Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author.

I finally got my act together, so now my swashbuckling #clockpunk #mecha #fantasy, THE CATAPHRACT OATH, is available in paperback! Wherein a disgraced alchemist and a sword-wielding countess must salvage an ancient war machine, while dealing with scheming nobles and playwrights of dubious talent.

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Day off! Went and voted early, so now that the most important task of the day is complete, I'm kind of at loose ends. Go fig.

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

I sold $16K in Pokémon cards and it fucking sucked aftermath.site/pokemon-card-s...

Over a month after I got back from vacation, I'm trying to get back into the #writing habit again. Got 249 words scribbled down on a new draft of an old idea I've had for a bit, so it's a start? One of the characters is going on a tangent about fanfic, just so I can make a very silly Trek pun.

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Harry Dresden, eat your heart out.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

I have just discovered Noble Knight Games' online catalog, and now I'm looking at some of the gaps in my old World of Darkness collection, which is gonna be dangerous for my wallet. Nerd problems, yo.

So here's the thing. Marquis Maldrinne is a conniving jerk, but he's also RICH, so, by implication, if I'm sitting next to him on a plane, that means I'm at least in super-fancy rich people class. That, or he's been forced to fly coach for some reason, in which case he'll be extra pissy.

Had a dream last night in which I was trying to come up with the name for a cyberpunk-themed character, and Rebecca "Becky" Black came to mind-- only for me to remember the Friday song moments later. ... though now I'm wondering if she'd just make for a very different kind of cyberpunk character.

You had me at "by the creator of the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park."

You Kan See Everyethinge? Yn thys economye?

16. Middle Earth is a more fully realized setting economically and politically than Westeros

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. Hurt (in my Pants).

Thinking about going to #WorldCon in Montreal next year. Wondering if I can get another book out by then. This may be ... optimistic.

One random night, after a few drinks, I stumbled across this show on Netflix. It kind of impresses me with just how ridiculously calculated it is? It's like "Kids love Batman, kids love those CARS movies, why haven't we mashed them together yet?"

NOT POUNDED BY MY SWORD LESBIAN MECHA PILOT BUD BECAUSE WE'RE JUST FRIENDS AND HER LOVE INTEREST DOESN'T SHOW UP UNTIL THE SECOND NOVEL AND EVEN THEN IT'S KIND OF AWKWARD.

After over a month hiatus, gonna get back to running #TTRPG stuff this weekend! Which means I'm writing up the adventure at the semi-last minute. In which the PC's must face the French werewolf pyromaniac thief: ARSONIST LUPIN.

Bioware's closing and the cancellation of a new Mass Effect sucks. But at the same time, there's a tiny voice at the back of my head saying "Well, now you can write thinly-veiled Mass Effect fanfic and no one can stop you!"

You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level. You are an artist regardless of skill level.

Slowly making progress in the new #Castlevania game, and I realize I may already have a Rose Belmont mini? Just a rando Reaper mini I painted with a color scheme inspired by the Castlevania anime (which, uh, I haven't finished), but it still fits pretty well?

Diminish an Anime. Lupin 1.5

Share a GIF from a HORROR tv series! 😱🖤

So I'm right in the middle of the Venn diagram of "Someone who listens to @marketplace.org" and "Someone who recognizes snippets of the Persona 5 Soundtrack when it's used between stories on Marketplace."

Drop some PUNCHES 👊🏻

Among my many flaws, I'm something of a morning person. I'm more or less wired to wake up when sun starts coming in through the window. Except with winter approaching, that's later and later each day. Harrumph.

"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

Do ya’ll grandfathers know you be gambling on your phone like a bitch instead of going to the local bookie and putting your life in danger with the mob?

Went to my friend's annual Halloween party, which, as expected, was a good time. A highlight was a friend of mine dressing as spot-on Cynthia Rothrock from Righting Wrongs, which is a level of deep cut dedication that I can't help but respect. Seriously, she had that exact jumpsuit. It was amazing

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

Do I have a ton of RPGs on my shelf already? Yes. Will I probably spring for the Sword World kickstarter, just out of curiosity? Also yes.

WELP. Went ahead and splurged for the new #Castlevania. And I am ... fairly bad at it. Still trying to get the hang of the control scheme, but the first boss is just mauling me. Doesn't help that my first instinct is to jump instead of dodge-slide.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

So the new Castlevania isn't out yet, and the new Bloodstained isn't out yet, and I don't feel like dropping 70 bucks on the new Control just yet, and ... yeah. Nerd world problems.

Quote with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack 🎵

Had a dream last night in which my mom wanted me to get married, like, immediately, as that would make it easier to do taxes or something? Very Regency melodrama-ish. I am quite glad to wake up still single.

If you see this, post a Witch.

It was Shigeru Mizuki - comic artist, antiwar activist, folklore archivist, and general cultural titan.

I think I've figured out what I want my next big daily thread to be. Let's talk about the King of the Monsters:

If I run Blades '68, I can put first wave ska on the soundtrack. If I run Slugblaster, I can put third wave ska on the soundtrack. ... I need to think of a game I can run set in 1980's England so I can put second wave ska on the soundtrack. You know, for completion's sake.