Moe Lane's Blog, page 510
August 12, 2022
Tweet-thread of the Day, Ph’nglui Mglw’nafh Habsburg Radbot Wgah’nagl Fhtagn edition.
I REALLY hope that none of these people are lunatics, because this three-Tweet thread is hysterical.
Wait a second isn't that
— Ben Harris (@btharris93) August 11, 2022
“Yes that’s just what we wanted you to think, ahahahahaha!” pic.twitter.com/EADyj15odm
— Matt Severn (@Matt_Severn) August 11, 2022
August 11, 2022
08/11/22 Snippet, FROGMAN PRINCE.
There’s nothing like adding three thousand words (well, fifteen hundred today; the rest, tomorrow) to a story to make you start to see what the original problems were with it. I almost want to send it around again. …Almost.
Patreon!That being said: if it was up to me, honestly, we’d let the damned Franks do these little jobs in Middle Europa. I’d be just as happy to be sitting in my club with the papers and the prospect of billiards later — oh, very well, that’s a lie. Mother and Papa would be happy to see me sitting there, snug and safe and far from any adventures. The brazen hypocrites.
But instead of port and fine cigars, we had… cheap schnapps, and Ottoman snuff. I’ve never saw the point of snuff, really, but my cover identity loved it. Although even that now-abandoned identity would have looked with horror at the way I was mixing the two together in a cup.
Singh wasn’t horrified so much as disapproving. His faith dislikes both tobacco and alcohol, poor fellows. “Is this a Christian thing, then?” he asked.
“Classical pagan,” I replied. “With a little bit of Arcadian ritual mixed in. Spirits to attract spirits, and tobacco to entice them further. Kobolds are close enough to spirits that they won’t pass up a tipple.”
“It’s disgusting,” Jonesy said. A pause. “Sir.”
“You have no idea how horrible this smells, Jonesy. But it’s not meant for us. The kobold will love it.”
Schedule’s hosed for today.
Had technical issues with the website. It’s fixed now, but I’m just gonna call it a day anyway. Maybe watch some TV. Is it not August?
August 10, 2022
So, I’ll be aiming for a September 2022 release for DUTIES.
I’m supposed to be getting the final art for the stories by the end of the week – subject to approval, of course, but the preliminary sketches looked fine – and I plan to spend the rest of this week getting the last story fixed up. I decided not to work on it today, because what I really need to do is read the whole thing and figure out what needs fixing. But once that’s done, actually writing it shouldn’t be too hard.
So if you’re interested in doing beta reading for these stories, now’s the time to sing out. I think that if I get it all squared away in two weeks, I can publish DUTIES and have it ready for one of the two book fairs I’m doing this fall. I’ll already have TINSEL RAIN to sell for the first time at Fright Reads, but having another chapbook by the Stellar Con would be nice, too. Assuming I can still get a table for that: my email decided to send a critical message to spam. Yay…
The CULT OF THE LAMB video game trailer.
CULT OF THE LAMB is not to be confused with the Worship videogame (latest Kickstarter update here*): it’s its own thing. And it’s thing is weird.
I’m not sure if I want to get this, though. I mean, the endgame is you release an Elder God, and everybody gets eaten, right? That doesn’t sound very nice.
Moe Lane
*It will not surprise anybody to hear that the game release for Worship has been pushed back a year.
08/`10/22 Snippet, TOUR OF DUTY.
Names!
Patreon!February 18
We’re making good time, going through the Blobmart (ah, humanity and our ability to nickname everything). I’d say ‘surprisingly’ good time, except that the Amalgamation was as good at ship architecture as it was at everything else. The layout is a masterpiece of efficiency and design; after a day getting acclimated, even our puny human brains could instinctively find ship departments. I’m reasonably sure I could get to the engine room with my eyes closed.
The only thing is, the Blobmart is big. We can send probes to check out each compartment, but that takes time. Preliminary estimates say there’s over eight thousand rooms in this thing, of various sizes, and it takes time for us to check each one. We really need to get the power up and running again.
Emily was forthcoming over the problems with that. Maybe too forthcoming. “We have ground the main power generators, naturally. But Senior Technician Aldini is dragging his feet about even testing them. He insists on inspecting them, over and over again.”
“Is he worried about turning them on?” I shook my head. “I wouldn’t blame him. Even if everything is working, it’s been four hundred years. Something might have decayed.”
“This ship shows no sign of corrosion or metal fatigue,” Emily retorted while leaning forward, “and that includes the power systems. And Aldini is not worried about restoring power. Quite the contrary: he is eager. So eager that he is delaying, in order to get the most pleasure out of finally doing it. It is just a little …squirmy, to see this.”
Tweet of the Day, Counterpoint On The BATGIRL Thing edition.
I have a prophecy*.
New Penny Arcade for your Wednesday:
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) August 10, 2022
https://t.co/mpuiPCZu7o#pennyarcade
I prophesize that, in a few years, some folks will get a bug up their rears about the BATGIRL movie, or at least pretend to. They will start a joke movement for Warner Bros. to release that film, which will somehow turn into an actual movement that keeps nagging the company until they give up, and decide to finally release it in some form. And when that happens, all of those people will sit down to watch the movie, and go… Wow. No wonder they didn’t release that flick.
This should not be taken as any sort of criticism or disapproval, mind you. This is simply how the Internet works. You might as well curse the tide.
Moe Lane
*Hello, searchers from the future! Yes, I did call this back in 2022; and yes, I am that Moe Lane. Speaking of, are you caught up on all my books? Oh, thank you: it’s very kind of you to say that I only got better from this point, but I hope that, in your time, I still retain my affection for my early works. I’ve worked awfully hard on them.
#commissionearned
