I'll tell you now this story has an unambiguously happy ending. And then other stuff happens.
WRITING FACTS
I guess now's as good a time as any to explain what I'm doing.
Thoughts on Stuff
This is what's happening right now. This is not history, and it's not complicated, and it needs to stop.
$torytime, Part 3: How RINGS OF POWER Broke Its Own Story
RINGS OF POWER was doomed from the start. Well, maybe that's being too generous.
$torytime, Part 2: How HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Broke Me
I want heroes that get chewed up and spit out but fight on anyway.
$torytime, Part 1: How the MCU Broke SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME
What makes all of this especially annoying is how unnecessary it is.
$torytime, Introduction: Three Tales of Big-Budget Storytelling Gone Bad
In 2022 there were three pieces of media that made me so mad I was unable to sleep, that were so bad that it took me hours, days, even weeks to put together reviews that adequately described how awful they were.
Revisiting The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, but it'd been probably a decade or more since I last read the books, so I figured I'd give it a go.
A Response to That Harper’s Letter
On July 7, 2020, Harper's Magazine published an anonymous letter titled, "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate."
Arguing 101: How to Be Right
It should be noted that some of this was learned from either myself or others failing to actually live up to it and is therefore somewhat theoretical.
Certain of Eventual Failure 