October 14, 2026

Draconia Malfoid And The Fanfic Debate

I really haven’t followed the Draconia Malfoid internet meme. More than simply “Draco but girl”, she seems to be her own original character. Her defenders from both allegations that it’s just a way to for straight guys to get hot for Draco Malfoy…or something and those actually trying to sexualize the gender replacement do their best to keep the character pure, make it more of a love story between her and Harry Potter by recreating the original book into an alternate universe. In that universe Draconia and Harry build a connection that affects the story…somehow. Look, I don’t follow the official Harry Potter material. I certainly don’t know how this story differs beyond Harry’s rival is a tsundere now. So I’m not here to specifically discuss that meme, though the video below will be.

Said video comes from the Real Life Fake Wizard on YouTube. In a recent edition of Friday Night Tights, one of the Nerdrotic podcasts, the topic of Malfoid came up, given how huge the meme is. The only one who understood it and took up its cause was Shad Brooks, who posted the above AI music video to his pop culture discussion side channel Knights Watch. So in this video, Wizard and Brooks go over the Malfoid sensation, how the main practitioners keep the ship of original and famous characters clean, and why the pairing has caught on with a huge part of the Harry Potter fandom.

If that doesn’t interest you, then continue reading after that. The video also makes general fanfic discussion at the back half of the 49+ minute video, and that’s what I really want to focus on.

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October 14, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> The Basics On The Transformers: The Movie

Catch more of Transformers: The Basics on Chris McFeely‘s YouTube channel

I didn’t see it in theaters. My cousin talked about us going to see it but nothing came of it. I had to go with the original Marvel adaptation until it finally aired on television, Spike’s line changed to “oh man, what are we going to do now”. I did eventually get to see it on the big screen for the 30th anniversary but by then I had seen it so many times on TV and home video, plus owning both comic adaptations, that it was more of a novelty to say I saw it on the big screen. So I didn’t get the magic I wanted out of it, but it was nice to finally do it.

The Quintessons have also travelled from the movie to pop up now and then in various forms, and frankly I prefer their origin story in the cartoon to Unicron’s in the comic, though I did combine the two for my own worldbuilding series, which I’m hoping to get back to but you can catch up in the BW Prose archive. Also to note that the name of the film is The Transformers: The Movie. The commercials for the movie back in the day dropped the first “The” in the title, so I think that messed us all up for a long time. Blame the narrator or whoever wrote his copy.

Now that I think about it, how different would the movie have been if they went with the intended CBS storyline?

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October 13, 2026

Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew Has The Wrong Magic

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Full disclosure: I haven’t read The Magician’s Nephew, so I can’t speak to the specific adaptation of Netflix’s upcoming Narnia movie, a prequel to the series despite being the seventh book, second to last, in C.S. Lewis’ “Chronicles Of Narnia” series. I don’t think it was ever adapted. Being first chronologically, it does make sense to start a new series of Narnia adaptations there, as there have been a few adaptations of the first book, The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe. It allows you to have a new starting point and be a fresh point of starting when the first book has at least three that I know of.

It’s also a good way to start your series at a very bad spot and give people who haven’t read the book a poor idea of what the story is. Guess which path Netflix and Greta Gerwig seem to be heading.

The trailer dropped today for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, the tale of the first visit to Narnia from the world of the Sons Of Adam and Daughters Of Eve. It’s very much the disappointment we were worried about. On it’s own…it might have been okay. However, this story doesn’t exist in a solo outing. It’s the later story of a franchise set at the start of the legend and has an intended feel and design that Greta Gerwig, the director, wants to go in. That’s where this already looks like things won’t be going well.

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October 13, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Cartoon Network Studios “Gigaleak”

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This came up as I was waking up yesterday. I’m going to have to look into this.

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October 12, 2026

Chapter By Chapter> Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic chapter 17

Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.

In our previous chapter Korsal gets some father and son time…but not in the manner he would have liked.

This chapter gets us back to the Enterprise again. While the multiple plot threads are a concern due to previous novels in this review series, the limited use of the regular cast is the only real complaint I have at this point in the book. This isn’t just set in the 23rd century, it’s supposed to be a book about the voyages of the original show crew. So far they’ve taken a backseat to Jean Lorrah’s original characters from the previous novel, The Vulcan Academy Murders, and new original characters from this novel. We’re a bit shy of the halfway mark and the characters we’re here for hasn’t done much of anything.

I would have no problem with a story set in the time period without the original crew. Remember, I sought out the last book after reading and enjoying this one back in the day. I kind of know this is going to be a good story, as it was one of my first Star Trek novels and I picked up a few more after this. This being a review, I’m drawn to being a bit more critical (it’s in the term) than I was as a kid reading this for fun. The thing is you can like something but still point out flaws, or even hate something and point out the strengths. It’s part of my review style in part because that’s how I’ll learn to be a better storyteller myself. Thus far that’s what’s been happening. Now as we move to this chapter and the characters we bought a Star Trek novel for, I’m happier but I don’t hate how we got here. Understand the difference as we get into this chapter’s review.

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October 12, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> DC’s Lanterns Has 100+ Problems

Catch more from Real Life Fake Wizard on YouTube

You’re probably wondering why folks keep on this show’s case. It’s not making me any money or superboosting my readership, so that can’t be it. It’s that we need a record of WHY this stuff matters versus why Hollywood wants you to think is the problem. It’s about promoting good storytelling over extremist agendas by media snobs who shove their elitist and divisive ideas into thing people loved because the geeks are still a punching bag long after high school. It’s about the storytelling, not respecting the source material that’s giving them something to adapt, and thus make more money than the audience in the process, and hoping someone will tell better stories when it’s their turn. Lanterns is the embodiment of “got wrong” while the showrunners try to convince making heroes act like villains is a good thing. So there’s a reason we keep harping on Hollywood’s failings with formerly good franchises.

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October 11, 2026

Jake & Leon #700> Mail Call

I wonder how much I’d make if I were able to sell Bryce plushies?

Technically I make both comics on my own, so…same crew, really. Yes, someone on X-Twitter wrote to tell me that their circle of friends enjoyed Captain Yuletide and asked to see more. Now I wish I knew where my plot list went to, but I do have a reminder to look something up that will make a good plot. [EDIT: I just found my list!] I just have to get working on this year’s comic into my schedule. It’s the first time I’ve gotten praise on the comics beyond a like, so I’m just hoping it’s because they actually enjoy it rather than a “so bad it’s good” routine. I’d hate to mess that up in the kid’s Christmas superhero minicomic. Stick to the audience intended, I say. Not that I mind if it’s an MST3K situation. It’s still entertaining somebody and I had fun making it…and hope to keep doing so.

Hey, toy photographers! This week’s Clutter Report is about me trying to put my toy review photo stage into a better condition. Advice is very much welcome.

Here at BW, if my current schedule manages to hold, we have this week’s Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic, and hopefully enough discussion topics that I can build my buffer up a bit before the next crisis…or so I can do other projects on a slow day. Have a great week, everyone!

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