Spoilers for all Dragon Age, y’all. I have always believed the world would be a kinder place if more people played Dragon Age games. It’s true that BioWare’s high fantasy series hews to a formula common to all their RPGs—thoughtful writing, beautifully-acted companions representing competing ideologies, and above […]
Behold these sweet and incredibly detailed character designs for a project simply called, Undergrowth! 70 earthworms in a suit! Bluebird in a mech suit! Leafhopper warriors! See it all here. (Thanks, Dr. O!) (There’s a new link and it should work).
At The Adventure Zone Podcast, the McElroy family and the characters of the Adventure Zone vs Dracula take on Shakespeare! Don’t know who any of those people are, that’s okay, it’s still fun! (Knowing who William Shakespeare is really helps, though). Listen here.
At Eruditorum Press, Elizabeth Sandifer writes about Neil Gaiman and Scientology. (Thanks, Bill!) “Gaiman has repeatedly drawn from his childhood in his fiction, however, and this paints a far darker picture. His earliest work to engage with it was Violent Cases, a 1987 graphic novel that begins with […]
On Wednesday, February 19th at 6pm ET, you can attend an online event–The Black Fantastic! “Award-winning SF authors Tananarive Due, Victor LaValle, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah join andré carrington, editor of The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, for a conversation about genre, influence, and the fascinating and phantasmagoric […]
At RogerEbert.Com, Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece on Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. “‘The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must […]
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The Cultural Gutter 