Tale Foundry

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Σεζόν 2023
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Haiku: The Most Misunderstood Poem
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Ιαν 06, 2023
In the West, haiku have a certain reputation. They're almost a meme. A funny, pseudo-sagely way to sequence a few words for a cheap effect. But there's a reason this form of poetry is .. show full overview
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The Worst Way to End a Story?
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Ιαν 19, 2023
"Happily Ever After" is probably one of the most well-known phrases in all of literature. But have you ever really stopped to think about what that means? What would happen to the .. show full overview
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What are The Endless? — Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman"
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Ιαν 25, 2023
Mankind has been inventing deities since before there were even stories to tell about them. It's been part of the fabric of human existence forever, shaping how people think and behave. .. show full overview
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Worldsmiths: The Vulnerability Artist
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Ιαν 31, 2023
Fiction and fantasy have a reputation for escapism. And certainly, they do provide that. But there’s also a shockingly large amount of truth in the lies we invent for our stories. And .. show full overview
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Stories about Stories about Stories
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Φεβ 09, 2023
Sometimes authors go beyond just telling you the story. Sometimes they tell you the story of... the telling of the story.
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Worldsmiths: The Isolation Artist
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Φεβ 21, 2023
H.P. Lovecraft horrifies us by turning our thoughts to the vast and unknowable cosmos we occupy… but he also managed to do that from the tiny landscape of his own bedroom, within his .. show full overview
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Why Everyone Hates The Chosen One
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Φεβ 21, 2023
Fate has chosen you! The favorite among the gods. The prophesied one. Your cosmic role is great, your destiny assured. Fabulous. You have no idea how much this is about to suck. The .. show full overview
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Was H.P. Lovecraft a Bad Writer?
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Φεβ 23, 2023
Lovecraft is one of the most beloved speculative fiction-writers of the last century. He defined a genre and changed much of horror itself forever. And yet... More than a few people .. show full overview
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Is This Picture Worth 1,000 Words?
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Μαρ 01, 2023
The "worth" of art is difficult to quantify. The value is almost always subjective. So how, then, have we gotten away with using the phrase "a picture is worth 1,000 words" for so long? .. show full overview
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This Story will Crush Your Hopes & Dreams
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Μαρ 09, 2023
Near the end of the Sci-Fi's Golden Age, one author wrote a story that felt far different from all its peers. It had a strange, creative underpinning. Oddly cynical, oddly precient, and .. show full overview
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How Sherlock Holmes Killed his Author
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Μαρ 22, 2023
Sherlock Holmes may have been the greatest detective of all time, but that doesn't mean he was above murder. And his sole victim? The one who suffered the most? His author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Is Cyberpunk... Punk?
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Μαρ 30, 2023
We’ve heard of Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Deiselpunk and friends… but what do any of those things mean? Why attach “punk” to them? What does that say about the genre? And why has that lead to such a massive variety of “punk” genres?
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Destroying Your Art (On Purpose)
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Απρ 05, 2023
Art is an act of translation. Translation, it turns out, is essentially an act of destruction.
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Big Friendly Giants in Mythology
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Απρ 20, 2023
You've probably heard of Roald Dahl's famous BFG, but did you know there's actually a BUNCH of these across world mythology? Giants that aren't destructive, but benevolent? Builders, caretakers, life-givers, and more?
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Art is Useless
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Απρ 27, 2023
That title might shock anyone who watches this channel regularly. You know we love art, so why would we call it useless? Well, you might be surprised to find how wonderful "useless" .. show full overview
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Weird Fairytales that Make No Sense
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Μάϊ 03, 2023
Yes, fairytales are weird and dark. Sometimes they make no sense. But, by the same token, those precise things are also what makes them feel so magical.
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Why Antiheroes aren't Villains
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Μάϊ 18, 2023
You know antiheroes, you love antiheroes, but chances are it's hard for you to say what an antihero actually is. Where's the line between violence and villainy? Where does hero end, where does villain begin, and where does antihero sit between them?
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Why Magic Systems don't feel Magical
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Μάϊ 24, 2023
What even is a "magic system"? It's a word that gets tossed around a lot in the fantasy-writing and worldbuilding communities. It certainly has its uses, but there seems to be something .. show full overview
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Who is The King in Yellow?
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Ιουν 01, 2023
Is this character really just another eldritch, tentacle-ridden, Lovecraftian horror? Or is there something more going on, here?
