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Tag: Fantasy Aesthetic

A Miscellany of Magical Inspiration

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Stace Dumoski
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Like most Substack authors, I started with big ideas of what I hoped to accomplish with my newsletter — insightful

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Magic, Maps and Monsters (Why I Love Fantasy, Part 2)

Posted on April 11, 2024 by Stace Dumoski
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I was going to write about Why Fantasy is Great(TM), but as I was putting together a mental outline of

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The Taste of Fantasy

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

I recently attended the 2022 World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans. On the last day of the convention, after listening

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The Most Underrated Special Effect

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

Twenty years ago, when “Xena: Warrior Princess” was a staple of my viewing schedule, I never would have dreamed that

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My Quest to Find the Magic

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

In 2021 my “word of the year” was more than an annual theme for me — Stay on Target became

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Singing Stories Back to Life

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Stace Dumoski

As a storyteller and someone who has studied folklore and history, I am a devotee of the idea that stories shape the world — both looking forward and looking backward.

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Stace Dumoski

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