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Gil the Dragon

@gildedragon.bsky.social

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Thrice-Gay Himbomess The criminal serpent lies Stars fear me, Gods want me (unconcious), Ancient Scrolls recommend dynamite Driven relentlessly by a fey mood that's gone on since the last millennium & the wind is only picking up

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · Feb 26

I should probably post again my theurgic incantation for heracles

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 9h

Not directly opposing this idea but there is a thorny gap where the cutoff is and how does one find it. Like what drives fritolay into generating 332 diferent fried potato diskforms

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

But like rape as a ...
Like why do you constrain your imagination of justice to one where extrajudicial (criminal in fact) means need to supplement the system
If you're gonna imagine him jailed you can imagine him getting other penalties which strengthen the system of laws & right & not erode it

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

If rights are conditional then they're not rights & will face erosion
Further like why have incarcerated people do your dirty work.
Going all Lex Talonis or Honorcode as your theory of justice sucks but like own up to your desire for revanchist justice & contemplate how one stops escalation

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Like the A-Hum temple guardians are of a lineage with the miraculous Statue which would open & close the doors of the temple of the mother

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

A pre Germanic Britton traveling tither & hither is an interesting expansion of the plausible given how interconnected the world has ever been

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Edit which is to say jokey jokes on the fact that syncretic Greco Bactrian Buddhism becomes a thing before it reaches China, Augustus received ambassadors from India, there's that thing with fastracking Eleusinian mysteries for the self immolating dude ...
& the idea of a gap-year yogi but...

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I met him waaaaaay back when he was trying to explain chakras to Boudicca

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Hera at his birth denied him coronation, when she is chosen she promises him excellence & glory. In his settling with negara & proximity to the Theban Throne he was going against the alotted divine fate & the sort of vows that became necessary

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Interpreting Herakles's choice between Arete & Kakia as a first causing of the Choice of Paris, but that Herakles chooses Hera of the two goddesses Pallas shewd him, generates a reasonable causation to his madness

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly because of course people will try to avoid the accountability & honesty about them yanno faking their material.

If open ai is still around then that 6 hour essay is gonna just ... have those freaks put out hits on the creator

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

& then someone will find like a statistical model or a metadata way of finding out if the Sand has gotten into a script (that will be a 6 hour video where they explain how they built the model.
& this will lead to ... not much actually but this I foretell

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

A prophecy: within two years a big name entertainment creator will check themselves in for an addiction to the lying sand. This will come after a long period of quality slumping that might not have started yet but when it does the fans will try to quell any discussion of this slumping quality.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Little is it known his ascended shade protects students while they go abroad to discover themselves. He also provided intercession for overbold cooks

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 1d

Lou Seg of Eildon got captured by Romans & sold into slavery to be as a bodyguard, ended up wandering east with a merchant, got to India, became Buddhist, returned home & was trying to get other Celtic folk into gymnosophy & was centuries ahead of his time.

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 2d

I almost came to blows over this book & guns germs steel.

...they were quoting stupid shit at me & i was starting to vibrate in irritation

I am not good at debate

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 2d

It is not to tolerate it but to enjoy

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Fuss @fusspot.rip · 2d

A printed set of World Book encyclopedias is $1200 and only captures info up to the window in time in which it was printed.

A few bucks a month can make sure a vital resource that's constantly updated and rigorously scoured for inaccuracies by benevolent pedants remains available to everyone.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3d

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 2d

There is something poetic & profoundly respectful, traditional,
To the consigning oneself to the earth even if accelerated by interweaving the earth with air; to death with the roiling implacability of life

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 2d

Out as they have set out aprowl

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 4d

Like he wasn't gonna give the monasteries back (which likely why putting all heresy on the Witch Boleyn didn't do jack shit; I've never heard anyone argue he was a subtle man) but had a Catholic kingdom offered him a wife he'd have been no harm no foul with Rome

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 4d

& it matters culturally that Henry 6wives uses the charge of witchcraft against Anne AFTER the woman's sentence is certain: it strikes me as Henry (kinda). trying to fix his relationship with Christendom by putting all fault of the past few years to Anne, theological, gubernamental, & personal

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 4d

Issues with gender & class, the ideology soup is it's true motor (the material circumstances only ready the field; it is ideology & emotion & all that cultural superstrate that selects the seeds to be sown into the earth; because like... it is meaningful that Agrippa defends a woman from the charge

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 4d

Like the idea is good (though honestly I do think the emphasis on gender serves more to hide than to illuminate, looking at contemporary natalism (& one can sorta see that sort of demographic as a component in why it takes until AFTER the medieval to be seeing witch panics) & how for all its...

Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 4d

I am starting to hate Caliban & the Witch

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Gil the Dragon @gildedragon.bsky.social · 4d

& because I've been listening to Dr Slege's MM seminar I am thinking it might be an interesting cultural vibe. Yentl but for descending to the throne of god...

& that last one sounds like an anime