Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
https://suno.com/song/b9544b42-9186-4039-a749-493aeea897b8
For those concerned about the misuses of LLMs, aka AIs, it’s worth noting that Suno will literally block you from using artists names in prompts, and this Kipling poem is to the best of my knowledge in the public domain.
I felt that the Dashwoods, Ferrarses, and Edward’s secret fiancee needed to all be treated in one post, so here we are with the rest of this large cast of characters…
Continue reading “Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, the Rest of the Characters” →I recently finished listening to this book on Librivox (the Karen Savage reading), and decided to start blogging again about adapting Jane Austen. For an introductory essay on the subject, go here. For subsequent essay, click on the Jane Austen category in this blog. As usual, we start with the characters:
Continue reading “Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, The Dashwoods and Ferrarses” →We’re close enough to the release date of August 29 that I’m kind of beyond much speculation, just at that, “shrug, we’ll see” stage of thinking. Let me point out some places where I was definitely wrong in my guesses based on earlier promotional material, and comment on some of the latest news:
Continue reading “Rings of Power, Season 2, Trailer 2 and Related Stuff” →Okay, from a certain point of view, this should be kind of disturbing: an Italian singer, father of the actress who played the devil in Passion of the Christ, is practicing Babel-style confusion of tongues while his grimaces, imposing teeth and bad hair make him look a bit like Henry Blake, Sir Christopher Lee’s Hyde-style persona from I Monster.
But really, it’s just a fun parody of American style pop songs done with nonsense lyrics. Enjoy!
Dan is a writer in a Discord I belong to, who writes fantasy and military science fiction. He’s a cool guy who designs his own starships in Blender, worldbuilds his universes a mile deep, and has done Roman-themed historical reenactments. His first substack essay ties in to his interest in history, and deals with the ancient Egyptian game of Senet.
So much hustling around this week that I forgot to schedule a post for US Independence Day. So here’s Fred Astaire playing with fireworks:
I did a Midj thing based on a joke about Elon Musk, Techlord of Mars, and an internet friend with a twitter account very kindly decided to circulate it. Thank you Foxfier!
So… Because of the Cybertruck, the phrase "Techlord of Mars" was uttered.
— FoxFier (@FoxFier3) July 3, 2024
With people who have access to AI art.@elonmusk , behold Midji's interpreting "elon musk as a high tech barbarian warlord of mars, style of Frank Frazetta –ar 2:3 – Image #1" pic.twitter.com/CFaxwlXVuU
The name’s Chloe Fortebat, and I am in trouble. I left my father’s ranch on the plains to come to the Old World: a place of airships, steampower, and monsters nobody talks about. Now I’m dodging giant werewolves with fangs the size of my knife, and the hunters crazy enough to go after them. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man with a tired face….
My name is Dr. Maxim os Storm, and I hunt the beasts that haunt the night. The leader of this pack of werewolves has set his mark on Miss Fortebat, but this brave lady would rather fight him than let him make her his tool. As far as I am concerned, that makes her my ally. My only chance of curing her lies with an ancient machine, hidden by my people in the caves beneath Wolf Island. We must keep that artifact out of the werewolf’s grasp at all costs, for he would put it to a terrible use….
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