In a post-apocalyptic future town a young girl is murdered by bloodthirsty monsters. Rangers Nightshade and Moonsong are hot on the trail of the viscous murderers, but can they find them before the cold and deadly vigilante Pagan reaps their dammed souls and consigns them all to hell? Civil peace ...

Jon Favreau played Maz Kanada. Or Pablo Hidalgo. Or something like that

There are Easter Eggs hidden in media that might be spottable by viewers/readers, and others that the audience would never know unless they got the inside scoop from somewhere.

It's one reason I like commentaries and ...

my webcomic, Typical Strange, uses many fake films in its video store setting

A few years ago I spotted a book in the second hand store - one I'd read as a kid. I bought it and reread it. It was definitely more suited to the younger me - it was ...

Recently I have been revisiting a sitcom that I used to love but, funnily enough, never finished. The last season of the show dropped during a hectic period of my life and by the time I had, well time, to watch it, I had lost the plot. But thanks to ...

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Today we talk about an unusual type of villain, a secret type of bad guy and a particularly nasty one: the person who maliciously does nothing. This ...

So I just watched the latest Trope Talk by Overly Sharkastic Productions on Youtube (high recommend if you aren't already subscribed). The focus was on Doomed Heroes, and there's not much I'd be able to add to that comprehensive essay. Go watch it.

What it did inspire ...

Been a while since we did a mythology themed FanBest article, so here we go. Based on suggestions left by our beloved Ozoneocean on the last Fanbest article, I’m gonna talk about the Rainbow Serpent this Sunday. The Rainbow Serpent is an Aboriginal Australian deity known by numerous names ...

I liked her. The trailer dropped and I didn't quite like the trailer, but I liked her.

Hear me out, now.

I think Halle Bailey can absolutely, 100% work as a mermaid. A little mermaid, if you like. There's just something in the way she's set up ...

This sunday's poem is contributed by DD member TheDeeMan. This is "As if to say goodbye”
by Darryl Hughes aka TheDeeMan


As angels find their prayer in song. As birds to wing do fly.

An orange sun touched an ocean blue. It's words a lullaby.

I sat upon ...

A young man receives devastating news… A diagnosis of incurable cancer in the brain. This shatters his world and leads to an exploration of death and despair as we're taken on a ride through his thoughts and shown his imagined funeral and the experience of fellow terminal cases in ...