Greenwood Sword and Sorcery school…
Compulsory subjects: Magical Creature Biology: – Animal Handling – ability to train and work with all types of animals. – Veterinary – ability to care for a sick or wounded animal – Zoology – study of animals. Optional subjects: Alchemy: – alchemy – science of magical transmutations -…
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How Mulder & Scully Got Back From Antarctica
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Have you ever wondered how Mulder and Scully got back from Antarctica?
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25 Great Facts about Children’s Books
Fascinating trivia about classic children’s books and their authors
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Doctor Who 10th anniversary: Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble’s best moments
Doctor Who at 10: She was the Doctor’s gobby mate, and one of the funniest companions of New Who – take a look at Donna’s highlights in the Tardis.
Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble made such an impression in Christmas special The Runaway Bride that she returned in series 4 as a full-time companion. Gobby, funny and not interested in the Doctor in the way his two previous companions had been, she was a new kind of Tardis traveller – a mate. And a bloody good one at that.
Let’s take a look at her best bits.
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X-Files returns: Summer 2015 on Fox
During its heyday in the 1990s, The X-Files was one of the most consistently great shows on television. Its deep affection for supernatural conspiracy lore combined with its made-for-fan-fiction partnership between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully resulted in a show that you just couldn’t stop watching…
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NPR’s Top 100 Science-Fiction & Fantasy Books – How many have you read?
How many have you read?
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Jessamy Taylor’s top 10 castles in fiction
“There are many things you can do with a good castle. Hide in it. Feast in it. Break into it. Break out of it. Plot in it. Live your whole life in it. Fiction is full of castles: on hillsides, in forests, in towns, on clifftops. Castles dreaming in the distance, or castles looming over your head. Castles made of stone, of wood, of ice; with passageways tunnelling deep into the ground, or spiralling high with turrets and stairways. Castles safe and warm, or frightening and oppressive; busy and functional, or lonely and ruined. They’re everywhere, and they are hard to resist.
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I think my favorite is Howl’s Moving Castle. I love how it’s in four different places at the same time. Imagine the possibilities.
The Circle
The Circle
I just went to see the movie The Circle. Since I haven’t reviewed the books, I’m not going to go into too many details about my thoughts. However, I did like the movie as much as I liked the books. The actresses closely matched the looks of the characters, at least most of them. I hope that the other two books in the trilogy will be made into movies and that I’ll like them as much as I liked the first one (though I must admit I always did like book 1 the best.) It was also quite cool (I’d never have thought of that ten years ago) to actually be in a movie theater though there were only four people watching the movie, that is counting me and my sister. That might have been because it’s been on for about two weeks.
Just one thing, if you do read the books, bear in mind that the translation isn’t all that great. In my opinion it’s a mistake not to get a professional translator to do the translating.
Leonard Nimoy dead: Let’s remind ourselves of the Star Trek references in Doctor Who
About to celebrate its 50th Anniversary next year, Star Trek lags behind that other science-fiction behemoth, Doctor Who. But you’d be surprised to see just how many times that long-running US franchise has mentioned on screen in the UK time-traveling show. Here are some of the finest mentions.
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International Fanworks Day is Here!
It’s now February 15th in our earliest timezones, which means International Fanworks Day is here! Today is the first annual day to celebrate fanwork of all kinds. Below we have a few things listed that the OTW is sponsoring or connected to.
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