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December 7, 2020
12/07/20 Snippet, GHOST OF THE DEVIL-HORSE.
I REGRET NOTHING.
Patreon!“Ah.” ‘The Wall,’ for those of you who are unaccountably unfamiliar with the history of Early Modern archeology, was a hasty fortification thrown up by PCU scholars in the immediate aftermath of the Discovery, when the forest magic was running wild and savage. They filled it with whatever was at hand: rubble, heavy plastic, metal… and every book they could spare, since the questing, rampaging roots seemed to instinctively avoid paper products. After things calmed down, the University kept the walls up, because they worked just as well against bandits. Eventually they forgot about the interior materials.
But one man’s junk is another man’s doctoral thesis: about twenty years ago somebody rediscovered all the stuff buried in The Wall, and we’ve been mining it for artifacts and papers ever since. Nine hundred years inside a stone fortification isn’t the best place to store a book, but the Old Americans made them tough at the end and restoration magic exists for a reason… but I digress. The point is, the University staff used the books they considered useless, which means the site is a great source for a lot of odd information, which has led to some significant discoveries. Those of us with a weakness for esoteric puns refer to the results as being ‘Off The Wall.’
Trust me, it’s a really funny line in Old American.
Tweet of the Day, Now THIS Is How You Drag Something edition.
Am I using the term right? I am probably not using the term right.
Tom Anderson's #PrequelProblems series considers "New Spring", the prequel written by #RobertJordan to precede his #WheelOfTime #fantasy series. #FantasyFiction #Prequel #WritingCommunity #worldbuilding https://t.co/I6vmJkFsVh
— Sea Lion Press (@SeaLionPress) December 7, 2020
December 6, 2020
‘Snare Drumline Encore Performance.’
This isn’t the music video for the night. This is just something I love and watch every year and it’s my blog, ain’t it?
12/06/2020 Snippet, GHOST OF THE DEVIL-HORSE.
The title is a work in progress.
Patreon!If I was the kind of archeologist who believed in curses, then I wouldn’t have ever become an archeologist in the first place.
Although, sure, curses exist. They exist, they’re real, and some of them mean business. And they’ll absolutely get in your business if you aren’t careful. So you need to make sure you don’t believe in them. It’s like the electricity of the Old Americans. That stuff is dangerous all on its own, and it doesn’t ask your opinion, either. Pissing on it doesn’t set it off, it just makes things worse.
Not that I can piss on things, exactly. At least, not in my true form. It’s complicated.
Anyway, my point is that believing in a curse will only make them bite you harder when one does go off; and when you’re in the exciting field of salvage archeology, you don’t need any more complications than you absolutely must. A certain mindset is needed in this field. To begin with, you can’t have the bad habit of wanting to metaphorically poke the supernatural with a stick. Or a childlike interest in danger for its own sake. Or an uncritical willingness to do things, just to see what happens next.
Well. Two out of three isn’t bad, really.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘It’s Nice That He’s Nice.’
I imagine that being around Mad Scientists – even the ethical ones – might be many things; but it would never be really what you’d call restful, right? Too many things smoking or about to blow up or just had blown up and so forth. Not exactly what one would call a sedate afternoon.
Patreon!The TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Backerkit surveys are away / The REVISIONARY chapbook is processing!
That’s what I’ve been doing this morning, you see. I don’t know how long it’ll be before REVISIONARY is live; if you want a hardcopy I’d say get it or via the Backerkit store. There’s a bit of a discount.
And, if you did go for the Kickstarter: fill out your surveys! If you haven’t, there’s a chance to do it via the above Backerkit link. Or, here it is again.
December 5, 2020
Tweet of the Day, Monolith! Getcher Very Own Monolith! edition.
I don’t know if this is the ‘official’ monolith!** guy. …And maybe that’s just the rum and Dr. Pepper and pineapple talking*, but what does ‘official’ even MEAN, here? Does anybody know?
We have a claim for who placed the monoliths. And maybe another coming at Big Sur?https://t.co/RNNDThjxsh
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) December 6, 2020
*Long story, and only funny for esoteric values of ‘funny.’
There we go: rum and Dr Pepper over ice, with pineapple juice and some crushed pineapple garnish. I call it… The Snowy Ben.
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) December 6, 2020
**[bleep] it, that’s how I’m writing it from now on.
Book of the Week: Dune.
I mean it unironically: I always liked Frank Herbert’s Dune. I thought of it as an interesting attempt to put scope and depth into a science fiction epic. I never really got into the sequels, though. Not really sure why. It may very well be because I read them when I was, wow, almost one-third my age.
December 4, 2020
Deep in revisions.
Long week, going to be spending the rest of it hip deep in stories. Posting’s gonna be weird today and tomorrow, but at least I have the bare bones of REVISIONARY layout done. The goal is to have that ready by Sunday, and the stories out for second edits as well. So, expect weird posting.
