Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author.

Name a TV show you feel like no one remembers but you:

2 young billionaires are behind the prediction market boom. They hate each other The 20-something billionaires who run Kalshi and Polymarket are battling it out to be the top prediction market company. Observers and former insiders say the feud is just heating up.

Oh hey, I don't like either of these guys too!

So, uh. I guess that's one thing I've got in common with Billionaires.

One.

I don't write as much as I'd like, or as I should. And I'm at the point in this manuscript where I'm like "argh this is terrible why should I even bother?"

But if I stick with it I'll get to the part of my outline where I introduce a talking monkey. So that'll be fun.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Saw an ad for a touring production of That Harry Potter Play, and never have I had less desire to see a live performance.

Every time I hear about this, I must note that getting cancelled was the best thing that happened to that show. Was just in time for DVD Box Sets to become A Thing, so you could binge the whole show in a weekend. Plus, with just one season the show never degraded into, like, S6 of Buffy.

How I arrived on Bluesky:

Got a new credit card, which means cutting up the expired one and scattering the pieces in different trash cans in different places like it's the triforce from Zelda.

Three giant moths with glowing eyes approaching a human holding a flashlight. The moon rises behind them. A guy named Ted safely rides an ATV away from them. The text reads: Ted wasn't sure how he ended up at the Visiting of the moths, but he was sure glad he wore the proper gear: gloves, goggles, boots, long-sleeve shirt, pants and a helmet.

Ride your ATV safely this weekend.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.

Yeah, I bailed midway through S4.

It also doesn't help that two of the most common Quirks in MHA are either "I have to take off my clothes to use my power!" and "I touch you and you fucking die."

I mean, Dave Grohl is a solid guy, right?

"One must imagine Sisyphus horny."

This said, I absolutely love Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, as it gives that SCP vibe without, y'know, being SCP.

I poked at the SCP some while back, but never got into it, as I kept on stumbling across "Hey there's a scary black hole monster made of blood and you have to feed it twelve murderers a day or else the moon explodes. Also if you look at it you poop yourself to death." over and over again.

So, this looks neat.

The thing is, I can't draw, and I think they're more interested in visual comics/stories.

Wonder if I could condense a proper Cataphract story into 2000 words, though.

Hmmm.

"In his house in Nantucket, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming."

Ran #BladesintheDark today! In which our crew of smugglers were hired to steal an unlicensed printing press from the sub-basement of the Charterhall University library.

Went well! Though I fear I'm playing too nice, in that the crew didn't have much in the way of stress/heat by the end of the job

"Spock's Bitch."

Been awhile since I posted any pictures of Zorro, so ...

Meanwhile, 7 months 'til Halloween, and I've got no idea what my costume will be.

I need to get my act together.

Also cue me being the absolute worst kind of fan, in noting that the -cartoon- Optimus Prime got to go out like a proper hero, while -comic book- Optimus Prime exploded himself because Megatron cheated at a video game.

Comic Prime's a chump, friends.

"Why are you crying? It's just a kid's movie."

(It's okay, he got better).

No, autocomplete. I'm not searching for "skaven."

I am typing in "Ska."

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Man, I went into "Bio of a Space Tyrant" expecting some pulpy space opera nonsense, and what I got from the first book was very much NOT THAT. Just ... so much sexual assault. Often with the plot contrived so the female characters could be sexually assaulted. Ick.

Haven't read Anthony since.

Reminder not to doomscroll! Try to find something local that you have control over, whether it's painting little figures, reading an enjoyable book, going for a walk, or making a good meal.

In other news, last night I had a dream in which I was being pursued by a Terminator. Metal-skeleton kind, not just Arnold in a leather jacket.

Which, in retrospect, is almost optimistic? Like "oh hey, I wonder what I'm gonna do to make Skynet want to kill me."