Madeira Darling is a snarky mystic, devout Satanist, serious Marxist, laughing dominatrix, and writer from San Fransisco where they live with their boyfriend in a house full of altars to their various demons.
I need fewer books by lazy modern Hermeticists and more books by academics on hermeticism.
Hiccups and delays aside, here it is. Xena is equipped as an early hoplite; (my headcanon is that, owing to her immense, perhaps semi-divine strength, the bronze is between 4 and 8mm thick- too much for any muscle powered weapon to handle from any angle) packing an early Doru, a Boeotian shield, and a Makhaira sword. Gabrielle’s Amazonian outfit is a composite of Scythian grave finds; she wields a composite bow and Akinakes sword, wears an elaborate phrygian cap, and the trousers and moccasins of a culture seriously weird to Greeks. Other avenues are still waiting to be explored! Don’t forget to reblog, and tell me what you think. I’m absolutely willing to defend my questionable use of snarling Gorgoneiona. Fight me.
Madeira Darling is a professional dominatrix, comedian, and writer who resides in Providence Rhode Island, with her husband Daniel, an illustrator, and their pit bull, Tonka, a sneaky food thief. Her work has appeared in publications including XOJane, Clean Sheets, Sirenia Digest and The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy except not actually that last one
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