People of the world, whether you’re a kid, teen, young adult, mid-life, or 60+, you’re always going to be completely surrounded by things people say and do that you don’t understand. As a 13-25 year old, that’s when life’s going to get real complicated real fast. It doesn’t matter if you’re smart or stupid, black or white, strait or LGBTQ+, nice or mean, rich or poor, famous or not, we are all the same. There will always be a time where we can relate to someone. Here are 8 things that I personally don’t understand.
Racism.) I don’t understand the fact that you have to hate a person because of their skin color. I’m so sorry that you have to be rude to other people about their appearance, but if you do; listen to me when I say this: you only do it because of a lack of confidence. Work on yourself before you criticize other people.
mental facilities.) I don’t understand how we tell you that we want to kill ourselves, and somehow, out of that, your solution is to put us in chairs under heavy supervision of people who act like they like you, but really just want their paycheck, retirement, and maybe a raise if they don’t make much. They make us watch Disney Channel, also known as the corniest shows you’ll ever watch. When they finally start to get interesting, they switch the show channel. For 8 hours a day. If you leave the chair, you get yelled at; if you make a friend, you get yelled at. How is that supposed to make you more sane because, if anything, that made me more insane.
Homophobic people.) I don’t understand why you care if I like kissing boys or girls. I personally am strait. Some people just like the same gender; don’t ask me why. I don’t see why that affects you, though. If it’s an actual phobia thing and not just some “gay people are weird” type stuff, then should I walk up to any of my phobias and say, “Hey look; it’s an arachnid, or an ocean, or whatever?” I’m scared of a lot of things. Doesn’t mean that I go around being a karen all the time? I have too many phobias for that. Leave the gays alone.
Cliffhangers.) I hate cliffhangers so much. What do you mean I bought a ticket and now I have to sit here for an hour and a half with my ADHD self, and you don’t even tell me how the movie ends?! Now I have to go through all of that again in a year?!!! That’s not a way to keep people intrigued; that’s a way to lose people.
TikTok or Youtube Shorts.) These things are just a way to legally drug you. Scrolling creates a chemical in your brain called dopamine. If you wouldn’t give your child cocaine, then why in the world would you give them a freaking smartphone?!
ASMR.) If you’re trying to make me fall asleep, GET OUT OF MY FACE!!! QUIT TALKING TO ME! If you want to make me fall asleep, leave me alone and go find a new career. Go get a husband, have some kids, and get another job.
Alcohol and or drugs.) If I want to get high, I will climb a building. I don’t want to risk going to a bar, already be drinking alcohol and getting drunk, and some guy finds me “attractive”, and spikes my drink; so I’ll do whatever he says, and he can do unspoken things to me on my 21st birthday!
Bad words.) Finally, I don’t understand “bad words” because you can’t control what comes out of my mouth; parent or not. You can teach me to follow a rule by punishing me…when I’m around you. I’m not going to let you control me whether it’s words, actions, or even what I sing or write. When I do open mic, I have at least 2 people ask me if I can learn a song for them and perform it in a couple of weeks. I don’t take song requests. I don’t do shoutouts unless I’m giving one to a family member or the singer/band who wrote the song I sing. NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO LEARN OR WRITE the same way that you don’t tell me what can and can’t come out my mouth.
I’m sorry if any of these things upset you but again; These are all my opinions.
Quote of the rant:
“Whether we spend today laughing or crying, tomorrow will come to turn out just the same. In that case, We should laugh; don’t you think?” Dabi/Touya Todoroki.
For the losers who don’t know, Dabi is a character in one of the most popular anime ever made… My Hero Academia. I have put his origin and character arc down below.
Dabi’s character Story/origin.
