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Some Pig
Alice Through the Needle’s Eye: The Further Adventures of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, by Gilbert Adair – I had first heard of this in an essay, which I think was about Oz. I didn’t think of looking for it until recently, … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Dreams, Drugs, Games, Gender, Humor, Language, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Magnus Chase, Mathematics, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Rick Riordan | Tagged 9 from the nine worlds, alice in puzzle-land, alice through the needle's eye, alice's adventures in wonderland, alligators, alphabet, alviss, baldur, charlotte's web, dr. possum, dragons, dwarves, e.b. white, flump, frigg, gilbert adair, grampus, greer fitting, howard roger garis, humpty dumpty, jack and jill, jenny thorne, logic, martin gardner, nidhogg, nurse jane fuzzy-wuzzy, pigs, puzzles, ragnarok, ratatoskr, rats, raymond smullyan, red queen, sir john tenniel, skillery scallery alligator, spiders, stephen king, the dark tower, the drawing of the three, thor, through the looking-glass, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's airship, uncle wiggily's automobile, uncle wiggily's fortune, valkyries, vanir, white queen |
Rakevat’s Rules of Chaos
Pahua and the Dragon’s Secret, by Lori M. Lee – In the second book of this series, Pahua Moua, the reincarnation of the great Hmong warrior Shee Yee, wants to enroll in a school for shamans. In order to do … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Food, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hmong, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Relationships, Rick Riordan, Technology, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged aliens, ankh-morpork, arthur rackham, bad prince charlie, bookshops and bonedust, coffee, dragons, dwarves, elves, eurovision, gnomes, goblins, homunculus, john moore, legends and lattes, lori m. lee, metagalactic grand prix, necromancers, nine goblins, octopath traveler, orcs, pahua and the dragon's secret, rattkins, rick riordan presents, skeletons, space oddity, space opera, succubus, t. kingfisher, tapenti, travis baldree, trolls, unicorns, ursula vernon, wizards |
Dorothy the Dictator
Operation Luna, by Poul Anderson – The follow-up to Operation Chaos follows up on Steve and Virginia Matuchek about twelve years after the end of the first book. They now have three children, and are working on a project to launch … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, jules verne, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Places, Poul Anderson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Vietnamese | Tagged amtor, cayke the cookie cook, charloz, cowardly lion, coyote, danielle paige, demons, dorothy gale, dorothy must die, dwarves, eugenics, fairies, four immortals, frogman, from the earth to the moon, fu manchu, girl giant and the jade war, glinda, guns, hecate, hecuba of troy, hellhounds, jellia jamb, journey to the west, lost on venus, mombi, moon, naiads, nome king, nymphs, operation chaos, operation luna, ozma, peter stuyvesant, polychrome, pumperdink, scarecrow, sun wukong, swords, the chalice of the gods, the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, van hoang, venus, weapons, witches, wizard of oz, wrath of the triple goddess |
Reading Is Dangerous
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 |
Crystal Anniversary
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years – I started playing this a while ago, then put it aside and lost my game data when switching computers. I think it’s actually still backed up somewhere, but I hadn’t gotten that far, … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Star Wars, Technology, Video Games | Tagged airships, bacchus, cecil harvey, ceodore harvey, cid pollendina, crystals, dark elves, dionysus, dragon quest iii, dwarves, earthbound, edward chris von muir, edward geraldine, eidolons, elves, epopts, fabul, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv: the after years, final fantasy v, gekkou, izayoi, kain highwind, kingdom of baron, maenads, maniac mansion, meteors, mysidia, ninjas, palom, porom, princess luca, rosa joanna farrell, rydia of mist, troia, tsukinowa, ursula fang leiden, yang fang leiden, zangetsu |
Psaro Gets Pstarted
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince – One reason I was anxious to play Chapter 6 of Dragon Quest IV is that this game kind of follows up on it, with the same writer being involved. Here, you play as Psaro, … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Focus on the Foes, Food, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged aamon, dante alighieri, demons, diabolic hall, divine comedy, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest monsters the dark prince, dragons, dwarves, elves, endor, general chayne, heaven, hell, inferno, monty the monster monitor, nadiria, psaro, ragnar mcryan, randolpho the tyrant, reproduction, rosehill, sparkie, synthesis, toilen trubble, zangiel the omniarch, zenith dragon |
Follow the Improbable Road
Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott – This is a retelling of the Baba Yaga legend specifically linking it to the pogroms against Russian Jews. In New Orleans in the present, the witch’s descendants, a shapeshifting street performer and a woodworker who can … Continue reading →
Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Russian, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology, up-and-under, Video Games | Tagged a. deborah baker, airships, angels, baba yaga, bahamut, bible, bikke, dan frey, dawn of souls, demons, dr. unne, dreambound, dwarves, elves, esther j. hamori, flitz stewart, flying fortress, four fiends, gennarose nethercott, giants, god's monsters, green man, impossible city, improbable road, kaimeiji yuu, kraken, leviathan, lufenia, manga, marilith, matoya, nephilim, noah's ark, princess sara, puffy tolte, robots, satan, seraphim, thistlefoot, tiamat, under the smokestrewn sky, unicorns, witches |
You’ve Got a Fiend in Me
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 |
Going to the Temple and We’re Gonna Kill Chaos
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 |
Exhausted from Oversleep
Beth has given me a few eBooks from Amelia Carruthers’ Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World series as gifts, although I don’t think I’ve written about any of them yet. They each contain multiple versions of a well-known fairy … Continue reading →
Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Art, Book Reviews, Christianity, Egyptian, Fairy Tales, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, amelia carruthers, andrew lang, bluebeard, brunhilda, charles perrault, dragons, dwarves, liz phair, matakin, medea, nellie mckay, odin, ogres, origins of fairy tales from around the world, prunella, rakshasas, rape, rapunzel, rapunzel and other fair maidens in very tall towers, rudabeh and zal, seven-league boots, siegfried, sigurd, sleeping beauty, sleeping beauty and other tales of slumbering princesses, st. barbara, sun moon and talia, valkyries, vasilisa the fair, volsunga saga |