Welcome to the hottest fantasy film podcast about the hottest fantasy films. Join us this season as we dive deep into camp classics of the Sword and Sorcery genre. Expect to find critical commentary, playful banter, and lots of laughs as we review the history, reception, and plot of a new movie every week.
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Jordan Sorcery speaks with some of the most influential games designers, writers, and artists from the history of Games Workshop, Warhammer, and the wider tabletop gaming industry.
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An exploration of the politics and themes hiding inside our genre fiction.
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A podcast about tabletop gaming, adventure fiction, comics, and (inevitably) food. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tales-of-valor--sorcery/support
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Reviews and news from the worlds of science fiction, romance and fantasy. Presented by Harper Collins UK author Belinda Missen and Indie author Terence MacManus.
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The "Is That A Sorcery?" Podcast presented by your Host Nyx and a varying cast of guest stars is a show about deck techs and general Arena & MTGO play by Nyx and others. Occasional D&D play will be riddled in! Hope you enjoy!
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Long-form podcasts & conversations on Tabletop RPGs, Gaming, Anime & Pop Culture! Long-form Tabletop RPG discussion, reviews & deep dives from the lens of Intersectionality, facilitated by a Social Community of Queer Witches & “Dice Dragons.” D&D 5th Edition: Heavensfire (Homebrew), Storm Watch (MCDM: Kingdoms & Warfare), Into the Old Margreve (Kobold Press:Tales of the Old Margreve) and other One-Shots airs live on Twitch at Twitch.tv/EnchantingSorcery For business or collaborative inquirie ...
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Under the high patronage of our Most Infernal Majesties an enticingly deviant scabrous evening of DRUNKEN debauchery & salacious SORCERY to be honorably executed and brilliantly illuminated by the right proper Magus Israfael, the shaded, and the Marvelous Mister Mike, the A*~hole. Toward the covenant of unfettering ourselves from the inhibitions of the fearful, exploring beyond the restrictive boundaries of the small minded, and removing the constraint of authoritarian mores, endeavoring to ...
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Jervis Johnson | Warhammer & Blood Bowl Designer
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I am joined in conversation by the unparalleled Games Workshop legend, games designer Jervis Johnson. We talk about a 40 year career creating, refining, and contributing to almost every Games Workshop game worth playing! From Blood Bowl to Epic, Warhammer Fantasy to Warhammer 40k, Advanced Heroquest to Advanced Space Crusade, Warhammer’s End Times …
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Hercules Hercules Hercules!! Can you smell what Will and Chase are cookin! After 8 months of intense preparation and monastic living Dyane 'The Rock' Johnson delivers his most stunningly uninspired performance since "The Scorpion King" as the titular star of 2014's "Hercules." Is it a new cult classic or just bad? Find out now!…
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Dave Chapman & Dominic McDowall | The Laundry RPG 2nd Edition
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Dave Chapman & Dominic McDowall in conversation with Jordan Sorcery I’ve never read or played The Laundry and after asking about it online I was approached by the publishers of the game’s new second edition, Cubicle 7, and invited to ask any questions I had! CEO of Cubicle 7, Dominic McDowall, and game designer for The Laundry 2nd edition, Dave Cha…
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Duncan Rhodes in conversation with Jordan Sorcery Duncan Rhodes joins me in conversation as we talk about his hobby and career with Games Workshop. Beginning with his obsession with 40k and then Warhammer Fantasy, then his first role in retail teaching customers how to play and paint, we talk about what motivates a lifetime in the hobby. We also ex…
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Kim Newman in conversation with Jordan Sorcery Kim Newman has had a long and successful career as an author famous for his Anno Dracula series, as a television personality, and as Empire's horror expert since the magazine's very first issue. But there is another aspect to the remarkable history of this remarkable writer - his time writing the very …
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Chaz Elliott | Warhammer 40,000 Graphic Designer
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Chaz Elliott in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Chaz Elliott was responsible for the look and feel of many early Citadel books and magazines, including Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, White Dwarf, and Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd edition. During his brief, but influential time at Games Workshop he also transitioned into…
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Marc Singer returns as Dar, the Beastmaster. This week on Sorta Sorcery, the sequel to the critically acclaimed sword and sorcery classic, "The Beastmaster." The boys are taking it back to episode 2, while Dar takes a leap through time to stop his evil brother from stealing an atomic bomb in 1990's Los Angeles?!?! Yeah, you're gonna want to see thi…
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Adrian Smith in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. In an incredible career artist Adrian Smith has produced some of the most iconic Games Workshop art for the worlds of 40k and Warhammer Fantasy. From his early work drawing playful Nurglings and dramatic scenes for the Realm of Chaos to his unforgettable renderings of Warmaster Horus and the Emperor…
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Marc Gascoigne | Black Library & Games Workshop Legend
