Diversity in fiction is important, but it shouldn’t be ‘forced’ or for diversity’s sake. One of the many things I love about Black Panther is that it doesn’t go out of its way to tell you that it’s about African people. It simply shows its pride for those of African […]
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How Fandoms Can Be Toxic
Anyone with Internet access know what infamously happened in 2019. The greatest TV show of all time (aka Game of Thrones) finished, and most fans weren’t happy with the finale. So unhappy, that they decided a petition was in order to re-write the last season. Now, I can understand people […]
A Lesson in Empathy
I was sitting with one of my relatives and casually used a swear word as an adverb. I immediately apologized as I was aware the relative disliked cursing, and then we had a brief talk about language and empathy. Context In my view, words are based on context. Saying ‘nigger‘ […]
Why I dislike my species
It’s after four in the morning here on this wonderful island of Great Britannia. I’m three-quarters of the way through my next novel, a YA coming-of-age novel that will be my third published book (second fiction book). Simultaneously I’ve been applying for jobs in retail so I can fund the […]
White Leftist Pussies
If there’s one thing I can’t stand right now within the leftist political sphere, it’s white apologists. White people that say that they’re ‘sorry’ for the colour of their skin and ‘apologise’ for all of the injustices that white people have caused, and that they ‘deeply sympathise’ with people of […]
What Makes For Good Ethics?
My most recent Netflix binge was of a show called The Good Place, a comedy based around ethics and Moral Philosophy. It features a woman named Eleanor who wakes up in the afterlife and is told she is in ‘the good place’; not a stereotypical Abrahamic vision of angels and […]