Moe Lane's Blog, page 127

So, they’re doing an anime Anne of Green Gables.

There is a certain bitter irony in the fact that I far more trust a Japanese anime studio to do a better job of making a proper Anne of Green Gables show than I do a Western live-action one. If this is what we’ll be getting, it’ll be delightful. And since this site’s Web Dude has indicated that Anne is Big In Japan, it probably will be what we’ll be getting, at that.

Oh my gosh! She’s so cute! https://t.co/zM0yIoR9l6

— Elwë Singollo (@Strangeland_Elf) November 20, 2024

Still: trust, but verify.

Tweet of the Day, I Do Not Understand Why You Are Surprised, Madam edition.

This is a perfectly logical use for the artifact. Your objection is unreasonable. Picayune, even.

Oh, so you HAVE met my players.#DungeonsandDragons #DnD pic.twitter.com/w92wQ3OFOs

— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) November 20, 2024

‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away.’

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away, The Beatles

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Reminder: I have stuff up for sale on DriveThruRPG!

Soooo… buy them? They’re good. They’re certainly cheap!

Moe Lane

PS: I know this feels repetitive, but it’s unfortunately true that if you don’t periodically remind people that you have stuff for sale, you end up not selling stuff. It’s just one of those things you have to learn to do. And learn to keep doing, for as long as it takes.

A reminder: review the indy books you read! (Including mine.)

Not just rate: review. Ratings are nice, reviews are better for the algorithm. I don’t like the word ‘algorithm,’ by the way. It’s one of those words I always feel like I’m misspelling. But I learned it anyway, because that’s how important reviews are for me, or any other independent author.

Review! (I say in a completely polite and respectful manner, naturally.

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11/19/2024 Snippet, SUICIDE PLAGUE.

Not what I wanted to do today, but I had to get something done. A lot of catchup to get to this point, and tomorrow is a time of errands. So it goes.

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April 23, 2112

This bunch had really worked out how they were all going to kill themselves.

It wasn’t just that they had prepped the space. Norm knew that most suicide cults could be counted on doing that, putting up whatever crazy ritual crap they thought they’d need to Traverse the Great Beyond or Meet The Amalgamated Masters or whatever. These guys had also prepped themselves. The thirteen corpses were all dressed in clean and luxurious robes, with fresh haircuts and manicures. Not every cultist was wearing makeup, but the ones who did had all applied them with care and skill.

The room smelled sweet, even through the filters on his whole-face mask. That was surprising. In Norm’s experience, suicide sites started stinking right away. “Nita, whatcha got?” he asked the field tech. “It safe to take off the damn masks?”

“Absolutely not, Agent Baker.” That got him paying attention. Juanita Reyes might have been F-SOB, just like him, but the techies were looser about protocol. If she was suddenly going formal, this site wasn’t as kindergarten as it looked.

That oddly made him feel a little better.

The MEGALOPOLIS Honest Trailer.

Is it weird that this Honest Trailer of MEGALOPOLIS kind of makes me want to see the movie now? I originally did, but then I didn’t, and then I did again. Then I heard the reviews and the audience reaction, which just made me appreciate it as a long, involved ‘it’s my money and I can do what I like with it’ exercise on the director’s part.

Now I dunno.

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Tweet of the Day, Totally To Pile On edition.

This was in response to a thread about terraforming, which I will concede will be a hell of a lot harder to do than it’s usually portrayed in science fiction. But it’s not actually impossible. Speaking of impossible…

Omg pic.twitter.com/gH9pYSivXx

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) November 19, 2024

‘Here Comes the Sun.’

Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles

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Hopefully things will get back to normal now.

I’m getting back to normal, solely but surely. I’m at the coughing stage, and that may last for a while. It’d be great if it wasn’t too long, though. I have one heck of a wordcount debt to dig myself out from under.