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June 15, 2020
06/15/2020 Snippet: Holdouts.
Believe it or not, this is less fantastical than it seems. These are definitely more ‘weird science’ vampires than ‘damned’ ones. Although they may disagree.
Patreon!In the movies, whenever there’s a mystery they bring the hero right to the scene, because ‘there isn’t a moment to waste!’ In real life, you’re allowed to get some sleep until the next morning. They put me in a pretty standard DepRec vamproom instead of a normal hotel, thank God: no mirrors, no external windows, and no air conditioning. I could rest there as well as I do at home, and that’s no small thing when you’re traveling. The only problem was the bed was in the wrong place, and I fixed that in no more than a minute. Five minutes later, I was out like a light.
Four hours after that, somebody tried to kill me.
I missed most of it; vampires sleep, as they say, like the dead. The first hint I had that something was wrong was how my dreams of nothing in particular had suddenly turned into me, hyperventilating, on the floor with the blankets wrapped around me. And there was pain. Not excruciating pain, but my face burned in a way that I associate with being outside at noon on a sunny day. Sheer nightmare fuel, in other words. But that wasn’t doing me any good, so I shut down my fear.
It’s a trick you learn, when you get to be a vampire my age. It’s sort of like the trick vampires use to ignore pain, only it’s less likely to cause bone fractures and ripped muscles. I don’t like using it, because normals get even more nervous around vampires without emotions, but right now I needed to get my emergency hood and gloves on before I shrugged off the blanket. There was a source of ultraviolet light out there, and I wanted to be fully covered before I confronted it.
The STAR WARS: SQUADRONS reveal trailer.
…Get thee behind me, EA.
I’d need a controller for that for the PC, right? Yeah, I’d need a controller for that. So no can do wait if I had the right controller I could play the old X-WING and TIE FIGHTER games Gog.com has them on its site for cheap NO NO NO MUST RESIST MUST RESIST
…Yeah. October 2nd: time to save vs. shiny.
GeekTyrant inadvertently disappoints me about MOONFALL.
It’s not exactly GeekTyrant’s fault. They made an announcement about MOONFALL (short version: moon’s orbit starts decaying, but apparently there’s something that a disgraced astronaut can do about it besides having one last really good meal*) – but they used a still from MIDWAY to illustrate the article, so for a moment I thought we were getting some kind of 1950s-style atomic horror piece involving experimental spaceplanes or something. Or maybe alternate raypunk.
:pause:
Well, hell. I’d watch that. I’d love a big-budget version of that. All switches and gizmos and dials and the really high-tech stuff using “some top-secret stuff the boys in the labs came up with. They call it… the ‘transistor‘.” So I guess I want a Lensman movie. Yes. Give me a Lensman movie. WHERE ARE MY LENSMAN MOVIES, DAMN YOUR EYES…
Sorry.
Moe Lane
*I know, I know! It’s Hollywood. At least they’ve learned people can’t breathe in space, although they’re still a little fuzzy on whether you can hear the big explosions.
FROZEN DREAMS is now live on Kindle (review request).
If people have been asking where to get FROZEN DREAMS, these links should work:
And I have a request that’s practically outright begging; if you’ve read the book, please go over to Amazon and give it an honest review. Every little bit helps when it comes to sales.
Yeah. This is a big day.
June 14, 2020
Movie of the Week: Emma.
Mostly because I am FINALLY making time to see this movie. I was ready to go see EMMA in theaters, and it’s been taunting me for the last few weeks. Tonight’s the night I finally stop mucking about and watch it.
06/14/2020 Snippet: Holdouts.
This isn’t part of anything, but it will likely be the short story for Patreon this week. I have a good feeling about this one. I hope.
Patreon!Do you think airports all look alike? Try traveling via an airtight steel box. One that’s been locked from the outside. When they finally let you out, it always takes a minute or two to really convince yourself that you’ve traveled anywhere at all. It could all be an elaborate plot, you know. Something that the humans came up with to screw with your mind. Because they all hate our kind, and want us to go mad before they stake us and leave out our corpses to be burned by the sun!
Yeah, I realized right about then that I was having a touch of blood-crash, so I pulled out a chew of redgum and started chewing it. I started calming down right away. Right, right, the steel box was to block any stray UV rays and the lock was so that the rest of the airplane didn’t have to worry about a vampire freaking out suddenly about being so high. It wasn’t a plot. It’s how vampires got to be able to fly places, these days. All of that muttering was just vampiric paranoia from being too close to the Sun for a couple of hours.
Except for the part about how humans still hate our kind. A lot of them do. And I can’t say that I can complain about it too much.
Patreon Microfiction: Down Under The Gutter.
I dunno, man. Sometimes you just need a change, you dig? Something to shake you up, get you out of your rut. Then you can look around, assess your life choices, decide what’s best for you, savvy?
Patreon!In the Mail: FROZEN DREAMS.
Well. I expected this, but not so soon.
Store here.Gotta review it, change a few details on the back cover, and then… tell ’em to go ahead and publish it, I guess. Then order the hundred copies that I need. That’s the next step.
