Daniel Whyte IV
Writer at Freelance
writer. wonderer. wanderer after Jesus. casual edgelord. // bylines: @plough @reactormag @MereOrthodoxy @christandpc @lorehaven @Fathom_Mag @ArcDigi @RELEVANT
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Jan 20, 2025 |
lorehaven.com | Daniel Whyte IV
If you’re reading this, you probably like stories where you can cheer for good characters. You like morally upstanding protagonists who aim for an ideal. The Penguin, Matt Reeves’ streaming series set in the same universe as The Batman, is not such a story. Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin), played brusquely by Colin Farrell, starts out as a bad man who remains one till the very end. He is a traitor, a liar, a backstabber, and a murderer.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
plough.com | Daniel Whyte IV
Making it to one of Lauren Mayberry’s solo shows had been at the top of my wish list for months. I nabbed one of two remaining tickets only a few hours before a Birmingham gig. After a drink and T-shirt purchase, the lights dimmed and the performance began. Lauren, the frontwoman of CHVRCHES, my long-time favorite band, belted out newly written songs inaugurating the start of a solo career. The crowd cheered and swayed.
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Aug 8, 2024 |
lorehaven.com | Daniel Whyte IV
J.R.R. Tolkien’s been getting a lot of play lately, and not because the new season of Rings of Power is about to drop. Instead, the Lord of the Rings author is turning heads because Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance once declared Tolkien’s work to be a major influence on his “conservative worldview.”That statement deserves plenty of unpacking.
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Jul 3, 2024 |
lorehaven.com | Daniel Whyte IV
As Americans endure another election season, folks are thinking about the kind of country they want to live in for the next four years. Love of country and national ideals is a tale as old as time. But what does it mean to love one’s country in a world where every social and political debate is heightened to a mini-apocalypse, and the very ideas of nationalism and patriotism are often deemed evil? The work of one Christian fantasy author helps me begin to answer this question.
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May 29, 2024 |
plough.com | Daniel Whyte IV
“If you’re wearing a jacket, you might want to take it off. It will get hot in here.”We’re sitting in a circle in a dark room with two dozen others. A magician has promised to show us a great wonder: liquid fire from a hundred miles or more beneath the earth’s surface. I’m still wondering if this is one of those attractions where the advertisements are better than the real thing. I don’t take off my jacket. “Land of Fire and Ice” sounds like a riff on a Game of Thrones novel title.
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