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This bardic college excels at charming and frightening even the most hardened foe, dishing out scary amounts of psychic damage to their enemies 🤯

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My experience with Winston Groom books:

Forrest Gump: Hey wouldn’t this shit be crazy

Gump & Co.: Forrest Gump experiences psychosis

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reblog if you’re a writer who feels guilt whenever they’re not writing and being productive, so I know I’m not the only one lol

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Black Sails

4/5 (Spoilers)

I’ll start this off by saying that I am obsessed with pirates. I love the history, media, anything about high seas piracy. So naturally, when I heard of this show I was immediately keen on watching it.

What I didn’t expect was how good it would be. I went in expecting a CW quality show in both writing and filming, boy was I wrong.

This being a prequel series to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, I was excited to see the characters introduced into that book. They did not disappoint, I admired the writing of Captain Flint and Billy Bones throughout the show and appreciated the different emotions and feelings about them that the show illicited from me. One character I didn’t think I’d like as much was John Silver, who I hated in the beginning and kept trying to find excuses not to like as the show went on. By season 3, I couldn’t find any more and admitted that I loved the character and how he changes throughout the show.

I also loved the mixing of the story characters with actual pirate history. Now this is a hard thing to do with fiction while also being accurate, but luckily pirate history in the Caribbean is something we are unsure of due to its own nature. The only parts that bothered me about some of these liberties taken was the changing of some things I thought we do know. The main thing was Charles Vane’s death - and honestly I can attribute that to me loving that character and looking it up when they killed him in Nassau.

That leads into them changing things to make sure the show can happen. Charles Vane needed to die in Nassau to further the tension that would feed the “upcoming” war with the governor. While Vane’s death is something I got over, I’ve never been able to get behind certain characters that they do this with. My main 3 being Eleanor, Max, and Benjamin Hornigold (Even though this feels pretty in character for the real life Benjamin Hornigold). These characters felt like they only existed as catalysts to make the next part of the story happen. They didn’t feel like they had a motivation that was core to their character, rather a motivation that reflected whatever the writers needed to happen next. This is why I initially didn’t like John Silver. Characters like Flint had a changing motivation one time, and it was at a point of extreme trauma. Otherwise, he had something that drove him to the actions he displayed. It doesn’t feel like these other characters (Max, Eleanor, & Benjamin) had that drive, and just did what the show needed them to do.

The only other thing that bothers me about this show is how lame Blackbeard was. Now of course we don’t actually know a ton about the real like Blackbeard, down to his real name. I feel like that was an invitation to make him awesome. They let all of these other characters be cool, so naturally I was excited for them to introduce the most famous pirate to ever live. Then they ignored the legend and lore behind him, and killed him unceremoniously, making his death more about Jack Rackham than himself. It felt like a disservice to such a legend.

Anyways, back to glazing. All of the standard show/movie things were excellent. The cinematography was beautiful, the dialogue was compelling, the sound design was excellent, and every actor acted like rent was due. I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy even one small part of this show. No matter what happened, I stayed sucked in.

Overall, we have a depressingly lacking collection of good pirate media. There are so many pirate themed shows, movies, and books that just don’t hit the mark. Black Sails hits that mark. It’s a show I’m forever grateful that I’ve seen that keeps me wishing they’d adapted the actual treasure island storyline just so I can see more of these characters. Great show, I would and probably will watch it a billion more times.

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Bookshops & Bonedust

5/5

I’m going to keep this one short, not because I have less to say, not because of the quality, but because what I love about the first book carries over heavily into this one.

I’ll start off by saying that I started this one excited about the next chapter in Vic’s story, and was upset when I started reading and found out that this was a prequel. I almost wanted to quit reading it, but I pushed on.

Before I was even a third of the way in, I was once again hooked on Viv’s adventures. In the same way I adore the Legends & Lattes characters, I adore these ones. Satchel was probably my favorite new addition here, despite being introduced nearly halfway into the book. The descriptions were also done well in this one, same as the last.

The thing that intrigued me most in this one was the sense of danger. Baldree introduced an enemy that was scary. I was reading the book wondering how this could end without an all out battle, which might have been intentional. And while there was excitement in the end, it wasn’t this huge final fight, which I really appreciate. One of the appeals of this series to me is the lack of traditional fantasy extravagance.

