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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I found this french comic that is one of the first modern takes on herakles that gets him; makes him more of a brute & waylays ways with magic & his friendliness with the goddesses but it got his affect. it turned Omphale into this lovely vignette that evokes Shamhat & Enkidu

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So reread the things; fixed the F/C mistake & the hr/min & in 10HRS I ought have the 7 metal ingot with the Ephesian Words woven into its structure A. Aes Corynthiu S. Solar Gold K. Copper I: Shibuichi KA T: Electrum ASKIKI X: CuproNickel TITIAX Damnameneus: Silver-iron IAI

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So went to bfast with my dad the other day & in the to & fro of conversation I remarked how peculiar it was that id learned what Zurvanism was before age ten. My dad agreed & proceeded to say "it's not just nurture, sometimes the child seems interested in only a few things so you give them more..."

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well this sucks. Max miller from tasting history outright lying to the audience in shilling out those beef tallow chips that also had LegalEagle parroting BofKen Jr nonsense. & a stupidly obvious lie. You cannot not nixtamalized the maize if you want to make tortilla chips.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I could not for the life of me remember the name of no. 2 of Scientology (solved no need to correct). There was Lafayette & then... best I could come up was Miskatonic. & like... What if Miskatonic were to Scientology what BYU is to LDS? Innsmothers finding about Xenu, nobody getting mental health

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Huh so part of the WHY for Herakles's first labor being the Nemean Lion is that the Lion with its divine claws & pelt will destroy the armaments Alcides used to gain reknown & with which he did evil. Hit bronze armor is shredded into rags, his blades like knives left by the sea...

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So like... the sort of lamp imagined for Aladdin's lamp can't have been the bowl & stem type Disney pitched right? It must have been the amphora-like mosque-lamp Like these

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So with how much the Arthurian Relics change, heck with the mutability in form & number of many relics, it'd be neat in a story to have the monks checking in on their abbey's relics, taking note of what has happened with them. "St Capites's tooth has become a full skull this morning"

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So like... he's forcing the revealing of imperial decay; he is driving allies away & trashing the mechanisms of strength projecting. Like he HAS to be a saboteur, right? Like I cannot believe a man is so venal so avaricious so perverse that he would be doing this shit unintentionally.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

With his self-serving "progressivism" & rapacious sensual appetites... Alex Karp strikes me as something of a dybbuk. A man whose ideas of community breed his isolation, who sees the destruction of human lives as currency, which works against the repair of the world & refuses accountability

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thinking of a vaudeville drag trio 50s pinup vibes The Bombshells Trinity O'luene Azzy Daisy Zady Diana Myte

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Making kyphi pantathymi before I'm out of my little scented balls. It smells heady & lusty

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

so i was thinking about that movie, obsession, and how erotic charms of antiquity are, while absolutely no less coercive and violating than Bear's enchantment, vastly more pragmatic. The ancient spellmonger knew that no few clients would wish to undo the magic.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you're a Californian, & have a nice ass & are a raunchy sort... why is your handle not Calipigian?

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh Stilbon is doing the moonwalk. No wonder the creation of alloys has been unduly troublesome

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Burn These Books has uploaded an examination on the "jesus christ have I lost my grip on reality" tangle that is Operation Gladio youtu.be/kprMaN78pg4?...

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A Strategy of Tension: The Story of Operation Gladio

YouTube video by Burn These Books

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Jesus H Christ Pro tip Don't set up an Archimedes death ray during a sunny ass day

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Made another Ring of Hermes after my last one met an untimely end. Now to make the salve of myrrh lilies & cinnamon. For the Isis I chose Isis Weret Hekau

On the left on a clay pat, an impression of a seal showing an anguiform Isis; on the right a swivel ring with an emerald scarab

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This weekend has shown... well what I hope is an end to the (I think) contemptible project of "dirtbag leftism" or "dark woke" or however one wants to characterize the "what if horseshoe were real" political posturing

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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I am shocked at how ... Like people sometimes coming to terms with betrayal needs to be a private thing which you grapple with by yourself & not out in public . Grief sucks feeling betrayed sucks

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FIFA gives Trump a peace prize & now this? I smell fish

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I haaaaate the bit where you can see the magical object is starting to activate even as one makes the raw materials... & it takes a bite out of you

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Oh Lion of the Church, show them the selfsame mercy that thine office shew the folk of Languedoc For blood does not wash blood But it quitets the chattering dead

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!

