Jason Malone

Storyteller, historian, & Anglo-Saxon pagan 📜🏛🌳 Follow me for my musings on history, spirituality, & my fiction writing. DMs open 📬

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

I've made a fresh account so I can start over without hundreds of inactive followers, which I believe have been driving down my engagement. For those who followed me because they actually like the stuff I post, please follow me here:

[Jason Malone @jasoncmalone]

My old X account was receiving barely any engagement. I would get barely any post views, and would be lucky if I received a like, despite having over 700 followers.

[Jason Malone @jasoncmalone]

My property now has its own spiritual guardians.

There is an ancient custom of burying the remains of dead or sacrificed animals in the walls or foundations of a house, or at the border of a property. This has apotropaic purposes, and was widespread in Europe until recent years.

[Jason Malone @jasoncmalone]

“The strictly secular time of academic history has consequently struggled to account for and express histories that were not, and are not, agnostic — which is to say most peoples, most of the time.”

~Damon Salesa, ‘The Pacific in Indigenous Time.’

[Jason Malone @jasoncmalone]

Old English literature is saturated with the theme of transience. The Anglo-Saxons viewed the world, and that which happens in it, as flowing helplessly along the currents of fate.

“Wyrd bið ful aræd,” it was said. “Fate is full determined.”

[Jason Malone @jasoncmalone]

My old X account was receiving barely any engagement. I would get barely any post views, and would be lucky if I received a like, despite having over 700 followers.

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

She was also a witch — sorcery is the only explanation for her successes against the English.

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

Joan of Arc was not non-binary. She was mentally ill.

She’s the past equivalent of these nut jobs we see every now and then who go on stabbing sprees because of the voices in their head.

Trying to retrospectively determine her gender identity as if she wasn’t a raging loon is idiotic

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

No neurological typical person has been a High Tory in the west since 1834. It is the LARPiest most autistic thing on twitter and almost very thing on here is LARPy and autistic.

[High Tory American 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 @ToryAmerican]

No neurological typical person has been a pagan in the west since the fall of Rome. It is the LARPiest most autistic thing on twitter and almost very thing on here is LARPy and autistic.

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

@ciaraelliss Don’t forget microwaving their water to make tea…

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

@wylfcen This is one of many examples of American academics wishing to absorb the rest of the world into their contextual bubble, and non-American academics drooling over the validation of American universities. People need to stop treating North America as the heart of the world.

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

Excellent in-flight reading.

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

Only by not actually reading Norse literature could one come to this conclusion. Even a cursory reading of the sagas and Eddas can easily dismiss this claim.

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

I don’t even consider Norse paganism “polytheistic.” Balder and hoder the sun and moon, Loki the trickster, Thor the thunder god, etc are just aspects of nature named in literary personification. Mythology is describing nature and cycles and aspects of behavior in metaphorical story form.
I don’t think there is any claim that any of these “gods”are “real.” They are told with a willing consent to metaphor.

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

History is — clearly — repeating itself, and in that is proof of Carol’s divine right to rule, and his election not by a mere council of nobles, but by the Gods and Fate herself.

It is this desire to intentionally repeat history that motivates many of Carol’s deeds.

[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

The rebel pretender to the throne in my novels is the supreme LARPer — but it is his ability to politically roleplay that gives him one of his greatest claims to kingship.

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[Jason Malone @oldjasonmalone]

The last ruler to defeat Emrys before the events of my novel was Carol the Great, with Godwin’s help. So when Carol the Pretender and Edward face Emrys’s return, Carol sees in that crisis a great opportunity: he can replicate the deeds of his eponymous ancestor in the present!