Although I suppose that's old news now, I think it came out a couple of weeks ago? Honestly, I can't really think of much stuff that's been happening this week.

Also, France didn't elect Voldemort as their president (thanks, Tumblr) putting them one-up on the rest of the world.


(also, hello!! I am back.)

live trailer in the works.

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Oh, man! That's pretty cool! It's a shame that the movie based on The Eyes of the Dragon was never finished, as I really loved that book, and I'm with you in the boat of "can't read any actual horror by Stephen King." >u<

Have you read his memoir/writing advice combo? It's pretty good, and it explains a lot about why he writes such messed-up stuff.

(Fun fact: One time, my friend shipped me with the Eyes of the Dragon version of Randall Flagg, and it escalated to the point of him having been my LO for a while. Those were interesting times.)

-Twistey

P.S. Nobody's mentioned that it's Cinco de Mayo... (quietly goes back to reading Things I'm Not Allowed to Do at the PPC)

I got an offer for a job near Cincinnati a couple of days a go - they have yet to sign the letter but I have good faith that they will soon enough - and we're currently working out whether to transition out of my current job so I can move there or to hold out until my current company transitions me to full-time. With luck though I should be able to go full-time once again soon enough, though! (Also, Voyd told me the other day that he has found a new job at a Wal-Mart at his town and that's wonderful. :D)

I'm also working on the second of two interludes I have planned, and kinda waiting on the current beta for the first one (and looking for a second beta for both). Unfortunately, though, progress on this interlude has been stupidly slow, thanks to... well, I won't say, but it's a personal project I thought up this past weekend and I'm keeping it under wraps until I sort out the baseline mechanics for it. But once it's ready for presentation I'll put it up on the Board for your evaluation along with both of the interludes! 'Twas about time I got something posted for the PPC after being out of touch with writing my agents for like what, six months? ^^;

God, that's a good game. And when I'm not doing that, I'm running around the open world of Horizon: Zero Dawn, which is also a really good game. So yeah, it's a great week for gaming.

I also found out I'm gonna be moving out of Cincinnati next Friday. I'm... not looking forward to it, because it means I'll be down in Florida, with my folks. And that's not gonna be great for me, because that means I'm going to have to deal with my parents. And God, is that thought scary, particularly in light of the recent AHCA vote. They're gonna rub that shit in my face, I just know it...

Also, something else happened to some friends recently, and all that I can really think about with what's happened with this friend is "gee, where was [i]that[/i] a couple years back?" I guess life is weird like that.

The Century Trilogy. The first one covers World War I, the second one is World War II, and the third one is the Cold War. I'm on book 2.

They're really good books. The facts are well researched and characters are all very relatable, human people, even the ones you might not agree with.

That's kinda what make it scary, reading about these events at this time. I can't help but think there are some similarities to the way things are spiraling out of control now, with some of the same issues of economics, racial and religious prejudice, nationalism, and an unhinged leader who pushed his way to power by preying on the insecurities of his voters. ... I'm trying really hard to avoid running afoul of Godwin's Law here, but I don't think I can. I'm... I'm just gonna stop. Point is, it's scary. I wonder if it's ever possible to see an international crisis coming long enough ahead of time to stop it.

There are some bright spots. We got a bipartisan budget passed, with some good stuff for education, heath, and the environment, and nothing for a border wall. I think we can be happy about this.

~Neshomeh

I'm actually a bit less excited about the movie, now that I've seen the trailer. I know the series had issues towards the end, but I did think the early novels were going to see fairly straightforward adaptations. There are a lot of scenes here that don't seem to have any real analogue in the first novel. (The end sequence seems to be Roland and Jake battling the slow mutants, but that should be happening in an abandoned mine tunnel, not above ground.) But beyond adaptational nitpicking, a lot of scenes just seem so shallowly Hollywood. I especially hate Roland somehow reloading his gun by throwing them in the air, and catching them in the chambers without them moving apart from each other. What? And a lot of the gun fight choreography seems terribly ostentatious . . .

As a fan of King's works in a broader sense, I do hope the house where Jake finds the portal is the same one used to film the house on Niebolt Street in the upcoming It movie, since the two are supposed to be "twins." It will also be interesting to see if future adaptations of King's works where the man in Black appears will re-use the same actor to portray him.

—doctorlit darkles and tincts

I haven't been really following the election but I just hope it turns out alright.