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Ugly Words, Dangerous Fires

Why protecting even offensive words is the only way to prevent violence

By Chris Abraham for Substack

Every generation rediscovers an old lesson the hard way: words are not bullets, but if you confuse …

Published on 3 months ago

Hate Speech, Free Speech, and the Ladder of Escalation

How history, law, and theology warn us against turning words into weapons

By Chris Abraham for Substack

Some mornings I surprise myself. I wake with the smell of coffee in the apartment, the building s…

Published on 3 months ago

A Cleric's Corpse and Barbed Devils

The provided text is an excerpt from a Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) session log detailing the exploits of a group of adventurers. Specifically, it documents Session Nineteen of a campaign, outl…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Session Nineteen: Devils in the Mist and Wachter’s Mockery

The adventurers began this session crammed into the cellar of a decrepit Vallaki house, hidden by the wereraven Dannika Martikov after their chaotic escape from the gallows. Radley Fullthorn, the Hum…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Session 18 The Gallows of Vallaki

Urihorn slipped out at night to fetch his panther companion. The beast bounded over Vallaki’s palisade, jaws clutching a severed arm scavenged from some earlier raid. Urihorn coaxed it free and guide…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Session Eighteen: Gallows, Ravens, and the Wrath of Lady Wachter

In Vallaki, justice is never blind. It is theater, staged with gallows and blood to frighten a weary people into obedience.

Barovia wastes nothing, not even prisoners. Only a day after Radley the Eldr…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Death of Charlie Kirk and America’s Two Wars

The rifle crack that killed Charlie Kirk in Utah was an earthquake. He collapsed with a wound to the neck, was rushed to a hospital, and pronounced dead. But as with any quake, the most dangerous par…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Charlie Kirk Aftershocks: America's Two Wars of Meaning

The provided text, "Aftershocks: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination and the Two Wars of America," analyzes the profound societal divisions exposed by Charlie Kirk's assassination, highlighting how this eve…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Wagons, Wolves, and the Arrival of Urihorn Tenpenny

From wagon crashes to mob justice, Barovia trades one fallen paladin for a halfling with a grudge — and nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

Barovia wastes nothing. Not even grief. Barely half an ho…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Vallaki's Reckoning: A Gamble for Freedom

This excerpt from "message.txt" details a Dungeons & Dragons role-playing session, specifically Session Seventeen, on August 30, 2025. The narrative follows four player characters—Urihorn Tenpenny (H…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago