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Two paths down two seemingly separate hallways leads to the same exit, marked 'MLitt.' One exit is labeled 'Dunning-Kreuger,' the other 'Imposter Syndrome.' The caption reads: "The illusion... of free choice."

A little 9-minute something about:

  • Epistemic anxiety: When you fear that there’s a lot more to how you know what you know… that you don’t know;
  • Craft: Expectations of what your stories should contain that your audience will love
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Green paperclip bent to look like a pipe. Underneath it is written, "ceci n'est pas un linkdump" ("this is not a linkdump")

A sixteen-minute read on an assortment of topics, such as:

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A parody of the intro sequence to every Star Wars film. It reads: BROLOGUE EPISODE LIV (54) I AM ONCE AGAIN COMPLAINING ABOUT THE MONOMYTH

A 10-minute read with storytelling enshittification and pan-galactic quizzifications such as:

  • The Monomyth is literature’s cryptid;
  • Why it’s not a good model, actually;
  • Is there no alternative?
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A comic featuring two figures (Left and Right). In the first panel, Left says to Right, "yeah so i went to go visit my friend-" Right interrupts Left with, "bro's genes told him to get friends" In the second panel, Left stares, bewildered; Right's face is neutral, believing they have said nothing wrong.

OoOoOoOoOo your genes determine that you will read to the end to learn about OoOoOoOoOo:

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The game's banner art on Steam. The game's logo is surrounded by art of (clockwise right to left) Bird Peter, Bat Peter, Wind Peter, Fire Peter, Elec Peter, Peter Shorts, Ice Peter, Alpaca Peter, Bug, and two Propellor Peters. Dr. Von Schnabel, the game's antagonist, watches on from the background.

Read on to the end for many peterrific puns, as well as:

  • You Are Peter Shorts: A ‘BM-coded’ game that makes a fighting game out of a Metroidvania;
  • Competitive Petering: What you need to know in case someone rocks your local with their sick nasty Peter Shorts skills;
  • My Petier list, because of course I had to make one.
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An old photograph of a parachute jumper. The image has been edited. The UK's Reform Party logo has been composited onto one of the parachutes.

Read to the end for political reformations such as:

  • A brief little reminder that Reform UK is a private company, not a political party;
  • We do a little parachuting.
I CAN CHANGE WHAT THE ‘CONTINUE READING’ BIT SAYS – IT’S ALLOWED, YOU KNOW

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A Shell station at the Balhaldie service area.

Read to the end for literary constipations such as:

  • Two guys on a motorway discuss quitting their job;
  • Britain’s only fully-automated luxury petrol station (powered by AI, of course);
  • My commentary: how I feel being back in the saddle.
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A fortress with a drawbridge. On the drawbridge, a gatekeeper guards the way with WhatsApp's notification that a user has been blocked for spam. In the background, through the portcullis, is a WhatsApp group chat.
  • One false positive is plausible; twice is uncanny; thrice you’d swear is intentional.
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