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Regarding my monthlong absence,
Screenshot saying “Unfortunately, Bluesky is not available in Mississippi right now”
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Here’s the interiors they’re going apeshit over btw
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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New Sultanate lore just dropped
Tumblr post by solitair-e: im not christian but i do believe in the power of prayer. for this reason i keep a little homonculus in a dog crate under my bed which i have raised as a devout catholic. whenever i want something in my life to change i poke him with a stick and he clasps his grubby little paws together and starts chanting in latin. his prayers always go through because he has never known sin
August 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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*refreshes page* *refreshes page* *refreshes page* *refreshes page*
August 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Me when my webcomic that was supposed to take a 3-4 week hiatus has been gone for 6 weeks
August 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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August 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Lies. She has been supported by other democrats. You just didn’t look! www.texastribune.org/2025/08/19/n...
August 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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“Hey Jody, what’s your schedule like this semester?”

“It’s alright. Just Algebra, US History, Luciferian Incantation, Geology.”

“Oh cool cool. Hey, me and the boys were maybe gonna sacrifice Mrs. Bader Friday night… maybe you could come?”

“Sounds swell Bill! Is it bring-your-own-dagger?”
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Laughing my ass off right now why did nobody tell me about the GLORIOUS NEW BODIES THAT PASS THROUGH WALLS AT INCREDIBLE SPEEDS
SOFIA WILL RETURN WITH CHRIST AND RULE WITH HIM IN HIS EARTHLY KINGDOM. Daniel 7:18 & 27, Zechariah 14:5 & 9 SHE WILL HAVE A GLORIOUS NEW BODY THAT CAN TRAVEL AT INCREDIBLE SPEEDS AND PASS THROUGH WALLS. Luke 24:31, John 20:19
August 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Panel from a comic: “But what about Christian rock music?” “The words may appear to be God’s… but the beat belongs to Satan… you tell me… how can they be equally yoked together?”
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Come on man…
Another panel from the same comic - one is getting out of bed, the other is reading in a chair in the same room. “Good morning, bright eyes.”
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Reading some of the Crusaders volumes, Chick’s attempt at a full-size comic for adults and… uh…

Gay sex could’ve saved this artist
Two panels depict the main characters, a handsome pair of very muscular men, one white and the other black. In the second panel, the black crusader is taking his shirt off to reveal very attentively drawn musculature
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Forgot to thank @snowden.st for posting this album Saturday morning. It was great music to build a bike to!
Album art for First Light (2018 Remaster) by Makoto Matsushita
August 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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BUT THATS NOT ALL. We get this message about why not to read Harry Potter, with a numbered list that I'm sure is all real things that happen in the books...

