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I am quite certain
May. 21st, 2014 01:07 amSomeone, somewhere, wrote the story in which Harry Dresden mistakenly gets Harry Potter's invitation to Hogwarts.
May. 21st, 2014
Dark Dungeons: The Trailer!
May. 21st, 2014 10:16 amIs Dark Dungeons the Movie a satire?
NO! Satire is “a humorously exaggerated imitation.” The most classic example is Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, in which he mocks the English aristocracy’s indifference to the rural Irish poor by suggesting they eat Irish babies. This was an exaggeration as the English did not actually hate the Irish enough to eat their babies. By contrast, Dark Dungeons the comic shows that RPGs can lead to suicide, joining a witches coven, and gaining real life magical powers and Dark Dungeons the movie shows exactly those same things as well. The film adaptation does not exaggerate or alter those claims. It is NOT a satire.
Question for Hugo people
May. 21st, 2014 10:32 amAnd as Em Jay See Ess may or may not know, Tim's online 'zine _has_ been nominated for a Hugo - twice, I think. It did not receive enough nominations to make the Hugo ballot, but it was certainly nominated. EJSE owes both Archon and Tim an apology on that false claim.
What is the technical definition of "Hugo nominee"?
An entirely different business model
May. 21st, 2014 12:30 pmI wonder what it would be worth to authors for me not to review their early, deliberately obscure works?
And another thing
May. 21st, 2014 05:02 pmNot interested in ebooks by living authors where the author sees no money from the ebook edition.
Steel City, May 21: Enter the Mole
May. 21st, 2014 11:55 pmPresent:
Hadley "Volt" Ramirez (NPC)
Izzy "Canadian Lass" Traynor
NFN "99 Per Cent" NLN
Vieno "Huitzil" Lipponen
A young woman wakes in what appears from the inside to be an exceptionally crappy coffin. Baffled since the last thing they remember is being at the Occupy rally, she explores her environment. The lid lifts a bit, letting her see daylight and hear the voice of Jerry Wahl, low life to many but "Uncle Jerry" to her. This is a hopeful sign since Jerry's a friend of her parents but since Jerry is a professional crook, it's entirely possible he was hired to kidnap her.
This last would be an exceptionally bad idea since her parents used to be known as Dark Silver and Chicle. They may be retired but they still have all their superpowers and the skills they picked up as career super-villains in Canada. Still, best to be careful.
On examination she is in a hidden compartment in a van, the sort of compartment one might use to smuggle stuff. The shipping crate she is in has a label that completely fails to mention there is a woman hidden inside. It seems that someone was planning on smuggling her to Canada.
While straining to overhear the conversation going on outside the van, she discovers that she now has the ability to see and hear remote locations. Sweet! She'd always wanted powers. Using the vast body of knowledge that earned her a spot as io9's anonymous supers blogger, she begins to run through the standard checklist to see what powers she has, or as much of it as she can do in a crate.
Her remote viewing has enough range to see what is going in a room far above her in the office tower whose alley the van is parked in. She can see a young woman, what appears to be a teenager of indeterminate sex and a man-shaped form of crackling electricity. But they are not alone.
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Hadley "Volt" Ramirez (NPC)
Izzy "Canadian Lass" Traynor
NFN "99 Per Cent" NLN
Vieno "Huitzil" Lipponen
A young woman wakes in what appears from the inside to be an exceptionally crappy coffin. Baffled since the last thing they remember is being at the Occupy rally, she explores her environment. The lid lifts a bit, letting her see daylight and hear the voice of Jerry Wahl, low life to many but "Uncle Jerry" to her. This is a hopeful sign since Jerry's a friend of her parents but since Jerry is a professional crook, it's entirely possible he was hired to kidnap her.
This last would be an exceptionally bad idea since her parents used to be known as Dark Silver and Chicle. They may be retired but they still have all their superpowers and the skills they picked up as career super-villains in Canada. Still, best to be careful.
On examination she is in a hidden compartment in a van, the sort of compartment one might use to smuggle stuff. The shipping crate she is in has a label that completely fails to mention there is a woman hidden inside. It seems that someone was planning on smuggling her to Canada.
While straining to overhear the conversation going on outside the van, she discovers that she now has the ability to see and hear remote locations. Sweet! She'd always wanted powers. Using the vast body of knowledge that earned her a spot as io9's anonymous supers blogger, she begins to run through the standard checklist to see what powers she has, or as much of it as she can do in a crate.
Her remote viewing has enough range to see what is going in a room far above her in the office tower whose alley the van is parked in. She can see a young woman, what appears to be a teenager of indeterminate sex and a man-shaped form of crackling electricity. But they are not alone.
( Read more... )