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Dyne @dynewulf.itch.io · 21/06/2026

Treat yourself to a Dad this Father's Day over on Fluff & Stuff~ #ExcA fluffandstuff.net/search?type=...

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Something something Alexamenos was the first Brony

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Some of Democritus's Tricks are... Like there's one where you fuck with someone's bath water to give them contact dermatitis.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Scar [handshake meme] Kiera Nerys ... No fr they are... Scarily alike

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We should all collectively pretend that MBS's lofty mirrored NEOM was indeed built & was befallen of the same fate as Hiram of Many Pillars or perhaps the Djinn coveted it & with their might caused it to become lost into itself in the mirages of the sand & the salt-glittering mist.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The Trauma is Stored in the Balls

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

What IS a world? Like What is the difference between constructing a character, imagining their history & psychology & their infinite depths & imagining like a planet with its currents & tendencies. Are they not both equal in reality & in in complexity? Are they not both means to spin a tale?

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If Americans get a Darkwoke (whatever that means. Maximalist?) President or heck Californians get a spined governor... like state power (navy seals, whatnot) needs to be deployed on that issurrectionist fascistic summer camp at bohemian grove.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So I've been thinking about the inaccessibility of academic texts, especially to scholars & teachers & communicators who find themselves plying their trade as sellscrolls with the spasmic contraction of the Academy, its liberties, & its courage. Plus the economy yanno. & like... was thinking about

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Maybe I've said it before but like ya gringos know that the American Musical Stageshow is just a very constrained form of magical realism Like the whole when feelings are too big to speak then sing & when beyond that it is dance & the world sorta reorders itself, imperceptibly but effectively

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Oh. so... like... and my most mortified for not having cerciorated myself earlier... IT is... like they have the NEW new shit "white identitarians" are putting out. Not just the dross that ends up wafting in on account of ... the reasons Ancestor Excoriation is part of dealing with the dead.

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METsky 🏛️ @metsky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Garden Settee, ca. 1870 Culture: American Medium: Cast iron www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…

Garden Settee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So given how many queers are into medievalisms I am SHOCKED that there are any hybridizings which when evoking the late gothic's greebling & possibly the color vibrancy of illuminated lay manuscripts (like the rich hours) that call them don't use the architectonic descriptor Flamboyant HOW?!

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How odd that the core of the flame is the color of the boundless sky & fathomless deeps, that this color was wrought by the mingling of human blood & the earth & the leaves of the indigo tree

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The mark of a great historian is to grant a flash of the tapestry being woven at Urd; to express with words the tangles of synchronicity & resonance & coincidence & dissonance & disincidence To show how contingent the world is, how the gems of indra's net are reflecting & refracting on each other

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Abhorsen Trilogy is some of the best YA I ever read. Belisaere one of the few Byzantiums I've encountered in fantasy.

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ゴーストフード @ghostfood.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

not now kitten, daddy's gotta shave 😘👍

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I think a barrier for serious magical content (at least for yours truly) is how the subject matter avoids regimentation. What works for one practitioner is dead in another's hands, what is self evident Truth to one to another is pablum or a hard won revelation There is nothing to say but do

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If it were to me the solar hours would increase 15 18 26 400 with ra's gaze broken only by the storms & eclipses [ecstatic ululations]

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21/06/2026

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

10/10, no notes. Top-notch job!

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