"what seems to be a baby" doing a lot of work. This is, in general, a somewhat stretched interpretation of the events of Harry Potter.
A Message From Tim Todd. This page is all plain text with a comic-style portrait of Tim Todd, white man in a suit, in the corner. No book in recent years has attracted the success of the Harry Potter series which are well written and are marketed as children's books for ages eight to thirteen, but are also being enjoyed by adults. The problem is the spiritual nature of the books. The Harry Potter books present a Godless universe, one in which the most powerful wizard wins. In these books the hero is a wizard who shows no evidence of belief in God and does not use the power of prayer to combat evil. This is not the vision of the universe that Christian parents wish to instill in their children, nor is "white" magic an appropriate response to evil. The Hairy Polarity comic book exposes the dangers of the sorcery and witchcraft included in the Harry Potter series. The Harry Potter books contain many explicit examples of appalling evil such as the following: 1. Sacrificing animals, 2. Emphasizing power regardless of good or evil, 3. Offering blood sacrifices, 4. Cutting off the hand of a living person for a ritual, 5. Boiling what seems to be a baby alive in a cauldron, 6. Being possessed by demons, 7. Interacting with werewolves and vampires, 8. Bringing an evil wizard back from the dead through the shedding of blood, 9. Projecting or traveling without transportation, 10. Casting spells and levitation, 11. Shifting humans into animal forms, 12. Divining by crystal gazing, 13. Telling lies, stealing, breaking rules and cheating advocated in wizard ethics by copying another student's homework, 14. Approving of astrology, 15. Teaching that people can exist without their souls, 16. Communing with the dead and dead souls living within people, 17. Taking mood-altering drugs used by real witches and shamans, 18. Using the "Hand of Glory", a grisly occult artifact, the severed hand of a hanged murderer; lighting the fingers as candles and placing it in a house [continued]
August 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Hey teens! You know that cool goth girl who's into tarot and astrology in your class that your fundie parents don't want you to spend time with? Just convert her (with this comic, even!) and she'll fall in love with you.
Narration: Not quite... because 3 minutes later... Minnie awakens, shocking all present, including her parents who have just appeared. Minnie: uuhhhh... Ari: Minnie! She's awake! Minnie's Dad: Quick!! Nurse!! Get a nurse! Ari: Minnie! Minnie!! Minnie's Mom: Oh Minnie! *sob* thank goodness! *sob* Minnie: Mommm?? Daaad?? Ari?? Ari's Mom: Praise God! Later that evening... Minnie: ... got so messed up when you left! I could tell how badly Verbosi wanted out of that place... which made me snap that I probably shouldn't stick around either! So, eventually, I said I wanted to leave... and they locked me up, Ari! Ari: Wow. Minnie: I wanted to cut out, but it took me a while to see that Verbosi was just fronting' when he said he believed in christ! He just parroted the words like they were some sort of bootleg spell - and that's why Thuukus could hold him there -- but your true faith in Jesus got you out! I saw that Jesus was really all that... so I called out to him, believing in my heart that he is my lord and savior [Romans 10:9, Acts 2:21] and suddenly, I was home! Ari: That's right, Minnie! you're home! Minnie: I love you, Ari! I already see that it's a whole new world with Jesus in our lives! I can't wait to share that world with you! The end.
August 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I'm sure our author believes some very interesting things about what happened at a certain daycare in the 80s. It's all the same paranoid conspiracies, over and over.
Ari: But it was inevitable, Doc... people who get involved in witchcraft all come to a bad end [Isaiah 47:8-15, Micah 3:6-7] Wait! What's that on the TV --? The TV shows one Rubi Hogrib, Dr. Bela Verbosi's literary agent and the speaker at the demon ritual that sent Ari and Minnie to the over realm. TV: And so despite the scandalous discovery several weeks ago of a number of comatose young people in the back of a Hairy Polarity chain store, this phenomenal fantasy franchise rolls on! The publisher announced today that literary agent Rubi Hogrib will use old manuscripts by Dr. Bela Verbosi to continue the polarity series... Verbosi himself remains in a mysterious coma... doctors are unsure if he will ever recover... Ari, thinking: Her! Doc's agent is that crazy lady from the store who tried to kill me with the podium! And she was "Ingrid" too... how weird is that?! But if she's the new author, what's happened to Minnie? She was supposed to write them! Ari, having returned to Minnie's bedside: Thuukus betrayed you... it was all lies! I'm so sorry, Minnie... *sniff* Ari's Mom: Lying comes naturally to the devils, Ari! [John 8:44] Ari's Dad: But you stopped believing the lies in time... turning instead to the truth [Jogn 14:6] And the truth set you free [John 8:32] Ari: Yes, the truth saved me... thank God, he saved me! If only Minnie could have been saved, too... Narration: The end...?
August 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Remember, pray for Joanne Kowling Rowling. But also write a fantasy about her ending up in a coma and dragged to hell for writing whimsical books about wizard school.
We cut to a hospital. Ari and his parents are at Minnie's bedside. She's unconscious and hooked to life-support machines. Ari: It's been three weeks... I should've never left her... Ari's Dad: Son, it sounds harsh, but... she made her choice! The "Overrealm" is a place of demons... a cursed and sinful place! God's word says "the reward for sin is death." [Romans 6:23] and "I have offered you life or death, blessings or cases. Choose life." [Deut. 30:19-20] And choosing life is choosing Jesus [John 14:6]. Many are deceived into thinking there are other ways. Sadly, Minnie was deceived, too! Ari's Mom: There was nothing else you could have done... Ari: I know you're right, dad, but it's hard to accept she may be gone forever... I'm going up to Dr. Verbosi's room... Ari's Mom: He loved her so much, Dhari! He will never be the same boy again if she doesn't recover. Ari's Dad: The Pastor's counseling him-- says he's doing okay.... but it's like Lot his wife found out in Sodom and Gomorrah [Genesis 19:1-29] -- it's harder getting out of an evil place than it is getting in! Ari arrives at the room of a comatose Dr. Bela Verbosi, and prays over him. Ari: Lord... God... Why did it have to happen this way? *sniff* I don't understand it. But if you will, please bring Minnie and Dr. Verbosi out of their comas [Matt 5:44] and give them a true faith in you. Thank you for forgiving me of my rebellion [1 Sam. 15:23]. In Jesus name I pray. Well, doc... look at where all your wealth and power have brought you now... but it doesn't give me any comfort to see you like this, even though your deceptions have destroyed the lives of so many others... maybe including Minnie's!
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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wait, the rebukes work now?? He just had to get saved for realsies and he can banish demons whenever?

