Tag Archive | magic
Wizards’ World War (s.3) Dispatch 13: Homefront
Tweet of the Day: How to Use Stream of Consciousness ——– Season 1 & 2 – Season 3 Premiere - Dispatch 12 – 14 ——- Caldicot, Sir Fynwyn, Domain of Wales, 9 May, 00:08 hrs GMT Eight minutes after midnight. Tomorrow was already here. Tomorrow meant pomp, pageantry and the hope of entire nations. Tomorrow […]
Wizards’ World War (s.3) Dispatch 12: Hat in Hand
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 16a – Lamb ——- ——- Season 1 & 2 – Season 3 Premiere – Dispatch 11 - Dispatch 13 ——- Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Arbatskaya Square, Moscow, 8 May, 9:01hrs +4 GMT The former Director of the DSGE, now Director of Military Affairs entered […]
Genre as Argument: Dark Fantasy
Tweet of the Day: Sword and Laser Anthology ——- This sub-genre of fantasy puts the dark back into the dark ages. It is an counter argument to the idea of an Arcadian past. The worlds portrayed in dark fantasy are dirty, messy, violent and by our standards immoral. All the familiar elements are there, but […]
A Look Back at Season 2 of Wizards’ World War
Tweet of the Day: Planet-hoping might not be so silly ——– January 3, 2012 The kickoff point for Season 2. Only seven months ago, give a week or two and yet it feels like I have been doing this for ages. A fairly good set of ages I may add. What started as a sort […]
Wizards’ World War (s.2) Dispatch 18: My Brother’s Keeper
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 8a – Show ——- Season 1 – Dispatch (s.2) 1 – Dispatch 17 – Dispatch 19 ——- Brick Factory Yard, Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan, UK, 1 August 22:28 hrs GMT I stood at the edge of the cone of b bright light projected by one of the many floodlights […]
Wizards’ World War (s.2) Dispatch 15: Down Time
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation- 5a- Office ——- Season 1 – Dispatch (s.2) 1 – Dispatch 14 – Dispatch 16 ——- Housing Estate, Harlow, Essex, UK, 28 July, 09:32 hrs GMT I felt too tired to sleep or do anything else but wonder around the tiny flat in a daze. It was a […]
Zombies Don’t Work for Me
Tweet of the Day: Spreading the Love ——- Unless you’re using some sort of magic to make them shamble into existence, zombies don’t work for me. I know everybody is crazy about the Z-word these days, from the zombie apocalypse to the latest YA Z-Romance, but walking rotting corpses aren’t scary or lovable. Funny, oh […]
Missing the Point: Why Magic Is In The Blood.
Tweet of the Day: When did magic become elitist? ——- A recent post in io9 by David Liss, author of The Twelfth Enchantment asks why stories today posit stories posit the ability to cast magic on genetic predisposition or blood of the user: It was the logic of magic that struck me most. In my […]
Wizards’ World War: Dispatch 15 – Tear Brittania
Tweet of the Day: Drama vs. Melodrama: Can You Tell the Difference? ——- Intro- 14 – 16 ——- ITV Studios, The Ten O’clock News London, UK, 5 August, 18:00 hours local The anchorman looked stared at the lens of camera three, a stern crease on his eyebrows as he narrated the days events: A third […]
