Hi. This is the part where I'm supposed to tell you some stuff about me. Let's think about this for a moment. I don't know you, probably never will, so I'm particularly inclined to divulge a lot of personal info. I'll let you have a little bit.
I'm a college student with an interest in mathematics, history, and political science. I'm a Midwesterner, and I rather like it here. The east coast is a dump (too many goddamn hippies), and don't even get me started on the west coast. I like cold weather and can be rendered effectively non-functional by temperatures over 85 degrees.
Politically, I'm a die hard believer in Chicago School capitalism. The ideology I fall closest to is classical liberalism (think of it as lite libertarianism). I'm generally against the regulation of individual rights (some issues are more complex); I let you hippies have you drugs, so stop trying to take my guns.
Philosophically/religiously, I'm a deistic Protestant and believer in compatibilistic determinism. For those of you who've never heard that term, it means that I don't hold determinism (in the more general philosophical sense, not just religious) to be mutually exclusive with free will.
I'm not a huge fan of philosophers, having yet to read one who wasn't Socrates that I actually liked. I'd rather assemble my own philosophy and then support it with out of context quotes from people I think are cool.
"Conformity and rebellion... both are simple-minded--they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity."-Neal Stephenson
"There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men."-Robert A. Heinlein
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee."-Robert A. Heinlein
"Those damn commie bastards hate everything we stand for: freedom, liberty, apple pie... did I say freedom?"-Red Alert 3
Project Status:
In progress
Archomachy: a fantasy steampunk techno-thriller about how an internal conflict in the Republic of Tyrre evolves into a global conflict through the machinations of a cabal of royalists and a group of insane cultists trying to raise a cosmic horror. It is currently being reworked and will be posted as a tetralogy of novellas.
Glass Road: A magepunk alt-history novella about a magic-fueled Roman Empire attempting to build a road through the desert while being harassed by nomadic Arabian rebels. A handful of legionnaires are captured by Arabs and discover that the real obstacle to the road's construction is closer to home.
Future
Heretic Engines: an alternate history where Leonardo da Vinci kicked off the Industrial Revolution a couple centuries early in Europe thanks to the support of German banker Jakob Fugger. The coincidence of the Industrial Revolution and the Protestant Reformation polarizes 16th century Europe. Still in conceptual stage.
Other stuff
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This is an extremely crude and incomplete world map of the Archoverse (the setting for Archomachy), created because I deluded myself into thinking it would be fun. Not everything has been put in yet, and a lot of stuff may be changed around
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