Who could have known that bringing in millions of illegal aliens and not vetting them would result in terrorism happening in America?
Who could have warned us?
Oh… Wait…
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My Jack of Harts universe has room for a little bit of everything.
I try to keep the science grounded, but without being the kind of hard science fiction that bores people. I love those hard sci-fi stories, but I know most people don’t. But I will say that everything that happens in the Jack of Harts universe has a science reason for existing. Even catgirls and all those other things that Jack fights. Genetic engineering is a real thing in the universe, and it can make all kinds of crazy creatures. As for the tech itself, I try to show the Earth factions still using tech that we find relatable. Fusion engines. Lasers. Missiles. Gravitic cannons and gravitic generators are really the One Big Tech they get from aliens, which makes them faster and more dangerous, but most Earthborn designs are still something that looks like a futuristic version of what we have now. That is on purpose. It is designed to keep most of the stories I write grounded in the kind of reality that the reader can understand, even as I throw new and interesting things at them.
That is probably the most unrealistic thing about my writing actually. The idea that we will recognize our future world. One way or the other, I highly doubt that we actually will. Just as the world we live in now is utterly alien to the world of a hundred years ago, I expect the real time of Jack will be just as alien to us. But when I write stories, I am writing them for people now, and so I make the decision to write stories that make sense to our eyes. Even as I show all kinds of crazy things in them. The normalcy is what makes the crazy stand out after all.
Six months ago, an assassin murdered, martyred, Charlie Kirk while he was speaking with students.
And the students cheered.
The media cheered.
The Left cheered.
But I repeat myself.
Remember who said what. Remember who did what. Remember who said he deserved it because he said things they hated.
Remember them all. Because they are the ones who will cheer when the next conservative is murdered by the twisted and broken foot soldiers they create and send out to do violence on the rest of civilization.
Charlie Kirk is not the first. He will not be the last. But he is the one that many young people remember, because he came to them to talk to them. He came. He talked. And he was murdered while doing it. Never forget that.
I enjoy telling stories, and part of the process is imagining what it would look like.
Grok Imagine has recently started allowing people to make short movie clips, and recently they expanded it up to 10 second clips, with the option to put up to three clips together for a full 30 seconds.
I started this one from the cover image I made for A Tail of New Kyushu, and it tells a very short story indeed. A whole 30 seconds. But it is nice to see characters I created actually doing something in video. This is pretty awesome.
It can be interesting to bring an image to motion. What do you want it to be? Where do you want it to go.
Grok Imagine has an interesting method of bringing your pictures to life. You tell it want you want to see. The basic notes you would have in a script, and it tries to bring that to life. It usually gets it wrong, but sometimes it gets it right. This was a case of it getting exactly what I wanted.
A slow, measured, calm walk while pulling futuristic revolvers out of holoconcealment. This is the kind of thing that makes me giddy to see.
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