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Marc Gascoigne in conversation with Jordan Sorcery Marc Gascoigne has worked extensively in fantasy and science fiction publishing as a writer, editor, and in many other roles besides. One of the key figures behind the creation of Games Workshop's Black Library and the beginning of the Horus Heresy series Marc's first stint at GW saw him co-writing…
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Finally a film with a female lead! Did Jack Hill subvert the gender stereotypes of the genre with his 1982 film "Sorceress"? Did the producers of Dune (1984) screw this movie over by stealing its lighting!? The answer is probably no on all accounts, but there's only one way to find out!저자 Will & Chase
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Tomas Rawlings | Video Game Developer & Behaviourist
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Tomas Rawlings in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. We talk about the culture, behaviours, and perceptions of the video game and tabletop gaming hobbies and industries. As an exceptional thinker on the nature of gaming Tomas has given TED talks, consulted across the video games industry, written tabletop games, and co-founded his own games studio, …
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Padraig Murphy & Dominic McDowall | WFRP 4th Edition Developers
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Padraig Murphy and Dominic McDowall in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Dominic McDowall, CEO of Cubicle 7, and Padraig Murphy, producer of the WFRP 4 edition range, join me to about the development of the 4th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. We talk about designing new supplements, updating old ones, the future of the range, and just a litt…
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Steve Jackson | Games Workshop & Fighting Fantasy Founder
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Steve Jackson in conversation with Jordan Sorcery We talk about founding Games Workshop in the 70s, starting White Dwarf, working with Bryan Ansell as his Citadel team created Warhammer, co-writing Fighting Fantasy with Sir Ian Livingstone, and creating cutting edge interactive storytelling over the phone with Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T (Fantasy Inter…
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Picture this, Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Conan the Barbarian"...but there are two of him!! It's "The Barbarians," and no, it's not starring fraternal twins Will and Chase. It features 1987's biggest boys, Peter and Paul David. Can these brothers act? Of course not! Are they the buffest men you've ever laid your eyes on? Listen and find out! Check out…
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Mark Gibbons in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Former Games Workshop artist and concept artist for Sony and Blizzard. Mark has had an extensive career creating dynamic, detailed, and amazing imagery for Warhammer, including memorable pieces like the box covers for Warhammer Fantasy 5th edition, the Circle of Blood campaign set, and the Man O’ Wa…
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Jonathan Green | Warhammer & Fighting Fantasy Author
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Jonathan Green in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. We talk about a career working in science-fiction and fantasy IPs, novels, and gamebooks. Jonathan is credited on 8 gamebooks in the Fighting Fantasy series, wrote the definitive history of the series, has worked on several stories for the Black Library set in the 40k and Warhammer Fantasy worlds,…
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In the 2nd part of our conversation about Cyberpunk 2077 we are rejoined by Roberto to talk The Soul of Theseus, morality, and sexism in the player community. Spoilers for every possible ending to the game (along with which one makes you a good person). Roberto's Pods: @tsarpowerpod & @History_Georgia patreon.com/swordsandsocialism Email: SwordsAnd…
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James Wallis in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. James is the founder of Hogshead Publishing, the company that resurrected Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay first edition, refined it, expanded it, and kept it alive for a decade. And then he decided to shut down the successful company and walk away. We talk about why, his remarkable journey in the RPG ind…
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Chris Pramas | Warhammer RPG Developer & Green Ronin Co-Founder
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Chris Pramas in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. After a career at Wizards of the Coast working on D&D, Alternity, and Chainmail, Chris Pramas co-founded independent RPG publisher Green Ronin and began releasing award winning and critically acclaimed TTRPGs like Mutants and Masterminds. And after that Chris was asked by Games Workshop to develop a…
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Dominic McDowall | Warhammer Roleplay Publisher & Cubicle 7 CEO
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Dominic McDowall in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. The man behind the incredible homegrown success of UK RPG publisher Cubicle 7, Domininc McDowall has helped to rejuvenate the RPG marketplace with a broad range of well received and successful roleplaying games. Not only that, but he brought together the team that would reinvent and restore Warh…
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We have brain worms we need to exorcise, and so we've invited our friend Roberto on to talk about the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Made by CD PROJEKT RED and set in the universe created by Mike Pondsmith, this game is a masterful blend of politics, themes, and storytelling. In part 1 we discuss the political situation of Night City, the implications …
