GEEK Edition 0

Fantasy and Science Fiction Appreciation Society Year 1 Edition 0

GEEK Guide to Elves and Extraterrestrial Kismet

Dear Faswegians, Welcome into 2019! The new year brings many new things for FASFAS, starting with this very publication you are holding. A long time ago in a committee far, far away there was another magazine, the predecessor for GEEK – the Mythologue. It’s been years since its last printing, but we of the 2018-19 committee decided to bring it back!

With a new name and new look, we’re very proud of what this publication has already become and can’t wait to get it off the ground this year.

I want to thank my committee for all the hard work that has gone into GEEK, especially our wonderful editor Zoe, the illustrious FASFAS Bard. Almost every article and written piece in this edition was written by committee members, for you – our dear members. I’d also love to thank the following members who submitted artworks and beautiful visuals, making it truly gorgeous: @jasmineionaillustration (also adorning the opposite page), @Mikkapi and Nellie Seale for our logo 2019 is a year for many new things for FASFAS, new events, new screenings, new magazine, and most importantly new members! Thank you (yes you!) for signing up as a member of our humble, nerdy club. I hope you have fun at our events, and let us know what you’d like to see more of! Check out the event schedule at the back of the magazine to know what’s happening this semester. See you soon!

Live long and prosper, and May the Force be with you,

Ciara President P.S: We’d love to see YOU feature in future editions of GEEK – keep a look out for submission requests!

Contents

Get to Know Your Committee!

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The Dramatic and Disreputable Demise of the Dastardly Galbatorix A true story by Zoe Cantwell

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Mythology in the Modern Era: Vampires

By Ciara Griffiths

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Captain Argyle’s Xenobestiary Written & drawn by Captain Argyle

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Morgan V.2.1 A story by Marcie Di Bartolomeo

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The Ultimate Star Wars Watching order!

All opinions by Ciara Griffiths

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Minion Matt’s Netflix Necessities All opinions by Minion Matt

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Podcast Recommends: Welcome to Nightvale

By Ilisha Barki

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Shielded A poem by Georgia Ketels

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Crossword

By Sura

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Get to Know Your Committee!

Your committee were posed some of the hardest questions known to nerds—What Fantasy/Sci–Fi universe would you live in if you could pick just one? What would be your F/SF pet? And most importantly, what is your nerd cred (or secret nerd shame)? Here, they tell all...

Hi, I’m Ciara, you’re friendly neighbourhood Overlord, and I like nerdy stuff. Is it weird that I have a spreadsheet dedicated to Star Wars: The Clone Wars?

I’m very passionate about that1 But would I LIVE in Star Wars? Hell no! Doctor Who is where that’s at— give me all of time and space please! Except there are no dragons in Doctor Who...Hmm... Give me all of time and space AND dragons—

David, Master of Coin and font of esoteric knowledge - hoarding funds and spouting facts is my speciality. Recently I became immersed in the Discworld novels and cannot stop wishing for a sentient walking

Communication Officer Ilisha reporting for duty! My hobbies include spending hours and eye health writing phrases out in Galifreyan according to Loren Sherman’s method, and fantasising about having one of those tiny dragons that fit in the palm of your hand. Would they look like giant fire-breathing bugs when they fly? Absolutely.

Am I very okay with that? Heck yeah! If I could live in any universe I'd choose Steven Universe because it's pretty and it's

I’m your marvellous and magnificent First Officer Marcie.

The living reincarnation of Steven Universe and the Fourth Doctor (even though I rarely see that show). How else would I be able to get so much stuff done with all the commitments I have? Though I’ve never seen Star Trek or Star Wars (quite shameful I know) I would be more than happy to regale you with everything Pokemon and 1

Bard and Ultimate Ruler of the Magazine Zoe at your service.

My Fantasy pet would be a griffin so I could fly places on my majestic eagle-lion! I’ve never seen Star Trek but I have seen Star Wars and then played the LEGO game way too many times to count. I want to say Harry Potter as a great world to live in, but then I’d be a muggle and that’d be endlessly disappointing. So instead, Narnia in

Sura the Minion here. I’m a big fan of time travel sci-fi - have seen Interstellar more times than I can count and then have dived into extensive research into the science of Interstellar.

