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Author of science fiction and fantasy. Inner Demon live! Go to my blog for reviews. X is for hot takes.

Joined October 2022
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Inner Demon out now! With time running out and her identity slipping through her fingers, Gnyphe must face a harrowing question: How much of yourself are you willing to lose to find the truth? eBook vendor links below: books2read.com/u/4jjBKj
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The Gods that Watch is one of the best books I've ever read. Thank you, @MichaelFKane, for recommending the Kickstarter. It's not often I finish an ebook and immediately buy the hardcover, but that's happening today.
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Bless you, CS Lewis. My 4-year-old cannot stop telling me how much she loves Narnia and loves Aslan.
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By the end of the movie you'll hate this dad more than the child-murdering witch. But I didn't hate that I hated him. I wish there were more strong dads (and families) in children's media but, for whatever reason, this bad dad didn't feel like a dig to me. I don't know why.
One of the primary messages of this movie is "rice milk drinking Portland lib dads are completely incapable of having the courage to make literally any effort to protect their children" and I gotta respect that filmmakers were brave enough to say it
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My favorite Wildwood rapid review I've seen thus far: "Wildwood is like Lord of the Rings for agnostic pantheists and pot smokers … beautifully done, morally suspect, a good time haha"
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Wildwood made me mad. I wanted to be enamored by this movie. If you're making the most gorgeous and technically advanced stop motion maybe ever, could I get more than five seconds per shot to drink in the artistry on display? Enough key jangling.
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That criticism more-or-less applied to the plot, too. Lots of characters I don't remember the names of, couldn't care much about because I get not enough (meaningful/impactful) time with them.
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Would still say I enjoyed it and don't regret the ticket cost. My critical self wants to give it a 7/10, but it probably deserves more. My family all had a 10/10 experience.
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Here’s what my wife and I left hiding in the living room, should any of the kids get any ideas about sneaking downstairs tonight.
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ostensibly innocuous apocalypse
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*sees reality* Just gotta keep trucking… There’s no getting through the night if you lay down and give up…
To anyone thinking that being an author is easy and lucrative. To those artists who think an author should pay them hundreds for a cover and attack any who chose cheaper options. This is the reality. 13 years and this is it. Not even half the wage I earn per year from my day job.
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Most nights I help my daughter keep the bed dry by taking her to the toilet a couple hours after she falls asleep. Most nights, after I tuck her in again, I say "I love you" and she says "'Kay." Last night, she finally said "I love you" back and I was on cloud nine.
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"We will make the whole universe a noise in the end. We have already made great strides in this direction as regards the Earth. The melodies and silences of Heaven will be shouted down in the end." ~CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
A Universe Begins. See how Narnia was created in Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, a film by Greta Gerwig - only in theaters February 12.
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Lots of comments on this bit of rage bait, but here’s what struck me most: “What if all [males] disappeared?” “Well, already-pregnant women would give birth to some males—” No, unborn babies are still babies, and identifiably male. Humans still go extinct in one generation, max.
Bruh im in no hate to any gender we need each other but this is hilarious ngl😭😭😭
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a child in possession of a rock must be in want of even more rocks.
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4Y: Daddy, the moon! Me: That’s no moon… 4Y: … Yes it is? Me: Yeah, it is, sorry, you wouldn’t understand yet.
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Time to hire offensivity readers. If they aren’t offended, it’s not offensive enough.
Precisely. Much like trigger warnings, if an author uses “sensitivity readers,” I'm out. I refuse to indulge narcissistic scum, and I certainly won't contribute to the wokefication of literature.
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It is impossible to trust Hollywood to take the correct stance on most moral issues—particularly those involving children, concerningly enough.
Just got out of Primetime and I have to say… this was even worse than I expected lmao It wasn’t just a Chris Hanson character assassination, but a paranoid Reddit-tier indictment of basically anyone who expresses condemnation of pedophilia in general. The pedophiles are largely portrayed sympathetically in comparison to Hanson’s savage sociopathy. The anti-pedophile characters are almost all shown as either bumbling idiots or secret predators themselves. At one very batshit point, Hanson’s murky conscience is challenged by a rabbi he catches in a sting who the audience is almost led to forget was there to rape who he thought was a little boy (promised to him 3000 years ago ofc). The climax of the film is a pedophile District Attorney killing himself after being aggressively pursued by Hanson and police. In those final moments, the pedophile is portrayed as an uncertain, misunderstood, almost innocent guy who, again, you’re nearly instructed to forget had been exchanging lewd messages with a child. The decoy he’d been speaking to is shown crying as he solemnly sings the pedophile Seasons of Love from the gay musical Rent over the phone in the lead up to the sting and suicide. While it was advertised as a critique of sensationalizing predator hunting, throughout the film Hanson’s desire to “use” pedophiles for his own “gain” was very clearly framed as the biggest sin. Even as I was leaving the theater, I overheard someone ask “was Chris Hanson really that evil?” The only saving grace of the movie was Robert Pattinson’s acting, which was 10/10 despite the overall narrative being shit.
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Space King might be the most important masculine-targeted piece of art of this generation.
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