I saw a prompt on Twitter; Draw your oc before and after trauma like that one mirror from Undertale. It's been a while since I drew Oron so it was a lot of fun to do despite being real sick this past week
“-- Right, I’ll keep that in mind. Could’ve sworn that’s how he usually talks...” the last bit was muttered under Zac’s breath, as the robot would quickly pull out a phone and use a speed-dial to call up the nearest fast-food delivery company. Putting in Oron’s large order, as well as just ordering a Quarter-Pounder meal for himself, Zac hung up with a chuckle.
“They’ll be here in about fifteen. My treat.” he simply states, before the robot would crack his neck a bit and look at Oron. “... You look like shit, by the way. And I don’t mean get-up wise, the gear’s still ass-kicking. But you look like you’ve just been spoiled about the finale of one of your soap operas.” Zac motions for Oron to have a seat in a couch. “Feel like talking, big man?”
David C. Smith is an author whose career began in the 1970’s during the second wave of sword & sorcery, he still writes to this very day, and Oliver felt very lucky to get the chance to have this epic, first-ever two-part interview with him!
In this first part we cover David's original aspirations to work in film, the incredible role having the right English teacher can play in your life, discovering Conan, the real life model for Norman Bates, how Lord of the Rings helped David see Robert E Howard more clearly, the grounded nature of sword & sorcery and how it contrasts to make the weird elements shine brighter, too many elephants in too many towers, "when everything is special than nothing is", the 70's fanzine community and the role it played in David's career, zine letter's pages as the "online" forums of the pre-internet era, David's first time selling one of his stories, getting his first rejection out of the way, the value of feedback with rejections and getting roasted in the letters column, selling his first novel - Oron, using zines to promote sword and sorcery today, how David distinguishes S&S from Heroic Fantasy, trying to attract fans of the romance genre to S&S, how only having serious musclemen protagonists and stories limits things, when there was a midlist in publishing, the second wave of sword and sorcery, how the Esoteric Order of Dagon played a key role in David's career, potentially finding direct influences on Lovecraft's invention of weird cultist language, David's line between fan fiction and true pastiche, the Greek style heroic arc, the truth behind a rumor Oliver heard about David being called in to finish a Karl Edward Wagner novel, Black Vulmea, and more!
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Me: It seems strange to me that Crowley and Aziraphale didn't think to just. Use a blank instead of a real fucking bullet in the 1941 bullet catch. Lemme research the history of the trick...
Wikipedia: "One of the earliest documentations of the bullet catch appeared in Jean Chassanion's Histoires mémorables des grans & merveilleux iugements et punitions de Dieu (1586), translated as The Theatre of God's Judgements by Reverend Thomas Beard in 1597"