Moe Lane's Blog, page 766
February 18, 2021
02/18/21 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Vroom!
Patreon!I’ve mentioned before that you couldn’t fly too crazy-fast on 118-G-002, right? Try it, and the planetary transport system shuts you down. And that’s true, except there’s one thing you can fly free, and that’s ballistically. Set up your arc, hit maximum speed, and shut everything down just before the system takes your hauler over.
It’s a rare oversight of Amalgamation tech. What we think happens is, the transport system decides then that you’re either an asteroid, enemy ship, or broken vehicle. The first two are problems for the planetary defense grid and the third gets handled by emergency services. Only, guess what? Both were slagged beyond repair on 118-G-002, so by the time the transport system works that all out you’re on your downward descent and braking like you’re about to crash-land in Hell. Because if you don’t, you will.
Done right, and you can pretty much go anywhere on the planet real fast. Do it wrong, and you may end up as just another crater on the ground. As a philosopher once said: I don’t recommend it, mind. But it can be done. And when six human lives are on the line, you give it your best shot. There aren’t many humans out here on the Tomb Worlds, so we try not to waste them. Company policy.
Penny Arcade e-race tonight! (Sans sponsorship, alas.)
The sponsorship had contracted for four cars, four weeks, and that ended last week. Tonight’s is more or less the last race of the season; next week there’s a silly car race, and they start the new one two weeks from now. I’ll know then if I’ll be doing a sponsorship under the new rates. In the mean time… I’ve kind of gotten into watching the races. They’re fun. Some good folks doing ’em, too.
https://www.twitch.tv/pennyarcade 11:30 PM Eastern, tonight.
Live feed of Perseverance Landing.
3:55 PM Eastern time today. Here we go…
(h/T: Geeks Are Sexy)
The ‘raised eyebrow’ MORTAL KOMBAT trailer.
Were people… looking for this? I can never tell, anymore. Is there a vast, untapped market of MORTAL KOMBAT enthusiasts who want another movie? Or are they confusing it with STREET FIGHTER? Not gonna lie: I keep having that problem, myself.
Get over here! Watch the trailer for Mortal Kombat now — in theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max April 16. #MortalKombatMovie pic.twitter.com/eFhQhbdNUl
— Mortal Kombat Movie (@MKMovie) February 18, 2021
February 17, 2021
Don’t forget: FROZEN DREAMS is also an audiobook!
And, gonna be honest: audiobooks are not a trivial thing to produce. The FROZEN DREAMS audiobook was easily the hardest part of the Kickstarter to fulfill. I dunno if I can make one for TINSEL RAIN (working title for the sequel) absent a really, really good result in the next Kickstarter…
This is all a lot easier when you have an actual publisher, alas.
Tweet of the Day, Moon-Faced Assassins Of Joy Watch edition.
02/17/21 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Still getting stuff written out of order, sorry.
Patreon!As Head Pilot I was one of the ones in the air, and I was the closest when the Redacted gave us more information. Dry coolant tanks in the fusion plant and a toxic gas discharge: two dead, six injured, and thank God the plant itself didn’t implode. They didn’t have to tell me to come in hot to pick up their most wounded, but they did it anyway. I don’t take it personally.
There’s an old folk song called Bat Out Of Hell that my grandma used to sing to me; I’m not sure why a bat, but I could almost hear the music as my hauler screamed its arc through the sky. I’ve never danced so fast or so hard on the wind, either. Reactor gas accidents are nasty; we’d be lucky if the victims were all still alive when I got there.
Which reminded me: I punched the emergency broadcast channel with one foot as I barrel-rolled through three barely overlapping safe zones. “Tanaka to Redacted: Running extract,” I gulped (inner-ear discomfort, not fear). “Running extract. No passengers, no securing. I repeat: no passengers, no securing.” And never mind that getting passengers or securing the wounded would take minutes. We didn’t have those to spare. I wasn’t even going to God-damn well stop.
TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter update: the books are in!
BEHOLD!
The Kickstarter reward books. My next step is to create shipping profiles, sign my signature a billion times, print out labels, and get these suckers out. Hopefully that will not take more than a week. After that, all I have to do is get the sampler done and then this project is largely in the can. Huzzah!
Moe Lane
PS: Pre-order store is still open, and I have a slight margin of extra books that I can use to fulfill pre-orders right away.
The “So, somebody sent us a Harley Quinn script by mistake” CRUELLA Trailer.
Oops, did I type that out?
Brilliant. Bad. A little bit mad. May 2021. pic.twitter.com/mtrhLpAzFe
— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) February 17, 2021
Via @BrianFaughnan, who is correct: CRUELLA does seem off. It might just be the trailer — or it might be that it’s kind of weird to make movies about villains. I’m also struck by the problem that it’s much easier to make a character unattractive in an animated movie than live-action. I absolutely get that Emma Stone didn’t want to lose seventy-five pounds and wear a too-loose skin suit, but… actually, somebody’s already summed it up:
Really wish I could go back to see my high school self who spent all her time turning My Chemical Romance lyrics into angsty fanfic, give her a hug, and tell her that everything’s going to be okay, Emma Stone’s going to play the Cruella Joker :’)
— Caroline Darya Framke (@carolineframke) February 17, 2021
All right, all right: I’ll leave this movie alone. Goths get to be pandered to, too. Their money’s as good as everybody else’s.
