Large Fierce Mammal

Ignore the clutter. We’ve been busy. (Veritas 2024 by Deviantartist Firehead65 — Source here.)

Welcome back to our fireside, goode and weary Pilgrim, and this 15th Season of Dark Sentiments. Here, by the grim and unflinching Watchstone, we can take our ease, speak freely, and match observations with the utterances of those who would proclaim laws to have it otherwise.

We don’t cater to weakness here, nor do we sow the seeds of Fear except where its cultivation is necessary to yielding the essential ingredient in the Time Honoured recipe for Courage.

The world abounds with the granting — self or by what “powers” be — of unassailability, from which place of “safety” uncontestable “truths” may be hurled. Yet there are real, observable, predictable Truths, tried and tested throughout History, even as the aforesaid unassailable would uninvent the meanings of both, and any feelings you may have or come to have about the bearer of the lips that utter them has no effect on their veracity.

Our dedicated researchers do not shy away from picking pearls of Truth that mayhap gleam upon the slopes of otherwise steaming dungheaps, for they are Truths nonetheless, uncontaminated by the asshole that gave birth to them, even should it be mine. Shunning not the long hours of toil picking fly shit out of pepper with boxing gloves on; and know this Pilgrim, that when the whisky makes its rounds, cursed be he who insults the hand that passes it by wiping  the bottle’s mouth before drinking.

All this to bring us here tonight where no man is of a piece, unless that’s all you’ve left of him.

Now, onward into the darkness …