The Matrix
Working on the Xeroverse novels led me to The Myth of the American Superhero and its “American monomyth” becoming a significant influence on the story and my understanding of the world. I’ve covered it previously, but in short, the American frontier fostered a heroic archetype of a loner who
superheroes
To accompany the Xeroverse Tetralogy, I'm also working on a nonfiction book tentatively titled The Trouble with Superheroes, which lays out the various issues I see with the genre and how it could be better. One of the linchpins of my critique is to take a close look
writing
Mother’s Basement, a YouTube channel that does content about anime, posited that the way to see if an isekai anime is worth watching is to see if the protagonist being from Earth actually matters within the first episode. That isn’t an ironclad rule, but when the whole premise
Over the past few years, the core of my creative endeavors has shifted from designing TTRPGs to writing fiction. I do want to get back into TTRPGs at some point, but my writing feels like it needs its own home. A blog feels like the right place for that, though