Mad Monks and Maenads

Don't blame me for physical reality, I just work here

[madmonksandmaenads]

Blog Review: "You're like the looney tunes of gnostics." -@inneskeeper

[uptownthots]

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

[uptownthots]

this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

"art should comfort the comfortable! what do you mean 'the disturbed?' ...i don't know.. that's scary"

[scissorsaint]

In another life I would have loved to poison the abusive husbands of the women in my village

[tarotfey]

Two small sigils, the first is From burnout, recover, and the second is You must sleep. Rest.

[dee-the-red-witch]

I for one love that the burnout recovery is IMMEDIATELY reminiscent of a bowl of comforting soup.

[ninaemsaopaulo]

As sereias de Monika Marchewka, artista polonesa.

[madmonksandmaenads]

The history of the occult is very amusing because it combines the petty drama of theatre kids with the esoteric self-importance of academia.

[fallingtowers]

teens are reportedly "serpentmaxxing" by crawling on their bellies and eating dust all the days of their lives

[joyous-bunnies]

hi! yay-bunnies here. i got banned unfortunately. can u spread my bunnyspores?

[madmonksandmaenads]

Christian girls say they're waiting for "The One", yet they deny the apophatic unity of The One with Trinitarian doctrine. This is why they are left waiting.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Sometimes people get annoyed with me always talking about Late Platonism. They're like:

"Mae stop talking about The One, just find something else to discuss."

But I can't! It's literally all there is!

[madmonksandmaenads]

If the EU continues refusing to recognize my authority as Witch Queen, then I will plunge western Europe(and Iceland) into a day of Darkness.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Quake in terror Icelanders! Crawl like worms beneath the gaze of a dark sun!

Spain my dread power turns next towards you. Relent in your hubris or suffer the darkest of days!

[madmonksandmaenads]

My inbox is open for any pledges of loyalty or offerings of tribute to my Infernal Emminence.

If you happen to be a European leader then I will accept a dark and twisted crown at your earliest convenience.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Europe you have tasted of my umbral powers, you haven seen the sky darken, you have seen my demons steal the sun from the very heavens! I am magnanimous, I have returned your precious sun to you so that you might once more enjoy your afternoon siestas...

But be warned!

In less than 1 year (355 days to be precise), if you do not accede to my demands, I shall once more plunge Iberia into shadows. I will pluck the sun from the mouth of the Mediterranean. In its place I shall set a writhing crown of silver tendrils between the pillars of Hercules. You know not what manner of nightmares I shall unleash upon your treasured inland sea. Recognize my dark domain and you will be spared the greatest of my terrors.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Magic is derived from the Magi and associated with the theurgic practices of Chaldean and Iranian priests.

If your spells aren't cast to ascend to the divine spheres then it's not magic, it's just sparkling sorcery.

[space-feminist]

"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"

[gatherround]

how i hope this conversation goes from there is like:

"actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010 and the original song was written in 2006"

"so she knew about the wall 10 years before Trump proposed it be built?"

"well, let's talk about that...

...but that wasn't when the wall was first built...

...this shift in the '90s marked the start of an enforcement philosophy called Prevention Through Deterrence, which basically says that if crossing is made more deadly, fewer people will cross (fact check: it just means that more people die on the journey). From the start, the purpose of the wall was not to physically to stop people from crossing -- it was to make it more deadly to do so.

...and we can also look at the song metaphorically and expansively, as a reference to the policing of migration, to company towns, to gated communities, and the physical and metaphorical walls that throughout history have kept people in and out and defined who does and don't belong.

Sources: 1 & 2 / 3 / 4"

"...how did you just say a hyperlink?"

"why worry about that when you can use this show as an entry-point into a deeper understanding of capitalism's investment in coercive control over human migration, and its long history in the United States?"

"so the song only seems prophetic because the long history of policing and militarizing the border has been ignored, and treated as an outsider position by Trump rather than the continuation of bi-partisan policy dating back decades? and it can be seen to reflect larger patterns of capital controlling people's movement in order to extract land, labor, wealth, and ultimately life from them?"

"and the song slaps"

"....and the song slaps"

[the-seelie-court-official]

thank you so much for this well-researched response tho because, as a texan, the very concept that trump invented the idea of the border wall made me kinda. reboot. not mad at op! just surprised at the difference in our life experiences

[prokopetz]

Tagging every drawing where an artist depicts two of their own OCs fucking as #selfcest on the basis that some theorists argue that all of the characters we create are in at least some respect a picture of the self, so, you know, ontologically

[prokopetz]

@empressofthelibrary replied:

Something something knocking on doors, something something the devil might answer

Knocking on various doors until various devils answer is what we do here.

[madmonksandmaenads]

If you get into Platonism then you can learn that all sex(real and fictional) is selfcest, due to fundamental unity of The One!

[madmonksandmaenads]

If the EU continues refusing to recognize my authority as Witch Queen, then I will plunge western Europe(and Iceland) into a day of Darkness.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Quake in terror Icelanders! Crawl like worms beneath the gaze of a dark sun!

Spain my dread power turns next towards you. Relent in your hubris or suffer the darkest of days!

[madmonksandmaenads]

My inbox is open for any pledges of loyalty or offerings of tribute to my Infernal Emminence.

If you happen to be a European leader then I will accept a dark and twisted crown at your earliest convenience.

[madmonksandmaenads]

If the EU continues refusing to recognize my authority as Witch Queen, then I will plunge western Europe(and Iceland) into a day of Darkness.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Quake in terror Icelanders! Crawl like worms beneath the gaze of a dark sun!

Spain my dread power turns next towards you. Relent in your hubris or suffer the darkest of days!

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

emperors new groove parody where qin shi huang has been turned into an alligator and he ends up on a field trip with local sheriff liu bang. Send tweet.

[its-not-a-pen]

My hand slipped

[its-not-a-pen]

For the people who missed my previous post: this is the rare and incredibly endangered chinese alligator. they literally look Like That.

[its-not-a-pen]

[its-not-a-pen]

Just in case u all thought i was being facetious. No this also actually happened. Chinese history is just Like That.

[classic-of-yearning]

naturally First Emperor's New Groove is a work of serious historical fiction concerning important events!!!!!

[its-not-a-pen]

Tbh Qin Shi Huang being turned into a gator would be the least unbelievable fact of the Chu Han Contention.

“This magic potion turned the emperor into an alligator” -> “huh i guess magic potions do exist.”

Simple. Straightforward. Comprehensible. Least amount of cognitive leaps to take. Occam’s razor slices through so cleanly and neatly.

“Some random peasant becomes emperor eight years after QSH’s death, after winning a contentious (haha) civil war, and beating out some of the most celebrated military men in history. Despite being a crude, backstabbing scoundrel who pissed in people’s hats, he also managed to lay the groundwork for a moderate and (relatively) humanist Han dynasty, which lasted 400 years and became china’s first golden age. He stands as a paragon of benevolence (relative) to the draconian Qin rule*. His legacy is so enduring that into the modern day, chinese people still call themselves the Han people, and the language the Han language, while his predecessor QSH (who envisioned himself as the progenitor to an unending dynasty) only managed to create a dynasty that lasted 15 years, and has nothing but crumbling walls and unopened mausoleums that stand as a monument to human exploitation” <- it this was a work of fiction i’d decry it for being heavy handed and painfully unrealistic.

*its more complicated than that because the best historical sources about the qin were written by the han historians. undeclared conflict if interests and all that.