So Dabi’s dad was the number 2 hero only being held back by All Might. Endeavor’s wife Rei had an ice power while Endeavor had a fire power. Endeavor’s main goal was to create a child that was half fire, half ice. In total, he had 4 children; the youngest being Shoto Todoroki, second youngest and only girl being Fuyumi Todoroki, second oldest being Natsuo Todoroki, and oldest being Touya Todoroki also known as Dabi. Endeavor thought that Dabi would be the chosen child and be half fire half ice, but as he grew older, he kept hurting himself and burning himself from inside out. Soon they figured out that he had in fact gotten his father’s quirk, but he got a body that was built for his mother’s quirk. (for those who don’t understand, he got a fire quirk with a body that was made for an ice quirk.) His father had pretty much started neglecting him from there. Dabi wanted to prove his father wrong though, so he started perfecting his quirk. One day though he invited his dad on this little mountain to see what he was working on. Of course, Endeavor didn’t come and so Dabi lost control out of anger and basically burned his skin open in like 10 different places, ruined his vocal chords completely, lost the ability to feel pain, and scorched his tear ducts. He was eventually picked up by an ambulance and they patched up his skin with this purple stuff while he was in a 3 year coma. His vocal chords couldn’t be fixed so he could still talk but it was very raspy all the time, he was unable to cry because he scorched his tear ducts, and he didn’t feel pain. So, he didn’t go back to his family. Instead, he burned the hospital down, ran off, dyed his hair black from his original pure bright white hair, got piercings on his chest, face, nose, ears, and hands since he couldn’t feel pain (he did this so that his family wouldn’t recognize him.), and finally, gave up on being a hero. He then met All For One also known as the master of the league of villains. All For One offered him a home and even some allies, in exchange for him becoming a villain and working for him. Dabi accepted and so he was now a villain. Everything was fine, until his dad started fighting Dabi, not recognizing him as his son, and his little brother Shoto Todoroki who had ended up being the chosen child started fighting him too seeing as he was part of the hero course in U.A high school. That’s when he decided to pour a certain chemical on his head to reveal that he was actually the son and the brother. Now, if you watch the show, you can tell by the look on his face that he was like “HOLY PLOT TWIST! WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!!!” So basically, to sum it all up, Dabi is the hottest man ever!!!
Anyways, thank you so much for reading this, and I hope you have an amazing day; unless you’re a negative person. Then, screw you.
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To most, 1865 was an eye-opening year. The American Civil War was officially over and the soldiers fortunate enough to survive the bloody conflict returned home to collect the pieces of their former lives. To young Arizonan, Robert Jack, the fateful desert homecoming marked the end to all he once knew. Forgiveness is overrated. Death is final. Revenge, however, dances between the fine lines of mortality and eternity. Love always finds a way.
“Reading Jim Walker and the Redemption Hymn is equal parts quirky fun and riveting action. Cloud’s confident, entertaining voice draws the reader in like an old radio western: the perfect bite-sized story with a main character you’re ready to follow through every adventure he finds himself on. So, tune in next time…”
– Megan Stockton, author of Lovely, Dark & Deep
The history books would read that Jim Walker was brutally executed after the Battle of Goliad, but a few promises in the right ear blurred the contrast between blood and ink. Now an aging bounty hunter on the verge of retirement, his services are requested in the Northern Arizona Territory to solve the terrifying mystery of the Verde River Massacre. With guns from a local Deputy, courage from a saloon proprietor, and a deathbed confession from an all-too-familiar Medicine Woman, Jim sets off on what could be his final adventure. Will he lay the ghosts of his past to rest once and for all, or is he simply whistling his Redemption Hymn?
“Someone call DC and tell them this is how you write a female hero character!” – Lisa Lee Tone, Bibliophelia Templum
Angel Burns is a young firefighter with a shrouded history. During a routine night at work, she stumbles upon a demonic ceremony that brings her memories out of hiding – as well as her repressed supernatural powers. Angel soon learns her life was intended for things greater than extinguishing fires for mortals. Now on the payroll of the Vatican, Angel embarks upon an epic quest to protect the Gutenberg Bibles from evil. If successful, she will secure peace for generations. If she fails, the power of the ancient books will bestow an eternity of darkness upon all humanity!
Toby Liberman is nearing the end of his rope. After a fateful confrontation with his wife’s lover, he is chased into the woods only to be discovered by an unidentifiable creature. He is attacked and rendered unconscious. Upon waking at the scene of a gruesome triple homicide, Toby is arrested as the sole suspect and thrown into a jail cell with a strange man that knows way too much about his predicament. The stranger reveals to Toby that he now possesses the curse of the werewolf. Using his new-found strength to flee his captors, Toby begins to discover that things are not what they seem in the sleepy town of Twin Oaks, TX. Now hunted by law enforcement, as well as the town’s gun toting civilians, Toby seeks vengeance against his false accusers and embarks upon a quest to clear his name once and for all.
