New Book: D'ARC

As was told before, I love reading. I was always eager to get back into it around the Summer of 2016. By then, I had a part time job enough to pay for my bills, and school was not demanding in the slightest; I had to make myself busy.

Fast forward to now, if I see a good book, I'm more inclined to read the first few pages and determine off of that to decide on the purchase. And a while ago, I decided upon D'Arc by Robert Repino.


The story goes that hostile and highly intelligent ants instill consciousness within nearly all forms of animal life. With the sworn purpose of rising up against the apex predators hunting them to near extinction: humans.

Curiosity instills in me as what the responses would be to create a race of conscious animals who are to reintegrate into the world after the war is over. But it is interesting to realize that in this storyline, the only method of gaining a chance of victory against humans is granting them intelligence themselves.

To move along a literature theme here, I also happened to come across a subreddit called r/HFY, short for 'Humanity, F*** Yea!' I consider it a small bias of no fault that I would always root for the humans. Independence Day (1996)? Humans win, yea! Godzilla (1998)? Humans win! Contagion (2011)? Human win, yea! Avatar (2010)? Humans should have won! It would have made for a better storyline that would lead into the sequels that did ya hear, are coming out in the year 2020. All five of them.

Back to the subreddit, it really captivates what sets apart humans as ultimate conquerors of what we touch. So imagine if the same gifts beset to us are in a large scale, granted to those who we trust unconditionally. It touches back to my previous posts about where would a dog's loyalty lie.

Sorry for the long wait. Life has been busy, but I'll be sure to update with more topics, insired by the things I see, hear, and think about.

As always, Happy Thinking

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