Thom Brannan

Trump says he didn't know who Changpeng Zhao was when he pardoned him.

Most transparent administration.

Hey, remember when Musk said he'd donate $6B to solve world hunger if the WFP would give him a plan for how it could be done?

Did you know he actually donated $5.7B… to himself. The Musk Foundation, in 2021, held almost $10B in assets. It gave a total of $160M to charities.

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) collector's cover

AD&D 2E Ravenloft module cover

Mark Twain's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT

,,, another NO CONTEXT INSPIRATION set of pictures, but this time from something not yet released. For those who already know, of course you know, lol. And for those who don't, you'll know soon enough. Heh. Heh ha. Hee hee. Ha ha, ho. Heh.

(One of these is tangential, and made itself clear after.)

You excel at providing and furnishing spaces for the life-adverse?

I just realized, it's 26 weeks until I turn 50. Yaaay

A giant woman dressed in white floating in the air. She has four white wings and two long black braids. On her head there is a kokoshnik-like crown.

A giant man with white pearlescent scales on his shoulders and tail covers a small woman in a red dress with his hand The man has a huge bleeding bite on his shoulder.

A portrait of a man with big horns, a vertical third eye in the middle of his forehead and deer ears. His hair is half red, half white and two ghostly hands are touching his shoulders.

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Is it irony? I just ran across an ad saying "We Hire Freelancers" with a list of the things they hire for, but the ad... well, it's AI slop. Like... is this just mixed messaging? Or is it blind irony?

I don't know the right word for this.

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The expert on the news just said "new-Q-ler tests." Sigh.

I have *just now* realized that "you won't be able to see your daily streams" also means I don't get to see ANYTHING at ALL.

How are we supposed to know anything? It seems fucky. Imagine if KDP was like, "yo, you can publish this book, but good luck knowing how many you sold."

It's weird, right? Like, my parents are dead and I'm okay with that, but I think about when we had to put down Max (dog from when I was zero years old) and I get choked up. (Don't tell my sisters, they'll get mad at me.)

I got this fluffy white cat now and I'm hoping he just lives for fucking ever.

I CAN'T EVEN DO THAT MATH, it's so powerful.

Guns! Gore! Other G word, I can't think of it right this second!

Please share this if you can, and be sure to grab yourself a copy! MORE EXCLAMATION MARKS~!!!11

This is a survival adventure piece featuring the zombie apocalypse which kicks off the events of the World of Trouble universe: add one freelance former KGB enforcer and one bounty hunter out to make her mark in the world, then multiply that by a gang war, with a zombie outbreak exponent!

Biohazard symbol full of bullets

Fiends and friends alike, may I direct your attention to the picture, please! Attached is the cover for this week's free SPOOKTOBER GIVEAWAY offering, World of Trouble: Dia de los Muertos by the late, great, Doug Wojo.

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TODAY IS RELEASE DAY for BATTLETECH: OUTFOXED!

My new BattleTech novel!

You can still pre-order a signed copy at my website! I'm trying to organize a few signing/gaming events in November, too, so I'll have more info about those.

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THANK YOU everybody who shared any of the TRIBULATION OF DAX posts, and to the rest who left a reaction to bump it in the malgorithm. We gave away tens of copies and I can only hope some of those turn into reviews.

Jesus Christ, this rework MORE BALLS TO PICASSO sounds fucking amazing. I was expecting the whatever remix, but this is so much more. Holy shit. Bruce Dickinsons is a madman.

Upgrade your listening device, whatever it is, and check out "Cyclops," the first track. What the entire absolute FUCK.

The Beauty of the Bargain: A Tale of the Unicorn Clan In the darkness of the Burning Sands, Ide Uyan seeks out a powerful spirit that could lead her to ancient stories lost to time from the bones of old Rempet, in this tale of the Unicorn Clan by Josh Re...

Weekend reminder that I wrote some cool L5R short fiction earlier this year. Free to read, and if you want to see more, be sure to let Aconyte know! www.legendofthefiverings.com/the-beauty-o...

Maybe I'm just feeling edgy today, but the thought has occurred to me that every farmer losing their land due to current economic bullshit ought to give their fields one good salting before they leave.

Kleptocracy.

So, my right wing friends, if you are a member of the Second Amendment Foundation or the Firearms Policy Coalition, you are now on a federal list.

Is this what you voted for? How is the leopard's breath?

Anyway! If you haven't snagged a free ebook, get it now! If you have, or if you haven't any interest in it, please share! It won't cost you anything but a couple of friendships, maybe, on the outside. hehHA

And finally, my initial casting for the protagonist and second-hand narrator of the book, Terry Dax. I thought, after hearing his sense of humor and coupling that with his aptitude and capacity for violence, Forrest Griffin would be perfect embodiment.

I commissioned Bob Freeman to do custom tarot cards as interior art for the book, and after he read it he knew cards which fit the themes of the different parts.

The second is a home-made promo poster for "Cemetery Gates." I can't draw, so it' ain't great, but it's getting the point across, lol.

Custom tarot card with protagonist Dax, Three of Swords. Except, you know, rifles.

Homemade and ugly AF promo poster for the in-book game show, "Cemetery Gates"

Author/fancast of Dax, Forrest Griffin.

It's the last free ebook day for WORLD OF TROUBLE: TRIBULATION OF DAX, and I wanted to share three things while I'm getting it in front of your eyeballs.

The first is art for Part 3, Burning Moonlight.
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Remember when people on a certain part of the political spectrum would say things like "if anybody in office is getting richer because of it, they're corrupt and we don't like that?"

They're pretty fucking quiet about that right now, aren't they?

There's other stuff in here, of course, but *these* are the standout inspirations. So if you want to read an adventure where nobody has a good time and I faithfully follow the advice of "fill it with zombies and set it on fire," then this is the book for you.

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The first two informed the flavor of the original story which kicked off the entire book, "Cemetery Gates," where our hero(?) Dax is wrongly stuffed into a zombie game show and is scheduled to die. Instead, he gets out, and then he wants to get even, which is where the Parker books take over.

LAND OF THE DEAD movie poster, the one with the hand on the fence

Cover for THE RUNNING MAN, with Bachman as the author

Cover for THE HUNTER, retitled later as POINT BLANK, with a hottie standing over the man she just shot as they run to a getaway plane.

It's time to steal from the best again! This week's No-Context inspiration is brought to you by LAND OF THE DEAD, THE RUNNING MAN, and the whole series of Parker books.

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If somebody could afford to pay *seven million* protesters with no evidence trail leading back to them, why couldn't they afford to pay eight million voters and have every election in their pocket?