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December 3, 2021
12/03/21 Snippet, THE DOOM THAT CAME TO LUNA CITY.
She seems nice! Hope nothing happens to her!
Patreon!Distance was funny on the moon. A site hundred miles down the road was closer than one twenty miles away, and over broken ground. And this jaunt to Luna City was… definitely going to be a road trip, Tobias thought as he supervised the loading-up of the lunar bus. The buses could be recharged from the fusion plant, or a spare solar panel in a pinch. The hoppers could not.
Aside from Hawthorne, Wu, and Jones, he had two other people coming along: Dr. Lillian Peters from what used to be Oxford’s lunar research station, and Corporal Josef Buckley from the motor pool. Buckley was there to drive the bus. Dr. Peters’ research into lunar geology wouldn’t be helpful on the mission, but she had logged more hours outside than anybody else who at least qualified for fetching and carrying.
She also seemed fairly eager to actually go somewhere. “Thank you, Commander. I haven’t had a chance to work in vacuum since Before. Even if we’re taking the stairs instead of climbing down.”
New Weird Al Tour.
It’s another iteration of his original songs only tour from a few years ago so I can probably skip it safelHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, who am I kidding? The only reason I haven’t signed up yet for the Kennedy Center show (ooooh) yet is because I can’t. Seriously: the last show was a gas. I’m up for seeing it again.
133 shows, here we go. Check out all the dates at https://t.co/ETyiOJdd8h pic.twitter.com/26Db4N8PB4
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) December 3, 2021
December 2, 2021
12/02/21 Snippet, TINSEL RAIN.
Getting on with it.
Patreon!“There’s a bomb about to go off, Clancy.” I paused to think, and I remember some recent awkwardness. “And, oh, yeah: it’s not mine.”
I got lucky: the first Flatfoot I ran into on the security detail for the sit-down was somebody I knew. The last time I had seen Clancy, he was getting a lot of commoners out of the way of a wizard’s duel downtown, which did wonders for his promotion prospects. He might even be fresh-faced enough to think he owed me a favor for the way I got that duel to sputter out. Even if he hadn’t, he’d be smart enough to listen.
Clancy didn’t look happy to see me, though. “Shamus,” he hissed (while closing one eye), “you gotta make tracks, muchacho! Before somebody sees. Whatever your mess is, I can’t help. Or make it go away. There’s Crown papers out on you.”
“Not any more, Clancy,” I told him as I gave him Gannon’s note. “I got papers of my own, now. I’d say go check with Stoneface Joe himself if you can’t read his scrawl, but we’re running outta minutes right now. …Hey, don’t wrinkle that!”
Tweet of the Day, The Next One Is 12/11/21 edition.
Interesting. 12/22/21, too, if you keep using the digital font. Enjoy them, because they won’t happen again in our lifetimes (I think).
Today is both a palindrome and an ambigram. Which means it can be read backwards and forwards as well as upside down. This may be my most useful tweet ever. Good day. pic.twitter.com/xSPCAXMnyc
— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) December 3, 2021
Child’s Play Charity Auction tonight.
Tickets are still available, I think: the festivities start at 9 PM Eastern Time. I also need to get around to doing a holiday donation to Child’s Play generally. I am extremely grateful that my family’s never needed their services.
12/02/21 Snippet, THE STARS ARE WRONG.
Burglary!
Patreon!“Here it is,” Goody Blem told us, a weird satisfaction in her voice. Like we had doubted that she was the victim of a crime, and this was her proof to show us up as fools. The common folk do not love Guardians; nor should they. Usually the thing we guard them from is their own neighbors.
‘Around the back’ was a shack, stouter than I expected, with barred windows and a sturdy door. Or it was sturdy: the padlock had been pulled off, the doorframe itself was scarred, and the hinges half-ripped out of the wood. It looked like some foul beast had come in from the hills and ripped the door off in its quest for what was inside, and certainly such things have happened, but …I frowned. “Nobody heard a sound, you say?”
“I did not say! But if my neighbors heard this, they kept mum. I didn’t hear nothing myself until I came back here yesterday to gather the offerings for the Festival. They were gone! And who’ll pay for this door, I ask you? Good work, it was, though it cost me too much…” And with that Goody Blem was off again, muttering about the Kee and how they charged too much and took away all the good jobs, and where were the Guardians then, hey?
12/02/21 Snippet, THE DOOM THAT CAME TO LUNA CITY.
What could possibly go wrong?
Patreon!“They put the air filtration system at the bottom of the central dome,” Abby told the working group two hours later. “Five levels down the main stairwell, and just off the main doors in Maintenance. Just like us, but with two more levels to go down. And climb.”
One of the techs raised her hand. Jilly Hawthorne, Tobias reminded himself. Civilian with Tesla-Grummond. “The power’s out completely, then? Major,” she added after a second, with the wince of a woman who was reminding herself about military courtesy.
“We’re assuming so, based on the last telemetry,” Abby said. “We’re also assuming no light, no atmosphere, and no survivors. Which means no looters, either. Or, you know… anything else.” The grimness of that ‘anything else’ hovered over the table, silencing everything it touched.
December 1, 2021
Don’t, Guillermo del Toro.
…Don’t give me hope.
According to Del Toro, one of the first potential projects he took to Netflix was At the Mountains of Madness, and he said that he would change some things up with the script.
