Errata: Shadow and Bone is book one of the original Grisha trilogy. Six of Crows is not the sequel as the article suggests, but rather the first book in a second trilogy which is somewhat related to the first (and gets more so as it goes along). So what they are effectively doing is adapting both trilogies in…
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Please read the Dragonlace/Ravenloft crossover that brings Lord Soth in the Demiplane of Dread. I have good memories of that one.
Wow, this brings me back. I was very into Ravenloft as a high schooler. My friends who got me into D&D all had their own corners of it they enjoyed - one Forgotten Realms, one Dragonlance, and I (being the Byronic angst-boy trope brought to life) was drawn to the sad, sad, sadness of Ravenloft. I got a ton of the…
That’s probably true. Most people are probably more concerned with surviving through today or the next harvest than they are about curing zombieism. But you have also probably followed the news about COVID vaccines and you are sort of in the same boat as they are since an infectious disease has affected your life. It…
It matters to the characters since if you know what caused it you may be able to fix it, but it doesn’t really matter from a story setting. A writer might reveal it if they had a really great idea that changes everything and opens up new stories, but most of the time they reveal something like that because they didn’t…
Lots of planets have a Noth.
I wondered if they were going to bring back Chris Noth — it seemed like they had set him up to be a recurring antagonist, but didn’t do anything with him, so I’m glad they did bring him back. Plus, Captain Jack!
That’s the Repetition of the Daleks.
Don’t fuck with my life list!
This is great news for birders and the environment. We host all kinds of birds but especially Hummingbirds at our rural property in coastal northern Cali for decades. Some are here all year and others migrate away for winter. You can almost set your watch to when they come and go and the regulars will hang out in the…
Good analogy.
They may not have started this particular Reichstag fire, but damned if they aren't doing their utmost to keep it burning.
You would have to look. Should be easy to find, I read it today. Here’s a similar paper from Stanford that studied 18 Trump rallies and concluded that they resulted in as many as 30,000 unnecessary infections and 700 deaths.
There is a report out on USA Today showing that Coronavirus numbers are spiking in areas two weeks after a Trump has a rally. This was happening this summer when numbers were dropping across the country; and it’s much worse as numbers have started to increase. In some places they’ve had 68% increases in infections two…
This is absolutely true. Trump is not an anomaly or an aberration. He is the REAL face of the Republican ideology. So was Reagan, but he had the good sense to say the quiet parts quietly while lying to America about his real goals and attitudes (and America wasn’t brainwashed enough to jump into bed with the real…
Anyone with even a SHRED of awareness knew that was exactly how his administration was going to go. But his “Rich, Male, Whiteness” superseded America’s collective ability to thinking coherently...to say nothing of rationally. America’s ‘thought process’ turned into the same kind of intellectual diarrhea as Trump’s.
I always thought he was going to do to US exactly what he did to Atlantic City. The grifting, the unpaid bills, the leaving the city in shambles... To be living that reality is so weird.
Yet another example of the Trump administration actively sabotaging critical social systems to save face about how much of a dumpster fire his administration is but also how much of a dumpster fire Trump himself is.