Moe Lane's Blog, page 566
April 20, 2022
God, I can’t wait for a full return to theaters.
It used to be easy: a movie goes direct to VOD, it’s probably bad. Easy, simple, no need to try and puzzle anything out from the trailer. But now we have this hybrid model, and it completely screws up my radar. For example: is ECCO going to be bad, or not?
…Okay, yeah, probably. GeekTyrant doesn’t like the look of it, and that site is even more amenable about popcorn movies than I am. But there’s still a chance that the distribution method of choice isn’t an automatic harbinger of fail. May the day soon come when it is.
MOON KNIGHT continues to be entertainingly messed up.
We are on four of six for Marvel’s MOON KNIGHT, and that means that things were gonna get weird this episode. And they do! Which is to be expected, considering that Oscar Isaac is playing two characters who are so different in personality and affect that I actually had to remind myself that these aren’t twins or anything. I figure that the next episode will involve some kind of amalgamation of all of these multiple personalities, in classic Hollywood pseudo-psychiatric style.
Or maybe they’ll just do therapy. I mean, the title character is absolutely, no-fooling nuts. I’m mildly surprised there’s not been more fuss made about that.
TINSEL RAIN Backerkit surveys going out soon!
We are checking off the last few things now, and the smoke test (where we send surveys to 5% of backers and see if everything works) will likely happen tomorrow. Conceivably the main surveys will be out by the end of the week.
After that? Well it’s all up to the editorial process. I will probably also need some people to take a look at the short story collection, but that’s scheduled to be really worked on in May. I’ve been making the mistake of acting like I don’t have a reasonable time scale for this stuff, and I have to stop that.
April 19, 2022
TV Show of the Week: Star Trek: The Animated Series.
I’m mostly trying to talk myself out of buying Star Trek: The Animated Series because I know I won’t actually watch it unless it’s on a streaming service. The problem there is that I’m also talking myself out of getting Paramount+ because I have far too many streaming services already. It’s a bit of a problem all around.
Still: the price is nice, right? To the wish list it goes!
There’s *money* in Kindle Vella, folks.
At least for the next few months, if I’m reading the FAQ correctly. For right now creators are being compensated for people using their free tokens to read Kindle Vella stories (like, say, THE STARS ARE WRONG); and the payout is… rather higher than I was expecting. Enough that I’m going through my Patreon short stories to find ones that I haven’t otherwise made available for free, or put in a chapbook.
If you’re an author and have any kind of audience, I suggest you consider doing the same. At least until July 2022.
I… don’t think they’re making a sequel to the Flash movie.
In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that THE FLASH was already in post-production, there might not have been a Flash movie in the first place. As it stands, they’ve got a lead actor who is battling… something. I don’t know what it is, but Ezra Miller is by definition not making good decisions right now.
Hollywood gets skittish when that happens to the leads to their movies, and honestly: who’s surprised by that? Getting a film up on the big screen is tough enough as it is without having the actors in it go sproing. Especially when it ends with somebody getting arrested.
Tweet of the Day, Isn’t This How You Get Assigned A Cat? edition.
My wife’s family just had cats… show up at the house, wait for a human to open the door, and then saunter in. She explained it to me before we got married, and danged if it didn’t promptly happen to us, too. Which is fine, really: it seems more efficient this way.
Adopting a Cat [Comic] https://t.co/OEMnq4CzZi
— Geeks are Sexy (@geeksaresexy) April 19, 2022
04/19/22 Snippet, MOUTHY.
I actually expect the people reading along to these snippets to figure this one out. The real question is whether the folks reading the whole thing for the first time will, too. Guess we’ll see!
Patreon!I waited inside for three days, just in case I showed symptoms. Not symptoms of the Plague, you understand: I do everything the government and the doctors have told me to avoid getting sick from that. I do it, because it works. I’ve never even had a symptom of the Plague.
No, what I was looking for were symptoms of becoming a mouthy. That’s got to be the way they reproduce, you see: get too close to one for too long, and you’ll become one yourself. And there’s nothing to stop that. The only thing you can do is find a mirror, and stare.
But the gash-mouth never appeared, thank God. And my teeth didn’t feel any different when I ran my tongue over and around them. Most of all, I didn’t feel like a mouthy. How did I know? It’s the eyes. When I looked in the mirror, the mirror didn’t show me back the contemptuous gaze of a mouthy. So much of the horror of them for me comes when I think about the mindset of those monsters. What they must think of normal people! How they must fear us!
God, I hope they still fear us. If they ever stop…
