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April 18, 2022
‘Immigrant Song.’
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04/18/22 Snippet, MOUTHY.
Moving along.
Patreon!I didn’t get really scared until the mouthy was almost on top of us. Physical violence wasn’t ever the problem. They’re monsters, but they don’t eat people. And, like I said, they were afraid of the Plague, too.
But this one wasn’t. As she got closer I saw with horror that the mouthy was wearing a little vaccination pin. At first I thought that was just protective covering, but then I realized: why wouldn’t the vaccines work on mouthys, too? And how I could prove it, either way? This wasn’t something you could trust the scientists on. Even the ones that really understood how horrible, how insidious, how patient the Plague was didn’t know of the mouthy menace. If they did know, they’d tell everybody who would listen!
“Six feet!” my would-be recruit snapped, when it looked like the mouthy (and her terrible mouth) would be getting too close. “Some of us don’t want to get sick.”
“Whatever.” I was struck by how good the mouthy’s English was, considering her mouth and teeth. Each word sounded bitten off, still raw and bleeding odd harmonics; but it was comprehensible. “You see this pin? I’m boosted. And the store’s made masks optional.” The mouthy grinned, in a way that made me want to cover the arteries on my neck. “So mind your own business.”
My Monday: surveys, and dust.
The dust was from moving my computer across the living room. We had the kids’ computers down here during the pandemic, to make it easier for me to do tech support. But the eldest is back at school, so we moved his computer up to his room and I moved my machine away to give my youngest some distance. The new arrangement works fine; but dear Lord, the dust. So. Much. Dust.
When I wasn’t doing that, I was working on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter surveys. They’re almost ready to go, but I had a few questions to ask Backerkit about some red flags they have on the process. I expect to hear back from them some time around noon tomorrow, which is about when they get into the office (Pacific Time). Backerkit is very good about getting back to me with regards to tech support issues. It’s one of the major reasons I use them, in fact.
Back fully into the swing of things tomorrow, then!
Started in on the TINSEL RAIN editor’s edits.
Slightly different style, but that’s all right. It’s not too different, and I can adapt. It probably helps that TINSEL RAIN started out a little more polished than FROZEN DREAMS did, too. Although admitting that is a Catch-22: you want your books to get better, but that kind of implies that your first books… aren’t perfect.
Anyway, things are coming along.
The THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER teaser trailer.
In all of its 1980s-1990s glory. The Guns N’ Roses theme in particular made me chortle. They’re not even trying anymore to hide the pandering to my generation, are they?
Not that I mind.
The teaser for Thor: Love and Thunder has been released. pic.twitter.com/qe2YcsuSwq
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) April 18, 2022
(Via @aliarikan)
April 17, 2022
In Nomine Revisited: Easter.
I am legitimately surprised I never put this up before (I wrote it something like twenty years ago). That was always the fun thing about In Nomine: the French version of the RPG might have been deeply satirical, but the American version always had plenty of room for meaningful religious sentiment. While still being heretical as all get-out, of course. But if Rudyard Kipling’s allowed to write religious fanfic, then so am I…
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Easter-Google-DocsDownloadPatreon Microfiction: The Quiet Themes of Geomancy.
Ah, The Quiet Themes of Geomancy. I’ll say this for being an unpaid teacher’s aide: I now have a much better grasp of geography and earth science at the sixth-grade level. Which is embarrassing, in its way. Still, if I didn’t know the fine details before and I do know them now: that’s good, right? Better to be educated than ignorant, surely.
Patreon!John 20:1-18.
Happy Easter. He is Risen!
The Empty Tomb20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
