Moe Lane's Blog, page 674
September 2, 2021
The MOONFALL Teaser trailer.
I am trying my damndest to give MOONFALL the same elementary courtesy that I would, say, EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. To wit: I am trying not to get too worked up over the fact that the science in this flick is not so much wonky as it is virtually nonexistent. We’ve made inaccurate space movies for almost a century now. What’s one more?
It’s still just a little bit hard, though.
Tweet Thread of the Day, Let My Keyword Travails Serve As A Cautionary Tale edition.
So, I totally messed up my Amazon book keywords. Which meant I had to go fix them. Fix them all, for each edition. Because when you screw keywords up from the start, you don’t get to have an easy solution.
Don’t let this happen to you!
So, I had to change ALL the keywords on my books tonight, because nobody tells me anything. Here, in no particular order, are the new ones, by book.
— Moe Lane (@Ogiel23) (@moelane) September 3, 2021
The RED NOTICE Netflix trailer.
It is absurd. But is it absurd ENOUGH?
They’re as dangerous as they come.
— Netflix (@netflix) September 2, 2021
See @therock, @vancityreynolds and @galgadot in Red Notice November 12. pic.twitter.com/DsdWXVXycy
It’s not a bad lineup, for absurd: Gal Gadot is the only person in that picture that has any hope left for a ‘normal’ Hollywood career, thus making her the likely straight man for the other two*. If the script can sustain a good, steady supply of fun-stupid, RED NOTICE might work. Might.
Well, I guess we’ll find out in November.
Moe Lane
*At this point, I don’t think either Reynolds ($150 million net worth) or Johnson ($400 million) really care about having normal careers. I imagine it’s more fun being Deadpool, or the guy who takes magnetic cars to space. And when I write it out like that…
The THE WHEEL OF TIME Series Teaser Trailer.
(H/T: @IMAO_) I’ve never actually read the books. Will that get in the way of me enjoying this? Should I expect to enjoy this? It looks like at least medium-level fantasy and they obviously filmed in some pretty locations, but I know almost nothing about the IP. Are people looking forward to THE WHEEL OF TIME?
Watch the teaser trailer for the epic #TheWheelOfTime series, coming to Amazon @PrimeVideo on November 19. pic.twitter.com/YOTiKv2gI4
— The Wheel Of Time (@TheWheelOfTime) September 2, 2021
Dust Sigils [Esoterrorists]/
Kind of self-referential, but then this entire game line is highly esoteric anyway.
Dust Sigils [Esoterrorists]
Description: a collection of 250 pendants, one inch in diameter and made out of unfinished wood. Each pendant is crudely inscribed with the following design:
The design originates from Megalon Publishing, a British tabletop roleplaying game company specializing in 20th century horror, fantasy, and science fictional settings. Dust Sigils in particular draw from a set of horror novels written by Clarissa Beatrice Witherspoon (1865-1933). Witherspoon was an otherwise obscure author of fictional travelogues who abruptly switched gears to write Silent Deaths (1905), King’s Despair (1908), Collections of Futility (1909), Last Pavane (1910), and Dust Queen of The Saffron Waste (1911) before just as abruptly going back to light fiction. No explanation for her change in tone — or, indeed, how she was able to get her publisher to print four remarkably bleak novels and one short story collection — was ever given.
Megalon Publishing has recently published a critically acclaimed (as such things go) TTRPG based on the shared world of the works listed above. An Ordo Veritas investigation at the time revealed no Esoterrorist links; their private and public electronic communications do not show any unusual use of Esoterrorist keywords, and there is no correlation between Megalon’s catalog and incidents involving the Membrane. There is in fact an ongoing discussion at the higher levels of the OV whether to use them as a cutout to produce Membrane-friendly RPG material.
This discussion has been complicated by the discovery of 250 Dust Sigils recovered as a part of Operation VIRIDIAN TRIANGLE. The Sigils were in the possession of Esoterrorist Nicholas Arminger, who had arranged to hand them out as site tokens at an upcoming event sponsored by a medieval-recreationist organization called the League For Archaic Pleasures. Arminger did not reveal why he made the Sigils, prior to his suicide while still in custody.
The group will thus need to investigate Arminger, Megalon, and the League. Examining Witherspoon’s work might also prove fruitful: her brief digression into horror ended up informing the works of more well-known classic horror writers Lavinia Asenath Marsh and Sonya Belit. But report back regularly, and don’t split up! Horror fiction may be entertaining, but it should never be emulated.
(The following non-commercial, fan-created material is meant for use with the Esoterrorists RPG. The Esoterrorists is a Trademark of Pelgrane Press Ltd. The Yellow Sign seen above has likewise been placed into the public domain by Pelgrane.)
September 1, 2021
Tweet of the Day, What If, Indeed edition.
what if i put the wallace and gromit theme over the mass effect 2 cinematic trailer pic.twitter.com/Mf1kVq2aIT
— Emma Vakarian-Theirin (@Emma_Vakarian) September 1, 2021
Via @zamoose, who apparently knows me pretty well.
09/01/21 Snippet, FLIM-FLAM MAN.
I’m taking this one a little slowly because it’s the first week of school for the kids.
Patreon!it was really a shame there didn’t seem to be anybody around to try it on. Guess it really is an abandoned road, he thought. Not even a peasant’s hut or hunter’s shack. That worried him, more than a little. Why was the road abandoned, anyway?
As the shadows lengthened, he started looking for somewhere to hole up. Somewhere away from any large or aggressive beasts, although… there weren’t any animals on this road, either. No squirrels or insects — and all of the birdsong sounded like it was a ways off. It was like everything that could be staying away, was staying away.
But that wasn’t the strange part, really. What was strange — and oddly unnerving — was the lack of any sort of malignancy. You could always tell when an area was suffering from, say, lifebane: the plants would be sickly and twisted, the air would be foul, what light there was would always feel wrong. Or there’d be strange visions out of the corner of your eyes, or malignant whispering from the shadows, or what have you. The typical manifestations of capital-E Evil were well known, so it was a little odd to have the absence of animal life without anything like a miasma of horror, or so forth. It was putting Gregor off his stride.
THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
Yup. It’s September 1st. The Spice Must Flow.
