I've been taking notes for 52 years. Now I'm publishing them. Overthinker? You found the mothership. https://www.pegasuspodcasts.com/https://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mltge2t4rp22There's a story we've been telling about child stars for decades. Discovery. Difficult phase. Drugs. Breakdown. Comeback. It's a great story. It was designed to be. New episode of The Rules. #TheRules #ChildStars https://open.substack.com/pub/therulespodcast/p/the-rules-episode-5-child-stars?r=jdjfi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web14 May 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltge2t4rp22https://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mloepupyar2nCyrus the Great said it in 590 BCE: gelded men are easier to control. Two thousand years later we put them in metal suits and called them robots. New companion essay from The Rules: Technology. #TheRules https://therulespodcast.substack.com/p/little-gay-metal-eunuchs?r=jdjfi12 May 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloepupyar2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mljdogllvv2oSome things you can't let go of. Some things you shouldn't. What happens when you have to? New fiction from The Rules: Technology. #TheRules https://therulespodcast.substack.com/p/pineapple?r=jdjfi10 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljdogllvv2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mlgtbf6wxy2xWhen the machine has always had a body it's never been allowed to own it. Maria. Ava. Samantha. The rules for robot women are the same as the rules for real ones. #TheRules #Technology https://therulespodcast.substack.com/p/the-rules-technology-the-directors?r=jdjfi09 May 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgtbf6wxy2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mlbsdddito2oSix rules. Every magical system, every tradition, every wand and blood sacrifice and deal at the crossroads. The magic was never the interesting part. The Rules: Magic - now on YouTube. https://youtu.be/sNBIg3gk7iI07 May 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbsdddito2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3ml4rfju3et2vA younger man. An older one. A life built around being the right kind of gay at the right kind of time. What happens when the rules change and you weren't consulted? A More Comfortable Cage - companion fiction to this week's Magic episode. https://open.substack.com/pub/therulespodcast/p/the-boy-and-his-master?r=jdjfi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web05 May 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4rfju3et2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkxts2xpml23He co-founded JPL, helped put America in space, and spent his evenings doing sex magic in the California desert. Jack Parsons was not a fictional character but his story reads like he was. Did a Black Magician Really Put Man on the Moon? https://open.substack.com/pub/therulespodcast/p/the-unbelievable-life-of-jack-parsons?r=jdjfi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web03 May 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxts2xpml23https://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkxqhmqeot2cThe magic system isn't a fantasy. It's just the class system in a cloak. Who gets power, who pays for it, and who gets burned for trying - the unspoken rules of every magical world you've ever visited. The Management Would Like To See You. https://therulespodcast.substack.com/p/the-rules-magic-directors-cut?r=jdjfi03 May 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxqhmqeot2chttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkpuvgl56225Burn! https://youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?si=3ZuvuVe2GAYLrsuo30 Apr 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpuvgl56225https://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkp5mgg2jh2sA scientist magician that helped get a rocket on the moon and got into a love triangle with the founder of Scientology. How's that for a biography? Incomplete actually, read the full story. Here: https://open.substack.com/pub/therulespodcast/p/the-unbelievable-life-of-jack-parsons?r=jdjfi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true30 Apr 2026 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkp5mgg2jh2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mknpdy77a22sThe haunted house isn't scary because of the ghost. It's scary because of the mortgage. New essay: the rules that make ghost stories work, and what they're really arguing about. https://therulespodcast.substack.com/p/the-rules-ghosts-the-directors-cut?r=jdjfi29 Apr 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknpdy77a22shttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkju525kbz22Josh didn't expect backup in that corridor. He definitely didn't expect it to be Richard Grey. New fiction for The Rules. Some mentors are more complicated than they first appear. https://therulespodcast.substack.com/p/how-to-gay?r=jdjfi28 Apr 2026 05:30 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkju525kbz22https://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkfcs52gy22cMan I'm sore today I really want to write about robots and eunuchs but my psoriasis is on fire. Stupid psoriasis I want to be on fire in the cool way. Funny how we use temperature to describe performance when you think about it.26 Apr 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfcs52gy22chttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkbavu3plc2iJust in case you missed it. https://youtu.be/JPeL6X8puzs?si=0tOFc9efA0bRsU3H24 Apr 2026 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbavu3plc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/pegasuspod.bsky.social/post/3mkb6ulb3pk2iIt seemed wrong not to finish the story but last one I promise.24 Apr 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:sgnnfs6efmpiu72d6v7mh36k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb6ulb3pk2i