• Spiders, Spiders Everywhere!

    Quinn poked the massive spider carcass with her foot. The massive leg twice her height and size twitched, but did not uncurl from beneath the exoskeleton. “Yep,” she said. “It’s dead all right.” Her companion rolled their eyes. “I’m not blind. Can you tell what killed it?” “Clearly not its...

  • Spider Webs And Their Uses

    Quinn peaked out from behind the rotten logs and beheld the most beautiful sight that stole her breath away. A spider’s nest. A Giant Zithorn Orb-weaver’s nest, by the shape of it. And, if her raveler instincts were correct—and they were always correct—the nest was unguarded. Quinn squealed. “Score!” She...

  • Species in Fantasy- The Role of Scientific Terms in Fictional Settings

    On December 1st, 2022, Wizards of the Coast announced that the role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), would no longer be using the term “race”, and would instead be using the term “species” in its place. This was meant to address the inherent racism that the core lore has, up...

  • Chemistry in Fantasy

    “The Blacksmith was right; you can’t make a gold sword.” “But I have to get her highness a golden sword in three days for the duel! I don’t see how the sword can’t be like any other metal sword that anyone can just whip up!” Kasper pinched the bridge of...

  • Wounds Part 2

    Taner tore through the underbrush, making her way to the howling ripping through the forest air. “Oi!” She called out. “Oi, I’m here! I’m almost near you!” She rounded a tree and almost tripped over her patient. They were a soldier, clad in armor and on their back in the...

  • 2023 Updates!

    Hello all of you beautiful people! So 2022 was… um… was a thing. It happened. Not that there weren’t a ton of amazing things that happened for me (As we’ll see before)! But some of the things that happened in politics this past year was… yeah, no. Some things were...

  • Wounds-Part 1

    Taner tried to hold her fingers steady as she sterilized the gash on the soldier’s leg with the cleansing spell, sliding her gloves through the blood and removing all dirt and bacteria. The sword hadn’t cut through the femoral vein, but only by a hair’s width. Taner kept her eyes...

  • Sanguine Sippers-Vampires and Science

    (Fun fantasy intro hidden in the blog!) My relationship with vampires in fiction has been a fascinating case study of someone trying to redefine their relationship with literature. See, I grew up watching the vampires depicted in cartoons like Scooby-doo and Looney Tunes. They were always harmless, a ridiculous combination...