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I’ve been under oodles of stress (in a fun way!) over a project I’m heading up at work, so I started doodling a few months ago to ice my brain. Doodles to counteract oodles.

I’m not very good! But I post my various works of fart on IG. https://www.instagram.com/zachdrawspoorly?igsh=bDNhdW1ocndzeWl3&utm_source=qr

#art #artwork #artworld #digital illustration #abstract #critical role #delicious in dungeon #space art #fantasy art #sci fi art #percy x vex #vox machina #marcille dungeon meshi #critical role art #anime art #percy critical role #marcille delicious in dungeon #procreate #fantasy #scififantasy

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Hi there! I haven’t posted in awhile because Magic Weirdos as a podcast kinda had to fall to the wayside. But in case anyone cares, I’m currently making a documentary feature about rare immune disorders for work and I think that’s neat.

Anyways. Love you!

#audio drama #failed podcasts but not really

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I did this last year and everyone seemed to like it, so here’s my entirely unranked, incomplete, and uncategorized list of things that made me a better writer and storyteller in 2023:

- Across the Spider-Verse

A spider-man movie where the narrative is structured around Gwen Stacey is already genius, but when you take surrealist animation and the philosophical deconstruction of “Canon” into consideration… I can’t believe this movie exists.

- Kesha: Gaga Order

Kesha has always had an unhinged brilliance, but this is next level of both.

- Godzilla Minus One

Spectacle shouldn’t be what they remember from your story.

- Oppenheimer

I’m growing obsessed with the idea of a literary, poetic presentation of real lives. That’s what makes biopics fresh. (See also: VICE)

- The Adventure Zone: Steeplechase

When a storyteller uses any medium to reconcile complicated feelings about things they love, it’s the stuff of dreams. People sense it.

- They Cloned Tyrone

No one needs me to provide a Caucastic analysis of this movie, but I always appreciate when meta-aware stories use their meta-awareness to let characters break the tropes society builds for them.

- Lakota Nation vs. The United States

May be the perfect documentary. Gentle but searing imagery.

- Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine

I’m a James Webb Telescope groupie, and this is a celebration of its triumph that made me say “Maybe… maybe we’re exploring more than we give ourselves credit for.”

- Barbie

Goofy gleefulness and sincerity are really, really not that far apart from each other on the emotional spectrum.

- The Last of Us

The game is already my favorite story of all time, so I’m biased. But I can think of no higher form of art than presenting a character doing the wrong things for selfish reasons, but doing so in a way that makes you go “yeah, of course, I’d do the same thing.”

- Percy Jackson and the Olympians

We only have three episodes so far, but I’ve never seen ANY media for kids (even THAT one) that takes kids’ complicated emotions so seriously.

- Baldur’s Gate 3

For me as a DM and player, this game did that magical thing where it jumped mediums to give you the best experience both have to offer.

Honorable mentions:

- Leave the World Behind

- The Creator

- Super Mario Bros. Movie

- Asteroid City

#baldurs gate 3 #oppenheimer #barbie #across the spiderverse #creative writing #creativity #the adventure zone steeplechase #godzilla minus one #tlou hbo #percy jackson #the creator #leave the world behind #kesha #asteroid city #super mario bros #jwst #james webb space telescope

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i like the simpsons

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It’s been six fuckin’ years and I still have a passionate *need* to defend The Last Jedi every chance I get. You know why? Because I’ve lost hope before. They could have told a story about a version of Luke who never had to accept the consequences of a challenge to his worldview. But to give us a version of LUKE SKYWALKER who experienced shame and cynicism and self-loathing even after changing the galaxy as a starry-eyed idealistic youth, and then COME BACK FROM IT, is… oh, I dunno, kinda like a fresh take on HOPE? You know? Hope? The cornerstone of the whole GD franchise?

#star wars #star wars the last jedi #star wars tlj #star wars luke skywalker #luke skywalker #a new hope #star wars a new hope #star wars lore #star wars obi wan #star wars series #star wars sequel trilogy #rian johnson #star wars episode viii

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If your fiction podcast has a little opening theme tune rest assured I do have an imagined little visual sequence to go with it tucked away in my brain

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Found in my notes.

#star wars #star wars fanfiction #star wars au #star wars a new hope #star wars humor #star wars luke skywalker #star wars obi wan #the force is strong with you tj

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Cassian Andor in ANDOR Season 1

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The day they announced the WGA strike I was standing in line for Flight of Passage at Disney’s Animal Kingdom (The kickass Avatar ride for the uninitiated). The guy behind me was talking to his friend about it and said “These writers are about to learn that people don’t care about their idiotic little stories.” In hindsight, I wish I had said “How much did you pay to be here?”

Stories are how we learn from each other. I can’t imagine what a joyless life that dude must lead.

#wga strike #i stand with the wga #support the wga

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shrimps is bugs

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Confession: Every time I write a love scene with a femme person in it, I spend days afterward terrified that I’m gonna end up on that Reddit thread of men describing women in the most ridiculous ways.

#audio drama #fiction podcast #audio fiction #podcasts #fantasy fiction #urban fantasy #indie podcast #magic weirdos #fantasy #apple podcasts #romance #creative writing #creative

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Hi there and hello and hail and well met!

Not to be desperate or goofy, but it’s my birthday today and it would mean a lot if you tried out Magic Weirdos — my seasonal anthology fantasy/sci-fi audio drama podcast. I wrote and scored and narrated it, and it’s a story that pretty much helped me stay sane when COVID was at its worst.

Season one is about these quirky, anxious magical goofballs who set out to destroy a secret industrial prison complex. If that sounds like your jam, you can find it wherever you get your podcasts. The transcripts are also available at magicweirdos.com.

#audio drama #fiction podcast #audio fiction #fantasy #podcasts #fantasy fiction #urban fantasy #indie podcast #magic weirdos #apple podcasts #taz balance #old gods pod #the bright sessions #critical role #spotify #original story #original content #original fiction #original writing #original music

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Look, that thing you want to do? Stop being a weenie and just do it. 

Bottom images are from here.

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Do y’all remember when Star Wars made the most gloriously progressive, fascist-punching, prison industry-smashing, sneaky politics-exposing, sexist tradition-obliterating, means of production seizing, Emmy-worthy show with perfect acting across the board, and they did it so well that hardly any of the usual complainers never realized what they were doing?

#andor spoilers #star wars andor #andor season 1 #star wars