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The Poetry of Meshuggah - Immutable

Within their lyrics, Meshuggah critically takes the perspective of extremists, fulfilling the imagery of their album cover art - a man ablaze and wielding a knife.

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Someone Stole My Writing

I hope in some small way reading this might help you in whatever it is that you aim to do, and with some luck, maybe we can even add a little bit of our own “good” into the world.

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Trump Tackles Sugar

The idea was originally for it to be a short story, about a near future, disgraced Donald Trump, who time travels onto an old set of the UK Apprentice.

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An Interview with Rhett

Rhett is a professional 3D Sculptor for Riot Games - so we spoke in depth about his work, his love for art and sculpting, inspirations, sense of humour, how he came into such a specific profession, education, streaming, and his advice for other creatives who are perhaps pursuing their own dreams.

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Prerequisites

The items on the list get progressively weirder and more specific, symbolising the ever growing desires and evolved kinks required for billionaires in order to get their sick kicks that might come from exclusivity and power.

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Where Have All of the (good) Vaporwave Artists Gone?

I don’t know who first decided to go with the hyper colourful, urban-modern tacky, yet somehow 80s styled designs of what we know today as our ordinary public transport seat covers, but it has gripped me as a quirk of metropolitan life, or a maybe even a glitch in the matrix of our mundane world.

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The Philosophy of Veganism

In the modern day there is some decent animosity around the word “vegan”, comparable perhaps to the hostility towards the term “feminist” in recent years.

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Another Book?

I think I have created a piece that translates into a post-new age, vegan aesthetic. It is raw, harmful, strange, discomforting, and woke.

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An Update on the Novel

She smiles at him, which he likes, and he feels grateful for the lack of light because in his current, messy state, the features of his less perfect face are not as obvious to her.

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sample_text

sample_text became a portal into Pollyverse, stories and poems from the very characters of Pollyverse themselves.

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Vote

I just did my early vote for the WA state election yesterday and it got me thinking (as I often do) about politics…

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Update on Horror Fiction Novel

The boy finally makes it to the top of the hill, he slithers around some large rocks like a horrible human canoe, but the setting sun is nowhere to be found.

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The Japan Trilogy

Good day fellow vaporwave enthusiasts, and welcome to The Japan Trilogy - a concept album that I created after obsessing over the genre for a year or so.

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Welcome to the Blog - Big Boy

Hello there and welcome to the very first blog post! As an introduction I want to speak about the idea and purpose of this space, as well as who I am.

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