Haven't posted here in a while. I blame Twitter ( Read more... )

"... a babe with a claymore running along the Royal Mile, pursued by remotely piloted drones, invisible to everyone except children and drunkards too poor to be using augmented reality." - deleted scene from Charles Stross' Halting State, dated June 25 2006

Found this in my records. Shame it never got used. Very cool action scene idea; ( Read more... )

Forgot my password for a couple of years there. Oops.

2018: Black Panther (and really the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole) Avengers: Endgame in 2019 may have been the ultimate love-letter to the fans who watched every single one of these movies since 2008 but Infinity War was a better movie, in the sense of assembled better from the sum of ( Read more... )

https://www.inc.com/magazine/19970615/1416.html - farmers' barbed wire fencing pulling double-duty as telephone wire in the 1920s. Frontier ingenuity at its finest. Makes me think of that Warren Ellis quote from Crécy, his woefully under-read comic/history text/treatise- ( Read more... )

Because I'll be damned if I'm redoing all that Markdown formating in HTML. Enjoy the delicious link, thank you very much.


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Been a while. Good to see us still clinging grimly to what used to be the best place on the internet. I got love for LJ; so many great conversations, so many friends I made without meeting. Good times ( Read more... )

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Nothing special. Just quick way to earn a little bitcoin and see what the fuss is all about.

- INjection 11 and 12 ( Read more... )

So I gotta ask, why is it that in fiction whenever some person or entity claims to be Beyond Good and Evil, it's invariably because they're doing some evil shit? How come we never see some amoral individual saving orphans, saving lives or saving the world because good evil don't make no difference to them?

"It means there's normal people, like your mom. There's people like me who train, study, barter and bargain their way into certain skills and powers. And then there are liminal people. You and yours are born with some of the weirdest collections of gifts and curses ever assembled on this planet." - Entropy of Bones, Ayize Jama-Everett
The second ( Read more... )