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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢

@roninmacbeth.bsky.social

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he/him, History MA, History and Classics BA, Aspiring Byzantinist. In Asgard, the Aesir. On Midgard, the Republic. Follows w/o mutuals, bio, and/or posts liable to be blocked. "Can anyone be judged innocent, if it suffices to accuse him?" -Julian II

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 9m

In complete fairness, I think they're referring to D-Day when they say that. Which is equally stupid, but still.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 17m

Mid-ranking general, war veteran, some credibility with left-liberal types for not being an out-and-out monarchist, but from an ethnic minority background. IDK. In the civilian world that's probably Rubio, but I can't think of a general who fits that description.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 21m

It's all stupid Bonapartism.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28m

in vought's view, the president is a living embodiment of the "will of the people" and congress has no legitimate power to limit him

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 30m

A lack of real humility is poison when reading Tolkien, I think.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 40m

Sometimes I think the Habsburgs put something in the Danube and that's why Central Europe is Like That.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 1h

TBH I have never liked multiclassing. I've used it a couple times, but for the most part I prefer monoclassing. Feels unnatural, hard to explain.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 2h

The scholarly urge to hoard books like a dragon collecting gold trinkets.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 2h

I'm a Catholic pagan.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 3h

On the one hand that's stupid, but on the other that makes sense given how un-fun Level 1 is in 5e and its derivations. Which just goes to show how 5e does not work all that well.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 4h

I disagree with your take about Superman, but I agree that it aside Thunderbolts was the best superhero movie of the year. Definitely a very pleasant surprise from Marvel.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 5h

Even though I got a lot of levels, I am not sure that turning Skyrim into Blacksmithing Simulator 2012 made the game more fun in my most recent run.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 5h

Sippenhaft, but leftistly.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 5h

I...see?

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah but why Nightcore specifically?

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 5h

Wait, why is Nightcore key to any of this?

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, it was like that with my ex too. Glad it didn't blow up.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 6h

He should, but at least he gets to spend however long he has left a paranoiac who gets bullied in Fortnite by a high college freshman. Silver linings.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, sorry man.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 8h

Sure, but it's not like the rural areas were exactly spared the ravages of those either.

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 17h

Once that's done I hope to have it published along with an article about the subject of the inscription: Theodore I Palaiologos. And it definitely holds to some of the patterns I noticed in my thesis with how Palaiologan writers treated rebels.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 17h

Translation is fun. I'm not perfect at it, my skills are definitely rusty, but I can practicing at it and get it in shape for when I do pursue my doctorate. I was lucky to find a version of an inscription in French, which I translated to English, and now I am making my way through the Greek.

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 18h

Boondock Saints. Funnily enough the confusion between the two was the original joke on Reddit.

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 18h

ALLFATHER, WAIT FOR ME

RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 18h

Well, there is one.

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RoninMacbeth ☠️🎢 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 18h

Me when someone on Reddit points out that "The Boondocks" is "Shaft" for Irish Catholic altar boys.

Mr. Boss looking at the Frowning Friends building saying "Fuck, it's genius."

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