heck dude!” Samuel got up, fists balled, as the rest of the group erupted in uncontrollable laughter. “Guys, guys, seriously” Isaiah wiped a tear away from his eye that had been jostled loose from laughter “that was very funny, but in all seriousness-” his face dropped. “Don’t. Touch. The Water.” Part two available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromTheCreeps/comments/1tpdi9g/aestuarium_sanctorum_or_the_story_of_a_dying_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button submitted by /u/TS_Montgomery to r/TalesFromTheCreeps [link] [comments]
TS_Montgomery · May 26, 2026
r/BangaloreSocial
What are the best hair salons in Bangalore for men?
Hey guys! Can yall please recommend the best hair salon for men in Bangalore with the best rates available? I usually get modern mullet typa hairstyle done but so far the experience in Bangalore has been pretty bad since they manage to butcher it one or the either way If anyone has a modern mullet, please let me know where yall get your hair done submitted by /u/Unhappy-Database-429 to r/BangaloreSocial [link] [comments]
Unhappy-Database-429 · May 10, 2026
r/TalesFromTheCreeps
Journal from the tower in the woods (Part 1)
By J. Douglas Turner I was walking through the woods the other day when I came across what I believe to be an old factory Tower. While rummaging through the place, I found a well-kept brown leather book on a desk in what looked like a foreman's office. It seems to be some kind of journal, and for the hell of it, I thought I would write it down and share the tales of one James Townlie. At least all the parts that are legible. I hope you guys find all of this as fun as I do! “Our wedding day went off without a hitch. Nina looked as beautiful as a mountain villa at sunset. Her dress was long and pearl colored with a floral design that flowed perfectly in the midday’s gentle breeze. Her shoulder-length hair framed her face with the elegance of a Victorian-era painting. Every moment of today was one of undesirable anxiety, given the unrelenting chaos that is Nina’s family. It was a miracle that her father’s family stayed sober for the whole event, and a bigger one that her mother’s side managed not to turn small talk into shouting matches. Nevertheless, we made it through one of the happiest and most stressful days of our lives. Soon we will be on our way to Boston for our honeymoon, just as soon as I finish this.” “We have finally arrived in Boston as of 11:30 this morning. The trip here was quite uneventful, but Nina is happy, and that is all that matters to me. We plan to walk the Freedom Trail tomorrow and visit some local shops around the hotel. Currently, we are having a cup of tea in a little coffee house, and then it is off to the Opera with us. I hope that tonight might end with us and a bottle of red watching the stars from the hotel roof. However, I am eternally grateful just to be with her for any amount of time.” “Our First full day in Boston was exhausting. I don't think I have ever walked this much in a day in my entire life. Nina wanted to stop in every shop and boutique she could find. Luckily for me, we found an old antique shop that I could not help but give a look through. There were china sets and a wide array of Hindu, Buddhist, and Mediterranean statues. However, the most interesting of all were the books. They had so many books on medicine and biology. One was a Turkish book on the lymphatic system. Another was an at-home apothecary, with home remedies for some things even I, as a resident, had never heard of. The most intriguing one to me of the lot was the journals of a Swiss noble from the 18th century on a wide variety of bodily systems. I bought all of them for further study, hoping they might help me with my medical studies. There might be something in them, some lost knowledge of a bygone era that could help the modern man. I will have to study them another time. My beautiful Nina is currently calling my name in the sweet tone of a water nymph. I can feel the steam from the bath she has drawn for herself, and I feel I would be a fool not to join her for a soak if there is room.” “Our second day has been very eventful. Nina wanted to drive around, so we procured a car and went for a Sunday drive through the city and some of the surrounding areas. We went to Bunker Hill, where Nina bought a book on the Salem witch trials and a small charm made from Raven bones, which she has clipped to one of the loops on her purse. We also saw John Adams’ home and took a look at the founder's old, shabby home. It is quite a lovely place in a simple way. It’s always strange to see how much better the modern man has it than our forbears. We had lunch at a little hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant run by a small family. A young woman, whom I could only assume to be the owner's daughter, waited on us at a very old oak table for two. We had calamari and a bottle of red wine. Nina got fettuccine Alfredo, which she gushed over for most of the night. I had a medium steak and a Caesar salad, both of which I had no complaints about. While we were there, Nina asked if we could go to Salem tomorrow for a little ghost tour. Never one to argue my love, I told her yes. I will never understand her fascination with the dead, but she does look better in a macabre setting.” “Our time in Salem today was eventful to say the least. We arrived in Salem at 5 o’clock and waited a good two hours for the Ghost tour until 7. Lucky for us, there was a restaurant with a witch theme that Nina absolutely adored. They served us bread in the shape of skulls, spiders, and headstones. I had a Cajun pork chop with sun-dried tomatoes over jambalaya. Nina ordered a 12-ounce dry-aged steak, Pittsburgh-style, with a house salad. After dinner, we walked to the tour guide stand and met with the rest of the group. Nina became quite friendly with our tour guide, a woman named Mary, with a plump, round face and a pear-shaped build, dressed in a loose-fitting white dress with what I could only assume were sweat stains on the hem. She also wore a dark brown leather corset and matching knee-high boots. Mary was a pale woman; the only color on her face was a soft red blush that made her look more lively. The makeup around her eyes was the real show stopper; it was done up like a raven’s wings. The color matched her wavy hair, which had been styled into a mullet. She told Nina and I that she was the designated witch, whose story she would tell us about on the walk through Salem. On the tour, we heard of dead men of the old motels, disembodied whaling of babies, and the one Mary said she always saved for last. “The final tale of my great, great, great-grandmother Margaret Taloway. Back in the 1700’s, after the Revolutionary War. Miss Margaret was married to John Taloway, the son and firstborn of the Taloway family, at the ripe age of 19. The Taloway family was very well off even by today’s standards. Their estimated wealth, adjusted for inflation, is about 20 million dollars. Sadly, however, Margaret did not get along with most of the Taloways. Mr. Edward Taloway, John’s father, loved Margaret like his own daughter, but Elizabeth and Sarah Taloway, John’s Mother and sister, hated her. Everything Margaret did could never be enough for them. All of the family troubles would come to a head when Edward would die suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 62. Elizabeth and Sarah would blame Margaret, claiming she had something to do with his sudden death, and would take her to court over it. John and Margaret would argue that she couldn’t have been the cause, for they were not home when Lord Edward died, and Margaret was 8 months pregnant at the time of Edward’s death. The judge would rule that she was innocent, and one month later, Margaret would give birth to a baby boy, whom she would name Edward. Unfortunately, John would die in a tragic hunting accident 4 years later. Leaving Margaret and little Edward alone with Sarah and Elizabeth. Little Edward would eventually come down with a bad fever. An Elizabeth would tell some townspeople that her grandson had died, but Little Edward was still seen around town; many people reported that the boy wasn’t quite right. Numerous people would claim that Edward was an otherworldly kind of strange, a sort of wrong that could not be put to words. Many would lay the claim that the boy was possessed; one of the local tavern owners would even claim that a horse trampled the boy, and half an hour later, he would get up as if nothing had happened. Margaret would remarry a local businessman and friend of the late Lord Edward, Henry Eden. They would go on to have two children together, Samual and Mary Eden. Sadly, however, the joy would never last. One day, while Henry and Mary were out on a business trip to Philadelphia, tragedy struck. A house fire burned down the Taloway mansion, killing Little Edward, Samual, and Sarah. Elizabeth, while Lord Henry was still away, would round up a mob and drag poor Margaret to the center of town to be burned under the claim that Margaret was a witch. Where, for once, Lady Elizabeth got her way. Margaret would be the last woman to be burned for the crime of witchcraft in the state in the year 1799. Some still say that you can see her and her children walking the streets of Salem in an endless search for each other.” For a brief moment at the end of Mary’s grueling tale. I could have sworn I saw a boy peeking out from an alleyway. His skin seemed sickly gray, and his eyes. They were an ungodly yellow that glowed like hellhounds. I am by no stretch of the imagination a believer in the paranormal, but that child was something out of the darkest pit of hell. His little face was wrinkled into a wicked snicker with every ounce of evil wrapped up into it like a vine of katsu around a ball of barbed wire. I still don't know if anyone else saw that creature or if it was just me. I asked Mary, and she said. “Your description matches what most people claim little Edward Taloway looks like, and he mostly looks at people from around corners.” We left after that and went back to our hotel room for the night. Nina is currently packing her bags so we can depart in the morning. Once I finish this, I shall pack my things as well, and by all hopes, we should be on our way home to Asheville. Until next time in Boston, it's been a strange pleasure.” It's about now that I feel I should mention I've taken a few liberties to make his stories flow a bit better. Additionally, the journal has no dates or other indicators as to the time frame in which it was written. The leather binding feels almost brand-new, but most of the pages are damaged, and James writes like an old man. His cursive is horrendous. It is so bad that I can barely decipher it, and some of the next few pages might take me a while to figure out. Until then, I'll keep you guys posted. submitted by /u/Due_Raccoon_8999 to r/TalesFromTheCreeps [link] [comments]
Due_Raccoon_8999 · May 2, 2026
r/ModlessFreedom
Is This The Worst Political Psy-Op In Modern History?
If you’ve ever thought that everything is a giant psy-op—that major events, the kind that dictate the course of American politics, are all fake and engineered—then the news that broke last week was as close to a total vindication as you’ll ever get. On the other hand, if you thought that “Color Revolutions” only happen overseas—and that America is immune from successful campaigns of mass deception, all orchestrated by corrupt political actors to mimic natural, grassroots events—then this is a story you need to hear. The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was supposedly the defining moment of Donald Trump’s first term in office. That’s what we were told, relentlessly, for years on end, by both political parties, along with every mainstream media outlet in the country - was a “mask-off moment,” in which neo-Nazis—emboldened by Donald Trump, supposedly—violently rioted in the streets, killing an innocent woman in the process. And, we were told, Donald Trump ENDORSED these neo-Nazis, live on national television, calling them “very fine people.” That’s what Joe Biden said when he launched his campaign for president - and about ten million times after that. The rally was definitive proof that white supremacy was alive and well in the United States, watch: Source: Joe Biden/YouTube.com “Charlottesville was also home to a defining moment for this nation in the last few years. It was there, on August of 2017, we saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-nazis come out in the open. Their crazed faces, illuminated by torches, veins bulging and burning the fangs of racism, chanting the same antisemitic bile heard across Europe in the ‘30s. And they were met by a courageous group of Americans, and a violent clash ensued. And a brave young woman lost her life. And that’s when we heard the words of the President of the United States that stunned of the world and shocked the conscience of this nation. He said there were, quote, ‘some very fine people on both sides.’ Very fine people on both sides? With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.” Well, all of corporate America lined up to push this message - shortly after the “Unite the Right” rally, Apple announced a $2 million donation to so-called “anti-hate groups,” including SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center. The CEO, Tim Cook, declared that “Hate is a cancer, and left unchecked it destroys everything in its path.” JPMorgan Chase and the Clooney Foundation did the same thing - in fact, JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, said that the company would match employee donations to the SPLC. He also disbanded an advisory panel to the president, for reasons that were never clear. But the SPLC got exactly what it wanted - they isolated the president, they demonized conservatives, and they received millions of donations. And they never stopped. They kept hammering the “Unite the Right” narrative, and they kept fundraising off it, successfully. In fact, five days before Charlottesville, Cam Higby reports that SPLC received $375,000 from the state of Alabama, so this is an extremely well-funded group, with money coming in from everybody - including the taxpayers, apparently. And this continued for years - the Left was obsessed with Charlottesville, as you probably remember. It’s the hoax that simply never died. You know, you can make the case that it lasted longer than Russiagate. Four years after Biden’s campaign video, in 2024, Kamala Harris AGAIN invoked Charlottesville on the debate stage. Watch: Source: @TheTonus/X.com “Let’s remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing antisemitic hate. And what did the President then at the time say? There were fine people on each side.” Now, every single aspect of this narrative, as told by every media outlet and by every prominent politician in Washington, was a lie. We’ve known that for some time - Trump did not endorse white supremacy; in fact, he explicitly did the opposite. And contrary to what CNN would have you believe, you don’t have to be a neo-Nazi to oppose the removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue. You simply have to be an American - someone who’s interested in preserving our shared history and venerating our national heroes—of which Robert E. Lee is one of them—rather than defaming them. And that describes most of the people who attended that rally, and on top of that, you weren’t told the full story about the woman who died during this rally - you were led to believe that Heather Higher was murdered in cold blood by a white supremacist who drove into a crowd on purpose, but that’s not what the authorities believed at first, before the mob demanded vengeance. Police officers ACTUALLY thought the incident was NOT malicious at all, based on the fact that the driver was visibly horrified that somebody had died; the fact that his car had been surrounded and struck by an object; and the fact that the man had just googled directions to his home, not the place where the attack happened. In other words, he was not a domestic terrorist; it looked a lot like he got lost and panicked after he was surrounded on his way home. Now, these are points that, over the past decade, various conservative commentators have made, or tried to make, but they’ve never really resonated, in part, because many Republican politicians accepted the Left’s narrative on “Unite the Right” - it’s also because, as we all know from experience, it’s not easy to compete with a full on hoax once it gets going. Propagandists who were willing to lie, over and over again, no matter how flagrantly they do it, are usually pretty convincing. Now, the average person doesn’t have time to fact check every detail or do independent research. So when Ted Cruz claimed that an act of domestic terrorism had taken place in Charlottesville, most people were inclined to agree. But there was one aspect of the rally that, to give left-wing activists some credit, was difficult for conservatives to explain away. There were indeed photographs of several men at the “Unite the Right” rally, some of them carrying Nazi flags, and a couple of them yelled, “Jews will not replace us,” which was considered offensive to Leftists until about fifteen minutes ago. And it was difficult for some conservatives, in the face of that photographic and video evidence, to DENY that—at some level—this rally was organized, or at least popular with, a group of neo-Nazis on the Right. Now, of course, the appropriate response—even if that were true—would be to just ignore the outrage. The presence of a small number of people waving Nazi flags is not a national crisis, even if they’re genuine Nazis. We’re a country of more than 340 million people. If we’re going to allow five guys with Nazi flags to derail our entire political discourse, then we’re never going to accomplish anything. We’re also going to create an enormous incentive for the Left to wave Nazi flags around, and blame them on the Right - which, it appears, is exactly what happened. There’s now very good reason to believe that, at Charlottesville, what we saw was the product of a deliberate, engineered effort to destroy the image of Donald Trump and the Republican Party - again, back in 2017, a claim like that would seem pretty far-fetched to most people. After all, what are the odds that a well-funded left-wing group, aligned with the Democrat Party, would actually PAY people to act like Nazis at this small rally in Charlottesville, Virginia? What are the odds that, actually, the entire event was a psy-op engineered from the beginning, to give Democrats a pretext to wage war against quote-unquote “white supremacy,” which, of course, actually means “white people” and “conservatism” in general? Well, the odds were pretty good, as it turns out. Last night, the DOJ released an indictment alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, funded and supported an individual who was closely involved in coordinating the “Unite the Right” rally. And not only that - SPLC was funding (directly or indirectly) a lot of other supposedly “right-wing extremism,” including the KKK. Yes, according to the DOJ, the SPLC—the Left’s preferred “anti-hate group”—was allegedly paying affiliates of the KKK. Watch: Source: @SteveGuest/X.com “According to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023, SPLC paid at least $3 million to eight individuals at least. These individuals were affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Clans of America, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations Affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, Nazis, and the American Front. Now, as the indictment lays out, after SPLC paid members of these extremist groups, it created work product that reported on these activities that the members participated in or contributed to. And to that end, it was doing the exact opposite of what it’s told its donors it was doing - not dismantling extremism, but funding it. To carry out this scheme, SPLC created bank accounts in the name of at least five completely fictitious organizations that had no bonafide employees or legitimate business purpose. The money was passed from SPLC to one sham account to a second sham account, and then loaded onto prepaid cards to give to the members of the extremist groups.” Now, before we go into the specifics of the indictment, If you’re not familiar with the SPLC, they’re one of the most dishonest and dangerous left-wing organizations in the entire country - they exist to provide a pretext for the censorship and harassment of conservatives, with the goal of destroying their lives; they also hate Americans, especially white Americans. Now, take a look at this video, featuring Mark Potok, who worked with the SPLC at the time, and on the wall, you may notice a handwritten note documenting the decline of America’s “non-hispanic white population”. Watch: Source: @restoreorderusa/X.com So they zoom in, really close, on the numbers there. White people accounted for 90% of the population in 1920, only 62% in 2015 - to the SPLC, this is a big victory. They’re one of the main engines of demographic replacement - their goal is to demonize white people and claim that white supremacy is the greatest domestic threat, for the purpose of eliminating—or at least greatly diminishing—the white population. Now, to give just one example of how they operate, the SPLC put Turning Point USA on its “hate group” list shortly before Charlie Kirk was murdered. Here’s what Charlie wrote at the time, in May of last year. The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous “hate group” list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis. … Even former staffers called their racket a “con.” Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us, pressure schools to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us. Remember the Family Research Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them. They’d love nothing more than to see TPUSA in the crosshairs. … Maybe someone should take a hard look at where all that “nonprofit” money’s really going? Well, now we’re finally discovering where the money went. Charlie also went on Fox to report that SPLC had targeted specific Turning Point chapters on college campuses. Watch: Source: @ginamilan_/X.com “Understand that they’re literally putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group next to the KKK and next to neo-Nazi groups. And I mean, we can laugh this off, there’s an element of this - remember that there was a shooter that went to the Family Research Council years ago, inspired by the SPLC list. This is them trying to make us basically surrender at Turning Point USA—we’re gonna do the opposite and our students are only going to lean in even more—but they can’t debate us on our ideas. They cannot have dialogue, they cannot actually go onto the merits of why they are right, or why we might be wrong - instead, they must smear us with the age-old oneliner that you are a racist or that you are a hater…” Now, in addition to the Family Research Council, which Charlie mentioned, the SPLC has also defamed the Federalist Society, PragerU, the Heritage Foundation, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and so on and so on. They’ve targeted individuals like Stephen Miller, Matt Walsh, James Lindsey, and Mike Cernovich as well, just to name a few, in their effort to de-monetize their channels and get them fired or killed. You can take a look at their profiles - they have profiles on their website, which you can see right there. Source: @libsoftiktok/X.com Matt Walsh, for example, is listed under “GENERAL HATE” and “ANTI-LGBTQ.” Now, this very befuddling, to say the least - I mean, if you’re gonna claim that someone is a hateful person, then you should be able to point out, specifically, how they’re hateful. What they’re hateful towards. But if you say someone is just “generally hateful,” you’re painting a broad brush—one that I would argue is pretty unfair, under the circumstances—I mean, give Matt Walsh some credit here. His hatred is actually pretty specific. It’s pretty specialized, specific hatred. But then a few people pointed out that “General Hate” might actually be his rank. So if someone is “General Hate,” that would put them above, you know, Major Hate, Lieutenant Colonel Hate - in which case they should gladly accept this prestigious title from the SPLC. In fact, Matt Walsh should add it to his bio next to “theocratic fascist” and “children’s author.” But in any event, this is a direct quote from the DOJ’s indictment, concerning the Southern Poverty Law Center - the indictment refers to a number of “F’s,” which is short for “field sources.” Between at least 2014 and 2023, the SPLC paid their Fs in a clandestine manner. Doing so hid the fact that while the SPLC received donation money under the auspices that the funds would be used to “dismantle” violent extremist groups, this donation money was, instead, being used, in part, by the SPLC to pay leaders and others within these same violent extremist groups. That money was then used for the benefit of the individuals as well as the violent extremist groups. … Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in SPLC funds to Fs who were associated with various violent extremist groups. … Examples of Fs who were secretly paid by the SPLC include, but are not limited to the following: F-37 was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event in Charlottesville, Virginia and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. F-37 made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-37 more than $270,000.00. So yes, according to this indictment, the SPLC paid more than a quarter-million dollars to one person who coordinated the “Unite the Right rally,” and made racist posts under SPLC’s supervision. That’s a small fraction of the $3 million the SPLC has allegedly paid to fund various extremists in other groups. And what this means is that, if the DOJ’s indictment is accurate, the SPLC is probably the single greatest funder of “white supremacy,” quote-unquote, in the entire country. I mean, no one else is paying this kind of money to fund white nationalist rallies, which is why the SPLC had to do it themselves! Now, what needs to be emphasized here is that, fundamentally, the SPLC is not some random one-off left-wing activist group. They are a wing of the Democrat Party in charge of engineering domestic Color Revolutions with fraudulent narratives that they invent out of thin air, for the purpose of overthrowing conservative administrations and replacing them with Leftists. And then, once the Leftists are in charge, SPLC starts writing MEMOS which the FBI uses to justify violent crackdowns on conservatives. For example, a couple of years ago, the FBI field office in Richmond declared that Catholics were a domestic terror threat. Here’s what the FBI wrote. FBI Richmond assesses the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development. … As of 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified nine RTC hate groups operating in the United States. So you see how this works. Very similar to Russiagate, the FBI’s allies in a left-wing group write some memo, then the FBI will CITE that memo as if it’s an independent justification to launch an investigation, and meanwhile, INSIDE the FBI, agents were writing their OWN emails about how INSANE this was that the SPLC is dictating the FBI’s activities! Here’s one of those emails, where FBI employees react to the designation of some Catholics as a hate group, at the behest of the SPLC. One FBI employee writes: Ummm, that is interesting, several thoughts, but mostly, who is the customer. Is anyone really asking for a product like this? Apparently we are at the behest of the SPLC. And then an agent replies: Yeah, our overreliance on the SPLC for hate designations is .. problematic. But the rank-and-file agents don’t have any power; the people running the government—the Biden administration at the time—KNEW the SPLC was manufacturing “hate groups.” That was the whole point. The more “hate groups” that the Left could manufacture, the easier it would be for Joe Biden to take the stage in front of a blood-red background, flanked by Marines, and declare that Republicans represented a threat to the Republic. Watch: Source: Bloomberg Television/YouTube.com “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal! Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.” Now, this bizarre, ominous speech laid the groundwork for the FBI’s attacks on religious liberty, including predawn SWAT team raids on peaceful pro-life demonstrators. It also laid the groundwork for the campaign of lawfare against Donald Trump, which had no precedent in American history. People are more willing to accept an authoritarian takeover when you convince them that their opponents are really domestic terrorists. This is why Biden and Merrick Garland declared that “white supremacy” was the greatest domestic terror threat facing the country - all of their messaging was directly in sync with the SPLC, because the were getting it from the SPLC. And that’s why, according to the DOJ, the SPLC’s efforts went far beyond the “Unite the Right” rally. This is also from the DOJ’s indictment, about another field source for the SPLC. F-9 was affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance and served as an F for the SPLC for more than 20 years. F-9’s activities included fundraising for the National Alliance. Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-9 more than $1,000,000.00.. So if we’re following this allegation, the SPLC paid a million dollars to somebody who was “affiliated with a neo-Nazi organization.” And then this informant, in turn, raised money for the neo-Nazi organization - so, according to this indictment, the SPLC was going out of its way to ensure that a neo-Nazi group remained in existence! At the same time, they were calling for the eradication of “right-wing hate,” but they actually were doing everything in their power to fund neo-Nazis, and it was clear why they wanted to do that. Take a look at this screenshot from the SPLC’s website. The caption reads, “The Department of Homeland Security posted this image with the caption “Which Way, American Man?” in August 2025. The caption appears to be a reference to a white nationalist book published by the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi hate group.” So again, you see how this works - the SPLC wants groups like the National Alliance to exist, so that they can accuse the Trump administration of associating with them. Meanwhile, the SPLC doesn’t TELL you that, in secret, they’re not simply ASSOCIATING with these groups - they are FUNDING them! And according to the indictment, this happened all the time. The SPLC [funnelled] more than $160,000.00 from a fictitious entity to F-11 who then sent funds to various violent extremist group leaders including the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, it’s the kind of strategy that’s effective because, unless you’re extremely familiar with how depraved left-wing activists are, it would never OCCUR to you that they’re doing ANY of this. But they feel a need to do it, because otherwise, there would BE no right-wing “hate groups!” If the SPLC did not fund them, they would not exist. And then Democrats would lose power, and the SPLC would run out of money. Now, it’s the same reason that your anti-virus software bugs you all the time. If your anti-virus software told you the truth—which is that you really don’t need to pay for anti-virus software anymore—then obviously nobody would subscribe, so instead, they pester you with fake “threats” and scare tactics. And it’s the same principle, except in the case of the SPLC, they were having a substantial effect on American politics. Now, the more you read this indictment, the more you realize how shameless it was - according to the DOJ, the SPLC was paying the same Klan members it was complaining about, by name, on its website. F-unknown was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America. In an article published on November 22, 2013, the SPLC described the group as a “millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat. … F-30 led the National Socialist Party of America, was the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC website contained an “Extremist File” webpage for F-30 from which the SPLC solicited donations. Between 2014 and 2016, the SPLC secretly paid F30 more than $70,000.00. This overlapped the time period in which F-30 was featured on the SPLC’s “Extremist File” webpage. Now, this appears to be that webpage, from the SPLC. As you can see, they characterize the guy as a Neo-Nazi, and meanwhile, they’re paying him tens of thousands of dollars. So I gotta say, as an aside, if I were listed in that website, I’d get a little frustrated, because again, there are individuals like Stephen Miller and Matt Walsh who were ALSO listed on their website of “extremists.” They put them on the list. They have their photos up and everything, and they were on their hate map, as people who absolutely must be stopped - and yet, for all of this, they weren’t paid a single cent at any point! Matt Walsh served as “General Hate” without any compensation whatsoever! Meanwhile, the KKK wizards were just like, raking it in. If nothing else, I’ll say this whole situation gives me new respect for Jussie Smollett, because he really kid of bootstrapped his fake hate crime and paid for it himself, rather than having SPLC organize and fund it for him. He didn’t need SPLC money any more than those other people did, so, you know, there’s a lesson here: You know, support your local mom and pop hate crime hoax operations. You gotta do it now, before they’re all put out of business by, you know, the big guys like SPLC. Now, of course, all kidding aside, SPLC was not offering money to genuine conservatives who are effective at advancing conservatism. The idea was to fund and prop up the alleged “right wingers” who were USEFUL to SPLC and the Left. And I suspect that soon, whether through this investigation or those to come, we’re gonna find out that there are a fair number of faux conservative figures, the most embarrassing and ridiculous ones, who’ve been getting paid by the forces they pretend to oppose. You know, there’s a symbiotic relationship between left-wing activist groups and the supposedly right-wing grifters. And this relationship has always been obvious - now we’re learning about its financial dimensions. Speaking of which, back to the KKK—what exactly were they doing to get all this SPLC money—well, here’s one example: it turns out that, about a decade ago, there was a big controversy in Georgia over something called the “Adopt a Highway Program” - the idea is that, if you’re an organization, you can “adopt” a section of the state highway system if you agree to pick up garbage along the side of the highway. In exchange for picking up the trash, you get to have your group’s name posted on signs alongside the stretch of highway that you have “adopted.” There was a similar program in Missouri for a while, which led to the creation of this sign along the highway, and eventually, the sign was taken down, apparently because the KKK didn’t pick up enough trash. But in any event, you can see why the KKK would want this kind of visibility; it’s basically free advertising from the government. And apparently, the SPLC was a big fan of that advertising, as well. This is from the indictment F-43 was the reported National President of American Front and a convicted federal felon for his participation in a cross burning. Between 2016 and 2019, the SPLC secretly paid F-43 more than $19,000.00. F-unknown was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and married to an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. F-unknown and their spouse were involved in litigation whereby the Ku Klux Klan applied to take part in the Adopt-a-Highway program. During the course of the litigation, known payments were traced from the SPLC to F-unknown which exceeded $3,500.00. Now, it’s not exactly clear what that money bought, but it sounds like the SPLC was all in favor of the KKK getting a stretch of the highway named after them. This is how pro-white supremacy the SPLC is. I mean, they’re all-in! They won’t stop until every stretch of highway in the country is named after a KKK grand wizard! We’re gonna run out of grand wizards, soon enough! I don’t know how many there have been. That’s the extent of their commitment to anti-racism. As Ibram X. Kendi (aka Henry Rogers) once said, the only way to combat racism is to be as racist as possible, and the SPLC, more than any other organization on the planet, has definitely taken that advice to heart. Now, the rest of the indictment outlines the ways in which the SPLC is allegedly laundered money through shell companies to these various informants. Now, the SPLC allegedly set up fake companies like the “Center Investigative Agency” or CIA, as well as “Fox Photography,” “North West Technologies,” the “Tech Writers Group,” and a “Rare Books Warehouse.” The idea is that, for obvious reasons, the SPLC didn’t want to cut checks from their own account, so they may have broken the law by creating a bunch of fake companies to send the wire transfers, and in addition to that, the DOJ is claiming that donors were basically defrauded, because they were donating with the expectation that they were “fighting” right-wing extremism - not FUNDING it! Now, this is obviously an ongoing case, and the SPLC is claiming that it was simply paying informants to undermine these groups. And already, Democrats, including Hakeem Jeffries, are claiming that the Trump administration is “weaponizing” the DOJ to go after its political opponents, which, of course, is something that Democrats would never do. /s For their part, the Democrats’ allies in the media are mostly ignoring the story - Newsbusters reports that: ABC, CBS, and NBC all bit their tongues rather than report on the downfall of the self-proclaimed “anti-hate” group. In fact, only PBS reported on the indictment. … [But] PBS’s report on the indictment was vague and unclear. The charges were recited but not explained. The SPLC’s CEO was allowed in for a friendly soundbite. Well, imagine that. After years of talking nonstop about Charlottesville, NONE of the mainstream media outlets are gonna talk about SPLC’s role in helping ORGANIZE the rally. After decades of citing the SPLC as a credible source of information on so-called “hate groups,” none of them are gonna talk about the federal allegations that the company was funding those same groups! Apparently, they’re going with the argument from the Democrat Party, which is that, well, the SPLC was simply using “informants” for legitimate purposes. And meanwhile, something called the “Jewish Council for Public Affairs” just released a bizarre statement defending SPLC, saying they do valuable work to “counter violent extremism” — never mind the fact that they fund it. Now, these arguments, of course, amount to complete BS. When you’re paying millions of dollars, you’re not buying “informants” - you’re supporting the organizations themselves, and propping them up. It’s obvious what the game was. SPLC FUNDED “right-wing extremist” groups so that it could turn around and fundraise off of them, and use them as a PRETEXT to crack down on conservatives nationwide. That’s what was happening. But the thing is that, even if these excuses were true—that they were just paying “informants” as part of an “investigation” or whatever—it would just serve to underscore the degree to which the Left has created quasi-government agencies despite having no legal authority to do so! The SPLC—according to their own defense—was basically acting like the FBI, hiring undercover agents to “disrupt terrorism” and so on. They have no authority to do that! They’re not a law enforcement agency! It’s hard to ignore the fact that, based on this indictment, we’ve been living under the tyranny not just of unelected judges and unelected bureaucrats, but also of unelected activist organizations that have been empowered to act as agents of the government! Now, I’ve been beating this drum for a while now - about the need for the Trump administration to go to war with these fake non-profits and NGOs that, in reality, are criminal front-groups for the Democrat Party. And with this indictment, more than a half a year after the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration is finally getting serious about doing that. And that’s genuinely worth applauding. I have plenty of criticisms about this administration, which I have voiced many times, and will continue to. But if they can dismantle these cancerous left-wing front groups—the same way they closed the border and shut down the fraudulent asylum claims—then unequivocally, this administration will have been a success. It certainly would be a lot better than what the alternative would have been. And as tempting as it might be to engage in doomerism and to complain nonstop, we do need to celebrate wins when they happen. We need to recognize this indictment is a sign of major progress, and it needs to continue. And we also need to understand, at the same time, that SPLC is just the tip of the iceberg. The SPLC, as alleged, is a criminal organization. Every Leftist activist group is just as corrupt and dishonest and sinister as this. They all want you dead. They all have no problem using hoaxes and pay-ops to get what they want. They all celebrated what happened to Charlie Kirk. They’re all willing to go to extraordinary lengths—lengths unfathomable to sane people—to defame, harass, and destroy their opponents. So it’s not crazy to wonder WHO, for instance, was actually behind January 6th. I mean, if they’re willing to spend millions of dollars on false flag operations, for the purpose of generating a narrative they can use to demonize and jail their political opponents for several years, and also fundraise off of, then it’s not exactly a stretch to conclude that January 6th was probably just like Charlottesville - a well-funded psy-op. It’s not exactly unheard of. Something similar to this incident happened back in 2001, in Germany. The federal government wanted to ban the “National Democratic Party of Germany,” saying they were run by Nazis. But the plan fell apart when it emerged that, in fact, “confidential informants of German intelligence agencies” were “active in the leadership of the party.” Intelligence agencies and activist groups have never stopped running this playbook. During the Canadian trucker convoy, some mysterious Nazi flags appeared - and the people holding them eventually went back to a hotel that was being used by Canada’s federal police. So these kinds of psy-ops are extremely common. But if you say any of this out loud, they’ll come after you, relentlessly. You know, they bankrupted Alex Jones and stole his company, not because of anything he said about a school shooting, but because he made observations like this, about Charlottesville: Source: @HarrisonHSmith/X.com “Charlottesville was mainly a bunch of homosexual Leftists dressing up like Nazis, who’d all formerly worked for Obama or Hillary, part of their art club, and then they lured a bunch of reporters there and some real white supremist, so the police could stand down and collide them into the folks - I pointed out that some of the same Leftist foundations are funding the white supremist, that are funding real white supremist in Ukraine. I got SUED for that, even though it’s, you know, that they tried to say that I said some cameraman killed the girl. I didn't say that the cameraman killed them, I said it was all part of Leftists coming out to come to this big event and hope there was some big crisis out of it to demonize the Right in general and tie us to Nazis…” So it turns out that was 100% correct. I mean, he was exactly right. He saw through it at the time. , and they destroyed him for it. The press, the NGOs, and the nonprofits all denounced him and made sure he lost everything. That’s what happened to a lot of people. And now, lawfully and without any apologies whatsoever, we have no choice but to do the same to them. submitted by /u/AllNewNewYorker to r/ModlessFreedom [link] [comments]
AllNewNewYorker · Apr 28, 2026
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Having trouble finding someone who knows how to get your hair to a Modern Mullet/Burst Fade/Flow Cut?
