Wife: Please! How did my husband die?
Stormtrooper officer: He fired at a Jedi and they deflected the blast back at him with their lightsaber.
Wife, weeping: That must have looked rad.
Officer, solemnly: So rad.
Perfect. A+. No notes.
Ivy is having BEST DAY
Some days I really feel the need to remind people at work that I have a bachelor's degree in lying and subtext (theater). So, no, you will not get anything past me. Stop it.
Oh hey, a bunch of companies are about to figure out why the Canadian government said Meta couldn't use their news sources to make money without paying the news sources themselves and why that wasn't censorship.
I hope, anyway.
There were uncountable books in the library, none of which I knew. I picked one at random and read the blurb.
"A cosy fantasy?"
"Yes," said my host.
I picked another. "Cosy mystery?"
"Yes."
"Are all your books cosy?"
Cthulhu shrugged. "If you'd seen what I've seen, you'd want comfort too."
*screams into the void*
I will die on the hill that it's inappropriate to call Easter "Zombie Jesus Day."
Zombie is not a generic term for undead - it has a specific meaning. We HAVE a generic term for beings who have returned compos mentis from death in their original, physical bodies: Revenants.
Oh, hai! Book news. Sourdough world book news. 😊😘💚
www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...
Took a break from zombie!forest!knight story to work on magical!theater!heist story instead and had the best time.
A Trick of the Light
Magical commedia dell'arte troupe gets drafted into doing a jewel heist by the mob to save their playhouse, only to discover the prize will cost them everything.