Zarpaulus

Writer of sci-fi and horror

Underemployed biologist and creator of the Para-Imperium setting. Currently writing the webcomic "Joanna: Ghost Hunter."

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in reply to @PhormTheGenie's post:

In the canonical alternate history in which Garudina resides I used to have a little detail around her participation in the Babalon Working, but reading now what was involved with the event in our history I may need to pick another time to assassinate L. Ron Hubbard with-cause.

Honestly, a reasonable revision, and a noble endeavor.

Parsons always struck me as a goofy self-absorbed idiot-genius. Though he absolutely did some shitty things. I get continually sketched out when his history crosses mine.

Hubbard, though? I can't but believe there was malice in that man at a deep level.

Also, if Garudina were involved in Babylon Working I can't help but imagine her getting very tired of that cadre, very fast. Though I don't presume to speak for you when I say that.

the original sketch was along the lines of "the proposed magick actually works in this reality, which means that, congratulations, you've abruptly earned the attention of The Oldest Game In Town and are about to become a scary story that responsible wizards use to teach their apprentices not to fuck up the structural integrity of the world"

it's just much less romantic when it turns out the actual ritual is Jack Parsons cranking it onto a magick tablet to try to assert psychosexual dominance over the man who stole his wife in the least subtle way imaginable

really I was just inventing a time and place where Garudina would have deleted Hubbard before he did all the other stuff he's famous for