Post Ax4eW9MsPv5rg3iYfw by GeoWend@kosmos.social
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(DIR) Post #Ax4RIOF51GX0LoBAkC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-11T20:01:22Z
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"Mandrake is a harry potter reference."No. No. It's a plant. And the lore in that book is a reference to alchemist lore.This is worse than "silverfish are real animals?? I thought they were from minecraft" (which was cuter in a way)
(DIR) Post #Ax4RWP34omH4uEFMBM by Em@lsbt.me
2025-08-11T20:03:17Z
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@futurebird silverfish are really cute. And they help keep the doct... Um... The mold away.
(DIR) Post #Ax4RfvWDSs9QDSPxVw by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-08-11T20:05:34Z
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@futurebird Sheeesh. Mandrake has been part of lore in a number of things in human history since probably even before the written word for reasons that should be pretty obvious. It even predates alchemy as a thing people made stories about...
(DIR) Post #Ax4RhseD6tRRtI5YH2 by afrozenpeach@geek.gay
2025-08-11T20:05:55Z
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@futurebird mandrakes are based on the linux distro clearly
(DIR) Post #Ax4Rilu3ffnZGMvU6y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-11T20:06:08Z
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@afrozenpeach ...
(DIR) Post #Ax4RmfEyNuj5l1Z5fc by mhoye@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T20:06:49Z
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@futurebird Could also be a Dr. Strangelove reference?https://youtu.be/c_207tOJ9EE?t=188
(DIR) Post #Ax4Skro6n6Jw6ihqZE by peterainbow@beige.party
2025-08-11T20:17:41Z
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@futurebird @afrozenpeach this is the year of the mandrake?
(DIR) Post #Ax4UPoRoHq9PVyMfUe by Jestbill@mastodon.world
2025-08-11T20:36:16Z
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@futurebird I thought he was in Little Orphan Annie, but no--just in the same (old) newspaper:"Mandrake began publication on June 11, 1934"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake_the_Magician
(DIR) Post #Ax4eW9MsPv5rg3iYfw by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2025-08-11T22:29:28Z
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@futurebirdYep. And it is a fascinating one in terms of making it into a plant familiar.(Side note for those wondering, there is an "American Mandrake"...Mayapple...(Not AS poisonous as the European...but I still have to tell people not to make tea with it)
(DIR) Post #Ax4fJKHIdtILhhYen2 by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2025-08-11T22:38:23Z
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@futurebirdAnd really, do we need folk to Mandrakesplain? That is the root of the problem...
(DIR) Post #Ax4jUPzK9VrcPoh80u by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2025-08-11T23:25:12Z
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@futurebird....and I have to wonder, is a ManDrake referring to an avatar of the Republican God, to act like male ducks on any and every woman around them...
(DIR) Post #Ax4k8CLEJGdlfruRWa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-11T23:32:24Z
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@dillyd @nev uno reverso!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
(DIR) Post #Ax4kJBFmh7vHUBbD5E by argonaut@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T23:34:22Z
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@futurebird @lisamelton Mandrake also a ‘30s comic about a magician superhero of sorts—arguably the first comic superhero
(DIR) Post #Ax4kfhW1QUOFunvtCq by zl2tod@mastodon.online
2025-08-11T23:38:25Z
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@futurebird Don't tell them about Mandrax.
(DIR) Post #Ax4lEongKj3GdzwETY by stumblewyk@jawns.club
2025-08-11T23:44:46Z
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@futurebird I had a very similar experience when I explained the concept of the lich to a Harry Potter fan. They thought their TERF queen invented the notion with the no-nose dude.I try to remember that not everyone is widely read, not everyone is steeped in lore, and not everyone cares. They're wrong, but they're allowed to exist and be wrong. 😉
(DIR) Post #Ax4lrFCAe5z1VjiQLo by housepanther@goblackcat.social
2025-08-11T23:51:42Z
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@futurebird Mandrake made me think of the old defunct Linux distro.
(DIR) Post #Ax4mNYp5CqFzeSKHaa by Tooden@aus.social
2025-08-11T23:57:33Z
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@futurebird I have a thought that mandrake was mentioned in Agatha Christie, or Dorothy L Sayers, or Margery Allingham.
(DIR) Post #Ax4pQyfZrgjUXqCWFU by aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social
2025-08-12T00:31:48Z
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@futurebird For the longest time Mandrake (yes, in English) was the name of a magician for me.I actually found it meant the plant "mandragore" in French when I started reading HP in English.https://thephantom.fan/phantom-mythos/mandrake-the-magician/
(DIR) Post #Ax4qEShR0FAbs2fK5Y by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-08-12T00:40:45Z
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@futurebird Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake would disagree.
(DIR) Post #Ax5AkkEpKQagcDxJ44 by obscurestar@mastodon.social
2025-08-12T04:30:40Z
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@futurebird Harry Potter is a Worst Witch Fanfic where the lead character was turned into a boy.