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February 7, 2021
Tweet of the Day, This Is Astounding edition.
Amazing, is it not?
This one seems appropriate today. pic.twitter.com/sLKfNPn86o
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) February 7, 2021
Moe Lane
PS: Nah, I’m not watching the game. Nothing really to watch it on, there’s nobody over, and I don’t follow either team playing. But I do miss the idea of Super Bowl parties.
Patreon Microfiction: Final Move.
‘Final Move’ is fairly grim, from a certain point of view. Human brains just don’t handle the concept of Eternity well, I suppose. Or maybe it’s just that every story turns into something else, on a long enough schedule?
Patreon!February 6, 2021
‘The Mary Ellen Carter.’ (in 360 degrees!)
The Mary Ellen Carter, The Longest Johns
Book of the Week: A Brightness Long Ago.
A Brightness Long Ago is by Guy Gavriel Kay, and I don’t think I’ve read it yet. Lemme fix that, right now.
02/06/21 Snippet, [Title To Be Determined].
Adversaries!
Patreon!I’m growing worried that Camio thinks it can continue to keep using us like this, Cascadia Springsong (Chief Speaker of Friends of the Earth Made Clean) thought sourly to herself. I don’t have that many people willing to throw their lives away on command; and the ones I do have all have more important things to do, like die for me. But tell that to a demon.
That had been a fun conversation, earlier. Camio generally manifested as a small songbird of one kind or another, and liked to unobtrusively sneak in while you weren’t looking. It was alarming… but not as much as the way the bird would eventually catch on fire and implode. Although that at least usually indicated that the conversation was over. Before today’s implosion, Camio had insisted that Springsong send someone to test the defenses of the PECZ yet again; and this time it couldn’t be bought off with a suitable offering.
Sometimes Camio was like that, but it used to be only sometimes. But has it really been getting worse, lately? Maybe. The trouble was that Camio worked well with FEMC. The things it wanted (or said it wanted) were largely the things she wanted, too, which had to be taken into consideration.
Commercial of the Day, My Family Feels Seen edition.
This is the funniest commercial I’ve seen yet this year.
Tweet of the Day, It’s A… Surprisingly Interesting Question edition.
One sort of addressed in Disney Phineas & Ferb: Star Wars, which is inexplicably and inexcusably NOT canon, somehow. Yes, I grant that there are broad comic elements that might be difficult to reconcile with the more epic tone aimed for in the Star Wars universe. Counterpoint: midichlorians, the inability of stormtroopers to shoot, the unlikely career arc of Jar-Jar Binks, and goram death sticks and robot waitresses. So, sure, let’s keep all of that in the official universe, but God forbid that there’d be room for a Dark Side-infused sub sandwich…
…But I digress.
also what the fuck did they do on the Death Star when it wasn't Planet Exploding Day or Getting Attacked By Rebels Day? are they renting out office space to businesses to generate revenue?
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) February 5, 2021
February 5, 2021
Less than a day on the SVALBARD Kickstarter.
Svalbard is a Cthulhu Mythos-light time-bending game scenario. It looks real cool. I want the extra stuff, too. Less than a day to go!
The COSMIC SIN trailer. (I don’t know if I believe in it.)
I mean, it exists, sure… but is there an actual movie? I know that it’s been an odd year or so lately in the movie business, but COSMIC SIN seems more like an elaborate practical joke. Like, Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo were working on a different, secret project and this is just what they threw together to muddy the waters and achieve tactical surprise.
Because if they were instead really trying to go with a ‘Mass Effect fan film’ aesthetic, then there’s a fairly important asset that’s apparently lacking.
