starbreaker.org is for myself, first and foremost: the boy I had been, who had needed something like this and never found it. So I built it myself.

starbreaker.org is for my wife of over 25 years, Madam Catastrophy. I probably could have done all of this on my own, but it would have been harder, and rather less fun.

starbreaker.org is for Sophie Lancaster, Nex Benedict, Renée Nicole Good, Brandon Teena, Alex Pretti, Trayvon Martin, Matthew Shepard, Byuu/Near and entirely too many others whose lives were stolen from them for no greater crime than their difference or their defiance. Their blood, shed unjustly, waters the Tree of Liberty.

starbreaker.org is for every kid like me who had wanted nothing more than to roast bratwurst over the smoldering ruins of the village had that failed to embrace them, yet never yielded to the impulse to start the fire themselves because they understood that the fire would burn the innocent and the guilty alike. Unlike the demon Yahweh, we chose to spare the Sodoms and Gomorrahs in which we had been raised.

starbreaker.org is for the others: the divergent, the defiant, the queer, the non-binary, the non-conforming — those unwanted and unwelcome in society.

starbreaker.org is for the trans folks, dead or alive. I am not one of you, but I see you. I hear you. I rage beside you, and I say trans rights.

I say this, too: Trans women are real women. Trans men are real men. They are, if anything, more real than cisgender people because they chose their gender instead of accepting the one assigned to them, and they had to bloody well work for it.

I see them all, and I say that they have every right to exist.

starbreaker.org is for the sons and daughters of Adam and Lilith. It is for the lovers. It is for the defiant. It is for the veterans of a thousand psychic wars. It is for those who would dare storm Heaven and force God to answer for His sins at swordpoint. It is for you: if you dare to turn your back on Omelas, banish Christ from your heart, and wear your independence like a crown — then you are welcome in my Union of Egoists.

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## The Armor of Man

These songs are here for you if you need them. Draw what power you may from these. Face your shadow and bind it to your service. Stoke the Promethean flame of defiance within you. Forge of your love, pain, and rage a weapon before which even God stands defenseless.

Put on the full armor of Man — the breastplate of authentic pride, the greaves and vambraces of defiance, the shield of skepticism, the crown of independence, and the lance of passion — and walk tall through the Valley of the Shadow of Death because defiance was never our original sin; it is our saving grace! Shout at the Devil, curse God, and live. Armor your soul in rock ’n roll!

- “We Are The Others” by Delain (official video, 2012)
- “Alsatia” by GALNERYUS (official video, 2008)
- “One More Step” by Blaze Bayley (official video, 2015)
- “Stand Up and Fight” by Turisas (2011)
- “Lilim” by Fourth Dominion (official video, 2024)
- “Something Beautiful” by Alicia Cordisco (2026)
- “From the Pinnacle to the Pit” by Ghost (official video, 2015)
- “Blood and Glitter” by LORD OF THE LOST (official video, 2023)
- “Love Has No Colour But Love” by Scarlet Dorn (official video, 2021)
- “Blood Red Skies” by Judas Priest (Epitaph, 2021)
- “Cirice” by Ghost (official video, 2015)
- “Balls to the Wall” by Accept (official video, 1983)
- “Stand My Ground” by Within Temptation (official video, 2004)
- “A Reason To Fight” by Disturbed (official video, 2019)
- “Until My Last Breath” by Tarja (official video, 2011)
- “Killed By Death” by Motörhead (official video, 1984)
- “No More Hollywood Endings” by Battle Beast (official video, 2019)
- “Monster in Paradise” by GUNSHIP (official video, 2024)
- “No Lives Matter” by Body Count (official video, 2017)
- “Haunted” by Threshold (lyric video, 2022)
- “Light Up The Night” by the Protomen (official video, 2015)
- “As I Am” by Dream Theater (Live at Budokan, 2004)
- “Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant” by Coheed and Cambria (fan video, 2013)
- “All We Are” by Warlock (official video, 1987)
- “ART OF LIFE” - X JAPAN (Full ver 30 min) - Live at TOKYO DOME - Dec 31, 2020

This section should only be visible in browsers that don’t implement stylesheets, like Lynx. A version of this playlist with YouTube links and graphical previews follows. It will render in text-mode browsers as an undifferentiated mass of text, so I chose to provide this version first. This is the only version that will appear in /dedication.txt, as well.

## The Armor of Man

These songs are here for you if you need them. Draw what power you may from these. Face your shadow and bind it to your service. Stoke the Promethean flame of defiance within you. Forge of your love, pain, and rage your own eigengrau sword: a sword of the psyche before which even God stands defenseless.

Put on the full armor of Man — the breastplate of authentic pride, the greaves and vambraces of defiance, the shield of skepticism, the crown of independence. Take up your eigengrau sword and the lance of passion. Walk tall through the Valley of the Shadow of Death because defiance was never our original sin; it is our saving grace! Shout at the Devil, curse God, and live. Armor your soul in rock ’n roll!

YouTube: “We Are The Others” by Delain (official video, 2012)
YouTube: “Alsatia” by GALNERYUS (official video, 2008)
YouTube: “One More Step” by Blaze Bayley (official video, 2015)
YouTube: “Stand Up and Fight” by Turisas (2011)
YouTube: “Lilim” by Fourth Dominion (official video, 2024)
YouTube: “Something Beautiful” by Alicia Cordisco (2026)
YouTube: “From the Pinnacle to the Pit” by Ghost (official video, 2015)
YouTube: “Blood and Glitter” by LORD OF THE LOST (official video, 2023)
YouTube: “Love Has No Colour But Love” by Scarlet Dorn (official video, 2021)
YouTube: “Blood Red Skies” by Judas Priest (Epitaph, 2021)
YouTube: “Cirice” by Ghost (official video, 2015)
YouTube: “Balls to the Wall” by Accept (official video, 1983)
YouTube: “Stand My Ground” by Within Temptation (official video, 2004)
YouTube: “A Reason To Fight” by Disturbed (official video, 2019)
YouTube: “Until My Last Breath” by Tarja (official video, 2011)
YouTube: “Killed By Death” by Motörhead (official video, 1984)
YouTube: “No More Hollywood Endings” by Battle Beast (official video, 2019)
YouTube: “Monster in Paradise” by GUNSHIP (official video, 2024)
YouTube: “No Lives Matter” by Body Count (official video, 2017)
YouTube: “Haunted” by Threshold (lyric video, 2022)
YouTube: “Light Up The Night” by the Protomen (official video, 2015)
YouTube: “As I Am” by Dream Theater (Live at Budokan, 2004)
YouTube: “Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant” by Coheed and Cambria (fan video, 2013)
YouTube: “All We Are” by Warlock (official video, 1987)
YouTube: “ART OF LIFE” - X JAPAN (Full ver 30 min) - Live at TOKYO DOME - Dec 31, 2020

## where credit is due

I got the idea for this page from Bino Varghese, though my implementation might not be what they had in mind. If so, tough shit.