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?
I Am Once Again Complaining About the Monomyth
When the Science in Your Storytelling is Sus
OoOoOoOoOo your genes determine that you will read to the end to learn about OoOoOoOoOo:
- Oh, it’s THIS guy again: Hey, I’ve seen this one… or so the Monomyth tells me.
- A Story of Science-telling: Criti-hyping evolutionary psychology (without the criticism) to explain storytelling;
- My God, Pure Paleoideology: What were we doing until 12,000 years ago? Was it all just evolution?
- On balance: Surprisingly, authors know what they’re doing. We should hear what they have to say.
You Are Peter Shorts (Review)
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.
Parachuting and Fully-Automated Luxury Politicians
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.
The Flat Tyre
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.
ANSWER ME THESE FALSE POSITIVES THREE
- One false positive is plausible; twice is uncanny; thrice you’d swear is intentional.
WTDWA? – An Essay For My St. Andrews Uni Application
This is a VIP (Very Important Post) with some UAE (Understanding, Analysis, and Evaluation) from an SOB (guess) on acronyms.
Continue readingThe Pen Shall Make Ye Fret
If you read to the end, right now, within my lifetime, ‘cos I can’t be doing this for all eternity, you’ll get these three consternations for the price of one:
- Oh, hey, I might get to write for a living;
- Recognising my flaws as a storyteller, and what I can do about ’em;
- Things you can expect on this blog soon…
Liminal Time
What an excellent day to read to the end and find such contemplative thoughts as:
- Liminal spaces – and why they feel comforting, yet eerie;
- Liminality in anthropology – and how it can explain said comforting eeriness;
- Persona 3 Reload, once more – and how the observing of its many rites of passage culminates in the most beautiful ending to a game I’ve ever played.
- (CW: THAT MEANS MASSIVE PERSONA 3 SPOILERS AHEAD)
The Merdenomicon; (SSBU) Reveries of Grilling Time
Read on for fascinating meditations, such as:
- The Merdenomicon: COVID’s epistemic anxiety and finding answers through ‘manifesting;’
- On Journaling as Developing Critical Thinking: Or, “Why you should record your thoughts in a blog;”
- Reveries of Grilling Time: The time I spent playing Smash during COVID.