It's clear that the term "Gremlin" came into use during the early 20th century, even though earlier lore about the broad category of fairies includes beings with particular affinities for technology, making, and handicrafts. And it looks like the term arose somewhere in the community of British military pilots and/or those with ties to that community. The term seems first to have appeared in print in an April 1929 number of "Aeroplane" published in Malta.

At first, gremlins concentrated t... read more

Japan is fascinated by robots and robotics, and the nation is a leading manufacturer of both industrial and recreational robots. So they developed a girlfriend-who-is-a-busty-little-robot/busty-little-robot-who-is-your-girlfriend.

EMA--Eternal Maiden Actualization--from Sega.

uk.reuters.com/article/te...62420080618

"She's very lovable and though she's not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend."

I have a few small toy robots and remote control toys... read more

[I'm posting this comment here because of glitches in the comments on Blogicakal.]

Even though Feri is, in principle, a sex positive Neo-Pagan Craft Trad, it is also, on the ground, a constellation of human practitioners. Some of whom are more sex-positive, some of whom are less sex-positive, any one of whom may act in a sex-positive manner one day and a sex-negative manner another day.

I think that each practitioner emerges from a sex-negative culture and finds her or his way into a s... read more

In the little part of the world where I grew up--North San Francisco Bay Area--there was once not so long ago, maybe 150 years or so ago, some Native Americans with religions of their own, just as good--or maybe even better--than Christianity and cultures that suited the land. Groups of Coastal Miwok, Suisunes, other Patwins, and Karkins.

Between the Franciscan missions, the Spanish/Mexican governors, the Gold Rush, statehood and its politics, smallpox, and good old greed for land, you'd n... read more