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Ariana Serpentine

@arianaserpentine.bsky.social

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Polytheist mystic, spirit-worker, star magic-doer, heretical practitioner of hieratic arts, Buddhist, liberationist, author of Sacred Gender, trans and queer, she/her, fond of cats, noodles, tea, and girls. Mercurial Girl, 🌞♍️🌝♉️⬆️♊️

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 2h

This thread is excellent

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 5h

Big Bird in the movie poster for The Exorcist.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 8h

It’s International Lesbian Day and I am an International Lesbian.

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 9h

People weren’t kidding. Seasonal vaccines this year are really tough. Glad I have some time off to recover, and of course the opportunity for enhanced immunity.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 10h

Non-sarcastic follow up to my previous post: I think to be virtuous you need to get messy and dirty because the world is messy and dirty and you can’t help getting a little messy yourself if you roll up your sleeves to do the work of making it a better place.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 10h

I think what I’m trying to say is that people are messy and reality is messy and if your reaction to trying to things being messy is to keep closing doors on everything that doesn’t fit your perfect picture of virtue you’re going to end up alone in a room with a mirror.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 10h

This is my headachey brain trying to express frustration at the never ending barrage of voices online that tell me that all things and people are bad except for the person laying down the judgement.

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 10h

To truly be virtuous one must disengage from interacting with all non virtuous things and people and thus retract oneself to a dimensionless geometric point thus having no influence over anything else and not being influenced by anything else.

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite DS9 reaction image, dusting it off because it's certainly appropriate for these times.

(also cause @stray.sapphicbratty.cloud just watched this episode)

#treksky

Image of the actor Jeffrey Coombs playing Weyoun the Vorta on Star Trek Deep Space Nine saying "Oh, my... that is quite toxic, isn't it?"

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 1d

There is nothing that makes me tldr faster than someone replying with an AI copy paste. I want to talk to you, not ChatGPT. If I wanted to talk to ChatGPT I would. If you reply to me using gen AI stuff I’m going to just ignore it, it isn’t even your own thoughts being shared.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 1d

Nurses blame more on the full moon, than I, an astrologer and maker of star magic, do.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 1d

I’m about to do something really hard that I’ve been needing to do for a while. I didn’t choose the full moon for it but I’m taking it as auspicious timing. Wish me luck.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 2d

Rebecca is a legend and needs some help. Consider donating if you can!

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...?

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like something @stray.sapphicbratty.cloud would say

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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shuly @shulyrose.com · 2d

there’s a special kind of astrologer excitement about being able to use an election you picked out a long time ago

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · Oct 1

it is October, my friends

two orange and black furby witches with tiny brooms and a pumpkin shaped cauldron

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🔮 ᴀco̤ʀɴs ʁ ṳs 🔮 @asterwick.bsky.social · 3d

Utilize stellar talismans and a ritually clean space to simulate auspicious times for enchantment. Do astral magic without worrying about where the stars are

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Rosalind Scallop @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to everybody who believes in generational cohorts for being born into the good generation, unlike all those bastards who were born before and after you. What good fortune

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a Ladon and the Hesperides thing, not a Garden of Eden thing, but that takes way too much explaining for anyone who isn’t exactly the same kind of nerd as I am.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 3d

I have a tattoo of a snake and an apple and most people who see it (it’s on my hand) make certain assumptions about it because they don’t realize that snake + apple is not a unique thing. It used to bother me but now I just own it, interpret how you like.

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like part of the unspoken contract of scrolling social media is that we will say the most terrible thing we possibly can in response to every statement made, and take them in the worst light possible.

Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 3d

This is hard to watch and worth finishing

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 3d

Art by • Stephen Fabian

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