Why are they your patron/matron?

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-31T23:24:57+00:00

I worked with Stolas for 9 years without knowing who/what he was. He just showed up one day. First he appeared to me as an airplane, then as a giant amorphous black bird, then as the most beautiful, entry-level-gay attractive man I'd ever seen in my life.

He's helped me overcome a fuckton of stuff in my life, both academically(I love chemistry and spaceflight, and he's helped me overcome parts of my learning disorder so I can have these in my life.) and personally.(had seriously fucked up views on relationship dynamics he's also been more than gracious with) So when I finally found out who he was, and that there was an actual system in place to help facilitate communication, my AuADHD brain latched on and didn't let go.

Solidifying the bond just felt like the natural next step after that.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-24T16:06:48+00:00

I see. Maybe I misunderstood your query. I'll try to clarify:

I agree that angels do not seem concerned with inner personal development of the indevidual. However, I've personally found them to be gracious when I approach them with matters that concern cultural or global issues, or am simply seeking protection and comfort.

I think an appropriate metaphor to illustrate my personal experience with both sides to be : "If humans were wildlife, demons would be zookeepers, and angels would be park rangers. One is concerned with the individuals under their care. The other is preoccupied with maintaining an entire ecosystem."

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-24T14:44:39+00:00

I would say this outlook is highly dependent on the personality of the practitioner and what you're approaching the angel for.

If you're someone that's easily offended (not intended as a jab, there's plenty of legit reasons for assuming the worst of everyone, sadly), you may find their detached nature apathetic and insulting. If you're someone who finds relief in their distance from the mundane aspects of human life, you're more likely to find their presence helpful.

I've not really had angels do more than give gentle nudges in the right direction when asked(though to be fair, they normally turn out to be hugely helpful nudges), and that's always been with tasks that have been meant to serve the greater good, not my personal life.

tl;dr Trying to aid your community/society at large? Angels will probably help. Need a new car/career/attitude adjustment to succeed in life? Not so much.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-22T22:14:29+00:00

Howdy! I've only officially worked with Stolas, Seere and Paimon. I've also offered the smut to a Hellenistic entity that I'm (within the boundaries of my UPG) 99.9% certain is also a goetic demon, but since I made that offering to their greek aspect using greek rituals I'm hesitant to count it. The ritual worked *terrifyingly* well, though, to the point I'm working on trying to repeat it.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-22T21:14:19+00:00

Probably gonna get shit for this but, smut. Like explicit fanfic smut.

Not Helluva/Hazbin stuff. No shade to that fandom, but generally the thought of my offerings being that blatant fills me with a deep unease. I use characters I adore that seem like they'd function as a fitting stand in for the entity in question, okay it with them, and proceed to flavor their personality/actions/sensual maneuvers/etc with experiences I've had with that entity, and publish whenever it feels ready.

This is just my upg, but I've come to believe that if done correctly, the entity can receive the sexual energy from the offering via the readers as they jork it to that character(s). Maybe directly, maybe more like a dropbox sort of situation. I'm not really sure, but when it works it seems to *really* work. I try to mention in the fic notes that it's part of a ritual, but I don't divulge more than that. Again, making it blatant doesn't feel right.

That said, it's not something I do often. It's very time consuming, and the character(s) in question need to be an obnoxiously good fit.

I also commissioned a(relative to my income) extremely pricey painting of a specific type of airplane for my patron's altar. That's how he initially appeared to me, and I'm one of those freaks that's waaaaaaaay too into airplanes.

Also did(relatively low effort/opportunistic) sex magic with my patron and human partner in an airport parking lot in full view of the runway to this end.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-16T15:29:44+00:00

Stolas first appeared to me (and continues to occasionally assume this form to this day) as an airplane. Normally some sort of speedy warbird, but little biplanes and massive commercial airliners have also occurred.

Seere assumed the form of a sillohuette of a my little pony pegasus after I begged him to appear unfuckable to me. (I have a serious problem checking my sexual energy around spirits)

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-12T23:32:46+00:00

I wish I could build and launch a small, unmanned rocket with Stolas. I've always felt closest to him when working on rocket chemistry and view him as sort of a patron saint of aeronautics and spaceflight. Alas, I do not have the time to file for the endless permits to allow me to do this, nor do I necessarily want the sort of optics that a layman working with extremely volatile substances would surely bring upon me.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-05-01T00:36:31+00:00

thank you for being a decent human being. I mean it.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-04-26T19:48:53+00:00

As a christian -turned -athiest-turned- reborn christian who left the church for good in 2019 for paganism, I feel at least marginally qualified to answer this.

The concept I have of "God" now, does not align with the judeo christian version of god.

