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October 16, 2020
10/16/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.
I have a bit of a pressure headache, so I’m calling it an early night.
Patreon!Pat, to her credit, didn’t try to mealy-mouth. “We tried. We’re very bad at manipulating these kinds of holes, though. We don’t like them, for a start.”
“True,” I replied. “Whereas my Side has an entire division of operatives out there trying to keep would-be gods from setting up shop. Fine, we’ve got the expertise. Anything else?”
“Mostly the Tomes themselves.” Pat looked disgusted. “We can reconstruct what Leviathan did, but we can’t duplicate its methods. That’s a nonstarter.”
“Of course,” I replied. “Committing murder’s bad for your head. Torture, too. It’s a bad habit to get into, in fact.” We had discovered that on our own right from the start, but I’d be damned if I’d wash my Side’s dirty laundry in front of somebody from the Other one.
Thread of the Day, Yes. Please Do This edition.
I’m as guilty as anybody else, of course. But at least I feel guilty about badly labeling my files.
Creative friends working on commercial art, keep this in mind when you are doing the totally mundane parts of your work, like organizing files or naming Photoshop layers.
— Jeff Tidball
Four days until the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Vol 1 Kickstarter!
Starting next Tuesday. For those unaware, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Vol 1: THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER is a collection of short stories set in the same universe as my first novel FROZEN DREAMS. It is not a sequel to FROZEN DREAMS, although there is an original Shamus Tom Vargas prequel in it. Come to think of it; I believe that story hasn’t actually been published on Patreon yet, so people who back the project will get that and at least one more original story before anybody else does.
Artwork by Chris HazeltonYou can sign up for notifications for the Kickstarter here, and join my mailing list here. You could also tell everybody you know about those links! It’d be awesome, really.
The WIDDERSHINS: WITCH HUNT Kickstarter.
Widdershins is a fun webcomic, and I’m more than happy to give Kate money for her books. The WITCH HUNT Kickstarter is also timed to start just as the Witch Hunt storyline finishes up, which is likewise cool. In that just generally cool way: I don’t think there’s any hidden meaning to that.
October 15, 2020
Tweet of the Day, 2020 Ain’t Done With Us Yet edition.
The horror.
The horror.
This Life Day is extra special. The LEGO @StarWars
— Star Wars (@starwars) October 15, 2020
Holiday Special is streaming Nov. 17 on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/258vFgolG1
10/15/20 Snippet, PATCHWORK GOD.
I do want to get as much of this down as I can before November and the Tom Vargas sequel.
Patreon!By the time she was done, Pat had unfolded and stretched the Tome until it was spread out across the battered table. “We’re sure that Leviathan incorporated at least three Tomes’ psyches,” she said as she carefully used golden pins to transfix the feebly-moving, half-severed pages. “Normally, that kind of consumption is part of the general destruction of the Tome. I presume it tastes good?”
“Yes,” I replied. “Well, it tastes like power, which is the same thing. Besides, we don’t want to keep pieces of the Tomes around. I think I know where this is going, Pat: you’re going to tell us Leviathan fed on his own kind to get the energy it’d need. Only thing is, that doesn’t work.”
Jack nodded. “The energy boost is temporary,” he said. “Good for healing, or using right away. If you don’t, it bleeds away.”
“Exactly!” Pat looked happy we were keeping up, apparently. “Your psyches have what makes you you, but they’re not what people might call ‘storage batteries.’” Odd thing about the Other Side: they never call humans ‘humans.’ They say ‘people,’ like the Other Side aren’t people. Or us either, I guess.
Jetpack? What jetpack? I don’t see no jetpack.
And I won’t see any jetpack, neither.
For the second time in six weeks, crew members on a commercial airliner flying near Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday found that they were sharing the skies with a person soaring solo over Southern California in a jetpack.
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A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the agency “is investigating multiple reports of what, according to witnesses, appeared to be an individual in a jetpack near LAX.” Federal officials said last month that they were investigating the earlier jetpack sighting by two commercial pilots.
Clearly it was a weather balloon, right? Or swamp gas. Or a sighting of Venus. Whatever it was, it wasn’t a guy in a jetpack. Because there’s no guy using a jetpack to fly around SoCal and avoid the Feds. I would have seen it if there had been, right? And since I didn’t see it…
Q.E. Blipping D.
Quote of the Day, Do They Not Understand What ‘Unpopular’ Means? edition.
I think these two sentences are at least slightly contradictory.
A 2010 market research survey found that candy corn was in fact the least popular Halloween candy of all those polled. Despite being the consolation prize of confections, candy corn is a ubiquitous part of Halloween and continues to sell billions of kernels each year.
…Somebody eats this stuff. Obviously, I’m not the only person in America who goes through a couple of bags of it every Halloween. Heck, I’m going to go grab a handful of candy corn right now.
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, something has to be the least popular, sure.
