Behold my profile.
There's, uh, nothing here right now. Someday I should probably find a balance between the old text wall, and...this. (she drew my avatar you know!)

The bean, it must be found. For MHD's Fairytales contest.

I have no idea why I wrote this. All I can say in my defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the ti--wait no that's a lie, I said, repeatedly that this was stupid and shameful every time I mentioned working on it.

The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.

Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.

If you don't know what this is for, then it isn't for you.

So would you say that Sikhism's gonna be sick, bro?

Glad somebody finally figured out the science behind that to bring an end to the Greek religion.

Islam comes from the same source as Christianity and Judaism, yeah, so afaik they've got the Old Testament stories that are almost identical, and they even believe in Jesus's performance of miracles and raising of the dead and being raised. The contentious point on Jesus is of course whether he was created or eternally existed as part of the Trinity, but there have been sects of Christians who believed differing things on that too (and tbf it's not necessarily the clearest thing in the text too when you have Jesus actually praying to God as though to a separate being). That was a large part of why the Nicene Creed came about to officially define the faith on those points anyway. Whateve the differences I always do feel like it's pretty significant that half the planet recognizes the same God and has been for a very long time...if you happen to believe in an actual evil force out there trying to sow strife and deceive people, then it seems like they've done a pretty good job creating this level of hate and infighting among people who have the same core beliefs. It's been interesting discussing Hinduism with RK a bit too, because even they have sort of a notion of a trinity with their major gods containing a Creator, a sustainer and nurturer of life, and then a destroyer, all representing different facets of the universal god that's in everything. Hinduism since it doesn't have a unifying scripture or organization and has evolved organically without any top down pressure for so long is probably the closest significan still practiced thing to ancient paganism (disclaimer: I know fuck all about Hinduism and obviously other people could go way more into this). A pretty notable thing there though is how different the details can be by culture or region or even just family to family even with it all being under the same pretty recognizeable umbrella...but then of course you saw the same thing with Biblical Hebrews too, and they HAD unifying laws spelled out for them that they spent thousands of years of their recorded history not really doing at all in specifically that way. (Lots of examples of cultural variance across the years in Judges, a lot of details in Samson's story come to mind.) Anyway, I don't have any cohesive conclusion to all of this, I'm just rambling to avoid my storygame.

Forgot you were blessed enough to miss the Fluttershy saga. Basically around this time last year a very prolific author of mediocre fanfic known for (as you might guess from the name) being a shameless brony went full schizoid on us and received many grand and elaborate relevations about the dangers of "acoustic" versus written communication and the Greek gods being demons. This was all explained via a 30k word storygame he wrote in a week which he presented as being the most significant thing ever written to upend all previous ideas of science, religion, and philosophy...basically a linear text dump about being whisked away by Merlin to be given all his conclusions in dense bullet point lists, with the grand conclusion that "the last stand of Christianity" was My Little Pony, Star Wars (the prequels and originals only), the Lord of the Rings movies. Not the books of course, the fucking movies. But anyway then a little later he deleted it along with half a million words of unrelated fanfic to protect it from being read by Satan, aka Malk.