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- Dimension 20: A Storytelling Masterclass
As trained actors and improvisers, the cast are remarkably adept at finding a tone and holding it – while plethora of fascinating ideas – including a Roman-esque legion body-swapped into velociraptors, and a mindboggling Dimension 20: Mentopolis with Inside Out: 2 and seeing what they both had to say about the workings of our minds praise and reason to watch: this show and community are among the most inclusive and welcoming you'll find If not, consider checking out the first episode here – if your mind isn't blown by the end of episode
- Perspective, Plot and World: What Makes Great Speculative Fiction?
I’ve added a link to a related interview I gave at the bottom of “Class Trip” from two weeks ago, find (Another – perhaps surprising – comparison comes to mind here: His Dark Materials actually shares some There are obscure references to all kinds of fiction and mythology on top of simple inventions. Char, The Magicians or His Dark Materials – though I do have a (likely incomprehensible) story idea in mind Are there any novels (or other media) that come to mind? Thanks for reading!
- Community vs Imperialism
clubs, and found that certain ideas presented by these books seemed to strike a discordant tone in my mind this quoted section is available as an article online ): Science fiction as a genre “emerged in the mid-nineteenth-century We find constant dichotomous reframing of settler colonials as agents of space-faring Manifest Destiny I also personally struggled to find answers in Buffalo is the New Buffalo , because while Vowel is dedicated lesson to be learned here today, beyond remembering to think about media critically and having an open mind
- The Extraordinary Symbolism of the Stag & the Wolf
Robb seemed to be doing the same with Grey Wind – in battle, no less – and a horrifying but plausible fan theory speculates that he entered his wolf's mind at the Red Wedding, only to die a second time Perhaps it isn't even done: The Winds of Winter still features Stannis Baratheon fighting to liberate Are there any similarly far-reaching pieces of imagery that come to your mind?
- What is House of Leaves? Part III: Johnny Truant & Pelafina
Johnny and his friend Lude find Zampanò's manuscript in his boarded up apartment, not long after the Yet his mind also seems to wander in the midst of writing, leading to footnotes spanning multiple pages The letters themselves are a heartbreaking chronicle of a woman who can't trust her own mind, reaching She finds him immediately. After all, what else is there? Yet I still feel the pull to look deeper – much stronger since finding out yesterday that Mark Z.
- [Vampires IX] You Are What You Eat
You can find all the previous entries (and hopefully some explanation for my endless fascination with Yet amongst the corpses, they find a pale, human-rat-like creature in a cage, the iron bars of which Good Stab's vampirism (not referred to as such until the very end of the book, mind) has a few unique , I really appreciate how far Jones went with having his characters literally transform in body and mind
- Worlds Without Gender
Either way, I therefore greatly appreciate stories that reflect my own experiences where I can find them Fastnesses, daily calorie and nutrient intake is closely tracked for survival, and a certain degree of mindfulness But in a social sense (and along with their inbuilt tendency toward mindfulness) it may also promote
- Looking Back at Two Years of Prose and Context
That being said, I could see finding a middle ground in 2026; perhaps an extra monthly article, specifically Plus, despite what the mind-over-matter, lost-in-their-imagination teen in me says, keeping busy with But hey, I stick to as much of it as I can, find some books , TV , movies and video essays to devour
- Vampires VII: Self-Acceptance in Ghost's "Lachryma" and Nosferatu
On first watch of the music video my mind immediately drew a connection to the film Nosferatu (2024) She gains the confidence to tackle her demons head-on, and eventually finds a measure of self-acceptance Self-Acceptance Being aware of and confronting our thoughts head on... you guessed it, the answer was once again mindfulness
- Heroes, Villains, Gods & Monsters: We’re All Only Human
How ‘Wicked’ and ‘Wind and Truth’ reminded me that authority is merely a mask The Wizard I’ll level with Wind and Truth That isn’t quite the case in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive , even considering the revelations we got in Wind and Truth . ( Spoilers ahead for that book; you can find much of my Tanavast worked as a simple tanner, and was a kind man with a fondness for dogs. Taravangian (whom I wrote about here ), it will be fascinating to see a very dangerous but very human mind
- [Einherjar] The Locked Tomb: Commander Wake
horror of this choice is unparalleled in my mind. chooses to save her newborn daughter's life rather than her own; in hopes that someone will one day find with Camilla, Wake haunts first her body, then her daughter’s sword, before finally moving into the mind In both plots she is an agent of mysterious horror, since we don't find out about her until the end of
- Lost and Found: Entering New Worlds
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear Other times, I find myself reading hot garbage that the uncritical internet thought was pretty: *cough fantasy books explaining every unique aspect of their world early, so that the reader can focus on mind-numbing It’s impossible to fully grasp any real world situation, but you can work with the context clues you find





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