Stiltzkin's Quill: Nerdy Words for Formless Personas

Stiltzkin's Quill: Nerdy Words for Formless Personas

The pompomed vagabond somersaults his book into place. Unsheathes a quill and remembers. Dust from a hundred different worlds clings to his fur, and stories from a hundred different worlds simultaneously swell and plummet inside him. Blank pages beg. And a prism of ink responds... Stiltzkin’s Quill is a hymnal singing to our geekiest pantheon. A looking glass tinted with the nerd-culture sacraments of video games and anime, comic books and cosplay. In these commingling personas, you’ll find a love letter to fandom and a lens of unreal truths through which to better understand and wrestle with your own. You are welcome to this warmth. An inn, fluting childhood hymns from the fireplace, whether you’ve been there before or not. Rodney Wilder is a biracial nerd who bellows death-metal verse in Throne of Awful Splendor and writes poetry, with work appearing in FIYAH, Words Dance, FreezeRay, ALTARWORK, Tales of the Talisman, and others, as well as his first collection of poetry, 2012's Ars Golgothica. He likes nachos, analogizing things to Pokemon, and getting lost in Oregonian forests with his co-meanderer, Brittany-the Sapphire to his Ruby.