heroes and villains

Heroes and Villains throughout history that have defined their industries and workflow as we know it today. Those we look up to, and those we learn mistakes from.

MISS LIL'S TEA TIME:
When contraband cell phones become the only witnesses to the violence nobody wants to talk about. By Miss Lil | Pour the tea. Tell the truth. Hold somebody accountable.
By Lilithea Adasia7 days ago in Journal
Confession Is Not a Performance
Confession is not a performance. It is not a speech you rehearse so the priest will be impressed. It is not a therapy session with a stole. It is the sacrament in which a baptized person names their sins out loud to a priest and receives absolution. The Church has kept this practice because it does what private regret cannot do. It restores the soul. That is why ordinary Catholics still get in the line, even when the line is short and the hour is inconvenient.
By Overdrive Records8 days ago in Journal
The Mass Is Not a Meeting
The Mass is not a meeting. It is not a weekly gathering where Catholics share thoughts and then go home. It is not a lecture with better music. The Mass is the sacrifice of Christ made present. The Eucharist is the Body and Blood of the Lord. That is why ordinary Catholics, including those who grew up with cassette decks and parish basements, still come back for it. They are not there for the bulletin. They are there because something happens that does not happen anywhere else.
By Overdrive Records8 days ago in Journal
The Saints Are Not Museum Pieces
The saints are not museum pieces. They are not statues you walk past on the way to a better exhibit. They are not names on a calendar that exist to fill empty dates. They are men and women who lived, died, and now stand before God. The Church keeps their memory because their lives still argue with the way we live. Most of the time the argument is simple. They did the ordinary things we avoid. They did them long enough to become holy. That is why ordinary Catholics still learn their names and still ask them to pray.
By Overdrive Records8 days ago in Journal
The Rosary Is Not a Background Prayer
The Rosary is not a background prayer. It is not a string of beads you keep in a drawer for emergencies. It is not a Catholic version of a short verse you can scroll past and still claim you prayed. The Rosary is a full way of walking through the life of Jesus with Mary. Each decade asks you to stay with one scene long enough for the story to do its work. That is why it still teaches the Gospel better than a line on a screen.
By Overdrive Records8 days ago in Journal
THE DOUBLE STANDARD NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT:
If we're going to demand respect, accountability, and equality, shouldn't those rules apply to everyone? Or does equality only count when it benefits us?
By Lilithea Adasia8 days ago in Journal
The Day Humanity Broke the Malthusian Trap
In 1700, a farmer in the English Midlands had traveled no farther than 20 miles to a market in his entire life. He had seen no more than a few hundred people. He ate almost everything from his own village. He lit his evenings with tallow candles. He got his news from church sermons and tavern talk. In 2024, a middle school student in Shanghai uses a phone to check copper prices in New York, opens a University of London lecture, and eats Chilean cherries and Norwegian salmon for dinner. The difference is not in the brain. People of the two eras are almost genetically identical. The difference is in the system.
By Jin10 days ago in Journal
What Is Entailed In "Psychophysiology" From A Leadership And Sageship Perspective
Written by a human, for humans, always. What is "Psychophysiology"? It is a question that I am asked frequently when I talk about how important it is in Sageship...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM11 days ago in Journal
The Internet Doesn't Want Justice. It Wants Someone to Punish.
What Happens When the Internet Decides You're a Monster? You don't need to commit a crime to become the internet's favorite villain.
By Lilithea Adasia12 days ago in Journal
Daddy's Little Princess
They say truth is often stranger than fiction, and for me... that has never been false. I write a lot of horror based material. None of it ever scares me because of what I have actually gone through in real life.
By Sara Wilson25 days ago in Journal
Creed and Nickelback Paid the Bills. That Is Part of the Story
The polite history of late 90s and early 2000s rock has a punch line ready before the needle drops. Creed. Nickelback. The format villains. The bands you are supposed to apologize for knowing. That punch line is easy and incomplete. Active rock after Seattle still needed songs that could live on a shop radio, a night shift, and a daytime hour. These two paid those bills. The sneer never killed the catalog because the catalog was never asking the sneer for permission.
By Overdrive Records28 days ago in Journal
The Cassette Was the Real Record Label
The official history of heavy music likes labels, catalog numbers, and the day the CD showed up looking like the future. Fine. That history skips the actual distribution system a lot of us used. A TDK. A Memorex. A handwritten spine. A second-generation copy that already hissed. The cassette was the real record label. It got Slayer across a county line before the shop had the jewel case. It got Metallica out of a bedroom and into a dash. It turned thrash into a chain letter with better riffs.
By Overdrive Records28 days ago in Journal