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baroquespiral.bsky.social
Udo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist)
@baroquespiral.bsky.social
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major league language gamer. professionally extremely online. producer @ Andata Express, novels in Holohaus, researching rationalfic & litRPG @ UWO. Comiket Communist. actual chuunibyou. nobledark ★
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baroquespiral.bsky.social
ok he was wrong ONCE
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Robert Graves laser eye meme
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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insofar as that's true it's not even necessarily bad, certainly not as bad as the performance you're doing everywhere else. sure let's bring back Public Man
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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[Adam Curtis needle drop]
Dear Dave & Gerhard, Here it is!The long ago promised and finally delivered, just in time to be torn down, Cerebus on the Berlin Wall graffiti piece. Conveniently located below a manned German guard tower. Cerebus is mere yards to the right of Checkpoint Charlie. This was the easiest accomplished Cerebus piece yet, for it resides in a no-man's-land. The Wall technically belongs to East Germany (everything past that sign in one of the photos that says YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR, is East German), and so it is beyond Western jurisdiction. The East German police, however, never come to that side of the Wall. At most, they can photograph you and if they have the vantage point, and then deny you entry to East Germany. Of course, this is all quickly becoming moot. Cerebus felt enclosed, and now the Wall is coming down. East Germans are flooding through and buying every drop of beer at Burger Kings... I was going to make some kind of witty connection between aardvarks and Burger King beer or something, but I stopped typing this letter to watch Polanski's REPULSION and I'm no longer in a humorous mood. So I'll just go on to say that some friends in Berlin recently found my graffti on a postcard. Just think, Cerebus on postcards being sold in German tourist shops! The graffiti piece, by the way, says “DORN” which is my name (graffiti name that is) in German. Glad to see someone finally threw up on Pud. And glad to see Rick not fall for Cerebus’ old how do you breathe haha you'll definitely miss the coinin the bucket now trick. Keep up the wood gork, THORN Berzerkeley, CA
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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too obvious but can't believe I haven't seen it before, so I made this one as an impersonal agent of memetic plenitude
Cerebus the aardvark captioned "HEY LIBERAL. MY WIFE LEFT ME"
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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posting this on the Gen X site where more people might know what the hell I'm talking about - does anyone think Miura read The Final Ascension before drawing the Eclipse? was Cerebus getting read/translated/published in Japan?
panel of Cerebus jumping out the window over the wall of faces on the Black Tower during the (first) Final Ascension double page showing Blakely watching the Black Tower lifting off the ground, with Cerebus clinging to the faces at the bottom Griffith surrounded by/kneeling on swirling faces during the Eclipse as the God Hand descend on him another panel of the landscape of faces during the Eclipse with the Band of the Hawk riding across it
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
baroquespiral.bsky.social
ehhhh was worth a shot
Spotify search bar with entered text "dark academia (actually tasteful)" results include autogenerated "Powerful Dark Academia Mix", "Dark Academia" by Gabriel Saban, and "Dark Academia Aesthetic" by Celestial Aeon Project/Dark Academia Quintet
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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he tried to warn us...
by the bestselling author of Dhalgren and Tales of Nevèrÿon Samuel R. Delany Four-Time Nebula Award Winner "Triton"
November 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Cerebus the Aardvark lying drunk in an alley going "Snfxf! Huh? What?" while Cutter and Skywise from Elfquest commenting: "Well? Do you think he's one of us?" (Skywise) "The ears are right - but he's definitely a candidate for a nose job" (Cutter) from https://ia804608.us.archive.org/32/items/cerebus-complete/Cerebus%20052.pdf
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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WHOOP 🤡 WHOOP 🚨 that's the sound of clown police
diagram of "The "declownification" of sovereignty" from On Kings by David Graeber & Marshall Sahlins. the "sovereignty contained in time" column descends from "Government by metahuman beings" through "ritual clown police", "seasonal clown police", and "seasonal police". https://monoskop.org/images/5/59/Graeber_David_Sahlins_Marshall_On_Kings_2017.pdf Gamzee Homestuck's Ancestor, the "Grand Highblood", as "Subjugglator"
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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four books to get to know me
The White Goddess by Robert Graves Stars In My Pockets Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I'm getting wary of all the Sliwa memeing we've seen this playbook before
Mop from the Tumblr 2016 April Fool's Day election https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/md2cp8/the_real_2016_election/#lightbox
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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concepts of a standard search feed, user profile and project page
October 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Saint Tail from Kaitou Saint Tail getting away elegantly on a bundle of balloons in the night sky.