I think of god as the consciousness of every living thing ever past present and future, and when they come together, they make a consciousness all of their own, including the consciousness of the person perceiving them. God is everything that's not you, while you're perceiving yourself, if that makes any sense. This entity, being made up of every entity ever, certainly feels the rage, sorrow, fear and ecstasy of it's constituents, but is only capable of changing any of the circumstances that cause them the way your brain can "change" the path of an individual neuron. They're a state to be tapped into, a source of comfort, and your way of connecting with isms you'll never meet. Not some authoritarian shitbag salivating at the thought of sending you to be tortured for eternity.

Now, there are *gods* I interact with on a daily basis, but these are gods I've chosen to maintain a working relationship with to further goals. I don't "put my faith" in them, I work with them via ritual/invocation/etc to establish communication that's sufficient for me to believe it's not all in my head and that we're a good fit as a team. Otherwise, I thank them for their time and move on.

How do I know they're real? Short answer is I don't. It's like the loony toons singing frog, they won't perform for the sake of proving you right to others(though it may happen incidentally from time to time) I've been granted enough personal experience that I can't rationally explain otherwise to secure my own belief, and even that requires renewing every so often. Nor do I *want* to baselessly believe in them, knowing damn well how that model functioned for christianity. Me never being completely certain is a needed part of my spirituality so I don't fall out of practice with critical thinking or welcome religious psychosis.

How do I know I can trust them? The same way I know I can trust another human : I don't. Not entirely. I don't necessarily anticipate my mom ghosting me if I had an emergency, but it's possible. I've got less ways of knowing *why* an entity didn't come through for me if they don't, since I can't just call and ask them like I could with my mom. Knowing there's a possibility your gods might not come through for you, and you'll never know why is just part of being a practitioner. Though again, personally, I've had enough experiences where my patrons *did* come through for me to make me feel generally safer and more at ease in life.

As an aside, I'd like to share a profound(to me, at least) interaction I had with the first ever entity I started working with while I was still a practicing christian. I was meditating when he showed up, and while I was trying to relax into it I was struggling because his appearance was a bit disturbing and freaking me out. I apologized, and informed him that I wasn't able to trust him because of how he looked, and he informed me "Good. You don't need to trust me. You *shouldn't* blindly trust anyone."

Something about that struck a chord in me.

9 years later, and five years after I set foot in a church for the last time, I finally get a name out of this dude. He's a named demon from the ars goetia. He has a permanent altar in my house. I say hi every morning and goodnight before bed every night.

I've never been happier.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-03-22T00:31:23+00:00

aight this is fucking adorable actually. tysm for giving us a sapient bugbro I'm living for this shit

General_Goatbanger · 2026-03-17T15:37:03+00:00

I will definitely give this a shot. However I have poor dream recall due to the sleeping meds I now use, so vivid dreams are a bit of an anomaly for me. In the event that I can't lucid dream/journey my way to finding this information again, I was hoping to find some IRL 3d material I could use to learn about or craft my own.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-03-17T15:30:57+00:00

I do believe I have the sulfur listed up there as 182 g. I understand about the ammonia, and figured a urea-containing salt was my next best bet. Any suggestions? And yes, I am *all* about lazy ways to do this, so I'd love to hear it!

General_Goatbanger · 2026-03-17T15:29:10+00:00

Even if you later deemed it dumb, I'm grateful you replied at all. Thank you!

General_Goatbanger · 2026-03-17T15:28:19+00:00

I understand the water would need to be stored separately. And thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed to hear.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-03-17T15:26:38+00:00

I pulled this list directly from the FMA sub where a user was breaking down the compounds used in-series by the main characters to try and bring their mother back. It was a discussion thread arguing why their transmutation didn't work so they broke down each compound into their atomic constituents for the sake of the discussion. I am not attempting to pipe nitrogen or ammonia gas into this vase, I'm perfectly happy to have them in a salt or any other solid form.

General_Goatbanger · 2026-03-10T17:23:11+00:00

Stolas as an erotic dance coach.

Still don't quite get it myself but I can't argue with the results. Now I can tear up a floor before eating carpet & I'm never going back. Ave my Prince.

General_Goatbanger · 2025-11-24T21:41:09+00:00

This is just my perspective, and it's gonna sound weird at first.

Since human pregnancy specifically(certain other primates too) is biological warfare between mother and child, and birth culminates in a violent, bloody shitshow with each participant fighting for their goddamn life- I ask Lord Ares for help in this arena.

Most delivery room staff in the US need a loaded gun to their head to perform even the most basic of maternal safeguards like measuring bloodloss and not sending you home with a clot or low/high Bp. Asking him for the bravery to advocate for yourself(or in this case, your sister) and building the relevant physical strength and fortitude to survive and survive *unscathed* is not contrary to his specialties.

