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“It Smells like Cock Here”: Warmongering, Masculinity, and Repeating History

The title probably sounds entirely ridiculous and out of place, yet there is a connection with the subtitle. Indeed, when it comes to warmongering and masculinity, historical examples abound. Inspiration behind this post came after I read the excellent nonfiction book The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark. Among the […]

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YouTube Facade: a WordPress Plugin

YouTube Facade is the name of this plugin I’m sharing with you, but it started – like most things I make – as something entirely for my own use, on Home for Fiction. A facade is an interface that “masks” another kind of content — in this case, an embedded YouTube video. Why, you might […]

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Functional Illiteracy: a Widespread Problem

Many (most?) people consider illiteracy – the inability to read – a binary problem: Either you can read or you can’t, they think. However, there is a far more insidious issue that passes largely unnoticed in modern societies. That is functional illiteracy, or the inability to read beyond a superficial level. To give a somewhat […]

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Mass Tourism Needs to Die

Greece has many beautiful places, and though I’m Greek and I spent the first 20 or so years of my life there, I of course haven’t visited its every corner. I recently spent a few days on Crete, and let me tell you, it was an eye-opening experience. Mass tourism needs to die, yesterday! You […]

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Walrus Insulter: a Fun Little JavaScript Program

Does the word “insulter” exist in a standard dictionary? I don’t know and I’m too bored to search. But the name Walrus Insulter definitely does, in my dictionary. Obviously for those who know him, Walrus Insulter refers to none other than the supreme overlard [sic] of puns, my cartoon character Punning Walrus. If you haven’t […]

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The Creative Lifestyle: Building Good Habits

On a practical level, a lifestyle is a way of life, a set of habits and actions that guide one’s routine. Obviously, there are many methodological and even moral consequences. For example, a vegetarian lifestyle influences one’s choices of, say, food shopping, as well as their way of thinking about animals. Similarly, a creative lifestyle […]

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My (Somewhat) Revised Approach to Religion

Just to make this immediately clear: I am an atheist. I have revised nothing in terms of what I think regarding the existence of a supreme being. And because I consider the current evidence overwhelmingly against the existence of such a being, I do not accept theists’ rational explanations behind it, either. However, I have […]

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Authentic Writing: Going Beyond “Originality”

Many writing gurus (🤮) keep parroting the mantra that originality in writing is good. They often don’t even bother to explain what originality is or why it’s good. When they do, rarely, it’s almost always about plot. As a result, we get overrated plots that are “original”, in the sense they are chaotic and nonsensical. […]

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ChatGPT vs Gemini Turing Test: Hilarious but Insightful

I recently read The Emperor’s New Mind, by Roger Penrose, and a small part of it describes the (in)famous Turing test. In simple terms, it’s a process where a machine (typically a computer) can demonstrate intelligence (and, some would argue, consciousness) enough to be indistinguishable from a human’s. With such intelligent and mature – cough, […]

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Recent Changes on Home for Fiction

You might have noticed some minor changes on Home for Fiction lately. Or then again, you might have not, and the only person reading this is me. Ironically enough, this very element (meta- time!) is part of the reason there have been such changes. Among these recent changes, the most conspicuous must be the disappearance […]

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