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Tuomas Pirinen | Warhammer Designer & Mordheim Creator
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Tuomas in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. In my second conversation with Tuomas Pirinen (you can find my first interview exclusively on my Patreon) we talk about his work redefining Chaos in the Warhammer Old World, and beginning the journey to dividing the forces of the ruinous power by beast, warrior, daemon, and god. We also explored Tuomas' c…
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The sequel to everybody's favorite 1982 film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, came out in...2010!?! Given 38 years to perfect his craft, and the acting talents of Kevin Sorbo, did director Albert Pyun end up creating the worst movie of all time!?! Only one to find out! Bingo and poster (it's very funny) on the gram as usual! https://www.instagram.com/p…
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Graeme Davis in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. One of the key game designers involved in the creation of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and The Enemy Within campaign, Graeme Davis has long been an important voice in the TTRPG industry. Graeme talks with me about the early culture and ways of working at Citadel and Games Workshop under Bryan Ansell, …
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Johnny Fraser-Allen | World Builder & Movie Concept Artist
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Johnny Fraser-Allen in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. After working as a conceptual and special effects artist at Weta Workshop on films like Steven Spielberg's BFG, Guillermo Del Toro and then Peter Jackson's the Hobbit movies, and James Cameron's Avatar Johnny Fraser-Allen began making miniatures for gaming in the fantasy realms he loves so mu…
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Rick Priestley in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. The creator of 40k and Warhammer Fantasy, Rick Priestley in conversation! Rick Priestley and his school friend Richard 'Hal' Halliwell created Warhammer Fantasy for Bryan Ansell at Citadel in 1983. After that Rick worked on 5 more editions of Fantasy, as well as Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, countle…
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Sir Ian Livingstone | Games Workshop & Fighting Fantasy Founder
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Sir Ian Livingstone in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Along with a couple of friends Sir Ian Livingstone founded Games Workshop in 1975 to sell wooden toys and games. Within a few years they had become the exclusive European distributor of TSR’s Dungeons & Dragons, had been offered a merger by Gary Gygax, launched White Dwarf magazine, and start…
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Jim Butler in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Jim worked at Games Workshop for 30 years holding a variety of management and leadership positions. Working under Bryan Ansell, Tom Kirby, and Kevin Rountree Jim was responsible for developing the GW management trainee programme and academy, leading the design studio for a number of years, and ultimat…
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Alan Merrett in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Alan has held many roles in his 36 year career at Games Workshop; starting as a caster at Citadel in the early days of the company and ending as the Head of Intellectual Property for the international hobby mega-corp that GW had become by 2016. Over that period Alan was involved in some of the most …
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In Conversation with Jordan Sorcery brings to podcast feeds all of the amazing interviews that Jordan has recorded with the most important figures in the history of Games Workshop, Warhammer, and tabletop gaming. Featuring interviews with Rick Priestley, Andy Chambers, Gav Thorpe, Alessio Cavatore, Sir Ian Livingstone, Steve Jackson, and many more!…
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Gav Thorpe | Warhammer Loremaster, Author & Game Designer
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Gav Thorpe in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Gav has worked on innumerable games, supplements, and stories at GW for Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer: 40,000, Warhammer Quest, Inquisitor, Battlefleet Gothic, and just about everything else released by Workshop in the early 2000s! As one of the designers who resurrected the Citadel Journal, helped dev…
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Mark Wells in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. We explore a period of incredible change in the organisation as it shifts from the 90s approach of 2 core games (Warhammer Fantasy & Warhammer 40,000) with specialist games like Gorka Morka, Necromunda, and Mordheim alongside them, to the 2000s focus on 3 core systems - Warhammer Fantasy Battle, 40K, …
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Andy Chambers in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Andy Chambers was lead designer, AKA the Overfiend, for 40K 3rd Edition and was arguably the person most responsible for evolving it into the foundations of the modern game. Starting with White Dwarf articles for Space Marine & Adeptus Titanicus, writing Battle Magic and Warhammer Armies: Skaven fo…
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Alessio Cavatore | Warhammer, 40K, and LOTR Game Designer
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Alessio Cavatore in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Alessio has designed countless games in his remarkable tabletop career. At Games Workshop he worked on a host of Armies Books before taking over as design lead for Lord of the Rings: Strategy Battle Game, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, and Warhammer 40,000. Since leaving Games Workshop Alessio has c…
