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A person holding a skull around an outdoor altar, with pumpkins and candles all around.

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Adventures with Necromantic Skulls: Materiality, Texts, and Objects

During the ritual stage, the practitioner divides themselves between drawing, speaking with the dead person, and then ensuring they can get what they want out of the dead person.

52 Weeks of Writing: Week 29—How to make a necromantic skull

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52 Weeks of Writing: Week 29—How to make a necromantic skull

Introduction You know when you get that pre-cold feeling? Hmm, yeah. That's how I'm feeling today. It's been an incredible week with my family and friends. But graduation day is a strange thing. Six years of work preparing for the PhD and doing the PhD and then finishing, and it's

Interlude: My dentist thinks aliens built the pyramids

Interlude: My dentist thinks aliens built the pyramids

OK, I know I was very clear and said I'd be doing Materiality and the Mandalorian today, and that it'd be all about beskar steel. I have most of the post written, but reality stepped in and set this week royally on fire. I could've finished what I'd written this