User:Alden Loveshade

Yes, I'm Alden Loveshade. I'm a freelance writer and photographer, and hope to make a contribution or two here and there. I can't do too much here, or my editors will expect me to write for free!

A few things I've professionally published or been published in (this is only my recent freelance work)

• Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror:
  • "The Alchemists' Guild" (including my original art) in the Origins Award-winning Pyramid (magazine) (2022) (kickstarter(dot)com/projects/warehouse23/steve-jackson-games-2022-gurps-pyramid-scheme)
  • "Clouds" in the fantasy and science fiction collection Clarity (2022)
  • "Orange Sun, Grey Sky" for the science fiction/horror/fantasy anthology Exchange Students (2020).
  • See also Variety below.
• Roleplaying:
  • GURPS Fantasy Folk: Elves (2021)
  • I was also a credited playtester for some GURPS books for Steve Jackson Games.
  • See also Variety below.
• Discordian/SubGenius:
  • Reverend Loveshade's Alan Moore-, Rev. Ivan Stang-, and Robert Anton Wilson-praised collection Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht. I'm credited in it, but that wasn't me it was my evil twin.
  • See also Variety below
• Variety

I've written articles dealing with the above and more for Scifi.radio

• Yahoo/NBC:
  • I wrote several articles for Yahoo, but they discontinued their contributor program so these are all hidden in the Internet archives. Among them were "Top 5 Ways to Tread Water: Treading Water Could Save Your Life" for Yahoo! Sports and NBC Sports Network, and "America's Largest Sex Discrimination Case Reaches Supreme Court" for Yahoo! News.
• Plus thousands of articles and photos here and there (most done when I was an employed journalist).

Respect

I saw this on a sysop's page:

"Being civil is the recognition that those you interact with are also human beings and deserve to be treated as such. It means striving to not demean or attack, to remain polite (yes, politeness is superficial, but it's also important), to listen, and to accept. It means being able to agree to disagree, and that the 'other' isn't a moron because they disagree with you. Maybe they're wrong. Maybe you are. Are you a moron because you were wrong?

"It doesn't mean never losing your temper; it means not treating people you're angry with like crap. You don't have to call someone an 'idiot' to treat them like idiots. Being rough around the edges or using strong language isn't a problem, routinely telling people you disagree with to 'fuck off' is – not because you used the word 'fuck', but because it shows lack of respect.

"In the end, it's all about treating other editors as peers, not as plebs that can't possibly understand your genius, or as adversaries. That is what the civility pillar is about: work with each other."

-- Coren