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Awet Moges

@theothanatologist.bsky.social
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A mythopoet, if such a term could hold the weight of failure & ambition, of stories stitched from the dust of forgotten gods & the cold bones of old worlds. My first graphic novel, Pantheon: Heterotopia, is both a labor & a lament. 2 more volumes followed

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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
First: "BlueSky is incorruptible!" Then: "We'll take money, but only from the righteous rich." Next: "Sure, they're crypto bros, but decentralization makes us pure!" Now: "Ads, but just in search. We promise!" The slope isn’t even slippery. It’s a fucking waterslide. 🥱
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This line perfectly captures the cruel paradox of regret: always too late, yet perpetually lingering in the now. A gentle reminder that the past is a graveyard, & your memories are the flowers you forgot to bring.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Lucy and Charlie Brown from Peanuts cartoon. Lucy is holding the football for a kick. Smiling at Charlie Brown who's looking worried. Caption says 
I PROMISE THIS CORPORATE SOCIAL NETWORK WON'T BE ENSHITTIFIED LIKE THE PREVIOUS ONE
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
open.substack.com/pub/oroboros... Philosophy meets tech in a dive bar where metaphysical spreadsheets crash & good/bad ideas burn bright. Subscribe for wit, chaos, & whiskey-fueled existential dread
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404: Philosophy Not Found
The Alchemy of What If
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Rogelio Fernández Mota 🇲🇽 @rfernandezmota.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
¡Órale! I’ve got the complete set of Pantheon: HeteroGenia (Pantheon Series One)! Support Deaf comics & give the gift of epic storytelling this Holiday! Order at www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK3S4W6Q #SupportDeafCreators @theothanatologist.bsky.social @Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy
Book text: 
Pantheon. by Awet Moges and David Misialowski. THEY WERE EARTH'S LAST GODS. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER... VOLUME III: HETEROGENIA
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
HOI POLLOI: proof that quantity rarely guarantees quality. Their noise is the symphony of mediocrity; tune it out & let silence do the talking. #HoiPolloi #HeterodoxDictionary
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Estefani, you know? @estefaniyk.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
With all the hype about Hearview glasses..Hearview glasses provide voice-to-text on lenses for $1,399 (discounted from $1,999)Many Deaf influencers share emotional unboxing videos with promo code, but the real question is who is Hearview, and what are their true motives and integrity? Let’s discuss!
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Success doesn’t just change your life; it changes your relationships. Often, the people who rooted for you from the start are the first to disappear. open.substack.com/pub/oroboros...
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Unbearable Weight of Friendship
Friendship is the bridge success loves to burn
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
#FASCISTOCRACY (n.): A regime where democracy’s facade conceals authoritarian rule, with public apathy or adoration enabling subjugation. Laws feign serving the people while feeding oligarchs, & elections devolve into rituals of powerless consent.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Perhaps agile ones will survive. But thriving? That takes more than bylines. it takes platforms that pay. Till then? The real kleptokakistocracy might be the economy that treats truth-telling as charity work
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Sure. Local action is vital. And so is vigilance. Kleptokakistocracies thrive in the cracks where outrage dies & apathy grows.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
True, but today's twist is darker. The neo-Peronist GOP fuses fatcat greed w/ populist demagoguery. Billionaires like Musk recast themselves as folk heroes, co-opting democracy & silencing dissent. Kleptokakistocracy now comes with a messianic PR spin, making the grift harder to spot & resist.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
When a private fortune outgrows nations & media becomes a puppet, the line between governance & grift dissolves. Democracy doesn't die in darkness, it's sold off, headline by headline.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Kleptokakistocracy: a regime where rulers plunder with impunity, wealth trumps democracy & the press bows to billionaires. Soon-Shiong's LA Times exemplifies this decay, stifling criticism of Musk & Dump while undermining journalistic independence.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Empires decay not from the weight of their conquests but from the erosion of memory, when the pragmatists who built them are replaced by zealots who worship the stories of their creation, mistaking fables for blueprints.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
HISTORY, n. The art of cataloging grievances under the guise of progress, where “us” pens the victories and “them” bleeds into the margins.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
People are seeing themselves in Derrick. That's terrifying. He was supposed to be a mirror. Now he's a megaphone. If you read it & felt something (anger exhaustion or even relief) thank you. This story is yours now. Run with it. Burn it down. Or maybe just crack the mirror.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I posted my first short story on Substack oroboros.substack.com/p/deafosphere #Deaf #InspoPorn #shortstory #Deafosphere #MiracleEars #TheSilenceWithin
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Deafosphere
Where truth gets lost in translation
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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Can I draw you something? Yeah? Here! ko-fi.com/sakeozo/comm...
