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If You Can’t Make Your Own Setting, Store-bought Is Fine.

It’s surprising to me just how many people who’ve read the Wheel of Time didn’t realize the amount of signposting Continue reading →

The Eye of the World – The Whyyy of Time

Here we are, the final episode of Season 1 of The Wheel of Time. It’s been an extremely short journey Continue reading →

The Dark Along The Ways – Going Way Off Course

Alright, episode 7, almost done. Today we venture through the ways, to a destination that wasn’t the destination, without characters Continue reading →

The Flame of Tar Valon – The Mats We Leave Behind

Episode six stars with an unlabelled flashback and I’m not actually sure whether they’ve previously named Siuan and not just Continue reading →

Blood Calls Blood – Blood and Guts

Welcome to episode 5, where the story has now diverged so far from the books that it actually becomes difficult Continue reading →

The Dragon Reborn – No Pain, No Logain

I watched this episode along with some friends who had never read the books, and at the end I basically Continue reading →

A Place of Safety – Misplaced Characters

After the major divergence at the end of the party’s trip through Shadar Logoth, where Thom hasn’t even joined the Continue reading →

Shadow’s Waiting – Plot Jebaiting

Here we are in episode two, with our team out on their grand journey from Emond’s Field. And once again, Continue reading →

Leavetaking – Taking Liberties

Literally the moment it starts we have our first major story deviation that I really don’t understand the purpose of? Continue reading →

Less ‘Based on Wheel of Time’ more ‘Wheel of Time La Croix’

As I alluded to in my previous article about the conversion of The Eye of the World to Season 1 Continue reading →

I Converted a Novel into a TV Show and All I Got Was This Lousy Sheepherder

Having just finished the re-read of The Eye of the World (8 days, not a bad pace considering how much Continue reading →

It’s a Small World After All – World Design in The Wheel of Time

Welcome to the first article in my ongoing series critically analyzing The Wheel of Time. It made sense to start Continue reading →

The Wheel of Time: Critical Analysis Article Series

The Wheel of Time used to be important to me. I was introduced to the series in Grade 11 way Continue reading →

An Open Letter to Gary L.M. Martin, the very worst author.

Whoo boy, where to begin. First some backstory. In one of my discord communities, somebody linked us to the author Continue reading →

My Top 3 Books of 2020

2020 was a horrible year for pretty much the entire world. Like many others, I suffered a great deal of Continue reading →

On SFF, Gender, and Expanding Boundaries

Recently there was big news in SFF when author Victoria Schwab signed a million dollar deal with Tor books. This Continue reading →

The Shelf Life of Secret History During Interesting Times, by Tom Doyle

My American Craftsmen trilogy is a saga of magician-soldiers and psychic spies. It has a backstory in which Poe and Continue reading →

Writing Fiction in a Time of Genuine Crisis, by Patrick S. Tomlinson

A funny thing happened to me one year ago today. A random tweet throwing shade at the typical right-wing response Continue reading →

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 2

Welcome back, readers, to the second instalment of my look at interesting and novel magic systems. The first article can Continue reading →

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 1

One of the most enduring tropes in fantasy as a genre is the presence of magic in the setting. Magic Continue reading →

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