When one exposes themselves to fiction that stimulates our negative qualities (like horror fiction) so that they can work through them in a healthy and harmless environment as catharsis.
Serial killers and other murderers appeal to the impulse Stephen King calls "feeding the alligators," and Carl Jung called "integration of the shadow self," but it all means the same thing: that entertaining our own dark side can be therapeutic.
-- 8-Bit Philosophy
-- 8-Bit Philosophy
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To 'alligate' is to have a photo taken of you with any object covering the bottom half of your face i.e. directly below the eyes. You can use bar menu's, statues, people, buildings or any manner of objects; the possibilities are endless.
**In a drunken haze**
Tom: "Holy shit look at that statue! Shall we do some alligating on it?"
Lennie "Yeh, lets do it"
Tom: "Holy shit look at that statue! Shall we do some alligating on it?"
Lennie "Yeh, lets do it"
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The messy-haired, coffee-breathing skinny-jeansters found mainly on the L train in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
They exist everywhere, but are concentrated mostly in urban areas with a high trash-on-the-street to overpriced-apartment ratio. At night, they migrate to events referred to as an "art party" or "salon."
They exist everywhere, but are concentrated mostly in urban areas with a high trash-on-the-street to overpriced-apartment ratio. At night, they migrate to events referred to as an "art party" or "salon."
A: Bedford is crawling with elligators tonight!
B: Of course! The kickball tournament is tonight in McCarren.
B: Of course! The kickball tournament is tonight in McCarren.
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Get the elligator mug.when having sex one of the participants bites the neck of the other whilst having an orgasm. the person biting then locks their jaw onto the neck of their partner, like an aligator.
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