David Selfe is a writer, editor, and philologist apologist with an unhealthy interest in what you’re doing with that apostrophe. He enjoys hiking, plant-keeping, and being beautiful. His top five video games, in no particular order, are: Dragon Age 2 (screw you, it’s the best), The Last of Us (which moved both his heart and bowels), Ori and the Blind Forest (cried himself into dehydration), Fallen Order (PTSD and lightsabres!), and Apex Legends (because sometimes you just need a cup of tea and bit of pew! pew!).
One day he’ll finish that novel.
You can find David on Twitter.
Ever wanted to tell a colleague exactly what you think of them and not have it become a HR issue? Here we delve into a brief history of flyting – the poetic exchange of invectives – as found in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
The highest compliment The Master can pay Carry On, his George Cross or Légion d'honneur, is that his childhood (a somewhat more distant realm than he's currently prepared to recognise) would have been immeasurably improved by its presence.
In this piece, the Master clarifies this most contentious of binaries, prescriptivism and descriptivism, and in the process of doing so, exposes the illogicality of the former and reveals the delicious sense of superiority so craved by self-anointed ‘Grammar Nazis’ that attends the latter.
A brief summary of the apologetic apostrophe and its evolution from marketing tool to characterisation device.
This spoiler-filled review explores ecocriticism, anthropomorphism, and the author's burgeoning enthusiasm for platformers. The conclusion: Ori is baws-to-the wall awesome.
This article explores the evolution of T-glottaling in Hermione's dialect between the first and penultimate films of the Harry Potter franchise.
This article introduces T-Glottaling and considers its specific role in the wider trope, 'Accent Denotes Class'.