The World is Exploding

But I have a new story up, I guess

It's been a disturbing week in the world and an article about cancel pigs seems almost trivial.

Here in Canada a homeowner was arrested for defending his own home from an armed home invader. Across the pond a young girl was arrested for defending her sister from being followed and filmed by an illegal alien pedophile.

Thor’s hammer protect you Wilma Wallace whatever your name is.

I can’t write much more about this here. I’m enraged like I haven’t been in a long time. I can’t have CSIS banging on my door, and I also have daughter to protect.

On to the Cancel Pigs

World events aren’t my wheelhouse, or why you’ve subbed. So, closer to home i see a cancel mob has launched a cruel bullying campaign against author Jordan Lee. Why? For this post.

She dares to state the truth. That’s it. I’ve spoken about how the Big Five have pushed certain demographics over other. Agents openly discriminate. I’ve spoken about the demographics of the industry, which some of the pigs brought up in defense of their mob cruelty, with a few choice ommisions, of course.

Some denied there was an issue-

Others said it was happening “but”

Others said her being pushed out was a good thing

My cross is heavy, but I do it for goodness itself - *posts*

Please, don’t go looking for or engage with these people.

This is a well recognized pattern at this point, but one commonality joined all her detractors. Cruelty.

They all claimed virtue but which virtue? It certainly isn’t kindness, rationality, or justice.

That day I chose violence and dug into a politically heated discussion. I avoid these like the plague. I write about scantily clad men and women fighting sorcerers and monsters. I'll stick to that. I recall what a fool Madonna made of herself playing victim and waxing maudlin during the pandemic. She was rightly mocked. I will never be 1/1000th as famous as her, so I'll leave you to your preferred politics and religion and focus on savage adventure.

I’m giving myself a little leeway to mock these cruel, vapid, emotionally stunted, mean girls.

And I mocked them only. I did not engage their arguments. Why? Five years ago these goblins would not engage in any discussion with anyone who did not submit obsequiously and instantly to them. I tried, foolishly, not realizing who they really were.

Now their zeitgeist swirls about the drain (though it’s not dead yet). Now they want to talk. But they are incapable of debate, honest or otherwise. They don't really want to engage, of course, but more than that they are incapable. Their worldview is utterly calcified and insular. They live in a world of self made illusions. They excavated their own Plato’s cave. They engaged only in Chinese cultural revolution style struggle sessions. Humiliation, emotional manipulation, and social domination is all they have.

Now they don't sit at the cool kids table, their tools are rusting. They are incapable of actual debate becasue they’ve never done it, or even felt the need to. No doubt some are genuinely afraid. Their tried and true tactics are ineffective suddenly. When their privilege slips, they cry oppression.

That’s not good.

Kristen McTiernan has a great post on it if you’d like further details.

The Cancel Pigs Are Still Here

Jordan does not appear to be a pugnacious, grumpy old grognard like myself. No doubt she was not far removed from their thinking on many subjects. I don't know what Jordan Lee writes or what her politics are but I defended her in a small way. Or at least I upset and distracted a few of the goblins on her heels.

As Kristen points out, she defended herself, then felt so overwhelmed she locked her social media down. When she returned she argued in good faith and fought the accusations of bigotry laid against her. All useless, of course, because fairness was never their intent, only a mask.

I hope she stops querying mainstream agents. I hope she finds success as an indie, free of tradpub mindf*ckery and liberated from the commie cultists. She may or may not, that’s her business, but I’m rooting for her.

I was also glad to see a significant portion of the Iron Age come out swinging as well as Iron Age adjacent. I’m proud of you guys!

Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum, Brothers!

Shadow in the Eye

I have a story out on Amazon. That was going to be the thrust of this post. I might have talked about the two shorts I’m working on, or about maps in fantasy books. But censorious Marxist authoritarians and a budding civil war pulled me away.

Anyway, I would appreciate any support (especially written reviews!) for this tale new to Amazon: Shadow in the Eye.

In this fast-paced chiller, old school sword and sorcery meets the frosty touch of horror.
The wandering mercenary from the North, Skarde, stops to wet his parched lips in a mangy tavern in The Eye, the worst quarter of the rich and wicked city of Damyra. An alluring feminine form catches his eye and he is drawn into facing an eerie menace.

Thanks for reading, and stay savage!

-Erik