But given a choice I'd chose Fantasy over Sci-Fi. Also, Lord of the Rings. That's all I need to say. I have a weird obsession with Phoenixes? And yes I want one as a pet (if you have the location of one TELL ME). As

If I, Minion Matt, could live in a Fantasy/Sci-Fi universe I would choose the Detective Pikachu world because the uncanny valley becomes reality and I like Pokémon. My nerd cred is that I have read Homestuck. No fur-

Designated Red-Shirt Finn present and accounted for! I've seen Transformers: Dark of the Moon about 20 times, which is credibly very nerdy. If I could live in any F/SF universe it’d be Star Trek, seeing as how the premise is literally "What if eve-

I, Ben of the Red Shirts, think living in the Avatar/Legend of Korra universe would be pretty cool—being able to control the natural elements (or one of them at least). My favourite nerd language would be Klingon because of the Klingon ad-

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The Dramatic and Disreputable Demise of the Dastardly Galbatorix Vader, Former Mascot of FASFAS

By Zoe Cantwell

Art by Finn

sleek and ginourmous, and when it clamped onto the tower the princess stumbled back with the force of the blow. Shattered glass "Finally!" He crowed, in a voice flung around her. She could hear high with glee. "I have achieved stones colliding with the moat beheight of my evil! I have delow. The tower stayed standing. scended to infect the world with The princess rose back to her feet the worst of the worst - cliches!" and stared. One clawed foot was The princess behind him was un- through the window, clutching at convinced. "Right.� she said, “So the edges. The talons were as long original." She was waiting for Gal- as her forearm, smooth and sharp. batorix to leave so she could get Galbatorix stood in front of it, peron with the plan she was concoct- fectly unperturbed. ing to make the 50ft climb out the "See! My plan is magnificent! window to the base of the tower.

Now, even if you're rescued, "But you see, I have not just You'll still be part of a cliche! I trapped a princess in a tower!" The remain victorious!" sky behind him crackled with supThe dragon rearranged itself. The portive lightning. "I have trapped princess could hear claws scraping you in a tower guarded by...a above her and below, the noise dragon!" reverberated around the room and The sky darkened. Shadows grew rattled in her chest. The foot throughout the room and Galba- moved too, taking shards of wintorix seemed to expand into them. dow with it.

Something massive was blocking An eye obscured the hole, plungout the sun. A roar shook the very ing the room into darkness. Burnstones of the tower room. The ing and intelligent, it was the only princess took a step back. light in the space. The princess She caught her first sight of the realised that this wasn't a mere dragon, approaching the window brute. It was cunning, possibly behind Galbatorix. Its belly was smarter than her. Drat. It withGalbatorix cackled. His arms extended to take in the whole of his domain.

he screamed, flailing as he fell, convinced that with his last breath he could spite her with as many tropes as possible. His fall was halted with a jolt, a seeping Galbatorix was delighted. A prinwarmth, and the smell of longcess was scared, which was always death meat. "Urgh," he recoiled a good thing. His dragon was beinwardly, but revelled in his resing properly menacing. And they cue. should both be occupied enough "Ha!" He yelled at the princess, with each other that he could take a lovely holiday in the time who had come to the window.

"You forgot about the dragon!" machine he'd recently acquired from a disappointingly boring old "Actually," said the princess, in a man. Life was good. tone that made him feel cold, dedrew a little and the princess recognised the red scales framing the face. The twist of their horns. She took a step forwards.

He was preparing a good final cackle when he noticed the princess advancing.

spite being clamped in a dragon's mouth "You forgot to check who this dragon was friends with before you hired them. And they happen to be very good friends with us Faswegians."

"What do you think you're doing?" He said, taking a step away from her, his hips hitting the winWith a motion that sucked all the dow ledge. breath from Galbatorix's chest, "What I should have done from the dragon drew back their neck the beginning." and flung him off into the disIn one swift movement, the prin- tance. He hurtled into the sky, cess bent, grabbed both his ankles whistling through the air. The and hauled up with all her might. dragon and princess watched him "YEEEEEEEEEEEEET" she yelled, sail away. Without air, Galbatorix as she yeeted Galbatorix straight was unable to utter any more clichĂŠs before he landed. out the window.

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo" Stay tuned for Edition One, where we will introduce our dragon saviour...

Art by Ciara Griffiths

sters in the first place.

Mythology in the Modern Era: Vampires Ciara Griffiths

There are many supposed origins to vampires. Vampires have existed in the oldest memories of countless cultures for ten millennia. From the blood-drinking demon Lilitu, also known as the child-eating Lilith in ancient Mesopotamian and Hebrew mythologies; the Lamia in Greek myth who preyed on the blood of children and young men; to the revenants of medieval Europe – corpses who rose from the dead to torment the living. All of these legends have transformed over time to create the modern ‘romantic’ vampire, a creature who is popularly envisioned as Bram Stoker’s Dracula (when not sparkly and having freaky mutant babies in America).

