Compelling Characters: Character Analysis With Cartoons to Boot

How Has Gender Identity Naturally Altered Over Time?  6 to 8 min read Views on Gender and Sex...  In the eighties, some psychologists described  men as experiencing 'autogynephilia' if they were sexually aroused at the idea of being a woman. If sexual cross-gender fantasy can entice male to female transition it may reveal one psycho-sexual example for what we call gender identity. This theory differs to what the World Health Organisation advised (WHO), along with people like Judith Butler, who insist gender is a social construct based on shared beliefs. For me, such ideas are poppycock, given for starters, how beliefs can be altered! Human biology causes gender. I might be wrong, blinded by my own biases, so let's explore...  How is Gender Constructed?  We are unique sheep and truthfully, I think men transition for various reasons. Masculine and feminine traits arise like bio-determinants. Therein exists part of a dichotomy; a bottom-up emergence of gender, root...

YouTube Kiddy Horror Characters: Nostalgia and Childhood Gone Wrong?  5 min read Let’s get something straight: there’s a fine line between horror and whatever these indie characters are doing online. All the kids in our extended family circle try to sneak them on the telly through YouTube while we aren't watching; we're under instruction to switch it over to baby shark! Personally, it's not just because they’re brain rot or possibly copyright theft, but because they fail to land the one thing horror should do—frighten people properly!  1. Sonic The Hedgehog: Not a Horror Icon, Stop It For The Love Of God!  Look, really, Sonic is the blue speedster we grew up with in the 90s, but yeah, I get it—re-inventing him as a corrupted nightmare was too tempting. But here’s the thing: Sonic was never meant to be some bloodshot-eyed cartoon monster. His charm came from his speedy playability on a megadrive or a master system, not whatever this is! It's not really too much diffe...

Reform UK: That Tightrope of Unity 4 min read British politics is a crazy game of bouncy castle Jenga! Reform UK is shouldering the burden of maintaining party standards while the animals of the zoo hurl their own faeces at them. The party — currently in its own rocky training montage — has reached the top of those steps, arms raised, real contenders! They have become the champion of the only good cause and they strive for broader support!  Reform and The Right Nothing is perfect, except for maybe our daydreams, or a cracking sunday roast dinner. Nigel Farage is human; not infallible! There was some blowback after Richard Tice publicly distanced the party from Tommy Robinson and those loyal to him. To be fair, most of us could see the move was about preventing controversy and keeping as many moderate people on board as possible. Sensible, right? I'm not so sure. However, there are still beliefs that illegal immigration concerns are racist, that Brexit was fascist, freedom of s...

A First-Hand Reflection of the Internet: From Napster to Neo-Pronouns 5 min read The Wild West of the Web Remember how crazy we thought we were online by downloading dodgy music at 56k? Now we're debating what a woman is. How did we get here? Retrospectively, the promise of free media offered by 'the web' in the late 90s went above many peoples heads! To surf the net made no bloody sense at all, but it sounded cool! I remember being curious by those bizarre secret agent-like codes starting with 'www' all over the place. 90s nostalgia I still remember the cardboard cut-out of Carol Vorderman standing in our local library, luring in the unready. This was years before her cheekbones and mammary glands had mysteriously swollen! I.T savvy librarians frustratedly instructed the older generations, as well as any computerphobe who wanted to press a few buttons.  Digital Identity Every family had its digital pioneer — people who dived headfirst into the unregulated chaos of ...

The Other Versions of a Story!  4 to 5 min read A Few Examples of How We Redefine The Facts! Pocahontas... The little truths we cling to are the building blocks of our world, but when we really test them, they're not always authentic. Let's just say, Pocahontas, for example, the Walt Disney  princess who, by marrying John Smith, brought Native Americans and European colonists closer. She was, in all truth, only a child of around ten years of age when she met Smith. Historically, Pocahontas played a very minor role in any of the developments that the big screen makes out, for example, she didn't marry Smith, but John Rolfe instead in 1614.  Pocahontas engraving Kingdom of Heaven: Relatable Heroes and Honour Dynamics... This really is an awesome historical film! Balian of Ibelin is a peasant, a french blacksmith, who is taken by his repenting Crusader father and taught to fight, and then, they all go to the holy land where he pretty much single handedly saves Jerusa...

The Right-Wing's Flapping Will Kemi Badenoch Bring Real Change to the UK or Fall to the Right-Wing Divide? Kemi's new role as 'leader of the opposition' will require her to work after six in the evening and do some weekends. It really might weigh quite heavily on her. She'll have to play out her thick skinned, no nonsense reputation, persisting daily with true grit and the very honesty she espouses while surrounded by politicians! I mean, the woman has been heralded to unify the right-leaning voters under her vision of change. Regardless of all the conflicting opinions surrounding immigration and growth, Nigel Farage has said the Conservative Party no longer exists because it lost its identity. Kemi seems to agree. Will she be a compelling character for the right? Give it twelve months.  Badenoch now plans to retake Tory voters who were allured towards Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats. This might not be easy. Unless she becomes the new Iron Lady of our age,...

AND THEN, When You Think It Isn't Aliens.  .  . 6 min read .  .  . It Just Goes Weird! I remember reading an article on my phone's news feed claiming we have large wild cats roaming around in the UK! A Warwick University PhD has confirmed it's big cat DNA with a test! To be fair, closer inspection showed the article to be a year old, but you can google the story anyway, loads of websites've reported on it! Aggressive Creatures No lying, this is a belter of a fact that really sparked my imagination, reviving the memory of The Beast of Gévaudan. I was all, 'Wow! We're gonna have our own countryside beast!' But, I mean, realistically, that French thing ate around 60 to 150 people! It got me thinking about a certain pair of man-eating Lions in 1898, Kenya. They killed around 135 people! I watched a Michael Douglas film about it — The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). Seriously, straight up! They also killed a few armed soldiers sent to hunt them down! Our ...

Archetypal Master Manipulator: Dark Lord of the Sith, Russian Master of Puppets — The Overlord 10 MIN READ What D'ya Mean, Woke Communist West? Conspiracy Theory Post.  In 2010 or 2011, I joined a group on Facebook called something along the lines of 'Truth Seekers,' just to be nosey. It was like an echo chamber  churning around the same principles of being enlightened or awake. This was the first time I heard the term 'woke.' Enthusiastic members everywhere. Most of the members were clearly proud of their perceived 'woke' status! Non-woke individuals outside the group were called the 'sheep,' asleep, or chewing grass. Strange isn't it? They use the term to target anyone or anything that  isn't left-wing . Funnily enough, 'woke' was always a self ascribed title springing out of a narcissistic belief of being special: awake in a world that is sleeping. This 'we know what's better than you do' attitude permeates the ...