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  • Looking Back at Two Years of Prose and Context

    That being said, I could see finding a middle ground in 2026; perhaps an extra monthly article, specifically Plus, despite what the mind-over-matter, lost-in-their-imagination teen in me says, keeping busy with But hey, I stick to as much of it as I can, find some books , TV , movies and video essays to devour

  • Heroes, Villains, Gods & Monsters: We’re All Only Human

    How ‘Wicked’ and ‘Wind and Truth’ reminded me that authority is merely a mask The Wizard I’ll level with Wind and Truth That isn’t quite the case in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive , even considering the revelations we got in Wind and Truth . ( Spoilers ahead  for that book; you can find much of my Tanavast worked as a simple tanner, and was a kind man with a fondness for dogs. Taravangian (whom I wrote about here ), it will be fascinating to see a very dangerous but very human mind

  • Vampires VII: Self-Acceptance in Ghost's "Lachryma" and Nosferatu

    On first watch of the music video my mind immediately drew a connection to the film Nosferatu (2024) She gains the confidence to tackle her demons head-on, and eventually finds a measure of self-acceptance Self-Acceptance Being aware of and confronting our thoughts head on... you guessed it, the answer was once again mindfulness

  • [Einherjar] The Locked Tomb: Commander Wake

    horror of this choice is unparalleled in my mind. chooses to save her newborn daughter's life rather than her own; in hopes that someone will one day find with Camilla, Wake haunts first her body, then her daughter’s sword, before finally moving into the mind In both plots she is an agent of mysterious horror, since we don't find out about her until the end of

  • The Locked Tomb: Lyctors & Gender Dysphoria I

    I find this especially profound both because it reflects the experiences of people I know and because (Their fighting instincts can also act as a kind of autopilot for the lyctor's body while performing That is the understanding of lyctorhood we get in Gideon the Ninth (minus the insight about emulating Bodies & Minds The simplest of these details, hinted at throughout the series but raised outright in

  • Lost and Found: Entering New Worlds

    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear Other times, I find myself reading hot garbage that the uncritical internet thought was pretty: *cough fantasy books explaining every unique aspect of their world early, so that the reader can focus on mind-numbing It’s impossible to fully grasp any real world situation, but you can work with the context clues you find

  • Journey Before Destination [I]

    a master list of my posts to improve navigability, but for now you can always search my website to find I find these words deeply meaningful, and I'm hardly alone – here's just one thread where readers discuss To me they are fundamentally about mindfulness; taking things a step at a time.

  • The Locked Tomb: Harrow & Gideon Explained

    and her fellow lyctors while also experiencing Commander Wake/The Sleeper's attempts to possess her mind I was undergoing the kind of shit that I had only undergone once in the happy knowledge that it was all Muir's reasoning is a little more evident in my mind: this lets at least a version of Gideon join Harrow

  • The Symbol of the Cruciform in Dan Simmons' Hyperion

    which I truly believe could improve the world if enough people heard and internalized their message of mindfulness , illuminating seemingly disparate parts of this world and asking the pilgrims and readers alike to find resurrection and prevents them from traveling beyond a small radius, effectively leaving them trapped as mindless His ultimate plea to his God, crucifying himself on a tesla tree in hopes of finding true death, only Hoyt finding the crucified Paul Duré, by Andrey Anikin The Future of the Cruciform One additional bit

  • Elder Race: Clarke's Third Law, squared

    Nyr and Lynn on the Catalan cover for Elder Race , art by Elsa Velasco (I'd love to find a reason to Even though Nyr approaches the demon with the scientific method and a logical mind, it might as well

  • Red Dress Day & Avatar's “Death and Glitz”

    A grim and shocking way to convey ideas about equality, but in my mind a truthful and effective one!

  • Corporate Dehumanization II

    (As always, you can find a somewhat-organized list of my work here .) essentially) enslaved workers responsible for most of the spam text messages we receive lives in my mind

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