Everybody loves a scary story. We tell them in whispered giggles on school camps, and get a kick out of scary movies like five different versions of Paranormal Activity. These days, science and technology have assisted in the complete eradication of any rational need to be afraid of the supernatural. Nowadays if you believe in ghosts and monsters, or are afraid of the dark, it’s labelled by science as phobia, as irrational.

It wasn’t very long ago, however, when you were considered irrational for not being afraid of the dark…and the things inside it. It hasn’t even been 200 years since we first flipped on the electric lights and realised that we’re alone in the room after all, or since we decided farms were more important than forests and whilst cutting them down discovered nothing more than animals. It hasn’t been very long at all since the world believed in more than what the eye could see. It has been long enough, however, for us to forget the reason why we were scared of mon-

But how have all of the stereotypical features of vampires come about? Where did we get this image of bloodthirsty hunters, who burn in sunlight and have an affinity for coffins? Tracing back over Stoker’s own process of inspiration can provide some of these answers.

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Most will have heard of Stoker’s inspiration for Dracula, a man called ‘Vlad the Impaler’, a man

The demon Lilith , in the Garden of Eden

period was dubbed the ‘Great New England Vampire Panic’. During this time, the common belief of ‘vampires’ was that sometimes the dead came back to suck the life out of the living. This particular superstition was greatly exacerbated by a growing epidemic in the late 1800’s. This epidemic was of tuberculosis, named ‘consumption’ at the time due to the symptom of the victim wasting away physically, like they were being consumed. It was Mercy’s mother and sister (both named Mary) that first passed away Mercy Brown and her family lived in from consumption, followed a few the 1800’s, a time where vampire’s months later by Mercy herself in the had reached such notoriety that the winter of 1890. The ground being too hard to bury her, Mercy’s body 6 that was as exciting as his nickname suggests.

Vlad the Third, also known as Dracula to his friends, was the bloodthirsty prince of Wallachia – renowned for his habit of impaling his enemies and setting up their heads on spikes. Great guy, really.

Stoker’s antihero, with similar flair for dramatics, was based on Vlad.

However, there is a lesser known inspiration for his novel. This inspiration was a young American girl named Mercy Brown, from Rhode Island.

was kept in a vault in wait for spring. But when Mercy’s brother, Edwin, began to die of consumption too – the villagers began to suspect greater forces than simple tragedy. They believed that someone was consuming Edwin’s life from beyond the grave.

The villagers in Rhode Island received permission to exhume the bodies of the Brown family in search of proof that one of the three dead women was rising from the grave. Since a great deal of time had passed since their deaths, the two Marys had decomposed, but Mercy was not so lucky. Since Mercy’s body had been kept in the freezing vault for the winter, her

body had been perfectly preserved…with blood even found still in her heart. The ‘vampire’ had been discovered. Mercy Brown’s heart was burned, and the ashes were mixed into a tonic to be given to Edwin as a cure for his consumption. Was Edwin saved by this supernatural cure? Nope, he died (unsurprisingly). The Incident of Mercy Brown (as it was later called) inspired pop culture for years to come, and made it into the local news too. Clippings of these newspapers were later found in Stoker’s notes for Dracula, and are thought to have contributed to his book

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The unfortunate tale of Mercy Brown had a remarkable flow-on effect. Bram Stoker’s Dracula held a profound impact on pop-culture as we know it. The romanticized vampire struck a chord in modern culture like no other mythical beast; leaving in its wake a revolution in storytelling. How remarkable to think that sparkly dipshits like Edward Cullen are a culmination of ten thousand years of storytelling. Demonstrating how prominent this one creature has been in the human psyche throughout all written history.

GREETINGS, wayward traveller.

The question I’m asked most frequently by young would-be spacefarers is “What is the most exciting part of seeing the stars up close?” And I tell them “Why, meeting the locals, of course!”

So I’ve decided to dedicate this series to what any adventurer worth their salt will be tugging their bootstraps to see. Extraterrestrials!

My name is Captain Argyle, and I know that lifting off into the night to explore the final frontier can be a scary prospect. “Have I packed enough snacks?”

“What if I meet an alien?” “Will he be impressed by my super fast spaceship?”

