My Memory Craft Quasi-Experiment: Utilizing Art as a Memory Device

Vanakkam. As this blog's resident eldritch entity from beyond space-time and incorrigible weird skeptic, my vile Troythuluness has arranged and carried out a neat little experiment of sorts with art as a memory device. Actually, it's more of a quasi-experiment from its informal, quasi-scientific nature. It’s taken more time than I’d have liked, to run …

How to Be an Ally, Because Black Lives Matter

https://youtu.be/qio0BvKDMUM Al Jazeera English On the YouTube page: "Mass protests in the US over the killing by police of George Floyd, have been swelled by the presence of people of all races in numbers not seen before. But whether it’s on the streets or online, what does true allyship look like? “You're walking down the …

Gods of Terra Primer: Introduction

Vanakkam. I’m briefly interrupting this hiatus to repost an updated entry originally published in 2018. So that being said, I’m rebooting the Gods of Terra setting, and working on a new series of primers on this SF universe while I work on the setting bible, a setting mostly but not entirely focused on a small …

Gods of Terra – The Null Dance | Prologue: Meenakshi

Kalai vanakkam! I'm releasing this piece during my (mostly) hiatus, rewritten from a recent Pikatron Monthly, prior to updating my newsletter page with newer issues from the previous few months. This piece ties into fiction I'm researching the Tamil language and culture for, and in part serves as the basis for the final book, due …

Quid Novi? | I’m Going on Hiatus for Three Years

This is my main blog’s final pre-hiatus update. I’ve expanded plans for all three of my current blogs, updated my goals, when to post, what directions to take things in, but I won’t elaborate on that here, not until hiatus is over and regular posting resumes. I've got stuff to do offline that needs finishing, …