Category: original fiction

• [YT][posting][response] “China Hates SJW Star Wars” Provides Food for Thought

  

  This is pretty legit. After spending eight-and-a-half years in China, I have gained some insight into current Chinese Mainland culture, which should not be confused with other Asian nations and cultures, including Taiwan and Hong Kong. In a previous post where I discussed some commentaries regarding Solo‘s flop and China’s poor showing, I also touched…

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  August 6, 2018

  culture, interesting stuff, literary critique, nonfiction, original fiction, video

  asia, asian culture, china, cultural customs, culture, rose tico, star wars, technology, the last jedi

• [posting][original non-fiction] Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Exploring the Human in Alternative Identities

  

  “Knocking at the doors of human perception” is how Tim Adams describes the exploration of human selfhood in the form of transhumanism. As traditional notions of “human” have been challenged by postmodern thought, which questions universal modes of meaning and legitimation (New Keywords, 270), a complex discourse regarding “the human” has arisen thanks to increased…

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  July 31, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, original fiction, thought piece

  AI, anime, artificial intelligence, asia, blade runner, blade runner 2049, dystopian, film, ghost in the shell, humanity, literature, robotics, science, technology, transhumanism

• [posting][opinion] Conscientious Objection and Ideological Dominance within Public and Private Spaces

  

  Warning: This a form of musing. The ideas presented here are by no means definitive and have been posted for shared consideration. Every man’s home is his castle. Although this proverb is a unsophisticated sentiment which leaves aside the complexities of the interplay between pro-social behaviour and individual expression of conviction, more people than you…

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  July 23, 2018

  culture, original fiction, random writing, thought piece

  christian cultural theory, Conscientious Objection, cultural theory, culture, ideological dominance, ideologies, private space, public space

• [posting][opinion] Distortions In Time: A Character’s Eucatastrophe

  

  A reviewer recently posted a review for Chapter 58. At the end of the review, they state: Again, I am weary [wary] of this story, I love it and I’m exited, but reading some of your comments I get a bit nervous. Like, how Loki has good intentions, but that doesn’t always lead to good…

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  June 6, 2018

  fanfiction, literary critique, literature, nonfiction, original fiction, random writing, thought piece

  academia, character, character growth, eucatastrophe, humanity, intersectional politics, loki, loki fandom, loki fanfiction, star wars

• [posting][poetry] Spectrum

  

  white is the numbness of the mind pain that drowns my sinking soul breaks Vision with boredom of time memories will take their toll yellow is hallucination codes which build reality illusion makes a coffined life memories which none can see red is the colour of regret blood which spills upon these hands slicing up…

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  May 26, 2018

  literature, original fiction

  anime, disillusionment, illusions, inspiration, literature, manga, memory, original fiction, poetry, regret, sadness, saiyuki, self, vices

• [posting][school piece] The Role of Film in Art and Culture

  

  Every other month or so, I sit down to re-watch one of my favourite artsy docufilm Oceans (Disneynature). Why do I watch it so often? What is it about this film that draws me back again and again? Why do people watch films? What role does film play within art and culture? Cultural theorists have…

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  May 23, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, original fiction, thought piece

  adorno, critique, film, film critique, horkheimer, literary critique, literature, mirzoeff

• [posting][original fiction] Night Runners: First Year

  

  Another Wattpad update for my story you can check out by clicking here!

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  May 6, 2018

  original fiction

  assassins, children’s literature, middle school, mystery, night runners, original fiction, steampunk, wattpad, young adult

• [posting][opinion] Ceding INTJ Control: Part One

  

  Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. -Proverbs 3: 5-6 When it comes to being a Type 5w6 INTJ, I’m a pretty happy camper. However, there are some times when I frustrate myself or catch…

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  April 28, 2018

  nonfiction, original fiction, personality, random writing, thought piece

  advice, christian intj, Christianity, enneagram, ideas, inspiration, intj, life, meyers-briggs, opinion, type 5

• [posting] Theologizing Landscapes: the Rural and the Urban

  

  For the past eight and a half years of my life, I have been living abroad in an Asian city of about nine million people. Upon returning home, I did not experience the usual reverse culture shock, except in regards to the breadth of the Canadian sky. There is something about the Ottawa summer sky…

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  April 22, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, original fiction, thought piece

  biblical literature, god, ideas, literature, opinion, rural, spaces, the Bible, urban, writing

• [posting][short piece] Nanny and Timmies

  

  And lo, Nanny came unto the land of McMaster University, and she followed the congregation of the people – the students, and the teachers, and the staff – into the Student Center. And Nanny said unto herself, “Thou shalt not go to Timmies before the appointed time, that time which is when your friend Michelle…

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  April 11, 2018

  original fiction, random writing

  biblical literature, cappucino, coffee, exam, exams, inspiration, original fiction, studying, tim hortons