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January 6, 2021
The new OUTSIDE THE WIRE Netflix trailer.
Dropping January 15th. OUTSIDE THE WIRE is looking pretty good, honestly. This one might have been able to survive in a movie theater, if we still had those.
Via GeekTyrant.
Tweet of the Day, Michael Keaton As Bitter Bruce Works For Me edition.
I mean, really, he’s not quite bulky enough for BATMAN BEYOND‘s Old Bruce but Michael Keaton would have the attitude down cold.
He's Batman. pic.twitter.com/RHYRo8pgIM
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) January 6, 2021
January 5, 2021
In Nomine Revisited: The Temptations of YHVH.
Forbidden Book:
The Temptations of YHVH
It’s usually safe to assume that any book that’s currently in Yves’ Special Collection doesn’t exist anywhere else – provided, of course, that the Main Enemy didn’t write it. Destiny works in strange and mysterious ways, and its Servitors do their best to add efficiency to the mix. They tend to enjoy virtually perfect records in tracking down almost all of the really dangerous tomes (‘dangerous’ in the sense of ‘semantic equivalent of a neutron bomb, with a yield to match’). They are, in fact, nigh-infallible in that regard.
Please note that a good number of qualifiers were used in the above paragraph. The Temptations of YHVH is the reason why: the Damned book doesn’t want to stay in one place.
Strictly speaking, it isn’t a book at all, as it isn’t a set of sequential pages of writing bound together – instead, it’s a vaguely book-shaped collection of faceted, milky white quartzes (it was actually discovered in 1974 AD that the material was crystallized ineffability, to the profound shock of the Seraph of Revelations who apparently simply guessed the answer). To ‘read’ it, you stare at one of the facets; a person in the right mental state can fairly easily call up information from the item. How it’s presented will depend on the user; visions, text scrolling and/or verbal narration seem the most common options, although several Servitors of Animals who have encountered The Temptations of YHVH have reported that some amazingly sophisticated olfactory and tactile information can be accessed from it.
The ‘title’ of The Temptations of YHVH is a bit of a misnomer: it implies a narrative of past temptations, when indeed all it does is provide a future one. This item sort of grants wishes; more accurately, it explains how to achieve one’s wish. This would be a problem, but not a Special Collection-worthy problem, except that the item also makes almost all things possible for the user while he, she or it is questing to fulfill that wish.
Note almost all things ‘possible’, not almost all things ‘inevitable’: the user will have to earn their success. But said success will never be outside the user’s grasp: this thing can be used to, say, allow a human to break through to another plane of existence and free the prisoners found there or give a demon a fighting chance to destroy and eat a Demon Prince (yes, there are rumors that this item was instrumental in both of those events) just as easily as it can find open spaces in crowded parking lots. You can’t use it to take over somebody’s mind, and it won’t directly kill anybody for you, and if asked it’ll somehow indicate that both sides have already made sure that it do what it could to ensure victory in the War – but that’s pretty much it when it comes to limitations on leveling the playing field.
Naturally, all this requires a lot of warping of reality. There is some debate as to exactly how the item can do what it does, as it is effectively immune to just about everybody’s interested gaze, resonance, or multiband sensory scans. The ethereals who know of the item avow that it is the focal point for the fabled Almighty Strand, which at least sounds better than the We Have No Idea, Really, But It Probably Has Something To Do With God theory shared by Heaven and Hell. Asking the item is usually an exercise in futility.
Oh, yes, The Temptations of YHVH has a personality, which can usually be adequately described as ‘amused’.
Of course, all of this predisposes that the user has an opportunity to muck around with the item for any length of time. This is hardly a safe assumption to make, as the stereotypical first reaction that any celestial has upon seeing anyone holding The Temptations of YHVH is to make a running tackle.
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Yeah, it was a light posting day.
Deadline for the baronial newsletter. Normally it’s not a problem, but this month some stuff that I’m peripherally involved with is going on and I needed to make sure it got into the newsletter all nice and whatnot. Couple that with a need to handle all the things going on with the second day of school back and it’s amazing where the time went.
And, to be truthful about it: the short story fiction is kind of looming over my head right now. I told myself a couple of days off was understandable, but the couple of days are over. Got to get back on top of things…
The SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Honest Trailer.
I’m not exactly sure why. Apparently THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION made the top of some list? Anyway: it’s a good movie and Honest Trailers didn’t feel the urge to rip it apart too much. I’m disappointed they didn’t bring in Morgan Freeman to do the narration, but you know what they say: when you start out, nobody knows to pay you your worth – but when you’ve proved your worth, nobody can afford to pay it. :chuckle: I guess that’s just the way it is, in this busy world of ours…
Disney+ bringing TV time slots to streaming?
It feels that way, based on this bit from GeekTyrant about WANDAVISION: “WandaVision kicks off on Disney+ on January 15, 2021 and it will roll right into the final Friday before The Falcon and The Winter Soldier premieres on March 19.” Nine episodes, by the way – but it’s the part about how they’ll be dropping new episodes every Friday, and presumably they have shows lined up for after F&TWS’s last episode.
I guess This Is The Way now, huh? THE MANDALORIAN worked out (probably better than it would have if all the episodes dropped at once), so the Mouse is going to regularly drop new content on Fridays and not fuss overmuch if that turns out to be the big viewing day. After all, they’re not selling advertising on Disney+. Or at least not yet.
Moe Lane
PS: It’s odd how there’s no THE MANDALORIAN DVD. I have no theories as to why, mind you. I just find it generally odd.
January 4, 2021
Tweet of the Day, Why Then, This Is Hell; Nor Am I Out Of It edition.
Noooooooo….
[At the supermarket]
— sarcasmsbully (@sarcasmbully) January 5, 2021
Cashier: "May I see some ID for the beer?"
Me: "Sure." (holds up license)
Cashier: "Okay, you're cool. I see the '1'."
Me: "The '1'?"
Cashier: "The '1' at the beginning of your birth year."
Me: "Oh God…"
Cashier: "Happy New Year!" pic.twitter.com/zHm1FwbTwc
Back to school!
And it wasn’t too bad, in fact: the kids got back into the class routine pretty well. They might have even missed it, a little. Played merry hell with my writing and posting schedule, though.
But that’s all right, since we’re not doing too badly on that front for right now. I need to create another spreadsheet to work out what’s getting worked on this month. And here I thought that there would be no math…
