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[arethinn]

heartssdesire asked about:

andrew chumbley

The late Dentarthurdent Andrew Chumbley was a British sorcerer/witch/mystic/something. He wrote (most famously)The Azoetia, Qutub and ONE: The Grimoire of the Golden Toad, and I guess some other private-edition books for his magical order, The Cultus Sabbati. The system of practice described by or embodied in his works is also known as "Sabbatic Witchcraft". The website of the publisher, Xoanon, seems to have gone the way of all things, although according to Fields bookstore (who resells), Xoanon itself is alive and well. You can see more about Chumbley in his Wikipedia article. The thing he's probably best known for amongst the general pagan populace is the sky-high secondhand prices of his out-of-print books -- ONE isn't available for love nor money, and Azoetia currently will run you anywhere from $500 to several thousand dollars, depending on the edition, condition, whatever.

lumiel

Related to Chumbley. Lumiel or Azra-Lumiel is a teaching angel who appears in the path. It is sort of another way of saying "Lucifer" -- xe is an Opposer who brings knowledge (at least as I understand xir).

zork

The seminal text-adventure game, at least from the perspective of the general computer gamer (it too has its predecessors), written for a mainframe in 1977-1979 by some guys who would shortly become the founders of Infocom. (See http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/timeline.html for a brief history of Infocom.) Xyzzy? Plugh!



Malkavian antitribu symbol from Vampire: the Masquerade. Malkavians are crazy, to a one, and antitribu are vampires who have decided to join the "other faction" (the two major ones being the Sabbat and the Camarilla; loosely the bad guys and the good guys, though it's a lot more complex than that). For Malkavians, who are Camarilla by default, this means a Sabbat Malkavian, which, well, ain't something you want to meet in a dark alley, to put it lightly. My first Vampire character ever was a Malk, and I have a soft spot for them in my heart, as well as a couple of interesting experiences invoking or contacting Malkav (the clan progenitor) as though he were a real being (insert chaos magic / pop culture magic here).



A food item from Neopets. "Galactic Starry Cupcake" was the name on either the file or the "pre release" text on the "new Neo-items" website I was looking at, although I'm not sure that's what the object is actually officially called now. "Galactic" and "starry" are good words for me, in some senses, and "cupcake" is a bit of a running joke between me and enotsola.



Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank from Mystery Science Theater 3000, laughin' it up mad scientist style.

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[arethinn]

I suppose they'd wash me down with grues' milk (which has to be kept in a lighted refrigerator, lest it go fresh)?