Post by jj skolnik / Redsky

look man, i love candles, there are six of them in my living room right now so i can choose among scents, but i think this is too many candles

aug 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 38 3

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the "surrounded by candles" part isn't helping me feel comfortable with the idea. one small fire, good; surrounded by many small fires in a closed space with a crowd, bad

aug 27, 2025, 10:15 am • 2 0 • view

then again maybe ominous threats are the new thing in ad copy

aug 27, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view

Does it help that the candles aren't real?

aug 27, 2025, 11:03 am • 1 0 • view

I have worked on one of these and there were zero actual candles - they were all stylised electric light bulbs.

aug 27, 2025, 3:16 am • 2 0 • view

i would for sure stumble and fall into those candles were i on that stage

aug 27, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view

slightly chagrined to admit that I went to one of these (string quartet playing Studio Ghibli soundtracks) and the candles were all fake LEDs. I was slightly disappointed but relieved for fire code reasons.

aug 27, 2025, 3:16 am • 9 1 • view

ok honestly that’s good because i was worried. also how hot would that be

aug 27, 2025, 3:17 am • 8 0 • view

for reference when I was a barback someone thought it would be cute/funny to have 70 candles on a birthday cake and not only was it difficult to light them all before the first ones had burned down, it was a sheet of fucking fire that left a layer of hot wax and put off *significant* heat

aug 27, 2025, 3:24 am • 6 0 • view

ok so I just checked Dick Shurman's wikipedia he might have been turning 60? what i remember most vividly was the heat coming off the cake

aug 27, 2025, 3:32 am • 3 0 • view

60 or 70 candles on a cake is straight up terrifying

aug 27, 2025, 3:33 am • 5 0 • view

i knew it was a bad idea when she asked for it, but i *knew* it was a bad idea when I felt the heat

aug 27, 2025, 3:50 am • 4 0 • view