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Robin Dews & John Stallard in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. Robins Dews, the former editor of White Dwarf and later the Games Workshop Design Studio Manager, and John Stallard, former GW Sales Director and subsequent co-founder of Warlord Games, join me to talk about their recent project to document the history of Citadel and Games Workshop thr…
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Martin Wallace in conversation with Jordan Sorcery. The legendary game designer behind Brass, A Few Acres of Snow, Study in Emerald, Struggle of Empires, and Discworld: Ankh-Morpork joins me to talk about the process, business, and career of games design; the use of kickstarter for launching new games; and the projects he’s working on for the futur…
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Sorta Sorcery turns ten this week as the boys discuss Albert Pyun's tragic contribution to the genre. What could be more Sword and Sorcery than a movie called The Sword and the Sorcerer (we're getting to Conan be patient)? So a wise-cracking rogue with a three-pronged sword, E.T.'s dark twin, and the historical Oliver Cromwell walk into a bar...wha…
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This week the boys return to the illustrious Ator series! Will our hero Ator live happily ever after with his sister-wife? Does the dastardly Griba have a son? Is Miles O'Keeffe's skirt even shorter than before? Find out today in Joe D'Amato's second shot at greatness, Ator 2 - The Blade Master. Check out this week's poster on the gram! https://www…
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What if the kid from Hatchet went to the post apocalypse future instead of Canada? That's what we're here to discuss in Gary Paulsen's "The Transall Saga". We talk slavery, YA romance, and the world's fastest language learner. One of Asha's favorite childhood books! patreon.com/swordsandsocialism Email: SwordsAndSocialismPod@protonmail.com The Show…
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That's right Björkserkers, this week we're covering Robert Eggers' 2022 film The Northman. It's like Hamlet but with more blood, Vikings, magic swords, and Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk!저자 Will & Chase
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Yuletidings friends! This holiday season the boys have something special for you, it's an adaptation of ye olde Sword & Sorcery myth, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! And we know what you're thinking, it's not the A24 film, oh no, it is the 1984 loose retelling directed by Stephen Weeks, Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green …
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Creamboys rise! The day has finally come to cover the most quintessential sword and sorcery film....of the 2010s. It's Conan the Barbarian (2011) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger's spiritual successor, Jason Momoa. Did this movie lose so much money at the box office that it single-handedly killed the sword and sorcery genre in film!? Could it be as b…
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What is a Nibelungen you ask? Well, it's one of the little guys who live in the land of mist in Fritz Lang's 1924 cinematic retelling of the 1200 AD epic poem Nibelungenlied. Witness the first dragon ever to grace the screen and marvel at the wordless screams of this genre-defining silent film as the boys finally review a technically good movie on …
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*CONTENT WARNING* What happens when you take a YA novel and throw in a healthy dose or horrendous war crimes? The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang! We talk with our guest Shawn about fiction depicting barely disguised real history and the morality of retributive violence. Follow Shawn on twitter @theavatarshawn patreon.com/swordsandsocialism Email: SwordsA…
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The original step-sister storyline! Join the boys for a raucous and, at times, incoherent, discussion of the raucous and mostly incoherent film Ator The Fighting Eagle. Why is the film called that? Your guess is as good as mine. Lots of laughs and groans on another episode of Sorta Sorcery. Check out the poster and bingo on the gram! https://www.in…
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The boys get BIG this week as they reminisce on their introduction to the cinematic world of Sword & Sorcery, Bret Ira Gordon's 1962 film The Magic Sword. Check out the poster and bingo on the gram! https://www.instagram.com/p/CzrKo2lrkgN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=ODhhZWM5NmIwOQ==저자 Will & Chase
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Who let the dogs out?! The boys think it was director Don Coscarelli, this week they discuss his 1982 camp classic, The Beastmaster. Check out our poster and the bingo on the gram! https://www.instagram.com/p/CzZFB00rINM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==저자 Will & Chase
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On this episode, the boys spit on peace, spit on you, and spit on Ralph Bakshi's 1983 classic, Fire and Ice. Check out the poster and bingo on the gram! https://www.instagram.com/p/CzWecYgLVqJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==저자 willerard
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This week the boys tell you what Sorta Sorcery is all about. Check us out on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/sortasorcery/저자 willerard
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Aliens, math, and the utter failure of the Cultural Revolution are the main points of discussion in this episode about The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Liberal reforms and the fate of humanity are intertwined in a way that made Asha say, "I don't give a shit about computers, where the fuck are the aliens?" patreon.com/swordsandsocialism Email: …
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