Also, can't emphasize this enough: the magic is real. The demons are real. They're really in the real world.
Ari awakes on the couch in the ritual room. The spider-like demon that guided them into the over realm has its claws on everyone's head, but has let go of Ari's. The woman who spoke in the ceremony, who resembled Ingrid, is standing at the podium. Ari: Agh! Minnieee! Ari, facing the demon: In the name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke you! [Micah 5:12] The demon fades away like mist. Speaker: That will do little good, boy - Minnie has made her choice and is stuck in the over realm - forever! She casts "Dethan Destructus", causing her podium to fly towards Ari. Ari: No! Don't say that about Minnie! Be gone demon! The pedestal drops to ground, and the imp carrying it flees. We cut to the outside of the Hairy Polarity book store. Ari carries Minnie out in his arms. His parents, and Minnie's, are outside. Minnie's mom: Minnie!! Oh, Frank -- it's our baby girl! Call 911! Ari's mom: Ari - Minnie's parents said we'd find you here! What's happened? Ari: Mom! She won't wake up! Ari lays Minnie's comatose body on the ground. Ari: No... no... Minnie -- what have I done - ?
August 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Why is Minnie crying, exactly? Did she just now notice she's hanging out with a dude who's currently being dragged to hell by a scaly creature of myth? Maybe if the angel gave Ari a little more time to get her up to speed...
Verbosi clings to Ari as he is carried away. Verbosi: No! No!! Don't leave me in this horrid hell-hole! I believe in Jesus, too! Thuukus grabs Verbosi, pulling him down. Thuukus: Where do you think you're going??!! Verbosi: But I said the words! I said I believe!! H-help me!!! Thuukus: We have an arrangement, Verbosi - you're mine!!! Verbosi screams "no!" as he is pulled down and Ari is carried away. Ari shouts down to Minnie, "Minnieeee!" Minnie is shown on the ground, dusty and disheveled, crying - "Ari..."
August 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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See, this is where I get confused. Minnie can see the angel. He's right there! Verbosi can see the angel! Everyone can!