I see a lot of people in this sub asking for barber recommendations in Chattanooga. I’m a barber at Octane and I wanted to give you guys some tips to get better cuts, regardless of who you sit with. Bring Photos: A photo is worth a thousand words. Know your hair type: If your hair is straight, don’t ask for a cut meant for curly hair. Use a mirror: Ask to see the back before you stand up. If you are still struggling to find someone consistent, come see me at Octane. I’m currently running a promo for first-time clients from r/Chattanooga. $25.00 for a full clipper/shear/foil shaver/dry and style, PLUS a beard trim. https://octanems.square.site/ Book with Dani at 423-402-0702 Or Walk In to Octane Men’s Salon 302 McFarland Ave Rossville, GA 30741 submitted by /u/Practical_Friend_962 to r/Chattanooga [link] [comments]
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Best hairdresser for young teens
Today I took my teen into crop shop on castle meadow,after checking a few others it was half the price of other salons.so we go in and I asked for 'the best hairdresser you have',a lady with beautiful pink hair did the cut and its fantastic!my teen wanted a Japanese style (K pop has alot to answer for)and took in pics.The cut is incredible,beautiful and I'd definitely recommend taking your young ladies to see the pink haired hairdresser (she said she does modern mullets on men too🥰).People complain about cuts from there but just ask for the best..I now have a teen exited about going to school on Monday ❤️(cannot share pic as they'd be angry lol) submitted by /u/BeaksFalcone to r/Norwich [link] [comments]
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Aestuarium Sanctorum or The Story of a Dying Man in the Crescent Isles PART ONE (Book One chapters 1-4)
PROLOGUE She didn’t make it. An excerpt from the interrogation of a man in small town Indiana June 12 2000 Officer Roberts (OR): So it was around 4 o’clock when you made contact? Unknown Subject (UK): *unintelligible* OR: Again, I am here to help you, but you gotta help me help you. We have the witnesses, you’re on camera. I mean, it was the middle of the freaking day. The DA is going to want to prosecute, and stuff like this? Stuff with a little boy? They are going to want to put you under the jail. UK: You can’t help me. OR: Look, I’ve told you, it’s your right, okay? You don’t have to talk to us. But before this gets messy and it spirals out of control this is your only chance to get your side of the story out. UK: Won’t matter. OR: Fine. But just for me. Just so I can understand, can you tell me what happened? What made you just wake up on this random day and try to do something like this? UK: It needed to be stopped. OR: What did? UK: Them. OR: Who’s them? You gotta help me understand here. UK: This story didn’t start today. Started a long time ago. Tried to end it today, but I didn’t. I failed. I can tell you but it won’t matter anyway. Not to the people still living out there, not to those little girls. OR: What little girls? UK: You got a cigarette? — Thank you. OR: What little girls? When does this story start? UK: Depends. OR: On what? UK: Which story you want to hear. OR: Well, let’s start with your story. When does that start? UK: March 9th 1992. OR: Okay, is that when the boy was born? He is 7 years old right? UK: No. It’s when I saw her standing out there in the rain. The woman - the girl - the mother of the boy. It was pissing down rain, and I was 100, 150 yards from her, but I could still see her cryin. Standing there, I was up in the trees, like, she didn’t know I was there. I wasn’t supposed to be, I was supposed to be back in the chapel. Something about that girl though. She wore sadness different than the rest of them. She seemed so innocent. So pure. The rain was comin down so hard and that little baptism dress was soaking wet and stickin to her body. That was when she saw them crawlin up out of the marshes. It was too late, they had already hatched, there wasn’t nothin could be done. She came runnin right towards me, trying to make it into the trees, but they were comin up fast as a shark cuttin through water. Just inky black. All hate. You ever seen evil like that? Evil that just don’t have no reason to be, it just is? She’s running at me as fast as her little feet can go, but the dress was long and it was getting all tangled in the mud and the sticks. She grabbed up at the shoulders of the dress and ripped it off and just kept running. She just needed to get to the trees, but them things were comin up on her. They wouldn’t stop. She just needed to get to the trees. She didn’t make it. Genesis Chapter I 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And She moved even then in the depths. And it was good. Book One The First Gospel of the Sacred Crescent Obediah, The Letter, Campfire Stories, The Exchange, An Angel, An Old Man and a Demon I His name was Obediah Thomas, but everyone called him Obie. The first name was a holdover from biological benefactors, the surname a gift given to him in his adoption. The Thomas’s had given this name to six children turned adults over the course of their lives, and had fostered 11 additional children in succession over the course of a dozen or so years. This period overlapped with the developmental years of a young Obediah. He had never known solitude or loneliness until he was a man, but at no point did he ever feel as if he had found a home. This was, of course, not the fault of his adoptive family. Many abandoned and refound children spend their lives feeling a sense of homelessness. This is the story of how he died. Obie found himself not only existentially homeless, but the only place he could call his domicile was a 1991 Volvo 740 GL. At the time in which we find ourselves in Obie’s unfortunate life this vehicle is 34 years old, three years older than Obediah himself. It was not much as far as a means of transportation, and less so a home. It leaked oil and squeaked like a hungry mouse in a cage whenever it made a lefthand turn. As Obie drove his home towards Reverend John Thomas’s church on the first day of the new year of our lord 2025, the Volvo had three gallons of gas in the tank and one quart too little oil in the engine block. It housed three button-down shirts, four stained t-shirts, two pairs of slacks, one pair of denim jeans, a half-pack of Marlboro cigarettes, 23 copies of the May 2024 addition of Sexy Cinephiles and the pitiful pilot of the vessel. Obie slapped the steering wheel in time with the songs of the 70’s on rocking 103.4 and pulled the ember of his cigarette closer to the cotton filter tucked into the corner of his unshaven mouth. He kept one eye on the road and the other kept pulling itself towards the adult magazines stacked on his passenger seat. The reason the magazines had made their home in his car was as simple as it was depressing. Sexy Cinephiles was the only publication willing to publish anything with Obediah Thomas as its author. It was a failing publication which housed short stories and movie reviews between pictures of women recreating famous movie scenes in the nude. The reason it was failing is two-fold: one, no one purchased pictures of naked women in print anymore, as there is an endless supply of naked women on the internet; two,very few people wanted to buy sexually explicit material with the suffix -phile in the title due to the number of nasty sexual proclivities with that suffix in their name. Obediah had been writing for them for some time, and had made a name enough for himself that on the front cover of the May 2024 issue there was in bold type face a blurb which read “Featuring the short stories of Obediah Thomas” directly below a woman petting a very strategically placed cat recreating the iconic scene from the Godfather - in the nude. When Obie had last visited the good Reverend John Thomas he had purchased every copy of Sexy Cinephiles available in the small town of Winter Spring Indiana to ensure that neither his parents nor the parishioners would stumble on a copy of a naked woman advertising the literary works of a prodigal son. Even though Obie was not particularly proud of his writing in the May issue of Sexy Cinephiles he found it difficult to throw away published work with his byline, given how rare of an item published works with his byline are. The published works in question here were as follows: “10 Most Overrated Movies of the Past 10 Years”, “Slashers of the 80’s: Nudity in Film” and a short erotic parody of James Bond titled “James Bones”. Each of these were couched between pictures of naked women spreading their legs and fucking each other in cheap Halloween costumes. Obediah pulled hard on the cigarette, burning the last of the tobacco before shoving the butt into the already over stuffed ash tray. He turned up the radio as the Eagles began telling him to take it easy in an ear worm of a melody. The cigarettes and dolcite tones help ease the nausea ridden anxiety that bubbles up whenever Obie returns to Winter Spring to see his parents. The occasion which drew him back to Winter Springs this time was an annual New Years Day party at his father’s church and a voicemail from his mother which was as follows: “Hey little man! When in the world do you plan on coming back home to see us. Your dad is planning a big party -” there was some indistinct murmuring from someone too far from the receiver to be audible. “I know, I know, I’ll tell him. We got a letter from uhm, your birth family. We’d like to talk about it here. In person.” II Obediah’s trip to the good reverends congregation had been brief and fairly uneventful. Upon arrival he was greeted by a familiar face equally dreading the festivities inside - a woman by the name of Willow Mills. Willow stood fore longingly under a banner which had been erected three days previous on the side of the church which read “Pray in the New Year”. She had skin like sweet pralines and hair that cascaded in kinks and curls just past her shoulders. She, like Obediah, had found herself here under parental obligation, and had little interest in praying for the New Year or anything else for that matter. When they were much younger, a lifetime ago by Obadiah's estimation, they had used each other's bodies to learn about erections and orgasms and the things that become wet and hard and expel fluids and lust. They had used each other’s hearts to learn about heartache and the kind of loneliness that can only come when you love someone so completely, and disappoint them in equal measure. Now she stood with pursed lips as he approached and scolded him for being ‘such a stranger’ for over a decade. She asked if he could spare her a cigarette. He did. They smoked in silence punctuated occasionally by small talk. Where are you living now? How is work? Have you begun loving anyone new? Why didn’t you call me after I let you take my virginity? And so on. “If my mother smells cigarettes on either of us it’s your white ass” she said in a joking tone. She wasn’t joking. Inside Obediah was greeted by familiar faces from the past. Sister Parsons had sold him his first car when her husband had died and no longer needed it. Brother Simmons had bought his back-to-school clothes three summers in a row when the good reverend had found that new clothes were not a luxury he could provide. Brother White had taught him to drive a stick-shift in his old Ford Bronco. Each of these people were moral and good. The back bone of a type of America that had nearly gone extinct and Obediah felt the unparalleled crushing guilt and shame of having lived up to none of their expectations. He was not moral. He was not good. He was the backbone of the type of America that had been birthed with the invention of 24 hour news access and mobile phones and social media platforms. He had taught no one anything, and had never purchased anyone new clothes out of the kindness of his Christian heart. Never in his life did Obediah find himself feeling more like a lost soul than in the company of those whose souls had been found. In the back of the room filled with benevolent souls he found the shepherd of the flock sitting next to his First Lady at a table of honor. He was forking mindlessly at a hodgepodge plate of pot-luck casseroles. When the good reverend saw his son he sprung from his chair like a jack-in-the-box. He embraced him and slapped his back hard with a massive heavy hand. “Everybody act like you got some sense, we’re in the presence of a great author!” His mother stood to join her husband in the welcoming committee. They began a three person parade reintroducing Obediah to the kind souls he has known his whole life, each of them beaming with pride at the young author - none of them knew his accomplishments were wedged in between the cum stained pages of a soon to be bankrupt porno mag. Then it was the part of the evening to discuss the letter that had drawn Obediah across the country. “Ma, don’t you have something for me to look at?” “Hm?” “Ma. My parents?” Her face soured. His parents. Having raised Obediah his entire life, here he stands in front of her, having not been home in some time and is looking to see a letter from someone he’s never met. He had eaten none of the casserole. He had drunk none of the punch. Obediah’s mother, of course, didn’t understand the empty place that was and will always be in the heart of a boy once left abandoned. She sees only his ingratitude. “It’s in your father’s office.” They shuffled now towards the office, no longer a parade and now a procession. After some sorrowful mulling around the subject, Obediah’s mother handed him the envelope. This is what it read: Young Obediah, It has come to my attention that you have been sired by the seed of my seed. That is to say you are a descendant once removed. That is to say I am your grandfather. I have fallen ill. It has come time for legacy and bequeathments and the future and homecoming and homegoing. 1746 Chapel of the Unseen Crescent Isle, GA Take the first ferry from the mainland on January 9th. The ferry will be closed after for the festivities. Enclosed is the fare. Show this letter to the bridgemen. Your Grandfather, Yeshua Abraham Enclosed was twelve dollars and fifty cents. III Her name was Honesty. Her twin sister was named Truth. Neither may seem like standard names for those of us who live in the contiguous United States, or as the people who live in the Crescent Isles would call it the mainland. All of the girls of the isles are named for a virtue while the boys typically carry the name of prophet or biblical figure. This is likely an unintentional commentary on the place that the sexes maintain in their traditionally patriarchal society. Men are the priests of their homes, while women are virtues to obtain. It is the benign kind of misogyny that doesn’t exist in our modern society, with everyone being equally fucked by late stage capitalism. Honesty and Truth were both in the awkward years of changing bodies, and new hormones filling their gangly frames. Their limbs too long, their legs sprouting ungroomed hairs and their necks small towers for skulls that are filling quickly with ideas of mortality and sex and responsibility and their ever-shrinking futures. On top of each of their heads were mops of curls which would dance down in front of their large crystal blue eyes, and would balance on the shoulders of their hand woven dresses. Honesty was the more mature of the two, more world-weary, having been forced to grow up in order to protect her sister who was nine minutes her junior. This is the story of how she ended up killing the poor son of a bitch that was beckoned to the Crescent Isles by a cryptic letter from his grandfather. The twin sisters had decided that this morning was too sunny and beautiful to spend the entire day sitting in some boring class room, and that their youth would be better spent in the woods near the river known as St. Enoch's path. They came skipping down the soft clay hills towards the river bed where they were to meet their equally truant class mates: Patience, Serenity, who were themselves a pair of twin sisters only a few weeks older than Honesty and Truth. They were also meeting Isaiah, Samuel and Hunter. The boys were working hard on creating a small fire with a collection of small twigs and leaves which were carefully collected beneath a small teepee of larger sticks. Isaiah was holding a large magnifying glass above the twigs trying to harness the power of the bright beating sun. “Shouldn’t the camp fire be for later?” Honesty called as she came down the hill. “There you are!” Hunter called back. “Can’t do it later” Isaiah said before placing his tongue firmly back in his cheek to focus. “Why not?” called Truth. Isaiah sighed deeply, frustrated that he was having to explain something so simple to these two air-headed girls. “Don’t you check the weather? Gonna rain later. Now can I focus?!” He went back to starting the fire with a comically large magnifying glass. “He gets mad annoyed when he’s focusing, don't worry about it ladies” Hunter ran his fingers through his curly mullet trying to look cool and mysterious. Unfortunately for him when he lifted his arm his t-shirt came up showing his soft round pale belly. “Why did we even invite them?” Patience said, shouldering Isiah, desperate for his approval. He looked at her with a face like a fist, said absolutely nothing, and went back to his fire. He was a professional arsonist of the mundane variety. "Sorry," Patience said. It was a small, wet sound. She sat next to Serenity and they both hugged their knees as though they were afraid their legs might try to run away without them. Then they started whispering and giggling. This is a thing young girls do to convince themselves they are paragons of some meaner more serious adulthood that everyone else is too stupid or naive to appreciate. "Hey, Truth," Samuel said. He waved. His face turned the color of the freshly rising sun the group of truants had gathered under less than an hour ago. Truth waved back. Her face turned the exact same color. "Got some good shit for you ladies to try later in my bag," Hunter said. He stepped in front of Samuel, who was currently busy calculating his next move in convincing Truth he was a little boy worthy of her time and affection. "What is it?" Honesty asked. Now, Honesty would never tell a soul, but she found this chubby boy and his fumbling attempts at being a man almost charming. It was pathetic, really, which is often just another word for cute. "Can’t tell you yet," Hunter said, trying to look mysterious. "But trust me, it’s some fuckin good shit." Hunter had discovered profanity earlier that year. He used these new words like a man who had just been handed an eight pound hammer and was determined to find a nail in every sentence. He thought he sounded like a big muscle-bound badass. In reality, he sounded like a boy who was very excited to be alive and very afraid of being ignored. “Just show us!” Honesty pleaded. “No fuckin way! You gotta wait and shit, fuck-head” Hammer, meet nail. Honesty darted her eyes from Hunter’s round face, to his back pack and back to his face. She was a very fast runner. Hunter, on the other hand, had legs like two large hams poking out of denim shorts. She performed a brief, frantic dance of misdirection and then bolted for the bag. Hunter came fumbling after her, a clumsy machine of pasty meat. “No you freaking dickweed!” he whistled. The two ended up falling over each other in an impromptu wrestling match for the bag. During the scuffle, Hunter’s hand landed accidentally on Honesty’s newly budding breast. It was a very small event in the history of mankind, but it was a very large event for Hunter. It was the first time he had ever touched a breast. Neither of them said a word about it. Maybe because the passing brush didn’t even register to the young girl or maybe because to speak of it would be to admit that they were no longer just children playing in the dirt. Either way, the shock of the contact caused Hunter’s brain to short-circuit. It provided the opening Honesty needed to snatch the bag away and claim her prize. So she did. She stood quickly off the ground victorious. “Let’s see what we have here!” She began rummaging through a bag of crumpled up pages covered in doodles, several loose ink pens, Japanese comic books, a collection of cracker crumbs and in the middle of the horde a plastic bag filled with primary colored candies. “Are these what I think they are?” Honesty squealed. “Well what do you think they are?” Hunter tried and failed to conceal a shit-eating smirk. “Come on, seriously? Where did you get these?!” Her excitement was uncontainable. “Back on the mainland when we went and saw my mom’s cousin at Christmas. Saved them for you.” He was catching his breath still in a heap on the ground. “Come on, show us!” Called Samuel who had oh-so-casually moved himself over to stand next to Truth in all of the chaos. “It’s probably just something gross anyway” Scoffed Patience, and she and Serenity giggled. “It’s not gross!” Hunter snapped back. “I’m sure, piggy boy!” Another fit of giggles from the mean girls. “They’re…” Honesty paused for effect before ripping the candies from the backpack and holding them in the sun victorious “M&M’s!” “No. Freaking. Way.” Samuel stood stunned. “Freak yes!” Isaiah squealed, leaping to his feet over the small fire he had