Recent content by Arcturus

I don't know if people from hell would use this, but I recently wrote "by God's unshaven armpit."

Imagine the most attractive person you have ever seen. I'm like that, only better.

But that person would be more of an anti-hero or an anti-villain. Classical heroes usually need something external to be interesting. Very rarely will I see the traditional hero as a wonderful character by his/her own means. For example, Link from the Legend of Zelda. Despite his millions of...

Villains. They usually have free reign to do whatever they want without those pesky morals getting in the way, they have the snarkiest lines and are quite fashionable. Heroes are generally boring, flat and...ugh. Sometimes it gets to the point where the side characters are much more...

Sexting is the easiest way to incriminate yourself. Even between consenting adults, I can see why this sort of thing would be banned, considering how it can ruin people's lives if someone decided to blackmail the other. While I'm all for avoiding censorship, some people are too stupid to...

I guess it isn't a "downfall" so much as it is an inconvenience. I only say inconvenience because most of my characters are basically attached by the hip. Now if they were actually attached by the hip, that would be a different story...

In my writing I tend to have two characters who are complete opposites, but somehow play up each other's strong/weak points in the process. It's not so much as a formula than it is a downfall in my writing. The reason why I consider it a downfall for myself is because in order for this to work...

Unoriginal or not, there are always going to be people out there trolling, saying so-and-so isn't original because someone else wrote something similar in an obscure corner of the world. Taking inspiration and elements from other works doesn't invalidate a novel and make it doomed to be the...

Normally I take the Schrodinger's cat approach when it comes to endings I don't like. Most of the time it's because my characters go rogue, but in the event that I do feel sorry for them, I write multiple endings for the story. That way the characters are simultaneously dead and alive. When...

So in other words, Gerald J. M. McFarquhar is essentially the literary equivalent to Willy Wonka. Smashing. Oh, and I just realized another thing. I tend to judge publishing companies by the cover too. I was searching for an uncensored version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and realized...

I'm suspicious of McFarquhar now. Does he have an assembly of ghostwriters by any chance? :P

South Park really hit the nail on the head with the Dead Celebrities episode. The same goes for the Scientologists. They didn't even have to exaggerate with those episodes because that's pretty much how it is. But somehow they gave Ghost Adventure competitions. There is actually a show that...

The power to take away everybody else's powers. Everytime someone asks me this question, I answer with this because it makes people mad.

There's certainly a lot of elitism when it comes to having the "best English education". As an English major, I'll probably get harpooned for saying this but I don't think it matters in the long run. Language isn't static and as long as your message is conveyed to other people in a meaningful...

It seems like the History Channel created a supernova of Hitlers, thus ruining TV forever. (Cue overdramatic crying) After the hype over 2012, everybody was suddenly interested in aliens. Somehow this translated to shows that have little to nothing to do with history in general. Instead, they...