Review POCAHONTAS by Disney

Posted July 19, 2025 By John C Wright

We continue reviewing the Disney animated feature films in order. There are two main surprises waiting to ambush the graybearded reviewer revisiting films he saw in his youth, or as a child: the first is that the work is worse than remembered. But the second is that it is better.

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A Comment on the Two Idols

Posted July 18, 2025 By John C Wright

I have seen the argument made that Feminism as Cultural Marxism sprang not just from anarchist occultism and witchcraft, but also from Marx, who comes from Hegel, who comes from Boehme, who comes from a long line of theosophists and Hermeticists, alchemists, Albigensians, and Gnostics, which is, after all, another form of anarchist occultism and witchcraft.

Sadly, both capitalist and communist idolatry, both Mammon and Moloch, have strong incentives to defeminize females, deter motherhood, and send housewives into the workforce.

Communism is mutually incompatible with Christendom and perfectly evil, but the usury, sex trade and worship of money of endemic to Capitalism is also incompatible, albeit, with proper laws and customs, a manageable evil.

Abolishing traditional family life is the one area where both idols agree.

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Sexual Revolution in Four Steps

Posted July 18, 2025 By John C Wright
Leftism is a process of removing all good things from Christian life until nothing is left by the mocking void of Hell.
 
The process consists of four steps:
 
DEMORALIZATION. the first step is to remove common sense rules and restrictions, traditions and guidelines by calling them “taboos.” Those who uphold traditional Christian virtues are scorned and demoralized. Teaching virtue stops. Anarchy results.

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Calling All Starquest Fan Artists!

Posted July 16, 2025 By Mrs. Wright

Jagi, here

Epicus Literati, the creators of The Hero’s Journey card game is calling for fan art to appear in their Starquest pack.

Please note: the Kickstarter did not take in enough to cover their physical pack, so they are not getting paid. They are doing this for free out of the kindness of their hearts.

If you like to draw and would be willing to contribute a sketch, let us know!

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 29: The Transcendence

Posted July 16, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep. 29: The Transcendence

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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

Posted July 14, 2025 By John C Wright

This is a 1939 short from Fleischer.

My comment:
I was surprised to see how many bits of comedic business Disney’s ALADDIN borrowed from this, including, for example, wishing to be a prince, tossing coins during his triumphal entry, and the schtick of having the goofy genii be in the bathroom when summoned.

Could it be coincidence, or taken from the original 1001 ARABIAN NIGHT’S TALES.

Disney also borrowed elements from THE THEIF OF BAGDAD (1940), such as the dimwitted Sultan interested in collecting toys.

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Review A GOOFY MOVIE by Disney

Posted July 14, 2025 By John C Wright

We are reviewing the Disney full-length animated features in order.

A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) is usually not listed among their Disney Renaissance period films, even though it was released the year after THE LION KING. It was made by a different group of film companies owned by Disney, part of their television production branch, and meant as a sequel (of sorts) to their television show GOOF TROOP, with Max as a highschooler in a world of anthropomorphic animals.

Whether it belongs on the list of feature-length Disney Theatrical releases is open to debate. It is included here for reasons of completeness. And because it is better than I remember it.

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Progress Report

Posted July 12, 2025 By John C Wright

Volumes I through IV of STARQUEST have been published.

Available here:

Volumes V and VI and VII are written, and sitting on the editor’s desk, and awaiting book covers (which, thanks to the generosity and faith of our beloved Kickstarter patrons, we now have funds to do).

I am spit-polishing of Vol VIII The SINISTER SYNDICATE OF SPACE even as we speak, correcting continuity errors, adding reaction shots, &c. to prep a second draft.

Volume IX (SPACE PRINCESS of ARCADIA) is written through Chapter 10, so within bowshot of the first draft.

Cover Gallery below the cut:

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Nethereal 10th Anniversary Kickstarter

Posted July 11, 2025 By John C Wright

From our own Brian Niemeier:

Ten Years. One Vision. The Ultimate Edition

In 2015, Nethereal first voyaged into the souls of book lovers who dared to explore the far edges of adventure fiction. Now, on the eve of its tenth anniversary, that odyssey continues: more vivid, more refined, and more legendary than ever before!

 

I’m bringing this dark wonder to you through a special Kickstarter campaign to commemorate the novel that started it all. No bargain basement quality here. The Nethereal 10th Anniversary Special Edition is a deluxe collector’s item—and I want you on board.

Featured Rewards

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Last Chance for a Splendid Deal! — Two Hours Left!

Posted July 10, 2025 By Mrs. Wright

Jagi, here

Our Starquest Kickstarter is nearly ended. If you haven’t jumped onboard, I strongly recommend it! $6 gets you a Starquest book (1 or 5 as you wish) plus Galan’s Way (First Fourth Age Starquest book by Richard Paolinelli and your choice of ebooks that John and I have available…(plus Last Straw, but most of you probably have that.)

