Welcome to Iron & Ink Institute. This place is a workshop, not a lounge. Your first week is simple on purpose. You only need to do three things: 1. Read the House Rules They are short and sharp. They tell you how we move here. If something in you resists them, note that. It matters. 2. Introduce yourself Make a post in this category and cover three points: • Where you are in the world. • What you are currently fighting with the most: mind, body, or story. • What you want to be able to do or be, that you cannot yet. Keep it plain. No need to impress anyone. We respect honesty. 3. Pick one pressure point for week one Choose one of these to focus on: • A mental pattern that keeps wrecking you. • A physical weakness or habit you are tired of carrying. • A block in your writing or expression. Write this sentence somewhere you will see it: > “For this first week at Iron & Ink, I am working on: [your pressure point].” After your intro, go run the three starter drills: The Forge: Week 1 Perception Check. The Yard: Body Baseline. The Scriptorium: Ink Spark. Start small, move honestly, report back. That is the whole game.

This place is a workshop, not a lounge. These rules are here so the work can stay sharp and clean. 1. Come as a weapon in progress - You are not a brand here. You are a student and a craftsman. - Speak as yourself, not as a persona or a sales page. - Owning your mess is respected. Posturing is not. 2. Radical responsibility - No whining without willingness. If you bring a problem, be ready to work it. - You are responsible for your choices, your reactions, and your results. - “They made me” is not an acceptable frame. We look for the move you can make. 3. Plain speech, clean conflict - Say what you mean in simple language. - Attack problems, not people. - Honest disagreement is welcome. Contempt, insults, and drama are not. - If you are heated, cool down before you post. 4. Privacy and the circle - Treat what people share here as belonging to the circle. - Do not screenshot or repeat personal details outside the group without clear permission. - Stories used as teaching examples should be anonymized unless the person explicitly agrees. 5. No pedestals, no gurus - I am a guide and a fellow practitioner, not a savior. - Question ideas. Test methods. Keep your sovereignty. - Do not recruit followers here, for any path, teacher, or ideology. 6. Work before performance - Share attempts, drills, and experiments more than polished victories. - Theory and clever takes are fine only if they point back to practice. - If a post has no clear connection to mind, body, or ink, rethink it. 7. Respect the body - No encouragement of self harm, starvation, or reckless stunts. - Hard training is welcome. Stupidity disguised as toughness is not. - If you give physical advice, stay inside your competence. 8. Respect the mind - No bullying, dogpiling, or mocking people for their current level. - Challenge each other with the intention to sharpen, not to dominate. - If someone asks for support, read carefully before you answer.

Reforge your mind, body, and myth. My name is Herne. I am a working millwright, a pagan shaman, and a writer who sees story and symbol as tools on a bench. Iron & Ink is the place where all of that work gathers under one roof. This is not a lifestyle aesthetic. It is not a fan club. It is a training ground for outlier humans who feel the Lie pressing in on every side and refuse to fold. If that sentence lands in your ribs, you are in the right place. What Iron & Ink is Iron & Ink exists for three things: 1. Inner mechanics: Learning how your mind actually runs. Catching the hidden gears. Rewriting patterns instead of being driven by them. We will work with tools like the Perception Generator, Reality Sculptor, and other processes that turn vague “mindset” into concrete moves you can run on yourself. 2. Body and bearing: Strength as a spiritual discipline. Combativeness as a nervous system skill. You do not need to be an athlete. You do need to be willing to sweat, breathe, and build a body your spirit can trust when life hits back. 3. Ink and mythcraft: Writing as more than expression. Symbol, story, and structure used on purpose. We will explore hypersigil writing, Straussian layers, and other ways of building poems and stories that act on you, not just sit on the page. Everything here hangs on one idea. You are not here to decorate the person you already are. You are here to become someone your fate can depend on. Iron & Ink is for people who: - Feel too awake for the modern script and too stubborn to bow to it. - Would rather do hard, honest work than posture about being “edgy.” - Want a spine of practice that touches thought, flesh, and story at the same time. It is not for people who: - Want entertainment without effort. - Want someone else to fix them. - Want a new identity costume instead of real change. If you are not sure where you land, stay, read, and see if the work here bites at you. If it does, answer it.