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BARDS of the IRON AGE

The Corporate State murdered Culture.

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Dirges attract attention; Dr. Naomi Wolfe’s poignant “The Death of Culture: How Lies Killed Books” attracted much, because it was true. The Age of the Big Publisher is over, their Zombie shells inhabited by the spirit of Propaganda.

The Comic Giants, once Heralds of Secular Pantheons and American Mythos, have fallen, cannibalising the corpses of their once-beloved Intellectual Properties, comics selling to no one, movies playing to empty seats. The Media Houses write music by AI, sung by AutoTune, lyrics to anesthetise listeners. The Great Publishing houses now launder money through big contracts to Politicians, pandering to their constituents via vapid committee-created collaborations, propped up by Corporate Oligarchies and Shareholder dollars.

But that does not mean the Death of All Things Cultural. The diseased corpse of the Media Moguls has died, true - but like Life in a toxic waste dump, Culture cannot be killed, it can only be suppressed. Eventually, the vines creep back, the roots take hold, and once again glorious Life rises from the mire, defeating Death.

In the wake of this atrocity, a remarkable response has occurred, a natural reaction to the unnatural offerings of these dead Publishing Houses and their products. In defiance of this Corporate slaughter of Culture, Heroes arise -

the Iron Age Bard is born.

In rebellion of these would-be Gods of our Universe, a spontaneous gathering of troublemakers and rabblerousers has assembled, called to action by their own consciences; in protest of the Corporate Culture of Death, a new Era of Cultural Life is born - the Iron Age.

We, the Creators of the Iron Age, stare into the cultural void and find it abominable. Music, Art, Movies, Books, Media - rewritten at the touch of a button, banned from all discussion, created to satisfy no one, designed to destroy all unauthorised views. What was once a Culture is now a Cemetery, killed by those who would Reset the World.

We defy you. We reject you. We Create.

We hammer out Creations by moonlight, in forges hidden to all but the most discerning eye; we write in bedrooms, sketch in basements, sing in bathrooms, create in breakrooms, where no one else sees -

bouncing babies, we write a line, feed a spoonful, then write a line again.

Little by little, Cultural Life takes hold, under the nose of those who would destroy it. Songs, Poetry, Epics, Art, Life… it takes root in discussion chats, in online forums, in Homes, in Churches. Bit by bit, thread by thread, link by link, we forge a new Culture from the Ashes of the Old.

The Author are writing, the Singers are Singing, the Artists are creating and none can stop us. Our Pen our Sword, our Voice our Instrument, our Vision Invincible -

We are the Iron Age.

We are Independent Creators who create in defiance of Corporate Oligarchs and their Propagandist Publishers, all for the Love of Creation. We are suppressed online, our searches "throttled", our advertising banned because of censorship. And yet, we thrive…

"Iron Age" Creators are creating in spite of The Powers That Be, rejecting their lies, resurrecting Beauty from their Cultural Pyre. Wresting our heritage from the ash, we remold it into the image of Truth, our vision of Justice, and the Hope for a New Age of Cultural Life, one created in the Image of its Creator. Let the Tyrants tremble as beyond the ramparts they hear -

the chant of a distant army, the Bards of the Iron Age.

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WATCHER of the DAMNED: WANDERER - 2nd Series Update - Cover Art for TRAIL of TRAVAIL!

WATCHER of the DAMNED: WANDERER - The 2nd Series in the WATCHER of the DAMNED Saga is alive, with the manuscript for "TRAIL of TRAVAIL" out to Editor Stephen Black @stephenRB4! And look what just dropped -the mockups for the TRAIL of the TRAVAIL cover from our Artist, Laura Morris! To see more of her work, visit her DeviantART page!

Yes, those are Feathered Serpents. They come free with every order of Post-Apocalypse Texas!

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@IronAge

#Western #SciFi

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Angels Come Down

Angels come down; we do not see. They stand at the portals between you and me - they wait by the bedside and hover above, the Prayers of another their whispers of Love...Be not afraid! They come in the nightwhen others are praying by dim candlelight;Angels come down.

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Miracles and Mayhem

Miracles and mayhem.Thus hand in hand, they walkthe rising tides, and talkof outlines drawn in chalk - then choose to disappearas mysteries appear. If you want another,one goes with the other,closer than a Brother -Miracles and mayhem.

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Kindness is Small

Allium bivalve, “False Garlic”, Limestone County, Texas: Spring starts small…

Kindness is small;a word in the night -a prayer in the darkputs shadows to flight.Kindness is quick;Though givers are gone -their flickering flameforever lives on...Kindness is real;in words or in deeds -your Kindness todayis what the World needs.

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Legacies of Love

Photo by R. H Snow

Love today, while yet you may -Life is fleeing fast away;Sorrows cannot spoil or slay the Legacies of Love.In the end, Silver is Stone...Gold cannot for sin atone; Eternity lives alone in Legacies of Love.-R. H. Snow

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A Letter from Texas

I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry - but it's over. This can't go on. It's not me...

it's you.

When you asked me to join with you, I was living on my own, and I had just escaped on abusive relationship. But you said you'd always put our relationship first, and that you'd never be the kind of controlling, domineering manipulator I just escaped. You were so brash, so bold, so full of promise - and I believed you. What we had was amazing, it was everything I dreamed it would be;

I remember when you loved me.

We scaled bright mountains, and walked dark valleys. We made mistakes; we sinned, we begged forgiveness of each other, we made up, we laughed, we loved, we changed the world -

then one day, you stopped loving me.

I admit, I saw the signs. But I thought we could work through our differences, that our love of what we had together could overcome all. I'm working full time, bringing in money with my own businesses, which I share with you - and yet you demand more and more. You gaslight me, causing me to question everything I ever believed. You ignore me, calling me stupid because I want to honor the values we both swore to uphold...

then I found out you were cheating on me.

You've given yourself over completely to someone who's offering you more money, more power and more fame than you think I can possibly give to you. You no longer remember what we had - you no longer honor your vows... you take my money and give to others, not just one, but anyone who asks, if they just let you have your way. Now they are telling you how to treat me, taking what is mine and using it to hurt me -

I want to leave and yet, you tell me I have to stay.

You tell me our Union is set in stone, that I can't make it without you, that I'll fail at everything. You call me horrible names, tell me how much you hate me, accuse me of being unfaithful and even criminal. You remind me of every mistake I've made, and even though I've changed, you say I can never be forgiven -

then you tell me I can't leave because if I do, you'll destroy me.

That's why I have to leave you. This is an abusive relationship. You are no longer the brash young promise of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; you are a cheating, lying abuser who hates me openly and wishes me dead. If that's the way you feel, then me staying isn't going to change your mind. I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't - but I'll be damned if I stay with someone who hates me.

I’ll die on my own feet before I live another minute beneath your heel.

I’m doing this to save everything and everyone we ever created together; if I stay, we will all be destroyed by your hand. If I can save them, I will; I’m putting us all in God’s Hands, and only He can see our future… but I’m leaving you.

I don't know who you are anymore. I don't know what to call you. You used to be called America, Land that I loved -

I am Texas, and We Will Be Free.

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DEFENDING DAHL: Books, Bullets and YOU!

Thanks to Hans Schantz at wiseatheart.substack.com for use of his sweet sweet Freedom Flag!

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THE HEALER OF DREAMS

Bring all your Nightmares to the Healer of Dreams. The One who has access to all that Life seems...the Good and the BadThe Happy and Sad, Transformative Memories flowing like streamsInto our Future with the Healer of Dreams.

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