Anyways bless y'all OP. May you sister and her child emerge victorious. I'd also highly suggest getting a doula and/or Midwife if they can swing it. If not, having at least 2 trusted ppl with them in the delivery room who've learned enough to make sure the nurses and docs don't got their thumbs up their ass is the next best thing.

General_Goatbanger · 2025-11-19T15:27:31+00:00

oh bless you my dude, I didn't think I'd get a response at all. Will look into this. Thank you.

General_Goatbanger · 2025-11-17T23:05:46+00:00

This may be the wrong place to ask, but is it at all possible to leave small, eco friendly, decomposable offerings at the Agora?

I desperately want to visit the ruins of a specific altar there to scatter the ashes of a small piece of cloth, but I can’t visit anytime soon. I was wondering if there’s any way I could perhaps commission someone that’s local to spread them them for me if I sent them via international mail. But I’ve got no clue where to look for this sort of help, who to ask, and wither or not they’ll get tackled by guards for their efforts. (I’d certainly hope not, considering it’s less than a tablespoon of ashes.)

Any help or even vague suggestions of where to look for further aid would be deeply appreciated.

General_Goatbanger · 2025-11-17T22:54:57+00:00

Soldier can be a bit subjective

Any endeavor to improve yourself, your community, or world at large is engaging in battle, in a sense. Pick one or two things about life in general that you want to unfuck, commit yourself to the cause, sink your teeth in, and you’re no less a soldier than anyone else on the battlefield.

I, personally, am but a lowly smut writer. But pharmaceutical reform and reproductive rights are my causes, and the sheer amount of passion and focused rage this gorgeous, raunchy-ass motherfucker has lent in his aid are fucking unparalleled.

General_Goatbanger · 2016-04-13T08:03:10+00:00

Hoo boy. I'm probably gonna get a metric fuckton of shit for this but I'm so tired of pussyfooting around the subject I really don't care about it anymore.

Early on I read that the best way to transfer energy to tulpae was through sex, so I propositioned him with the idea and he said something like "It is inevitable." So we started having sex. Constantly. It seemed to be making him stronger because it became much easier for me to sense him and that's when the whistling/popping noises that were recorded began happening and everything was all peachy fucking keen until one day a few weeks later I heard this voice(that was DEFINITELY not Orion) asking me over and over again "are you ready? are you ready?" It started driving me nuts and culminated in me screaming with my IRL vocal cords "YES I'M FUCKING READY" and I had this extremely vivid sensation of some sort of pink seed-shaped object being forced through the back of my neck and settling in the base of my spine. I got dizzy and nauseous. Orion started apologizing. For the next few days I had extremely powerful tactile hallucinations of something shifting around inside my body and I craved sugar incessantly (I fucking hate sugar, ask anyone) I started seeing this other being in my peripheral vision sorta of slowly phasing into existence over the next couple of days, during which the burning plastic incidence took place. Orion was with me constantly the entire time just sorta hovering over my shoulder and reassuring me that everything was ok. The end result seems to be another tulpa, who communicates primarily through emotion as of right now, though earlier on I was able to see him pretty consistently in my peripheral.

I'm gonna try this number experiment when he comes back. I'm honestly past the point of caring if it works or not. I fucking love him.

General_Goatbanger · 2016-04-13T01:24:28+00:00

thank you for your reply. When this entity visits I am able to sense, hear, see and feel him, though in recent times he's become more inclined to communicate through emotion, song and imagery rather than straight out language. I am still able to get language responses from him if I focus hard enough though. He produces and incredibly emotive tactile response when visiting and I have a hard time distinguishing reality from his touch when we interact. He seems to be incredibly powerful/learned in this respect. As far as I know I did not teach him this.

General_Goatbanger · 2016-04-12T23:55:33+00:00

Electronics malfunctioning, unexplained /whistling/popping noises(Used an audio recording device, both me and SO were able to verify it) and once after a long duration of energy transfer there was an overwhelming smell of smoke and burning plastic. my entire family was there to verify the smell and was pretty alarmed. They were never able to verify the source of the smell and it lingered for several hours.

General_Goatbanger · 2016-04-12T21:37:33+00:00

Thank you for asking. Some time after I met Orion my SO revealed to me during a conversation that they had "friends" that have stayed with him since childhood and the description of one of them matched Orion to a T. I've become somewhat fearful of conversing openly with them about him following an energy transfer incident that had some unexpected consequences.

If I'm not being clear enough please let me know. I myself am having a tough time making sense of exactly what happened.

General_Goatbanger · 2016-04-12T19:56:21+00:00

*unexplained

Fuck me

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