John read my the end of Book Eight two nights ago, and oh, my gosh! is it good! Intrigue, subterfuge, space battles, one-on-one battles, disguises, reveals, and a great deal more!

If you enjoy John’s work or science fiction, this series is really worth taking a chance on!

And, it has Space Ducks and Duck Witchery! Duck Witchery, I tell you!

Jump onboard while you still can!

Man hidden by Duck Witchery!

Space Duck!

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 28: War Against Reality

Posted July 9, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep. 28: War Against Reality

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Appearing Tonight on GEEK GAB

Posted July 7, 2025 By John C Wright

Yours truly is being interviewed tonight 10.00 pm Eastern Time on GEEK GAB by the irreplaceable and inimitable Daddy Warpig, Father of Gamergate, concerning my STARQUEST writing project and one-man crusade to revive old-school Science Fiction adventure yarns.

Oddly enough for a one man crusade, there are countless writers, editors and fans involved in reviving the spirit and glory of the pulps, and making space opera great again.  Join me and join the movement. Make Adventure Yarns Great Again! MAYGA!

https://www.youtube.com/geekgab

Direct link to the interview:

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Reviewer praise for SECRET AGENTS of the GALAXY

Posted July 5, 2025 By John C Wright

A favorable review from Essential Malady for SECRET AGENTS of the GALAXY. This review was posted some months ago, but I only came across it now:

Something I didn’t really mention in my last review was the swashbuckling genre this fits within. This shouldn’t be thought of simply in terms of sword-fighting (of which there is very little so far), but with regard to the spirit of the story. The characters are chivalrous, daring and as sure of themselves as they are of the difference between right and wrong. There is also a general spirit of fun in the book’s tone which is so often absent from so much fiction today. This fusion of fantasy, science-fiction, swashbuckling adventure is the formula that made the original Star Wars films so popular. Wright understands this much better than the current rights-holders to the once beloved franchise ever will.

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For sale here

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Christ or Nothing

Posted July 4, 2025 By John C Wright

This is a revised and expanded version of a prior column


I am haunted by a sense that the End Times are nigh.

It is as if the battle lines are being drawn, and the No Man’s Land between Heaven and Hell is shrinking day by day, hour by hour. There will be no Switzerland in the next world war. Every soul is being forced to take a side.

I am shocked at how open Uncle Screwtape is being: we have apparently given the forces of evil reason to be confident enough, insolent enough, to drop all pretense. Meanwhile the hatred and contempt toward all that is normal and wholesome and healthy grows and grows.

The room for compromise, for mutual toleration, the possibility of ambiguity, all are narrowing, shrinking, vanishing. Everyone not for Christ is against Him.

Sanity vanishes. Now madness reigns.

I am old enough to remember a time when one could have a rational conversation with a Liberal. There were people who had rejected God, but who had not rejected love of truth or thirst for justice.

They had some sort of argument to make based on some sort of facts, framed in a shared moral view.

Those days are gone.

I have recently read an essay by an activist affirming that aborticide, the slaying of one’s one child in the womb, was always justified as an act of self defense, on the grounds that the growing child took nutriment from the mother, and offered risks to health and wellbeing akin to a mortal threat. The right of self defense ergo always justifies the slaying of any inconvenient dependent. So the argument ran.

Anyone who defines being a mammal as being a victim of violence in order to justify a mom murdering her innocent baby is beyond the reach of rational conversation.

Now they have nothing. They believe in nothing.

The reject the notion of truth: all is narrative.

They reject logic: reasoning is patriarchy.

They reject morality: only vice is virtuous.

They reject love, preferring adultery and homosex.

They reject life, preferring aborticide, euthanasia.

They reject beauty: see any modern art museum.

They reject liberty, preferring totalitarianism.

They reject civilization, preferring barbarism.

They reject happiness.

They reject God.

What is left?

Nothing.


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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXVIII

Posted July 3, 2025 By John C Wright

The Big Beautiful Bill passed without a single yea vote from any Democrat. Imperfect, but we are still bedeviled by RINOs and uniparty hacks in the GOP.

  • Planned Parenthood just lost $500 million dollars in federal funding
  • Border wall funding just passed
  • The scam known as the Green New Deal is  suffering cuts
  • The Trump tax cuts remain in place. Additional tax breaks for tips, for overtime pay, and so on. Not as much as claimed below (it is not “no” tax, for high wagearners do not qualify)  but a relief to the struggling middle class.
  • 10-15 million in the next 3.5 years for ICE and other border enforcement measures
  • End of Biden’s War on Oil.

Here is the list from the White House:

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