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May 15, 2022
‘Been Caught Stealing.’
This made no more sense in 1990 than it does now.
Blood Moon tonight!
Which I may not see, depending on the cloud cover. It should be something to see:
The moon will glow a scarlet color during this year’s first total lunar eclipse on Sunday — a stark contrast to its ordinarily milky white sheen. A partial eclipse will begin at 10:27 p.m. ET Sunday, with the total lunar eclipse starting at 11:29 p.m. ET, according to EarthSky. The total eclipse will end at 12:53 a.m. ET Monday, and the partial eclipse will end at 1:55 a.m. ET Monday, the site said.
BLOOD MOON. I just like writing that out.
Patreon Microfiction: Just Before The Beginning Of The End.
Well. They meant well. …Which really is the worst thing in the English language that you can say about someone. Also: “Just Before The Beginning Of The End” may or may not be canonically part of the Fermi Resolution, but it’s not currently contradicting it.
Patreon!Annnnnd the first editing pass-through of TINSEL RAIN is done.
Got the last edits last night, but I needed my sleep. Edits checked, relevant changes made, sent the whole thing back for another pass-through. And a great killing of the typos that hid during the first wave. They lurk in the shadows, you see. The typos have little bolt-holes to creep into as the pens flow above them, and then emerge when they think the danger has passed. So you must edit again and again, with a righteous inevitability…
Sorry. Anyway, the TINSEL RAIN publication schedule has officially ratcheted forward a step. Huzzah! If you haven’t filled out your survey, fill out your survey.
Shock and Amazonment: 3rd edition GURPS supplements that I don’t have!
GURPS CONAN THE WYRMSLAYER, GURPS CONAN AND THE QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST, and GURPS CONAN: MOON OF BLOOD. All of which were available for considerably less than usual, he said after getting the order confirmation email. I really need to go through my GURPS collection and get it properly sorted, though. It took far too long to make sure I didn’t actually have these books already.
Admittedly, usually I can assume that I do.
#commissionearned
May 14, 2022
‘Louie Louie.’
#commissionearned
We *may* be getting a cat tomorrow.
My wife and eldest are to travel to see the cat, see if the cat is acceptable, and see whether we are acceptable to the cat. It would be nice to have a cat around the place again, honestly. Although I’ll have to go back to regularly dosing myself with magical Tablets of Allergy Negation* again.
We’re still trying to decide whether or not to rename the cat. I’m kind of favoring ‘Kadath,’ because Lovecraft, but I’m not the only one who gets a vote. For that matter, the cat might actually answer to the original name. :shrug: Guess we’ll see…
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*I would have done crimes for this stuff at the age of twenty-three.
#commissionearned
05/14/22 Snippet, HERO OF THE REVOLUTION.
Monsters!
Patreon!The knee and lungs had sorted themselves out by the time I got a reply. Which isn’t as bad as it sounds: the bodies we use on Earth generally bounce back fast. You can even get pieces to reattach, although there’s always going to be a little seam afterward. Made angel-demon battles from the old days real fun to clean up afterward, let me tell you.
And it was just as well. “They report your first body was assigned to a Virtue on monster duty. Immolated during an assault on a krasue swarm.”
“Immolated? From what? Explosive fangs?”
“No,” said the Throne as she accessed the congealed thought-pearl we use to send information to Earth. “C-4. The Virtue decided the best way to reduce the nest was to run inside it with an explosive vest.”
The LAND SHARK trailer.
Normally I wouldn’t. But Kevin Kulp (of TIMEWATCH and THE SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE RPGs) is the most knowledgeable connoisseur of bad shark movies I know…
…and apparently LAND SHARK is the business. As long as you don’t understand the dialogue, at least.
Ever wonder why I love crappy shark movies? THIS is why I love crappy shark movies. We've already seen this in Chinese (making up our own dialogue), and it came in #13/126. Now it's coming out in English! #SharkRankinghttps://t.co/fd3o8zH6vZ
— Kevin Kulp (@KevinKulp) May 13, 2022
#commissionearned
Book of the Week: Captain Trader Helmsman Spy (Fall of the Censor Book 4)
Karl Gallagher’s latest book in his Fall of the Censor space opera series (Captain Trader Helmsman Spy) is out! Haven’t gotten a chance to crack it open yet, but that’s not Karl’s fault. Looking forward to reading it… and looking forward to the actual Fall of the Censorate, too. But that will likely take some time.
