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The real magic is that he can hold it that way and retain all his fingers.

How does that sword even work? Or is it actually a candelabrum?

Finished Margery Allingham's first mystery novel The White Cottage. It was fun for a 1925 book, and relatively racism free. The sexism I...

Yes, in bookshops and libraries it’s not uncommon to see the Iliad and the Odyssey, or more modern retellings of Greek and Norse myth...

My understanding is that mythology, as a classification of literature, is considered to be nonfiction in the sense that it's part of...

I always wanted to do that with the Darkstryder campaign, which is basically the setup for a Voyager campaign in Star Wars...

My version of Palpatine was a Jedi who’d been sent to infiltrate the Senate to guide the Republic and had gone pretty rogue. He and Mon...

You and pretty much everyone else. Thing was, Doyle was pompous and self-important, and wanted to be a Dostoevsky (or more accurately, a...

Honestly I’ve done this a lot to the point it might be a go to move for setting up a campaign. Here are some examples, to greater and...

I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories as a kid but could never get into any of his other books - the White Company, the Roman stories...

Read A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, which is quite short and quite Korean - existential, blunt, self-conscious. It does a...

I don’t disagree - while episode 1 was a banger, episode 2 was a letdown (even with Giancarlo Esposito, which takes some doing)...

The first season was stronger than the second.

I've really enjoyed about the 4-5 episodes ive seen. Problem with this type of show is I tend to tire of the formula and lose interest...

Elsbeth also brings in celebrity guest stars who murder someone at the start of the episode. It might actually hew closer, since she...