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Humans Are Space Orcs – Uncanny Valley

Today’s “humans are space orcs” post is about an alien trying to pass themselves as a human, but getting caught in the “uncanny valley”. Coined by…

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Playing Dungeons & Dragons Against Death

This is wholesome content! It’s an amazing response to the writing prompt, “Death offers a game for your life. You decide on D&D.” So this…

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Thoughts on the Actor and Writer Strikes

Neil Gaiman shared this thread of thoughts on the Hollywood actor and writer strikes. Basically if you can’t pay your workers a living wage and…

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The Soul Mate Countdown Story

These are some wonderful little stories in response to the writing prompt – “If a clock could count down to the moment you meet your…

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Women Authors

The responses to this stupid tweet claiming that before J. K. Rowling was published, women authors were unheard of are amazing. This is actually a…

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List of Fantasy Books That Aren’t Centered on War

This is a great list of fantasy books that aren’t centered around war. There’s a ton of great book recommendations here: The Six of Crows…

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Bilbo’s Adventures Are Not Canon

This is true. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s work there is technically no “canon” version of Bilbo’s adventures. The Hobbit book is canonically a very biased account…

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Fan Fic Archives

This is a long post about fan fic archives, but it’s worth the read! Gather around, children. This is a story of ye olde fandom: Source

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Mimic Writing Prompt Response

This Thing In A Box wrote this amazing response to a writing prompt about a mimic. Here’s the prompt: “Why did you give the last of…

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Everyone Has a Reaper – Part 2

This is part 2 of the writing prompt response story “Everyone Has a Reaper” by jordisstigander. The original response (which you can read here) was…

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