The idea that people would deny the evidence of their eyes and ears is connected to the idea that everyone believes in the positivist claims of christianity, they just "love sin"
Thuukus: You'll pay for that Verbosi!!! You'll pay for all eternity!! [Revelation 21:8] Don't you know that sorcerers go to Hell?!! Ari helps a groggy Minnie. Ari: Minnie! You okay? Minnie: Whass... whats going onnn...? The angel from earlier, now gigantic, appears through a giant tear in the sky. Angel: Ari, it's time to go! Verbosi: An -- an angel?! Minnie: Ari -- it's the guy who warned us in the store!! Ari: Minnie, I love you. Please, this may be your last chance! Give your heart to Jesus and leave with me now! Minnie: Ari -- why? This place is so magical and fun! Ari: You don't understand! You couldn't hear Thuukus and -- Minnie: Save it, Ari! You're jealous! I've found new friends and power to do good with white magic! If you won't help, I'll write the books myself!! Angel: Ari-- we must go now! Ari cling's to the angel's hand (its index finger is the size of his entire body) as it carries him away. Ari: I - I'm sorry, Minnie -- I'm leaving -- I -- I have to leave -- you --
August 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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They're really emphasizing this whole "demon worship by default" thing, and of course the free-will solution to the Problem of Evil. Is this actually Presbyterian theology?

Just once I want Thuukus to go "you got me monologuing!"
Ari: I'll never bow to you, demon! [1 Cor. 10:19] Minnie, in the name of Jesus Christ, I release you! Nothing happens. Minnie remains trapped. Ari: Wha -- !? Thuukus: You fool!! God won't interfere with what Minnie has chosen to believe in, Potiphar! He's a pathetic gentleman! Therefore Minnie is still subject to what she does believe in this world! My world! Without knowing better -- by default -- she chose... me! [Romans 6:16] Ari: Dr. Verbosi! Use your magic to free her! Verbosi: Why?!! If his blackmail works, and you do take over writing Hairy Polarity for me, Thuukus will let me go! Thuukus: And you don't need Verbosi's help, Ari... all you have to do is renounce this newfound faith in Christ... say the spell to free Minnie yourself... then just become a christian again! Ari: You know God says that's impossible! [Heb. 6: 4-6] That's probably the same sort of nonsense you fed to Dr. Verbosi, isn't it? And he was stupid enough to fall for it! Thuukus: Stupid? Ha! That doesn't begin to describe this brainless moron! I'll never risk letting the world learn the truth by actually allowing him to go back! (um -- wait -- let me rephrase that --) Ari: You see? Didn't you realize who you were dealing with? Did you think it would end well for ?! Verbosi: Thuukus, you no-good lying --! Verbosi casts "Tossus Trantramus", freeing Minnie from the crystal cocoon in an explosion of shards.
August 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I forgot to mention this last time, but suddenly we're in a cave! The Cellar of Charades was underground the whole time!

Were you expecting an Aleister Crowley cameo in this Harry Potter parody? Because of course Harry Potter basically descends from theosophy! Remember all the sex magic?
Thuukus: And here's how it started... Two hundred years ago, I "befriended" a young man named Aloysius Crawly, who was deeply into the occult. We often whispered into his ears, dictating the first story of Hairy Polarity to him, as well as explaining the ritual to enter this world! An 18th century gentleman is shown writing by candlelight, translucent demons hovering around him. Thuukus: Under his pen-name, Get-Sirius the Scribe-Mage, Crawly wrote a second book based on that experience but - alas -- Crawly is shown surrounded by demons. "Stop!! Stop whispering!" he cries. He is shown throwing himself off a cliff. Thuukus: Apparently he could not handle the pressure of... publishing deadlines! Because of his untimely -- retirement -- Crawly's two books were never published, but did find a home in a library of old magic grimoires and tomes... to later be discovered by Dr. Bela Verbosi. Dr. Bela Verbosi is shown writing, surrounded by demons. Thuukus: Verbosi was hungry to become famous as an author, and so took credit for the first books! But after the succeeded, the miserable hack found he couldn't invent new ones on his own... so he performed the ritual and came here... to me! Blythe spirits that we are, we gladly helped him "ghost" a few more stories, but now he's tired of Hairy Polarity for some reason... [Mark 8:36, Luke 9:25] Verbosi, the past: Stop! Stop whispering to me! Make it end! Go away! Thuukus: And that's where you come in, kid... now you'll write what I tell you to write -- or "Poor Minnie" will never wake up again! Don't you realize that back in the real world that your bodies remain in comas right now? You, Ari, can escape with your God's help, but the only way she'll ever get out is if I want her to!!
August 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Here it is: how Harry Potter wins souls for Satan.
1. It desensitizes you to real magic, which exists!
2. So some small number of people will learn real magic
3. Those real magicians teach others.
4. Most will be so busy reading Harry Potter that they forget to become saved

