Month: July 2016

Adventure Seed: Vengeance of the Weevil Empire.

Vengeance of the Weevil Empire

“Good morning, Agents. [Picture appears, of an elderly Caucasian male with glasses and a short beard]  This is a picture of Harvey Grisham of Tuttle, Kentucky.  On May 17, 1995 he opened his back door to discover that an alien colony ship had crash-landed in his very extensive and back yard.  The ship was from the Radiant Glorious Space Weevil Empire (their own name for themselves cannot be translated into a human language), and had been damaged while heading for an uninhabited colony world. Please note that the average Space Weevil [picture appears, of a beetle-like creature wearing a shiny jumpsuit, with a penny for scale] is about three quarters of an inch long, which meant that the entire colony ship – one rated for about 100,000 colonists – was about the length and volume of a mid-sized car.

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Bad habit to get into…

…but, hey, this is going to be the first real vacation that I’ve had since Hawaii in 2008 (and even then I still had the hassle of might-as-well-be-international travel to deal with). I pretty much have no responsibilities for the next two weeks; I mean, there are chores and stuff, and we’re going to triage the kids’ room right down to the floorboards, but that’s not the same as either the regular grind, or what I perhaps-foolishly called vacations in the past (a lot of flying, running around strange hotels, and not nearly enough binge drinking*).

All of which is a long-winded way of saying, no creative content tonight. Instead I had a beer and listened to the sounds of a resting house. I feel no shame.

Moe Lane

PS: OK, I won’t be able to get away with this tomorrow or Sunday. So noted. Still.

*I figure I’ll probably not make up for lost time there.

The “Widdershins: Find The Lady” Kickstarter.

I love this webcomic, and happily signed up for the Kickstarter.

Widdershins is 19th century (mostly) urban fantasy; I read it because of the… well, I read it because it’s a damn good webcomic in general, with characters who I like and care about on general principles. But the worldbuilding is nice, too. Kate Ashwin has apparently been known to throw down various polyhedral dice on occasion, in fact. Always nice to see somebody else from The Sodality doing well…

Book of the Week: Great Pacific War.

This one is interesting: Great Pacific War was written in 1925, and it imagined what a naval war between the United States and Japan would have looked like if it happened in 1931. It’s highly plausible – many of the Japanese moves in that war were reflected in our World War II, which may not have been accidental (it was an influential book, apparently) – but I’m struck more by the differences.  The Imperial Japanese are remarkably more respectful of the laws of war in this book, for one thing. Although that may be balanced out by the casual assumption that of course poison gas would be used in battle this time, too.  Still, definitely worth a read, especially at that price.

And so, adieu to Our Lady of Darkness.

Moe Lane