https://youtu.be/OLS_7RnWwAs How might a love letter to the gothic genre look? It might, first, be in the novel form: nothing less would capture its grandiose themes, its dark and brooding atmosphere. Then, there must be a house. Not just any house will do. You know the type: a tangle of rust-covered metal gates and fence,... Continue Reading →
Lil’ Guardsman’s Top Six Characters! (With Spoilers?)
https://youtu.be/IFHxwYR1mxQ Lil' Guardsman presents a veritable treasure trove of memorable characters, but today, we at the Filip Magnus channel are going to talk about and celebrate the six best characters across all this lil indie game! Spoilers for Lil' Guardsman follow, so if you haven't played it - turn away! Why top six?! Because…shut up.... Continue Reading →
Lil’ Guardsman Is Beyond Charming | Video Game Review
https://youtu.be/kQbj6I_-Ng4 Lil' Guardsman takes the core concept of Papers, Please! and places it in an irreverent, colourful setting that oozes with charm and an endless amount of humour. If protagonist Lil, short for Lilith, was just a sarcastic little imp, it would not have worked as well as it does. But because she has heart--because... Continue Reading →
Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree is Cozy Fun with a Necromantic Edge! | Book Review
My Legends & Lattes review! The Dark Lord's Legends and Lattes review. https://youtu.be/qbuMDknoeao Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes was the cosy fantasy the book-reading world needed in 2022; but does its prequel show that Baldree, former games developer and full-time narrator, can catch lightning in a bottle twice? The short answer: Yes. Yes, it does.... Continue Reading →
The Traitor by Anthony Ryan – Book Review | A Fitting Conclusion to the Covenant of Steel
Filip reviews the final book in Anthony Ryan's Covenant of Steel - The Traitor!
The Short Story Reader #117 – Homecoming by Wen Yu Yang
Previous | Next A skeleton pig dreams of spring in the depths of winter. In its search for heat, it meats a butcher - and finds heat in the least likely of places. I read this in a particularly melancholy mood while listening to joik music (recommended me by a friend), and snow has covered... Continue Reading →
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles Game Review – The Best Dice Deckbuilder Roguelike Yet
https://youtu.be/zF2NILz_yj4 Give a man a card game and he'll log thirty hours into it without a second thought. Give a man a dice game, and watch him go progressively wonkier as he is forced to remember six different types of dice mechanics, one for each of the six characters you can unlock while playing Astrea:... Continue Reading →
The Short Story Reader #116 – Dr. Seattle Opens His Heart by Winston Turnage
Previous | Next Are you in the mood for some nightmare fuel? Excellent, because "Dr. Seattle Opens His Heart", a flash fiction piece by Winston Turnage, does fantastic work of presenting itself as such. A creature that might be God but is likely something far more sinister has appeared, and it wields power that makes... Continue Reading →
The Short Story Reader #104 – Mount by China Miéville
Previous | Next Envy. That's what I feel when I read through this piece of flash fiction, so erudite is it, so self-assured in the way Mieville breathes life in its prose, as in this description of a carousel: "a Bauhaus tiger chased by a Deco lamb, as many different schools as there are animals,... Continue Reading →
The Short Story Reader #99 – A Second Slice Manifesto by China Miéville
Previous | Next Ekphrasis is the narrative mode by which we represent art through language - you'll find it defined as "verbal representation through visual representation", if you look online. "A Second Slice Manifesto," detailing an art movement that never was, engages in this practice to ends both effective and creepy. This flash piece channels... Continue Reading →