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  • Postcolonial Narratives, Empathy Burnout & ADHD

    my favourite novels and series are deeply postcolonial, most often by directly examining imperialist mindsets As I've written about before , I often find myself mentally paralyzed (experiencing executive dysfunction

  • A Moment of Silence, A Year of Rage

    can often be problematic: lashing out at ourselves or those around us with any number of different kinds But do we really have to think very hard to find the root cause of our emotions, here and now?

  • K.J. Parker's World of Deadpan Fantasy

    Those stories that do feature magic lose none of the usual cynicism, however, and simply find new ways Parker's work I find absolutely fascinating – and half wonder whether he does in part to toy with loyal his stories seem to inhabit the same world, but it remains nearly impossible to view them with any kind This is a fan's best attempt at assembling Parker's world, and as far as I can tell it is one-of-a-kind It's hard to find one of his stories that doesn't play with ideas of perception and reality; the " Great

  • Touching Allegories in 'The Tomb of Dragons'

    with a host of new issues on top of a few lingering ones from The Grief of Stones , and it's tough to find Both his fraught journey to accepting the loss and his catharsis at eventually finding his abilities It's a simple scene and slightly awkward, but it's the kind of important real life communication we need in this series, it is to learn that they were all but exterminated 120 years ago by the Clenverada Mining The same is true for all kinds of artwork and furniture.

  • Life Has Value

    fostered real relationships with the working class of their ancestral planet Caladan and bring that mindset a bit scattered today, partly because a Google Cloud disruption has been messing with my ability to find

  • It Gets Better: Rhythm of War & Ghost’s “De Profundis Borealis”

    is gone But between the walls of whispering frost // Secrets live on Every time you feel the wind the words that never came out right // Within reach, but out of sight All the songs that couldn't mend prison And if only love could break these chains // Life could go on Every time you feel the wind But once they do allow themselves to reach out, they will find that there is light, warmth and beauty Other people (even fantasy authors and satanic bands) can and will help, but ultimately you have to find

  • What is House of Leaves? Part I: The Navidson Record

    They know there’s nothing there and can live with that knowledge, but men must find out for sure. Strips of velcro have fallen off his parka, shoe laces have shredded forcing him to bind his boots together “It’s kind of scary” Wax mutters in the middle of a long ramble. “ Like you stop thinking about something

  • ‘The Devils’ by Joe Abercrombie | Review & Analysis

    Alternate History & (Euro)Fantasy Unlike The First Law , The Devils takes place in medieval Europe – kind Abercrombie illuminates some key 'historical' differences in a passage I find utterly fascinating from They are newly led by Brother Diaz, a fairly hapless monk who wasn't looking for this kind of promotion of fights by trickery, yet also utterly isolated and living with every belief humans hold about her kind Of course he eventually finds a heart (his own, in addition to the many many corpses he puppets), and

  • Sinners: When You’re Dead, You’re Family [Vampires VIII]

    asked to leave due to her appearance, then warned that her life will be at risk if her white community finds Silveira Outro It's fascinating and refreshing to see a film of this scale explore vampires in any kind Remmick's influence over them broken, the mid-credits scene suggests that vampire Stack and Mary have

  • Obsession’s Folly: “Pitcher Plant” Spotlight & Analysis

    In response to finding infinite hallways in either direction, we get a nice inspirational quote: "in character enters the bedroom of a young woman grown unfathomably ancient without having experienced any kind had a similar thought in the very first room, "the bookshelves stuffed with volumes chosen for their bindings The story's final paragraph makes the horror personal to Death, yet I find myself far more disturbed

  • Adulthood, Brutally (or, the Brakebillsroman)

    He, the class and Professor March find themselves locked in place for hours while The Beast explores You have to find something to really care about to keep from running totally off the rails. A lot of magicians never find it … I know you think it’s going to be all quests and dragons and fighting realized the day he was admitted to Brakebills, and he was struggling to formulate a new one with any kind that development is followed by two further moments where adventure and opportunity have to come and find

  • Choosing Humanity: A Vision of Achievable Utopia

    Because the global mindset has shifted toward choosing and prioritizing humanity .

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