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Prague's own Faust: Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský
How far would you go to obtain esoteric knowledge? Read about the "Devil of the Lesser Quarter" whose inner shrine was in the library of the Prague…
Jun 1
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Melinda Reidinger
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Prague's own Faust: Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský
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May 2025
A Bull Story, a Deer Friend, and a Horse Tale
Making land and sovereignty claims using animal proxies
May 4
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Melinda Reidinger
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A Bull Story, a Deer Friend, and a Horse Tale
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April 2025
Rewilding Bees
What do colonialists, Nazis, communists, and capitalist agribusiness all have in common? Replacing and suppressing native pollinators - and here's what…
Apr 16
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Hecking Faux-na Hacking Headlines
Bamboozled again! Those cute little floofs aren't dire wolf puppies, and this is not the first faunal flimflam.
Apr 9
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Melinda Reidinger
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Acca Larentia
The grey eminence who stood behind the founding of Rome
Apr 1
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Melinda Reidinger
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March 2025
Lupercalia
A short story written in February 2021, set in February 2020
Mar 28
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Melinda Reidinger
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Lupercalia
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January 2025
Folk etymologies, bullshit, the doctrine of signatures, and the "Language of the Birds"
Notes on magical languages (Part 2)
Jan 25
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Melinda Reidinger
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Glossolalia, glyphs, and the coefficient of weirdness: notes on magical languages (Part 1 of 2)
Jan 25
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Melinda Reidinger
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Glossolalia, glyphs, and the coefficient of weirdness: notes on magical languages (Part 1 of 2)
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September 2024
Terms of Venery
What do Venus, venison, venom, the color white, and wonder all have in common?
Sep 1, 2024
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Melinda Reidinger
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August 2024
Grammatical gender, animacy, and the kinship of living beings
And why this Long Islander will never stop saying "you guys"
Aug 29, 2024
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Melinda Reidinger
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Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
Claude Lorrain's final, incomplete work
Aug 10, 2024
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Melinda Reidinger
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Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
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July 2024
Swarm Box - Prologue
World-building for my forthcoming novel
Jul 21, 2024
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Melinda Reidinger
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