Soycrates

is a scruffy looking nerf herder. But otherwise, a McMaster University philosophy student (of contemporary ethics and formal logic), vegan, literary fanatic, Dungeon Master, mediocre writer (both of fiction and non-fiction, located in my FAQ), film junkie (e.g. Woody Allen, Godard), SF/science/ discovery lover. Feel free to ask for: help with going vegan, reading recommendations, philosophy info, playing D&D, personal things, or anything else on your mind.

Either I just didn’t notice the phenomenon before, or young new writers are getting really fucking unoriginal. Teen novels are just coming out of the “guess what a sexy broody vampire fell in love with you and now you’re sucked into a world of vampires and sexy blood ooh some other mythical creatures too” theme and into the “lets watch young kids beat each other senseless and call it honour and skill and knowledge and courage woo I can kill defenseless beings with guns and bows and arrows” theme.

Do all teenagers need fucking anger management classes now?

What’s next? “You fell in love with a sexy nazi zombie during the apocalypse Holocaust and you took an aptitude test that told you how you’re the only nondescript 16 year old with mild self-esteem issues that can unite the four nations because everything changed when the fire nation attacked”