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pangolin20This is an index of this blog, containing the greater part of all reviews (sporks, commentaries, and such), fanart/fanfic, and articles in whatever form that are on it. You can also check as-sporkive for more content.
If you want to have anything about this list changed, let me know and I will do so.
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eilistraeeanjediWarning: This post contains discussion of some of the more unpleasant aspects of Making of a Mage, such as violence (including sexual violence) and transphobia.
Hey, everyone! Just wanting to let everyone know that I’m back from my extended break and hope to resume regular posting going forward; I also have a very important announcement at the end of this post that I would encourage everyone who’s followed my stuff so far to read, even if you’re not really into my Greenwood sporkings. Thank you for understanding!
( Realmslore from Elminster: The Making of a Mage )
( A Personal Announcement )
Hey, everyone! Just wanting to let everyone know that I’m back from my extended break and hope to resume regular posting going forward; I also have a very important announcement at the end of this post that I would encourage everyone who’s followed my stuff so far to read, even if you’re not really into my Greenwood sporkings. Thank you for understanding!
( Realmslore from Elminster: The Making of a Mage )
( A Personal Announcement )
Follow The Map!
Oct. 16th, 2026 01:56 pmepistlerSomeone Twitted this at Plagiarini - it's a really nifty little site which lets you select a setting (there are only two right now - Middle Earth and Alaglag), then a book from that setting, then a character from that setting, and the map goes through that character's entire journey through each chapter. Of course, it does a great job of exposing just how superior Tolkien is in that department as well. I had a look at Morontagh, and the titular idiot basically just goes in a circle and then stops going anywhere at all. Apt, considering.
The Consumerist Dystopia of Harry Potter
Oct. 13th, 2026 06:08 pmepistlerNot going to try and embed the video because of how that usually causes chaos, but here's a link. The short version is that the Potter series exploded the way it did largely because Warner Brothers invested massive amounts of capital in order to make it happen. They flooded the media they controlled with coverage, and ultimately flooded the market with insane amounts of merch until things reached a tipping point and we ended up where we are now.
While watching this it occurred to me that this is what Paolini is trying to make happen so he can have a huge franchise of his own (as it happens, this very same day I also noticed that in interviews he never talks about the joy of telling stories, but rather sounds like a grifter trying to sell us on a pyramid scheme). The difference is that he doesn't have a Fortune 500 company investing millions in his brand. And as Disney obviously isn't going to be making a TV series or using the merch rights they likely now own to fill the shops with Eragon action figures and plushies and blankets and fuck knows what else, he's resorted to selling his own ridiculous merch (I'm still not over the To Sleep-themed yoga pants and baby onesie) based on what he's legally allowed and using Kickstarter to get his Saphira statues and illustrated special editions.
I'm getting the feeling this is not ultimately going to work.
The video also closes with this spectacularly relevant quote from Ursula K. LeGuin (I wonder if she knew Paolini plagiarised from her? If so I can only imagine the biting response).
“Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great story-tellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.
While watching this it occurred to me that this is what Paolini is trying to make happen so he can have a huge franchise of his own (as it happens, this very same day I also noticed that in interviews he never talks about the joy of telling stories, but rather sounds like a grifter trying to sell us on a pyramid scheme). The difference is that he doesn't have a Fortune 500 company investing millions in his brand. And as Disney obviously isn't going to be making a TV series or using the merch rights they likely now own to fill the shops with Eragon action figures and plushies and blankets and fuck knows what else, he's resorted to selling his own ridiculous merch (I'm still not over the To Sleep-themed yoga pants and baby onesie) based on what he's legally allowed and using Kickstarter to get his Saphira statues and illustrated special editions.
I'm getting the feeling this is not ultimately going to work.
The video also closes with this spectacularly relevant quote from Ursula K. LeGuin (I wonder if she knew Paolini plagiarised from her? If so I can only imagine the biting response).
“Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great story-tellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.
What the commodifiers of fantasy count on and exploit is the insuperable imagination of the reader, child or adult, which gives even these dead things life- of a sort, for a while.”
pangolin20A good day, everyone, and welcome back to the Murtagh group spork! Last time, Murtagh was tortured by Bachel for a while and we learned some more about what the Dreamers are, as well as who they serve. Let’s begin with the present chapter, “Waking Dreams”, then.