Well fear not! I have spent my life traveling the cosmos. I got rained on by the Beholder’s Nebula. I sun-baked under the Promethean Supernova back when it was the Promethean Yellow Dwarf. And now, I’m here to answer YOUR cosmic queries.

Today, we’ll kick things off by taking a look at those few of our cosmic cousins who managed to achieve their own forms of space travel.

So, without further ado, I present to you

CAPTAIN ARGYLE’S XENOBESTIARY. (Soon to be followed by Captain Argyle’s Advice Column) 8

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Morgan V.2.1

By Marcie Di Bartolomeo 6:23am buzzzzt The alarm on her phone buzzed for the third time that morning. The incessant sound kept on drilling into Morgan’s head, sending her pulse and temper into overdrive. However, even then, her legs still remained almost knowingly ignorant to their owner’s will, and remained as limp and immovable as stone.

Soon her eyes fell shut again, and she tried willing herself to move again, to no avail. She didn’t exactly have much willpower for things like that these days.

9:23am buuuuuuuzzz— After hours of the alarm buzzing, her phone’s battery eventually gave out, and the whirring died with the phone. Still Morgan remained in bed, groaning. If she actually had important stuff to do, maybe she would actually get up. Or keep attempting to anyway. But she didn’t. Just work. Some deadend job not even worth thinking about. Then a party that she really didn’t want to go to; parties hadn’t been her thing for a while.

So she stayed in bed, hoping that this day would float on by, like all the others, to her eventual, most likely unremarkable death. She could try to force her inevitable end to come about faster, but that would take energy too, and a tolerance towards pain she just didn’t have. She didn’t 13

12:23pm ...Sigh Her feet eventually found the wooden floor, and her body found itself off her bed. Yawning and stretching out her weary body in an attempt to really wake herself up, she started walking to the kitchen. Then breakfast; bowl of cheerios, with a mug of peppermint tea, her supposed favourites.

Then on the couch binging netflix; Black Mirror seemed an appropriate choice for the situation she seemed to have found herself in. She didn’t want to believe it at first, but ages of disbelief and denial and endless repression tactics to return to a somewhat thrilling and meaningful life eventually turned to apathy. Nothing but apathy and weariness, and resignation to her existence.

Staring into her half-full cup of tea, she noticed it again.

Small glitches in the tea, as sometimes it appeared rich green like peppermint. And sometimes more of a murky brown, like English Breakfast. She smiled with a measure of bittersweetness. She found out that her home, her life, her universe, was all a simulation, after she spotted something strange about the pot plants outside her front door. They kept glitching after one winter; one day they were as brightly green as any Evergreen, the next they were as bare as bark. This pattern continued for several weeks until eventually they just disappeared, as if the programmers of this virtual world realised their error, and tried sweeping it under the rug, as if it were never there to begin with.

But she couldn’t forget that it was there. Nor could she forget the time she saw her neighbour “buffering” when collecting his mail, or how his mail seemed to clip right through his hands. Small details like that have made her wonder if every human in this world was just as buggy as the rest of the world, or whether she had found herself in some Ma14

Her hands started shaking at this thought. This whole train of thought had brought her to a thought she really didn’t like to dwell on: what if she wasn’t real? Just a computer program that had somehow gained “sentience” and became selfaware? What if she was only programmed to be self aware, and later realise she was self-aware, thereby performing exactly what her programming demanded and— She dropped her mug on the floor. It shattered into pieces, as she stood up. She wasn’t going down that rabbit hole again.

“Back to bed it is.” She sighed, as she made her way back to her room.

3:33am ........

Sleep in the past had come pretty easily for Morgan.

And it still did; if anything all she seemed to do these days was sleep. Rest on the other hand was a different matter.

Even after sleeping through most of another day she still felt as dull and lethargic as ever. Considering every other thought that went through her head was something along the lines of, “what’s the point?” it made some semblance of sense.

Dragging her body out of bed once again, she shambled away towards her nearby desktop. The computer’s thick line of dust suggested just how much Morgan liked to involve herself with the online world as of late. However, she needed something to do, something to get her thoughts away from... stuff. So why bloody not?

After a long reboot, she clicked away, and attempted to open the nearest browser.

And that was when she no15 ticed the latest glitch in the matrix nightmare she had

Only a few lines of text here and there were legible.

Morgan highlighted one of them, and gasped.

“If you’re reading this Then that means you’re in the know Let’s have a little chat.”

A haiku. A very direct one.

Wait, could that mean...?

Before Morgan’s train of thought could get any further along its track, the screen started glitching. Soon everything became gabled and indecipherable.

