Well, look! It’s Sunday again! And for this here Sunday, Sunday, Sunday article I thought I’d start this new little series of articles that the awesome Quackcast 575 inspired me to do. I shall call it the Fantastic Bestiary series, which will be a series of articles where ...
Fantastic Bestiary 1: The Jinn
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, March 27, 2022Scientific Magic
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, March 20, 2022
I talked last Sunday about science engaging with the supernatural in fiction and the worldbuilding stuff that can be generated from that. In this article I’m going to talk about the opposite end of that spectrum. The supernatural engaging with science. This is where I bring up Alchemy. Now ...
QUACKCAST 572 - Myths of fiction part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 1, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Last week we did a thing of the persistent myths of fiction- fictional conventions that we all just accept, and are repeated over and over and even ...
QUACKCAST 571 - Myths of fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 22, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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There are so many really silly cliché myths from fiction that we all just tend to accept. They're objectively stupid but they get repeated so often ...
QUACKCAST 567 - Fairies, the Darkmatter of the supernatural
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Pit and Tantz join me to talk about about fairies, fae, Faery, Fair folk, Yokai, and all that good stuff. They're like the dark-matter of the ...
The Fae
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 22, 2022
Usually when we think about fairies, the mind goes to tiny beautiful girls with butterfly wings and a ton of sparkles. At their most threatening, we got the token fiesty Tinkerbell.
Or do we?
For me, the world of the fae and fairies is a fascinatingly surreal, dangerous, occult world ...
QUACKCAST 565 - Lady Barbarian
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 11, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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“The Girl Boss in the sausagefest”
Pitface and Tantz chat are here to chat with me about the subject or lady Barbarians: What they look like, where ...
Belief, Myth and Story
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 2, 2021
“Get Back”, the new documentary about the Beatles has been released - I haven't seen the whole thing yet, and I'm a fairly casual fan of the Beatles, but I've seen the shorter version of these recording sessions that was released way back when. And I've seen ...