Cool Stuff Friday
It looks like Rise of the Spider Goddess has pretty much earned back its costs in the first 72 hours. Thank you all so much!
And now, on to some fun stuff:
- 17 Cat Reactions for Every Thanksgiving Situation.
- Happy Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown! In LEGO! (Yeah, I know I’m a week late.)
- Cats in Christmas Trees.
- “All About That Base: No Rebels,” a Star Wars parody by Team Unicorn. (Warning: may cause earworms, as well as pained groaning when you get to the Alderaan line.)
Sarah
December 5, 2014 @ 11:27 am
I am thoroughly enjoying the snarky commentary in RotSG. 🙂
Jim C. Hines
December 5, 2014 @ 1:49 pm
Very happy to hear it, thank you! 🙂
Bonelady
December 5, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
Good for you on covering your costs. I wonder what Vox Day will think of this. My guess is that he will find this offensive for some “voxly” reason. Then in a year or two he will do the same thing and declare it a triumph of something or another. That is what he did when John Scalzi rewrote Little Fuzzy by Piper — then turned around and did the same thing with Jean and Jeff Sutton’s Programmed Man, which was, of course, a tribute.
Jim C. Hines
December 5, 2014 @ 5:23 pm
Thanks! And honestly, VD is free to think and do whatever he likes. Heck, a hate-sale is still a sale, right?
DTL
December 12, 2014 @ 5:59 pm
Spider Goddess makes me wish there was some sort of anthology where fantasy/sf writers published their first short story or a chapter from their first novel ever written, along with snarky commentary. I think it’d be fun for fans and for would-be authors to see where pro-authors came from. (If such an anthology already exists, tips plz)
I was impressed that Spider Goddess ticked off all the fantasy clichés very neatly, considering it was on the short side of fantasy, but College You COMPLETELY forget to have his overpowered elf have amazing sex with either Galadrion or some other beautiful princess that needed rescuing. I thought that was a rite of passage along with special swords and awesome animal companions?
Jim C. Hines
December 13, 2014 @ 12:18 pm
But if Nakor got to have amazing sex, it would TOTALLY interfere with his elf-pain and angst!