Tag Archive | media
Space for Rent: It’s Just A….
Tweet of the Day: Sword & Laser Podcast – #125 – On the Wagon ——- …a movie, …a book, …a game. It’s just a …thing and that’s all there is, or so the speaker would like you to think. But why? Why must we forgo an analysis of a give piece of art? The first […]
Space for Rent: The Space Between the Creator and the Audience
Tweet of the Day: The Pinnacle of Fanservice. A Citadel DLC Review. ——- Let us, yes you and I, engage in a simple exercise. Take a pamphlet or flyer, like the ones the hand out at the mall or stick under your car windshield. Then take a book from your collection, preferably a hard bound […]
Space for Rent: Not all things digital are the same
——- A week or so ago I came across a blog post that made some very facile comparisons between e-book piracy and other forms of digital piracy. But like many anti-piracy advocates the argument boiled down to, “Piracy is bad, ummkay!” while completely ignoring the fact that the only thing these different forms of […]
Space for Rent: The Fiction of the White Interpreter
Tweet of the Day: Oscar loves a white savior ——- Reading the article I linked to above (the Tweet of the Day) got me thinking that a) this is a writing blog and b) that not all tropes are good. That means that I should, once in awhile, write post related to writing in general. […]
TV Tropes Mondays: Suburbia
Tweet of the Day: She Saved the World A Lot ——- The Burbs, The Suburbs, Edgetowns, Levitttowns, A car, 2.5 kids and a dog on the yard, High school dances, PTA meetings, stay at home moms, working dads, supermoms, stay at home dads, Family values, family dysfunction, the odd serial killer, pedophile or dark cult. […]
Space for Rent: Time to Set Fire to the Wagons
Tweet of the Day: What’s the Difference Between Conflict and Tension? ——– As in, it is time to stop circling the wagons and start burning the damn things. Time to stop the attacks on Anita Sarkeesian for daring to examine tropes in gaming from a feminist point of view. Or the whole fake gamer girl […]
Breaking Radio Silence
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 7.48: Pixar Rules for Writing a Compelling Story ——- Posting has been twitchy of late. Lots of deadlines at the end of the month: ongoing series, an entry into an SFR anthology and some major changes to the current WiP. Talking of the WiP, I’m thinking that I […]
Weekend Roundup: August 26-September 1
Tweet of the Day: Beyond Fantasy ——- Okay, so I may, just may have overdone it a little bit this week, with fan fic thing. I should get back to regular posting and stuff, and I will, but I had to get all that out of my system. I hope I did not inconvenience you […]
Weekend Roundup: July 22-28
Tweet of the Day: How to write a synopsis ——- I hate to admit it, but I like the more relaxed posting schedule. While pressure to post was and is a great motivator to write, I don’t feel like I HAVE to press the publish button at the one second past midnight (local time). That […]
TV Tropes Monday: Adaptational Sexuality as the New Black Face
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 6b – Mimosa ——- I’ve been trying to write a post about this subject for sometime, but for some reason I couldn’t come up with a coherent argument until I stumbled upon this trope. According to the tropes page Adaptational Sexuality occurs when the sexuality of a […]
