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Satire: Domestic Goddess on a Council Estate - Pancakes

Satire: Domestic Goddess on a Council Estate – Pancakes

I had wanted to write something more on the humorous side for a while, especially as it’s something quite out of my comfort zone. Every time I’ve tried in the past, it never quite seemed to come off right. I’m quite a keen cook, so I had played around with the idea of creating some recipes that could combine with the humorous writing, as that’s not something I’ve really seen anyone else do. The…

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Christmas 2018: Ode to the Lonely Ones

Christmas 2018: Ode to the Lonely Ones

Sometimes it’s the brightest lights who cast the longest shadows. However, there also can’t be any darkness without light. This is my little tribute to all those struggling this holiday period, whether because they are all alone or even just because they’re feeling a little bit low.

KAPELA: Just look above you. Do you see? That is called the immense board of lights. And there is the Great Black…

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Quote - Solyaris

Whenever we show pity, we empty our souls.

– Solyaris (1972)

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Realising you're not only a geek, but also gay, or how Dungeons & Dragons changed my life.

Realising you’re not only a geek, but also gay, or how Dungeons & Dragons changed my life.

So I used to play D&D, or Dungeons & Dragons for those not familiar with the term, or AD&D for those so familiar with the term these distinctions matter (that is Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for those still trying to keep up at this point).

Anyway, I used to play in a game of D&D, led by one of the most devious Dungeon Masters you’re likely to come across. So, in short, I absolutely loved it. I…

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Poetry: Dreams

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  Poetry is a strange one for me, as I never really thought of myself as someone who would write poetry. To be honest, I still don’t really write a lot off it. Strangely enough, for me music provided a way into writing some poetry, as certain song lyrics really resonated with me. So I started to write would-be song lyrics that felt like the right expressions of how…

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Photo Flash Fiction: On Call

Photo Flash Fiction: On Call

At this stage, we decided to get some other friends involved with the challenge, and that person ended up picking the picture for this one. This ended up being what felt like quite a left-field choice, but if nothing else this meant it provided an interesting inspiration.

The nature of the picture being quite a strange chose to me, actually made me think a bit more outside the box as well as…

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Quote - Alphaville

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

– Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)

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Reading: A Fear of the Reality

Reading: A Fear of the Reality

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I’ve found myself on numerous occasions not doing what I want to do, essentially because I fear that I like the idea of it more than the reality. This is true of life in general of course, but especially with reading, I find. This hasn’t been more true than with certain writers. Let me back up for a sec to give some background to this first.

Liking the idea more…

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Quote - The Ninth Gate (1999)

Even hell has its heroes, señor.

– The Ninth Gate (1999)

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On the Shoulder of Giants: Steve Gerber

On the Shoulder of Giants: Steve Gerber

Steve Gerber (1947 – 2008)

For the longest time, I read Steve Gerber’s writing without even knowing he wrote it. I know that sounds strange somehow, but at the time -as a little kid-, I was still just devouring comics indiscriminately and not really paying much attention to who were actually grafting these stories I was enjoying so much. It wasn’t until years later that I realised that he was…

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Brexit and Me

With Brexit ever looming in the background for me -I still have a Dutch passport-, I came across this article. As I’m a fellow Dutchie living in the UK, I felt I wanted to comment on this at least a little bit -mainly from my own perspective and experience.

A lot of what’s in this article rang true for me, but some of it just sounds bitter and disillusioned. If nothing else being bitter and…

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Quote - Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything

– Mark Twain

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2000AD: Future Shocks

Goals: 2000AD - Future Shocks

In a way, I see writing for 2000AD as a right to passage as so many greats have come from that pool of talent (Alan Moore, Grant Morrison & Peter Milligan to name but a few). Even though I, unfortunately, didn’t grow up reading 2000AD, the last 10 years I have been working my way through the rich history of comics that 2000AD has published.

I’ll do more posts on 2000AD in general and their…

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Quote - Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

– Aaron Sorkin

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On Writing Comics

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This is not going to be a unique story by any means, as so many comic book fans would love to get to write comic books for a living. But yeah, I’m one of those fans as well. I’ve read comics all my life and still hold on to the dream of one day writing them professionally.

The general advice everyone will give you is to just write comics. By creating comics, you…

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Coming Out: an ongoing process I came out relatively late in life. I had turned 30 and had only just come to terms with some painful truths about myself, and so finally felt comfortable enough to actually come out.

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Quote - Alan Moore

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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