That isn’t to say that it wasn’t as exciting as a final battle at all. The built up sense of danger worked with the emotional build up to lead to a satisfying conclusion that gets me excited to meet some of these characters again in a possible third book. After reading both, I’m extremely excited to see what the author does next.

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Star Wars: Jedi Survivor

3/5 (Spoilers)

I would like to start off by saying this game is definitely an improvement over Fallen Order in most aspects. However, it’s not without its own problems.

My main problems come down to gameplay. It was clear that it wanted to be more open and expansive than the first one, and it did that only in some areas. While there were nice expansive areas to explore, when it came to anything actually important to the story it was still very linear. You can easily see by looking at the map where was important to get to the next objective and where was for exploring. I loved the combat in this game, and think it was done very well; what I didn’t like was that if 2 melee enemies got near you it becomes extremely difficult for the game to register button input because they are taking turns shoving their electric spears into your skull. All of this plus the bugs that come with EA, but the weren’t nearly as bad this go around.

Story wise it was great, and there are only two things I didn’t really like. My first issue is with the section where you play as Cere. Her gameplay was fun, but I did not care to play as her, as she’s not the character I’ve built a relationship with through gameplay. I especially didn’t like the Darth Vader fight. While it was a cool and challenging fight and the reasons for Cere fighting him were justified, it felt really lame to build up my skill tree and abilities just to not use them in the hardest fight in the game (for me). I also am not a fan of the Star Wars brand saying that Vader is the strongest and the legends and lore around him being of terror, and then turning around and making him take constant L’s. It’s hard to feel like he is second in command to the emperor when he is losing to every force sensitive character in the franchise.

Enough with what I don’t like, there is plenty to love about this game. Like I said, most of the story is excellent and I felt satisfied with it upon completion. The exploration was fun, especially figuring out the puzzles. It wasn’t often I found myself getting tired of playing the game.

Overall, there are more things I like about this game than things I dislike. It’s just that the things that do bother me are such a huge stain that I can’t ignore them.

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Legends & Lattes

5/5 (Spoilers)

I am back to give yet another piece of media a perfect score. Maybe all of these are recency bias, maybe I just love to love things. Can you blame me?

Starting out, I want to say this book is inspiring. It’s a great story about discovering yourself and who you want to be, and coming to terms with who you were and how you got there. That’s something that hits close to home for me. A more direct form of inspiration this book gave me wasn’t from the story or the characters, though. Finding out this was Baldree’s first book was a great joy to me. It’s helped me stay inspired and motivated to work on my own novel. Finishing the main story and reading the acknowledgments has been helping me get out of my writing slump and think about why I’m writing. It’s helped me keep in mind that I’m doing this primarily because I love stories and storytelling and want something to share with my loved ones and all of the people that supported my ideas and my writing. I’d give this book a perfect score for the ideas the story and the author present alone.

However, inspiration isn’t the only reason I love this book. I’m a huge D&D nerd, which turned me into a huge fantasy nerd. This book does fantasy so well, especially with a low-stakes twist that I don’t often see. I’m so used to adventurers going on some grand adventure to save the kingdom, that I was surprised to see how far this strayed from it, despite the reviews telling me exactly that on the back of the book. Baldree makes the relatively small setting of a coffee shop feel so alive with his descriptions of the city around it, and the cast of characters coming in and out.

The characters are something I want to highlight here. One of my favorite aspects of the book was Viv’s internal struggles coming from starting anew and leaving her old life behind. Her thoughts on that, and her thoughts on how the people she cared about might view her did an excellent job of painting a picture of her mind. I loved seeing the contrast of how she thought people would view her, and how these people showed differently in how they acted towards and around her. While I love every character introduced and how they interact with each other, my favorite was the relationship between Viv and Tandri. I’ve never been a huge fan of romance. I appreciate when it’s in and adds to a story, but I’ve never been one to get excited about it. Their slow-burn not only added so much when it comes to Viv’s thoughts that I mentioned earlier, but it got me excited to see every step of it play out, so much so that I’m starting to finally consider reading all of the romance novels my partner keeps suggesting to me. No book has ever gotten me excited about an entire genre like this one has, and I wouldn’t even consider this a romance novel.

