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I have a complicated reaction to the possibility of a FIREFLY Disney+ reboot.

On the one hand: Shiny.

On the other hand: I have been very, very disappointed in Joss Whedon ever since the adultery story broke. Although he might not actually be involved with this production. It might be for the best if he was not.

And, on the gripping hand:

The new show would start the story of Captain Mal Reynolds and his crew aboard the Serenity over from scratch, with an aim to make this a long-running series on Disney+.  There is a twist here and the twist is that they see the show as ideal family-friendly programming for Disney+.  My source tells me they’re planning to target it more at a PG-adventure, family audience and less at the sort of PG-13 dynamic the original Joss Whedon show went for.

…Well. This would, admittedly, give everybody a new thing to kvetch about. That’s always nice.

The Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales Honest Video Game trailer.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales sounds generally good for what I want it for; or, rather, what my oldest kid wants it for. You could tell the folks at Honest Trailers wanted to snark a little more, but they couldn’t. Or at least not much.

Let’s workshop this rum and cider drink!

I’m kind of avoiding writing tonight, for some reason; but I didn’t really need an excuse to use this…

The secret to health is to learn to listen to your body. For example, my body wants a hot cocoa with peppermint schnapps but I had to really listen hard before I could hear it. Super hard. Like for almost a minute.

— Kenneth Hite (@kennethhite) December 16, 2020

…as an opportunity to throw together a hot rum and apple cider drink. Nothing fancy: shot of rum, apple cider, a touch of caramel syrup, a splash of lemon, and a little ground cinnamon and cloves. The whole thing worked fine as a rough-and-ready hot drink, with the emphasis on ‘rough.’ It had a bit of a bite to it, and I don’t think the caramel worked the way I wanted to. There should probably also been more cider, but I didn’t want to cool the drink.

Thoughts? The immediate one I had was adding one or more of orange and/or orange peel, nutmeg, and brown sugar. But I’m willing to entertain suggestions.

The opening scene to WONDER WOMAN 1984.

It looks… good. It does the job, which is making me want to see WONDER WOMAN 1984 a little bit more. I mean, I already want to see it, but now I’m just a little more interested in it.

Via GeekTyrant.

Tweet of the Day, Yeah, I Get That It’s Fake edition.

Or at least it doesn’t have any meaning, really. What’s happening here is that somebody arbitrarily assigned musical tones to some bio-electrical processes, and this is what came out when you hook mushrooms up. But, yeah, it sounds like you’d expect:

i don’t know what i thought mushrooms would sound like but this is exactly what i thought they’d sound like pic.twitter.com/MtvCXqo1Wx

— goku (@litdesu) December 1, 2020

Via @TulpaHivemind.

‘Little Drummer Boy.’

Little Drummer Boy, For King & Country

I gotta assess presents tonight.

Christmas is, after all, in little less than two weeks. The big thing’s already gotten; but I need to look at the little things. The kids have had a rough year being cooped up like this, after all.

…Yeah. The ‘kids.’ That’s what I meant, ya, you betcha.

12/14/20 Snippet, GHOST OF THE DEVIL-HORSE.

Ghost fight!

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Against the spirit’s physical and arcane attacks I was able to hold my own; but as the bonds solidified I was able to use my magic to do something actually useful, like look for the focus for the original Dominion torture spell. And when I found it, I barely managed not to swear. The aforementioned nameless bastard mage had deliberately made it hard to grasp. I’m a little unsure on how the afterlife really works for humans, but I know that most of their religions have fairly nasty hells for bad people. That’s a comfort, at times like these. Well, no help for it: I loaded up my arm with as much protective magic as I could slap on in a hurry, and drove my hand deep into the chest of the spirit.

The focus I was rooting around for tried to evade my questing fingers, the miserable thing; probably just a minor defense enchantment, but maybe it had a little volition of its own by now. Some things acquire a patina of sapient behavior, if only to properly exhibit a particular emotion – and if I had to guess, the emotion being exhibited here would have been spite. The focus had a plaything, and it didn’t want to give it up.

But I had volition, too. And while grabbing for the focus indeed hurt like a matrifututor, if you’ll pardon my Orcish, it turns out that spite is a decent motivator. I was going to get that literally damned thing out of that spirit if it meant burning my arm off. Which it didn’t, quite: but by the time my grasping fingers found and grabbed the focus the protection spell I had tossed up was suffering pinhole breaches and threatening to collapse completely. That would be really painful, so I yanked really hard.

The OUTSIDE THE WIRE Netflix trailer.

I saw OUTSIDE THE WIRE, and shrugged. Gritty, action-war drama? Okay. …Gritty, action-war drama with androids? Well. That sounds a bit more promising.

Tweet of the Day, Cyberpunk 2077 DOES Run Pretty Good On My PC, Though edition.

I’m not inclined to be mean about that, though. Some games run hella better on consoles, some on PCs. It’s not a moral failing. Making Gabe grit his teeth like this is, though.

Not helpful. pic.twitter.com/dkC0u1ArVP

— Gabe (@cwgabriel) December 14, 2020