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Fiction Is Where Our Gods Live

Superheroes are the myths of our age. Myths that tell us something about who we are - villains and heroes and victims and bystanders - and also tell us something about who we could be - villains and heroes and victims and bystanders... One of the ideas that I'm exploring through the literature (yay for student access to university library resources and databases!) is the idea that fandoms can be religions, and that all religions are actually fandoms, that stories and myths are only distinguis...

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The Curious Hermit
Dec 15
Planetside
I wrote this short story in 2022. I've been pondering it a lot lately, and am considering expanding on it. He hadn’t been planetside in years. Not since he became an asteroid miner. The endless expanse with no apparent horizon had been disconcerting at first, but he’d gotten used to it. Now, he was going back down. Or maybe it was up. Didn’t matter. Direction was meaningless on the Rocks. ~ He hadn’t even been in a solid-wall building in months. Not since his last mandatory med exam. The one ...
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The Curious Hermit
Aug 15
The Way of the Dabbler
The Curious Hermit and the Way of the DabblerA gentle manifesto for the joyfully non-linear.1. We follow the thread of curiosity.We do not ask where it will lead. We trust that the act of following is reason enough. A single thread, tugged in wonder, can unravel a whole world.2. We are allergic to false urgency.The world moves fast to keep you from noticing. We move slowly so we can see. We keep our own time.3. We practice depth through breadth.The Dabbler is no dilettante. Each curiosity add...
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The Curious Hermit
Jul 19
Fiction Is Where Our Gods Live
Superheroes are the myths of our age. Myths that tell us something about who we are - villains and heroes and victims and bystanders - and also tell us something about who we could be - villains and heroes and victims and bystanders... One of the ideas that I'm exploring through the literature (yay for student access to university library resources and databases!) is the idea that fandoms can be religions, and that all religions are actually fandoms, that stories and myths are only distinguis...
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The Curious Hermit
Jul 12
Rerouting
On processing life and evading writers block through poetry.
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The Curious Hermit
Jul 10
Spread Thin
A poem written as I work on recovering from burnout.
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The Curious Hermit
Jul 6
Your Mind Doesn't Stop At Your Skull
When was the first time you augmented your mind?I'm not talking about sci fi implants. I'm talking about using tools to improve your thinking and creativity. Maybe it was a crayon or a pencil. Some paper. Creating an external representation of what was in your mind. Or trying to anyway. More scribble than anything else. The more you did it, the better you got at it.
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The Curious Hermit
Dec 21
A Vow Renewal
I first took my vows December 21, 2020. This year, I am renewing my Vows for the 5th time. And I’m changing them dramatically this year. This last year, my Vows were: Study Structure Simplicity Stewardship Stability Sustainability Service Sanctuary There’s only so many S-words you can use for single word vows, so this year, when I felt like I needed to make some changes, I dropped the strong alliteration and really changed things up. For the next year, my Vows will be: Intention Curiosity Cre...
Curious Dialogues: A Personal Learning Project
The Curious Hermit
Nov 13
I've never been one to hide my political leanings. I'm an anarchist, but a pragmatic one. I voted for Kamala Harris because I think Trump is terrible for everyone right now. But I'm also a mystic and know that just because something is terrible right now doesn't mean it's the worst thing for the future, so I accept what is and dig into what I can do with my particular skills and interests to maybe make it a little less terrible for the present. My personal analysis of why tyranny keeps winnin...
I Give To You My Last Fuck
The Curious Hermit
Nov 1
I give up swearing every November. It's a practice I started in 2016, and that was a really hard fucking month to give up swearing. I've done it yearly since. It turned out to be really good not just as a practice of mental and emotional discipline, but for creative writing, too. If you've only just started following me in the last few years, you might not realize just how much of a potty mouth I used to have. I swore so much, it shocked people. Not gonna lie, I enjoyed it. I like swearing. I...
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The Curious Hermit
Oct 16
DIYing a Master in Fine Arts Program?
I am a writer. I am a very good writer. I want to be better. But I don't really want to go to school for that. I'm already in school full-time finishing a bachelor's in philosophy. I may go to grad school, but it won't be for writing. It'll be for another topic of interest that will make my writing even more interesting, and also to develop research skills. The DIY MFA in Creative Writing that I'm putting myself through, on the other hand, is about refining my craft as a writer with the assis...
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