Author Archives: Rawle Nyanzi

Fire Emblem 1 is like a Tabletop RPG

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Anyway, I’ve been having some thoughts lately, and I thought I’d share the here on the blog. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, the first Fire Emblem game for the Famicom/NES … Continue reading

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2021 New Year’s Post

NOTE: I fixed the images in my heroism post. Well, 2020 sure sucked. Thankfully, it’s over now, and here’s to hoping for a better year. Rather than talk about what I’m going to do, I’ll talk about what I have … Continue reading

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Heroes are Better than Villains

Villains are considered more interesting than heroes because materialism dominates modern thinking.

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The Pop Cult Will Never Venerate You

A common fantasy among authors is getting picked up for a movie or TV deal. They often see it as a ticket to stardom, to their work gaining the recognition and influence they feel it deserves. However, such a phenomenon … Continue reading

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Romance as Feminine Heroism

A few days ago, I wrote a post on why critics tend to dislike the trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, or the quirky female who raises a male protagonist’s mood through wacky antics so that he could stop … Continue reading

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Male Fantasies Rock

A few days ago, prolific author Adam Lane Smith put up a blog post defending the much derided “male power fantasy” as a worthy form of storytelling. In the post, he argues that such fantasies encourage men and boys to … Continue reading

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Books Preserve Culture

In the past few days, I had frustration with a series of short stories I wrote. They didn’t work as effectively as I had hoped; I thought to myself “No one will read my book because no one reads anymore,” … Continue reading

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Why the Fairy Tale Is Fractured

L. Jagi Lamplighter, wife to great sci-fi author John C. Wright and a talented editor in her own right, has written a series of blog posts describing her fascination with fairy tales — and lamenting their subversion in the modern … Continue reading

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New Book Alert: Wretched Son by Jon Mollison

From the keyboard of Jon Mollison comes a tale of post-apocalyptic survival. Civilization has fallen, yet life goes on. What choices are there for a guy to make? Will he ever live in comfort, or will he have to fight … Continue reading

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Less than a Week for Vatican Championship Wrestling

It’s coming to the homestretch — six days left to back Vatican Championship Wrestling, a novel by Will Hastings that has a Vatican exorcist enter the ring to take down the Devil. Let’s get it over the hump!

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