Lastly, the low-stakes of it all were like I said, refreshing, but also deceptive. I thought things were going to get intense with the Madrigal, but they came to a satisfying conclusion. This isn’t to say that I wasn’t nervous about what would happen, really the opposite. Even without the ideas that some great evil is taking over and it must be vanquished I found myself sucked in, anxious about what these events would mean for Viv, her coffee shop, and her friends. I was so scared about the fire and thought Viv would revert back to her old self, making things go even more awry. Instead, it took these relationships between characters that had been established throughout the book and reinforced the idea of starting over by starting over again.

This book is a testament to being true to oneself, and fighting through doubt and inner turmoil. Again, it’s an inspiration to me as a writer and me as a person. I haven’t read many books that have been able to do that, and I commend Travis Baldree for his tackling of every situation in this book with care.

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Fallout

5/5 (Spoilers)

Okay I’m posting a lot of perfect scores but man I’m I just enjoying the media I’ve been interacting with.

I’m gonna start with the look of the show. As a fan of the Fallout game series, I adore everything the sets do and every prop. It’s so perfectly accurate to the game and I found myself getting excited about things like the vault walls looking just like the games. This show also does a great job of throwing in items and references from the games without it feeling like “Hey! Look this is from the game!”

I think my favorite part however was the main three characters. Lucy was super likable and relatable, and I think she did very well as the shows vault dweller pc. As for Max, I wasn’t sure how to feel about him when the show started, but over the course of the 8 episode I grew to love him and how he interacted with Lucy and the rest of the fallout world. The Ghoul was awesome. I spent the whole show excited for every scene he was in. He is a badass and I love it so much.

One other thing I really liked was the respect to the series. Given I’m not an expert, but I know my fair share of the fallout lore. I also think all the fanboys saying the show disrespects it are overreacting a bit for two reasons. 1.) Every time a video game show/film comes out the basement dwellers come to shit on it (and also any woman or queer person associated with it for some reason). 2.) I think it does just as much as Bethesda does for the lore. Bethesda does a lot, but I feel they often focus more on releasing an unfinished game than caring about their IPs.

All in all, I think this is a great addition to the fallout universe, that keeps the core parts of the games that make them good and transfers them well to the show. It’s funny, it’s badass, it’s heartbreaking, and all of the in between. Most importantly, I had so much fun watching this show. It invoked the same feeling as playing one of the games for the first time. There was so much to discover and I felt right there with the characters in discovering it.

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Moulin Rouge!

5/5 (Spoilers)

First things first I’m gonna address my bias. I am an absolute sucker for musicals, and I honestly have yet to see one I haven’t liked. (If there is a really bad one I should watch please let me know)

This film however, knocks it out of the park in every aspect. There wasn’t a single moment in this where I wasn’t interested of what’s going on.

I could go forever listing all of the good things about this, but I think I only need to say a couple things.

Firstly, I adore how Moulin Rouge! looks. I am a huge fan of the Victorian aesthetic, and they do it in a way that is interesting and more importantly fun to look at. From the set design to the costumes and everything else, the vibrancy of it grabs at me throughout.

Secondly, the casting was incredible. Kidman and McGregor are great leads, and the rest of the cast felt like they were really in their roles and convinced me that they are these characters rather than someone playing them. Also, as expected everyone has extreme talent when it comes to singing, and the mixing together of all these wildly different voices came together in a beautiful medley of sound.

Third, the wackiness of this kept me in. I absolutely love that it isn’t afraid to be zany and over the top, and I don’t think the movie would have worked without it. The zaniness is easily one of my favorite parts of the film.

Fourth, despite being comprised largely of covers, none of the songs felt like covers. Each song had its own character and unique spin that kept me listening. They also did really well blending the songs with the dialogue; it was seamless.

