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title: "Lords of Misrule 2025"
description: "If you write something - absolutely anything - and email it to misrule@satyrs.eu, come Saturnalia, i'll put it up on the site, both on the blog and on its own dedicated, permanent subpage, etched in stone for all to see."
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2025/montoya") Cover Letter Writing the Inigo Montoya Way
small from one #[a(href="https://baki.cc/") Baki]
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2025/thoughts") Thoughts and Reflections
small from one Emilinko
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2025/exams") Exams
small from one SuperNerd / #[+sc("UQAU")]
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2025/aberfalls") Yn Aber Falls
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2025/roundup") Ceriſe Talis’ Link Roundup
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p.dropcap Io Saturnalia, friends, and welcome to the fifth annual edition of #[b #[i The Satyrs’ Forest] Lords of Misrule!] First, i would like to apologise to my fellow #[a(href="https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CE%B8%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%8E%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82" lang="grc") θιασῶται] for the delay — i was on private satyr business in Batavia, and you know what they’re like in those kabouter-coffeeshops.
p Still, perhaps the extra wait was for the best. As i write this in late November, there is real, honest-to-#[span.theonym Bacchus] #[em snow] falling right outside my window, the sort of thing i had figured climate change would forever banish to mid-January doldrums. A perfect day for it.
p For all of the new fauns among us who are unaware of our peculiar tradition, here’s how it works: in the spirit of #[span.theonym Saturnalia], from December the 17#[sup th] to the 23#[sup rd], i’m putting #[em you] in charge of #[i The Satyrs’ Forest]. If you write or put together anything, absolutely anything, and submit it to
strong.bigasstext misrule #[i at] satyrs #[i dot] ee yew
p by the #[b 15#[sup th] of December, 2025], i’ll put it up on the site, etched in stone for all to see. Temporary defacements of pages are also quite welcome, though they will, of course, be taken down on the 24#[sup th].
p As ever, i kindly ask that you refrain from political polemics and anything that would get these woods in trouble with the British law. Other than that, anything goes: An avant-garde jazz record about the history of duvets. A rant about how frogs just ain’t what they used to be. Whatever you, my lords of misrule, want.
p My inbox is open for business, so as always: have fun, be merry, and don’t be afraid to get weird with it!
p#signed-xanthe —Xanthe
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2024/truman") Truman
small from one Poots
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2024/apple") applex2so<wbr>Herobrine.txt
small from one Santiago
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2024/halicarnassus") Christmas at Halicarnassus
small from one #[a(href="https://raelhbishop.neocities.org/") Ræl H. Bishop]
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2023/pedestrian") Pedestrian Diversions
small from a reader in Santiago
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2023/objective") It’s an Ayn Rand Christmas
small from one #[a(href="https://baki.cc/") Baki]
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2023/plumbing") Space Plumbing
small from one Chris of #[a(href="https://vacuosylvanic.net/"): i Vacuum Forest]
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strong: a(href="/misrule/2023/theoxenia") The Tale of Theoxenia Trismegistus
small from one #[a(href="https://raelhbishop.neocities.org/") Ræl H. Bishop]
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a(href="/misrule/2022/influencers") The Gift of the Influencers
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a(href="/misrule/2022/fuckstone") Fred Fuckstone II: Huntsville, Alabama
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a(href="/misrule/2022/art") Art
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a(href="//libraryphantasmagoria.net") Ariel
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span(lang="gl") sinxelo
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a(href="//fi-do-manin.neocities.org") Fidomanin
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a(href="/misrule/2022/waves") Waves
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| from one
a(href="https://raelhbishop.neocities.org/") Ræl H. Bishop
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a(href="/misrule/2021/advice") Words of Advice
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| from one
a(href="https://raelhbishop.neocities.org/") Ræl H. Bishop
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a(href="/misrule/2021/missing") A Saturnalia piece
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a(href="https://noa-s.org/") Noa S.
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a(href="/misrule/2021/fuckstone") Fred Fuckstone
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a(href="https://quinncasey.com/") Quinn Casey
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a(href="/misrule/2021/dancing") Dancing.png
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a(href="https://pleurodelinae.neocities.org") Newt S.
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