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The Gorilla Of Destiny

@gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social
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World leading researcher in magic science and most well known on tiktok @gorillaofdestiny Occasionally feel the need to remind people I'm doing a real life PhD and once upon a time did an MSci in astrophysics

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The folks commenting under my "science is being defunded" video are still calling me an idiot for not "realising" it's actually because of illegal immigrants. Lots of "I cant believe a scientist is denying the CLEAR EVIDENCE" Except their evidence is "It sure feels like that"
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I passed my viva yesterday! Sources tell me I looked "haggered" after a measly 6h...
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Genuinely appalled by some of the racist (explicit and dogwhistles) comments on my recent short about science funding cuts. Id say about 2/3rds were people agreeing with me or making reasonable critiques (even if I think theyre wrong). The other third were blaming immigrants or a secret cabal...
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sources are telling me I'm not allowed to post: "She gorilla'd my destiny till I PhD'd" if I pass my viva
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is how I look revising my thesis. Why does every action in my life (magic theory and my real PhD) always end up in me having to study my own book!!
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Going from watching rugby in the pub THEN joining a pub crawl certainly was *a* decision I made...
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Watching Scotland play rugby is always...an experience... Ill just cry myself to sleep repeating "South Africa are #1 kn the world we held our own"
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Feels weird watching rugby during the world cup. I prefer rugby but this is the football time?!????
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I always stand by: The goal of any national scotland team is to cause maximum dissapointment. And being a scientifically minded nation we have perfected this to know that true dissapointment can only come from hope
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The best bit of making a map of an irl place: The Grid™️
An A3 sheet of paper with a pencil grid drawn on
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I have no idea how or why it happened but I'll forever be grateful that the tartan army has a culture that broadly aligns with "just be a laugh" because it really does making travelling around the world so much easier when you can just learn how to say "Scottish" in the local language
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Scotland v Haiti had my nerves on edge it was genuinely painful. I cant even tell if im tired from being up till 5am or the emotional strain
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Check out my Kickstarter for my custom fantasy glyphing of English on @kickstarter.com! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gor...
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Gorilla of Destiny's: Elf-ish Font
Creating a digital font for my glyphing of english that I call "elf-ish". Capturing the fantastical... with none of the depth.
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A full letter from the in universe Gorilla of Destiny announcing the University of Theoretical Magic's latest project to attempt to standardise Orlèanic and requesting funds to aid with the expiditionary efforts Or in other words: Elv-ish kickstarter launches tomorrow! Links found on my website!
A letter written in my custom font "Elv-ish"
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Nee Longform video about new damage types and (way more excitingly imo) VECTOR ALBEBRA!!!!
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A simulation of "magic-missiles" in a circular bounding box...kinda...look let's just agree it's pretty and move on
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My favourite thing is when people start coming up with their own Theories of Magic. Like...the evidence is so limited and maths so versatile why shouldn't there be hundreds of competing theories?!?! Just keep it rigorous (as much as possible with magic) and revel in being wrong and it'll be great.
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
My neighbours the moment I sat down to record the audio for my next video (there is a loud fly too)
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Orangutan Sawing Wood
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Hey you make D&D content right?" "Yeah...kinda..."
Screenshot showing that the suggest search for one of my videos is "partial differential equations"
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Highly recommend my current fiction reading strategy: Intersperse the reading of challenging/sad/"proper" books with Warhammer 40k novels
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There's something really silly to me about adding 0.5kg plates at the gym. Like I know they add to the overall mass but I also feel like I could just add them infinitely and it'd make no difference
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Lol, lmao even
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Me after spending 4 days working silly hours to get my thesis introduction done
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a cat is giving a thumbs up sign while crying .
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
England france raising my blood pressure to levels previously unheard of
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Walking home from the pub watchint the rugby
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a man in a black jacket and white pants is standing on a dirt hill .
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
New long-form video up! youtu.be/yrgbi1xPESc
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How to Always Cast the Best Spell in D&D
YouTube video by GorillaOfDestiny
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I find it fun that my bluesky account is 50% me reporting scotland rugby results
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Do I know how Scotland did that? No And yet:
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Deeply humbled in the gym today. Turns out you can fail a lift even if DragonForce is playing 😔
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Update on the Warlock Spell Compendium: It's nearly done! I'm in the final editorial stage so I'm hoping to release the digital versions early march and the physical versions a few weeks after! Check out this cool sketch from the book made by @theburgandycow on insta
A stone column facing us with a corner. On the left side is a warlock spell written in dark liquid, on the right a shape of a man in the stone coming out of the column.
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
STOP 👏 THE 👏 TOURNAMENT (Ignore anyone telling you things like "France is yet to play their third match" and "Scotland hasn't played France yet")
6 nations table showing Scotland in first, France second, ireland in third, then England, Italy, and Wales in that order
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Asked my followers to guess what my PhD is in:
Bar chart showing the guesses. Physics is #1 at 33%, then astro at 18%, and CS at around 10%.
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Me as I watch Italy beat Scotland in the 6 nations
Cartoon man lying in a puddle of his own tears
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Wizard Spell Compendium is now getting a THIRD proof ordered before I can make it public again 😭😭
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I fear I made Alex The Spherical Cow too cute and I cant stop looking at them
A very cute cow that I made a sphere, but they are still smiling
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you give a monkey infinite time to hit a typewriter, he will eventually type out the entire works of shakespeare. If you give one gorilla a finite amount of time to hit a laptop, he will eventually type out my PhD thesis...I hope
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"I'm just so busy in my PhD" My notes:
Two snakes in smart attire talking in a corridor. The one on the right is saying "SSSssalesssSSS'
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Thr weirdest thing about doing a PhD is the way everyone assumes you're smart. If I was smart I'd have known better
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Im trying to convince my friends we should try hat-oween, it's like Halloween, but instead of buying a whole outfit, you wear one hat + your normal clothes to try and approximate a character. I just need to find a way to monetise this idea and ill be living the easy life
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
POV, you're my PhD supervisor, and you've just told me I need to write my research down
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I must sound insane at work to say things like "Yeah writing my D&D science books has actually been really useful experience for writing my PhD thesis"
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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 27/05/2025
A few weeks ago, I came across the @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social account on YouTube. Who came up with a really cool way of writing spells in DnD (if you are into networks, at least) 2/4 youtube.com/shorts/hXbkB...
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Wizard Reading Circle #dnd #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #spellwritingguide
YouTube video by GorillaOfDestiny
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The proposed NSF cuts in America are genuinely insane. I can't see a single benefit that could possibly outweigh the long-term and short-term costs to every aspect of life. That is, of course, assuming their goal is to make life better...or that they're acting on any semblance of logic.
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Me trying to figure out why my Druid code stopped working for no reason
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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New MIRI image of NGC 1514 was released in a recent article. arxiv.org/abs/2502.212...
Coadded images of NGC 1514 at 7.7 µm (upper left), 12.8 µm (upper right), 25.5 µm (lower left), and a three-color composite image of the three. The origin (0′,0′) corresponds to the position of the central binary star.
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The hardest part of a PhD is having to think "I don't envy the person who has to do all that work" before realising you are the person
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Josh Gold @joshgold.me · 19/02/2025
I slightly modified the #DND spell writing system by @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social and built a little tool to supplement my non-existent art skills. You can mess around with it here: joshgold.me/tools/dnd-sp... Here are two variations of Phantasmal Force (one of my favorite spells):
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Starting a new campaign and realising with much frustration that individual purchases haven't been allowed on D&D Beyond for almost a year......... Genuinely got me and my players thinking why we bother using digital character sheets anymore
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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
They're doing so well
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