Being a nightclub singer, dressing in fancy clothes, impressing the crowd, and performing should be a dream! but not for Amphi, not anymore… The city she loves has fallen to corruption and greed, the mob controls the town, they control everything! And now what's worse is they're even ...

It's Valentine's Day as I write this, and the day after (or many days after) when you're reading this.

Anyway, I thought I'd run down (or run up) my top five science fiction romantic couples. I don't think I've done this topic before, but ...

Last time I'd talked about rather superficial and/or inappropriate attempts to weave commentary on real world social issues into a fantasy or scifi world. The discussion in the comments was FANTASTIC! I urge everyone to have a look if you haven't already.

The general consensus was that ...

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Happy new year. Happy 2024!
We're doing a year in review show this time because what else do you talk about in the last recorded thing/first presented thing of the year?
We chat a bit ...

Zines were in the news recently
(https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/28/zines-exhibition-brooklyn-museum-art)

What’s a zine you might ask? It’s a small print run, usually small sized, amateur magazine. Often using photocopied pages, hand stapled, and it can be very unpolished in terms of content, but ...

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Happy Halloween! The time of spookiness and ghosts. Spooks messed up the cast so the sound quality is really bad I'm afraid, I tried to do what I could to fix it though.
This week Banes ...

One door closes and another one opens… if you're lucky. Lin Peckett Soooooo wants to become a fashion designer, she has the talent, the taste, and the skill, but it looks like she might not succeed. Unless she gets some help from a nice stranger. This is a short ...

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Hawk and Flo Part One: Ice Cream Truck of Doom by HawkandFloAdventures

HawkandFloAdventures writes:

“Hi I'm on track for 700 pages I was wondering if I could get ...

I was reading a critique of a series, a successful series, of novels. I think it's an urban fantasy/horror thing where the main character has a specific paranormal ability, limited, but useful in her detective work. She had a love interest, who was maybe on and off, but ...

what if there was a creepy basement…

Barbarian was one of the new movies I enjoyed last year. As far as I know, it got good reviews, and a mostly-positive reception. Some people criticized it for making no sense. It's a fair point - although like I said, I enjoyed ...