Foreno has been ordered by the King to recruit twelve individuals for a “boring” (aka Very Important) mission. His inner left wrist is scribbled with numbers and an incomprehensible language; the right wrist holds a countdown timer and when it gets to zero, everything known, loved, and hated will be ...
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kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 28, 2023One Three to Rule Them All
Banes at 12:00AM, June 8, 2023
There are many areas where the “rule of three” comes into play. There are plenty of them in storytelling.
Fairy Tales and Fables are full of threes, of course, with Three Little Pigs, Three Bears, Three Wishes, and on and on - the first unit sets things up, the second reinforces ...
Orphans
Banes at 12:00AM, May 25, 2023
It never really occurred to me how many of our heroes are orphans.
Superman was the last survivor of a planet that perished. He was adopted by loving Earth parents, but he's one of the iconic orphans in fiction.
His counterpart Batman, of course, lost his parents at an ...
Quackcast 631 - Entitlements
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 18, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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What rights are people actually entitled to? That question is a lot bigger than you think!
The Quackcast today is sequel to last week's about entitled ...
Folktale Parodies
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 27, 2023
Photo: “The Stinky Cheese Man and the Fox”. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. (1992)
Any the book that was ever available at silent reading was always a book that the teacher read aloud to the class. The Stinky Cheese Man ...
Quackcast 617 - Adventuring we go!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 10, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Adventure is a fun genre! Not as many things get made for it these days but it used to be hugely popular in the past. It's ...
Quackcast 605 - Myth of Freedom
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 18, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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“Freedom” is the catch cry in so much historical fiction but it's usually an anachronistic piece of nationalist fantasy. You fought for your lord, for pay ...
Remember The Duck: Reanimated!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 25, 2022
Ok so it's not Halloween and horror stories may not be what you expect in the middle of summer (Midsommar?) but perhaps it's the horror you need in place of the horror that may or may not be surrounding us in real life.
The Duck:Reanimated, for the ...
Wonder
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 19, 2022
Gonna take another pause from the fantastic bestiary on this Sunday’s article and instead talk about wonder in fiction. First off, what is wonder? If you put the word wonder into google translate it is described as ”a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beutiful, remarkable or ...