Tales of the Parodyverse - I'm not sure where those are on the stuffed bear.

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Subj: I'm not sure where those are on the stuffed bear.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 at 05:58:22 am EST (Viewed 5 times)

Reply Subj: Mostly in my pride and psyche.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 at 08:46:19 pm EST (Viewed 413 times)

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Aha, that was a fun cast! You can't go wrong with spiffy, Donar and Yo. It's almost cheating to use them all in a scene together. Nice to check in on spiffy and see how things are going for him and his rebel nation. Glad that he's getting along with Bev.

After this long I'm afraid it is well known where your buttons are.

Chapter 9: Hallie.

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So we check in on the Mythlands and see that they're fairly well organized for dealing with whatever it is that's coming. Fun to see the old supporting cast again as well... they really brought back some memories! Valeria's prophecy isn't very encouraging, I admit... are we sure that she wasn't just paraphrasing editorials following the recent election?

Rhiannon alone immediately caught the key line in Valeria's prophesy, even if Queen Mab didn't: "There is no real chance of stopping him." Sorry.

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As for the planned course of action, I'm not overly wild about planning a coup d'etat around installing my daughter onto the fairly throne. It's probably a school night...

Noted. But can you really say "No" when Yo is that entusiastic?

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I actually had a Magweed story started last week, but Christmas planning has kept me from making much progress.

Proceed.

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I'm always amazed how often I can't see typos until after I've posted something.

A couple of years back I was commissioned to write a novalla that was eventually published as The New Adventures of Richard Knight: Race With Hell. The title character was created by aviator Donald Keyhoe (the man whose UFO sighting started off the 50s saucer scares), whom often called him by his codename, "the man called Q". Since I was trying to pastiche Keyhoe's style I did the same - except that for some reason throghout the 45,000 word manuscript I referred to him as "the man called X". This error made it through beta-readers, proofreader, and two editors. It was only when I got a print galley for final approval that I happened to spot the mistake! We all felt a bit sheepish after that.

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I do feel slightly guilty for Carl's demise, even though I checked with his creator first and the cold-hearted bastard said "Gank him".

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Well, I do like to think that in the alternate reality of "The Undesirables", he's still kicking with Vizh, Brap, Ms. Pfeffercorn and HuntingJustice DeathMarrow. It's kind of a shame I never went to see "Suicide Squad" after hearing how bad it was, or I might have been inspired to do more of that Undesirables story.

I've seen it now (but not the "improved" extended edition). Going in with such low expectations I was mildly entertained by it - a "watch once" movie. The ruins of a good film are somewhere in there. I'd rank it as more watchable than Batman v Superman, but leave both your brain and your sense of outrage at misuse of characters at home.

The only thing I particularly objected to was the presentation of Joker's relationship with Harley Quinn as being a great romance, not as the mental, physical, and sexual abuse we actually saw on screen. Jared Leto did come close to a competent the Joker for me, but the script and direction didn't help.

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I need to finish that Crapsack fight somehow without devoting another chapter to it; a limit of my current format.

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Maybe a truckload of bran can slow him down?

I suspect that, having now significantly annoyed Mumprhey, we may not be seeing much more of the character.

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Dr Moo is doing this testing?

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She is now that you've suggested it!

Looking forward to the tie-in.

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And now we have to have a villain called the Alt-Writer. Just like that.

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You are so right... and we definitely need CSFB! back for that.

I'm not sure if I quite get the US nuiances of the current political/creative turbulence across the pond. I do look forward to Alt-Writer's vicious henchman Rabid Puppy however.