Bronze, Iron, and Steel: the Metallurgy of Game of Thrones

July 11, 2017, 3:00 am

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Hey, this post, like many of my posts, is about the HBO show Game of Thrones (occasionally I talk about the book series it’s based on: A Song of Ice and Fire.) Will this post be safe for people to read, for those who are not up on the story and don’t want to be spoiled? […]

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Con of Thrones 2017

July 16, 2017, 8:33 am

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For three days, running from June 30th to July 2nd,  Nashville Tennessee hosted the first-ever Con of Thrones. CoT wasn’t the first-ever convention dedicated to the book series A Song of Ice and Fire or HBO’s show Game of Thrones, but the convention’s inaugural effort solidly established itself with an impressive venue, the amount and […]

Daenerys Targareyn: Queen of the Ashes?

July 29, 2017, 9:01 am

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Game of Thrones is back on the air, which is when I usually take a break from blogging about the show and just settle in to watch it. But it’s really hard to not write about all of the thoughts I’m having. Instead of breaking my no-blogging rule (I’m clearly bending that rule now), I […]

July 2017 #MicroStory Collection

August 1, 2017, 3:00 am

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It’s August, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all of the MicroStories I’d tweeted during the month of July. As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed using no more than 129 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.) Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. July […]

Castles: Ironborning and Stormborning

August 3, 2017, 3:51 pm

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Hey everyone, the Watchers on the Wall website accepted another feature article from me, discussing some of the events from the recent episode of Game of Thrones in a historical context. By historical, I mean from the show’s own history. Yup, Game of Thrones is such a big story, we’re seeing its history repeat itself. […]

Sansa Stark: Playing the Game Her Way

August 6, 2017, 7:49 am

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Up on the Watchers on the Wall site is a new post from me, talking about Sansa Stark. I’m occasionally a vocal member of the Sansa Stark Defense Squad, since she tends to be viewed in the most negative light possible at times. My latest post is along those lines. Sansa got off to a […]

Jon Snow and Theon Greyjoy: the Reunion

August 9, 2017, 5:12 pm

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Look you guys, I got REALLY excited when Theon Greyjoy and Jon Snow were face-to-face, something that hadn’t happened since the very first season of Game of Thrones. (It’s possible the only scenes they’d shared were in episode 1?) I got so excited, that even though I wasn’t really planning on keeping up with my […]

Daenerys Targaryen and the Defense of the Realm

August 15, 2017, 3:16 pm

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Up on the Watchers on the Wall website, I recently posted a feature discussing Daenerys Targaryen, and how her invasion of Westeros might not be the best thing for the defense of the Seven Kingdoms in the looming war against the White Walkers. No, I’m not currently being paid by the Cersei Lannister administration to […]

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Uncle Benjen Stark: a Ranger and a Danger.

August 25, 2017, 3:13 pm

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Hey, I have a new feature article on Watchers on the Wall, talking about Beyond the Wall, the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. It was a somewhat divisive episode from a critical standpoint, but I found all the action and character moments compelling. My latest article for the website focuses mostly on one […]

August 2017 #MicroStory Collection

September 1, 2017, 9:00 am

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It’s September, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all of the MicroStories I’d tweeted during the month of August. As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed using no more than 129 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.) Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. August […]

I Did Warn You Not to Trust Me

September 3, 2017, 1:33 pm

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As I sometimes do, I have a feature article on the Watchers on the Wall site, talking about Game of Thrones. I’ll be talking about Littlefinger, the scheming mastermind, but also about Catelyn Stark, not only as the reason for him kicking off his ambitious plans, but also for the end of them. Feel free […]

Thinking About the Night King

September 13, 2017, 3:00 am

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Based on the climactic events at the end of Season Seven of Game of Thrones (if you’re reading this, I assume you know what happened) it seemed a good time to talk about the White Walkers, and what might be motivating them. But you won’t find my thoughts here. I’ve posted them on the Watchers […]

The Busy Life of Randyll Tarly

September 13, 2017, 4:20 pm

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This post will be referencing some plot points from the most recent season of Game of Thrones. If you’re not caught up, you’re on your own should you continue to read. Midway through the sixth season of Game of Thrones, viewers met with the cold and forbidding Randyll Tarly, Sam Tarly’s father. It wasn’t the […]

Thoughts on the Hellboy Reboot

September 16, 2017, 3:30 pm

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I’ve been meaning to post some of my thoughts on the in-production reboot of the cinematic Hellboy. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, Hellboy is the creation of comic book artist/writer Mike Mignola. He’s a big red demon. A heroic one. Back in 2004, Ron Perlman (look him up, kids, […]

The Inhumans

September 19, 2017, 7:00 am

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In a few weeks, ABC’s show The Inhumans will air. It will feature characters from the Marvel Comics canon, characters first created by the legendary team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. If you’re not up on comics lore but the name seems familiar to you, Inhumans as a concept has been heavily featured on […]

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Ser Jorah Mormont: Formerly of the North

September 22, 2017, 2:34 pm

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Up on the Watchers on the Wall site, I have a post talking about Ser Jorah Mormont. You know, that Westerosi knight who has not only survived greyscale but lived longer than any of Daenerys Targaryen’s husbands. (Okay, on the show Dany and Hizdahr zo Loraq never got married, but I’m counting that anyway.) The […]

Batman Day 2017

September 23, 2017, 7:41 am

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Batman Day is in a few days, September 26th. No really, it is. But it’s being celebrated early in comic shops around the country today. Because … Saturday.   In honor of previous September marketing ploys celebrating the Dark Knight, a few years ago I started an annual tradition of writing about the Caped Crusader. […]

September 2017 #MicroStory Collection

October 1, 2017, 6:00 am

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It’s October, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all of the MicroStories I’d tweeted during the month of September. As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed using no more than 129 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.) Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. September […]

Buddies of Westeros: Bronn and Podrick

October 18, 2017, 3:23 pm

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As I sometimes do, I have a new Game of Thrones post on the Watchers on the Wall site. Happy Westeros Wednesday! I’d realized that among all of the lords, ladies, wildlings, wizards, and wights that I’d written about, I’d never gotten around to writing anything about that stalwart squire Podrick Payne. My angle on […]

Blade Runner 2049: Replicating the Irreplicable

October 24, 2017, 6:00 am

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This is not necessarily going to be a full review of the movie Blade Runner 2049. Oh, I’ll give my official thumbs up or thumbs down at the end of this article- or maybe before – but there are interesting ideas in the movie that I think are worthy of a blog post or two. […]