Old Videos
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Videos from before Tale Foundry found its stride! Lots of great stuff in here, and many pieces we're likely to remaster!
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MICROCOSMIC GOD: The Scifi Fable the World Forgot
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The Most Powerful Art Ever
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Was H.P. Lovecraft a Bad Writer?
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Writing Stories within Stories
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When the Good Ending is the Worst Ending
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The Grimmification of Fairytales
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Dune: How to Destroy an Empire
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What Makes Writing So Hard?
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True Names as a MAGIC SYSTEM? — Worldbuilding Ideas
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Chimera: Mythology’s Magical Multi-Species Monster — Tale Bits
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Half Zombie: The Horror of Psychological Entrapment — Tale Bits
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When Setting becomes Character — Gormenghast
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We're Finally Doing It
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Ents: The Soul of The Forest — Tale Bits
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Pneuma: Breath as a Magic System
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Edgar Allan Poe was Actually a Sci-Fi Author
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Homunculus: Alchemy's Tiny Magical Man — Tale Bits
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Wendigo: The Myth of the Cannibal Ice Giant — Tale Bits
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Magic Systems that wish they were Science — Worldbuilding Ideas
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How Cyberpunk Challenges Humanity — Cyberpunk 2077
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Sympathy as a MAGIC SYSTEM? — Worldbuilding Ideas
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Pale Man: The Child-Eating Demon of Your Nightmares — Tale Bits
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How Studio Ghibli Captured your Childhood — Hayao Miyazaki
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Writing Motivation — Tale Tips
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Junji Ito's Cosmic Apocalypse — Hellstar Remina
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Writing Openers is Hard... — Tale Tips
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Mood vs. Tone (They're Different) — Tale Tips
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Lovecraft's Dreamland: The weird setting of Lovecraft's psyche — HP Lovecraft's Dream Cycle
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Are Genres a Bad Influence? — Tale Tips
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The Devil's School: Where Dracula Learned Magic — Romanian Mythology in Brahm Stoker's Dracula
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How to Outline Your Story (The Matryoshka Method) — Tale Tips
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The Lies Writers Tell Themselves — Tale Tips
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Avoiding Worldbuilding Info-Dumps? — Tale Tips
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SCP: 5 Classes of Reality — SCP Foundation Series
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SCP: The Paradox of Disbelief — SCP Foundation Series
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Automata, on Cue! — Terry Pratchett inspired short story
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Terry Pratchett: 8 Clever Characters — Terry Pratchett Series
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Terry Pratchett: Unifying Voice — Terry Pratchett Series
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The Wilting Sound — Dark fantasy inspired short — Worldbuilding Series
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Worldbuilding: 3 Basic Design Tips — Worldbuilding Series
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Worldbuilding: How to Start — Worldbuilding Series
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Song of The Blood-Bare Son — Slavic Folklore inspired short story
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6 Slavic Mythology Creatures — Slavic Folklore Series
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How Baba Yaga Mangles Slavic Mythology — Slavic Folklore Series
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The Seedling — H.P. Lovecraft inspired short story
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5 Gods from H.P. Lovecraft's Mythos — H.P. Lovecraft Series
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Are H.P. Lovecraft's Mythos Actual Myth? — H.P. Lovecraft Series
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"Shademaker" — Cyberpunk dystopian story of a world living in augmented reality
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5 Science Fiction Eras of History — Sci-fi Series
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What is Science Fiction, Actually? — Sci-fi Series
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"If We Were a Picture Show" — Sci-fi short story about building a digital frontier
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3 Satire Styles Miguel de Cervantes Used in Don Quixote — Don Quixote Series
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How Miguel de Cervantes Breaks Satire — Don Quixote Series
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Why are robots crowdfunding? — Patreon
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"Silhouettes" — Junji Ito inspired short story about malevolent shadows
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3 Ways Junji Ito Disturbs Us — Junji Ito Series
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How Junji Ito's Characters Make Things Worse... — Junji Ito Series
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"Child of The Tide" — Irish Mythology inspired short story about creatures and gods
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6 Mythological Invaders of Ireland — Irish Mythology Series
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Why Isn't Irish Mythology More Popular? — Irish Mythology Series
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4 Westworld Twists That Made Us Self-Conscious — Westworld Series
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Is Ford Actually Westworld's Protagonist? — Westworld Series
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"Memento Mori" — Harry Potter inspired short story about a world of living corpses
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3 Messages Hidden in Harry Potter (and Fantastic Beasts) — Harry Potter Series
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Hidden Meaning in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — Harry Potter Series
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"Computer Vision Syndrome" — Creepypasta story about staring at your computer too long
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4 Creepypasta Categories to Keep You up at Night— Creepypasta Series (ft. MrCreepyPasta!)
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Is Creepypasta about Memes or Monsters? — Creepypasta Series (ft. CreepsMcPasta!)
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"Simulacrum" — Sci-fi short story about the separate lives we live in video games
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3 Ways Pokémon Tells Its Story — Pokémon Series
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Who is Pokémon's Main Character? — Pokémon Series
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Make stuff up with us!
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"Human, Almost" — A Word from Talebot
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"A Good Laugh" — American Folklore inspired short story about the legendary prankster, The Harlequin
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5 Heroes of American Legend — American Folk Heroes Month
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The Mythology of America — American Folk Heroes Series
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"Faith in the Misbegotten" — Dark Souls inspired short story about the birth of a "god"
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6 Elements of Dark Souls Lore — Dark Souls Series
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The Storytelling of Dark Souls — Dark Souls Series
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"The Broken-Glass Circus" — Weird Fiction story about a sinister circus act
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5 Weirdest Genres of Fiction — Weird Fiction Month
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The Weirdness of Genre — Weird Fiction Series
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"A Sea of Drowning Souls" — Game of Thrones inspired story about an ominous, warm sea
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3 Game of Thrones Worldbuilding Cornerstones — Game of Thrones Series
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Why Game of Thrones Matters — Game of Thrones Month
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"Devil of the Cradle" — Celtic Folklore inspired short story about a crib-swapped "demon"
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4 Creatures of Celtic Legend — Celtic Folklore Month
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The Origin of Leprechauns — Celtic Folklore Month
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Are Movies Getting Dumber? -- "Genre Fiction vs. Literary Fiction"
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