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I think it’s a shame that when we figured out skyscrapers we didn’t start doing that with the dead. Catacombs in the sky reaching to the heavens.
I’m gonna go pay my respects to grandma she’s in the towns bonescraper. Smash cut to a giant tower made of skeletons.
Aliens come down to that kind of society, they’d want to party with us because that’s metal as fuck
When I die please arrange my remains on the Bonescraper in the essence of a skeletal gargoyle ty
We tried that before and we ended up with ghost Pokémon. Is that what you want?
Yes
could you imagine a skyscraper of coffins & skeletons collapsing? LOL would be fucking nuts
You want metal as fuck? Check out these dudes and dudettes
https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/manene-death-ritual-indonesia/
Holy sh...
Well have you seen some of the catacombs we do have. Skull piles, bone art, all pretty metal right there too. But not a skyscraper metal.
Like this one in Brazil?
Have a big reservoir at the bottom that collects all the water runoff and uses it for the city water supply.
Bone water. Yummy.