WLTS is a literal labor of love. Every episode will be focused on a single piece of media or storytelling to have its every praise sung. More in-depth topics, like the lore behind more complex settings, will receive serial episodes.
While episodes on the lore of Warhammer 40k were going to be a part of this podcast's regular rotation, I cannot in good conscience support a company that treats its fanbase the way Games Workshop does. This episode is off script and pretty emotional, and I'm sorry for that, but this is important.
Fantasy is a most expansive genre of story-telling, with a great many sub-genres beneath its wide branches. Toady, we take a brief glimpse into dark fantasy, and one of its most popular products: The Witcher.
Were you expecting historical military brilliance? Daring assaults? Bravery in the face of overwhelming forces of evil? Nah son, you get a sequence of stupidity that makes the cast of It's Always Sunny look like geniuses.
A very special part of the Judaistic Torah is on display today, a story that shows one culture's deep, thorough understanding of another. Through wanton bloodshed and suffering, but still. It's the thought that counts.
The famous 1886 novella from Robert Louis Stevenson, a classic story of addiction, moral deviancy, and introspection into the human psyche.
A beautiful novel that set in motion everything we've come to know and love about vampire literature.
A cursory, superficial look at one of my all time favorite films, Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki.