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Glass Diamonds page 55 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read Glass Diamonds to page 59.

If you want any of my books as a holiday gift you have to order by Dec 16th for it to get there in time. Iron Circus is having a sale until the 16th where everything is 30% off, so you can grab Stars, Hide Your Fire or Cautionary Fables at a discount. My werewolf stuff is only in my store. 

On Christmas, I’m going to do another charity stream for the Trevor Project. If you are unfamiliar, the Trevor Project is for suicide prevention and support for LGBTQ+ youth.

I asked folks on my patreon which game I should play. The Forgotten City won. If you are unfamiliar with The Forgotten City, it is a time loop ethics puzzle in a Roman city that is cursed. Basically, if anyone in the city “sins” the whole city is turned into gold. You have to figure out what counts as a sin and how to break the curse. I’ll start at noon pst. You can watch on my twitch. 

As for movies in my discord, reminder that I play a movie for anyone to watch Saturday’s at 11am pst. You can join here. We are watching:

• Dec 6th – Amadeus
• Dec 13th – The Northman
• skipping the 20th
• Dec 27th – Snowpiercer

And as usual, I’ll be streaming, thought I changed some of the times. 

Everything else will be the streaming schedule:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Baldur’s Gate 3

Join me on my twitch!

I’m visiting my parents this month so I mostly focused on getting ahead on Glass Diamonds. It’s about half way done. So it will probably wrap up around this time next year. 

My eyes are almost done healing from surgery in September. So I started upping my work outs again. I started doing both yoga and pilates once a week. Ugh. It has resulted in my being sore a lot. But after a month I’m already getting better at it. In the new year, I’m gonna try to get back to doing cardio again. I fell off it during the summer and need to get back to it. 

This month I finally got the chance to go through all The Murderbot Diaries. I really liked the show when I watched it earlier this year. The books didn’t disappoint. It did made me wonder what season 2 of the show Murderbot would be like because the human characters aren’t in the second and third book. I am also glad that I read it AFTER I was done writing all of Glass Diamonds. Both Rebecca and Murderbot are frustrated with the humans they are trying to protect. And I think if I had read it before writing Glass Diamonds, I would have accidentally veered Rebecca too much in Murderbot’s direction. 

One of the movies watched in my discord was All the Presidents Men, which is you don’t know is about investigating Watergate. I definitely see why it was nominated for a bunch of Oscars. The lighting and shots keep the tension going through what could because have easily been considered boring. I did think it was interesting that the movie doesn’t follow the whole investigation. 

I also saw The Breakfast Club for the first time. I was mostly underwhelmed by it. Mostly because I felt like I saw everything interested referenced in other things. Usually I still enjoy movies that have been referenced referenced a lot, but since The Breakfast Club is conversations without much plot, the stuff that gets referenced is basically the whole movie. I vastly perfer John Hughes other movies, (and ended up rewatching Planes, Trains, and Automobiles on Thankgiving. 

A classic I ended liking more was The Day the Earth Stood Still. While the plot was straight forward, it did a lot of interesting stuff with lighting and their limited effects. I was surprised that for a movie made in 1951, they did a good job at having a multicultural crowd at the end. 

While working I ended up find a video that did a deep dive into why America’s biking infrastructure is so other places in the world. A lot of it comes down to one guy in the 70s thinking that casual biking would “ruin” biking as a sport. He wanted bikes to be treated like cars and pushed any attempts at bike lanes or anything that made biking easier. It was very interesting watch.

Another niche deep dive I watched a video on the interactive animatronic characters at Disneyland & Disneyworld. It does a research into their first animatronic Abe Lincoln that Walt Disney wanted to be able to answer questions, but it was pretty limited. And then how it different techniques for having characters guests could interact with were developed and then put aside. 

And finally, this month I learned baby crocodiles make laser gun noises. Make sure to turn on the sound.

See you next month. Thank you all for your support. 

Glass Diamonds page 54 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read Glass Diamonds to page 58.

Glass Diamonds page 53 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read Glass Diamonds to page 57.

Glass Diamonds page 52 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read Glass Diamonds to page 56.