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March 2, 2025
Patreon Microfiction: You’re Not The Boss Of Me.
I don’t know why humans are like this. We just are. Tell us we can’t do something, and we go and do it: “You’re not the boss of me” is as good an answer as any other, I guess.
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March 1, 2025
‘No Rain.’
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Trying to decide what this month’s short story will be.
I have a half-dozen Part 2s, unfinished stories, and promising starts to choose from. Nothing is wowing me, though. I would like a certain amount of wow.
Moe Lane
PS: The two Marsh/Asenath stories don’t count, even though I need to get them finished ASAP. I swear to God, samplers are more trouble than they’re worth…
Book of the Week: The King of FLORCUBATAMP.
I didn’t even know Michael Z. Williamson was writing the on-order The King of FLORCUBATAMP, which will be based on one of the more interesting, and eventually tragic, characters in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series. The dude’s interesting because he’s actually turning out to be a pretty good king: honest, charismatic, makes good decisions, looking to improve the lives of his people, hard when he has to be but doesn’t enjoy cruelty.
He’s ultimately going to be tragic because his kingdom is smack dab in the middle of Florida, and the reconstituted USA is gonna have a problem with that. And Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution is inflexible on the subject.
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Sic Transit Gloria Skype.
End of an era: “After more than two decades as a pioneer in internet-based calling, Skype is officially being retired on May 5, 2025, as Microsoft shifts its focus entirely to Teams. Microsoft’s move gives existing Skype users just 10 weeks to decide their next steps.” Although largely a forgotten one. There was a time where Skype was absolutely vital for my online shenanigans; now I don’t even know how to log onto my account.
I have nothing else to say about that, really. I’m not even upset, or emotional about it. It just struck me in a certain way, that’s all.
February 28, 2025
I ran out of oomph two hours ago.
The gas tank is well and truly drained. I’m seriously considering having a drink, then going to bed just to make sure I don’t wake up for eight hours. I don’t, normally, but this has been an absolute month.
The February Patreon stuff is up!
I didn’t know if this was happening. Short month and I am flat-out exhausted. I want to go take a nap, and it’s a quarter after 7 PM.
Right! Onward.
Short Story: Judith Stormcrow and the Flim-Flam Man. This… probably should have been started on a month with more days, when I wasn’t doing a Backerkit.Roleplaying Games: The Cunning Land, Part 4: Witchery. It’s a little light and fluffy, but so is this entire game setting.Patreon!
Check out Sandy Petersen’s Patreon!
This would be Sandy Petersen of Call of Cthulhu and Doom fame. Also the Executive Producer of The Whisperer In Darkness movie, which I did not know before today. Anyway, check out his Patreon! He’s a cool dude.
#commissionearned
Tweet of the Day, NSFW NYP Story edition.
Even the joke I’m going to make it will be below the fold.
Anyway, via @iowahawkblog:
Someone painted a giant penis on the roof of an elementary school —authorities are scrambling to cover it up https://t.co/dUAk0ypLuy pic.twitter.com/vykHYtLncF
— New York Post (@nypost) February 27, 2025
The story itself is worth clicking, mostly because it’s pretty clear that the editor sent back the first draft of it with a terse Needs more dick jokes. See if you can guess my favorite one!
Moe Lane
PS: I was going to add a joke to the title, but I decided that it was already too long.
PPS: Obligatory:
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