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My mini-review of K-POP DEMON HUNTERS.

Short version: …Daaaaaaaaaamn but that was good.

Slightly longer version: you don’t have to like K-Pop to like K-POP DEMON HUNTERS. On the other hand, you might like K-Pop more after watching this film. The music and songs flow nicely into the plot, and vice versa; the narrative is simple to follow, but not actually simplistic. If I have a criticism, it’s that the runtime could have used maybe one more song before the climax. Still, if you haven’t seen this yet, go ahead. Good stuff all around.

The August Patreon stuff is up! Early!

I’m trying this thing where I finish a deadline early. I know, I know: that way lies madness. And yet, here we are.

Anyway:

Fiction: Chapter 3, BRAVING THE MALSTORM. This was as far as I got in the book. Guess we’re going farther, here on out.Roleplaying Games: Fall of the Twenty Realms, Part 1: Introduction. If this sounds like something out of my Flim-Flam stories, well, there’s a reason for that.Patreon!

Having the Sleep Madness.

Either that, or allergies, or a summer cold. Any which way, I need to go get some sleep. See you in the morning!

BEHOLD! The BANSHEE BEACH cover.

I am well pleased.

As to when the book is coming out… well. I’m steadily working on it again, and BANSHEE BEACH is almost ready for an alpha read. I just have to stop messing about. Yup. Simple as that. Trivial exercise, really.

In the meantime, tell all your friends to read the first two!

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‘The Galaxy Song.’

The Galaxy Song, Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life.

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Blast from the Past: “Song of the Siren.” [The Day After Ragnarok]

Because the topic of manatees is coming up on Twitter, for some reason.

I don’t actually make any royalties off of “Song of the Siren,” but I encourage you to buy it anyway. It was a lot of fun to write and The Day After Ragnarok is one of my three favorite TTRPG settings ever. Maybe someday it’ll make a comeback…

BEHOLD! BANSHEE BEACH cover art!

I’ll have the e-book cover soon, but this is going to be the cover art for BANSHEE BEACH:

As you can see, I am continuing my habit in this series of ripping off famous art work from the past. Personally, I think Shaenon Garrity did a bang-up job here, but then: she always does. All in all, I think that this is a good midpoint for the se… I have said too much.

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08/27/2025 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.

Class is in session!

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You ever get judged by a fifteen-year old kid? There’s nothing like it.

“Hoverboards.” Catalina spat out that word like it rhymed with something dirty. Or like having it in her mouth caused her physical pain. The look she gave me didn’t even have any contempt ladled on, because there was no room because of all the pity. “I know there ain’t no waves up in Big Tinsel, but couldn’t you have sloshed around in a pool, at least?”

I looked up at her from my seat on the sand, where I was busily changing my shoes for sandals. “Hey. You asked me what I know, Catalina—”

She waggled a finger at me. “Hush the pipes a second, Gra— Shamus. The kind of simoleons you’re dropping on the table for training, you can buy a ‘Catty’ or two.”

“Gee, thanks. Whaddya gotta pay to never hear you even think ‘Gramps’ again?”

The little whippersnapper actually laughed. “More than the Castle’s gonna pay, Shamus. Even if they wanted to. They probably wanna see you gape like a fish that just found out lunch wasn’t free.”

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08/27/2025 Snippet, BRAVING THE MALSTORM.

I want to get this chapter polished up and done today and then I can work on other things for the rest of the month. The next chapter is where we get our final party member, too. That’s going to be fun.

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There’s a trick to waking up suddenly because you realize that something’s wrong, and it’s one that all successful Adventurers have. The trick is to be the sort of person who can do that. If you can’t, you should probably find a different line of work. So when Zeke ghosted into the compartment I was already uncurling off the bed, and I could smell the others waking up, too.

We gathered around the table, speaking low but not whispering. Whispers travel. “Train’s slowing down,” observed Tabetha (I figured we were at that stage of familiarity now).

Zeke nodded. “They got a runner in from up the track with a warning,” he said. “The conductor woke me up and told me the kid was babbling about trouble in Brigham City. Magic trouble.”

Roger raised his eyebrows. “I didn’t realize the Danites put agents in the trains.” Which got Zeke blinking in his own surprise.

“What?” Zeke said. “No. Well, sure, we do sometimes, but Ted’s my cousin from my second maternal grandmother’s brother. So of course he’s going to wake me up to let me know.”

“Of course,” I agreed, and then Melissa chuckled for some reason. Elves have weird senses of humor, sometimes.

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The 30th H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cthulhu on the High Seas Kickstarter.

I have the T-Shirt from the previous one. It’s a good T-Shirt, too, the kind you can wear while vending and have people stop and complement it. That’s very useful… But anyway, the same guy is doing the T-Shirt for the 30th H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cthulhu on the High Seas, so I have high hopes for it.