Moe Lane's Blog, page 9

This looks better, right?

I mean, I think it looks better. Based on some feedback from Constant Reader Rockphred:

Keep in mind that a lot of this is about me playing with Affinity Designer. I’m never gonna be really good at it, but it doesn’t hurt to be good enough to draw concept sketches for the real artists. Makes it easier to get commissions done the way I want them done.

Guess what TIME it is!

That’s right!

THE SPICE MUST FLOW pic.twitter.com/k9hg6CsESH

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) August 23, 2025

Moo hoo bwah hah.

I crashed.

For, like, two hours. The school schedule starts back up next week, and my brain has been helpfully reminding me that it’s time to wake up at 6 AM again, although it is not in fact time to wake up at 6 AM again because my eldest is going to community college and my youngest is perfectly capable of getting himself out the door on his own. So I’ve been a shuffling zombie all day, until I just lay down and turned a twenty minute nap into a full zonk-out.

I probably needed it.

‘Crimson and Clover.’

Crimson and Clover, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

#commissionearned

I need to do a roadmap for the next few months.

I know that BANSHEE BEACH simply has to get finished up, and there’s the monthly Patreon obligations, and November looms (I absolutely must reset my head and get another novel at least blocked out). I wonder whether I should have done the novel before the TTRPG… no, probably not. That was hanging over my head something fierce, all on its own, and I needed to get it done for my own pride’s sake. I still have to recalibrate how I do stuff, though. Yay.

Moe Lane

PS: Check out my LinkTree! …Yeah. This, too, is recalibration.

Tweet of the Day, That’s TRACTION Park To You, Dave edition.

It’s just… it’s just so damned beautiful.

The spirit of NJ’s Action Park lives on in ‘Nam https://t.co/7TsF6RrYQO

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 21, 2025

I’m just not sure that this sings as a new logo.

I dunno. Does it sing as a new logo? pic.twitter.com/emSHLjHoLr

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) August 21, 2025

Megacorps and Terrorist Groups (Unfiltered)

Finally finished this up. You can read the whole collated thing on Patreon.

Megacorps and Terrorist Groups

Megacorporations all know that working with terrorist organizations is contraindicated. The Great Powers and the colony worlds both make that abundantly clear. So ignorance, at least, is not an excuse.

Bureau désavoué: the Bureau is the great bane of isolated research facilities and remote locations. It is also the terrorist organization whose crimes megacorps are least likely to document, if they have any say in the matter (which is one reason why the terrorist group rarely lets them have one). When the Bureau désavoué hits a site, most people assume that there was a reason. More than a few mutter that they should have done it a month earlier.Galactic Pioneer Scouts: There’s money in piracy, although the Scouts say that there’s money in prize courts. Whatever the term, somebody is trading finished goods to the Scouts in exchange for captured cargo and ships. For that matter, somebody is trading finished goods to the corsairs and renegados that the Scouts prey on. It would be extra-foolish for a megacorp to sell to both.League of the Viridian Triangle: League strikes are notoriously uneven. The groups’ habit of stopping small problems by smashing them with sledgehammers means that a smart megacorp can cast itself as the undeserving victim of an attack. Even smarter megacorps know that the League is happy to be told gossip about a rival company’s particularly unsavory activities. Just as long as it’s true gossip, though. Luckily, it doesn’t take much to convince the League to break out the cleansing flame.Order of Truth: sensible megacorps spend a lot of time looking for Order spies and saboteurs. The Order routinely uses megacorp resources to carry out its activities, with no inherent concern for the long-term survival of the groups they infiltrate and suborn. If destroying an innocent company is the price to pay for what the Order of Truth defines as ‘the greater good,’ their operatives will make the company pay that price. They won’t stick around to suffer the consequences, either. Because that wouldn’t be for the greater good.Xenolife Shield Interstellar: it is very simple to hire XSI for a monster-killing job. All you have to do is accurately state your problem, list the known complications, define your solution, pay the bill, and never show even the slightest hint of a desire to study or commercially exploit the monsters in question. Those last two clauses are the ones that cause the most megacorp friction with XSI. The group is not in the monster-understanding business. It is in the monster-killing business, and it goes into every corporate gig with a plan in place for if/when the megacorp tries to alter the deal, mid-job.Patreon!

So, Google Search really is [bleep]ing useless, then.

The search: “moe lane” “federal march” (here’s the link, by the way).

Google:

Bing:

And Google does in fact index my site.

It just sucks at it.

‘Godzilla-1.0 Godzilla Suite II.’

I might have been watching scenes from the movie tonight.

Godzilla-1.0 Godzilla Suite II

#commissionearned