Exploring the Rogue archetype in D&D, in fiction, and real life. An off-shoot of a D&D blog, here is where I republish selected texts for posterity.
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September 2019 update: said D&D blog was deactivated (because tumblr proved exactly as random and unreliable as expected), so yay for having forethought. Like Prometheus. This leaves me in a hot mess where I’m juggling four versions of the same concept:
- Roguish, on WordPress: the blog you’re reading right now, essentially my Best Of.
- We Were Rogue, on tumblr: archive where I attempt to rebuild the content of my poor deleted blog. There’s a lot of filler in there (and memes and art and music etc), but it’s well-organised with tags, and includes super interesting things which I don’t publish here because they’re not mine.
- The Outcast Rogue, on tumblr: The blog where I start over. Always get up again. (But know when to fold ’em.)
- Κλεφτρόνια: ανθολόγιο κατεργαραίων, on WordPress: The Greek version.
March 2022 update: given that the future of tumblr gets shakier and shakier and nobody knows when it’ll keel over and die like myspace, I’ll start to republish more stuff here. Not only my Best Of, but also the work of others, excerpts of books etc that are relevant to the Rogue archetype. I’ll stick to material in the public domain, or otherwise free to share.
Let me teach you to wonder and stray
Permit me to tell you how to revolt
A creature’s reach should exceed its grasp
Or what’s a heaven for?
I’ll show you the way to sneak in, to desire
To struggle for dreams and to hunger for more
A creature’s sight should outrun its might
Or what is heaven for?
Taste of the fruit of the tree that is knowledge
Of good and of evil and all the world’s lore
A creature’s thought must exceed what it’s taught
Or who is heaven for?
So come, steal the fire of the gods from their palace
For I’ve got a wonderful secret to tell:
A creature’s reach should exceed its grasp
What else is heaven? Or hell?
~ Leslie Fish (adapted)
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