Teaser poster for Space Jam: A New Legacy · 2:20pm Mar 31st, 2021
I've said before that I'm not into Looney Tunes anymore, but I might give this a watch for nostalgic purposes.
I've said before that I'm not into Looney Tunes anymore, but I might give this a watch for nostalgic purposes.
You heard correctly: On the morning of Saturday, October 7th, the Sponish rocket Miura I successfully reached space. It seems that, eventually, the Martians will eat paella and drink gazpacho. 😋
It’s been a strange last couple of weeks. You may have noticed that there wasn’t a Being a Better Writer post on Monday, which was consequence of two things. First, that it was a holiday (President’s Day) and I seized on that with no small amount of fervor, but second, that I’d had LTUE the week before.
I watched the sun rise at midnight.
I watched an impossible dawn.
I watched an explosion so far away it took half a minute for me to hear it and it still rattled my bones.
I watched as, for the first time, humanity reached a milestone on a quest to live on other worlds.
Dream 1: Dreamt I was standing on the deck of a big cruise ship. It was nighttime and was a nice moonlit night, starry sky. Pretty. Sort of felt like I was standing kind of oddly on my legs so I looked down to see hooves and the startling realization I was somehow a zebra. So startling in fact that I took two very unbalanced steps sideways leaving me falling over the rail and off the ship, tail and mane being whipped by the wind on the way down. When I hit the water I woke up.
So as I'm sure any writer on this site can relate, it's obviously the secret goal of any writer to see one of their fics hit the famed feature box on the site's front page. For me, that shows that all my work writing something people can enjoy to read paid off and was accomplished successfully. And during my time here on this site, I've painstakingly written a number of fics with the hopes that they would accomplish that goal and get
In the northern wastelands of the Crystal Empire, Spike the Dragon and Shining Armor stumble over a crashed, crystalline starship. One that bonds to Spike immediately, and obeys him. But it requires a few different pilots to reach its full potential. It seems resistant to magic and to magic drain, and may be possible of faster than light travel.
If for some reason you aren't reading Kris Overstreet's brilliant odd-couple science adventure/condensed history of spaceflight/footnote fiesta/narrative Let's Play story Changeling Space Program or the daily serial crossover sequel The Maretian, you may at least be interested to know that I did what I do best: I made a card out of the latter.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Radch Empire is a civilization of humans who spend their time annexing other planets. Their military force is incredibly advanced. Each ship is run by an AI, and has hundreds of “ancillaries”; human bodies that have been medically killed and revived, their thoughts replaced by those of the ship’s AI.
Pony Paradise
Lyrics by Super Trampoline based on lyrics by Coolio and Stevie Wonder
Verse 1
As I trot through the tunnels buried deep in the hive
I take a look at my life and how I’m barely alive
That’s a commonality in this forsaken land
We can’t feed, we can’t fly, heck we barely can stand
Yeah the Queen says we’re fine, says our break’s almost here,
But she speaks only lies; it’s the truth that I fear