Fantastic Diversity – The Fantasy Genre’s Unfortunate Implications

As part of a response to escalating racial tensions in the United States sparked by the protests stemming from the death of George Floyd, Wizards of the Coast - makers of Dungeons and Dragons - published a blog post titled “Diversity and Dungeons and Dragons.” Given how huge DnD has become in the past few …

Reality is not Dark, so Why is Realistic Fiction?

Have you heard of The Magicians? If you’ve been browsing Facebook at all lately, you probably have, since I think they’ve sunk pretty much all the marketing budget in the world into their latest advertising campaign. I’ve never watched the show or read the books, so the phrase “Fillory with Fen” has about as much …

The Witcher is…absolutely a show I’ve seen.

So the hot new Genre show in streaming right now is...well, let’s be real, it’s The Mandalorian, but I haven’t gotten around to subscribing to Disney+ yet. For me the big Genre show I’ve been excited about for months is...well, actually, it was Season 4 of The Expanse. However, Netflix’s The Witcher is definitely the …

Heroic, Realistic, and Grimdark – the Shades of Fantasy

Fantasy, as a genre, has a ton of subgenres. There’s no way a single post could cover them all, unless I wanted to write a thesis. I’m not getting into hard or soft magic again, or urban fantasy compared to epic fantasy compared to steampunk, or the thousand other flavors that fantasy comes in. Instead, …

Hard Vs Soft Magic – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Which to Use

With the end of Game of Thrones, fantasy has been on my mind a lot lately. Fantasy, as a genre, is an interesting beast. It revolves around the fantastic and the impossible, without the constraints of pretending at science like even the least grounded sci-fi, which means in theory that it should have limitless possibility …

Why You Should Give Up Sex and Devote Your Life to The Elder Gods

SinderElf decided to play with the clickbait title generator and came up with a list of Fantasy article titles and challenged other bloggers to write articles for the titles. I saw “Why You Should Give Up Sex and Devote Your Life to The Elder Gods” on the list and could not resist to the urge …

Weird Theology Audiobook On Sale Now!

I’m so pleased to be able to announce that Weird Theology is now available as an audiobook performed by Brandon McKernan. It’s amazing to hear my words brought to life like this, and I’m so excited to be able to share it with you all! It’s available through Audible and Amazon, with iTunes coming soon …