Genuinely the best B&M invert. Glorious pull through the inversions, phenomenally intense, whippy but not too whippy, genuinely the best ride at the park by a mile. I want to bust every time I think about this ride. I swear it gives me MASSIVE erections, making my dick longer than the queues on a Howl-o-scream weekend. Absolute cinema from start to finish, “we used to goon to ts” ahh coaster.
Mr. Bolliger: “So what did you say you favorite B&M invert was? Great Bear?”
Me: “No, it’s Alpengei-i-i~~~” *busts a HUGE load on Mr. Bolliger for blessing us with the one true lord and savior Alpengeist*
The spirit of one's future self, present in the moment, that
quietly knows the plans others hold for you will not come to
pass - watching with guilt, with tenderness, and from a slight
remove.
From German: ahnen (to sense, to have a premonition) + Geist
(spirit, ghost). Related to hiraeth and saudade.
She smiled as her boss mapped out her future at the company. She sat in quiet Ahnengeist - the ghost of her future self perched on her shoulder, already holding the secret that she would not stay
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”