finally been able to start. “What the heck are you guys so excited about?” He asked wheeling around to see the group of tweens staring at the candies. “Are those–” Isaiah stammered his mouth agape. “They’re peanut.” Hunter said, beaming with pride. IV It had been twenty-or-so minutes from the initial discovery of candied treats, and everyone was doing their best to remain disciplined and think of anything else on Isiah’s insistence that the candy would be better suited for campfire stories once the flames were properly stoked. He had worked diligently, and now there was a small circle of kids around a much-too-large roaring fire. On one side sat the two, jaded and bitter, Patience and Serenity, with the former trying to coily inch herself nearer to Isiah. Next to them sat Samuel, who was too shy to sit directly next to his little crush, Truth, and opted to sit next to Hunter directly opposite her in the circle for optimal eye contact opportunities. Hunter was next to Honesty who was next to, as always, her twin sister. Isaiah sat opposite the entire semi-circle atop a tree stump ready to hold court. He motioned to Hunter to start passing out handfuls of candies as his little horror show was ready to begin. “Shouldn’t we be doing this at, like, night-time?” Serenity chided. “Can’t do it at nighttime yet, Serenity. I need the sun to make the fire, plus we can't see at night.” Isaiah scoffed. Stupid girls. “But,” he said with boyish glee, “for Aestuarium this year I asked my dad for a Zippo lighter and a pair of night vision goggles, and he promised as long as I got good grades he would get it for me, so this time next month- night time camp fires!” He licked his preposterous lips. He hoped to one day grow into them, but for now they less resembled human anatomy and looked more like a perpetually moist duck bill protruding from his round sun burnt face. “Whatever, just seems lame” she said jostling around a handful of Peanut M&M’s. “Whatever, Serenity, I didn’t even want girls here. Hunter made me invite you guys!” His facade of young man gave way to petulant little boy. “Don’t blame me if she’s being a freakin bitch!” Hunter yelled defensively. “Don’t call my sister a bitch! Maybe you two lame wads should be less-” she paused fumbling for an insult “lame!” “Guys!” Honesty chimed in through a mouthful of M&M’s “Can we stop fighting! I want to hear this story.” “Thank you, Honesty. Jeez.” Isaiah regathered his thoughts. “Do you ever ask yourself why we aren’t supposed to come out here near the water before Aestuarium every year?” “Reverend said the tides rise sometimes in flash floods, same reason we have to stay inside every night until after Aestuarium baptisms” Samuel answered matter-of-factly. “Sure,” Isaiah nodded, leaning closer to the flames, “but have you ever seen the tides raise?” Silent shrugs from the circle. “Exactly. Also, why is it none of us are allowed into the Aestuarium baptisms until after we’re thirteen? Why do we have to sit in the kiddy class in the sub-basement?” More shrugs. “Do you remember my cousin Ishmael?" “Yeah, we all remember Ishmael. Had your same freak mouth, but also had the most fucked buck teeth anyone has ever seen. How the hell could we forget that?!” Hunter laughed and pieces of peanuts fell out of his mouth. “Okay, is no one going to take this seriously?!” Isaiah crossed his arms. “Sorry, Jesus, tell us your story, storymaster” Hunter twisted the knife a little. He knew Isaiah would never pass up the chance to tell a scary story. “Fine.” He straightened his back. “Ishmael’s parents were at his baptism. They don’t usually let the parents in, but his dad was studying to be a deacon so they gave them a pass. It turns out the baptisms aren’t what we think they are at all. There’s something in the water.” He leaned forward again for effect. “Ghosts.” Skeptical scoffs from the crowd. “It’s true. It was a night just like every other Aestuarium, we were all in the kiddy class right next door when they brought him over. Apparently all of the old women in the village bring you into a stone room, and it’s cold. Like really cold. So cold you can see your breath, and they strip you down right there.” “Wait, they get you like butt-naked!?” Hunter interjected. “Yes. Now stop interrupting” Isaiah didn’t try to hide his growing disdain. “So there’s all of the old ladies, right? And they’re all wearing these white robes, but they have these black hoods over their heads so you can’t even see their faces, just their eyes staring at you. It’s so creepy, like haunting. They all get in this big circle and start holding hands and making this weird noise. It’s not even like singing, it’s like this deep screaming from their stomachs. Ishmael said it felt like the sound was trapping him in the room, like it was bouncing off the rocks on the walls and getting louder and louder. It was almost to prove that nobody could hear you scream, no matter how loud you were. And then they start getting closer. Like, really slow, inching closer and closer. When they get right up in his face, they start yelling in Latin - Fac illud purum. It means ‘make it pure’. Then two of them just grab him and won’t let go. Another lady goes to the back where there’s these clay pots on top of coals and she grabs these pots of actual boiling water. And she just starts pouring it right on your head. He said it was so hot he thought his skin was literally gonna melt off and slide onto the floor. He tried to fight them off, but they were holding his wrists so hard their fingernails dug into his skin. I’m serious, Ishmael showed me the scars and everything. The whole time, half of them are just screaming their heads off and the other half are chanting Fac illud purum over and over and over and over. They sat there and poured boiling water on him for like an hour. Ishmael said he was screaming so much that his throat started tasting like blood, but they didn’t even care. They wouldn’t stop. Then, his mom walks in. She carried the baptismal clothes folded in her arms. White linen sewn with gems and intricate lace. But he’s not even allowed to put them on himself. These old ladies have to do it for him. They worked the ties and the bone buttons without saying a word. He said when they were done he felt like a mummy. He could barely move.” “Wait, so that’s the baptism, just getting a bath by some old ladies?” Hunter scoffed trying to sound like he wasn’t scared. “No. That’s just them getting you ready for the baptism. After all of the washing, and getting him all dressed up they gave him this big golden goblet of wine. It was, like, almost black, and way thicker than a drink should be. He said it tasted like pennies and battery acid. For the actual baptism they pull you into the baptism hall, where there are pews set up and in the middle is the pool of Bethesda. But that’s where things get really really creepy. In the water there are the ghosts, the spirits. It’s all of the spirits of every person that ever lived here in the isles, and you can’t see them all but you can feel them. Ishmael said that as he was walking towards the pool it wasn’t like he was even moving himself, it was like hundreds of hands were moving his arms and legs and pulling him closer and closer to the pool. Then he saw it in the pool-” Isaiah paused to shove his first fist full of M&M’s into his mouth. “These are really freaking good.” “I know, the kids on the mainland eat them all the time, that’s how come they’re all so fat.” Hunter said. “What’s your excuse?” Serenity said, before she and Patience fell back into giggles. “What was in the freaking pool!?” Honesty finally yelled at Isaiah. The whole circle had been enjoying a little respite from another one of Isaiah’s creepy stories, but for Honesty the suspense was ratcheting in her brain. She was uninitiated to Isaiah’s horror stories as she wasn’t generally invited to these daytime bonfires. The suspense of the story was of course brought to a boiling point by the fact that they were all due to be baptised next week during Aestuarium. “Okay, okay -” Isaiah choked down his fistful of candy. “As he is coming up to the pool, he sees the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life slowly raising up out of the water, completely naked, and she’s calling to him. His dad is sitting right there watching it. Then all of the hands that he can’t even see throw him into the water and he is held down for like a really long time. His dad ended up lunging into the water and pulling him out and every one was screaming and yelling, all of the old women were screaming and crying and cutting themselves with knives. I guess they were like, going to kill them but then the Reverend stopped them and told them that they could stay in the chapel for the rest of the night but at sunrise they had to leave. Guess they were worried about killing them since Ishmael’s uncle is a lawyer back on the mainland. His whole family were converts here, weren’t even born here to begin with.” “Is that why none of us ever saw him after Asturarium?” Honesty whispered mostly to herself. “Yeah, exactly.” “That story doesn’t make any fuckin sense, Isaiah” Hunter retorted, mouth full of candy again. “My brother was baptised two years ago and he didn’t mention any of that spooky shit, said he got to drink some of the wine that the grown ups drink, then just got dipped in the water and it was fine.” “That’s the thing, Hunter.” He was visibly annoyed. “Ishmael thinks they just pulled him out too early. The water does weird shit to your brain, it screws with your thoughts and memory and stuff.” “What does that have to do with us not going near the river if it’s the water at the baptism.” “So, you know how we all get our water in those big tanks that come from the x_chng? Well, the Chapel is under the Reverends house, and I guess he’s like immune to the weirdness, or like he’s just able to drink the saltwater, I don’t know. Anyway, all of the water for his house comes straight out of the river, so obviously so does the baptism water.” “So what are you saying, there’s ghosts in the water.” Hunter leaned forward into a crouch. “Yup.” Isaiah replied bluntly. “You mean that water right…” he prepared his pounce “there!” He jumped towards Samuel sending him wheeling over backwards ass over tits rolling towards the river in a series of shrieks and screams. “What the heck dude!” Samuel got up, fists balled, as the rest of the group erupted in uncontrollable laughter. “Guys, guys, seriously” Isaiah wiped a tear away from his eye that had been jostled loose from laughter “that was very funny, but in all seriousness-” his face dropped. “Don’t. Touch. The Water.” Part two available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromTheCreeps/comments/1tpdi9g/aestuarium_sanctorum_or_the_story_of_a_dying_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button submitted by /u/TS_Montgomery to r/TalesFromTheCreeps [link] [comments]
r/TalesFromTheCreeps TS_Montgomery May 26, 2026
What are the best hair salons in Bangalore for men?
Hey guys! Can yall please recommend the best hair salon for men in Bangalore with the best rates available? I usually get modern mullet typa hairstyle done but so far the experience in Bangalore has been pretty bad since they manage to butcher it one or the either way If anyone has a modern mullet, please let me know where yall get your hair done submitted by /u/Unhappy-Database-429 to r/BangaloreSocial [link] [comments]
r/BangaloreSocial Unhappy-Database-429 May 10, 2026
Journal from the tower in the woods (Part 1)
By J. Douglas Turner I was walking through the woods the other day when I came across what I believe to be an old factory Tower. While rummaging through the place, I found a well-kept brown leather book on a desk in what looked like a foreman's office. It seems to be some kind of journal, and for the hell of it, I thought I would write it down and share the tales of one James Townlie. At least all the parts that are legible. I hope you guys find all of this as fun as I do! “Our wedding day went off without a hitch. Nina looked as beautiful as a mountain villa at sunset. Her dress was long and pearl colored with a floral design that flowed perfectly in the midday’s gentle breeze. Her shoulder-length hair framed her face with the elegance of a Victorian-era painting. Every moment of today was one of undesirable anxiety, given the unrelenting chaos that is Nina’s family. It was a miracle that her father’s family stayed sober for the whole event, and a bigger one that her mother’s side managed not to turn small talk into shouting matches. Nevertheless, we made it through one of the happiest and most stressful days of our lives. Soon we will be on our way to Boston for our honeymoon, just as soon as I finish this.” “We have finally arrived in Boston as of 11:30 this morning. The trip here was quite uneventful, but Nina is happy, and that is all that matters to me. We plan to walk the Freedom Trail tomorrow and visit some local shops around the hotel. Currently, we are having a cup of tea in a little coffee house, and then it is off to the Opera with us. I hope that tonight might end with us and a bottle of red watching the stars from the hotel roof. However, I am eternally grateful just to be with her for any amount of time.” “Our First full day in Boston was exhausting. I don't think I have ever walked this much in a day in my entire life. Nina wanted to stop in every shop and boutique she could find. Luckily for me, we found an old antique shop that I could not help but give a look through. There were china sets and a wide array of Hindu, Buddhist, and Mediterranean statues. However, the most interesting of all were the books. They had so many books on medicine and biology. One was a Turkish book on the lymphatic system. Another was an at-home apothecary, with home remedies for some things even I, as a resident, had never heard of. The most intriguing one to me of the lot was the journals of a Swiss noble from the 18th century on a wide variety of bodily systems. I bought all of them for further study, hoping they might help me with my medical studies. There might be something in them, some lost knowledge of a bygone era that could help the modern man. I will have to study them another time. My beautiful Nina is currently calling my name in the sweet tone of a water nymph. I can feel the steam from the bath she has drawn for herself, and I feel I would be a fool not to join her for a soak if there is room.” “Our second day has been very eventful. Nina wanted to drive around, so we procured a car and went for a Sunday drive through the city and some of the surrounding areas. We went to Bunker Hill, where Nina bought a book on the Salem witch trials and a small charm made from Raven bones, which she has clipped to one of the loops on her purse. We also saw John Adams’ home and took a look at the founder's old, shabby home. It is quite a lovely place in a simple way. It’s always strange to see how much better the modern man has it than our forbears. We had lunch at a little hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant run by a small family. A young woman, whom I could only assume to be the owner's daughter, waited on us at a very old oak table for two. We had calamari and a bottle of red wine. Nina got fettuccine Alfredo, which she gushed over for most of the night. I had a medium steak and a Caesar salad, both of which I had no complaints about. While we were there, Nina asked if we could go to Salem tomorrow for a little ghost tour. Never one to argue my love, I told her yes. I will never understand her fascination with the dead, but she does look better in a macabre setting.” “Our time in Salem today was eventful to say the least. We arrived in Salem at 5 o’clock and waited a good two hours for the Ghost tour until 7. Lucky for us, there was a restaurant with a witch theme that Nina absolutely adored. They served us bread in the shape of skulls, spiders, and headstones. I had a Cajun pork chop with sun-dried tomatoes over jambalaya. Nina ordered a 12-ounce dry-aged steak, Pittsburgh-style, with a house salad. After dinner, we walked to the tour guide stand and met with the rest of the group. Nina became quite friendly with our tour guide, a woman named Mary, with a plump, round face and a pear-shaped build, dressed in a loose-fitting white dress with what I could only assume were sweat stains on the hem. She also wore a dark brown leather corset and matching knee-high boots. Mary was a pale woman; the only color on her face was a soft red blush that made her look more lively. The makeup around her eyes was the real show stopper; it was done up like a raven’s wings. The color matched her wavy hair, which had been styled into a mullet. She told Nina and I that she was the designated witch, whose story she would tell us about on the walk through Salem. On the tour, we heard of dead men of the old motels, disembodied whaling of babies, and the one Mary said she always saved for last. “The final tale of my great, great, great-grandmother Margaret Taloway. Back in the 1700’s, after the Revolutionary War. Miss Margaret was married to John Taloway, the son and firstborn of the Taloway family, at the ripe age of 19. The Taloway family was very well off even by today’s standards. Their estimated wealth, adjusted for inflation, is about 20 million dollars. Sadly, however, Margaret did not get along with most of the Taloways. Mr. Edward Taloway, John’s father, loved Margaret like his own daughter, but Elizabeth and Sarah Taloway, John’s Mother and sister, hated her. Everything Margaret did could never be enough for them. All of the family troubles would come to a head when Edward would die suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 62. Elizabeth and Sarah would blame Margaret, claiming she had something to do with his sudden death, and would take her to court over it. John and Margaret would argue that she couldn’t have been the cause, for they were not home when Lord Edward died, and Margaret was 8 months pregnant at the time of Edward’s death. The judge would rule that she was innocent, and one month later, Margaret would give birth to a baby boy, whom she would name Edward. Unfortunately, John would die in a tragic hunting accident 4 years later. Leaving Margaret and little Edward alone with Sarah and Elizabeth. Little Edward would eventually come down with a bad fever. An Elizabeth would tell some townspeople that her grandson had died, but Little Edward was still seen around town; many people reported that the boy wasn’t quite right. Numerous people would claim that Edward was an otherworldly kind of strange, a sort of wrong that could not be put to words. Many would lay the claim that the boy was possessed; one of the local tavern owners would even claim that a horse trampled the boy, and half an hour later, he would get up as if nothing had happened. Margaret would remarry a local businessman and friend of the late Lord Edward, Henry Eden. They would go on to have two children together, Samual and Mary Eden. Sadly, however, the joy would never last. One day, while Henry and Mary were out on a business trip to Philadelphia, tragedy struck. A house fire burned down the Taloway mansion, killing Little Edward, Samual, and Sarah. Elizabeth, while Lord Henry was still away, would round up a mob and drag poor Margaret to the center of town to be burned under the claim that Margaret was a witch. Where, for once, Lady Elizabeth got her way. Margaret would be the last woman to be burned for the crime of witchcraft in the state in the year 1799. Some still say that you can see her and her children walking the streets of Salem in an endless search for each other.” For a brief moment at the end of Mary’s grueling tale. I could have sworn I saw a boy peeking out from an alleyway. His skin seemed sickly gray, and his eyes. They were an ungodly yellow that glowed like hellhounds. I am by no stretch of the imagination a believer in the paranormal, but that child was something out of the darkest pit of hell. His little face was wrinkled into a wicked snicker with every ounce of evil wrapped up into it like a vine of katsu around a ball of barbed wire. I still don't know if anyone else saw that creature or if it was just me. I asked Mary, and she said. “Your description matches what most people claim little Edward Taloway looks like, and he mostly looks at people from around corners.” We left after that and went back to our hotel room for the night. Nina is currently packing her bags so we can depart in the morning. Once I finish this, I shall pack my things as well, and by all hopes, we should be on our way home to Asheville. Until next time in Boston, it's been a strange pleasure.” It's about now that I feel I should mention I've taken a few liberties to make his stories flow a bit better. Additionally, the journal has no dates or other indicators as to the time frame in which it was written. The leather binding feels almost brand-new, but most of the pages are damaged, and James writes like an old man. His cursive is horrendous. It is so bad that I can barely decipher it, and some of the next few pages might take me a while to figure out. Until then, I'll keep you guys posted. submitted by /u/Due_Raccoon_8999 to r/TalesFromTheCreeps [link] [comments]
r/TalesFromTheCreeps Due_Raccoon_8999 May 2, 2026
Is This The Worst Political Psy-Op In Modern History?
If you’ve ever thought that everything is a giant psy-op—that major events, the kind that dictate the course of American politics, are all fake and engineered—then the news that broke last week was as close to a total vindication as you’ll ever get. On the other hand, if you thought that “Color Revolutions” only happen overseas—and that America is immune from successful campaigns of mass deception, all orchestrated by corrupt political actors to mimic natural, grassroots events—then this is a story you need to hear. The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was supposedly the defining moment of Donald Trump’s first term in office. That’s what we were told, relentlessly, for years on end, by both political parties, along with every mainstream media outlet in the country - was a “mask-off moment,” in which neo-Nazis—emboldened by Donald Trump, supposedly—violently rioted in the streets, killing an innocent woman in the process. And, we were told, Donald Trump ENDORSED these neo-Nazis, live on national television, calling them “very fine people.” That’s what Joe Biden said when he launched his campaign for president - and about ten million times after that. The rally was definitive proof that white supremacy was alive and well in the United States, watch: Source: Joe Biden/YouTube.com “Charlottesville was also home to a defining moment for this nation in the last few years. It was there, on August of 2017, we saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-nazis come out in the open. Their crazed faces, illuminated by torches, veins bulging and burning the fangs of racism, chanting the same antisemitic bile heard across Europe in the ‘30s. And they were met by a courageous group of Americans, and a violent clash ensued. And a brave young woman lost her life. And that’s when we heard the words of the President of the United States that stunned of the world and shocked the conscience of this nation. He said there were, quote, ‘some very fine people on both sides.’ Very fine people on both sides? With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.” Well, all of corporate America lined up to push this message - shortly after the “Unite the Right” rally, Apple announced a $2 million donation to so-called “anti-hate groups,” including SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center. The CEO, Tim Cook, declared that “Hate is a cancer, and left unchecked it destroys everything in its path.” JPMorgan Chase and the Clooney Foundation did the same thing - in fact, JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, said that the company would match employee donations to the SPLC. He also disbanded an advisory panel to the president, for reasons that were never clear. But the SPLC got exactly what it wanted - they isolated the president, they demonized conservatives, and they received millions of donations. And they never stopped. They kept hammering the “Unite the Right” narrative, and they kept fundraising off it, successfully. In fact, five days before Charlottesville, Cam Higby reports that SPLC received $375,000 from the state of Alabama, so this is an extremely well-funded group, with money coming in from everybody - including the taxpayers, apparently. And this continued for years - the Left was obsessed with Charlottesville, as you probably remember. It’s the hoax that simply never died. You know, you can make the case that it lasted longer than Russiagate. Four years after Biden’s campaign video, in 2024, Kamala Harris AGAIN invoked Charlottesville on the debate stage. Watch: Source: @TheTonus/X.com “Let’s remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing antisemitic hate. And what did the President then at the time say? There were fine people on each side.” Now, every single aspect of this narrative, as told by every media outlet and by every prominent politician in Washington, was a lie. We’ve known that for some time - Trump did not endorse white supremacy; in fact, he explicitly did the opposite. And contrary to what CNN would have you believe, you don’t have to be a neo-Nazi to oppose the removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue. You simply have to be an American - someone who’s interested in preserving our shared history and venerating our national heroes—of which Robert E. Lee is one of them—rather than defaming them. And that describes most of the people who attended that rally, and on top of that, you weren’t told the full story about the woman who died during this rally - you were led to believe that Heather Higher was murdered in cold blood by a white supremacist who drove into a crowd on purpose, but that’s not what the authorities believed at first, before the mob demanded vengeance. Police officers ACTUALLY thought the incident was NOT malicious at all, based on the fact that the driver was visibly horrified that somebody had died; the fact that his car had been surrounded and struck by an object; and the fact that the man had just googled directions to his home, not the place where the attack happened. In other words, he was not a domestic terrorist; it looked a lot like he got lost and panicked after he was surrounded on his way home. Now, these are points that, over the past decade, various conservative commentators have made, or tried to make, but they’ve never really resonated, in part, because many Republican politicians accepted the Left’s narrative on “Unite the Right” - it’s also because, as we all know from experience, it’s not easy to compete with a full on hoax once it gets going. Propagandists who were willing to lie, over and over again, no matter how flagrantly they do it, are usually pretty convincing. Now, the average person doesn’t have time to fact check every detail or do independent research. So when Ted Cruz claimed that an act of domestic terrorism had taken place in Charlottesville, most people were inclined to agree. But there was one aspect of the rally that, to give left-wing activists some credit, was difficult for conservatives to explain away. There were indeed photographs of several men at the “Unite the Right” rally, some of them carrying Nazi flags, and a couple of them yelled, “Jews will not replace us,” which was considered offensive to Leftists until about fifteen minutes ago. And it was difficult for some conservatives, in the face of that photographic and video evidence, to DENY that—at some level—this rally was organized, or at least popular with, a group of neo-Nazis on the Right. Now, of course, the appropriate response—even if that were true—would be to just ignore the outrage. The presence of a small number of people waving Nazi flags is not a national crisis, even if they’re genuine Nazis. We’re a country of more than 340 million people. If we’re going to allow five guys with Nazi flags to derail our entire political discourse, then we’re never going to accomplish anything. We’re also going to create an enormous incentive for the Left to wave Nazi flags around, and blame them on the Right - which, it appears, is exactly what happened. There’s now very good reason to believe that, at Charlottesville, what we saw was the product of a deliberate, engineered effort to destroy the image of Donald Trump and the Republican Party - again, back in 2017, a claim like that would seem pretty far-fetched to most people. After all, what are the odds that a well-funded left-wing group, aligned with the Democrat Party, would actually PAY people to act like Nazis at this small rally in Charlottesville, Virginia? What are the odds that, actually, the entire event was a psy-op engineered from the beginning, to give Democrats a pretext to wage war against quote-unquote “white supremacy,” which, of course, actually means “white people” and “conservatism” in general? Well, the odds were pretty good, as it turns out. Last night, the DOJ released an indictment alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, funded and supported an individual who was closely involved in coordinating the “Unite the Right” rally. And not only that - SPLC was funding (directly or indirectly) a lot of other supposedly “right-wing extremism,” including the KKK. Yes, according to the DOJ, the SPLC—the Left’s preferred “anti-hate group”—was allegedly paying affiliates of the KKK. Watch: Source: @SteveGuest/X.com “According to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023, SPLC paid at least $3 million to eight individuals at least. These individuals were affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Clans of America, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations Affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, Nazis, and the American Front. Now, as the indictment lays out, after SPLC paid members of these extremist groups, it created work product that reported on these activities that the members participated in or contributed to. And to that end, it was doing the exact opposite of what it’s told its donors it was doing - not dismantling extremism, but funding it. To carry out this scheme, SPLC created bank accounts in the name of at least five completely fictitious organizations that had no bonafide employees or legitimate business purpose. The money was passed from SPLC to one sham account to a second sham account, and then loaded onto prepaid cards to give to the members of the extremist groups.” Now, before we go into the specifics of the indictment, If you’re not familiar with the SPLC, they’re one of the most dishonest and dangerous left-wing organizations in the entire country - they exist to provide a pretext for the censorship and harassment of conservatives, with the goal of destroying their lives; they also hate Americans, especially white Americans. Now, take a look at this video, featuring Mark Potok, who worked with the SPLC at the time, and on the wall, you may notice a handwritten note documenting the decline of America’s “non-hispanic white population”. Watch: Source: @restoreorderusa/X.com So they zoom in, really close, on the numbers there. White people accounted for 90% of the population in 1920, only 62% in 2015 - to the SPLC, this is a big victory. They’re one of the main engines of demographic replacement - their goal is to demonize white people and claim that white supremacy is the greatest domestic threat, for the purpose of eliminating—or at least greatly diminishing—the white population. Now, to give just one example of how they operate, the SPLC put Turning Point USA on its “hate group” list shortly before Charlie Kirk was murdered. Here’s what Charlie wrote at the time, in May of last year. The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous “hate group” list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis. … Even former staffers called their racket a “con.” Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us, pressure schools to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us. Remember the Family Research Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them. They’d love nothing more than to see TPUSA in the crosshairs. … Maybe someone should take a hard look at where all that “nonprofit” money’s really going? Well, now we’re finally discovering where the money went. Charlie also went on Fox to report that SPLC had targeted specific Turning Point chapters on college campuses. Watch: Source: @ginamilan_/X.com “Understand that they’re literally putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group next to the KKK and next to neo-Nazi groups. And I mean, we can laugh this off, there’s an element of this - remember that there was a shooter that went to the Family Research Council years ago, inspired by the SPLC list. This is them trying to make us basically surrender at Turning Point USA—we’re gonna do the opposite and our students are only going to lean in even more—but they can’t debate us on our ideas. They cannot have dialogue, they cannot actually go onto the merits of why they are right, or why we might be wrong - instead, they must smear us with the age-old oneliner that you are a racist or that you are a hater…” Now, in addition to the Family Research Council, which Charlie mentioned, the SPLC has also defamed the Federalist Society, PragerU, the Heritage Foundation, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and so on and so on. They’ve targeted individuals like Stephen Miller, Matt Walsh, James Lindsey, and Mike Cernovich as well, just to name a few, in their effort to de-monetize their channels and get them fired or killed. You can take a look at their profiles - they have profiles on their website, which you can see right there. Source: @libsoftiktok/X.com Matt Walsh, for example, is listed under “GENERAL HATE” and “ANTI-LGBTQ.” Now, this very befuddling, to say the least - I mean, if you’re gonna claim that someone is a hateful person, then you should be able to point out, specifically, how they’re hateful. What they’re hateful towards. But if you say someone is just “generally hateful,” you’re painting a broad brush—one that I would argue is pretty unfair, under the circumstances—I mean, give Matt Walsh some credit here. His hatred is actually pretty specific. It’s pretty specialized, specific hatred. But then a few people pointed out that “General Hate” might actually be his rank. So if someone is “General Hate,” that would put them above, you know, Major Hate, Lieutenant Colonel Hate - in which case they should gladly accept this prestigious title from the SPLC. In fact, Matt Walsh should add it to his bio next to “theocratic fascist” and “children’s author.” But in any event, this is a direct quote from the DOJ’s indictment, concerning the Southern Poverty Law Center - the indictment refers to a number of “F’s,” which is short for “field sources.” Between at least 2014 and 2023, the SPLC paid their Fs in a clandestine manner. Doing so hid the fact that while the SPLC received donation money under the auspices that the funds would be used to “dismantle” violent extremist groups, this donation money was, instead, being used, in part, by the SPLC to pay leaders and others within these same violent extremist groups. That money was then used for the benefit of the individuals as well as the violent extremist groups. … Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in SPLC funds to Fs who were associated with various violent extremist groups. … Examples of Fs who were secretly paid by the SPLC include, but are not limited to the following: F-37 was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event in Charlottesville, Virginia and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. F-37 made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-37 more than $270,000.00. So yes, according to this indictment, the SPLC paid more than a quarter-million dollars to one person who coordinated the “Unite the Right rally,” and made racist posts under SPLC’s supervision. That’s a small fraction of the $3 million the SPLC has allegedly paid to fund various extremists in other groups. And what this means is that, if the DOJ’s indictment is accurate, the SPLC is probably the single greatest funder of “white supremacy,” quote-unquote, in the entire country. I mean, no one else is paying this kind of money to fund white nationalist rallies, which is why the SPLC had to do it themselves! Now, what needs to be emphasized here is that, fundamentally, the SPLC is not some random one-off left-wing activist group. They are a wing of the Democrat Party in charge of engineering domestic Color Revolutions with fraudulent narratives that they invent out of thin air, for the purpose of overthrowing conservative administrations and replacing them with Leftists. And then, once the Leftists are in charge, SPLC starts writing MEMOS which the FBI uses to justify violent crackdowns on conservatives. For example, a couple of years ago, the FBI field office in Richmond declared that Catholics were a domestic terror threat. Here’s what the FBI wrote. FBI Richmond assesses the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development. … As of 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified nine RTC hate groups operating in the United States. So you see how this works. Very similar to Russiagate, the FBI’s allies in a left-wing group write some memo, then the FBI will CITE that memo as if it’s an independent justification to launch an investigation, and meanwhile, INSIDE the FBI, agents were writing their OWN emails about how INSANE this was that the SPLC is dictating the FBI’s activities! Here’s one of those emails, where FBI employees react to the designation of some Catholics as a hate group, at the behest of the SPLC. One FBI employee writes: Ummm, that is interesting, several thoughts, but mostly, who is the customer. Is anyone really asking for a product like this? Apparently we are at the behest of the SPLC. And then an agent replies: Yeah, our overreliance on the SPLC for hate designations is .. problematic. But the rank-and-file agents don’t have any power; the people running the government—the Biden administration at the time—KNEW the SPLC was manufacturing “hate groups.” That was the whole point. The more “hate groups” that the Left could manufacture, the easier it would be for Joe Biden to take the stage in front of a blood-red background, flanked by Marines, and declare that Republicans represented a threat to the Republic. Watch: Source: Bloomberg Television/YouTube.com “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal! Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.” Now, this bizarre, ominous speech laid the groundwork for the FBI’s attacks on religious liberty, including predawn SWAT team raids on peaceful pro-life demonstrators. It also laid the groundwork for the campaign of lawfare against Donald Trump, which had no precedent in American history. People are more willing to accept an authoritarian takeover when you convince them that their opponents are really domestic terrorists. This is why Biden and Merrick Garland declared that “white supremacy” was the greatest domestic terror threat facing the country - all of their messaging was directly in sync with the SPLC, because the were getting it from the SPLC. And that’s why, according to the DOJ, the SPLC’s efforts went far beyond the “Unite the Right” rally. This is also from the DOJ’s indictment, about another field source for the SPLC. F-9 was affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance and served as an F for the SPLC for more than 20 years. F-9’s activities included fundraising for the National Alliance. Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-9 more than $1,000,000.00.. So if we’re following this allegation, the SPLC paid a million dollars to somebody who was “affiliated with a neo-Nazi organization.” And then this informant, in turn, raised money for the neo-Nazi organization - so, according to this indictment, the SPLC was going out of its way to ensure that a neo-Nazi group remained in existence! At the same time, they were calling for the eradication of “right-wing hate,” but they actually were doing everything in their power to fund neo-Nazis, and it was clear why they wanted to do that. Take a look at this screenshot from the SPLC’s website. The caption reads, “The Department of Homeland Security posted this image with the caption “Which Way, American Man?” in August 2025. The caption appears to be a reference to a white nationalist book published by the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi hate group.” So again, you see how this works - the SPLC wants groups like the National Alliance to exist, so that they can accuse the Trump administration of associating with them. Meanwhile, the SPLC doesn’t TELL you that, in secret, they’re not simply ASSOCIATING with these groups - they are FUNDING them! And according to the indictment, this happened all the time. The SPLC [funnelled] more than $160,000.00 from a fictitious entity to F-11 who then sent funds to various violent extremist group leaders including the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, it’s the kind of strategy that’s effective because, unless you’re extremely familiar with how depraved left-wing activists are, it would never OCCUR to you that they’re doing ANY of this. But they feel a need to do it, because otherwise, there would BE no right-wing “hate groups!” If the SPLC did not fund them, they would not exist. And then Democrats would lose power, and the SPLC would run out of money. Now, it’s the same reason that your anti-virus software bugs you all the time. If your anti-virus software told you the truth—which is that you really don’t need to pay for anti-virus software anymore—then obviously nobody would subscribe, so instead, they pester you with fake “threats” and scare tactics. And it’s the same principle, except in the case of the SPLC, they were having a substantial effect on American politics. Now, the more you read this indictment, the more you realize how shameless it was - according to the DOJ, the SPLC was paying the same Klan members it was complaining about, by name, on its website. F-unknown was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America. In an article published on November 22, 2013, the SPLC described the group as a “millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat. … F-30 led the National Socialist Party of America, was the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC website contained an “Extremist File” webpage for F-30 from which the SPLC solicited donations. Between 2014 and 2016, the SPLC secretly paid F30 more than $70,000.00. This overlapped the time period in which F-30 was featured on the SPLC’s “Extremist File” webpage. Now, this appears to be that webpage, from the SPLC. As you can see, they characterize the guy as a Neo-Nazi, and meanwhile, they’re paying him tens of thousands of dollars. So I gotta say, as an aside, if I were listed in that website, I’d get a little frustrated, because again, there are individuals like Stephen Miller and Matt Walsh who were ALSO listed on their website of “extremists.” They put them on the list. They have their photos up and everything, and they were on their hate map, as people who absolutely must be stopped - and yet, for all of this, they weren’t paid a single cent at any point! Matt Walsh served as “General Hate” without any compensation whatsoever! Meanwhile, the KKK wizards were just like, raking it in. If nothing else, I’ll say this whole situation gives me new respect for Jussie Smollett, because he really kid of bootstrapped his fake hate crime and paid for it himself, rather than having SPLC organize and fund it for him. He didn’t need SPLC money any more than those other people did, so, you know, there’s a lesson here: You know, support your local mom and pop hate crime hoax operations. You gotta do it now, before they’re all put out of business by, you know, the big guys like SPLC. Now, of course, all kidding aside, SPLC was not offering money to genuine conservatives who are effective at advancing conservatism. The idea was to fund and prop up the alleged “right wingers” who were USEFUL to SPLC and the Left. And I suspect that soon, whether through this investigation or those to come, we’re gonna find out that there are a fair number of faux conservative figures, the most embarrassing and ridiculous ones, who’ve been getting paid by the forces they pretend to oppose. You know, there’s a symbiotic relationship between left-wing activist groups and the supposedly right-wing grifters. And this relationship has always been obvious - now we’re learning about its financial dimensions. Speaking of which, back to the KKK—what exactly were they doing to get all this SPLC money—well, here’s one example: it turns out that, about a decade ago, there was a big controversy in Georgia over something called the “Adopt a Highway Program” - the idea is that, if you’re an organization, you can “adopt” a section of the state highway system if you agree to pick up garbage along the side of the highway. In exchange for picking up the trash, you get to have your group’s name posted on signs alongside the stretch of highway that you have “adopted.” There was a similar program in Missouri for a while, which led to the creation of this sign along the highway, and eventually, the sign was taken down, apparently because the KKK didn’t pick up enough trash. But in any event, you can see why the KKK would want this kind of visibility; it’s basically free advertising from the government. And apparently, the SPLC was a big fan of that advertising, as well. This is from the indictment F-43 was the reported National President of American Front and a convicted federal felon for his participation in a cross burning. Between 2016 and 2019, the SPLC secretly paid F-43 more than $19,000.00. F-unknown was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and married to an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. F-unknown and their spouse were involved in litigation whereby the Ku Klux Klan applied to take part in the Adopt-a-Highway program. During the course of the litigation, known payments were traced from the SPLC to F-unknown which exceeded $3,500.00. Now, it’s not exactly clear what that money bought, but it sounds like the SPLC was all in favor of the KKK getting a stretch of the highway named after them. This is how pro-white supremacy the SPLC is. I mean, they’re all-in! They won’t stop until every stretch of highway in the country is named after a KKK grand wizard! We’re gonna run out of grand wizards, soon enough! I don’t know how many there have been. That’s the extent of their commitment to anti-racism. As Ibram X. Kendi (aka Henry Rogers) once said, the only way to combat racism is to be as racist as possible, and the SPLC, more than any other organization on the planet, has definitely taken that advice to heart. Now, the rest of the indictment outlines the ways in which the SPLC is allegedly laundered money through shell companies to these various informants. Now, the SPLC allegedly set up fake companies like the “Center Investigative Agency” or CIA, as well as “Fox Photography,” “North West Technologies,” the “Tech Writers Group,” and a “Rare Books Warehouse.” The idea is that, for obvious reasons, the SPLC didn’t want to cut checks from their own account, so they may have broken the law by creating a bunch of fake companies to send the wire transfers, and in addition to that, the DOJ is claiming that donors were basically defrauded, because they were donating with the expectation that they were “fighting” right-wing extremism - not FUNDING it! Now, this is obviously an ongoing case, and the SPLC is claiming that it was simply paying informants to undermine these groups. And already, Democrats, including Hakeem Jeffries, are claiming that the Trump administration is “weaponizing” the DOJ to go after its political opponents, which, of course, is something that Democrats would never do. /s For their part, the Democrats’ allies in the media are mostly ignoring the story - Newsbusters reports that: ABC, CBS, and NBC all bit their tongues rather than report on the downfall of the self-proclaimed “anti-hate” group. In fact, only PBS reported on the indictment. … [But] PBS’s report on the indictment was vague and unclear. The charges were recited but not explained. The SPLC’s CEO was allowed in for a friendly soundbite. Well, imagine that. After years of talking nonstop about Charlottesville, NONE of the mainstream media outlets are gonna talk about SPLC’s role in helping ORGANIZE the rally. After decades of citing the SPLC as a credible source of information on so-called “hate groups,” none of them are gonna talk about the federal allegations that the company was funding those same groups! Apparently, they’re going with the argument from the Democrat Party, which is that, well, the SPLC was simply using “informants” for legitimate purposes. And meanwhile, something called the “Jewish Council for Public Affairs” just released a bizarre statement defending SPLC, saying they do valuable work to “counter violent extremism” — never mind the fact that they fund it. Now, these arguments, of course, amount to complete BS. When you’re paying millions of dollars, you’re not buying “informants” - you’re supporting the organizations themselves, and propping them up. It’s obvious what the game was. SPLC FUNDED “right-wing extremist” groups so that it could turn around and fundraise off of them, and use them as a PRETEXT to crack down on conservatives nationwide. That’s what was happening. But the thing is that, even if these excuses were true—that they were just paying “informants” as part of an “investigation” or whatever—it would just serve to underscore the degree to which the Left has created quasi-government agencies despite having no legal authority to do so! The SPLC—according to their own defense—was basically acting like the FBI, hiring undercover agents to “disrupt terrorism” and so on. They have no authority to do that! They’re not a law enforcement agency! It’s hard to ignore the fact that, based on this indictment, we’ve been living under the tyranny not just of unelected judges and unelected bureaucrats, but also of unelected activist organizations that have been empowered to act as agents of the government! Now, I’ve been beating this drum for a while now - about the need for the Trump administration to go to war with these fake non-profits and NGOs that, in reality, are criminal front-groups for the Democrat Party. And with this indictment, more than a half a year after the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration is finally getting serious about doing that. And that’s genuinely worth applauding. I have plenty of criticisms about this administration, which I have voiced many times, and will continue to. But if they can dismantle these cancerous left-wing front groups—the same way they closed the border and shut down the fraudulent asylum claims—then unequivocally, this administration will have been a success. It certainly would be a lot better than what the alternative would have been. And as tempting as it might be to engage in doomerism and to complain nonstop, we do need to celebrate wins when they happen. We need to recognize this indictment is a sign of major progress, and it needs to continue. And we also need to understand, at the same time, that SPLC is just the tip of the iceberg. The SPLC, as alleged, is a criminal organization. Every Leftist activist group is just as corrupt and dishonest and sinister as this. They all want you dead. They all have no problem using hoaxes and pay-ops to get what they want. They all celebrated what happened to Charlie Kirk. They’re all willing to go to extraordinary lengths—lengths unfathomable to sane people—to defame, harass, and destroy their opponents. So it’s not crazy to wonder WHO, for instance, was actually behind January 6th. I mean, if they’re willing to spend millions of dollars on false flag operations, for the purpose of generating a narrative they can use to demonize and jail their political opponents for several years, and also fundraise off of, then it’s not exactly a stretch to conclude that January 6th was probably just like Charlottesville - a well-funded psy-op. It’s not exactly unheard of. Something similar to this incident happened back in 2001, in Germany. The federal government wanted to ban the “National Democratic Party of Germany,” saying they were run by Nazis. But the plan fell apart when it emerged that, in fact, “confidential informants of German intelligence agencies” were “active in the leadership of the party.” Intelligence agencies and activist groups have never stopped running this playbook. During the Canadian trucker convoy, some mysterious Nazi flags appeared - and the people holding them eventually went back to a hotel that was being used by Canada’s federal police. So these kinds of psy-ops are extremely common. But if you say any of this out loud, they’ll come after you, relentlessly. You know, they bankrupted Alex Jones and stole his company, not because of anything he said about a school shooting, but because he made observations like this, about Charlottesville: Source: @HarrisonHSmith/X.com “Charlottesville was mainly a bunch of homosexual Leftists dressing up like Nazis, who’d all formerly worked for Obama or Hillary, part of their art club, and then they lured a bunch of reporters there and some real white supremist, so the police could stand down and collide them into the folks - I pointed out that some of the same Leftist foundations are funding the white supremist, that are funding real white supremist in Ukraine. I got SUED for that, even though it’s, you know, that they tried to say that I said some cameraman killed the girl. I didn't say that the cameraman killed them, I said it was all part of Leftists coming out to come to this big event and hope there was some big crisis out of it to demonize the Right in general and tie us to Nazis…” So it turns out that was 100% correct. I mean, he was exactly right. He saw through it at the time. , and they destroyed him for it. The press, the NGOs, and the nonprofits all denounced him and made sure he lost everything. That’s what happened to a lot of people. And now, lawfully and without any apologies whatsoever, we have no choice but to do the same to them. submitted by /u/AllNewNewYorker to r/ModlessFreedom [link] [comments]
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r/Chattanooga Practical_Friend_962 Apr 24, 2026
I have never had a hairstyle I felt confident in; what should I do?