A Curse Beyond Comprehension. A Power Beyond Belief. A Girl Far From Home. Katie Liberman is your typical eighteen-year-old college student…or at least that’s what her family thinks. Picking up five years after the events of A Taste of Home, Katie has dropped out of school and embarked upon a dangerous quest to find Kurt Jimmerson, the New York City attorney responsible for her family’s werewolf curse. Unknown to her, the attorney’s grip on the ‘City That Never Sleeps’ is tighter than imagined and she’ll need any and all help available to be victorious. But… where do you find friends when you’re Far From Home?
Twin Oaks, Texas is at war! Taking place immediately after the Far From Home events in New York City, Katie Liberman has returned to rescue her birthplace from the clutches of her nemesis. As the paranormal battle of North vs. South rages in the shadows, the tiny town must decide to fight against the odds or become one with the darkness. Blood will be shed and only one will survive as the final battle of the Home Series concludes.
I know this is the part where I’m supposed to talk about the book, but I feel as though the synopsis needs its own preface to truly understand. 2023 was quite an eye-opening year! I began it by living my dream as a vintage steam locomotive fireman, but that dream was soon squashed thanks to my writing career. It won’t matter that you wrote your extreme horror offerings years ago and under a pen name. Also, it won’t matter that your publisher and author friends from days gone by express pleasantries and kind, nurturing words to your face, because they’ll clique-up and talk trash the minute you turn your back. F**k the biz, create. Create for art, not clicks. Click for love, not hate. Those are words true artists should have no issues living by, yet most seem to hide behind their keyboard shields, flinging ill-thought words of destruction toward once-trusted ears. Don’t pour something into everything; pour everything into something. Do it all by yourself if necessary. With any luck, 2024 will be the year of The Reverend. I’m not exactly sure what that means yet, but we’ll find out together. Anyway, here are a few short stories and poems I wrote as C. Derick Miller in 2023. I stole them from myself. Fair and square. Enjoy.
Poetry has always come naturally to me. Whether it is an expression of emotion toward someone I care about, or a display of humor pointed in the direction of those I loathe, it is my true outlet. Several of these works were written in a passenger seat while exploring the highways of the United States and somehow managed to survive “The Great Ex-Wife/Ex-Girlfriend Poetry Purge” of 2019. Others were penned during COVID-19 quarantine. Although it may not be the most epic poetry collection you’ve ever read, it all contains bits of blood and soul. You will feel something. Guaranteed.
“This profound collection of horror brings classic monsters into new light in the modern day” – B.L. Blankenship, God Walks The Dark Hills series.
The modern world is a crazy place. Worrying about childish politicians, empty grocery store shelves, and our pending membership to the “global disease of the week” club, it leaves very little time for the average reader to finish an entire novel. This is where Six from Five Seven: Short Stories from a Short Man comes in clutch! A story per day to keep the impending apocalypse away, with a single day left over to contemplate why you purchased this book in the first place. That sounds like an entertaining week when compared to the one you were destined to have regardless. What do a cursed husband, a privileged brat, a curious prostitute, a repressed savior, a vengeful son, and two hell-bound soldiers have in common? Their stories lie within the pages of this collection and invite you to tag along on their journeys of fate, redemption, and demise. When finished, you, dear reader, can hide this book inside your basement with the rest of those important documents you wished you’d never taken home. The FBI won’t be happy, but at least they’ll know you’re a cool person for owning a copy while conducting the raid. That must count for something, right? Let’s hope the judge thinks so!
Also, there’s a few other things not listed here that are floating around out there. Best of luck with the hunt.
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Rev. Dare Cloud
Reverend · adjective. worthy of adoration or reverence. synonyms: sublime · sacred.
is a Dallas author, musician, and gonzo journalist. Some of his works include the controversial splatter-western Starving Zoe (written as C. Derick Miller), the Taste of Home trilogy, and the ongoing Jim Walker series. His literary crushes are (of course) Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, and Kevin Smith. Preach truths, toke jokes, and shoplift Amazon.
“You’ve got to press it on you You’ve just been thinking That’s what you do, baby Hold it down, Dare!” – Gorillaz
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