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The Department of FYJS.
What follows is an epic thread from NY Times bestseller Larry Correia, the International Lord of Hate himself. I’m posting it here verbatim (with a few minor typo corrections) because: I agree wholeheartedly. A lot of people aren’t on Twitter, or don’t follow Larry, or don’t read Twitter threads. I want it someplace where I…
The Great Twitter Liberation.
Owing to the mighty emancipation which Twitter is undergoing, I made myself a new account there (I deleted my old one a couple of years ago, and had stopped using it a year or two before that). If you feel the urge to follow me, it’s @NathanShumate. At present, I’m just retweeting with commentary (which…
Movies Seen Recently: Compound Fracture, The Astronaut’s Wife, The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Compound Fracture (2014) – An adult son, with his fiancee and his orphaned teenage nephew, finally goes home to the compound where his estranged father still lives, his lifelong paranoia about the supernatural exacerbated by his declining mental faculties. But it turns out that something else “came home” with him, something that turns Dad’s supernatural…
The 13th Immortal
[cross-posted from GoodReads] On the one hand: This was written to be part of an “Ace Doubles” volume, and it shows the flaws common to most of those “filler” novels: arbitrary worldbuilding, characterization by convenience, an obligatory de minimis love interest, and an unquestioned faith in the viability and desirability of a coercively realized utopia…