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October 3, 2025
The del Toro FRANKENSTEIN trailer.
Probably end up watching the Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein with the eldest. Just don’t know whether it’ll be in a theater. ‘Select theater’ around here usually means ‘an hour away.’
Tweet of the Day, …This CAN’T Be Real edition.
:clickety clickety:
God help us, it’s real. This is what happens when you don’t dare tell people ‘no.’
They photoshopped all the guns out of the James Bond movie thumbnails.
— John A. Douglas (@J0hnADouglas) October 3, 2025
Just in case you still had hope for Amazon being in charge of the franchise. pic.twitter.com/eeosPEPFnJ
10/03/2025 Snippet, THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST.
Well, I wasn’t planning to start the intro to my Fermi Resolution war and ghost novel THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST today, but it all popped into my head as I was driving to get a hair cut. Said intro would actually make a serviceable short story. Not saying I’m doing it this month, but it’s interesting.
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Morrigan Ragemonger (Archmage of the Third Carmine Legion, Circle Prime, Sephiroth, Paramount War Mage of the Eastern Conquests, publicly the third most powerful entity in the Universal Dominion, and secretly the fourth), scowled at the map again. It was very prettily made, as befitted something that was meant to hover in the Supreme Archmage’s private reception room.
That wasn’t the problem. The problem was… “We’re losing the war, Supreme Archmage.”
“What, still?” replied Amok Wildfire (Supreme Archmage). “We’ve been losing since before you and I were born, Morrigan.”
He put down the carafe he’d been holding. It was always scandalous to see the Supreme Archmage pouring his own drinks, but Morrigan had insisted: no servants for this discussion. It’d just be wasteful.
He didn’t bother offering Morrigan any wine, which saved her the trouble of pretending to accept it. She appreciated that. “Yes, Supreme Archmage. It’s just that lately it’s been getting worse. As you see, the map here…”
“…shows that the Dominion is half the size it once was, yes. That sounds like a problem for the outer Sephiroths.” Wildfire’s smile was no less ghastly for not particularly trying to be. “Or one for our Paramount War Mages. Isn’t that why we have Paramount War Mages, in fact? To raze problems like this, right down to the bedrock?”
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I am back from setting up for RisuCon!
Good, but tiring work.
Behold! pic.twitter.com/o2c3kqAAjY
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) October 4, 2025
I had a longer table and a half-broken hanging display, so I got a little creative. I’m on a corner and there’s plenty of space, so I spread things out a little. I think my table is interesting from every angle, but we’ll just have to see.
October 2, 2025
‘The Addams Family.’
I’m going to bed early, again. Apparently my normal habit of do nothing on the first day of the month got moved to the second day of the month. I’m fine with this, although I do need to catch up.
Main Theme, The Addams Family
…Honestly, it’s remarkable how good a job they did adapting the TV show for the big screen. Never underestimate the power of good casting.
I do not envy these men their career path.
I mean, I could, but it wouldn’t do me any good. All I can say is, thank God somebody’s doing this for a living. If we’re don’t take advantage of modern video technology to luxuriously film dropping things on things or smashing things through things, then why do we even have a civilization in the first place?
RisuCon loadout tomorrow…
…which means I should, like, prep for that. I’ve been cheerfully ignoring it for three weeks now, which is not very businesslike of me. I plead an attack of real life, and will go take care of it now.
[UPDATE: That was less of a chore than I’d thought it’d be, but I forgot a few things needed to be done. Thanks for foisting off the chores, Past Me!]
Gallery: My conventions!
Or at least, my conventions for the last year. You can see where I started to play around with my table space and layout in 2025.
…and that is the most dramatic of the photos, really. Fortunately, I didn’t lose any actual books in that one.
Moe Lane
PS: Buy my books! And games!
#commissionearned
October 1, 2025
The Sleep Madness approaches…
…and I am so out of it, my kid had to tell me that tomorrow was Yom Kippur and so he didn’t have school. I’m usually absolutely checked out on my kids’ schedules. Clearly, it’s time for bed.
Moe Lane
PS: Tell people to buy my books. Sorry: I can’t think of anything clever to say about that, right now.
