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At Åcon 14 in Mariehamn recently, there was a panel on "Romanscify": by analogy with "Romantasy", is there a subgenre that provides both a satisfying romance and a satisfying SF story? The answer is "yes" of course, but the panelists...
Remember that song? “Wild thing, you make my heart sing?” Well, everything in this post does indeed make my heart sing, wild or tame. It begins at a local pond where one of our most beautiful native shrubs grow. The rhodora is in the...
This week's ttrpg newsletter with discord discussions, blogs to read, projects to bookmark and download, play reports, new arrivals, and a poem by Walt Whitman.
Week one of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School summer festival feels a bit like opening the door to a house party at 2am: exciting, messy, full of people trying to work out who they are in real time. It’s one of the pleasures of these...
In the just slightly alternative reality we are presented with in Yaxlont, monsters who live under the bed are real and anyone can see them (well, the kids at least – it isn’t made clear whether adults can). They befriend a child who...
Hopepunk narratives are a true antidote to real-world grimness, showing ordinary people fighting for a better word.
Last time, I was writing about the freedom to create something I am discovering lately. Well, I’m happy to say that things went even further this month. I don’t remember if I had seen a video or something else, but in January I had a...
A classic I discovered in my late 30s. Better late than never. Clever and funny! I have to read more by Calvino. Rating: 🥝Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!
I love time loops in media—from Groundhog Day to...hey, wait a minute. Does anybody else feel a weird sense of déjà vu? It can't just be me. Do you ever get up in the morning and feel as though you've already lived the same day?
Πολύ ωραίο. Set on a planet on the far end of the universe, the interactions between the human ambassadors engineered to be able to speak the double language of the curious but benign (and extremely strange) native aliens.
So, to the 'meat and two veg' of a toy soldier Blog (really I like to think we are a ' toy soldier, model figure and novelty' Blog!), with the chaps (and occasionally, chapesses) in Khaki, and it's always a mix of rack-toy rusk and...
I love using WebMention, but I find so few posts that I feel I can reply to. I am desperately hungry for WebMention content that asks open-ended questions I can reply to. I follow the Open Mentions WebMention topic closely (I follow them...