It’s November, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all of the MicroStories I’d tweeted during the month of October. 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. October […]
October 2017 #MicroStory Collection
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The Justice League Task Force
This post will be revealing details of the recent DCEU movie Justice League. I guess it’ll be a movie review too. I liked the movie, and I’d recommend seeing it. But this post will largely be me talking about a massively multiplayer online game I used to play: City of Heroes. This may get a […]
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Tormund on Trial
On the Watchers on the Wall website, I have a new feature article talking about the impressively bearded Tormund Giantsbane. I might say some controversial things. Like questioning why we fans like him so much. If you’re interested in what criticisms I have of Tormund, particularly if you want to take me to task instead, […]
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Shadows of Braavos
Happy New Year! To celebrate the end of 2017 (a year so bad, Arya Stark had it on her list) I published another Game of Thrones feature on Watchers on the Wall. I won’t spoil the content of that article, but I talk about how the two venerable institutions on Braavos, the Iron Bank and […]
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The Winter War to Come
Over on the Watchers on the Wall website is my latest feature article on Game of Thrones. It’s a long (like, really long) speculative piece on what might happen now that the ancient undead enemy is south of the Wall and has the opportunity to threaten the living. Now that the article is published, I […]
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A Bittersweet Ending for Cersei Lannister
Season Eight of Game of Thrones is just over a year away. And once those episodes are complete, that is it. I am expecting a fair number of character deaths, so will be earned, some will probably be unfair, but I am hoping that not everyone who deserves death gets it. I’m rooting for Cersei […]
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Westworld: Only Death is True. Or is it?
(This post will be talking about HBO’s television show Westworld. Consider this your spoiler warning.) In the most recent episode of Westworld, William aka the Man in Black (played by Ed Harris) had a brief conversation with the confederado Major Craddock, who had been touting his favorable relationship with death, since he’d been killed by […]
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Bran Stark: the Fall Guy
We’re finally out of the month of April, so it’s less-than-one-year until the premiere of Season Eight Game of Thrones. It feels like it’s been forever. The final season will no doubt feature exciting battles and conflict resolutions, but I expect that most of the characters (depending on how fast they get killed off) will […]
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Con of Thrones 2018
For three days at the tail end of May (May 25th through May 28th) Dallas, Texas played host to the second ever Con of Thrones. I attended last year’s inaugural convention (I wrote about that here) and wanted to update everyone on how things progressed from the first convention to its second event. For me […]
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Con of Thrones 2018 – the Creation Myth of Todrick Stark
For those of you who are a few seasons behind on Game of Thrones, this article will be referencing some significant plot points from the later seasons. And will be casting them into a somewhat ‘fictional’ light. (I’ll let my use of the word ‘fictional’ sit there a bit, stewing in its irony.) If you’re […]
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Con of Thrones 2018: Morality Beyond the Wall
The audio for panels presented at Con of Thrones 2018 is being released to presenters! Since I was on six of them, it seems reasonable for me to share at least some of them here on my blog. On Saturday at the convention, at 10 a.m., I was joined by Professor Priscilla “Percy” Walton, writer […]
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Con of Thrones 2018: Lord of the Rings influences in Game of Thrones
More audio from Con of Thrones 2018 has become available (and helpfully put on YouTube by panelists other than me.) I’ve included a link to the All That is Gold Does Not Glitter: The Connections Between Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire panel’s audio. I was a participant on the […]
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Con of Thrones 2018: Shakespeare and Psychedelia Influences in Game of Thrones
Just over a month ago (at the time of this post’s creation) Con of Thrones 2018 was in full swing in Dallas, Texas. In the past weeks I’ve shared a links to audio from panels that I was fortunate to be a presenter on, but I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite panels […]
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July 2018 #MicroStory Collection
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 269 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.) Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. July […]
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Defending Dead Direwolves (Part 1 of 5)
This post (and the four to come after, sorry) will be discussing not only HBO’s Game of Thrones, but the book series that it’s based on. If you’re not up on the show, or are holding off reading A Song of Ice and Fire (until all the books are completed in the 22nd century) then […]
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August 2018 #MicroStory Collection
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 269 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.) Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. August […]
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Lady and Grey Wind: Defending Dead Direwolves Part 2
This post is the second in a five-part series talking about the direwolves on Game of Thrones (with some comparisons expected to their analogous storylines in the source epic A Song of Ice and Fire.) For full details on what I’m all up about, feel free to skim Part 1 and then return here. No […]
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Shaggydog and Summer: Defending Dead Direwolves Part 3
This is the third post in a five-post series on the direwolves in HBO’s Game of Thrones (with corresponding plot details from the books of A Song of Ice and Fire.) You can get more details from my initial post – basically I’m discussing the Stark direwolves with a speculative eye on what might be […]
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Batman Day 2018
Happy International Batman Day! (Or, if you prefer to be grim and moody on this thematic day, you don’t have to be happy. I’m not the boss of you.) Back in 2015, I started to write annual blog posts about my favorite costumed comic book hero, Batman, as a means to celebrate the September-event Batman […]
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Nymeria and Ghost: Defending Dead Direwolves Part 4
This is the penultimate post in my series of articles talking about the direwolves on HBO’s Game of Thrones (and the literary source A Song of Ice and Fire.) I’ve mostly been defending the fact that the majority of the direwolves are dead and that the showrunners are probably doing a reasonable job with them […]
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