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Venturing out into Scottish late autumn at 6 AM, all because I can’t sleep and have the weirdest craving for custard doughnuts — the ones that are basically Berliners, but with custard and not jam. And no, unfortunately this isn’t a sublimated Freudian thing; if it were, I’d be talking about...

Username is something of a convoluted reference — but broadly, it’s not not my drag name. ;V My avatar is the narrator of the serial novel I’m writing, as drawn by a friend — I’ll have to ask if I can link their portfolio or something, and edit the link in later.

There’s that Green Knight movie that came out recently — the original legend it’s based on, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, is part of the broader Arthurian mythos — but I hear they only had Gawain kissing the titular Green Knight once, so I didn’t bother with it.

Well. Hrm. Hi. I tend to go by Zak in English, I live in the UK, but I was born in the Soviet Union a couple of years before it became 15 different countries, and I’m a writer and a programmer. I mostly read whatever I can find, but I prefer SFF/Horror and non-fiction. I’m returning to...

Weirdly, outside of Arthurian qua Arthurian (as in, takes on the actual mythos), I've never seen much SFF that was explicitly riffing on Arthuriana as its source material, outside of like, maybe the Elric saga? It just doesn't seem to be a niche, which is weird.

I think you're right on the money with disempowerment being a crucial part of the horror genre, at least in gaming — I'm thinking here of Darkest Dungeon (the first one, hah — sequel was just announced the other day), which works quite well as horror despite the flippant tone, because the...

Eh, why not? The zeroth/first chapter is technically split into 3 parts, but for your purposes, you can likely treat the very first installment as the first chapter. https://www.scribblehub.com/read/377889-the-bitter-drop/chapter/377894/

Honestly? I can't imagine not writing. I write because I like to tell stories, and because I enjoy a) coming up with stories b) the actual work of developing stories and writing prose and editing and whatever c) when people read things I wrote and have opinons on it. I don't particularly know...