Eric O. Scott

@ericoscott.bsky.social

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Raised by Witches. Mostly writes about Paganism. Union thug, technically a doctor, editor at The Wild Hunt: https://wildhunt.org

Captain Sisko, partially undressed, stares into a glass, contemplating the wrongs he has committed.
Screenshot of a text conversation. “Okay, so, theologically speaking - is the One equivalent to the Funk as a metaphysical concept? Or are they intertwined but not identical? Is the Funk of one funkentelechal substance with the One, or of a *similar* funkentelechy?” “I assume the relationship is that of Atman to Brahman.”
A Google map showing the route between Galway and Dublin, Ireland.
Cover to James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, featuring, well, a photograph of the writer as a young man.
The opening page to Common Sense by Thomas Paine, the only good founding father (and even then he says some questionable shit.)
Cover to Voodoo: Past and Present by Ron Bodin
Cover to Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison
Cover to an audiobook of James Joyce's Dubliners as narrated by Chris O'Dowd.
Cover to Homer's The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson
Cover to Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
A doofus has a copy of Meg Elison’s Foundling Fathers under his nose.
A doofus being hugged on by a tuxedo cat. (This is Lucy.)
An Imperial admiral from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. "Good. Our first catch the day."
John Everett Millais, "Ophelia," 1851.
A doofus, who is now forty years old. The limbs of the maple tree behind him sort of make him look like a horned god. Or at least that’s what he was going for.
From the Wikipedia page for "maenad": "In Greek mythology, maenads (/ˈmiːnædz/ ⓘ; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the thiasus.[1] Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι (maínomai, "to rave, to be mad; to rage, to be angry"),[2] literally translates as 'raving ones'. Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae /ˈbækiː/, or Bacchantes /ˈbækənts, bəˈkænts, -ˈkɑːnts/ in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox skin."
The Peter Parker - Harry Osborn meme template. P1: "Democrats should pack the court as soon as they have the power to do so." P2: "That would create a slippery slope to the destruction of judicial review." P3: "I just told you I support it, you don't need to sell it to me."
A Reddit post - “The giant American flag that flies over WWE headquarters in Stamford blew away in a storm and caught fire.”
Cover to Voodoo: An African American Religion, by Jeffrey E. Anderson. It's a black and white cover with the text laid out on a tall X shape.
Cover to Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinner. I think the cover design is supposed to evoke rings of a tree, or reverberations.
Cover to Robert Macfarlane's "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot," showing a great valley beneath a sky of white clouds.
Screenshot from The Resleeveables Odyssey review - Patrick Sullivan's award for "Biggest Design Failure" goes to "These Goddamn Rares are Insane"
Scabby the Rat, deflated, miserable
Cover to Chuck Berry's The Great 28, showing Chuck playing guitar while doing the duck walk.
Cover to Voodoo: An African American Religion by Jeffrey E. Anderson (Louisiana State University Press, 2024)
Cover to the compilation CD "Voodoo in America: Blues, Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Calypso, 1926 - 1961", featuring lots of Voodoo/Hoodoo imagery and portraits of musicians, such as Bo Diddley.
A doofus in a leather jacket and a Stetson hat he thinks is cool even if no one else does.
A snoozy old lady cat.
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, Johnathan M. Katz, showing a Black girl looking out over a tent city.
Cover to Voodoo: Search for the Spirit, a painting of a human face in blue.
Cover to Divine Horsemen, showing a Vodun ceremony where worshipers greet a ship in the water.
Cover of When Trying to Return Home by Jennifer Maritza McCauley, showing several Black women's faces.
The Last Command, showing Mara Jade dueling with Lu(u)ke
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, showing a bird alighting in a bush full of berries.
Cover to New Orleans Voodoo: A Cultural History, showing various New Orleans voodoo sites.
Cover to Adult Braces by Lindy West, showing a portrait of the author with running mascara.
