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So, all the ways to help me out.

Self-serving, hey? …Well, nobody’s giving me free advertising so that how it works. The good news is, all of these things are either no cost to you, or they’re value-for-money. I don’t object to just being given cash, but I think it’s better when it’s a trade. After all, we are not Communists.

So!

Patreon! Signing up gets you fiction and gaming stuff every week and month. We’re pretty close to a milestone, too.Amazon author page! Buy my books! Give my books as gifts!Smashwords! For people who don’t like Amazon.Mailing list! As God is my witness, I will be doing more with the mailing list, starting in January. As in, I will actually use it.Current book preorder! This is where the signed copies can be found.Goodreads! This is an excellent place to review my books. Just saying, that’s all.

I figure that should do for a start. Posting may be sparse tomorrow, by the way. If I don’t say it before then: Happy New Year!

Some details surface about the MCU’s THE ETERNALS movie.

Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I don’t have a clue about this ETERNALS series, or the superheroes in it. DC kid, remember? I get that those who grew up honoring Kirby’s Name might be possibly stoked about Marvel mining more of his stuff, and based on GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY / THOR: RAGNAROK, I can see why. But this is all kinda Oh. That’s nice for me.

On the bright side: I’m not gonna get too upset if they change things around from the comics. Which Marvel has been known to do. And usually they get away with it, too.

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PS: November 2021 release. Assuming that even means anything anymore.

Other Tweet of the Day, I Wish I Had Written This edition.

I’m not sure I’d be up for LETHAL WEAPON 5 normally, but… what the Hell. They got Donner, Gibson, and Glover? Hit it:

Isn't he getting too old for this s***? https://t.co/j4v2wNHCkM

— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) December 30, 2020

Rewrite, GHOST OF THE DEVIL-HORSE, 12/30/20.

Lovecraft rolling in his grave! Nah, who am I kidding? He’d love knowing that people were referencing him, almost a century after his death.

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I did keep control of the focus, which was maintaining a physical form as it sullenly floated in mid-air. It glowed yellow-grey, and somehow had the feel of sticky, half-dried slime attached to it. “Barbara,” I asked as I tried not to smell anything, “can you give me something to put it in?”

“On it, Johnny,” she said as a globe of writhing, multiple-eyed black tentacles swarmed over the focus, enveloping it. The psychic feel of the room immediately lightened. “There! It’s contained. Professor Salvager: what would you say is the academic or historical value of this artifact?”

“Nil, Professor Kennedy,” I said formally after a moment. “Or at least it’s not worth the risk to preserve.”

The globe of worms was now contracting steadily; it met brief resistance, then continued its inexorable shrinking into nothing. I fancied I heard a brief shriek of pain as the globe popped out of existence. “I concur,” said Barbara. “Nasty little thing. How’s the ghost?”

After peering at the spirit for a moment, I said, “Already beginning to drift Away.” Souls don’t really go Up or Down: just… not here. “It doesn’t want to stick around, I’m betting.”

Tweet of the Day, My School District Would Have Rioted edition.

I mean, good God but this is insane.

Criminal. pic.twitter.com/wJq8ioymKg

— Gabe (@cwgabriel) December 30, 2020

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PS: Make-up work over the break is one thing, mind you. We’ve got a stray ELA assignment to straighten out today, and that shouldn’t take more than the five minutes we’ll need to send in the right document. But freaking homework? This is straight-up meanness.

Tweet of the Day, “LAUGH WHILE YOU CAN, MONKEY-BOY!*” Edition.

Caleb saw the theory in the Tweet below, decided to check it, and lo!

Theory: confirmed. https://t.co/YWGzFLW8bI pic.twitter.com/mSQOQXtsA8

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) December 29, 2020

*Classical reference.

Rewrite, GHOST OF THE DEVIL-HORSE, December 29, 2020.

Some action! Finally.

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If this was a lurid adventure tale, I’d be writing that all of this was going through my mind while fending off a rampaging ghost, a few days later. But that’s absurd. Who on earth spends valuable time reminiscing about meetings in the middle of a fight?

The Council Chamber dig was a bust, at least from the point of view of people trying to find the airport. When the Dominion conquered Denver, back in the day, they had also pretty thoroughly degraded the local civic symbols, and that absolutely included the centuries-old building where generations of Denverians held their courts. What spirits were left after that scourging had hidden themselves so ‘deep’ in the metaphysical bedrock that I’m not sure any could hear us, even if they wanted to. And none of them seemed to want to.

But we did release a tormented spirit that some nameless Dominion bastard mage had bound to the walls, in chains of infinite pain, which was nice. Or it would have been, except that after several centuries of agony the spirit was homicidally crazy. Judging on how often they do it, a torture spell like this is apparently the Dominion’s idea of ‘humor.’

Right now the spirit was trying to strangle me with its bare hands, which were only not bursting into flames because I was using my own spellcasting abilities to counter the spirit’s. I don’t recommend this, mind you. Direct spell-to-spell negation works, but it also makes it impossible for you to use any magic of your own.

Behold! Not-Merch (expanded explanation)!

It’s not merch because it’s a Christmas present. It’s also not merch because I’m not at the merch stage yet. I have one novel and two chapbooks out; the goal for 2021 is to get at least one more novel, one collection of short stories, and at least a third chapbook done. I don’t have the budget and I don’t have the time for more, right now.

What I do have is a sister who is good at graphic design stuff. Check out her site!

Behold! Not-merch! pic.twitter.com/zpfPoJg7gk

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) December 29, 2020

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PS Mailing list sign-up here. I need to start pushing that more.

There will be free DLC for CYBERPUNK 2077*.

The asterisk represents the unfortunate* truth that CYBERPUNK 2077’s DLC will likely be effectively for just the PC. This is merely a guess – the website doesn’t say anything – but I imagine that CD Projekt Red is going to be more interested in first fixing the main console versions before they get around to adapting the DLC, too. They do it the other way, they’re just making more work for themselves later.

Well, the good news here is that there’s going to be free DLC. CDPR did it up pretty nice in WITCHER 3: everything from tweaks in appearance to actual new quests. I’m glad they’re keeping that up in CYBERPUNK 2077.

*From a certain point of view.

In the Mail: THE GREEN KNIGHT RPG.

Got THE GREEN KNIGHT RPG in the mail today…

In the mail. pic.twitter.com/RxNMnC5XOY

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) December 29, 2020

…and surprisingly it’s not a 5th ed clone of D&D. The review here is pretty accurate, as far as I can tell; I haven’t played the game, obviously, but it looks more or less right. I was struck by the work done on this. I was honestly half-expecting something a lot more derivative. Live and learn, hey?