⚰️It's Halloween⚰️ What do you do when death comes for you? Well, the characters in today's stories have a lot of ideas, and they're surprisingly successful. The problem? Death works on a much, much longer timeline. 😈 The Creatures: Bulgasari Why you don't feed your rice monster metal needles. Unlike most pets, it will be fine. [...]
On the season six finale of Fictional, the Wicked Witch of the West is dead, but it came at a terrible cost. Still, Dorothy needs only to travel back to the Emerald City to finally make her way home. If only things were so simple. Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum: [...]
Ivan fights wizards and monsters and Baba Yaga with a music streaming subscription What do you get when your daughters have been kidnapped by a sleezy cloud and your son not only spends all of his days jamming with his self-playing harp, but DOESN'T want to tear the heads off his friends? You get Tsar Wisehead, [...]
Dorothy and the party make their way via crumbling yellow brick to the Emerald City, but all is not what it seems, and Oz, the Great and Terrible, has a gruesome request for them. Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum: https://myths.link/oz
🐻Ourson is a Beary Good Guy🐻 Sorry, I couldn't resist, but he is actually a good guy. He isn't a bear though. He just looks like one to people who have probably never seen a bear, because he's kind of just a very hairy kid. He's like that because his mom kicked a toad that wasn't [...]
🛡️This Guy?🛡️ This guy is Guy of Warwick, and he's your guy. But only if you need someone to be the best guy in the world at fighting and killing. It's just too bad Guy hates being that guy. 😈 The Creatures: The Freybug and the Barguest Two black dogs who might give you wounds that [...]
Two stories of Arsène Lupin, gentleman burglar. In the first, the Queen's necklace has gone missing from a locked and guarded room. On the second, a man just wants to relax on the train where he won't be crowded by loud, smoking people...or getting tied up and repeatedly punched in the face. Sources: Arsène Lupin: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6133/pg6133-images.html
Hans Christian Andersen tries his hand at a Viking-esque story of revenge, when Bishop Glob decides he wants to be more than a corrupt Bishop: he wants to be a corrupt bishop who owns slightly more land. How much murder will it take for him to do that? The creature this week is the Falcon-fish, and [...]
🪲They're not so different🪲 One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants to fight God, the other wants to wear golden horse shoes. When it comes to being completely arrogant and insufferable, though, they have more in common than you might think. It's two fairy tales of pride and [...]
Making a deal with the devil to cross a river feels a little trivial, but I have to imagine bridges were harder to build back then. The creature is always living in the Loch Ness Monster's pool-noodle-shaped shadow. The Devil's Bridge: https://www.flickr.com/photos/govert1970/3926175535 The Devil's Rock: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Picswiss_UR-30-07.jpg Music: "Postbox Facto" by Blue Dot Sessions