Intentionally Blank Questions from the Internet w/Matt Dinniman and Robin Hobb — Intentionally Blank Ep 191
23 snips
Jan 29, 2025 Join a lively discussion filled with humor as the hosts share their favorite childhood dinosaurs and ponder which of their creations would flop as 80s action films. Delve into quirky topics like the largest imagined pig and brainstorm ideas for torturing beloved characters. Enjoy nostalgic tales about Christmas traditions and guilty pleasure movies, and uncover the whimsical significance of cats in fantasy. The conversation is peppered with amusing anecdotes about their writing journeys and quirky jobs they’d love to hold in a fantasy world.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Favorite Dinosaurs
- Brandon Sanderson's favorite dinosaur is the Stegosaurus.
- He likes the thagomizer, the spikes on its tail, named after the Farseer comic.
Bad 80's Action Movie Adaptations
- Robin Hobb would adapt Wizard of the Pigeons into a bad 80's action movie.
- Matt Dinniman suggests his out-of-print book, The Grinding, about a monster that absorbs people.
Biggest Pig Imaginable
- The authors humorously discuss the biggest pig imaginable.
- Ideas range from a pig with its own gravity to one containing the universe as an atom in its blood.