The Shadow of Her Smile

 At some point, some twit put the idea of me being a teacher into my mom's head, and like some kind of memetic virus, it spread to Dad, and one of them would vomit this wholly groundless idea up whenever I expressed any interest in finding a different job.

Jesus fucking Christ, it got old, and they would not let it go. So help me, if I was given some kind of godlike power, I would travel through space and time to find the source of this nonsense and choke them into unconsciousness every day of their lives. Dad brought it up again last weekend and I managed to keep my temper in check. So, to hopefully shut this up forever, I accepted an invitation from the county's school system superintendent to meet and talk about it.

And guess what?

To paraphrase Rick Deckard, I was uninterested when I walked in there, and I'm twice as uninterested now. Dad hasn't asked, and I haven't offered, but I'm going to bring it up tomorrow and tell him straight up that I never want to hear the foolish notion again.

Even writing this has just made me ridiculously cranky. It's fucking absurd.

Let's just keep the hate flowing.

Evil Genius Games (loathe their name, their little logo, their license-chasing business model) licensed an upcoming Zack Snyder/Netflix property. EG's now sued Netflix over Netflix pulling the plug on the TTRPG, claiming ... stuff. I think this is a case where both sides are wrong, and EG's chief is making some utterly absurd claims about the game's popularity. The rather good Linda Codega has the story here.