Last is my favorite detail, and what truly puts it at a 5/5. In one of the beginning scenes they do a musical number essentially telling the entire story of the film in a few minutes. I noticed it was very obvious foreshadowing. Normally I don’t think I would care for the movie telling me the whole plot of itself at the beginning, but this did it in such a fun way. Most of all as I kept watching, I found myself more and more into a story that I already knew the ending of. I think that’s something that is really hard to pull off, and they did it very well. I didn’t care that I knew how it would turn out,l and how they would get there because it was so interesting to see the story unfolding, and exciting to realize what part of the story I’m at.

There’s so much more that I like about this film, but I’d rather recommend watching it if you haven’t already seen it. If you have, watch it again. I’ve watched a good amount of musicals, and after my first watch of this one it’s at least top 5, if not top 3 for my favorite. I could not recommend this more.

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Get To Know Me!

Name: Tyler Cole

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 23

Interests: D&D, Comics, JRWI, Music, Art, Reading, Writing, Movies, TV, Gaming, Crafts, Woodworking, Tennis

Into nerd stuff I guess? Idk I like a lot of things and honestly most things on here will be reviews on things I have read or watched.

I am also an author, and am currently working on my first novel! Expect posts about that as I make progress on it!

D&D enthusiast and would like to post my homebrew but we will see.

Anyways hope you enjoy what you see here and DMs should be open but no promises because I’m bad at tumblr.

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Shrek: The Musical

5/5 (Spoilers)

I finally watched this way too late. I’ll start by saying I’d heard only good things, and it still went above and beyond my expectations.

Firstly I’d like to note the creativity in all aspects of the show. Not only was the stage design incredible but how much the performers were able to interact with the props and the stage itself. I also loved the use of puppets for some of the characters and animals.

Secondly I adore the costumes. I can’t imagine how much time and effort went into these costumes and outfits that made them so good looking. Shrek was definitely my favorite costume, but every other was was on the same level of excellence.

Both the singing and dance choreography was incredible as far as performances go. The standouts for me were Sutton Foster as Fiona and Daniel Breaker as Donkey. They both had a level of pizazz to their performance that I loved. I also saw with them (and Brian D’arcy James as Shrek) a chemistry that made me feel the closeness that developed between these characters.

Another small note I had was the minor details that just immersed me more and more as the show went on. My favorites being the various mechanisms in the background as Shrek and Donkey were making their way to Fiona’s tower, Lord Farquaad’s little baby feet hanging out of the bathtub in that scene, and the way Donkey’s ears moved around sometimes when he was speaking.

Lastly, the show was just hilarious. I was laughing loudly at 1 am for what felt like every 5 minutes. Also my partner compared me to Shrek when he farted and kept dancing after “I Think I Got You Beat”.

All in all, I clearly enjoyed this. This was such a fun show to watch and I’m almost ashamed I hadn’t watched it sooner. I would recommend it to anyone, whether they’re into musicals or otherwise. Excellent experience.

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Cyberpunk 2077: No_Coincidence

3/5 (Spoilers)

I love the way Rafal Kosik describes the scene and supplements what I’m imagining. Every moment allows me to create a vivid picture of what’s going on.

However it does get hard to follow when we are switching perspectives every few paragraphs. Sometimes it’s not even clear who we are following until later in the chapter after there’s already been a few more switches. There is a ton of information to take in rapidly, which does also add to feeling immersed in a world like this.

The tension built in some of these scenes is unmatched. Even despite not particularly liking where the story is, or even being able to follow it easily, I still found myself sucked into those moments where the tension was high, and unable to look away.

As for the ending, I was quite disappointed. Now I have a limited knowledge of the Cyberpunk 2077 world and the genre as a whole, so that definitely plays into my dissatisfaction with the ending. My main dissatisfaction was the twist, with the crate being empty and Zor essentially just being a test. This comes down to personal preference and just not really liking those types of twist endings.

The second point of dissatisfaction is it being a “sad” ending. I get fully that there aren’t really happy endings in this genre, which is kind of the point, but man am I a sucker for a happy ending so this one also comes down to personal preference.

My last is that because of the back and forth nature of the book, it took me a moment to even realize what had happened. It wasn’t until I was able to collect my thoughts on the endings for both Albert and the rest of the group separately that I sort of figured it out.

Overall I think it’s a well written story, but it’s hard to follow and enjoy more unless you’ve already immersed yourself into this world via the games or graphic novels. I personally wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who isn’t.