Compelling theory!
Ari: You!! You're the demon my parents had exorcised from them!! Thuukus: Yessss!!! And that is why I chose to involve you in my little scheme! I want revenge-- to make them suffer for casting me out! And they will when they see you working for me- writing the new Hairy Polarity books! Your new stories of "fun magic for kids" will continue to desensitize the real world humans to magic... many will become intrigued with performing real magic itself! "High majick"! Those children will come here, where we will train [2 Peter 2:3] them, and they in turn will go to the real world and train others in witchcraft! All of my new children will spread witchcraft around the world. Like a delicious cancer it will infect them... they think they will get the fun and power that they want [Revelation 9:21] ... but I... I will have the souls that I want... And it's working already! I'm fully aware the vast majority of souls won't practice high magic! Rather, they'll be lulled to sleep -- deceived with pleasures [2 Corinthians 11:3, Hebrews 11:25] of Hairy Polarity, they will simply never find your christ, and by default will spend eternity with me [Revelation 20:15]! You see, I may not defeat God [Revelation 12:9, 20:10] but I can prevent souls from going to heaven, and that alone is reward enough!
August 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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AW YEAH BUDDY, WE'RE DEALING WITH A DEMON. Gotta name my next warlock's patron Thuukus, that's not a bad one!

Is it just me or does the whole "all the students wear colored spectacles" thing smack of New Age?
A mob of students in wizard hats and robes arrive, all wearing the pink sunglasses that show them illusions. The setting is also revealed to be a large cavern of multicolored stones. Vulgarmouth: Ah, right on cue-- the rest of the students @$#! teachers of Pigzits University! As you can see, Potiphar, some of them are human children, have a little -- monkey -- on their backs! And the rest... well... Lets just say, they're not human! You could call them my children! -- ha ha ha! The students are shown to be a mix of demons and human children with demonic imps clinging to their backs. Vulgarmouth: oh-- and you can stop pretending to be captive now, my little "hairy" demon! Hairy Polarity jumps free from his crystal bindings. The flying pig is also shown to be a demon, with horns and bat wings. Hairy: Sure thing -- "pops"! Vulgarmouth: And I can drop this ridiculous guise of "Vulgarmouth" and do some wizardly "shape-shifting" -- into the shape I like best! Vulgarmouth transforms from a humanoid wizard into a demonic form with green scaly skin, a snakelike lower body, antlers, and enormous teeth. Transformed Vulgarmouth: My true shape!! Thuukus, Duke of Demons!
August 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Is the Holy Spirit a fucking JoJo Stand? Guys this theology feels kinda weak.

Get ready, my favorite part is next.
Ari: Cut the baloney, Vebosi! Tell her the whole truth! Verbosi: How do you know all of this, you little brat?! No one could know all of this! Ari: Because the Holy Spirit [Matthew 25:41] is telling me these things! He's the true spirit of knowledge and prophecy - but you wouldn't understand...! Now tell her who really wrote the books!! Vulgarmouth: Oh, teacher! Teacher!! Pick me! Pick me!! I know the answer to that one! I wrote them, you @$#! fool!! Over two hundred @$#% years ago!! Vulgarmouth casts "Crystallis captura" on Minnie, encasing her in a transparent crystal. Vulgarmouth: Since you can see now, Potiphar, I guess I can stop 'playing possum'! But, inside the @$#% crystal cocoon, Minnie won't hear or see a word of what comes next! While you, on the other hand, will get a look at the real nature of my glorious over realm!! Ari: You mean your under realm, demon! I'm underwhelmed! Vulgarmouth: Minnie will be under ground - in her grave - if you don't write for me, boy! In fact, she'll end up where I'm going [Revelation 20:10, 14-15] for all eternity!
August 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM