Magnus Dahl1 favorite/boost = an honest opinion about fantasy, science fiction and other genre culture.
Grimdark is a stupid name for a subgenre.
No #ttrpg product needs to be more than 60 pages.
Jar Jar Binks is under-rated.
Boarding school sub-plots in coming-of-age novels (e.g. Robin Hobbs’ Soldiers son-trilogy, or Rothfuss’ The wise man’s fear) are always predictable and stereotypical.
I like Sanderson’s writing a LOT. It is so entertaining! But his public persona and the fan cult encircling him is so off-putting. Not to mention the Mormon stuff. #BrandonSanderson
The 1991 #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles-movie is awesome.
Robin Hobb is one of the most important writers in contemporary fantasy literature. Her Realm of the Elderlings novels, published 1995-2017, are a stunning feat of storytelling and worldbuilding. #RobinHobb #fantasy
If you are not watching THE DRAGON PRINCE on Netflix, you are missing out. #netflix #TheDragonPrince
I love Naomi Novik.
Terminator (1984) is the most cyberpunk-looking movie ever made.
No Final Fantasy-game has ever had a good plot. People confuse “complex” with “good” #FinalFantasy
Buying books in a brick-and-mortar bookstore is superior to online shopping in every way. #bookstores
It is a disgrace there is no Elric movie.
The #ttrpg hobby attracts a lot of weird people.
I love the parts at the beginning of genre stories before the mysterious wizard shows up or the spaceship picks up a distress call, that just describes normal everyday life in the world.
Everyone must read T Kingfisher (@ursulav). Her books are the best.
Best recent #StarWars-scene: Luke at the end of #TheMandalorian s2. The most striking illustration ever of how damn powerful Jedi are. Mando and co, known to be pretty damn tough players, don't stand a chance against those death stormtroopers. They were running for their lives etc. Luke strolls through them.
The fantasy that influenced me the most as a kid was:
- The He-man ads in a Swedish toy store’s Christmas catalogue circa 1982
- CS Lewis’ Narnia
- Jrr Tolkien (and Inger Edelfeld’s cover art for the Swedish editions
- David Eddings
- Swedish rpg-artist Nisse Gulliksson.
#heman #narnia #tolkien #DavidEddings #NisseGulliksson #FantasyArt
There are three kinds of fantasy: the one where there are elves, the one where there are no elves, and the one where there are 30 different kinds of elves. #elves
There are two types of fantasy: The one where wolves are evil and the one where wolves are good. #wolves
The Dragon Age games are amazing, but wow, they look weird #DragonAge #aesterhics
I’m fed up with ” genre-bending books”.
Please return to New Crobuzon, China Miéville. Please!
One of life’s mysteries is that no one has managed to make a good movie/tv-adaption of The Phantom
Åke Ohlmark’s Swedish translation of #LotR is better than the original text. (Not counting some errors.)
Trolllike@gorillotaur "Avfölj Gorillotaur"🔘
Skämt åsido, gamla översättningen har sin målande charm och nostalgifaktor för oss som läste före filmerna och Anderssons ombearbetning som snart följde.
Kul om det finns en gruppering svenska konspirationsteoretiker som oavsett original- och nyöversättningsbevis hårdnackat håller fast vid att det var Merry och inte Éowyn som dödade Häxkungen!
Skämt åsido, gamla översättningen har sin målande charm och nostalgifaktor för oss som läste före filmerna och Anderssons ombearbetning som snart följde.
Kul om det finns en gruppering svenska konspirationsteoretiker som oavsett original- och nyöversättningsbevis hårdnackat håller fast vid att det var Merry och inte Éowyn som dödade Häxkungen!