Author of THE INFINITE BETWEEN (Starlight & Spells #1) – coming 2027 from Nocturne House. Fantasy meets sci-fi. A fairy tale interrupted.
Millersburg, OR
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Spent three hours last night rewriting the same scene because the fairy tale logic kept colliding with the physics of the starship. My kids walked in, saw the scowl, and asked if the spaceship was broken again. Yes it was. Anyone else have a world that fights back this hard?
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“I could not give less of a fuck. It's not meant to be a faithful adaptation”
Uh yeah. That’s why people are mad bro
I keep hearing this stuff about "disrespect" to the character or an "unceremonious death" but truly I could not give less of a fuck. It's not meant to be a faithful adaptation, and there's no reason to expect to be going in or coming out. That's an unrealistic expectation on you
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I bet Ben likes hospitals, of which 65% in developing countries are Catholic.
I bet Ben likes murderers, rapists, and pedophiles being punished, by laws that originated from Christian law.
I bet Ben likes the $140 billion that Christians in America alone give to charity both organizationally and privately.
The fish doubts the ocean because he cannot see the water
I would have absolutely no issue with Christianity if Christians kept their worldview within Christianity. Christ died for all Christians? Cool. Christians are born in sin? Cool. Original sin applies to Christians? Cool. Heaven and Hell await Christians? Cool.
What I don’t understand is the insistence on making your theology the default condition of all humanity. I wasn’t born into your religion, I never agreed that I inherited your Adam’s sin, and I don’t accept that I need your Jesus to save me from a condition your worldview says I was born with. Believe it for yourselves. Why must it apply to everyone?
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Most “family-friendly” companies are not family-friendly.
They will sell you the aesthetic of kids, faith, and hometown values right up until those things become inconvenient.
Then they lecture the same customers who kept them alive.
Loyalty is not a brand strategy.
It’s a one-way street they only notice when it disappears.
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The hardest part of writing a fairy tale that also has a starship is not the magic system.
It’s keeping the wonder intact after the characters learn how the universe actually works.
One more equation and the story starts feeling like a manual.
One more prophecy and it starts feeling like it never left the nursery.
I’m trying to write the space in between.
Anyone else chasing that exact line?
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Alex Smith retweeted
The Christian community is not a refuge into which we withdraw in order to protect ourselves from our age. On the contrary, like the cathedrals of old, the Church is a place of welcome, respect, revelation, and meaning for everyone. The strength of a living Church lies in welcoming those on the peripheries who already have a place in her heart; welcoming those who are far away but in reality are already near; welcoming the stranger, in whom Christ is already knocking at the door. #ApostolicJourney #France vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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I don’t want my kids to grow up thinking the hero only wins if he becomes as ruthless as the villain.
I’m writing a sci-fi fantasy where the fairy tale still has rules — kindness costs something, courage isn’t a branding exercise, and the starship doesn’t get to sneer at wonder.
Call it old-fashioned. Fine.
I miss books that made me want to be better when I closed them.
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I'm writing a science fiction/fantasy series where I try to strike the same awe and wonder that Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling instilled into me as a kid. I miss virtuous heroes and am sick of morally gray villains. We need more fantasy with good messages and I aim to write and bring that back
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Piggy backing off this post: As a fan of countless fantasy franchises, if I'm going to spend money to see an adaptation of a franchise I like, the adaptation better be faithful.
Politics and religion aside, so many modern fantasy and adaptations of fantasy just aren't good. The writing, the acting, the dialogue just lack a certain magic that used to be captured up until the early 2000's.
Eragon, Witcher, Rings of Power, Chronicles of Narnia, Halo, Star Wars and even Game of Thrones to a certain extent have all been genuinely terrible because they aren't made by fans of the franchise that's being adapted.
Corruption comes in small doses.
It’s the reason why some people were thrilled when Gandalf (a Christ-like figure) was played by a gay actor.
It’s the reason why Aowyn was portrayed as a girl boss and her famous line has now become infamous instead.
It’s the reason why Sinon (originally rumored to be Achilles) was played by a white actress and “white-armed Helen” (as Homer called her) was played by a black one.
And now, it’s the reason why Lewis’ seminal work is being remade as a “rock-inspired fantasy” and Aslan (another Christ-like figure, gee, what a coincidence) is being voiced by a woman.
Corruption happens slowly, then it happens all at once…but it begins in small doses.
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Nothing is worse than having to come up with a new name for your created world because you didn't bother to check google and the name you "created" is already widely used😭
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Chapter One of The Infinite Between.
She woke before the light did.
Cold in the wool. The breath of the great tree. The forest already moving below her.
This is how it starts.
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Today I am attempting to write a little sci-fi horror as an allegory for my MC's survivors guilt.
It makes me appreciate authors like @StephenKing even more because horror is a lot harder than I would have thought
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They should make Easy Bake Ovens for little boys. Some kids like to cook but don’t like unicorns or sparkly pink
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For the record, I believe in the death penalty and am happy this guy is going to be put to death.
But Matt, if everyone got what they’d deserve, the world would end and we’d all be in Hell
This is totally incoherent. It cannot be wrong to give someone what they deserve. I mean literally by definition it can’t be wrong. If it’s wrong, then they don’t deserve it. If they do deserve it, it’s not wrong. Pick one.
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The “incident” is going to be sexual isn’t it
Vanessa Kirby and Lewis Pullman have been cast in ‘THE SPACESUIT’ from director Kitty Green.
The film follows an astronaut who must make a crucial decision after an incident with her co-pilot leaves a stain on the mission in the days leading up to lift off.
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