Cover to Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn, showing our Star Wars cast superimposed over the Millenium Falcon and some Imperial starships in the background.
Cover to Working the Spirit by Joseph M. Murphy, showing a Black woman in a yellow dress underneath trees.
Cover to Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, featuring portraits of Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie, as well as Thrawn and C'baoth.
Cover to The Witch's Path by Thorn Mooney, showing a variety of witchy icons (owl, raven, chalice, pentacle, athame, cauldron, crystal, squirrel, antlers) on a blue background.
Cover to Is A River Alive by Robert Macfarlane, a stylized river.
A Wiccan altar set for Beltane, containing ritual tools, begonias, a bunch of muffins, and statues of the Venus of Willendorf and Pan.
The cover to Meg Elison’s Foundling Fathers, showing a young man in a powdered wig wearing earbuds and sunglasses
The Death Riders vs. United Empire on AEW Dynamite. The Death Riders are dressed in street clohtes, United Empire in white shirts, black ties, and black slacks.
The cover to Walter Johnson's magisterial history of St. Louis, Missouri, "The Broken Heart of America."
@CBThorburn’s famous tweet. Editor: You get those photos of Elliot Gould and Grover? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked Editor: what Then blow a cover of TV week magazine featuring Elliot Gould and Grover posing with palpable sexual tension.
Mambo for Cats
Sarge from Red vs Blue. “I love blood and violence! I’ve got a boner for murder!”
A post from Animal Politico (@pajaropolitico), translated from Spanish "The consturction of a bike lane on Calzada de Tlaplan has reduced the income of sex workers by up to 70%. Without prior consultation or any of the promised support from the city government, they denounce that the project - promoted in preparation from the World Cup - aims to displace them. Read more:" Below is a picture of some street art and a subtitle of "a Plaza Tlaxcoaque."
A meme. A white dude in a polo shirt and glasses is drawing a katana from a scabbard. Superimposed over the top are the words: "When you were partying, I studied FORMING A UNION. When you were having premarital sex I mastered 1-ON-1 CONVERSATIONS. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity I cultivated 70-80% OF COWORKER SIGNATURES. And now that the world is one fire adn the barbarians are at the gate SOLIDARITY FOREVER BABY LET'S GOOOOOO"
Panels from Batman: Year One. 1: Batman’s hand is extinguishing a flame while scared onlookers look on. 2: Batman’s face. “You’ve eaten Gotham’s wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over.” 3: The hand has nearly extinguished the flame. “From this moment on — none of you are safe.”
A young doofus dressed as Hulk Hogan
Indie Dave from the comic PHONOGRAM, a balding white man in a pale blue-green shirt, walks down a city street at night with his hands in his pockets. He is saying "Just leave me alone, you troublesome goddesses."
"Now Minnesota's 'leaders' are creating the conditions for violence against law enforcement," [Attorney General Pam] Bondi posted on X. "NOTHING will stop us from enforcing the law - and NOTHING will stop President Trump from protecting the good people of Minnesota." Bondi's comments, posted at 3 p.m. Saturday, followed confirmation that federal agents fatally shot 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti of south Minneapolis.
Poe and La-La from the Teletubbies with the subtitle “You’re nothing but a failure of a man.” It’s implied La-la is saying this to Poe.
A doofus is wearing Star Wars clothes (gray tunic, black pants, black leather Jedi belt and boots). He is standing next to Donald Duck.
A doofus in a color-inverted black and white photo (his black glasses are white, his pale skin is dark, etc.) He appears to be immolating from the inside.
A post from the MinnPost. “Minnesota is consistently a so-called donor state, meaning ita federal tax contribution exceeds the amount it receives in federal funding. “The federal government collected about $119 billion in tax revenue from Minnesota residents and businesses in 2023. The state, in return, received about $75 billion to support health care, nutrition, Social Security and other programs, according to USAFacts, a not for profit organization that analyzes government data. “That $44 billion difference between taxes and revenue equated to about $7,600 per Minnesotan. And among 19 donor states in 2023, Delaware was the only one where residents had a higher net cost than Minnesotans.”