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The Biology of a Myth: Dragons, Fossils, and the Human Need for Something That Breathes Fire
The first dragons were not cute. They did not purr emojis into your DMs or coil politely on YA dust jackets. They arrived as disturbances—fanged weather fronts, teeth set into the grammar of storm—so frightening that the earliest literary convention attached to angels (“be not afraid”) could just as easily have belonged to these other…
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When the Muse Has Wires: AI Love Poems, Dating-App Cyranos, and the Fate of Sincerity
Say you’re in love and the words won’t come. Once upon a time you hired a poet. Petrarch farmed his longing out to the sonnet; courtly troubadours put silk on the tongue of men whose nerves were otherwise rubble. Shakespeare even wrote the instruction manual: Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love—Orlando pinning…
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The New Pilgrimage: Where the Spiritually Restless Are Going in 2025 (and Why)
If you squint past the clickbait, you can see it: a quiet migration of the spiritually restless, moving across borders of music festivals, ashram-adjacent retreats, moonlit parties, and plant-medicine sanctuaries. It isn’t a single scene so much as an ecosystem—a mycelial network of gatherings trading in awe, somatic release, and the soft afterglow of being…
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Vampires: Why We Keep Raising the Undead in Every Century
Some legends refuse to rest. Vampires—those blood-hungry immortals—have roamed from the crypts of Carpathia to your late-night scrolling. They act as culture’s reflecting pool, showing us what we fear, desire, and deny. Why do vampires bite the same necks, across centuries? Because they’re always ready to mirror our darkest yearnings back at us. 1. From…
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Fallen Angels, Angel Numbers & the Human Soul’s Eternal Spectacle
We used to tremble when angels arrived. Their wings were blazing halos, their words shook the heavens, and mortals stammered, “Be not afraid.” But somewhere along the line—through pop culture and viral memes—angels turned gentle: whispering reassurance via license plates or ticking digital clocks. Meanwhile, fallen angels became synonymous with demons; the metaphors got murkier,…
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Are Audiobooks “Reading”—or Are We Just Drowning in Pleasant Noise?
Audiobooks used to live in the glove compartment next to the maps: road-trip companions, a mechanical voice keeping you company between gas stations. Now they’re the fastest-growing slice of publishing, a soundtrack to errands, commutes, workouts, bedtime. Spotify is muscling into a space Audible once treated as a fiefdom; AI voices are almost human, and…
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