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Three related links from MetaFilter:

Kickended, a website that redirects to a random Kickstarter project that ended without attracting a single backer. A random grazing will usually make it clear why each one failed (this seems particularly dire, I must say).

Shinto is very much an animistic religion, and a loved toy like a doll or plushy is considered likely to have gained a spirit as a result of being much loved -- and so when it's discarded, a ceremony is needed to lay that toy's spirit to rest.

tl;dr version of the Bible.

Well, *I* think they're related. If you squint slantwise. Through my brain.

---L.

Subject quote from "Desert Hymn to the Sun," Bayard Taylor.

Date: 25 November 2014 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com
Oh, I love the funerals for things. I feel that way about them, and I cannot bear to part.

Nine

Date: 25 November 2014 11:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dancinghorse.livejournal.com
Well, I'll never ping Kickended, at least.

So far.

Did you see the one from the guy in Tucson who was going to make a movie for a cool quarter-million? Bottom tier $1000. Dream on, cowboy. Dream on.

...

I am to understand that people don't generally hold funerals for their toys? How sad.

Date: 26 November 2014 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
My parents probably would have funded the kundalini yoga DJ.

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