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Drabble - The Vampire.

When the team finally breached the last defense of the complex entombing the heretic vampire, the goal was not rescue.  After all, it had been two weeks - and the same group that had entombed the vampire had also entombed a score of babies with him.

They were surprised to find him weakly feeding one of the (all quite unbitten) babies formula.

"The bastards left plenty of that," the vampire rasped, after someone gave him a drink.

"That must have been..." One rescuer said, only to be cut off by the vampire.

"...EXACTLY LIKE it would have been for you."

Drabble - The ruins.

For those who are wondering: a drabble is an attempt to create a story in 100 words: no more, no less. This one is a reaction to a story that Eric A Burns wrote a lonnnnnng time back; I've never gotten around to doing more with it.

I looked down at the ruins of The Tower That Cornered The World. 200 years, and still it glowed through the surf.

"So..." I asked, shivering in August night, "...it wasn't true, was it? What they said in school, about how the Archmages ruled the world? What they did, to the old Americans; that was just propaganda that the New Republic put out, right?" Unspoken: I don't deserve to be hunted, right? Just because I'm too much of a mage?

Ed ground out his cigarette.  "Naw. They really were that bad." He shrugged.

"But we got a ways to go."

In which I am tiresome about social networking sites.

I have come to the conclusion that sites like the Retropolis Transit Authority really do need to start making their sites easier to link to to such things. This seems a bit convoluted, just to get it on Facebook.

Still: very cool t-shirts.

This is a magnificent idea for a poster.

Glorious, even.

Via here, via here.

Today is, by the way, my birthday.

I can no longer say, well, watch:

You laugh, but I'd pay money for this.

Which is, no doubt, a judgment against me.

Erin Palette and the First Ever Writing Credit.

She's very proud, and justifiably so: Colonial Ministry of Information propaganda posters about the Cylons just don't write themselves, you know.

So go buy some, so that people will give her money. Because that makes it even better.

Today's Very Cool Site.

Sillof's Workshop. Home of the Gaslight Justice League, which is a Steampunk re-imaging of the Justice League of America.

I would say that this sort of thing is like porn to me, except that I suspect that this sort of thing is already porn to various people. It is still, however, very very cool.

In *My* World, Superheroes...

Because Eric Burns is taking a break from writing stuff, too, to... write other stuff, here we go:

In my world, superheroes stand up one more time than the villains knock them down.
In my world, superheroes have an origin story.
In my world, superheroes can have an origin story that simply goes, "Enough was enough."
In my world, superheroes do not have to have powers, but they do have to have integrity and courage.
In my world, superheroes are drawn from all of humanity.
In my world, superheroes do this because they must.
In my world, superheroes do not care how hokey they seem to the cynical.
In my world, superheroes can have bad days.
In my world, superheroes believe in the ideals that they espouse, even if they cannot live up to them.
In my world, superheroes do not whine.
In my world, superheroes will put aside the petty for the sake of the important.
In my world, superheroes may not always be on the side of the law, but they will always be on the side of good.
In my world, superheroes do not lightly choose to be not on the side of the law.
In my world, superheroes do not use the mask as an excuse for license.
In my world, superheroes aspire.
In my world, superheroes can lurk in the hearts of even the worst villains, waiting for a moment of weakness.
In my world, superheroes Hold. The. Line.

Moe

PS: Also, in my world, superheroes do not wear capes.

CompUSA is going bankrupt.

Which is of interest to me solely in terms of this video. It's certainly something, though damned if I know what that something is.

Via Engadget, via Dan Collins (warning: political site).