Who is ‘You?’

Posted on 16 June 2026

Your Worldbuilding Bores Me When They Tell You to Do This

Posted on 9 June 2026

Or, “On Worldbuilding Discourse.”

Posted on 25 May 2026

The sixth and final installment of “The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled:

1. A Cry for the Eerie – Mark Fisher: a palate cleanser for all those Freudian texts you’ve been forced to read;
2. Welcome to the New Weird – But not before brief detours to Lovecraft and Lucian;
- 2.1 Fantasy’s Weird Emulsifiers – Oil and water can, in fact, mix;
3. ☜︎♏︎❒︎♓︎♏︎📪︎ ☜︎♏︎❒︎♓︎●︎⍓︎ ✋︎■︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎♏︎⬧︎⧫︎♓︎■︎♑︎ 📫︎ ✋︎ ♐︎□︎❒︎♍︎♏︎♎︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ⧫︎□︎ ●︎□︎□︎🙵 ◆︎◻︎ ♋︎ 🕈︎♓︎■︎♑︎♎︎♓︎■︎♑︎⬧︎ ⧫︎❒︎♋︎■︎⬧︎●︎♋︎⧫︎□︎❒︎🖴︎
- 3.1 ♋︎☠︎⧫︎✋︎❍︎☜︎❍︎☜︎⬧︎📫︎ 🗏︎🖲︎♊︎🗏︎🖲︎🕯︎📄︎📄︎📬︎🖮︎✂︎☠︎ 🖰︎📄︎♊︎🗏︎🖮︎🕯︎📂︎📄︎📬︎📁︎✂︎☜︎🖴︎
- 3.2 ✌︎︎■︎︎☠︎︎♓︎︎☟︎︎♓︎︎☹︎︎♋︎︎❄︎︎♓︎︎⚐︎︎■︎︎ 📫︎ 📂︎📁︎♊︎📁︎🗏︎′🗐︎🗏︎″💧︎ 📂︎🗄︎📄︎♊︎📂︎🖰︎′🗐︎⌛︎″🕈︎🖴︎
4. “But It’s Still Magic–“ – Is it? Is it, though?
5. Brief Reflections – TL;DR, I think I came up short but I ain’t quitting;
TTLY… – Old posts.

Posted on 28 April 2026

1. Keeping it Real: Table stakes;
2. Beginning Borrowing: Literary writers like borrowing from genre – someone ought to ask what we should borrow back;
3. A Village After Dark: Litfic creates contexts where problems cannot be cleanly resolved;
- 3.5 Derailed (or, ‘Easter is Harvest time for the University’): Making up for the seminar that wasn’t;
4. Much Ado About Borrowing: Thinking of a philosophy for how to borrow

Posted on 9 April 2026

Posted on 29 March 2026

In twenty-seven minutes (or your money back), you will read:

0. Preramble: What characterisation (and character arcs) mean;
1. Characterisation as… Structural Analysis: Walking across to the anthropologists’ aisle, to see what we can learn;
- 1½. *I move away from the keyboard to let Future Me edit*: Applying structural analysis in the classroom;
2. Characterisation as… Discovery: Fuck planning and shit – characters are vibes, baby;
3. Characterisation as… Meaningful Choices: OK, but how are you gonna make them different from everyone else?
- 3.1 Dialogue and Its Functions: Dialogue reveals change;
- 3.2 Changing the Font?: Exploring a Pratchettism in Jingo;
- 3.3 Point of View and Narration: Narrators have more to do with characterisation than you think;
- 3.4 Body Language and Actions: “What can the body say that speech would otherwise diminish?”
- 3.5 Thoughts: Keep it to yourself;
- 3.6 Appearances: I said, keep it to yourself;
- 3.7 The Other and Schismogenesis: Why look for the Other in the exotic? What’s stopping you from starting closer to home?

Posted on 20 March 2026

Twenty beautiful minutes on:

My triumphant 28-minute return to blogging, and it concerns:

Can I bother you for six minutes to discuss…

The ~~quiet sadness~~ HORRENDOUS, HEART-WRENCHING, SOUL-DESTROYING epiphany Silksong has made me experience;
God I fucking hate Silksong but I fucking love Silksong;
TTLY: Old posts.

CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery