( Do you believe in God, Commander? )

( Where were you in the War? )

I can't seem to sleep for more than about a half hour at a time ... which is annoying as hell. So, as I often do, when I'm insomniac, my mind turns to history, and how things could've turned out. I'm an MA student in history, so yeah, it's on my mind a lot ( Read more... )

Power. The original and most valuable commodity of all sentient beings. The Conquerer had more of it, perhaps, than any other individual being ever had. In his millennia of existence, his empire had spread out from Earth, to the stars, across galaxies and dimensions. A vast Dominion of Humanity, of inconceivable breadth, wealth and population- even ( Read more... )

I am finishing a rather strong rum and Sprite- a combination that is oddly appealing. Seems as good a time as any to attempt a little experiment. A brief fiction. If blasphemy offends you, do not click.

( Accept your non-existence and find peace in it. )

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the First World War drew to a close. Fourteen million people, perhaps ten million soldiers and four million civilians died in that terrible conflict, a horrifying war which forever altered perceptions of armed conflict. Instead of a glorious campaign of a few months, millions of young ( Read more... )

Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, and those associated with them. Please, please, please stop delaying Astonishing X-Men. Please? It's really annoying for us hopeless fans to have to wait yet more weeks for the goodness. Not to mention it makes the complex plot harder to understand. If it's not your faults, Joss, John, can you kick the ass of whoever' ( Read more... )

Double Helix is a fantastic game, with a great group of muns and for once, I don't feel like a creative venture of mine is stagnating. All the unfinished novels, unplayed games and other ideas that never see the light of day can be frustrating. They take up space in my brain and beg them to be done ( Read more... )

I'm too cynical to think it'll work, yet too optimistic to give up hope. That is basically my entire commentary on the Middle Eastern ceasefire. And Stephen Harper is a stupid asshole for not even showing up to the AIDS Conference. Canada is the HOST, people. The PM should be there, dammit. On the upside, aid to Lebanon is a good thing ( Read more... )

Some years ago, I concocted a perhaps unrealistic but rather entertaining alternate history of the world as a scenario for an RP. Ragnarok 2014, which was set in a timeline that was technologically advanced, yet oddly a throwback to good old fashioned Red-fearing paranoia funfests. Basically, it was a timeline in which neither the First or Second ( Read more... )