Speaking as a writer, and also a white dude: the adoption of mythology into a fictional world is complicated. To draw from experience—the Wild Hunt mythology for Europe. Different countries/cultures have different takes on the myth, some of them *vastly* different takes, and for the purpose of a book, for the purpose…

I like to play as different characters as I meander my way through various Fallouts...and one of them is a no-charisma sociopath. On my FO3 playthrough with said character, I was ultimately disappointed that I couldn’t just murder my way through Little Lamplight and be done with it.

It was a very “if the only tool you…

I think most people are desperate to be liked. I think most people lead social lives of quiet desperation. Moreso people with anxiety or panic disorders, depression, or howling, deep seated insecurity, or lives riddled with self-loathing and negative self-talk, lives led with a second self inside the self cooing…

I may be crazy...but I feel this may be a valid argument:

A publication (WHOCARES Magazine) sends a photographer off to take photos of T. Swizzles.
The photographer goes off and takes said photos.
WHOCARES Mag decides not to run the piece
WHOCARES Mag should still be legally culpable to pay the photographer
The subject of…

I’ve always found this a very interesting part of sexuality. Sexuality being mostly a limbic/unconscious thing, insofar as it’s difficult/impossible to affect with conscious thought...so, at what point is someone liable to be held accountable for their sexuality?

For instance...I am a 27 year old straight white male. I…

Maybe it's because I consider most childkin to be grubs, but I think maturation is actually a major factor in dealing with the circumstances at hand. As children get older they're bound to need certain services that near-bald wispy-haired babies do not (such as regular haircuts.) The parents may have started to…