Moe Lane's Blog, page 144
November 25, 2024
11/25/2024 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.
Will need to make this a bit harder on Tom in the next pass-through.
Patreon!I’d gotten instructed by Old Man McGavin himself. It sounds like more of an honor when you’ve never actually met the guy. He was one of the luckiest monster-hunters we’ve ever had, only he couldn’t ever explain why he was lucky because he just was, all right? Worse, he had a bad habit of oversimplifying. Like these buggers: all I could remember of the lecture right now was Don’t get hit.
Yeah, big help there, McGavin. Like, would it have hurt you to tell me that the yapokvil’s tail was all bendy?
I only figured that out when the freaking tail-barb smacked my impromptu club right out of my hands, dripping nasty crap on them for good measure. While I was still gaping at that, the tail came back for a swipe across my gut that sent me rolling into what suddenly became a stinking pile of hay. At first I was glad there wasn’t a pitchfork in there. Then I wished that there was, because a nice long pole with spikes on the end would’ve been handy.
The yapokvil should’ve come right after me, but it was one of those monsters that liked to play with its food. Well, I assume. I didn’t ask. All I know is, when I came out of that pile again, it was still scuttling about a little, like it wanted to find the perfect angle for gnawing on my intestines. It didn’t care like I might have my own views on the subject, either.
Fair enough. I felt just the same about its opinions.
Notre Dame put back just the way it was.
As usual. No, really. Notre Dame has been targeted quite a few times over the last few centuries, and it’s shrugged all of its attackers off, in the end. Far be it from me to suggest that there’s any sort of reason for that, but if you’ve ever played the In Nomine TTRPG, perhaps you may not be surprised…
Before (left) and after (right) of the interior of Notre Dame.
— Father V (@father_rmv) November 25, 2024
Modernists lost this battle, so instead of a glass spire and partially destroyed vaultings everything was reconstructed as it was. Architects, for example, made sure that the former Medieval assymetrics in the… pic.twitter.com/4FACuLXwTB
Via @DeclannFinnBooks.
PS: Yes, absolutely clean the stone, unless doing so would actually harm it. Soot builds up.
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Tweet of the Day, Writing Advice Is Like Becoming A PARANOIA TTRPG High Programmer… edition.
…being a successful writer can be done, people obviously can do it, everybody’s got to figure out their own way to get there, and they do the new-minted Ultraviolet-clearance writer will deliberately rewrite The Computer’s source code to make it treasonous for any other Violet-clearance clone to use the same trick.
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Yeah, the simile kind of died screaming under the knife there, at the end. Sorry about that! Anyway:
I've written 30 books now. Most of them have done pretty good.
— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) November 25, 2024
I've never belonged to a writer's group.
I've never gone to a writing retreat.
I'm not saying they are bad or good. Its just that most of the writers groups I've seen are awful, and being in one is actually… https://t.co/opBtogtT1a
It’s official: I’m doing the Arbutus Arts Festival.
Looks like it’ll be fun. Fun, close, and Sunday, May 18th, 2025. It’s the first time I’m doing the Arbutus Arts Festival, so I don’t know what to expect. I do know that there’s beer, so if you’re in Baltimore County that day come by to grab a book and a brew. Or a bunch of books and a brew. I’ll happily sell you my entire back catalog.
November 24, 2024
‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da.’
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, The Beatles
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Anybody see GLADIATOR 2?
I figured I’d skip it, because my biggest problem with GLADIATOR is that, well, it’s not very historical. I’m one of those guys who was all, like, Why are we cutting away from the war? That’s a lot more interesting than the arena combat! I figured I wouldn’t like more of the same, but people do seem to like the new movie. Is it worth catching, considering that I have a sort-of free movie ticket for it anyway?
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11/24/2024 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.
Comeuppance!
Patreon!“So those are your tourists?” Lucas asked Catty. He did try to keep the smirk out of his voice, but not very hard.
“Not as much as you, gramps,” Catty replied, in a voice sweet enough to make your teeth ache. Lucas’s smirk popped like a soap bubble — well, that’s a lie. Some of it decided to visit my face. “And they ain’t my tourists, neither. These aren’t the usual flounders, come slumming. They’re…” she broke off, frowning.
That got my attention. When a teenager starts giving off looks like that, a lot of times it’s because somebody hadn’t been friendly to her lately. Or they’d tried to be too friendly, too soon. Girls and boys grow up quick in New California, but not that quick.
Lucas must have picked up on that, too, because he choked out his incoming snit-fit and got his head on the job. If this was one. “These guys can’t take a hint, Catalina? Even when it’s swung at their heads?”
The MIDGIES teaser trailer.
I’m sorry, but MIDGIES is actually a killer (heh) concept for a horror flick. Straight up.
It’s a swarm animal horror movie. Millions of little bloodsuckers, attracted to human breathing and capable of attacking in all directions at once. Sure, if you’re wearing a moon suit you’re safe… until you tear a hole in the fabric. Past that? It’s an implacable composite enemy that wants nothing except to drain you dry.
And obviously guns aren’t gonna do a damned thing. Even that flamethrower above is gonna be of limited utility.
Seriously, this is gonna be horror comedy but they still have hold of something good, here. I look forward to it with some interest.
Patreon Microfiction: “Only Six Hours? A NIGHT?”
Patreon!“Only Six Hours? A NIGHT?” is very firmly in the ‘Humans are Space Orcs’ tradition of modern Internet fiction. I enjoy that genre very much, by the way. The trick is to find something new that works as a hidden superpower.
November 23, 2024
‘The Ballad of John and Yoko,’
The Ballad of John and Yoko, The Beatles
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