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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.

Materiality and the Mandalorian: Some thoughts about Mando's quest for ritual purification in the Living Waters of Mandalore

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Materiality and the Mandalorian: Some thoughts about Mando's quest for ritual purification in the Living Waters of Mandalore

Introduction I'm going to start by saying that if you want to blame anybody for this, you can blame my partner. We decided, finally, to watch season three of The Mandalorian this week. Yeah, so we're behind everybody else and we're still only on the first episode. Part way through,

52 Weeks of Editing

52 Weeks of Writing: Week 22—This is the week I got my PhD again

Okay, so that was a week. Again, I have to hold my hands up right at the outset and admit that I haven't done any fiction writing this week. In fact, I've barely done any writing, other than journaling. I've maintained my streak on 4theWords and that is IT. A

52 Weeks of Writing: Week 21—This is the week I got my second PhD

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52 Weeks of Writing: Week 21—This is the week I got my second PhD

This has been an enormous week for me. A weekly review doesn't feel like enough, somehow, given that this was such an important moment in my life. I was awarded my PhD. I can't find the right words to describe it. Technically, I've been "recommended for the award of PhD"

Diary: 1. A Plan For August

Diary: 1. A Plan For August

This is the first time in... um, I think ever, that I've tried starting the month like this. Most of my life has been spent struggling over metaphorical mountains, setting ludicrous goals, then making a mess of the whole thing by the end. For example: see the whole of last