Books and Ghosts

you’ve seen project Hail Mary???? Oh my gosh I love Rocky in your style!!!

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept

“Bring me a hero, and I will show you a damned angel: Lucifer turned not monstrous but pitiful: a seraph robbed of their wings a demigod deprived of ambrosia a favoured son cast aside and exiled. The world is so quick to turn its back upon those that saved it but your saviour is still handcuffed to the sword and the shield. Bring me a hero, and I will show you a tired soldier: the prodigal son who wasted a fortune he didn’t know he had the splendor of innocence, the invulnerability of youth, and no longer knows how to walk back across burned bridges to greener pastures where respite awaits with beckoning arms. Bring me a hero, and I will show you a frightened child: a boy dragged from back alley fistfights into battlefields, a girl who had to learn to wear blood like lipstick and nail polish. a lost soul, no more than ten or twenty, a sweet little thing, still recoiling yet from the horror of it all a pleading child, still screaming with terror and desperation a mere kid who was never granted the time to grow up.”

“Is that the—”

“Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

This slaps