“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Happy New Year

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of...

The Didact’s Top Ten Posts of 2016

Before anyone says anything, yes, I know, this is some serious navel-gazing, but I don’t do it very often. And it’s my blog anyway. As with past years, the idea here is to present a selection of what I think was my best writing from all of 2016. The...

The Didact’s Best Albums of 2016

Now that we’ve gotten the best books of 2016 (in my ever-so-humble opinion) out of the way, it’s time to tackle the best albums that I’ve listened to all year. Now, the thing is, I actually listen to quite a lot more than just heavy metal- but for...

The Didact’s Best Books of 2016

As the last hours of 2016 wind down, it is time to go through a time-honoured tradition, stretching back to, uh, last year, before, um, whoever’s bothered to read this, in which I go over the best books that I read during the year. As with last year I’ve...

Friday T&A: The Party Post Edition

There are less than 30 hours to go for 2016 (at least, from where I am, which is a few time zones ahead of most of my readers), which means that it’s about damn time to start popping open the champagne bottles (for the hoity-toity types) and beer bottles...

Don’t be a basic bitch

Still good advice even as we call time on 2016: There is, by the way, a similar standard for blokes: The lesson to take away here is that you’re not going to impress anyone by being such a special snowflake that you end up simply doing whatever all of the...

One picture says it all

Courtesy of Vox Day, here is a simple demonstration of the difference between a Western society that has sold its future down the river in the name of a fashionable but totally unworkable ideology, and a Western society that has decided to preserve for itself and its...

Turn the EPIC knob all the way up to 11

SABATON + God-Emperor Trump memes = AWESOMESAUCE: Holy shit, that was brilliant. I did NOT think it was possible to make AMON AMARTH’s “Twilight of the Thunder God” any more epic than it already is. Naturally, whoever created that SABATON/Trump...

Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling

Seems somehow fitting to celebrate Christmas in the old country with another great poem from the Poet Laureate of the British Empire, don’t you think? Dim dawn behind the tamarisks — the sky is saffron-yellow — As the women in the village grind...