🎥Propensity now has a book trailer. Check it out. 🎬
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/11/08/propensity-video-trailer-1/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propensity

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Propensity for Simulacra examines a world where systems perfect behaviour by erasing humanity itself.

It extends the ideas in When the Camera Becomes the Conscience.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/07/propensity-for-simulacra-an-excerpt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propensity

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What happens when morality survives only as performance? In Simulacra, Chapter 26 of Propensity, three teenagers discover that right and wrong are just old lines the species keeps rehearsing.

👉https://ridleypark.blog/2025/11/01/simulacra-when-the-camera-becomes-the-conscience/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propensity

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A pair of Aces up my sleeve.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/31/propensity-of-the-illusion-of-light/?utm_source=masto_rp&utm_medium=social

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I write like no one will read it—because most won’t. And that’s the point. This isn’t about selling out, selling up, or selling at all. It’s about writing what needs to be written, whether the world notices or not. From celebrity guilt to algorithmic ouroboroi, I offer one argument: write for yourself, not the market.

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/09/29/write-like-no-one-will-read-it/

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This is not a political post. The Venn in this diagram feels viscerally correct, but the unions don't work.

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/31/not-a-political-post

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Spent more time editing Needle’s Edge than drafting it. Editing isn’t polishing, it’s grinding, chiselling, archaeology. Most recently, I unravelled the plotline from an Inception-style labyrinth of flashbacks within flashbacks. I even diagrammed it (image attached), if only to prove I hadn’t lost the thread entirely.

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/29/needles-edge-narrative-origami/

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The origins of Needle’s Edge: a novel born from years of raw observation, lived experience, and a refusal to play by the rules of morality tales. 5 minutes on my writing process.

▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjpjbqdvbY

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She’s Come Undone (1992). Goodreads reviewer drops “spoilers” 25 years later. Commenters rage. I question reality. Also, a bear rides Rosebud.

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https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/14/shes-come-undone-spoilers/

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