Sorry if this is long, I put a lot of thought into it. So from the middle of 2024 to February of this year, I grew my hair out. I started to become insecure with it though, so I got it cut. I asked for 3 inches on top and about an inch on the back and sides so I could recreate this pompadour/quiff I used to have. Anyways, I got the haircut and hated it, wasn't prepared for my Norwood 2 hairline to be so visible (I am on 1mg on finasteride daily since then +researching minoxidil, unsure if I should go topical or oral). Woke up the next morning with my hair kinda parted to the side and swept across my forehead, so I have been rocking that ever since cuz even though I didn't love it, it was better then the way it was styled after my cut. I still don't like my hairstyle. It covers up the worse temple yes, but it still leaves one completely exposed... also kinda makes me look... Anyways, I don't put any product in it. I just shampoo and condition it (I use this volumizing shampoo and conditioner from a brand called Unite), put leave-in conditioner in, comb it, and blow dry it. I used to get consistent haircuts for like a year straight when I had a buzzcut, this is back when I used to not give a shit what I looked like, but people told me it didn't suit my face shape + girls don't like buzzcuts, so I started growing it out. Looking back I am sort of glad I grew it out cuz I did look like shit with a buzzcut. I need to find something that works with my square/triangle face shape that doesn't brutally expose my widows peak (until I have been on finasteride and minoxidil long enough). I thought about curtains or a fringe, but I am worried that covering up my whole forehead is going to be unflattering and just put emphasis on the width of my chin and jaw. My hair maybe gets a little wavy like 1c-2a (2b at most) when it grows longer, but that is about it. I recognize I am conventionally unattractive, and I have mentally been doing a better job of accepting that recently, going to try and fix what I can, e.g. getting tan skin + keep going to gym lifting weights and reducing body fat percentage + posture + masseter botox for my lopsided jaw (bolding this so nobody calls it out... trust me, I see the asymmetry loud and clear). Very hard finding men with my hair type, fine and dense dirty blonde (unless they are all using product in the photos I look at to make it look thicker). My friend told me in the second to last photo I kinda reminded him of Tristan Dungray in Gilmore Girls (portrayed by Chad Michael Murray) but here is the problem with that: he had a much better hairline than me + is much better looking than me + is a celebrity. Here are photos: 1, 2, 3. Is this even possible with my hairline? In some angles it looks like it covers the hairline a bit but I also am an idiot and could be tripping. I am also wary of getting a haircut based off a celebrity even if someone tells you that you bare any resemblance to them... because I know as people say in this sub, "it's because they have an attractive face". What do I do? Would a modern mullet help? Should I try and go back to what I had in my last two photos in my senior year of high school? I am so insecure about my hair and hairstyle, I wear a beanie everywhere I go with the exception of my job (corporate job, so no hats allowed)... even my therapist noticed this, last week in session she asked if I was wearing my hair because of insecurity, since it was warm out that day and a beanie would be an interesting choice otherwise. I'd like to get to a point where I find a hairstyle I like and don't need to wear a hat in public anymore. submitted by /u/J3ezyTheSnowman to r/malehairadvice [link] [comments]
r/malehairadvice J3ezyTheSnowman Apr 21, 2026
Looking for a GOOD men’s barber in Multan (not your typical desi cut)
Hey guys, I’m trying to find a proper barber in Multan who actually understands modern styles. I’m currently growing out a mullet and just need a clean taper + maintenance cut - nothing crazy, but I don’t want someone who’s gonna mess up the flow or take too much off. Basically looking for someone who: Knows how to work with longer hair Can do a clean taper/fade without overdoing it Understands trends (not just standard short back & sides) If you’ve had a good experience somewhere or know a barber who actually knows what they’re doing, drop the name/location Appreciate it! submitted by /u/SuspiciousTennis7186 to r/Multan [link] [comments]
r/Multan SuspiciousTennis7186 Mar 30, 2026
Haircut places for men with longer hair?
Hi, I have been growing my hair out (noting crazy long atm) and was looking for a recommendation for a hair salon that does men’s haircuts? I was looking for advice before I go for something like a modern mullet, and figured a hair salon might have better opinions since they usually work with longer hair than a barbershop. I could be totally wrong on that, but figured it’s just hair and I am trying to find a new style before a wedding later this year. Thanks! submitted by /u/InstructionSalt1104 to r/Charlottesville [link] [comments]
r/Charlottesville InstructionSalt1104 Feb 17, 2026
Any recommendations for barbers who can cut mens long hair (i.e. wolf cut, modern mullet, etc)?
Does anyone have recommendations for barbers who can cut mens long hair? I am looking for something along the lines of a wolf cut or modern mullet. Thanks in advance submitted by /u/ronturiaf24 to r/AskChicago [link] [comments]
r/AskChicago ronturiaf24 Feb 14, 2026
The History of Sinigang (Part 1: Introduction, Pre-colonial to Philippine Revolution)
I was originally going to post the history of sinigang in one post but given its lengths, I have decided to divide it into two parts. Part 2 is here. Today is the end of January, the new month (of the year) for improvement in body and mind. One way to improve one’s body and mind is through a healthy diet but certainly better if not much is spent both time and effort. Hence, the most common and healthy one-pot dish I could think of is sinigang (Image 1). As a Southern Tagalog, this dish is sinigang which my favorite being made with (majority lean, little fat) pork, kangkong (water spinach), labanos (radish), okra (lady fingers), sibuyas (red onions), kamatis (tomatoes), and of course, sampalok (tamarind) as the souring agent just the way my mother makes it. Most would use sinigang mix as the pampaasim for convenience and consistency. Sometimes, there was siling haba (green chili). Sinigang has home and heart written all over it. Every household has their own version of sinigang which makes it as unique as adobo. Indeed, there are many variations of sinigang depending on both the meat and souring agent (the most common, in my experience, being the pork and tamarind combo). There is something very impactful about this dish to those who eat it. After all, The secret to this very popular dish is that it lends itself to improvisation. What one cooks is what is available. Besides, in the countryside where refrigeration is non-existent, sinigang preserves itself for days, months or as one tale goes, up to the next visit of the ruling official or clergyman of the province.1 Such is interesting information about Sinigang. Indeed, in the words of Doreen Fernandez, Why sinigang? Why all the other things? The full exploration of the shaping of a people’s taste is a rewarding and pleasurable voyage towards the definition of identity.2 Indeed, this history is an exploration of Sinigang. So, what is the story of Sinigang? First, one must learn about the word sinigang. Sinigang is a Tagalog word that can basically be divided into s-in-igang with the root word sigang. Sigang comes from the Proto-Philippine word *səʀʔaŋ which means “cook rice; firestones; trivet”.3 The word sigang has two definitions: placing of a cooking utensil on a stove or fire (prior to cooking)3 anything being cooked in a pot or in any cooking utensil (on a stove or over a fire)3 Hence, putting the -in- in sigang would create sinigang (sigáŋ) which means: a stew of either fish or meat with plenty of broth and condiments4 Interestingly, there is the dialectal Southern Tagalog sig-ang5 and sinig-ang6 which would be encountered later in this article. With that, there are claims that sinigang came from the Malaysian singgang (Image 2) given its composition of: fish and vegetables lightly boiled in a broth flavored by galangal and soured by tamarind peel7 They could have both come from a proto-singang soup during the pre-colonial time of trade. They could have made each independently and just had almost similar names by chance. What is certain is that these both were certainly pre-colonial dishes before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Philippines, the British in Malaysia. Unfortunately, there are no existing pre-colonial records that talk about sinigang and even its ingredients. Despite this, one could conjecture a guess based on the present ingredients like Milagros S. Enriquez tried to do in her book ‘Kasaysayan ng Kaluto ng Bayan’. Sinigang was eaten everywhere whether in the nayon (village), latian (swamp), or bukid (farm). Specifically in the latian, they have sinigang sa palapat (kanduli) and sinigang na hingking (baby or small shark). In the bukid, they have sinigang na dalag.8 Indeed, she mentioned the following types of sinigang based on the souring agent: Sinigang sa Alibangbang / Sinigang sa Bulaklak ng Sampalok / Sinigang sa Bunga ng Sampalok / Sinigang sa Usbong ng Sampalok / Sinigang sa Dayap / Sinigang sa Kamias / Sinigang sa Manga (hilaw) / Sinigang sa Palapat / Sinigang sa Santol / Sinigang sa Balimbing9 Some of these souring agents are depicted in Image 3 and Image 4. Indeed, by the time of the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Limasawa, there would have been sinigang served in the Tagalog regions at least. Fast forward to Spanish colonization, there would be the galleon trade which brought over ingredients and animals from the New World through the port of Acapulco. The following would have been in sinigang eventually: cow (beef), varieties of domesticated pigs (pork) different from baboy-damo (wild boar), other varieties of chicken, tomato, camanchile (Image 4), guava (Image 5), okra, chili peppers, pineapple among others. In fact, one would encounter at least one modern-day sinigang with at least one of these ingredients. Aside from this, friars would come in close contact with the Tagalogs to be able to learn their language and some would teach others through their dictionaries. The first one to mention sinigang is by Dominican friar Francisco Blancas de San Jose in his unpublished manuscript Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala dated around 1609.10 He describes sigang as to cook fish thrown in vinegar, salt, and water, a process that makes sinigang; he was also the first to describe sinigang as sourish10 This sigang sounds more like a paksiw today. This could be a case of misidentification. The next one is by Franciscan missionary Pedro de San Buenaventura in the first published dictionary Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala in 1613.11 He enumerates synonyms for cocer, the Spanish word for “to cook”: loto (the general term for cooking), sayng (...to cook rice), sigang (cooking rice when used in Manila; cooking meat or fish elsewhere), ipus (cooking rice that is eaten instead of bread), cqisa (...described as cooking rice, tuber, or banana), lampahan (cooking fish with water, salt, chile [chili]), laoya (cooking all ingredients in a pot called olla…), linging (to roast food), inin (to season something for cooking), labon (cooking large numbers of tubers), laga (cooking small amounts of tuber, sugarcane juice, coconut milk), locot (honey or wine in a vessel), and pagba (a clay vessel for cooking).11 Then, there is one by Franciscan friar Miguel Ruiz in the manuscript dictionary Bocabulario Tagalo from around 1620.12 This is shown in Image 6. It does use varieties of the word sigang like: ‘sisig-an’, ‘sig anĝan’, ‘pasig anĝan’, ‘sisig anĝan’, ‘Papag sig anĝin’, ‘sinig ãg’, ‘linagâ’, ‘casig anĝan’. It also mentions ‘linagâ’ another word for nilaga.12 Then, more than a hundred years later, Jesuit friars Juan de Noceda and Pedro de Sanlucar published another Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala in 1754.13 In this dictionary’s definition of sig_ang, it defines the term as Cozer carne, guisar en trebe. des.13 There are also the other terms as described: sig_anĝan, el fogon, ò vasija, en que. sinig_ang, la carne, ò pescado afsi, cozido y no se aplica à otra cosa, como legumbres & c.13 There is also the mention of ‘linaga’.13 Interestingly, in the 19th century, female insulares (full-blood Spaniards born in the Philippines) preferred to eat rice and the local dishes which acquired endearment. They liked eating rice with their fingers, making it [into] little balls they pushed into the mouth one at a time, the way their native nannies fed them. The meal included sourish sinigang soup, dried fish, tapa (the local jerky), and brined paho [Mangifera monandra]. While in public they might wear European fashion unsuitable to the tropical heat, at home they wore native garb, slept on woven palm mats rather than mattresses, and relished foods that originated in the island terroir.14 Oddly, I realize that there is no sinigang na paho though it could be a specialty somewhere. In 1846, French medical doctor Jean Mallat would write about his experience in the Philippines in his book ‘The Philippines’ including the food he encountered such as sinigang, the first from a non-Spanish source: The most expensive [ships] are those of a kind of poor-deck divided into two rooms closed by conchas. Each traveller must provide himself in advance with everything he will need during the journey. Very often we used to take pleasure in observing what was happening in the second class, that is to say, in a large square room situated on the deck, where the Indios, mestizos and even Chinese live mingled with each other, some spending day and night playing, others sleeping on their hammocks hung from the ceiling, still others cooking rice and sinigan [in original, sinigou]. Not the least sound is heard, not the least dispute arises between individuals with rival interests aiming for the same goal, and that although the passage sometimes lasts several days!15 The indios nourish themselves principally with split rice in water called canin in Tagalog language and morisqueta in Spanish; it is the bread of the natives of this archipelago. Cooked in just enough water so that it is soaked, the fire is removed from below the pot when it has dried up, after boiling for half an hour. Two chupas of rice of which one is equivalent to the contents of a drinking glass, when cooked, suffices a man for a day. Their favorite dish is goulay; this is a stew made of meat or fish with a little tamarind, to which is added the leaves of certain plants varied according to taste and cultivated in gardens surrounding their houses. Sinigan [sinigang] is another stew very similar to the goulay, and whose soup is drunk, as the meat is eaten. A lot of dry fish is eaten in all provinces, and fresh fish is so abundant that often the Indians [indios] catch it only the minute rice is placed on the fire, all of which is quite convenient since all the villages and even the smallest isolated houses are always situated on the shore either of the sea, or of a lake or river. Their seasoning is salt, pepper and the aromatic paxio [paksiw]. Houlam is also one of their favorite dishes.16 Water is the usual drink of the Indios, who drink nothing else with their meals, and, according to the Spanish custom, only after having finished eating. How many times have we seen them, in astonishment, swallow avidly for half an hour copious handfuls of rice slightly moistened with a little bouillon of sinigan with tamarind, or aromatized paxio meat, which causes an abundant flow of saliva, al! this without drinking! In the course of the day, they sometimes drink a little coco [coconut] wine (alac nioc), retailed in privileged estanquillos [booths], whose exploitation is granted by the government as a favor to widows of former servants, in return for a rent of 4 to 5 piastres. The big depots of the government are in the province of Laguna, rich in coconut trees; tuba, cagellada (orangeade), tamrindada [tamarind water], [?] made with coconut sap, sugared water, coconut water and several other refreshing drinks peddled by the Chinese of Manila are also drunk between meals.17 Indeed, he paints an interesting picture of the Philippines in the 1840s. The sinigang seems to be best when the fish is cooked alive. Around this period, we have illustrations of Damian Domingo, Justiniano Asuncion (Image 7, Image 8) and Jose Honorato Lozano (Image 9) though not of sinigang itself but valuable information in the handling of its ingredients. Then, in 1875, Federico Casademunt published his book ‘Filipinos y Filipones’ which paint the treatment of travellers passing through barrios which are Filipino villages: In Filipino villages, there are neither inns nor boarding houses. What for? / Every indio is a dormitory master or mistress; or better to say, each indio is a brother or a sister. / A traveler arrives and the table is always ready for use by the host’s countrymen. / The stranger enters, greets the residents, sits on a bamboo lancape [?] bench or the floor, and at meal time forms a circle with the masters of the house before a steaming plate of rice and a modest pot of sinigang soup. / No one asks who he is, where he is going or from where he has come. / After the meal, he can seek a pleasant corner and sleep tranquilly, assured he will not be molested. / The next day the guest can continue without taking leave or saying thank you. But few are discourteous [as] the master of the house may do in his home what was done to him yesterday. / Such is the custom.18 Then, there are the four notebooks of Juliana Gorricho vda. de Pardo de Tavera, mother-in-law of the famous artist and later her murderer, Juan Luna. These four notebooks contain the only collection