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Why the Back Rooms are Terrifying
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Ιουν 14, 2023
The Back Rooms are one of the strangest internet phenomena in the last decade. Why are people so gripped by this yellow, parallel dimension office-labyrinth? Why is it so scary?
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Angelarium: The Book of Fallen Angels
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Ιουν 22, 2023
What would an angel do if you made it live like a human? If they had to know what it was like to sweat, bleed, stink, hurt, fail? Surely they would handle it with more grace than a mere .. show full overview
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We Made an AI Write This Story
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Ιουν 29, 2023
AI has already changed much of creative landscape, but is it really primed to take over fiction-writing, too? Is that something it could even do? In this video, we give that thought a little test.
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Breaking the 4th Wall... and the 5th?
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Ιούλ 19, 2023
It's all fun and games until one of your characters realizes they're just a character in a story. But what happens when you have the same realization about your own life?
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The Magical Realism of Studio Ghibli
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Ιούλ 26, 2023
Okay it's not technically "magical realism", but the effect is so similar and so powerful, it's the closest term we could find. In some ways, what Ghibli is doing with these animations is even more powerful than magical realism.
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How to Kill a God
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Αυγ 03, 2023
For how much reverence humanity has for the divine, it's interesting how much of your fiction is about killing them.
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What is an Anti-VILLAIN?
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Αυγ 16, 2023
We've all heard of Anti-Heroes, everyone's favorite unrepentant "good guy". But what about their opposite? What about everyone's favorite "bad guy"? They aren't talked about nearly as often, but there is a word for it. They're called: Anti-Villains.
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This Story will Fix Your Heart
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Αυγ 23, 2023
It's easy to lose sight of the things that matter most in life. Sometimes we need a reminder to stop look with our eyes, and to look with our hearts. The Little Prince just so happens to be the perfect story for the job.
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The Paradox of Time Travel Paradoxes
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Αυγ 30, 2023
Time travel is one of the wackiest tropes out there. A little too wacky, maybe? Maybe not worth the trouble, trying to make it work in your story? Or maybe that's exactly why you should be using it.
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The Most Dramatic Hero in Fiction
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Σεπ 13, 2023
You've heard of antiheroes, you've heard of antivillains, but have you heard of the most dramatic hero in fiction? The Byronic Hero?
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Contracts as a MAGIC SYSTEM?
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Σεπ 27, 2023
We're used to magic systems full of runes and spell uttered in long-forgotten tongues. But there's another language fantasy stories use all the time that you might not even be aware of. One we have here in the real world: Legalese.
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Why Cosmic Horror isn't Scary
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Οκτ 04, 2023
Okay, so maybe you're not afraid of Cthulhu or Yog-Sothoth or the host of other tentacled Lovecraftian space-things. But maybe you don't... have to be?
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YOU WILL FORGET THIS VIDEO (SCP: Antimemetics)
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Οκτ 11, 2023
Memes are like cognitive viruses. They stick in your brain and evolve with every expression, until they're just part of the collective conscious. But what if there was an idea that did .. show full overview
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The Nostalgia Horror Phenomenon
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Οκτ 25, 2023
Analog Horror, Mascot Horror, Liminal Horror. Perhaps the most popular horror genres in fiction right now, and they all have on unlikely thing in common: a sense of nostalgia.
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Is Mythology Dead?
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Νοέ 01, 2023
Myth is one of the oldest and most human forms of storytelling. It's been with mankind for as long as stories have been told. So why, then, does it seem to be dying out?
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Character Study: Death
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Νοέ 15, 2023
We're all familiar with death as an icon, a figure, a personification of a natural force... but what about as a character? An individual, with thoughts, and feelings, and desires? What would that death look like?
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How to Become a God
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Νοέ 22, 2023
Tired of being mortal? Well, maybe you don't have to be. Turns out, at least according to a lot of fiction, becoming a God might not be quite as hard as you'd think.
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Are Revenge Plots Evil?
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Νοέ 29, 2023
Who doesn't love a good revenge plot? It's hard not to get behind someone seeking justice... even when they're doing some pretty deplorable stuff in the process?
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How the ANTI-GRINCH Saved Christmas
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Δεκ 13, 2023
We all know what happened when the Grinch stole Christmas... but what if he had tried to save it instead? How different would an ANTI-GRINCH act, and what kind of lessons can we learn from them?
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The Worst Villain Ever
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Δεκ 20, 2023
We all love to talk about the characters we consider to be the best, most evil, most effective villains. But what about the ones who are bad... at being bad?

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