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Curiouser and Curiouser

Posted on June 22, 2026 by Nathan

Pandora, by Susan Stokes-Chapman – This was an online recommendation for me some time ago, probably because I was reading a lot of stuff based on Greek mythology. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the book. It uses … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Games, Greek Mythology, infocom, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Star Trek, Technology, Video Games, zork | Tagged archaeology, caramon majere, classic dragonlance chronicles, dragonlance, dragons, dragons of autumn twilight, dragons of spring dawning, dragons of winter night, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elves, emma hamilton, fizban, flint fireforge, ganelon silvermane, gondwane, kender, kitiara uth matar, krynn, lin carter, mages, margaret weis, pandora, pirates, raistlin majere, robots, susan stokes-chapman, tanis half-elven, tasselhoff burrfoot, the pirate of world's end, tracy hickman, william hamilton, zork aargh | Leave a comment

What’s Ettin You?

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Nathan

I was looking at the TV Tropes page about individual beings with multiple heads, and I must say that, while I’ve seen criticisms of the site not being a good way to engage with media, it’s quite useful when you … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Games, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Plays, Scottish, Ultima, Video Games | Tagged arador, aragorn, archenland, beholder, beowulf, dungeons and dragons, ettenmoors, ettins, ettinsmoor, gazers, giants, grendel, henrik ibsen, jack the giant killer, jotun, middle-earth, peer gynt, soria moria castle, the hobbit, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, the red ettin, trolls, tv tropes, ultima iv: quest of the avatar, xorns, zorns | Leave a comment

Dire, Dire, Pants on Fire

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Nathan

I’ve seen some things about dire wolves recently, so I thought I’d look into what they actually are, or were. The dire wolf was an actual animal, native to the Americas, which was slightly bigger than modern wolves, and had bigger … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Current Events, Etymology, Evolution, Games, Genetics, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Names, Science, Television, Video Games | Tagged a game of thrones, a song of ice and fire, dinosaurs, dire dire docks, dire rats, dire wolves, dogs, dungeons and dragons, eddard stark, game of thrones, george r.r. martin, legends and lattes, rats, ron walotsky, super mario 64, travis baldree, wargs, westeros, wolves, yeti | 1 Comment

Dungeons, Drive-Ins, and Dives

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Nathan

I’ve finished a few more books recently, although it feels like I haven’t been reading quite as much as usual. It doesn’t help that my Kindle has gone missing, and I don’t know whether I lost it inside or outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Food, Games, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names | Tagged autism, delicious in dungeon, demons, dragons, dungeon meshi, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, edgar allan poe, fillory, gnomes, golems, hierophantasy, hollow earth, kyle james, laios touden, manga, mason algiers reynolds, neitherlands, racism, reynard the fox, rudy rucker, ryoko kui, senshi, slavery, south pole, taylor engel, tekelili, teletubbies, the hollow earth, the little mermaid, the magician king, the magicians, the narrative of arthur gordon pym, the voyage of the dawn treader | Leave a comment

A Door from the World of Men

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Nathan

While I’ve heard the term “portal fantasy” used to refer to stories where someone is transported into a strange world, not all of them necessarily use literal portals, in the sense of gates or doors. I think the first time I … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Chrono Trigger, Diana Wynne Jones, Dragon Quest, Dreams, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, seanan mcguire, Sims, Television, Tom Holt, Ultima, Video Games, Wayward Children | Tagged alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, ambassa-door, arabian nights, aslan, beetlejuice, beetlejuice beetlejuice, black bag, black holes, dragon of doom, dragon quest ii, dragon quest vii, dungeons and dragons, endless quest, howl's moving castle, j.w. wells & co., jinn, magic portals, moongates, mother brain, norton juster, prince caspian, teleportals, teleportation, the black hole, the last battle, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, the magician's nephew, The Phantom Tollbooth, the portable door, the seven blue mountains of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the sims, the wonder city of oz, through the looking-glass, time bandits, travel doors, twink and tom jones, warp zone to oblivion, warp zones, white rabbit, wizard of oz, wood between the worlds, wormholes | 5 Comments

Jinn and Tonic

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Nathan

I’ve written about jinn before, but something I don’t think I’ve touched on is the different varieties among them. As with a lot of attempts to categorize mythical beings, there’s no real consensus on this. I just finished G. Willow … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Cartoons, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Islam, Kirby, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged abu tha'labah al-khushani, aladdin, alawi, alif the unseen, angels, arabian nights, bahamut, druze, dungeons and dragons, efreeti, fairies, g. willow wilson, ghouls, gustave flaubert, hadith, hinn, iblis, ifrit, jinn, king solomon, king vikramaditya, kirby's dream land 2, marids, muhammad, nasnas, night of the living dead, queen of sheba, quran, shaitan, shiqq, sila, succubus, the fisherman and the jinni, the temptation of saint anthony, vampires, vetala, zombies | 2 Comments

Reading Is Dangerous

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Nathan

Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy, by S.A. Bradley – The author of this book did a segment on Kevin Geeks Out during the pandemic, and Beth has been listening to his podcast. His first two … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Final Fantasy, Games, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Video Games | Tagged a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, aidan moher, bookholm, cortana, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, fahrenheit 451, fairies, gideon the ninth, harrowhawk nonagesimus, horror, lindworms, mark twain, morgan le fay, ogier the dane, optimus yarnspinner, pfistomel smyke, ray bradbury, rumo and his miraculous adventures, s.a. bradley, screaming for pleasure, swords, tamsyn muir, the city of dreaming books, the hunger games, the locked tomb, three hearts and three lions, walter moers, zamonia | 2 Comments

Let Me Kluya In

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Nathan

I’ve reached Zeromus, the final boss in Final Fantasy IV (the Game Boy Advance version), but haven’t been able to beat him. I can’t really think of anything to do other than just leveling up some more, but I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Technology, Video Games | Tagged a.e. van vogt, airships, black destroyer, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cid pollendina, coeurl, damcyan, displacer beasts, dragoons, dungeons and dragons, fabul, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy vi, fusoya, game boy advance, gil, golbez, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, kluya, lunar whale, lunarians, minwu, moon, mysidia, palamecian empire, pigs, ricard highwind, robots, toads, tower of zot, transformation, weapons, zemus, zeromus | Leave a comment

You’ve Got a Fiend in Me

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Nathan

I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh | 4 Comments

Going to the Temple and We’re Gonna Kill Chaos

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Nathan

I recently played through the original Final Fantasy on Game Boy Advance. That game was important to me growing up; I received the NES cartridge for my thirteenth birthday, and eventually made it through the whole thing, underleveled throughout most of it … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Names, Technology, Video Games | Tagged airships, beavers, cagnazzo, chaos, chaos shrine, chupon, dawn of souls, dragons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elemental fiends, elves, fairies, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, flying fortress, four fiends, game boy advance, garland, gilgamesh, koppe, lufenia, mermaids, nintendo entertainment system, nintendo power, onrac, orthros, piscodemons, robots, typhon, ultros | 1 Comment

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