Essays

Like blog posts, but I felt they were less ephemeral. I don’t know, it’s just vibes.

On language

• Thou, thee, thine: How to use the English second-person singular
• What is a pronoun.

On writing

• On writing They’re not gonna do a brain scan, are they?
• On writing The Drive

On LGBTQ topics

• Gender and Witchcraft and Discworld
• The transmasculinity of Ryan Gosling’s Ken
• “Girls can’t like sports without being transed these days!”

We live in a society

• On scientific “arrogance”
• What anti-“woke” thinkpieces sound like
• You are not a free speech absolutist.
• White anti-veganism
• When the right-wing says “truth”
• Why I support Palestine
• ACAB

On technology

• FOSS is political
• It costs almost $200,000 to submit a new TLD to ICANN
• Smart quotes are(n’t) a skeuomorphism

On paganism

• Cricket Moon
• How does magic work? (With ants.)

On fandom

General

• r/asksciencefiction
• It’s okay to write fanfiction

Animorphs

• On Hork-Bajir language
• That’s not how kandrona starvation works!

FFXIV

• Thoughts about the world of Eorzea Academy
• Time travel in Final Fantasy XIV
• A prophetic vision of FFXIV patch 8.0
• Death is bad, actually
• We’re not Azem
• Bad FFXIV fan theories
• FFXIV, and who counts as “alive”?

Fluff

• Eorzea Academy headcanon characters
• FFXIV relationship thoughts
• Character shard headcanons
• Small headcanon about Magnai and Cotota
• FFXIV job rework propositions

AUs

• Azemet soulmark AU thoughts
• FFXIV/Animorphs crossover thoughts

To write

• Why Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine is not good