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“Billions and Billions” demonstrates why you should always ask about the fine details. Also, the importance of remembering that not everything’s a nihilist. Many fictional nihilists make this mistake, honestly.
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“One Small Lurch For Man” is a little weird, but… OK, it’s very weird. But, when you think about it: what’s the biggest problem when it comes to manned interstellar exploration, in an universe without faster-than-light travel? Exactly. Wouldn’t they honestly be better choices when it comes to making the trip?
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For those of you who subscribe: somebody joined up, and I’m rewarding them with a little story. Because, hey, reward the behaviors that you like.
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For my Patreon RPG world Arcadia — you can see what I’ve done so far for only a buck a month! — and I pretty much spent the day fiddling with it to in order to learn the basics. This is a small part of it so far; the quality is much better in the original, trust me. I’m using Campaign Cartographer for this one, because they allow commercial use and buying it was tax deductible. I mean, people are paying me to do this stuff. Map-making is a legitimate and recognized part of the roleplaying game supplement experience.
So, yeah, that was what I was doing today. And it’s not as easy as you’d think.
I am plugging the Patreon again this month — I will pretty much be doing that every month until I die, in fact — and since I used “Krampusnacht” as a sample there I thought I’d put it up here, too. I flatter myself that it’s a Christmas story that looks for new and exciting cliches, instead of revisiting all the old ones. Enjoy!
“Love in a Canoe Beer” is, perhaps, a touch daring. Or even a bit spicy. Or merely an abomination before the Lord. Eye of the beholder, and all that.
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“Ecumenical Intervention” owes not a little to “On the Gate,” which is one of those Rudyard Kipling stories that really should be read at least once before you die. If only to give you something tangible to hope for, in your afterlife. Mind you, it’s blatant hubris to compare my work to Kipling’s in the first place, yet here we are.
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“A Rocky Start” is, in its way, hopeful. Why is it that we assume that Good is the only one that can screw things up, after all? Evil is just as capable of producing embarrassing congenital screw-ups, after all.
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Somebody pledged! Unfortunately, in Patreon-world $146 + $4 = $149, and now you can see the ostensible reason why they wanted to fiddle with how the processing fees are handled. But I got two more weeks to find another new subscriber, and surely only one more $1 pledge will handle it… surely. Assuming that $149 + $1 = $34 and take a shot of whiskey. Never a dull moment, in this magical new world of the gig economy. I have to keep reminding myself that worldwide caloric intake and lifespan has risen over the last century. For all its faults, this system is hella better than socialism.
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