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November 1, 2021
Tweet of the Day, Just… Watch edition.
Via @andylevy.
you must see the end of the ep of this new dating show where the guy picks which woman is already in a relationship pic.twitter.com/TVBFVGTRAz
— Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) November 2, 2021
NaNoWriMo, 11/01/2021: 2,020 / 17,380.
I started with a novella, you see. I don’t know if I can sustain 2K words a day for NaNoWrimo, but then I don’t have to. Even if I am aiming at 60K words, I’m already 29% of the way there. But it’s good to start as strongly as possible.
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Tomb Worlds
2368 AD
The radio was full with the keening of ghosts.
You can hear them best at the apex of a suborbital hop; One-Eighteen’s unique combination of atmosphere and magnetosphere might be creating the feedback, but it gets drowned out at sea level. You have to be up high for it to come through. A lot of hauler pilots filter out the ghosts, but I don’t. They don’t do me any harm; and if it weren’t for them I’d be up here, leaving a wake through the atmosphere of a dead world.
Funny, though: the world doesn’t look dead. Some of the Tomb Worlds live up to the name, but not this one. From up here, One-Eighteen is blue and green and lovely. It reminds me of Jefferson, or the pictures I’ve seen of Earth. Well, at least during the day. At night, the only lights you’ll see on the ground are the ones humans brought with us. Or turned back on.
A beep from the console reminded me that the hauler was about to do its descent to Luxor base. I shrugged off my reverie and started the landing checklist; apogee was the proper place for woolgathering (that stuff comes from sheep, in case you were wondering and aren’t from Jefferson). Now was the time for full attention, with none left over for ghosts.
Clip of the day, GODDAMMIT, PAUL Edition.
WHAT WAS YOUR VICTORY CONDITION HERE, PAUL?
Want #GhostbustersAfterlife tickets?
— Fandango (@Fandango) November 1, 2021
This exclusive clip will fire it up: https://t.co/RyotKe5WcH pic.twitter.com/rMEi3giv26
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU EXPECTED TO HAPPEN, PAUL, BUT THE REST OF US WERE NOT SURPRISED AS EVENTS TRANSPIRED. WE WERE ALL DIVING FOR COVER, PAUL. AND YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE EXCUSE OF IN-UNIVERSE IGNORANCE, PAUL. YOUR CHARACTER DEFINITELY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.
PAUL.
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
The BOOK OF BOBA FETT Disney+ trailer.
Looks good, but not yet EPIC: in my opinion, THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT needs more blaster fire and betrayal. As long as the betrayer isn’t Fennec Shand, because she’s fun. But it’ll probably be Fennec Shand.
NaNoWriMo 2021 has begun!
This year I’ll be turning my novella GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND into an actual novel. It needs it, honestly. I also think that it gets to be the manuscript I send out to be endlessly rejected and/or brandish when somebody asks me, Do you have a novel available? I mean, I could self-publish it, but I don’t make enough to hope to publish more than one novel a year*.
Anyway, this one is not in the world of the Fermi Resolution. But keep an eye out for a possible fun thing associated with next year’s Kickstarter…
*Speaking off…
My books. (#commissionearned)My Patreon.October 31, 2021
The October Patreon stuff is up!
This month we have:
A chapter from TINSEL RAIN! Alchemy! Spirits! Spare ribs!Part V of MONSTER WAR DOOM! Details on the bad guys, who are arguably the good guys, only they’re not there yet and they definitely do oppose your players!As always, check out my Patreon!
Patreon!Patreon Microfiction: Mission of (Technical) Mercy.
I’m not sure what’s so bad that hangin’ seems like a better option, but whatever it is; it’s in the Devil’s Mine. So much so the sheriff’s not entirely certain he wants to go there himself. But the protagonist has his own reasons for seeing the job done… yeah, yeah, yeah: ‘Mission of (Technical) Mercy’ could have been a longer story.
Patreon!Bezos plans to build Orbital Reef in, guess where, orbit.
This is smart of Jeff Bezos. He should stop chasing Elon Musk when it comes to building rockets and concentrate instead on building orbital business parks:
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, has unveiled plans for a space station called Orbital Reef.
The space station would be built to give anyone “the opportunity to establish their own address on orbit” by providing services such as planning, payload development, training, transportation, data analysis and security.
Besides, there’s a LOT of [expletive deleted]ing money in all of that. Which Bezos knows, perfectly well: Amazon makes a metric [expletive deleted]-ton of cash selling services to people*. Expanding that out to LEO seems a reasonable progression. And a good start.
(AVia: @BrianFaughnan)
Moe Lane
*For example: I publish books, remember? Because I don’t! Amazon publishes them, and gives me my cut.
