DictatorTal's Blog

In Internet discourse (and increasingly in real life), sincerity is often replaced with high levels of irony, joking, trolling, or messing around. But when does this go too far? And is sincerity really dead?

This is not your average music blog. So as usual, don't expect average writing from me and feel free to lambast me in the comments if this is too mediocre by my standards.

This is not a horror story. But it is one that will make you think and feel something.

Note: there are no images - I want you to just focus on the words and to let the metaphor sink in.

Today, I hit a 365-day streak on JetPunk, which means one year of getting at least five answers on least one featured quiz every single day. I'm pretty proud about that, but this is how I feel about the whole experience.

This is a submission I made for my high school's literary compass during my senior year. The piece is centered around how you don't realize the beauty of having a community until it's gone, and how that correlates with nostalgia for me.

An honors student. A suburban home in the United States. A fringe argument being given unwarranted value. What do all three of these things have in common? Well, they're all connected by the illusion of balance.

Many of us view learning as an inherently painful thing... but is that, or does that always have to be the case?

There are many good quizmakers on JetPunk, or just quizmakers with many takes and decent quizzes but don't have a featured quiz. This blog will rank everyone in the top 1,500 with at least 50 quizzes but 0 features.