Captain America, What If? #44. 1984 Listen to me — all of you out there! You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities... Continue Reading →
Building My Fantasy Mapmaking Toolkit
The Burus Mapping Project started back in 2016. I crafted the setting’s basics in an essay and subsequent written notes a few years prior, but aside from a quick and now lost sketch, I’d never attempted to make a map. The project would soon become stalled, but before being shelved I produced a basic outline... Continue Reading →
Concerning Fantasy Maps and Tolkien Cartography
This March I revisited my worldbuilding lore for Burus, a fantasy setting I started writing stories about in 2014. It’s part of preparing my Burus stories for upcoming publication, and in doing so I discovered that my background material and notes are a mess. They started as an essay outlining the five major kingdoms of... Continue Reading →
Creative Cultural DNA
I’ve been thinking about the cyclical nature of lore this week. About how old stories give rise to new ones long after their initial release. I have a side idea I’ve been fleshing out that takes its themes from Transformers, G.I. Joe and a few other 1980s sci-fi toylines and their media. My concept is... Continue Reading →
That Pearl of Great Price That is America
Captain America, What If? #44. 1984 Listen to me — all of you out there! You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities... Continue Reading →
A Nation is Nothing…
Listen to me — all of you out there! You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and... Continue Reading →
Without its ideals and commitment to the freedom of all, America is a piece of TRASH!
Listen to me — all of you out there! You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and... Continue Reading →
Happy Thorsgiving!
Thorsgiving... Because what could a Viking not love about Thanksgiving? Feasting? Aye! Drinking? A mighty aye! Clan Bonding? Aye! Clan Feuding? Say that over here pig-dog! Enjoying Violent Contact Sports? (Viking hits you with turkey leg...) Restful Odin-Sleep Afterwards? Zzzzzzz! Plotting Raids to Seize Loot from the Merchants the Next Day? Rarrrrrrrr!!!! Happy Thorsgiving Everyone!
Talkin’ Tolkien: Mirage #3 with Jason H. Abbott
If you have some time to spare or some interest in the life and works of J.R.R Tolkien, have a listen as Bryan Aiello and I discuss the founder of the modern fantasy genre!
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