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Another DARK HISTORY page.

My schedule got thoroughly horked today, thanks to a doctor’s appointment that should have been over by 10 AM, but instead started then and stretched all the way to lunch. Good news came from it – my eyes are not oxidizing any faster than is normal for mortal humans – but I was hoping for more time to do things today. So I decided to finish laying out the text for DARK HISTORY instead. Tomorrow I start making charmingly authentic clip art for it. Hopefully I can have it ready by the middle of the month, because I should have done all of this in August.

(My other homebrew RPG stuff can be found here.)

Ach, well, hindsight and all that.

The DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Honest Trailer.

Spoiler: No Deadpool cameo.

I don’t think this Honest Trailer was entirely fair, although I do see their points. But while it may have been aimed squarely at my demographic, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE went on to hit $1.3 billion at the box office, which argues that my demographic is perhaps not all that small. Also, it was a relief to watch a superhero film that’s good at fanservice — again, the kind of fanservice that I want, to be sure. And again: $1.3 billion.

Tweet of the Day, Who ISN’T It Hard Out Here For, These Days? edition.

I gotta agree with the general commentary here. Ross Douthat should have been able to place his fantasy novel. I’ll also say this: Ross is also a hell of a lot better off just publishing the damned thing himself. It’ll never happen, but I doubt at this point I’d even take a multi-book contract, assuming anybody was insane enough to offer me one. Traditional publishing is not designed with the well-being of its authors in mind.

Seeing a NYT columnist turn to Substack to get his story out feels like a tipping point moment. And possibly the tipping point is for the trad publishers who rejected that book. https://t.co/KCTy8SAb5I

— Karl K. Gallagher (@KarlKGallagher) October 8, 2024

A rough draft page from the upcoming DARK HISTORY.

The image needs to be recentered, a bit. And some editing is required. But I’ve had a rotten day, so I needed to show that I did something creative today.

(My other homebrew RPG stuff can be found here.

Stay safe, Floridians.

I was feeling like I was having a bad day, until I remembered that I am not in the path of a hurricane, just after having another one pop up. Don’t take any foolish risk, folks. You can replace stuff easier than you can replace your lives.

Yay. Imgur’s not working right now.

I can upload images, but I just can’t make them public. That’s gonna get old fast if I don’t have somewhere to host images for the new DriveThruRPG project. I mean, I can put up a couple things here, but I don’t want to host all the images on my site…

Moe Lane

PS: If this is a known problem with an easy solution, then by all means tell me what it is.

Kind of a dead weekend.

I’ve been spending the day working on the new DriveThru thing and writing fiction, and I just don’t have much else to say. …Weather’s nice? No, seriously, it’s been beautiful lately. Maybe I’ll watch some TV before my game tonight.

Sorry it’s been boring around here.

10/06/2024 Snippet, CALL OF THE MOON-BEASTS.

I absolutely need to get going with this and the other story.

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Derby Emi was surprisingly indifferent about Tobias walking all over her dust paintings. “Please wear the little boot-gloves,” she told him with apparent real cheerfulness. “You would not want to have the sand getting into your slippers.”

Tobias looked down. He’d never been a fan of abstract art, but he knew what he liked. He didn’t like this. In fact, he had secretly enjoyed watching Derby’s own footprints smoosh the floor design’s unsettling pattern into random chaos. “I feel strange, wrecking your, ah, design like this,” he lied.

“Don’t be, Commander,” Emi responded immediately. “That is why it’s on the floor. I may be forced to draw this, but I will have my own revenge.” A smile flickered, breaching above the surface of her face for a moment. “I have no desire to preserve it.”

Patreon Microfiction: Keep Your Distance.

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Alas for the hero of ‘Keep Your Distance,’ humanity can understand aliens that hate them. Humanity can understand aliens that love them. What it has difficulty grasping is the idea that there may be aliens who simply couldn’t care less.

Book of the Week: The Silmarillion.

I offer a link to the Silmarillion here in the hope that, the next time somebody tries to actually do the Second Age of Middle-Earth, they take the time to go and get the rights to the correct goram book. I could tolerate many things of that show. Not understanding what the names mean is just a bridge too bloody far.

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