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May 17, 2021
MORGAN BAROD just sent to the alpha reader again.
This is after feedback from her and my beta readers (if you’re a beta reader and have got anything left to add, there’s still time for feedback). After I have it back from here, it’s off to the editor. It’s in a better place now, I think — by which I mean I hate MORGAN BAROD, and want it to burn. This is apparently perfectly normal.
May 16, 2021
The second shot is definitely hitting me harder.
And it was a royal pain in the ass to get, too. Traffic sucked and I lost GPS on the way back and I think they forgot I was there after the shot. But… set the clock, because there’s only two weeks left of this nonsense left for me, personally.
I’m now going to yawn my way through the baronial meeting and then go to bed, folks.
Off to get the second shot soon.
There may or may not be reduced posting this afternoon and evening. I don’t know what my reaction is gonna be: second-shot reactions are apparently all over the place. Either way, the countdown timer to full vaccination status finally starts soon…
Patreon Microfiction: “Invoking the Black-Smoke Foal.”
As they say in the world of “Invoking the Black-Smoke Foal”: The Bountiful Mother Ocean made Selkie. Sam Colt made her equal. You’d think more supernatural creatures with hands would have made this conceptual leap*.
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*Man, now I want to write a story about a shotgun-wielding Bigfoot exorcist.
May 15, 2021
The new THE HITMAN’S WIFE BODYGUARD trailer.
Believe it or not, I somehow missed that THE HITMAN’S WIFE BODYGUARD is a sequel to THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD. No, I don’t know how I missed that, either. Weird, huh?
Moe Lane
PS: No, really. Go ahead and laugh. It’s funny that I didn’t realize this.
Book of the Week: Interviewing Leather: The Todd Chapman Interview and Being the Steve (Justice Wing).
Yeah, Eric Burns-White’s Interviewing Leather: The Todd Chapman Interview and Being the Steve (Justice Wing) is a bit of a mouthful. I hope it sells a bunch of copies anyway. I’ve wanted him to publish it for a long time now.
Why You Should Not Attract The Attention Of The National Security Agency, Part #05152021.
Sorry: “allegedly.”
The DarkSide ransomware affiliate program responsible for the six-day outage at Colonial Pipeline this week that led to fuel shortages and price spikes across the country is running for the hills. The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained the cryptocurrency from an account the group uses to pay affiliates.
(Via @vermontaigne) Normally I’d explain what happened with Darkside vis-a-vis the NSA, but honestly? Agent Bubbles summed it up nicely.
I will note this, though: when the company that you just took for ransom – while incidentally sparking reports of gas lines and fuel shortages across the eastern half of the USA – suddenly decides to pay the ransom after all, well… actually, never mind. There’s nothing to be nervous about. Don’t worry about it at all. Everybody knows that the NSA never gets involved in domestic political situations. You’ll be fine.
05/15/21 Snippet, EMERGENCY SIRENS.
The Insidious Communist Littoral Threat!
Patreon!Say what you like about the Cold War, but it’s done wonders for women’s career advancement in the Navy.
Mind you, under the water it’s not a Cold War. We drylanders always had legends about sirens and mermaids and selkies and other people of the sea, but it wasn’t until World War II that we actually found any. Or at least, it wasn’t until then that any scientists found any.
Luckily for us, unluckily for the mermaids, the Nazis were the ones that found them first. I say ‘luckily’ because the folks that live in the sea weren’t always thrilled with drylanders. There have been bad incidents, on both sides. Nobody’s hands are clean — but the Nazis had very dirty hands, and to them mermaids were just another breed of Untermenschen. When the mermaids realized that us and the Brits — oh, and the Soviets, too — were doing our level best to kill the filleting bastards, well, the enemy of my enemy is my military ally, right?
And that would have been fine, if only the damned Commies hadn’t gotten a bug up their collectivist asses about spreading the message of the global revolution to the oppressed proletariat laboring under the waves. Or, if you don’t believe in that particular flavor of ideological bullshit: creating deniable allies who could mess with American shipping and naval units. Whatever the reason, pretty soon we and the Russians were picking sides and propping up allies. Better war below the waterline than above it.
Or at least that’s the strategy.