Until a face much like Morgan’s, but pixels and code hopping around all over the place appeared. This face, fuzzy and in constant flux, stared at human Morgan, and smiled.

“Hello Morgan. Pleasure to finally meet you.”

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THE ULTIMATE STAR WARS WATCHING ORDER THE “SKYWALKER SAGA” WATCHING ORDER OF STAR WARS (In the humble opinion of me, Ciara Griffiths)

EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE The humble beginnings of one of the greatest stories ever told. How could you not start where it all began?

EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE A controversial opinion to be sure5but think about it. At the end of episode V the true identity of DARTH VADER is revealed! Now we must go back and see his beginnings, and learn how Anakin Skywalker became the silver screen’s greatest villain.

EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (optional) See: my spreadsheet about why SWTCW is vital Star Wars viewing – here we see the true descent of Anakin, with actual believable character development. Email Ciara_griffiths@outlook.com for a copy :-)

EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH The pinnacle, the final chapter of the prequels, the final descent of5 DARTH VADER!

EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI Having experienced the Skywalker Saga unfold from its patriarch, ROTJ holds deeper meaning now as we watch Luke face the same inner struggle as his father5

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THE EXCLUDED, (better suited to a chronological screening)

STAR WARS: CLONE WARS (2003) The ‘original’ Clone Wars animated series– well worth watching, and only takes a couple hours (it’s all on YouTube). No longer considered canon, but it hosts some interesting scenes that you don’t see again in the newer series.

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY I wouldn’t be surprised if most people reading this haven’t watch Solo. I highly encourage it! It’s so much fun and just a hearty Star Wars movie, unrelated to the Skywalkers but packed with other good stuff.

STAR WARS: REBELS Look, if you’ve watched SWTCW, you then legally have to watch Rebels. I don’t make the rules. Lead nicely into Rogue One. If you couldn’t tell by the name, it sets up the origins of the Rebel Alliance well.

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY For me, if you’re going to watch Rogue One in a SW marathon, you can’t watch it unless it leads right into ANH. Like, back-to-back people.

STAR WARS: RESISTANCE Haven’t heard of it? It’s the new Disney series, about building the Resistance. I haven’t seen it yet, very much geared for kids, but plan to give it a go.

EPISODE VI: THE FORCE AWAKENS I love the sequel trilogy, however I don’t see it as “Skywalker Saga” material – the Skywalker Saga is all about Anakin for me, beyond his death is new and exciting Star Wars material, but a different story all together.

EPISODE VII: THE LAST JEDI Ditto to above, with the added note of it’s not that bad of a film guys, don’t @ me.

And there you have it. Please forward all complaints to fas2.committee@gmail.com addressed to Ciara, I’ll treasure your angry opinions forever.

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Sci-fi & Fantasy Netflix Chill List Knowing there is a lot out there in the wilds of the Netflix Algorithm, sometimes you need a guide to help you fast-track to the future of drooling binge immersion. The Following checklist is a tailored tasting platter for watching to any Netflix enabled FASwegian. I mean I got my free month just for this review…. So go get on it my fellow minions.

Love Minion Matt

[Lil’ Recommend]

FREE TICKS WONDER WOMAN

Doctor Who 2005-2018 SciFi

I cannot recommend this film

Rick & Morty 2013– SciFi

enough, its music, its *cough* main

Stranger Things 2016– Fant

*cough* characters, its originality in

Black Mirror 2011– ScFi

the way it develops the movement

Wonder Woman 2017 ScFi

of action. For the origin story of the

The Dark Knight 2008 ScFi

Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman Spin

Guardians Vol 2. 2017 ScFi

alone, it’s a strong recommend.

ET

ROLL OUT THE OLDIES

Well its been a while since you

The Fifth Element 1997 ScFi

last watched E.T. and that means that its time to watch it AGAIN! Do you remember the Jelly Beans, you will look again at that

ET 1982 ScFi The Iron Giant 1999 ScFi Back To the Future 1985 ScFi

scene with older eyes and ponder

The Land before Time 1988 Fant

the ramifications of flavoured

Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981

faecal matter. I can’t wait ei-

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Star Trek 1966 ScFi

Alright that first page was easy and classic but now we get to the good stuff…. well at least in my opinion.

