Moe Lane's Blog, page 697
July 14, 2021
Tweet of the Day, There Is Nothing Here That Is Not Glorious edition.
Perfection.
Hold my beer while I show you the greatest Evel Knievel jump ever!
—pic.twitter.com/T1KrLdscLr
Hold My Beer
Via @iowahawk.
July 13, 2021
‘Beverly Hills.’
It’s kind of melancholy now, huh?
07/13/21 Snippet, THE DEFENSE OF WINDERMERE CASTLE.
Don’t worry if the chemistry doesn’t make sense. It’s a fantasy setting, after all.
Patreon!They smelled the pyrite mine a good hour before they saw it — and when the lieutenant and Carlotta got their first smell of it, they immediately stopped the others. Witherby got his mask with the ease of training, so it was him who hissed “Stop! Madgold!” first while she was still securing the straps. The others followed the first two’s lead, although with some confusion. Everybody knew what burning pyrite smelled like, after all. It was unpleasant, to be sure; but not considered all that dangerous.
Carlotta explained, once all were masked properly. “Madgold is always mixed with coal powder, in order to draw out the subtle poisons inside it. That is the smell of unmixed pyrite burning. Quite dangerous, when close: we will be well-advised to keep our masks on from now on.”
“Don’t rub any ash in your damned eyes, either,” said Witherby. “Ah, sorry, Your Grace.”
“I would think so, Lieutenant. The proper term is ‘damfool,’ after all.”
Still going on: the July Patreon Pledge Drive!
https://www.patreon.com/MoeLaneFiction! Microfiction! RPG material! And all for as little as a dollar a month! You can’t afford not to sign up!
Patreon!Ryan Reynolds and Taika Waititi get some DGAF advertising in for FREE GUY.
I have no idea whether FREE GUY is gonna be awesome or not. But Ryan Reynolds and Taika Waititi put in some solid burns here. Particularly about their own stuff, which I respect. Shows moxie.
If you include Deadpool’s cocaine rider, this is the most expensive reaction video ever made. pic.twitter.com/XvhIQMtBfS
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) July 13, 2021
The “Don’t Vex Me, Honest Trailers” TED LASSO Honest Trailer.
This was about as much sass about TED LASSO as I was able to smile and nod along with. Honest Trailers has its pride, after all. It has to present.
My mini-review of BLACK WIDOW.
Short version: I wish I had seen it in theaters, but it was a lot of fun.
Slightly longer version: well, I didn’t want to see BLACK WIDOW via Disney+ Premiere Early Access Gold Club or whatever it’s called, but my throat was sore on Friday and I am not going to risk movie theaters in any way at all right now. Since I spent the weekend flying from my first cold in over a year, this was a wise decision on my part. So I saw it on my computer screen, as blipping usual.
And I liked it. It was fun: I like all the actresses (and actor) in Nat’s half-real, half-fake, and actually-real after all family, and they did a good job. The plot was a Marvel movie’s, and I like those. I forget who noted that it would have been better if this movie had come out before INFINITY WAR, but people watching this series for the first time will be able to just do it all in internal chronological order, so no worries there.
I still quibble about the lack of a certain end credits scene, but that’s just me.
July 12, 2021
Hey, THE WITCHER Season 2 trailer!
How did I miss this? …Oh, right, summer cold. Those suck, by the way. Can’t say that I recommend them.
December 17th on Netflix.
What you've all been waiting for, Witcher family. Here's the first teaser trailer for Season 2, premiering December 17 on @netflix. #WitcherCon pic.twitter.com/TT4yYttA5F
— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) July 9, 2021
07/12/21 Snippet, THE DEFENSE OF WINDERMERE CASTLE.
HARK! Something unusual!
Patreon!The party encountered no more human settlements on their way to the mine — but they encountered no more revenants, either. This at first relieved, then bemused, and finally ended up alarming Carlotta. The spells she had cast were working to keep them away from the attention of the Undead, so much so that they would have been able to safely ambush any individual shamblers that they happened upon. Indeed, everyone in the party was looking forward to putting down a few shamblers. And yet, there were none to be found. In short, it was a bit of a mystery — and mysteries were no longer considered quite suitable for polite society, what there was left of it.
Carlotta consulted with Baxter’s scouts, and they were as confused as she was. One of them — Loud Mary, the only other woman in the party — went so far as to say it was ‘uncanny.’ “These paths ain’t good for shamblers,” she murmured (Loud Mary was also the quietest person Carlotta had ever met). “Back home, in hills like this they’d trip over their feet, get tangled up in brambles like it was nothing. Figured we’d be usin’ their heads for target practice every mile, like. But I ain’t even seen bones.”
