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August 1, 2022
‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ looks like it might work.
I am… cautiously interested.
Universal/DreamWorks’ The Last Voyage of the Demeter is heading from Jan. 27, 2023 to Aug. 11, 2023.
Pic is based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London.
I’m not always down with adaptations of a part of a larger work, but THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER is based off a legitimately self-contained part of DRACULA. I figure they can get a decent movie out of a vampire stalking the crew of a ship. They’d need to add a lot of secondary detail, but the basic idea is a solid horror plot.
So maybe it won’t suck. OTOH: this movie is taking forever…
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08/01/22 Snippet, TOUR OF DUTY.
I have no idea what happens next! All I know is, it’s gonna be awful!
Patreon!January 20, 2198
Last night in Sol System. And Christ, but I can’t wait to leave this tarpit.
I got told that they can’t read my journal entries, this far out from Earth. That’s weird to think about, the idea that I’m going to have privacy from now on. Nobody from Mental Hygiene is going to sit in at next week’s social-therapy session and gently ask me what’s bothering me, and why I needed to call Earth a ‘tarpit,’ and is there anything that the authorities can do to make me feel better? No more followup meetings, no more six-month check-ins, no more opt-out group seminars to brainstorm solutions to the problems I’ve helped identify. I can just say something sucks, and lo! It can just suck.
Nobody cares. It feels amazing. And scary. Because I’m going out to the Tomb Worlds. And nobody cares out there, either.
And maybe I don’t have complete privacy, here on the ship. I’ll still be having weekly sessions with the therapists, and random wellness checks, and group conclaves. Somebody might even read this, if I start acting weird. But that’s different. That’s just people traveling through space. The people in charge won’t care what I think, as long as I don’t go crazy. And I won’t go crazy.
There’s the beep. I could stay up, but I’m going to log off. Besides, I gotta get used to those full rest cycles! Everybody knows that spacemen need to get plenty of sleep. It keeps the dreams down to a dull roar.
Tweet of the Day, This Story Is Made Up Of Creepypasta edition.
Although I’m not sure about ‘creepypasta.’ I ran it past the local expert here (my eldest son), and he feels that the story may be too ridiculous for it to really qualify. I concede the point: but he didn’t offer an alternative term, so here we are:
A photo I took of Louie, the clown organist at the long defunct Wichita amusement park Joyland. After the park closed, Louis went missing but was found years later in the home of a former park employee who'd just been convicted of a child sex offense #internationalclownweek pic.twitter.com/naEpdP6KQN
— The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard (@dlcantwell) August 1, 2022
Via @EsotericCD.
The ‘It’s Gonna Be Heavy-Handed, Huh?’ ANDOR Disney+ Trailer.
Subtlety is not going to be ANDOR‘s strong point.
Then again, Star Wars was never subtle. The closest Lucas ever got to that was his inexplicable decision not to put nón lá on the Ewoks’ heads* in RETURN OF THE JEDI, and his successors have enthusiastically laying about with the Metaphor Stick ever since. I liked ROGUE ONE a lot, and I will probably end up liking ENDOR, but I still wish George Lucas had been the kind of guy who didn’t hunger for the approval of his peers, above all else. We’d have been spared a lot of eye-rolling nonsense.
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*I admit, the thought of that image somehow works for me. Although the ears would be a problem.
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July 31, 2022
Quote of the Day, HAHAHA Wait, Kevin, Are You Being Serious? edition.
Lord love ya, Kevin Feige, but the answer to this: “How do we elevate [DEADPOOL 3] in the way we’ve been able to with Civil War, and Infinity War and Ragnarok?” is… you don’t. Nobody wants an elevated Deadpool. They want a Deadpool that’s mostly the same Deadpool, but with different sh*t going on. You’ll be cramming mutants into the MCU, Kevin Feige. That’s elevated enough.
Remember: this is what you’ll be working with. NSFW, mind you.
Day the last of the July Patreon Pledge Drive! Monthly stuff up!
It’s the last day of the pledge drive. Some good stuff was written- and I got some new backers – so I call that a win. Back my Patreon today!
The July stuff!
Ashes of Empire, Part 6a: The Eternal Scar : Dieselpunk goodness! This looks at the army of the Empire of Ash! 2084 : post-dystopian fiction! Yes, it exists! If nobody claims that term, I have, just now!
Patreon!RIP, Nichelle Nichols.
One of the Grandes Dames of science fiction fandom. She will be missed. My condolences for her family and loved ones.
Nichelle Nichols — television pioneer and Star Trek’s original Uhura — has passed away at the age of 89.
— TrekNews.net (@TrekNewsNet) July 31, 2022
Our deepest condolences to her family, friends and fans. May her memory LLAP — always. pic.twitter.com/AqR9HvrZsF
Via @CalebHowe.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Double-Barrelled Destiny.’
‘Double-Barrelled Destiny:’ Shotguns, to me, have the fundamental feel of a fantasy weapon. I feel that Conan the Barbarian might disdain many modern weapons (he’d use them, but he’d disdain them). But double-barreled shotguns? Yeah, you could put one in his hands and it wouldn’t look ridiculous.
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