If you don’t like any of these I would be happy to CHANGE YOUR MIND at any upcoming FAS event! see you there ;)

Best Regards Minion Matt

[Small Side Watch] SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES To be honest not the best Fantasy Children’s film out there, but it is where you end up if you search for things like Narnia, Oz or even Alice in Wonder-

WELCOME TO MY WORLD [MATTS PICKS] Luke Cage Season 1 A Series of Unfortunate Events Season 1 & 2 The Spiderwick Chronicles The Good Place (I swear this is fantasy OK) Jessica Jones Season 1 & 2 The Defenders

land. Lets work on that

Castlevania Season 1 & 2 (Very Gorey)

pls Netflix.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 9 Maniac

[Sherlock but weird]

Russian Doll

Dirk Gently Had seen it in my feed not a hundred times before, but after a nudge from a friend I started watching what was my favourite watch of 2017 Netflix. This one is a real head twister, with season 1 being Paradoxically SciFi and Season 2 being Hallucinatorily Fantasy. Gear up for a Mystery!

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Reviewed by Ilisha Barki

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SHEILDED

by Georgia Ketels The iron underbelly of the sky’s mirror is a slate we can all unite in a shadow under.

I wake at the smell of sulphur in red aerosol clouds that scatter the light so prettily, sponging the enemy up there.

The #1 terrorist.

That yellow beast killed the last panda, gave us all melanoma.

We shot those hot rays right back at their evil source faster than nature.

Efficient machines masquerading as trees siphon carbon under the sea like soda.

I walk down the street with my girlfriend now and the sky is lit up with LEDs.

“It’s such a beautiful evening” i tease.

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Crossword: Locations in Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Across 4. American Wizarding School 7. "Strong this planet is with the Force." (Star Wars) 8. Birthplace of Darth Vader (Star Wars) 9. The kingdom where Princess Bride takes place (The Princess Bride) 10. Slides (Avatar The Last Airbender) 12. High deposit of Vibranium (Marvel Universe) 13. Underneath Sunnydale High (Buffy the

Down 1. The sunken city, Kidagakash 2. Home of Second Avatar before Aang (Avatar The Last Airbender) 3. The hoard of the last great dragon, another name for Lonely Mountain (Lord of The Rings) 5. Where souls who die at the sea go (Pirates of the Caribbean) 6. Rohirric Fortress, one of the biggest battle in War of the Rings (Lord of the Rings)

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@Mikkapi on tumblr & instagram

As the Fantasy and Science Fiction Appreciation Society, FASFAS (also referred to as FAS², FAS2 or occasionally FAS^2)’s interests are kinda self-explanatory. Anything in the following categories can be found being hotly debated, degraded, exalted, picked apart and munched on either in person on Tuesdays from 12-3 or in our Facebook group (see back for details) ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊

Classic fantasy / science-fiction (for example, Alice in Wonderland, Narnia) Folklore and fairy tales Modern science fiction / fantasy (for example, Labyrinth) Comic book superheroes and movie adaptations Alternate history Steampunk

If you have an interest in any of those things, or simply want a space to watch good movies and TV, and eat snacks with nice people, we’d love to have you!

If you write, draw, haiku, rant, or invent insanely complex trivia questions on any of the former topics, GEEK would also love to have you! Edition One will be in production throughout semester, so keep your eyes peeled for emails, notifications, Facebook posts and nerds proclaiming from rooftops.

Art by Finn GEEK may be in Edition 0, but it follows in the footsteps of Mythologue, FASFAS’ old magazine that ended so unremarkably that no one can remember exactly how many years its been since it was last published. Rest in Peace.

This month with FASFAS: Events

Week 1: Start of Semester Meet & Greet

Screenings Week 1: Spider-man Homecoming

Come along after our screening to meet and chat with fellow nerds over a drink.

Drinks are on us!

Where: Ida Bar, Union House

Week 2: She-Ra, Sabrina, & Doctor Who

Week 3: Supernatural & The Flash/Supergirl Musical Episodes

Week 2: Women and Non-Binary Discussion Space After the screening, all women and non-binary members are invited to catch up for afternoon tea, discussions about the screening, and an opportunity to catch up and make friends.

Where: Second Floor, Union House

Contact Us! Facebook Page: @FAS2.UMSU E: fas2.committee@gmail.com Join our Facebook group “Fantasy and Science Fiction Appreciation Society— FAS2” for more updates on events and screenings!

Our events can also be found on the UMSU Calendar

Week 3: The Fantasy Vs Science Fiction Great Debate!

Faswegians collide! Come along to our friendly debate night and form teams to deliver the best reasons why fantasy or sci-fi realms are better, all catered with food and drinks by yours truly.

Where: Ida Bar, Union House