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October 29, 2024
The predictable THE LEGEND OF OCHI trailer.
Is it awful that I kind of want the twist of THE LEGEND OF OCHI to be that the adult monsters really are impossible to reason with, and would have happily and deliberately eaten the girl if Willem Dafoe hadn’t shown up in time? Seriously, how many times have we seen this movie? The message as provided is not exactly subversive.
My major hope is that the trailer is a total head-fake, really. Which… maybe? A24 does like to do unexpected stuff.
Tweet of the Day, This Is What Serendipity Looks Like edition.
I mean, sometimes you need an accident to create a thing of beauty.
Action movies, as they exist today, would not be the same without a mistake made by a special effects team in the 1960s in the samurai movie Sanjuro.
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) October 29, 2024
While it was meant to be a powerful scene, the blood geyser effect went awry during filming. Tatsuya Nakadai was equipped with a… pic.twitter.com/nO2Rl6hjgv
Via @RocketPulpHack.
October 28, 2024
‘Time Warp.’
Time Warp, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
#commissionearned
Sic transit gloria Kindle Vella.
I… am not surprised. “We’ve made the difficult decision to gradually wind down Kindle Vella in February 2025. We are grateful for all of the author participation.” Kindle Vella never really took off, so I guess the questions I was asking here have been answered, yes?
I’m going to be honest, folks: I don’t blame anybody for not reading these things. It was a weird concept, but they were throwing money around at first, and I like money. Of the three stories, two are already in COVENANTS and the third will end up in an upcoming* Tales From the Tomb Worlds anthology. They’re not gonna die.
Some things don’t work out, that’s all.
Moe Lane
*Not now, but at some point.
#commissionearned
The Chapbook Halloween Kindle sale continues!
The sale will continue all this week. Five four-story chapbooks, each with illustrations, and only 99 cents each! Perfect for Halloween! Pick them up today!
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Time to crowdsource this pork loin.
It’s definitely going in an oven around 4 PM EST. There’s also two russet potatoes that will be roasted tonight, and probably a salad for greenstuff. The question becomes, what specifically happens to the pork loin?
My inclination is to salt-and-honey that sucker, get all Roman Empire up on it. My wife and I threw a Roman-themed toga party once* where she had the pork roasted up like that, and it was choice. But I don’t have the recipe, so it might not come out right.
Thoughts? Bear in mind that the clock is ticking.
Moe Lane
*The kind where you get sent the instructions on how to make a proper one, including the tunic and stuff underneath. It was also the kind where you buy the wine, one bottle at a time, for several months beforehand. We must have had something like twenty, twenty-five bottles… God, I miss having that kind of metabolism. Or just that level of reckless disregard for my liver.
Check your Patreon status.
This isn’t a nag at people to fix their credit card information, just a reminder that if your card gets declined you’ll end up not seeing the paid stuff at my Patreon. Or possibly not even the free stuff. I’m never going to give anybody grief for ending their support for me here, but if it’s just that something technical happened with a credit card expiration or something, well…
Patreon!PS: You can tell your friends about my Patreon, mind you. It is, as they say, allowed.
10/28/2024 Snippet, NEVER RETURN.
This story needs more action.
Patreon!A search of the room revealed quite the collection of volumes, maps, and ephemera from Boston’s millennium and more of history, including a remarkable number of pre-Discovery maps of the Antiquity. Some of those did look like they were originals, but they were in excellent condition all the same. “I assume this was what he was using for his ghost hunts,” Curwin observed, and I shrugged. It seemed reasonable.
But there were no obviously arcane artifacts, except for the ones that any educated citizen of the Republic might reasonably have. We were looking for something more powerful than charms against toothache or lost buttons, however, and it worried me that we found nothing. Why on Earth had Shane gone down there? A ghostlegger would presumably know where he could set up his traps. His murder at least suggested that he had a reason for his actions.
It was Curwin who discovered our first real clue. “Hold up,” he said after a half hour’s useless searching. “Maybe we’re looking at this wrong.”
“We are certainly not looking at this right,” I admitted. “Go ahead. Even if you’re still feeling out what is nagging at you.”
October 27, 2024
10/27/2024 Snippet, NEVER RETURN.
I kind of like these characters.
Patreon!“I would have thought the wages of sin would have stretched farther,” I observed as Curwin and I assessed the late David Shane’s apartment. No, that is not true. I sniffed, and regretted it instantly. I have an inclination to dismiss, and I dislike that about me. It is a bad state of mind for a necromancer to fall into.
Fortunately, Curwin did not notice. Or else he agreed with me, because indeed this was not a very imposing domicile. This part of Boston was hardly fashionable; a hundred years ago it was just past the edge of the suburbian wildness that we are still clearing, seven hundred years after the end of the First Republic. Now it was a collection of badly-aging cheap apartments and stolid factories, providing shelter, wages, and nothing more. Not the sort of place I would associate with an antiquarian, however self-taught.
Curwin chuckled when I pointed that out. “Think of it this way, Mistress Dexter. For every dollar he saved on rent, he could buy another book.” He opened the door to what I thought was a bedroom, and whistled. “Many, many books.”
Tweet of the Day, I Said It, I’ll Own It… edition.
…and, God help me, these things did happen.
— Make it a quote (@MakeItAQuote) October 27, 2024
