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February 17, 2021
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.
February 16, 2021
Started up some of the stuff for MORGAN BAROD.
Mostly, I might – might – have the cover art squared away. No guarantees, yet: but if it works out I can’t wait for people to see it. MORGAN BAROD’s going to be a weird book generally, which is a pretty good argument for not Kickstarting it. If if goes down in flames then at least it’s not taking other people’s money with it.
Beta readers will probably be needed at some time in March. I’m hoping for a June launch, but that may be optimistic. We’ll see.
02/16/21 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Snippet out of order.
Patreon!We only got grounded once, which was actually pretty good for somebody going through emergency qual training. He didn’t quite see it that way, though. “I’m doing it wrong!” he muttered at himself. “What am I missing?”
“Well, it’s nice you’re not blaming me,” I said while stretching (the ‘I’ve spent an hour in this chair’ kind, not the ‘hey look at me’ kind). “What, you expected to pick it all up in one go?”
“Not really,” admitted Syad. “Okay, that’s a lie. I did. I’m usually good at picking things up quickly,” he said with a surprising lack of arrogance, “and this technique you’re trying to teach me — I should be able to get it! It’s obvious how it’s supposed to go. But I keep missing the mark.”
“Yeah, that’s the Amalgamation for you.” I started working the controls — well, the hand controls. There was a bunch of stuff that you could do with your feet, but that was legit hard for humans to learn. I wasn’t sure if I knew them all myself. It didn’t matter, anyway: we were still locked out until somebody had learned her lesson about obeying all local traffic laws. “They did things differently than we did. Better, honestly. It’s hard to pick some of the subtle stuff up. The best you can do is keep quiet and listen. Sometimes you end up hearing what you need to learn.” I shrugged. “And sometimes you don’t.”
Available for Pre-Order: THE BORELLUS CONNECTION [THE FALL OF DELTA GREEN]
AS the title suggests, THE BORELLUS CONNECTION is a Fall of Delta Green campaign where you can do French Connection-style Mythos investigations. Most nifty. Not yet released, which is less nifty, but such is life.
The Borellus Connection https://t.co/8ooJndrpQF
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) February 16, 2021
The LILO & STITCH Honest Trailer.
It’s… a little unfair.
Not about Lilo & Stitch, but if you look at the movie lists afterward, you’ll find… oh. Huh. Hrm. Okay, yeah, never mind: Disney’s non-Pixar stuff was virtually all crap for years afterward.
Tweet of the Day, I Know ‘Florida Man’ Is Just A Reporting Illusion But DAMN edition.
It really is. As I understand it, Florida is a big state with unique disclosure rules when it comes to criminal cases. That means a decent reporter can get the kind of details that makes for good copy; and, when you find a good well, you go back to it. That’s all, really.
And yet.
Miami lawyer suspended after his pants caught fire during arson trial and he filed a bogus insurance claim with GEICO arrested on cocaine charge #BecauseMiami https://t.co/kebEnreaGo
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) February 16, 2021
February 15, 2021
‘Party in the CIA.’
Still my ringtone.
