I'm starting to roll out the 2025 blog-style book promotion for Volume Three, "All the World." To it, I wanted to specifically share the portion here that I wrote thanking Harmony Corrupted for their contributions and assistance over 2024 and 2025! Copied from the original NSFW post , wherein I swapped out the images for tamer variants! With Harmony's Help: Addressing Volume Three's Grand Emptiness and Ambitions through a Good Friend (feat. Harmony Corrupted) Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto of 1764 is still accepted as the "father of the Gothic novel," yet most observers of this novelette see it, with some justice, as a curiously empty and insubstantial originator of the mode it appears to have spawned ( source ). —Jerrold Hogle, "The Ghost of the Counterfeit in the Genesis of the Gothic" (1994) This is a 2025 addendum briefly (two pages) considers Volume Three has having big ideas it could never explore fully but which I was abl...
This interview is for "Hailing Hellions," a Q&A series where I interview sex workers (or ex-sex workers) who have modeled for me and my Sex Positivity* book project. Today's guest is Rhyna Targaryen! This is the SFW version; click here for the SFW-version interview compendium! *The longer title being Sex Positivity versus Sex Coercion, or Gothic Communism: Liberating Sex Work under Capitalism through Iconoclastic Art (2023). Part of an overarching movement that connects sex positivity to what I call "Gothic (gay-anarcho) Communism," Sex Positivity essentially provides a hybrid; i.e., one established between academic (Gothic, queer, game and Marxist) theories, and wherein applied theory towards universal liberation is achieved by challenging Capitalist Realism (the inability to imagine a world beyond Capitalism) at a grassroots level. To it, Gothic Communism specifically occurs through direct mutual worker ...