Despite it, according to the nice and accurate random youtube videos or automatic "news" feeds, being one of the easy go-to party snacks that everyone knows and likes, I've never actually made devilled eggs. Have had a pin in the plan for ages, but keep postponing. Looks like I'm being pushed into making the food happen in the near future, though.
Because basically every book (8 just-read, resurfacing thoughts of 4-5 others), tv show (4 different ones, I believe), computer game (all 3 that I've touched at all in the past year) or other media that I've come into contact with over the past month or so could directly be copied into a word cloud looking (in a completely random order and ignoring capitalization to be fair) something like this: devil, demons, hell, apocalypse, four horsemen, antichrist, 6-9 circles, dante, death, angles (and angels), heaven, satan, monsters, eldrich, underworld, vampires, seven deadly sins, witches, magic, fire, lucifer, god, temptation, candle, red, ...
Yeah, sure, moving from one supernatural movie or video to another, even if subcontiously, makes sense taking the million suggestion algorithms ruling us into account. But to have this spread into every type of media over several separate accounts. Hmm. Or to click on a totally random e-book in a library without knowing anything AT ALL about it beforehand, and it turning out to be yet another story about hell. Or for example to have my main playlist of over 9000 songs on shuffle for it to just constantly pick and play yet another song with the devil in its name. Completely unrelated gameshows or drum lessons have the references, IT newsletters and random interviews with people do too. The already ongoing Halloween madness in shops fits right in.
But when it starts coming up over and over again in daily conversations with D when I know that he hasn't consumed ANY of the same or related media (nor have I mentioned anything about it due to his complete disinterest in any fantasy stuff), that's just bizarre. E.g. I've been making oven-grilled potatoes the same way for several years. And now, out of the blue, he goes and renames them into "potatis satanus".
Cheers,
Hedi
