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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just wanting to make sure, is it canonically possible to bless an entire rain? That seems OP AF and priests really need to get nerfed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Toto's DM uses some very permissive house rules and Africans allow it because they like the result.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe the holy energy made is equal to the amount of times the song is played. We just need more famous artists to make blessing songs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I read somewhere that holy water supposedly spreads infinitely when mixed with regular water. If it also remains blessed after evaporating then it should be possible to bless all the water in world with some effort.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

This transitioned into the song as I read it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damn I've been Toto'ed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In your FACE, Roseanna!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It's really because Africans unite to keep the vampires. They really hold the line. Love isn't always on time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Vampires are found independently in Africa, Asia, North and South America, India, Western and Eastern Europe, and especially in the Balkans. All these incarnations have common attributes of folkloric vampires, though their appearance and origins vary due to the cultural environment and the intent or purpose of the myth (i.e., social control). Thus, the vampire is not culturally specific, nor is it a particular phenomenon, but rather it is almost a universal explanation for the liminal state when coupled with its relatives. Each culture has created these mythical fiends as a way to explain folk hypothesis, thus individually perpetuating their existence.

source: "Living in Death: The Evolution of Modern Vampirism" by Cheryl Atwater

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This made me think of two things: a parody version of the song that is about vampires, and that making the entirety of Africa into Rain World for vampires

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Toto: Keeping Africa free of vampires since 1981!

(Going by when it was recorded rather than when it was released)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That’s why they have blackulas down there instead of

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't have vampires but they do have warewolf

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of one of my favourite visual puns:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Noice!

Great song!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago