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January 20, 2022
Tweet of the Day, What The Hell IS This? edition.
Not the music video. I have no idea if it’s actually real.
Holy fucking shithttps://t.co/lES3fris60
— Tycho Brahe (@TychoBrahe) January 21, 2022
01/20/22 Snippet, DESERT.
Decisions!
Patreon!“You know, you shoulda asked us to help out right from the start, neighbor,” Shiner said a few hours later. “Sure, we would’ve said no. At first. But what did you have to lose?”
Joe sipped more of the brew elves called ‘tea,’ frowned, and then winced. The halflings had stitched him up while he was out, so he had missed that; but having stitches wasn’t fun, either. Which was why the tea. Everybody knew that elf tea was the best for healing the body up quick. But nobody actually liked the taste.
“I wasn’t filled with an inclination to plead my case,” he said. “A fellow gets a slave collar put on him, you can bet he’s soon thinking real hard about what he’ll do when that collar comes off. Didn’t feel it right of me to get in your way.”
The worst WWI general?
Sometimes, Facebook is useful. For example, today it showed me this article on Luigi Cadorna, the worst general in World War I. And before you say anything: it is absolutely true that picking any one general for that honor is a surprisingly difficult proposition. But somebody had to be the worst, and Cadorna is a strong contender:
Cadorna is a heady mix of command failings. Authoritarian and cruel, he demotivated rather than motivated his soldiers. His offensives were fought with the wrong tactics, in the wrong place, at the wrong tempo, for the wrong reasons. But more than any of this, what puts Cadorna at the top of my list of worst generals of the war is his failure to learn meaningful lessons from any of this, despite being left in command on the same front, facing the same opponent, from 1915 to 1917. In the end Cadorna’s failure to learn anything from either his own mistakes or from the open-air failure-dissertation that was the Western Front (that Italian positions were not defended in depth in 1917 is shockingly incompetent on its own) really does appear to be uniquely awful.
This was a very interesting post. If you’re interested in the subject, I recommend reading it. It’s worth your time.
“THE GORILLA-WHALE! THE GORILLA WHALE!” comes to Apple TV+.
Dammit, Apple TV+ keeps coming up with reasons for me not to cancel my subscription just quite yet.
In a massive deal that expands on Legendary’s Monsterverse, Apple TV+ has ordered a new live-action series featuring Godzilla and the Titans.
Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the untitled series explores one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch.
I’d watch this. Even if it’s just Godzilla wrecking a new city every week. …Or perhaps ‘even’ is not the right word, in this context. I’m not really expecting the Big Guy to continue to be a valued and vital action agent in the Pax Americana – I mean, it’s Apple, right? – but I’m down with some regular kaiju-on-built-up area destruction. Something to watch, yah?
#commissionearned
Happy Birthday, Buzz Aldrin!
You would think this would eventually stop being funny. Have I said this before? I have said this before.
January 19, 2022
TINSEL RAIN update.
Mostly, that I’ve gotten up to Chapter 13 back from my alpha reader (about half, in terms of wordcount). The current plan is to chew through the edits thus far this weekend, killing a darling in the process. I have been persuaded that it, while good, simply does not work when it’s being said by the character in question.
But I like it, so here it is:
How do we hate thee? Let us count the ways.
We hate you for the slaves you find and catch
The lives you blight, the mages that you snatch
For your ends so wicked, full of disgrace.
We hate you for how you seek to take and raze
All other realms, to build your land of fright.
We hate you freely, for your noxious might.
We hate you purely, with most righteous rage.
We hate you with the taste of your abuse
Fresh in our mouths; it tests our kingdom’s faith.
We hate you with a strength we shall not lose
As years go on. We hate with all our breaths,
Words, deeds, for all our lives; and, if we might choose,
We shall but hate you still past your realm’s death.
01/19/22 Snippet, DESERT.
I really need to work on that title.
Patreon!The elf started trilling away in that lingo of theirs, and Joe let him; if the elf was talking, he wasn’t shooting, which gave Joe time to plan— something. He wasn’t sure what. No way he could reload before the elf noticed, and then he’d get another bullet, only this time in the front. Getting up meant the same thing. Throw the gun at the horse, maybe spook it? That seemed the best of a bunch of bad choices…
Joe suddenly noticed the elf wasn’t trilling anymore. Instead, he was swaying back and forth on his horse, wider and wider, until he just sort of slid off of it, and onto the ground below. From the way he lay on the ground there, he wasn’t getting back up again, either.
Well, that’s nice, Joe dimly thought as he started to drift off himself. I wasn’t going to hit the horse anyway.
Tweet thread of the Day, This Is A Beautiful Recursion edition.
My God.
My God.
My man is already set to play himself in a movie based on essentially this exact premise. pic.twitter.com/K0IKu5DMNr
— Gee Gee (@00Oo0l0oO00) January 20, 2022
It’s not exact – no True Cross – but Art only holds up a mirror to Life. You must expect a certain amount of distortion.
