Rev. Alcyone Daze

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

I love being able to be both a Guy Wife and a Wife Guy.

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Thinking about how I asked my parents what they would have named me if I had been a boy and my mom was like “we never bothered to come up with a list because a psychic on a cruise ship told your grandmother I was going to have a girl.”

AND THEN I THWARTED PROPHECY.

“Of course, it’s company policy to use the indefinite rather than the definite article, ‘an Inanna,’ never ‘the Inanna.’”

Possibly the only woman I know whose stance of “it’s not hubristic when I do it” seems to be true, at least where the gods are concerned.

Took mushrooms; found myself in a desert. Lucifer was reclining against a boulder & I asked him if this was the part where we wrestled & he gave me a new name.

“You already know it’s [$NAME].”

“That was really anticlimactic.”

“Bring lube next time if you want a do-over.”

a close up of a turtle 's face with its mouth open and the words `` cowabunga it is '' . Alt: a close up of a ninja turtle 's face with its mouth open and the words `` cowabunga it is '' .

When your friend who enjoys playing with Semtex and Thermite says “Instructions are just suggestions written by and for cowards”

Gender is like money: completely made up and therefore, painfully real. We need it to survive in this world we have made, but honestly might be better off it didn't exist. I am a "man" in the sense that a piece of paper can be $100. Complete bullshit and hard facts at once.

A comic of Aleister Crowley and an unnamed soror, with Crowley going “WHO DARES UNVEIL THE ULTIMATE SECRET OF THELEMA.” [beat as the characters stare at each other. Crowley’s doing the thing with his fists to his cheeks from that one famous photo but here with the art style it just looks like Greg beatboxing in Over the Garden Wall] Soror, side-eyeing Crowley: “Is it jizz?” Crowley, alarmed: “WHO TOLD YOU?!” Soror, smoking: “It’s *always* jizz with you, Aleister.”

Pastor, uh… if you say it like that the kids are gonna inevitably ask about The Sauce.

[I’ll go see if I can dig up the Our Whole Lives curriculum.]

Eliphas Levi's iconic illustration of Baphomet

*straddles chair* Hey kids, you know who else was GOATed?

If you need to read this, soak it in.

It's always been this way. We always had to make ourselves. Just some folks had a tougher run of it. Maybe still do. I can only hope they keep fighting for it.

And a third Lawrence strikes the movie—Andy is the hacker character on the ground.

(This brought to you by fond childhood memories of watching Brotherly Love; realizing that all three of the brothers were in Money Plane hit me like an anvil.)

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A delicious way to show support for trans youth. Buy from kids who haven't made their goals yet!

A kitchen counter with a cursed square waffle and cursed waffle iron on it with that “optimally packed 17 squares” layout that is deeply unsettling to look at. The outer parts are aligned to a square but there are 7 squares in the middle at various angles and it looks like complete nonsense but it is in fact the most compact way to store 17 squares in a larger square. I have no idea where this came from and whoever made it should go to jail.

You may not like it, but this is the optimal way to construct a waffle with exactly 17 squares.

Flashing back to Fucking Around and Finding Out, PGM edition.

a two panel comic of someone at first confused, then even more confused

Coworker: "Have you ever eaten gunpowder?"

Me: "Yup."

Coworker: "...really? To be clear, the Indian spice blend and condiment we use."

Me: "Oh, in that case, no."

Coworker:

[nodding in agreement as “St. Shut-the-Fuck-Up Friday”]

the implication here is quite simple

be a bullet

LRT: I’ve been officially off the Presbyterian rosters for years but it is a DELIGHT watching APTS grads in their milieu.

A: He went to PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY!!!1! [derogatory]

B: So did Mister Rogers.

A: Well Mister Rogers never made it his WHOLE PERSONALITY

B: That's an interesting perspective. If you're just joining us, my name is Isaac Chotiner, and I'm here with SkepticGuy69.

A: Now wait just a minute.

I like to argue and I like to pet cats but I don't argue with seminarians and I don't pet tigers

Vindaloo is gorgeous, has an amazing name, and is playing a very precarious game.

I don’t know if this is a one-per-customer thing but I would absolutely fund 3-6 if not.

Keep your eyes open for our first publication, "This is Church of the Morningstar," coming out soon! We will be making it available as a (free!) ebook and also in print. Hopefully also an audiobook, eventually!

www.firstchurchofthemorningstar.com

I’m really not beating the “maybe a John Wick character” allegations, huh?

I showed them my new cane (the ultralight carbon fiber one) and they are strongly lobbying for me to get a sword cane, and when I pointed out that I would love one but they are ~very illegal~ in the state of California, the shortest one informed me “laws aren’t real.”

Hearing “YO, LOCAL WIZARD!!” and then seeing the same pack of teen boys from a couple weeks ago and having them deputize themselves into loading groceries into my car, and, y’know?

The kids are alright.

I feel like the parallel to this is telling Phoebe’s vet techs that she’ll comply with whatever you ask her to do if you treat her like she’s a burned out grad student rather than baby talking her.