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How exactly do you take the Red Pill?

Everyone loves to talk about it but if you aren't a wonk like me, you may not know how it works, until now.

Oct 24, 2023 • Rian Stone

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Rian’s Substack

Rian’s Substack

I'm still here. I'm still cynical. I'm still writing

Top posts

Some men have never known real happiness

Dec 30, 2025 • Rian Stone

How exactly do you take the Red Pill?

Oct 24, 2023 • Rian Stone

Sex and Violence

Jul 30, 2024 • Rian Stone

The path men take

Apr 23, 2024 • Rian Stone

Can't do it all

Oct 15, 2024 • Rian Stone

stories

Dating ouroboros

Oct 28, 2025 • Rian Stone

Don't be that Girl

“I wasn’t asking for much.” Bill said.

Oct 27, 2025 • Rian Stone

I Don’t Think They Know

Two stories from Scotland and Canada show a widening class divide in the West.

Aug 28, 2025 • Rian Stone

Two Stories, Head to Head AI Battle Bot challenge extravaganza escapade of horrors.

For the honour of humanity!

Aug 3, 2025 • Rian Stone

Do you have a hard time reading books? Me too.

I discovered why I was having a hard time, and wrote a book that doesn't have that problem

Aug 1, 2025 • Rian Stone

Guys will go their whole life for one moment

The Tulloch moment. Meaning. Recognition. Legacy

Jul 26, 2025 • Rian Stone

It's not a soul crushing experience, it's just a job

Being a writer is like being a cobbler. The best ones are those middle aged Asian guys in the mall.

Jul 24, 2025 • Rian Stone

field reports

Case Study: Basic Bitch Progress

Or, What are we doing here?

Aug 5, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study. Independent conformists.

You ain't shit, and thats OK

May 27, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study: The best solution is to let this man die

I don't talk about type 3 captains because there aren't many of them, except here

May 6, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study: Stop trying to be masculine

Start attempting direction.

Mar 18, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study: Paying for sex doesn't change anything.

A taboo example for you to get it through your thick skull. Women are women, there's no cheat codes. Even when you pay for a woman.

Feb 25, 2025 • Rian Stone

Praxeology, Volume 3, now on Audio

Audiobook live!

Feb 19, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study, It's not about who follows the rules best

Nothing is meant to be taken literally, except for what is

Feb 18, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study: Self Improvement navel gazing

Why the labor theory of value doesn't work

Feb 11, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study: Your wife is never going to change. She’s just not good enough

How you need 2 years to understand that you cannot make your wife suck less.

Feb 4, 2025 • Rian Stone

Case Study: Your wife is a bitchy child

learn to see her that way and your life will become easier.

Jan 14, 2025 • Rian Stone

Kowloon

My process of writing without wasting your time

If it helps you, great. If you understand what I did with Softbone, even better

Jul 22, 2025 • Rian Stone

Final Comps for Softbone

It's always about the decisions

Jun 9, 2025 • Rian Stone

Basics of Graphic Design

Jake Long, in Softbone

May 19, 2025 • Rian Stone

How to Make a Cover, 3rd Edition

Jake Long, Softbone

May 17, 2025 • Rian Stone

Writing. Show don't tell

The Daily-ish Newsletter #1

Apr 25, 2025 • Rian Stone

Jake Long in, Softbone. Also, writing as a process

Cyberpunk adventure excerpt.

Mar 12, 2025 • Rian Stone

Jake Long, in — Softbone

Adventures in New Kowloon

Feb 21, 2025 • Rian Stone

Down and out in New Kowloon,

Soon to be in a magazine near you….

Jan 24, 2025 • Rian Stone

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