Being Human

…Is a good show (UK version; I wasn’t a huge fan of the American version). It is not, however, a good excuse for the shitty things you do. Everyone’s had confrontations like these. Somebody well-meaning makes a mistake which causes some trouble for you or someone else. When you inform this person that their mistake […]

Main Character Syndrome

Main character syndrome is a term used to describe characters which clearly stand out as main protagonist characters. Symptoms include: Unnatural hair or eye colors An “emo swoop” (hair styled so that it covers half the face, yet is still considered attractive) Character is significantly more attractive than literally anyone else in the story Tragic […]

The Ethics of Sex Magick

A couple friends who share my interest in the occult and I have discussed this on occasion. It’s a bit of an uncomfortable topic for them. They have the opinion that performing sex magick is tantamount to mind control or rape, and, as responsible practitioners, is off-limits. I won’t lie, I’ve performed sex rituals. I’ve […]

Pride and the Act of Self-Love

They say that the worst of the deadly sins is pride. I say the most deadly sin is to not love yourself. As is the case with most people, I sometimes have trouble loving myself. I come from a Christian background, where the cultivated trait was humility, which is really just a nice word for […]

Writing in Competition

Most people, when they hear the word competition, immediately think of a great contest of will and skill, where there can be only one victor and all the rest are losers, doomed to a career of obscurity and wasting a life waiting tables just to scrape by. Quite the bleak outlook. Fortunately, it does not […]