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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https://plorg.neocities.org/ppc/794/
October 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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welcome back Ms. Therion
image macro comparing the gematria for Twilight Sparkle and Aleister Crowley (190 English Ordinal, 73 Full Reduction, 215 Reverse Ordinal, 89 Reverse Full Reduction) with images of both opposite a unicursal hexagram
October 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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this remains the worst avatar/name/bio combo on here by a long shot I hate Gen X
October 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
baroquespiral.bsky.social
man what even was Jump in the 80s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakigake!!_Otokojuku "Sakigake!! Otokojuku (Japanese: 魁!!男塾; lit. 'Charge!! Men's Private School'), also known as simply Otokojuku, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Miyashita. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1985 to 1991. It is staged in an all-boys school that teaches how to be true men. The students are trained to "revive the Spirit of Japan" and mainly engage in events where they will polish their manhood and push through with their guts. Plot See also: List of Sakigake!! Otokojuku characters The principal of the private school, Heihachi Edajima, was a war hero during World War II. He trained his students to play an active role in politics, economics and industries in Japan and all over the world, though the way of training is highly anachronistic. The martial arts depicted in this series are also highly choreographed using various forms of martial arts." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakigake!!_Otokojuku "The Roppongi Skirt-chasing War! We Won't Lose to a Foreigner" "Roppongi Nanpa Sensō! Gaijin ni wa Makerarenai" (六本木ナンパ戦争! ガイジンには負けられない) Kawasuji Yutaka March 17, 1988 *Instructor Oni-Hige is seen of harassing a woman in the Roppongi district, and is beaten up by George, her huge American boyfriend. For revenge, Oni-Hige then sends the students on a purifying mission in the Roppongi district against dominating foreign men.* (highlight my own) They find the huge American in a discotheque, but the students find excuses not to fight him, and Oni-Hige is beaten up again. The next day, instructor Rankiryuu orders Hidemaro Genzo who is now a student, to purchase make-up in Roppongi. Meanwhile, the students are punished by having to hold a handstand position for an hour. Hidemaro sees the Americans scamming a local shop assistant and confronts the former WBB heavyweight boxing champion J.J. George but is easily beaten up. The students decide to take revenge, and using a combination of karate and kenpo, Momotaro beats him up. When Yoko, George's Japanese girlfriend, abandons him and approaches Momotaro, he rejects her for being fickle. Note: When Togashi is instructed to translate Japanese in the discotheque, he just shouts some common English phrases that he knows.
October 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYrw...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYrwlQkJ2VU
October 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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PLUR Uncle Ruckus is an incredible bit
September 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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"While the universe portrays a fractal spiral, souls will continue to exist... The beginning is the end, the end is the beginning... so we can never cease to exist...." https://mangadex.org/chapter/c018a0af-7ea3-4682-8e97-fb49973a31c2/14
September 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
baroquespiral.bsky.social
everyone catching up with Ryukishi two decades late
Rena door scene
September 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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#unhingedpit
MAYSTRICKEN, my retelling of The Knight of the Cart, features:

>proto-Finno-Ugric Lancelot (Lauzulo the Ugorian)
>nonbinary shapeshifting Kay (based on a Bsky poster)
>sadistic rationalist Guinevere
>Merovingian Mythos & Gnostic crossover
>time-dislocated schizotech fae
>shonen fights
moodboard featuring: >illustration of Saint Laszlo from a medieval manuscript, riding a horse with a pole arm >medieval wood carving of a lady with her tits out and a sword in one hand reading a book >art nouveau-adjacent illustration of a knight fighting spooky guys >well at the mouth of the Danube (forgetting where this is exactly) >painting of a Polish king (forgetting who exactly) >medieval cup from MOMA >abstract Celtic illumination-style patterns >impressionistic pale blonde lady >Orientalist painting of naked woman dancing accompanied by people on ancient instruments
September 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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#unhingedpit the regular pitch materials don't emphasize how unhinged it is but this book opens with at least 50 pages of slow burn slice of life dialogue about trick or treating, slips imperceptibly into disconnected hallucinatory nightmare, while managing a magic system based on psychoanalysis
CHESSBOARD DANCERS A World which is a single multifaceted mind, and "Bateleurs" who keep it sane by balancing the Good and Bad experiences - a balance they know as Justice. Magic users are therapists for a traumatized reality, accessing past and future by triggering (and altering) hidden memories. TRICKS AND TREATS OF WATSON'S MILL Samuel and Jill are visiting their grandparents and their weird cousin Lavender in the small town of Manotick, south of Ottawa, for Hallowe'en. And Lavender has brought her even weirder friends who she claims are part of an ancient magical order, and want Samuel and Jill to help them resolve an escalating local haunting! GENRE: gothic/psychological horror/post-YA/suburban fantasy TWs: derealization, depersonalization, microaggressions, hate crime, scrupulosity, suicidality, abuse REP: transmasc, indigenous, neurodivergence FOR FANS OF: Madeleine L'Engle (Kairos cycle), Susan Cooper (Dark Is Rising Sequence), Diane Duane (Young Wizards), Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes), Monogatari series, Boogiepop, Madoka Magica, Shaman King, Nostalgebraist, Jenna Katerin Moran
September 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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this but for publish or perish academia
eigenrobot on the other site: "guys i'm gonna be honest if i had known people were going to take my posts seriously enough to implement them as policy, if that is indeed what happened, i would have put a hell of a lot more thought into them"
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM