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December 9, 2020
12/09/20 Snippet, GHOST OF THE DEVIL-HORSE.
Odd device that should probably work out fine!
Patreon!Hank had gathered us all together to show off — it’s hard to describe, actually. In outline it looked like a set of three tubes, fused together at one end, and… somehow indistinctly separate at the other end. And I mean ‘indistinctly:’ you couldn’t look at the other end directly. Your focus would just slide off, like the item was somehow so frictionless it affected your vision. Which is more or less what it was doing, I guess.
The experience didn’t bother me, and I could see that Barbara was also interested, not revulsed. But most of the humans avoided looking at the artifact for very long, and the two elves and one orc in the group both looked like they were ready to smash it on general principles. From Hank’s nod, he was expecting all of our reactions.
“Don’t worry!” he said as he covered the item again with the cloth. “It’s called a spectral reverberator, and it’s harmless. The folks at the UNV High Magic lab came up with it last year while researching the interaction between clinical necromancy and deep psychometry; there’s nothing forbidden, nothing corruptive about it.”
Well, that was reassuring.
In the mail: the proof copy for REVISIONARY!
Half a week early. Illustrations by Ben Fleuter, and they came out real nice.
You can go the REVISIONARY route in one of three ways: get the Kindle book now, pre-order a physical copy via Amazon, or order a signed copy at a slight discount via my Backerkit store. Either way: four stories, about 32 thousand words, four illustrations. Enjoy!
Daredevil Showing Up In The Next Spidey Movie?
Mayyyyybe:
#Daredevil star Charlie Cox has reportedly joined Spider-Man 3, now. https://t.co/gfNgczL33R pic.twitter.com/GMPToAzgrE
— ComicBook.com (@ComicBook) December 9, 2020
Via @zamoose. The Netflix MCU shows actually would work well in Sony’s Spider-verse thingy; they’re lower-powered, for one thing. Punisher or Kingpin make more sense as antagonists for Spider-Man than they would have for Iron Man or Captain America; you could believe that Spidey would have real trouble taking one of them down. As for continuity? …Who the hell cares about continuity? The comics sure don’t!
December 8, 2020
The CYBERPUNK 2077 launch trailer.
Just over a day to go! Soon. SOON.
Tweet of the Day, Spider-Men! Spider-Gwen! See Them All On the Screen Again! edition.
Eh, it scans close enough for a headline.
'Spider-Man 3' bringing back Alfred Molina's Doc Ock and past Peter Parkers. https://t.co/AKcDVkGpzm pic.twitter.com/oujnxagPi6
— Collider (@Collider) December 8, 2020
People have questions. I just want to know if they got Nick Cage. Yes. I want a Spider-Man Noir movie. Honestly: why wouldn’t I? Why wouldn’t you?
Moe Lane
PS: Great praise to Into The Spider-Verse‘s Doc Ock, whose character managed to achieve tactical surprise, but Alfred Molina was amazing in Spider-Man 2. My wife raved about the robot arms, too – and when my wife raves about something robotic on the screen, take notice. She only does it when they get it right.
12/08/20 Snippet, TIMMY AND THE CHRISTMAS ELF.
Timmy!
Patreon!When the mall cops found Timmy, he had already worked his way up from ‘sniffling’ to ‘sobbing,’ and was wondering whether he’d have to resort to ‘bawling’ to get somebody to see him. He didn’t want to. Really crying over stuff was stupid, and if he tried he figured the other kids would know he was faking it. Adults wouldn’t, but a lot of adults were as stupid as crying was.
But adults also like things quiet, and it was Christmas, so they knew enough to look for sobbing kids all by themselves. Timmy didn’t have to sob more than a minute or two before a mall cop came up to him. This was one of the young thin ones, too. That was good. Sometimes the old, fat ones needed to be pushed a little before they’d care. Young and Thin bent down to talk to Timmy; from this close he could see just how cheap the mall cop’s hat was. Timmy wondered why they just didn’t get the right hats, but not much. If he asked, nobody would explain it to him right.
“Hi, kiddo,” said Young and Thin. “You trying to find your mom?” His breath was all right. No bad teeth, no cigarette smell. And he wasn’t really looking at Timmy. Timmy was just this little problem walking around that he had to fix, because it was his job, and if he never saw Timmy again Young and Thin wouldn’t even notice. That was good.
12/08/20 Snippet, GHOST OF THE DEVIL-HORSE.
Denver!
Patreon!Denver is one of the romantic cities for modern archeologists; it changed hands a half-dozen times after the Discovery, had its own empire — and was left to fall into uninhabited ruins when the Dominion conquered the place, purely for the sake of its strategic location. There could be anything there, and now we can actually go look for it!
Well, once we got there. We traveled by coach and wagon; they’re talking about putting in a railroad, but even if they were constructing more rail all the east-west lines would be reserved for war materials. The Dominion is losing, but it’s not dead yet. But that was all right; I wanted to get acclimated to the mountains again. It wouldn’t do to be short of breath, the first few days of the dig.
Denver’s skyline is more romanticism; the city had more permacrete and transparent aluminum structures than other pre-Discovery cities, so it’s weathered the intervening centuries better. The Dominion apparently approved of the aesthetic, although it seeded the ruins with their usual devil’s brew of monsters. I understood that some were still out there, and that it was prudent not to go out by yourself alone. As if I’d explore abandoned ruins by myself! That’s a quick route to disaster. But as a practical matter it meant I would be assigned a partner for the dig, and the partner they found for me was a little… interesting.
Tweet of the Day, This Video Of Nerf Guns Being Used In Nursing Homes Is Outrageous! edition.
Why? Because it LACKS VISION.
Residents at this nursing home went ‘deer hunting’ with Nerf guns
