Hobgoblin Warwick in the inevitable Hobgoblin Wars of the Roses.

I played a gig with those guys.

And rapidly self-devouring one as well.

If you are what you eat, his make your own pizza kits made me what I am today.

Joe knows this stuff cold.

Thanks for this.

And thus was fair Beleriand lost, along with my internship at DOGE.

That's awesome--went there 2 weekends ago, saw the video of them making the noodles, and thought, "wait, where have I heard some of these details before?" (Answer: the audio version of your novella.) And wow, they were good--shocked that technique can make such a difference.

Coincidentally just started listening to the audiobook in French for learning purposes--it's great to see and hear these international interpretations!

Excellent! I lived down near the Akasaka-Mitsuke subway stop--so I'd see Shinjuku looking NW and you would've seen it looking SW I think.

(Asking because I lived there and this is like a view I once had.)

Where was this taken in Tokyo?

IIRC, there's a bit in Stoppard's Invention of Love where Housman likens all the works of the ancient world to a field of wheat, and what we have are the few scattered stalks that remain after that field has been thoroughly reaped.

Dystopias where people get to be heroes and have adventures and eventually win all look pretty good right now.

Michel Foucault smiles like Willy Wonka from the grave.

What an awesome project! Got to meet Rebecca Roanhorse for the first time at Capclave this past weekend, and it's great to see this happening.

Bonus: the whole planet is in fact an AI, so two birds with one large space rock.