Gil the Dragon

If someone is trying to make a nazi palatable, if they are knowingly trying to whitewash them, to normalize them, makes that person into a nazi. JFC i cant believe that needs saying

So there's this thing called the gegenschein, a nighttime glow which shews itself opposite to the sun.
& like astronomers took a long long time following the discovery of its sister phenomenon: the zodiacal pyramid.

But like I bet there's myths on it

The moirai, spinning not with a wheel but a whorl would need to pass the cop, the thread wound spindle between them, a sort of echo of the graiai's exchanging

It occurs to me (& this is scarce an original thought) that the Gray Ones are an aspect or guise of the Fates.

I think that the way they share their eye & tooth supports this interpretation.

The tooth a clear echo of Atropos' scissors, & the eye is a stand in for Lachesis' measurement.

I wonder if the reason for the popularity of the medieval in the popular imagination of the fantastic is as a result of its disavowal by "renaissance" thinkers which sought to link themselves to Antiquity. To have so exiled the medieval makes it into a neverwhen; a timeless time, the space of myth

I read "furby" chain & was "wait where would that have chains?!" & was suddenly as a man who has fidgeted the lament configuration open

Oh I got myself this one it's real cute

Hey 30 minutes of ignorance is not nothing & matters pertinent to the Hoitypolitoity tend to be remarkably unaffected by magickz

There's a special but powerful idiot set by providence to watch over heads of state

30 minutes. That's what one candle gets you. It's not even burned all the way down.

*does not know what this is about*
*knows the words*
*lights a candle to the unknown god that he may remain unknowing if what this is about*

Ah tis the riddle of the sphinx what goes on fours at dawn, on two by day, & at dusk in three

It is gorgeous. Even to think it exists as a physical thing

Possibly meant for no one but as part of a re-entrusting exercise by the media towards science, the first droplets of rain evaporated before striking the drought-parched earth. Pray, then, that it is so, & the desiccating wind of untruth is shaken by the thunderheads

Water

thus allowing for the tremulous tiger of burnished bronze to crawl away from their ancient chains & render reflection untrustworthy

Fully automated but for the sufferer & the audience. But with bots being so prevalent & with the plausibility of pseudoactors there is then the viable outcome of a macabre grandguinol of the dead internet. Mirrors mirroring the color of mirrors.

A dire thought, re ai induced psychosis esp the sorta erotomania
Used to be that the most hideous gutter scum would egg on & needle their prey such that lolcow et cetera (my tongue feels befouled)
But through the Unalefs & Books of Sand the trolls have been rendered obsolete & the hunting automated

Also as metaphor what does it mean that she rejects union with Apollo, it is a refusal to engage fully seriously with her oracular vocation. She does not trust or believe it & thus others do not.

See the conventional read make like... curse her family with pattern blindness & assholeishness if she is not of the collective that does not believe her. If she does not believe her prophecies she cannot insist on them, or drive people to act as a "just humor me"

It is a curse because you recognize things in hindsight, see the signs you missed

Possibly a Second Phase V. Typhoeus, use Interpretatio Graeca to egyptian myth to play with different modes of the gods: like horse-poseidon-Sobek-croc
(interesting anthropomorphic animal possibilites?)

Hm... so a greek mythology game... why not set it in the gigantomachy? it's known to us only through action packed imagery

I am confused by the arrangement & what means by which that male is to genderqueer as agender is to female

depsidase: cubosh: realization: the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in earths history 1800oxycodone: "average rock kiss 2 birds" factoid actually just statistical error. average rock kills 0 birds. chixulub georg, which killed 3/4 of all life, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Verhoeven... time traveler or man wracked by inexplicable cassandralike visions of the future

(Btw that has been to some degree my knowing of Cassandra: that not even she knew her prophecies to be prophetic)

It changes their jobs their names their wealth their doom & joy...

& it feels less capriciously cruel than this society

So there's this story of Borges's, The Lottery of Babylon, which (as much of Borges) plays with the horror of permutations infinity & chance; a story meant to be confusing & terrifying, where the eponymous lottery rewrites daily all men's fortunes

But I read his response & i know it is not a thing he does.

& he is miserable. He sees no one that he feels "you know I'll make this random person's day. Make a burner account, go to their go fund me, fulfill a significant portion of it, pay for their groceries this week, just ...
& like he could be doing these things it is not impossible that he is

I read of him following people raising funds or awareness for the plights of others, of people trying to make the world brighter & better or just to survive & I was already wracked with grief & it makes it sting all the more. In a world where money fixes most problems he is as a god...