Keep on for the link hunt,
See where they go,
Did they survive the Supermoon?
We may never know…
For ICE things not look so nice,
Who GLASS LILITH and how she explain this device?
URBAN SQUATCH mourns THE REAPER,
Where they go?
And what did AGENT RB know?
Why HATTER not able to use his hat?
What RAVEN have to say about that?
On a Supermoon dipped in white chocolate blood,
Who can say?
If any keep on
Keeping on another day.
Supernaturally speaking, of course.
Hail Survivors,
Big news the very first – but not the last – Seth On Survival interactive ebook is out. It’s the truer-than-true survival story of:
You can check it out on the Apple iBookstore here. Right now it only works on the iPad but other formats are coming soonish. That is as soon-ish as Graham and I can get it done. (We’re aiming for next week.)
https://itunes.apple.com/book/archie-hartigan-frost-wolf/id635709884
Meanwhile if you want, check out my interview with the survivor who goes by the name Archie Hartigan on the Bone Moon here. Howling thanks to those wild and wonderful WWs at yourlupinelife for sharing their research with me and for publishing that interview.
Keep on keeping on.
Seth
From the world of Seth On Survival comes a new adventure with video annotation by Supernatural Survivologist Seth Greening!
Archie Hartigan was the foremost authority on Supernatural Suvivology in his hometown, until an encounter with a real-life werewolf turns him into the one thing he hates the most – a monster! As Archie is thrust into a world of ancient secret societies, high-functioning zombies and horrors from beyond the veil of time and space, he learns that just because you’re a monster doesn’t mean you can’t also be a hero.
Los Angeles – Photos of menacing bunnies hopping in from all over the world today.
I know it’s Easter, a solemn occasion we mark with eggs and chocolate ostensibly provided by a powerful bunny-like creature but survivors, if your chocolate comes hand-delivered by a lurching Leporidae disguised as leader of the safety patrol, or a vicious chihuahua riding a giant rabbit (below) just say no.
What’s going on here? Well recall rabbits have been animals of prey for tens of thousands of years. Imagine, twenty thousand years of other animals eating you. That can really get to a species.
Now imagine your best defense strategy is freezing, thumping your tail and making lots of little leverets to try and beat the odds aka: the you-can’t-kill-us-all! defense.
Likewise, the humble Chihuahua has been the brunt of jokes for at least as long. Is this the year together they finally wreak their revenge on us all? This photo from England today shows them teaming up to stop traffic and terrify firefighters.
If you see either of these suspicious rabbits, just run. I can not stress this enough. Do not accept the chocolate. Do not snap a photo. Do not text “OMG’. Okay well maybe the photo. But then run. Just make sure that you email me the photo!
Well it’s V-Day again! This year, take a moment out from your annual anti-stalker preparations to recall the ancient werewolf roots of Valentine’s Day – but no more than a moment! That would be highly inadvisable. It’s called Lupercalia and it may not be romantic but it’s 99.99% true, like everything else on this site.
Centuries before Emperor Claudius condemned poor St. Valentine to a terrible teddy bear and chocolate death for the then-crime of marrying heterosexual couples, there were twin boys named Romulus and Remus in Rome. Like many twins, Romulus and Remus created quite a bit of chaos by their birth. Even more so because these twins were the children of demi-gods. Their dad was Mars, the god of war and their mom a forest diety named Rhea Silva.
As a result, these powerful babies Romulus and Remus scared the emperor. He ordered them abandoned in the woods and left to die in the middle of winter. He also locked their mom Rhea Silva in a convent.
But the emperor didn’t know that Rhea Silva, whose name means “forest spirit” could still communicate with the animals in the forest. She made a deal with a powerful she-wolf named Lupa that if Lupa would adopt her sons and give them milk to save their lives, that she would share them with Lupa on every full moon.
Lupa agreed to the deal and found Romulus and Remus deep in the woods, roughly on this day in February. She fed them her own milk and this caused the physiological changes that would save their lives and turn them into werewolves on the full moon. So that when they became adults, on every full moon the twins would turn into werewolves and always return to her in the forest.
So how does this lead to Valentine’s Day?
Well when Romulus and Remus grew up they used their powers to found the city of Rome and every year in February, Rome held a celebration in honor of their wolf mom, Lupa. Hence the Roman statue of Lupa feeding her wolf-milk to Romulus and Remus above. This celebration was called “Lupercalia,” after Lupa herself.
On Lupercalia the citizens of Rome would party by making chocolate wolf-milk and stuffed wolf toys and trying to get a date. Except for the werewolves of course, who would transform even if it wasn’t a full moon and retreat deep into the forest together for their own secret Lupercalia celebration, about which little is known.
It may not the most romantic story but it’s 99.98% true.
(Minus the one little missing part where Romulus kills his own brother Remus in a fit of were-rage over where to put the city of Rome. Were-rage. Big problem for the lupine kind. Read more about were-rage here on the werewolves page.)
Seth
The Frost Moon is rising to its fullest and frostiest and werewolves everywhere are curling up in their cribs, or roaming free – hopefully NOT in search of angels. Yes, I know this is also technically speaking the Moon of Angels but is that any reason to go looking for a fight?
Why not stop here at SOS instead? I’ll be posting clues about the Survivor of the Month. And this month we will also be inducting one member to the SOS Hall of Fame. One long overdue member.
Enough said here are the first clues. I’ll add some details to them throughout the night. Answers and prizes posted tomorrow….
1. This Survivor hates wet fur.
2. This Survivor runs with a group of coyote shape shifters.
3. This Survivor is member of a very interesting Zombie Apocalypse Survival team.
4. This Survivor lives in a very dangerous situation. Members of her friend’s family could be A-51 agents.
Guessed it? That’s right it’s:
Moon Song
A small Survivor of the Month iTunes thank you is on the way to Moon Song. Or it will be as soon as I send it! Thanks to everyone who contributed to Survival this month. You keep me keeping on. It may not always look like it, but Graham and I and other survivors all over the globe are always thinking of epic new things we can do with your valuable research and epic tales of survival, so please keep on keeping on. (Seriously. We get dozens of emails every week about it.)
Also, I promised a Hall of Famer this month. Hall of Fame members are not quasi-random like Survivor of the Month. Hall of Famers are beings who have contributed to the survival of countless others here at SOS, including mine. I rely on these Hall of Famers for warnings and reliable research along with general help and goodwill toward other survivors on the site. Like all of us, they come and go on important and sometimes secret survival missions but always seem to keep in touch one way or another. So without further ado, this month one more survivor will be inducted into the SOS Hall of Fame. You will no doubt, recognize him, he’s often the first to greet a new survivor on the site, maybe because of his wings. Yes, that’s right it’s:
Thanks to everyone who contributed to survival this moon. Without you there would be no survival. Please check back for the true account of Moon Song and the Hall of Fame story of Zyboragon – coming up as soon as I send their prizes. Don’t forget to check out some frosty full moon poetry by Ashpaw if you haven’t already. Or check out the werewolves at yourlupinelife who posted the true story of the Frost Moon along with the epic tale of Louis Pine. (I’m pining for more! When is there more???)
More later! Thanks for keeping on keeping on with SOS.
First there was Zyboragon’s trademark Zombie Berries, then zombie mints, now get ready for latest news in ZMRT (Zombies Meal Replacement Therapy) *awesome drumroll here* …cauliflower? More specifically, fields of rotting cauliflowers? Really?
That’s the astonishing claim this week from a group of Survivors behind a new game called Zombie Apocalypse – How Cauliflower Saved My Life.
But could cauliflower really be the brainiest anti-zombie weapon in your arsenal? Or just another odorific cruciferous crutch that’s likely to get you crucified?
So when I first received an email about this phenomenon from a Survivor known as Marc, I filed it for further reference. I didn’t want to offend Marc after all he is a longtime survivor and quiet fan of the site by email – but I don’t fall for every marketing fad fuelled by soft science.
(Unless it involves Spray Nine. But then it’s NOT a marketing fad, it’s just The Truth.)
But to summarize Marc’s story, it goes roughly like this:
1. On Halloween, Survivor Marc was forced from his home by a roving horde of zombies. I’m not sure where he is located, judging by recent reports, possibly California. Point is, Marc immediately assumed it was the Zombie Apocalypse. Not just a freak frankenmoon outbreak or pre-apocalypse attack but THE Zombie Apocalypse.
2. Survivor Marc immediately initiated his personal Zombie Apocalypse Survival Plan which involves, among other things, his Jeep, miscellaneous weaponry, some camping gear and other supplies like the free car wash he got with his last fill.
3. Unfortunately Survivor Marc’s last fill was in 2008. Survivor Marc works at home and doesn’t like his neighbours, so he never goes out. Unless it’s a zombie apocalypse.
4. So he tore off through his back yard and into his neighbour, Juan Odey’s yard, the zombies shambling after him.
5. Marc’s neighbour, Juan Odey is an avid vegetable gardener who enjoys planting cauliflower. Unfortunately, he doesn’t enjoy eating it. Or picking it. Normally Juan just leaves his cauliflower rotting in gooey, smelly, pulpy piles in his yard until spring – see photo above.
6. Long story short – too late – at one point Marc think’s he’s a goner for sure after tripping and sinking into a stinking, heaving head of unharvested cauliflower. He writes that the smell alone almost made him want to take his chances with the zombies.
7. But then something very strange happened. The zombies immediately stopped their pursuit of him and attacked the rotting cauliflowers instead, chowing down like they were the most delicious brain take-out ever. Marc remembers thinking, So that’s why Juan doesn’t harvest his cauliflower!
The moral of the story is, Survivor Marc still doesn’t like his neighbours, except for Juan Odey. But now they all love cauliflower! The whole neighbourhood. They claim it keeps their neighbourhood 99.98% zombie free. They are planning to plant a cauliflower perimeter come spring.
Understandably, Marc claims that it saved his life. He went so far as to make a free game to spread the word called Zombie Apocalypse – How Cauliflower Saved My Life.
(Although if you DO decide to download his game from the iTunes store, try not to notice how he changed the story so that he is the hero and not his neighbour Juan.)
I downloaded the game and I have to admit that while it’s very entertaining, something about this story stinks and it’s this. If zombies really do love rotten cauliflower that much, what kind of gardener plants a zombie cauliflower garden year after year?
A zombie cauliflower gardener that’s who!
Let’s just say, I’m looking into this Juan Odey, Zombie Cauliflower Gardener now…