( This part is rather padded, unfortunately, and it's hard to find much to say. )
Novelist accused of using AI
Sep. 26th, 2026 11:12 ambaronleducHey guys !
It's been a while I haven't come here. Slowly but surely, I'm working to develop chapter for my novel, and free time is not on my side. Also, I restart playing with the Unity Engine to expand and explore my creativity and ...
Wait... WAIT ! Don't leave this page, please ! I'm sorry, I'll get to the subject, I swear !
So, I don't know the community as a whole, stands on IA and its influence on writings in general. To me, as long as it only use as a tool for research and away from any form of creativity (prose, brainstorming, editing, art cover, etc), I have no issue whatsoever. I'm sure there are alot of controversies surround this subject in the US, or the UK, maybe in Australia ? Please, let me know.
Welp, something happened in my corner of Canada, more specifically, in Québec.
Thélyson Orélien, a Canadian-Haitian writer who has become an aspiring star in the french literature community, and his first book, C'était ça ou Mourir ("It Was That or Die", in english) is a serious contender for the Goncourt prize (french equivalent to the Booker Prize), which the academy is set to annouce the winner on October 6th.
However, someone on social media (twitter, more specifically) accused his work being done with AI (basically a AI detection program to read the text to tell if it was written by human or AI). His editor denies the accusation, but the consequences keeps coming, with more accusations of plagiarizing in his earlier works. He had to cancel several appearances in book fairs because of the backlash and his nomination to the Goncourt Prize is off the ballet.
There is a lot to unload, so here's a link about this : https://globalnews.ca/news/12073249/quebec-author-dropped-from-goncourt-amid-ai-plagiarism-allegations/
I don't know how serious the allegations are, but it's really scary to live through this and a way to tarnish your reputation. Nobody will take you seriously, unless the accusations are proved to be wrong.
EDIT : because I can't write properly.
It's been a while I haven't come here. Slowly but surely, I'm working to develop chapter for my novel, and free time is not on my side. Also, I restart playing with the Unity Engine to expand and explore my creativity and ...
Wait... WAIT ! Don't leave this page, please ! I'm sorry, I'll get to the subject, I swear !
So, I don't know the community as a whole, stands on IA and its influence on writings in general. To me, as long as it only use as a tool for research and away from any form of creativity (prose, brainstorming, editing, art cover, etc), I have no issue whatsoever. I'm sure there are alot of controversies surround this subject in the US, or the UK, maybe in Australia ? Please, let me know.
Welp, something happened in my corner of Canada, more specifically, in Québec.
Thélyson Orélien, a Canadian-Haitian writer who has become an aspiring star in the french literature community, and his first book, C'était ça ou Mourir ("It Was That or Die", in english) is a serious contender for the Goncourt prize (french equivalent to the Booker Prize), which the academy is set to annouce the winner on October 6th.
However, someone on social media (twitter, more specifically) accused his work being done with AI (basically a AI detection program to read the text to tell if it was written by human or AI). His editor denies the accusation, but the consequences keeps coming, with more accusations of plagiarizing in his earlier works. He had to cancel several appearances in book fairs because of the backlash and his nomination to the Goncourt Prize is off the ballet.
There is a lot to unload, so here's a link about this : https://globalnews.ca/news/12073249/quebec-author-dropped-from-goncourt-amid-ai-plagiarism-allegations/
I don't know how serious the allegations are, but it's really scary to live through this and a way to tarnish your reputation. Nobody will take you seriously, unless the accusations are proved to be wrong.
EDIT : because I can't write properly.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Commentary
Sep. 25th, 2026 09:38 ammara_dienne459The story finally starts moving - a little - but mostly it's still spinning its wheels while Kira manipulates her way into the good graces of the Wallfish crew, even though they have no reason to trust this woman who lied to them from the moment she woke up.
( You Know What Assumptions Do, Don't You? Part One )
( You Know What Assumptions Do, Don't You? Part One )
