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10/15/2025 Snippet, FOR THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST.

Action! Also: Morrigan Ragemonger is a horrible human being who deserves everything bad that happens to her. We’re not friendly.

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Morrigan Ragemonger had learned her trade in a hard Circle, and even harder war. She screamed out three words where a lesser mage would have needed fifty, and suddenly a pulsing, glowing globe surrounded her and the remainder of her swarm. She felt a moment of hot exultation as the enemy desperately swerved to avoid the globe, with two of them failing and spinning out in their own turn in a haze of burning straw and undead flesh. The third was a better stickman, which bought him a whole ten seconds more of unlife before Morrigan’s carefully-aimed light bolt shredded his torso. Then she screamed again, this time using a spell that practically embedded itself in everyone else’s brain: “SCATTER AND REFORM!”

Most of her escort managed to obey; one jerked and went slack, her face a glistening crimson from the blood streaming from her nose. Morrigan didn’t spare her a single look as she ruthlessly used the chaotic mess all around her to reinforce her obfuscation charm. It worked, too. The two hostile homing spells that would have found her otherwise were diverted, detonating instead at… the stricken, stunned escort. Morrigan allowed herself a quick grin. First thing that’s gone right, she thought, and pushed her broom to almost its limits.

Looking around, the grin faded. As she had expected, Alliance mages had reacted to the sudden deaths of their scout flight by hammering the area where they ‘died.’ She was now down five brooms and their riders, in a flight of thirteen. Normally she could have made this trip without losing anybody at all. Clearly the Wabash Front was even worse than she feared.

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The Great Crash and Generation Grim [Unfiltered]

I dunno how useful this would be for the game, though.

Great Crash and Generation Grim – Google DocsDownload

‘Thriller.’

Thriller, Michael Jackson

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Spinning my wheels…

…should have hit the sack an hour ago. Oh, well, better late than never.

Self-Tweet of the Day, So Many Problems On Social Media Are Site Moderation Problems edition.

I’m skipping over the entire AI issue because that’s just a tangent, honestly. The real problem here is that the site moderator thinks he’s being badass, when in reality he’s just a big ol’ doofus who forgot why there was site moderation on r/Art to begin with. Betcha he thinks that he’ll look weak if he changes his stance, too*. :shaking head: What are they teaching kids these days?

Let me commit heresy: this is only incidentally an AI problem. It is REALLY a site moderator problem. The moderator has confused being a sadist for his own personal gratification with being sadistic while primarily keeping his subreddit happy and humming. https://t.co/Q7SehPNLpZ

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) October 15, 2025

*The reality is that the power to ban is by definition the opposite of weakness. You need a certain amount of healthy arrogance to be a site moderator, mind you. It’s not for everybody.

The ‘Sam Raimi is trying to relax’ SEND HELP trailer.

You can say one thing about getting that sweet, sweet Disney-Marvel cash: it lets you do splatterfests at a much higher budget. SEND HELP looks like it’s Sam Raimi going back to his roots. To wit: darkly funny horror. I kind of hope there’s nothing supernatural about this one, though. It’d be more horrific. And funnier!

10/14/2025 Snippet, FOR THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST.

I’m backtracking! There obviously needed to be a trip to the front! And action!

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The ferals kept insisting on dividing up the past into ‘Ages,’ just as if anything before (or, honestly, after) the rise of the Universal Dominion meant anything. Still, it was occasionally, mildly handy. Particularly when it came to complaining about the current state of affairs.

So, Morrigan did not travel to the Wabash front via a teleport gate. That was First Age magic, and now so risky that not even the ferals would use them. Neither did she take one of the Second Age Dominion’s hoarded pre-Discovery aircars. The last of those had been slapped out of the sky by angry wizardry before Morrigan was born. No, for this trip even a Paramount War Mage had to ride a broomstick, and like it.

Normally she rather did, actually. Low ceilings and high speeds required some skill, and Morrigan had always been keen about towerchasing. It was distinctly different when you had to go low and fast because high and slow attracted unfriendly eyes.

The first sky pirates showed up just past what the oldest maps called the border of ‘Indiana.’ It was a flight of three broom-riders, reeking of necromancy and pickle-juice, and they fell upon Morrigan’s own swarm without hesitation or thought of safety. Two Dominion brooms were falling out of the sky before even she could react.

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The “Just go ahead and [expletive deleted] off on your own time” AMADEUS remake trailer.

I am not amused.

The teaser trailer for ‘AMADEUS’ starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Premieres in December on Sky.
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— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) October 14, 2025

(Via @EsotericCD) I mean, I recognize that films get remade for new generations, but this AMADEUS looks exactly like the last one, only with different actors. What’s the point? Or… why not just make it a stage play, or something? That would actually add something unique to the proceedings.

‘Sleepless Lullaby.’

Sleepless Lullaby, Bright September

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Spent the evening trying to get Baldur’s Gate 3 to work again.

Something funky going on, here. Had to reinstall I’ve already accepted that I need to start fresh, and add mods as I go. Assuming that this reinstall even works.

Huzzah.