Austin takes Amanda on a whirlwind tour of Magictown and the weird, trophy, twisty worlds of Diana Wynne Jones to answer the following questions: What makes a good magic system? What makes fantasy feel real? And what do wizardry and the culinary arts have in common? (More than you’d think.)
Austin takes Amanda on a whirlwind tour of Magictown and the weird, tropey, twisty worlds of Diana Wynne Jones to answer the following questions: What makes a good magic system? What makes fantasy feel real? And what do wizardry and the culinary arts have in common? (More than you’d think.)
Content Warnings: Discussions of child neglect and thinly veiled metaphors for colonialism.
Works Cited:
Opening quote by Diana Wynne Jones
Archer’s Goon by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones
The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones
The Bartimaeus Series by Jonathan Stroud
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant
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