No Titanic Tickets for Traitors

No Titanic Tickets for Traitors

Now that the Death Cultists are feeling their oats over slaying their orange bogeyman, they're planning an unprecedented sacrificial orgy to appease their gods. In their primitive cosmology the only explanation for their 2016 defeat is infidels angering the spirits with their -isms, so atonement must be made by offering…
January 19, 202116 Comments
Aspirational Marketing

Aspirational Marketing

Most folks in newpub unconsciously stumble out of the gate by calling themselves "indie authors". I know I did. But newpub means more than writing. If you go indie, you accept all the responsibilities of an author AND a publisher. As a result of indies' author-centric focus, a lot of…
January 18, 20214 Comments
You Can’t Save Everyone

You Can’t Save Everyone

Alric Hart pens a scathing rebuke of current pop culture and correctly points out that, as much as you might want to, you can't save everyone from the Pop Cult. We are constantly stormed by product of bad quality and malicious intent. Turn on your TV, and wait for something…
January 14, 202118 Comments
Generational Rights and Duties

Generational Rights and Duties

Stereotypes get a bad rap, but when you get right down to it, they're just ways of conveying shared social understandings quickly and efficiently. A common stereotype online these days is the trope of the out-of-touch Baby Boomer wagging his finger at younger folks who have less than he did at…
January 13, 20217 Comments
Writing Romance

Writing Romance

One seldom-discussed perk of being a writer is the joy of seeing your back catalog finding new readers. Lately I've heard tell that folks are discovering my second Soul Cycle book, Souldancer. While Nethereal had some romantic elements, romance is much more central to the second book's plot. In preparation for writing it I…
January 12, 202110 Comments
Signs

Signs

By popular demand, we delve once more into the back catalog of wunderkind-turned-byword-turned-mercenary director M. Night Shyamalan. This blog's reviews of Sham's Eastrail 177 Trilogy chronicled the rise of an earnest auteur, his fall to hubris, his delayed redemption, and his subsequent relapse. But twenty years ago, Shyamalan was riding high on…
January 11, 202114 Comments
Atheist Creation Myth

Atheist Creation Myth

Every religion provides its adherents with an origin story--an explanation for who the faithful are and how their creed came to be. Nu-atheism is no exception. Some would argue that atheism isn't a religion but a lack of belief. Science and logic prove this claim false. Human beings are wired…
January 8, 202110 Comments
Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Lead Us Not Into Temptation

When I first documented the media-fueled psyop against Pope Francis, I knew the smear campaign had pulled the wool over many Catholics' eyes.What I didn't realize, until a recent Twitter exchange gave me a rather rude awakening, was how hysterical some Francis Derangement sufferers have become.The news cycle memory holes…
January 5, 202112 Comments
Combat Frame Data: Nidulans

Combat Frame Data: Nidulans

Nidulans    Technical Data Model number: N/A Code name: Nidulans Nickname: Nid, starcrab, space crab Classification: attack spacecraft Manufacturer: Ynzu Operator: Ynzu First deployment: Unknown Crew: 1 pilot in full-immersion cockpit Length: main body 30 meters Weight: 150 metric tons Armor type: Fractal diamond isomer armor Powerplant: cold fusion reactor, max output 8,000 KW Propulsion: EM impellers: 4x 56,000, 4x 37,500 kg, 8x…
January 1, 2021
The Libertarian Experiment

The Libertarian Experiment

,,, Has been run, and as everyone who has kids warned for years, making a false idol of freedom has been a disaster.The Z Man looks at the data:There are fewer people in the court system for possession charges now, but no reasonable person doubted that claim. If we stopped…
December 31, 20207 Comments