of handwritten recipes by a Filipino in the 19th century, hence the earliest compilation of Philippine diaspora cuisine.19 While uncertain, the date range of these recipes is from the 1880s until her tragic death in 1892.19 More information on her recipes here.20 With that, here are the descriptions on Juliana’s sinigang-related recipes. Among the other Filipino foods was brothy sinigang of beef. Sinigang was characterized by its sourish flavor. Gorricho de Pardo de Tavera used tomato and the oseille (European sorrel leaf) as a substitute for native [Philippine] souring ingredients. Sinigan de guiabas was fish cooked with ripe guava in water that has been used to wash rice grain. Once the fish “turned white,” it was time to bring the dish to the table, she wrote.21 She actually has numerous recipes for sinigang depending on the number of people who will eat there. Interestingly, despite having househelp, she actually cooked these recipes though she would have asked her househelp for help to at least ease her overall cooking tasks. Of course, one of the most famous people with mentions of sinigang is Jose Rizal. In a February 13, 1883 letter, rather the postscript, to his brother Paciano Mercado, Jose Rizal wrote about a feast he had as follows: The Tuesday of the Carnival [Fat Tuesday] we had Filipino luncheon and dinner in the house of the Paternos, each one contributing 1 duro. We ate with our hands[:] rice, boiled chicken, adobo, fried fish and roast pig. We were: [Felix Hidalgo] Resurrección, Emilio and Estevan Villanueva, the two Paternos [among Antonio, Pedro and Maximino], two Llorentes [Julio and ?], [Estevan] Figueroa, Vicente Gonzales, Raymundo Perio, Manuel de Iriarte (the initiator), Eduardo Lete, Juan Fernandez, Federico Calero and I. Iriarte got drunk; all of us ate very well, but because the rice expanded we all somewhat developed “buli-buli” [bloatedness] the whole day. After each course we walked about, and if someone came to look for the owners of the house, he was told they were not at home so as not to disturb the feast. Fourteen pounds of rice were finished, five chickens, [and] four pounds of pork. Not even a piece of bone was left of the roast pigling that cost us one duro and a half. The confusion that reigned was indescribable. Valentin Ventura was amongst us also, hence we were sixteen Filipinos [present]. / The absence of sinigan was noticeable. The cook was Estevan Villanueva. We talked in Tagalog during the meal. This made me remember Pansol while eating and Marianito was doing his stunts.22,23 Just 4 years later, the Noli Me Tangere was published and it uses sinigang with such symbolism. Indeed, such an impactful novel has numerous translations. Out of all the Spanish-to-English translations, the best one is from Maria Soledad Lacson-Locsin, whose translation came from Doreen Fernandez’s need for a better English translation for Noli and El Fili24. With that, here is one in the case of Capitan Tiago’s religious hypocrisy: Not a year passes that he does not attend the opulent pilgrimage to Antipolo with an orchestra: at that time he pays for two thanksgiving masses of the many that are part of the three novena series, and those for ordinary days when there are no novenas. After that he bathes in the renowned batis or spring, where the same sacred image would bathe… There besides that same spring, Capitan Tiago usually ate roasted lechon, dalag sinigang with alibangbang leaves, and other dishes more or less appetizing. The two masses came to cost him something more than four hundred pesos, but came out cheap if one considered the glory that the Mother of God acquired with the wheels of fire, rockets, firecrackers and mortars or bersos as they are called there, and if one calculated the great profits which, thanks to these masses, he would gain the rest of the year.25 Another example is the chapter on The Fishing Excursion as follows: In the meantime they had arrived at the baklad [traditional, Philippine stationary fishing weir or trap]. The old boatman tied the boats to a bamboo stake. / “Wait!” Tía Isabel told the son of the old boatman who was about to come up with his panalok, a bamboo rod with a net pocket. “We must have the sinigang ready so that the live fish can pass from the water to the broth.” / “Good Tía Isabel!” exclaimed the seminarian, “she does not want the fish to be out of the water for more than a moment.” / Andeng, Maria Clara’s foster sister, had the reputation of being an excellent cook despite her clean and joyous mien [manner]. She prepared the rice water for stewing the fish, adding to it tomatoes and kamias [tree sorrel], helped–or hindered–in this by some vying for her favor. The girls cleaned the squash vine tendrils, the snow peas, and cut the paayap [cowpeas] into short pieces the length of cigarettes.26 Andeng finally announced that the sinigang was done and ready for the fish. / The young son of the fisherman climbed over the end or pocket of the fishtrap, to which the narrowing stake fences led. Here might have been inscribed Dante’s Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’ entrate–Abandon all hope ye who enter here”–if the unfortunate fish had known to read Italian and understand it. [The f]ish that entered the trap did not emerge except to die… Everyone was attentive. Some already imagined the fish wriggling and struggling in the net, their scales glistening. When the young man dipped the net in, however, no fish jumped out.27 The fisherman withdrew the rod…ay! [N]ot a single fish adorned the net. The drops of water that fell, reflecting the light of the morning sun, seemed to mock them with their silvery laughter. An ah of admiration, of disappointment, of annoyance escaped from everybody’s lips.28 Andeng forgot that her sinigang broth had been boiling three times over; all the liquid had spilled out and put out the fire.29 The boats then headed for the other fishtrap. It was necessary for Andeng to prepare another sinigang broth… They visited the other fishtrap without much confidence. Many expected to find the crocodile’s mate, but Nature plays [sic] tricks, and the net always came up full of fish. / Tía Isabel was in command: “The ayungin is good for sinigang; leave the biâ for the escabeche, the dalag and the buan-buan for the pesâ; the dalag lives long. Put them in the net so that they remain in the water. The lobsters to the frying pan! The banak is good for broiling wrapped in banana leaves and stuffed with tomatoes. Leave the rest to serve as decoys: it is not good to empty the trap completely,” she added… [T]he smoke from the earthen stoves rose eddying [sic] into gay and tenuous whirlwinds; the water sang inside the kettles, perchance words of comfort for the fish, maybe with sarcasm and irony… [M]an, Nature’s favorite, had no qualms about committing what the Brahmins and the vegetarians describe as so many fratricides.30 Indeed, this scene would lead to this September 6, 1887 letter from J. Peilifen (possibly pseudonym of Dr. Maximo Viola) to Jose Rizal where he writes the following: Our good friend [Ferdinand] Blumentritt not long ago wrote [to] me asking me for the meaning of sinigang because he will translate into German your Noli me tángere, with you [sic] prior authorization naturally. Today I have just received another very kind letter from him from which I quote: “After supper I sit down smoking two or three pipes and thinking of our Philippines. I have written directly to [Victor] Balaguer, who calls me friend, informing him of my ideas about the reforms that ought to be introduced into our country. I want to maintain this correspondence for Rizal’s sake. Some day my connection with the minister of colonies may be very useful to our immortal friend. However I cherish no illusions, knowing that the Captain General of the Philippines does not always respect the orders from the authorities in Madrid.31,32 With that, in a May 16, 1889 letter to his parents and siblings, Jose Rizal writes of the events in the 1889 Paris Exposition as follows: With regard to the attractions of the [Paris] Exposition, I do not know if I will venture to describe them to you, because there are so many, many things to speak and talk about that many sheets of paper would not be enough. There is a Javanese town with its small houses, restaurant, theater, dances, music, etc. The people are of the same race as ours, and we almost understand each other: they speak Malayan and I, Tagalog. We were thinking of eating one day in the karihan, all of us Filipinos who are in Paris, with wives, young ladies and children. For the occasion we shall have sinigang and bagoong; now we don’t know how much it will cost us. / In the dance, there are four young people as big as Silvestra, the maid and goddaughter of my poor sister Olimpia, the one from Albay, and even similar in appearance. They dance a kind of Sublî, although it seems to me they are less graceful than our countrymen. They paint themselves yellow and are fantastically dressed. The music is played with bamboo instruments to the accompaniment of drums. All the men chew bettle [sic] nuts and they wear a handkerchief tied to the neck; they are also small and look much like those in Tondo. They are not as robust nor as gay as our countryfolks. The houses are neither better constructed as ours, although they have more industries: they make hats, dye cloth, etc. When I entered the barrio for the first time (one pays 16 cuartos) I thought I was in Mamatid [in Laguna] or in Parian [near Intramuros]. The sun was shining, there were plenty of nipa houses here and there. However, the chickens, pigs and dogs were missing.33 Here is a Junio (June) 27 1889 letter from Philippine hero, Marcelo H. del Pilar known by his pen name (not in this letter) Plaridel to his wife and second cousin Marciana del Pilar, nicknamed Chanay (as seen in the letter) or Tsanay. CHANAY: / Sa aua ng Dios ay hindi ako nagkakasakit: kahimanauari ay gayon din kayo rian. / Nang a 24 nito [Junio] ay may procesion ng Corpus sa Barceloneta [Barcelona] ay doon ako nanood sa bahay na tinitirahan ng isang taga Camarines na nag ngangalang Ramon Imperial: ito’y nag asaua sa isang valenciana [taga-Valencia, España] at ngayo’y may anak nang kasing laki ni Sofia [anak nina Marcelo at Chanay]. Doon kami humapon nila Naning, Damaso, Tiago at iba pa: may sinigang na alumahan [mackarel sinigang] at kanin ay ito ang napag inam namin. Kun diyan ay pang araw-araw ninyo ang sinigang, dine ay isang masarap na pag kain na dine mo lamang mapaguauari kung ga-ano kasarap. Sa amin dine ay isa sa manga panaginip ang maka tikim ng sinigang.34 Even during Rizal’s exile in Dapitan, Zamboanga, Rizal was able to enjoy great meals given that he was able to roam freely within his limits. He certainly enjoyed fish whether eating or sketching them (Image 10). One of the evidence of this comes from Faustino Alfon, nicknamed Tinong, originally from San Nicolas, Cebu through his two interviews. In 1929, the prewar weekly The Independent recorded from Tinong the following information: Rizal had a predilection for lanzones and mangoes… Rizal’s meals usually comprised three kinds of ulam: the first dish was purely Filipino, like sinigang or paksiw; followed by a Spanish dish; and another Filipino or “mestizo dish,”...35 In 1934, the newspaper Bag-ong Kusog interviewed Tinong also known as Bolhog [the Cebuano-Visayan term for a person who is blind in one eye] for a Christmas article in Bag-ong Kusog. Bolhog would report the following to an unnamed writer: Rizal would have at most three kinds of food in every meal. He loved fish prepared in one of four ways that we still do today: as “tinuwa nga linamasan”, (the Tagalog “sinigang”); as “inun-unan” (the Tagalog and Chinese sounding “paksiw”); “minantikaang isda” (fried fish) and “sinugba” (char-broiled fish). / Rizal also loved “unod sa baka kon manok ginisal” in the Spanish way of stir fried beef or chicken, according to Tinong, although in general he rarely indulged in red meat. / Among the fruits Rizal loved counted the lanzones (“buwahan”), mangoes, atis (sweetsop) and sikapote (chicos zapote).36 Most interesting is his own words of how Rizal ate as follows: Wala igkita kaniya ang tawong bastos ug walay pamatasan nga mosuyop sa sabaw sama sa babuy, magsagasa ang baba sa inusap sama sa kabaw, ug magkabulingit ang simud sama sa iro (One cannot find in him an uncouth person who slurps on soup like that of a pig, who chomps noisily like a carabao, and whose face is full of morsels like that of a dog’s snout).36 Do remember that last name, Alfon. With that, in 1895, photographer Felix Laureano would publish Recuerdos de Filipinas, mostly focusing in Iloilo. Interestingly, this book was dedicated to Juan Luna y Novicio, the same one who killed Juliana Gorricho. With that, it seems that, in Iloilo, there was already sinigang in a calenderia also known as a carinderia as follows: Calendaría is a store or booth that sells food, drinks and all necessities of life… The Calendería, even if poor and miserable in its exterior, has everything inside. There, the food and drink are served to passing travelers. / It has everything: from light tobacco, cigarettes, tobacco in leaf, for chewing buyó, bongá, mascada, apúg; to eat white morisqueta, pusó, inun-on, sinig-ang, liná-gá, pakcio, guinamus, ugá, tinola, inihao nga manuc, to drink the frothy tuba all you want, nipa liquor, vino sa lubi, beer and soda water. / Aside from the dishes mentioned, there are tapa sang usá, sang vaca, isda nga minanticáan, adobo, and escabeche done in the style and taste of the country [barrio]... For desserts and delicacies, there are saguing, piña, atis, chicos, limoncillos, alfajor, ticoy, poto, cuacoy, calamay-hati and others.37,38 While the majority of these dishes have been described in CALENDERIA, sinig-ang and inun-on was already explained in BATH IN THE SEA (originally Baño del Mar). Indeed, the cooking process along with the two aforementioned dishes are mentioned follows: The elegant maidens [pollas] in the company of their serious mothers prepare the pots and the frying pans to cook the fish. / From the net to the fire; the fish are alive and moving… [F]un reigns around the stove; the kitchen is a sight to behold. The mothers are helpless to restrain their daughters in their culinary pranks. They are mischievously sent out of the kitchen and affectionately and fondly told to take a bath. / They have already conquered the stoves, these dalagas. / With hair dripping with water and falling unbraided all the way to the toes, some maidens roast the tuloy [Indian oil sardine], others cook the rice, while others prepare the inun-on (in Bisayan, sinig-ang in Tagalog), and still others prepare the quilauin of small fishes. Now some remove the scales of the bangus [milkfish] (freshwater fish) to roast them. Others put condiments on the succulent sauce of the lechón that is almost done being roasted at a far end of the raft. / Inun-on, sinig-ang is a simple way of cooking that consists of letting the fish boil in a pot of water, the soup of which is made sour by sambag or ibá. / Sambag, tamarind. / Ibá is a sour fruit from a tree whose leaves are clustered… The food is served. / Here in a tubó, bilao is the white rice; on another container is the tasty lechon already chopped, and on other plates inun-on, the inahao and the quinilao. All around everyone is eating happily with [an] enviable appetite.39,40 Realistically, inun-on and sinigang are not the same dish. Inun-on is considered to be the Bisayan version of paksiw na isda. With that, just a year later, the Philippine Revolution came, first against Spain and later against the Americans. Sinigang is still to be had. Indeed, the favorite food of Gen. Pío del Pilar (born Pío Isidro y Castañeda) was sinigang na isda according to his descendant, Mr. Pedro Concepcion del Pilar.41 Sinigang was mentioned in the May 20, 1900 entry of Santiago Barcelona’s diary as follows: We reached the house of the keeper of the corral: he offered us ground corn. When it was distributed among the soldiers, each received a mouthful. A cow was killed and roasted: we ate without salt or rice. / We had been eating beef only until the afternoon of the next day, the 27th [of May], when we departed for Enrile [in Cagayan]. We marched the whole night, reaching the Madalusong hills by dawn. At 7 a.m. the towns of Tuguegarao and Enrile came to view. We stopped and sent Langcay to the barrio to locate Capt. Floro Calixto. His delay made us impatient. A Tagalog woman from Nueva Ecija brought us ground corn which was consumed by the 5th Company. I gave her ₱2.00 to bring me food. When she came back after half an hour she had rice and a roasted chicken; she also cooked sinigang and brought two ripe mangoes. We ate. / [Simeon] Villa with Subido went to the house of Vicente Guzman, whom they found having his lunch. He was barefooted, with his trousers tucked up. On seeing them, Guzman put on his socks and shoes and invited them to eat. Without having tasted food for three days and two nights, without rest and sleep, they devoured the fare, consisting of lisas [mullet], large banac [mullet], and mangoes; nevertheless, they did not forget their table manners.42 submitted by /u/Chill_Boi_0769 to r/FilipinoHistory [link] [comments]
r/FilipinoHistory Chill_Boi_0769 Jan 31, 2026
Nashville Hairstylist for Men’s tapered wolf cut
i’m looking for recommendations for a hairstylist/barber around the nashville area, that you have personal experience with; or knowledge of them having the skills for doing an actual DECENT transformation for a Tapered Wolf Cut/ Modern mullet - pictures attached for what i’m looking for. thanks! submitted by /u/Mac_Diesel26 to r/nashville [link] [comments]
r/nashville Mac_Diesel26 Dec 15, 2025
Looking for Barber…Men’s modern mullet, low/mid taper
Struggling to find a good barber/stylist for straight hair, low/mid taper with some texture/layering without completely butchering it! submitted by /u/KJWieser_x2 to r/cedarrapids [link] [comments]
r/cedarrapids KJWieser_x2 Dec 2, 2025
What are the best haircuts for men right now?
