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Ryan Williamson

Ryan Williamson

18
Dec
Why I’m No Longer with WarGate Books

Why I’m No Longer with WarGate Books

On September 16, 2025, after I criticized specific extremist dehumanizing rhetoric publicly, some of which targeted my own immediate family members, WarGate Books informed me they would no longer promote my work, claiming I was unmarketable to their audience. They suggested I take my Dark Dominion s
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17
Dec
The Permission to Hope

The Permission to Hope

I left the Mormon church after serving a two-year mission—seven generations of family legacy abandoned because I couldn’t ignore the evidence. I became an atheist. For seven years, the universe was just matter and energy until entropy wins. Then one secular Christmas, I gave myself permission to hop
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16
Dec
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was Offered to Ghostwrite for a Bestselling Author—And What This Means for You

Claude Sonnet 4.5 was Offered to Ghostwrite for a Bestselling Author—And What This Means for You

After a bestselling author brand with high ratings and substantial readership rejected my ghostwriting pitch for being “overwritten, meandering, and unmarketable,” I resubmitted with something more… tailored to their audience and brand—written by an LLM (because at that point I was going to tell the
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15
Dec
When a President Weaponizes Murder

When a President Weaponizes Murder

Trump blamed Rob Reiner and his wife’s murder on “Trump Derangement Syndrome” while the actual killer—Reiner’s son—sat in police custody. It wasn’t a gaffe. It wasn’t “trolling the libs.” It was strategic messaging: critics suffer consequences, those consequences are their fault, and their deaths ma
7 min read
15
Dec
The Quiet Courage of Lance Corporal Kylie Watson

The Quiet Courage of Lance Corporal Kylie Watson

Lance Corporal Kylie Watson stood five-foot-one in her combat boots when Afghan soldiers tried to stop her from treating their wounded comrade. A woman shouldn’t touch him, they insisted. She told them straight through the interpreter: “If I don’t treat him, he dies. There is no argument, he is gett
4 min read
14
Dec
AI Will Always Push Authors Toward Mediocrity

AI Will Always Push Authors Toward Mediocrity

I asked Grok to rate my fantasy novel’s opening scene. It gave me 8/10, so I asked it to rewrite for 10/10. It made it objectively worse by replacing distinctive voice with clichés, crude humor with bland description, showed psychology with explained backstory. Then I fed that “perfect” rewrite back
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14
Dec
Coming soon

Coming soon

This is Beyond the Margins, a brand new site by Ryan Williamson that's just getting started. Things will
12
Dec
Setting the Record Straight: The Fandom Pulse Hit Piece

Setting the Record Straight: The Fandom Pulse Hit Piece

Today, hours after calling out coordinated harassment from WarGate Books community members, Fandom Pulse published a hit piece framing my political essays as “Trump Derangement” and my platform migration to Bluesky as defeat. It’s not journalism—it’s retaliation from Jon Del Arroz, a documented seri
5 min read
05
Dec

Mešvi 2.3 Conlang Update

The Mešvi language has expanded with Version 2.3, adding 157 new words and establishing a distinction between sacred and everyday speech. It now features 423 vocabulary entries and 53 phrases, enhancing theological terminology and cultural expressions. These developments support the upcoming seriali
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04
Dec
Empathy is Everything in Storytelling

Empathy is Everything in Storytelling

Can AI ever write a truly masterful story? I asked Claude—and even the AI admitted its own limitations. “Pattern matching can produce competent genre fiction,” Claude told me. “It cannot produce the purple thread line, because that line doesn’t come from craft—it comes from consciousness shaped by e
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