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Sakeozo's Ko-fi Commissions
Support to fuel my caffeine addiction!
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
For our Black Friday sale, we are offering two skeets for the price of one. Offer available while supplies last. Void where prohibited. Do not look directly at the happy fun ball.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
#demotivationalquotes
It takes seventeen muscles to form a smile but only three to look at your phone. 
-- Brian Bilston
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Love it 🫡 An avatar is too important to be taken seriously
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Inverted colors of Kaeli (black and red) against dark blue background with the Pantheon logo superimposed
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I pivoted anyway. Fine. "Render it in the early Heavy Metal style" The Ai sputtered, whirred, & spat out something passable. A shadow of what could have been.
Heavy Metal styled version of Kaeli the warrior goddess with red afro & golden armor, jeans, with one hand held upright. Heavy Metal styled version of Kaeli the warrior goddess with red afro & golden armor, jeans, with one hand held upright.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The supposed master of mimicry buckled under its own weight, spitting out something about copyrights & a mystical cut off date of 1912. 🙄 Refused to touch anything postmodern, let alone the sacred works of Moebius. A halfbaked response from a halfbaked prophet.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Not bad. But not GOOD either. Merely proof the machine had capacity to listen but its ears are stuffed with cotton candy & static. So feeling bold, I told it to reimagine my art in the style of Jean Girard. MOEBIUS himself. The genius of Heavy Metal Magazine. And that's when DALL-E cracked. 😱
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The results came back as two bizarre samples. Totally warped echoes of my original art.
Warrior goddess, giant red afro, in golden armor and huge golden mallet with long handle, in loud comic book poster styleWarrior goddess, giant red afro, in golden armor and huge golden mallet with long handle, in loud comic book poster style, part realistic, 3D version of Hanna Barbera cartoon
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
So I upped the ante. Fed it a baseline, a reference drawing of mine straight outta Pantheon Volume II.
Kaeli standing in an infinity room, holding the Hammer of Thor, with a bunch of artifacts behind the mirrors, wondering to herself "I am a vagabond immortal, a permanent hostage to infinite time. I am a dumbshow in a hall of mirrors, a prisoner, Mise en Abyme"
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A simple prompt requesting the image of a warrior goddess, dark-skinned with a fiery red afro, pulling off the nihilistic shrug. That defiant ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we've come to know & love. A low stakes experiment, a casual test of the machine.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Fear & Loathing in the Age of AI (a thread) Earlier this year, I dove headfirst into the digital abyss, fooling around with DALL-E. A hallucinatory tool promising the creative magic of a cyberpunk oracle. My first attempt was pretty innocent enough.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Watching myself sign in ASL is the Deaf version of hearing yourself on a recording & realizing "Whoa, did I always sound this stupid?" Only with hands & with just as much existential dread.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
IPad drawing of the goddess Kaeli shrugging with the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoticon on her jumpsuit
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
if you’re going for maximum shock value, there’s really only one Hume quote (tho it won't fit the bio) "When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make?...
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hume is the kind of guy whose ideas are so cleanly devastating you almost feel embarrassed for the people he’s calling out, like some 18th-century roastmaster.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Maybe. But watch your step! You're skimming the edge of #BlackDeafTalent territory. And we both know what that summons: a swarm of lawyers, locked & loaded, & ready to defend their Social Media Terrorist-in-Chief. One whisper of trouble & they're unleashed.
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a close up of a woman 's face with a shocked look on her face .
Alt: Close up of Raven's face, chewing a gum 100 mph, eyes darting left and right, looking anxious.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
And the best part? A chunk of them are waving their little flags for President-Elect FuckFace Von Clown Shoes. Yeah, real progress.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Imagine it. A unified swarm of Deaf social media users. A digital hive like Black Twitter in its prime (RIP). But here's the punchline. You & I both know the Deaf community is no monolith. Never was. Never will be. Last I checked, most Deaf folks are still rotting away on Facebook.
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Quick sketch from the other day. Trying line work without pencils, with paint markers.
Simple line work of Mai Mai shiranui topless
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The third volume of Pantheon, subtitled Heterogenia, is out! a.co/d/7ZY5aVg
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Awet Moges @theothanatologist.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Kaeli ascension, fully powered up in the upcoming Heterodyssey
Kaeli the warrior goddess with 5 artifacts 
Sudarshana Chakra as halo
Smoking Mirror as origami wings 
Philosopher's Stone we body armor 
Trishula and Sickle of Saturn as weapons
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