I have been stuck with the same haircut for years. short sides longer top combo and I am finally thinking about trying something new. Here are a few cuts i been considering: Textured Crop with Tapered Sides Messy Fringe with Low Fade Classic Crew Cut Modern Mullet either Tapered or Low Fade Buzz Cut with a Skin Fade What would you say are the best haircuts for men right now that are versatile and still stylish? submitted by /u/Micki_SF to r/mensfashion [link] [comments]
r/mensfashion Micki_SF Aug 6, 2025
Found on TikTok
This poor poor man. Added the before and what he asked for at the end. submitted by /u/XFilesVixen to r/Justfuckmyshitup [link] [comments]
r/Justfuckmyshitup XFilesVixen Jul 24, 2025
Modern mullet haircut for men
Normally rock a modern/faint mullet but it has gotten too long. need a bit of a shape up and I am new to the city. Thanks! submitted by /u/frigginshmokey to r/Buffalo [link] [comments]
r/Buffalo frigginshmokey Jul 17, 2025
“Slut Strands”
Megs does listen—at least when you shout at her for a thousand years. Witness her recent wardrobe at Whistler. Clothes fit (mostly) & were ironed (mostly.) She matched white w/ white rather than w/ some random off-white/cream color that snagged the eye the same way a well-baited hook snags a fish. Sure there were problems but on the whole she was fairly presentable. But then there was her hair. And now, w/ her lifestyle gig, there is still the problem w/ her hair. Specifically, slut strands. Slut strands have been around forever. I doubt Miss Elizabeth Bennett of Pride & Prejudice was unaware (at least after she started to notice what a tasty dish Mr. Darcy was) that wispy strands of delicate locks framing a young lady’s face created a fetching impression. Coils of unruly hair escaping an otherwise staid coiffeur likely have excited men for eons. Technically, though, the creation of modern “slut strands” is claimed by a group of women athletes competing in the Winter Olympics in the late ‘90s & early 2000s where said strands served to “signal… to everyone else on the hill that you want to be recognized as a female athlete.” At least that’s the story. Funny enough for whatever reason they are not called Serious Female Athlete Strands. I think most of us could agree that “slut strands” have something to do w/ sex. (Even for Miss Elizabeth Bennett.) They serve to evoke the wild abandon of the early stages of intense lovemaking. He w/ his chest exposed, she w/ her hair escaping its bonds & cascading down her heaving breast. And that’s what I think we can assume Megs is trying to signal. That she is a sexually available female. Even when cooking, she’s ready for a roll in the …well… flower strewn meadow. Otherwise I doubt she has any interest in competing in downhill racing on fresh powder w/ a clutch of serious female athletes. OK, we’ll buy slut strands in the kitchen. You never know who’ll pop by. But why the hell is Meghan Markle wearing “slut strands” while bee keeping? Of all the weird stuff that I’ve seen in this series, this is the weirdest. I assume you need your full visual field to work w/ bees. If your suit is leaking bees you’d probably want to know. Something unidentified goes streaking by is probably something worth honing in on. And large strands of floppy hairlike tendrils will only get in the way. Besides who exactly are you coming onto: bees? Anymore Meghan’s hairstyle echoes the hairstyles of maiden aunts who have frozen their esthetic around giant bouffant hairdos (1950s) , Marcelled curls (1920s) or mullets (whenever.) It looks deeply weird & borderline idiotic. And having hair dangling down your face while cooking has excited everyone’s scorn. But really, what about the bees? submitted by /u/lastlemming-pip to r/SaintMeghanMarkle [link] [comments]
r/SaintMeghanMarkle lastlemming-pip Mar 6, 2025
Looking for a hairstylist that can do modern mullet cuts
I have been cutting my own hair for a while since every time I go to a hairstylist I am disappointed. anyone know any hairstylist that can cut men’s men’s hair? And can do more modern cuts, i.e. modern Mullets? submitted by /u/Ilovegod10016593 to r/frederickmd [link] [comments]
r/frederickmd Ilovegod10016593 Jul 29, 2024
Best Barbershop/Salon for Men's Modern Mullet?
I'm a traveler in need of a good haircut. Looking to get a modern mullet (roughly like included picture). What shops in Inverness would be a good place to get this done? Looking to avoid places that use trimmers for 99% of their work. submitted by /u/RillienCot to r/inverness [link] [comments]
r/inverness RillienCot Jul 12, 2024
40 Iconic Modern Mullet Haircuts For Men (2021)
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r/malehairadvice Hairmanz Mar 31, 2021
Just saw this on an actual news article titled "30 Modern Mullet Hairstyles for Men".
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r/Justfuckmyshitup NOFWtinyhippo Aug 2, 2020
132+ teams in 132+ days: The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlantic Coast Conference - Coastal Division Year Founded: 1885 Location: Midtown Atlanta, GA Total Attendance: 21,557 (14,527 undergrad and 7,030 graduate) (Also of note; ~60% of total attendance are studying a form of engineering.) Mascot: Ramblin’ Wreck and Buzz, Buzz2 Cheerleaders: Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4 Stadium: Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field. Fans enjoy the downtown and midtown skylines from the stadium. Stadium Location: On campus. 150 Bobby Dodd Way, Atlanta, GA 30332 Conference Champions: (16): Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (5): 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921 Southern Conference (3): 1921, 1922, 1928 Southeastern Conference (5): 1939, 1943, 1944, 1951, 1952 Atlantic Coast Conference (3): 1990, 1998, 2009 That’s right, we’ve won the SEC more than Kentucky, Mississippi State, Arkansas, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Missouri, and Texas A&M combined. Number of Bowl Games: 23 Wins, 41 Total. Georgia Tech’s first four bowl game appearances, the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, and Sugar Bowl, marked the first time a team had competed in all four of the major bowl games. National Titles: (4) 1917 Coach: John Heisman, 1928 Coach: William Alexander, 1952 Coach: Bobby Dodd, 1990 coach: Bobby Ross Rivals Clemson: These teams first met in 1898 with CU winning the first four before John Heisman decided he was tired of coaching for the bad guys and left for greener pastures. (We offered him a 450$ pay raise, a 25% salary increase.) Also of note, these two teams did not play a game in Clemson until 1974. We figured that we weren't going to go break our ankles playing in some uneven cow pasture, and that if these hicks wanted to play a game they could come down to civilization to do it. Since Tech joined the ACC, this game has consistently been very close; Since 1983, the series is at 16-15 with a slight Tech advantage. Tech also leads the overall series 50-25-2. In 2009, we beat them twice. Picture. Virginia Tech: This is beginning to become a rivalry. Since the ACC has gone to divisions, one of these two teams has represented the coastal in the championship game. These games also tend to be very close with three of the last five games ending with a margin of victory of 7 or less. VPI&SU leads the overall series 7-3. Let’s not forget that Marcus Vick went to vpi. georgia: Fuck u(sic)ga. These teams first met in 1893 and Georgia Tech came out victorious 28-6 on four scores by Leonard Wood, a future medal of honor recipient. From Wikipedia: “During and after the game, disgruntled georgia fans threw rocks and other debris at the Georgia Tech players and chased the victorious Blacksmiths (our nickname at the time) back to their awaiting train.” Taken from a newspaper article at the time: “At one time early in the last half of the game, a stone was hurled at one of the Tech players, striking him a cruel blow in the head... At another time, one of the Athenians drew a knife and threatened one of the Techs' better players... The Techs were also poked and gouged with canes on plays toward the boundary lines... Some of the crowd had the privilege of the gridiron equally with the players.” The Athenians were upset, and they searched all day and night for someone in Athens that could actually read and write, so that they could falsely insinuate that Tech used ringers by accusing Tech in the AJC the next day of using: “a heterogeneous collection of Atlanta residents - a United States Army surgeon, a medical student, a lawyer, and an insurance agent among them, with here and there a student of Georgia's School of Technology thrown in to give the mixture a Technological flavor.” It should be noted that all Tech players that day were current students and would go on to receive degrees from Tech. So that’s how it started, and I won’t go into depth on this because it would take all day. To hell with georgia. Auburn: A defunct rivalry that had been played more than 80 times. Auburn Univ. or A.P.I. is by far Georgia Tech's second-most-often played opponent in football. For many years, the rivalry between Georgia Tech and A.P.I. in football became so heated that the annual games were not played in Atlanta or Auburn, but rather at the neutral site of a stadium in Columbus, Georgia, very close to the boundary between the two states. This is a friendly reminder that Auburn lost to Reggie Ball. Twice. Alabama: This is known for the most epic coaching dual in southern football history; Dodd vs. Bryant. This rivalry was so intense that it’s actually the reason Georgia Tech isn’t in the SEC anymore. It began in 1961 when Alabama’s Darwin Holt cold-cocked Georgia Tech’s Chick Granning. The blow actually ended the career of Granning. Yellow Jacket coach Bobby Dodd was understandably peeved and wrote a letter to Alabama coach Bear Bryant, asking to suspend Holt. Bryant naturally did nothing. The whole incident sparked Dodd’s interest in leaving the SEC. The schools have met 52 times and Alabama leads the series 28-24. But neither have played each other since 1984. A home-and-home series had been set for 2013-2014 but both schools agreed to postpone it and have yet to make it up. Honorable mention: The state of Mississippi: The interesting thing here is that there are no rivalries, there is hardly any history at all. Despite sharing a conference for 32 years, Tech played its first football game in the state of Mississippi in 2009 (at Miss St.). This was similar to the Clemson thing, we didn’t want to play in the middle of nowhere. And apparently these hicks weren’t going to let us dictate where the games were played, so we didn’t play. Tech leads the overall series with Mississippi St. 4-0 and Ole Miss 2-1. 2012 Season Record: 7-7-0 (5-3) Coach: Paul Johnson 2012 Roster Key Players: Tevin Washington - Almost all of our offense comes from the starting QB spot, whether through passing, rushing, or whoever he gives the ball to, and Tevin did well in his role in 2012. He leaves having put his name all over the GT and the ACC record books Orwin Smith - The playmaker on offense, he averaged 9.2 ypc for his career from the A-back spot. Jeremiah Attaochu - One of the bright spots on our mediocre defense, Jeremiah is tied for 8th in Tech’s all-time sack leader list. He accounted for a little over a third of our sacks last season. Biggest Plays: Ray Beno 9 yard reception for a first down. Vad Lee 25 yard TD run. This is exciting because he’s our backup QB and we’ve all got big hopes for him. Jamal Golden returns kick 97 yards and 100 yards. 4th down conversion followed by TD pass towards end of regulation against VT. Jemea Thomas interception against Florida State. Tevin Washington to Orwin Smith 17 yard TD reception on 3rd and goal against USC 2013 Season 2013 Schedule The schedule makers didn’t do us much of a favor, giving us our first bye week on the second week of the season, and not before our first Thursday night game against conference rival Virginia Tech. Plus 3 of the main Coastal contenders in a row starting with that Thursday night game makes this schedule somewhat front-loaded. 2013 Roster The Greats Greatest Games: 2008 GT vs uga - The 08 team was an extremely surprising one, and they brought light to a fan base that hadn’t won against georgia in 7 years. The game started off looking like every other one, but the Jackets came back in the 2nd half, rallying from a 28-12 deficit to win the game 45-42. 1976 GT vs ND - Tech came into the game against #11 Notre Dame with its first 3 QBs injured and was having a poor season overall. But despite their shortcomings, the Jackets upset the Fighting Irish 23-14. And they did it without throwing a pass. 1962 GT vs Alabama - This game is widely considered by older fans as the greatest Tech game ever. Alabama came into the game on a 26 game winning streak and were widely favored. However, the day of the game, the skies opened up and turned Grant Field into a muddy mess. Kim King, future Tech QB and radio announcer, was invited up to Bear Bryant’s hotel room for a recruiting visit. When he and his family walked in, they saw the Bear looking out the window, chain smoking cigarettes. Bryant kept looking out the window saying “This is Dodd’s weather, this is Dodd’s kind of weather.” The he said “Mrs. King, excuse my language ma’am, but that damn Dodd is gonna beat my butt today.” Sure enough, Tech scored first, and held of the Crimson Tide to pull out what Dodd considered his greatest win. 1990 GT vs UVA - Tech went into this game ranked 7th in the nation after starting the season unranked. UVA was ranked 1st. Scott Sisson’s kick at the end of regulation turned us into serious title contenders. Link Greatest Plays: Wrong Way Riegals - Considered to be one of the worst CFB blunders of all time, Roy Riegals helped Tech to their second national title in the 1929 Rose Bowl. The Cal player picked up a Tech fumble, got turned around, and ran 65 yards the wrong direction. Tech blocked the ensuing Cal punt for a safety, and won the game 8-7. 2008 Tech forces a fumble on the goalline to put away the victory - We dominated most of the 2008 game against FSU until starting QB Joshua Nesbitt was hurt. Our offense sputtered and FSU got back into the game. They had the ball, inside the 5, 1 minute left with a timeout on 2nd and goal, and Cooper Taylor, the freshman safety forced a fumble that Rashaad Reid, another freshman, recovered. 2004 Tech beats Clemson on an extremely late pass (sorry for the terrible quality, best there is) - Clemson controlled the game almost all the way to the end. But in the last 4.5 minutes, Tech scored 3 TDs, including this one with 11 seconds left to win the game 28-24. Clemson muffed the punt, and Reggie Ball capitalized by throwing a beautiful fade to Calvin Johnson to score the game winner. Greatest Players: Clint Castleberry - The only person to have his jersey retired at Tech, Castleberry came in 3rd place in the Heisman voting as a freshman in 1942. As he finished behind two seniors, he was favored to win the next season. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1943, and his B-26 bomber was lost over Africa in 1944. Joe Hamilton - He led one of the more prolific GT offenses in modern history, and is the standard by which every QB who came after has been measured. He set ACC career record for total yardage, TD passes and Total TDs. He finished runner up in the Heisman voting his senior year, as well as winning the Davey O’Brien award and being named 1st team AA. He is also fondly remembered for beating Georgia twice. Eddie Lee Ivery - Held the single game rushing record for a time with 356 yards. He gained all of those yards with the flu and in the snow playing at Air Force. Calvin Johnson - Can’t forget Calvin. An athletic freak who can get to almost any ball thrown to him, yet he has a surprising high level of humility. There really isn’t much else to say that hasn’t already been said a thousand times over. Greatest Coaches: John Heisman - The namesake for the Heisman Trophy, John Heisman coached at Tech for 16 years amassing a 102-29-7 record. He is responsible for the most lopsided game in college football history, a 222-0 beating of Cumberland University. He is also the originator of the “hike” call. His 1917 team won Tech’s first national title. William Alexander - Coached at Tech from 1920-1944 with a record of 134-95-15. He won Tech’s second national title in 1928. The basketball arena was named after him before a donor gave money to rebuild it. Bobby Dodd - One of the most interesting coaches ever, Dodd coached at Tech from 1945-1966 with a record of 165-64-8. Known as one of the best in-game coaches of his time, he was famous for “Dodd’s Luck”, a phenomena that routinely saw his teams pull out late game victories. The coach of the year trophy is named after him, as is Bobby Dodd Stadium. He is one of 3 men to be in the college football hall of fame as a player and a coach. I highly recommend his biography, Dodd’s Luck, it’s full of interesting stuff. Traditions While we are officially known as the Yellow Jackets, we have another popular mascot, the Ramblin Wreck. The Ramblin Wreck made its first appearance in 1916, and was the personal car of a student at the time. While it was originally a 1916 Model T Ford, the current Wreck is a 1930 Model A Ford. It led the team out of the tunnel in the 1961 game against Rice University and has continued to lead the team out ever since. One of the more popular student traditions is stealing the T from Tech Tower. It originated in 1969 and has been done many times since. However, in the interest of safety, stealing the T from the tower was officially banned and extensive security measures were installed on the tower to prevent any more thefts. Now students resort to stealing the letter T off of signs around campus. George P. Burdell. Read the link, there is just too much for me to explain here. The Budweiser song is always performed in the second half of sporting events, about 3/4s of the way through the game and the band is led by Buzz. There are many more great traditions, but I don’t want to try to fit them all here. You can check many of them out here if you’re interested. Campus and Surrounding Area City Population: Atlanta proper: 432,427; Metro area: 5,475,213 City Skyline: Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead Iconic Campus Building: Tech Tower, another image. And one more. Local Dining: The Varsity: Everytime you see Tech on ESPN, they will talk about eating at the Varsity. They don’t know what they’re talking about, the food there is a more expensive, upgraded version of McDonalds. And definitely don't eat here before a game, as you’ll be needing a toilet shortly afterwards. The Vortex: Regularly featured on the Food Network, the Vortex is a great place for a burger. It’s also located walking distance from campus. Carver’s country kitchen: A meat & 2 ran by an elderly couple until recently. (The husband died and the wife considered closing but now will be reopening in a new location just down the street.) It has been located in an old grocery store with community style seating, and was in what many consider to be a “rough” part of town. This is the best food you will ever eat. Random Trivia The motivation for our “Yellow Jacket” moniker is not an insect. This nickname was developed in an era where people would wear suits for everything; it was odd if a man did not wear a sports jacket. This was also an era before gold pigment. So our fans would wear yellow jackets to the games and opposing journalists would often say that the yellow jackets are coming to town. Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field is the oldest Division 1 on campus stadium, and this year actually marks its centennial season. Tech almost always wears its white jerseys, home or away. There are bulldog stickers in many of the on-campus urinals. Despite the fact that the namesake for the Heisman Trophy coached at Tech, no Tech player has ever won it. Joe Hamilton and Billy Lothridge have come the closest, finishing second in the voting. What Is and What is to Come The 2012 season is somewhat bittersweet. We made it to the ACC Championship game, but we lost to Middle Tennessee State. We finally won a bowl game, but we still lost to georgia. While not a terrible season, it can’t qualify as a success either. Things are looking up for 2013 however. We return 16/22 starters, including our most experienced OL in the Paul Johnson era. Vad Lee, who has been hailed as the QB of the future, is the expected QB starter, and if he lives up to his potential our offense will be extremely dangerous. While we lost playmaker Orwin Smith, we run by committee, so there is plenty of experienced depth waiting to step up and fill that void. With a new DC in Ted Roof, our defense will be switching to a base 4-3 from the base 3-4 that was the hallmark of Coach Groh’s tenure. We never really had the DL talent to run the 3-4, and it really showed. If our defense can improve from mediocre to average, this team could be dangerous. However, if the defense can’t improve, then I predict that 2012 will repeat itself. Just a great offense can only get you so far. Overtime What’s the Good Word? Thanks to all of those who contributed to this write-up, /u/JohnHeisman, /u/GTUD, /u/Nixon_Corral and /u/jacketit. submitted by /u/JohnHeisman to r/CFB [link] [comments]
r/CFB JohnHeisman Mar 25, 2013