Posting from hotel wi-fi as I am in a different town for a couple of days.
That play is coming to Utah in January of next year, and I don’t think I can handle it. I never truly recovered from the last time that happened, in September 2015. I’ve k…
This may or may not have something to do with growing up in a valley. Or with reading The Hobbit and LOTR a bunch as a kid. Or the spiritual appeal of a place or a people being in the world but not of the world.
Hidden Elf Village is one of my favorite tropes.
It can be a safe place in a dangerous world (and that safety can even extend to being safe from our protagonists and their influence--a good bone to throw to those affected by the story's main conflic…
I honestly think the so-called "conservative nutcases" and the so-called "woke mob" could be best friends if they could just figure out that they're being played off of each other by those wishing to profiteer off of a culture war.
Or, at least, som…
"a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" is a lot longer and more difficult for search engines than "a Mormon", but God is not primarily concerned with Search Engine Optimization.
It would be unreasonable to expect everyone in t…
I don't want my imagination-children to be unhappy, and, given the lack of some greater plan to justify it beyond "I enjoy it", I'd rather not put them through the kind of stuff that stories are made from.
Now, computer-game or video-game characters…
Having the infinite power of God, without His infinite love, wisdom, and understanding, is a scary thought, especially for the denizens of the world you make.
As for me, I'm more concerned with the implications of creating characters than places,…
The theological implications of making your own world while still being a flawed mortal are concerning to many, especially those who don't believe in deification.
This think-piece from before I was even using the internet is interesting for me in that it has many of the same notions I have, but in opposite directions.
M. John Harrison and I both think that worldbuilding is an effort to excuse or justify the a…
I like how wire-having over-the-ears headphones give a visual indication that you are using headphones and might be listening to something. I like how wire-having in-the-ears headphones do the same, if more subtly. Wireless in-the-ears headphones …
Warlords Battlecry is such a good series.
It tries all sorts of things Starcraft would never dare.
This review basically says a lot of what's been in my head for years.
Planetary radio technician: ?!Spaceship radio technician: !?Both (thinking, translated): I didn't see you, you didn't see me, nobody needs to know.Both: ...Both (internally): *sigh of relief*
First Contact is, of course, always traumatic to any sophont, but it is less so to those who always had to share their world, or who previously did. It's easiest on those whose solar systems have other inhabited planets (in this setting, most inhab…
I like this little sci-fi concept I have in my head that Earth is the only planet to be inhabited by one and only one species of sophont, and humanity thus the only sophont to spent its metaphorical "formative years" in complete isolation.
So, human…
Also, I have just about HAD IT with people complaining about big budget studio animation being disrespected by being remade into live action.
It's is a high-status form, and acknowledging that Live-Action has a higher status doesn't change that. La…
Political essentialism is the only bigotry that is fashionable among my generation. Or, at least, one of the only, and fashionable among the portion of my generation with which I come into contact.
People who would never see racial, national, or re…