Your friend in time, ‘Doc’ Emmett L. Brown Sept 1st, 1885

Now thats a crazy title, isn’t it? A piece of dialogue from ‘Back to the Future Part 2’. Yet it has a great deal to do with this update. So there are two things to address. Since the title is about movies I will address the one regarding it first.

I am loathe to edit my timeline unless absolutely necessary because:

1. I have to remember the alteration which I do by creating wikipedia entries. I do that by editing the code on the real wikipedia to my reality then print it to pdf. This makes it easier and more professional.
2. Any change has ripple effects. Kayne West dies before his first ablum. No albums, no associations, no marriage to Kim etc. I have to remember those two. So I try to keep those to areas I won’t be in and only make ones that will make the everything better in my estimation. Some people might love Kayne, or Katy Perry or Justin Beiber. I don’t. Honestly, they, in my estimation have not made things better. (Not that they are required too)
3. By having Emmett Cetus own Siren Song Records across the 20th century I have radically changed the industry already. This means alot of things here are not the same as in the assembly reality. So if I can leave well enough alone, I like too.

Unfortunately, that option was left out again with Harvey Weinstein. History reveals a man of brutish behavior who while in college started hustling musicians in Buffalo beginning with Stephen Stills and then when he formed Miramax with his brother continued those ways into the 90s. I would have liked to have made him a Piscine (a warrior of Dagon leader). However, the abominable sexual harrassment precludes this. In fact, his actions are more suitable for a porn producer than a Hollywood one.

So I am left with 2 options: remove him entirely from the timeline or remove his contribution. I opt for the second. There is no proof that his brother Bob is like him. There is proof that Bob is still married and few speak ill of him personally. So, I did my research, discovered this:

1. Crosby Stills and Nash were signed by Atlantic, as was the Buffalo underground. Since in the Assembly reality, Siren Song owns Atlantic at that point as well as Emmett being a Politico, the solution is remove Harvey from promoting Stephen while Harvey and Corky were in SUNY. That shove would lean Corky enough to NOT form a company with Harvey to promote bands in Buffalo. This also removes the money to save to launch the studio.
2. Fund Sex, lies and Videotape and secure distribution before Stephen Soderberg takes it to Sundance. That removes the first major movie for Miramax. Repeat this with Pulp fiction. Without these two, Miramax doesn’t become powerful, and it most likely is consumed by Disney in the nineties and vanishes.

Even if this doesn’t happen, this takes away the two cornerstones of Harveys career ensuring that he doesn’t get to work for himself and be the raging asshole and sexual pig he is.

Does this fix the endemic problem Hollywood has with sex, drugs and breaking people? No. It simpy removes a problem. 25 movies including some I enjoy.  SMH

ON the flipside, I will post the new wikipedia for Old viacom, current CBS. While looking to solve another problem for ‘Heartbeat Song’ that Emmett needed to own Viacom. Well, found that was easy. Simply block Sumner Redstone from buying it.

Considering how powerful Emmett is at the opening of Midnight Train Song. Its not hard to believe that he was already a billionaire for the bulk of the 20th century. While the surface people believe that Emmett is his own grandson, to the assembly this isn’t a big deal. So Siren Song buys Viacom and history continues. Sumner Redstone remains a bit movie house player.

This means that Siren song also owns MTV too. Which further guarentees that Harvey Weinstein simply never gets involved in Hollywood. I am of the option of actually having him removed more forcefully from the timeline and mentioning it in ‘Song of Route 91’

This leads me to the second part. After the massacre in Las Vegas and the seeming cover up that is happening (even if it is just incompetence it looks suspecious) I decided to write a short story set in now with Gwen and Tom. This is set after Gwen becomes Queen and after Tom and her wake up/resurrect Lorelei. The story actually revolves around Gwens emotions about this.

The three decide to stop the massacre since they are at the festival as guests. Song selection reveals emotion and tells the story while you see a bit more of the older mature Tom struggle with the fact he needs to choose who he is with.

It follows the timeline where the shooter fires for 10 minutes starting at 10:06 pm. I will post it here when i am finishing editing it. Orginally, I used firework and an orginal song. I am dumping firework and going more gospel.

So as of this point, the people removed or no longer having the influence in Assembly reality they have in ours are:

1. Katy Perry (as she remains a christian artist since her label didnt die)
2. Kanye West (who died in the auto accident he survived in 2002)
3. Justin Beiber (who thanks to the onion parody is a pedo named Michael cole)
4. Dr. Dre, Eazy-E,  DJ Yella and MC Ren (all are dead while growing up in Compton due to the neighborhood they lived in via drive bys etc)
5. Ice Cube. (who became a executive chef in his own restuarant in the Luxor.)
6. Jerry Heller (who had a history of heart problems. His first Heart attack was in the 80s so instead of surviving it and living on to help creat Hip-Hop, he dies of it)
7. Emimen (without Dr. Dre he doesn’t escape 8 Mile. Orginally I was going to have someone else help him but aftre his anti-Trump tirade, no.)
8. Harvey Weinstein

I have not removed the Clintons or any other powerful politicans because, well, they can be Piscine.

I do believe that covers everything. Story should be live by the end of the week. Sadly, it will be the only one as I wont be able to make another Christmas one. Its not large enough for Nanowrimo so You all might see something else I have buried for this year.

Until the morrow…

Storm of the century

Well, I and my dwelling place survived Huricane Harvey and the ensuing floods that swamped Houston. I am thankful I don’t have to replace anything. I didn’t lose anything either. I am blessed.

However, Irma appears to be far worse than any other storm that hit Miami so my heart goes out to them. It’s going to be brutal and the cleanup, long.

Nevertheless, this post is more about the story universe and hurricanes affecting it than our own sadness. There is enough of that on the 24 hr news. Pick one.

First off, I discoverd on Irma’s track that the eye crossed of the Bahamain cay I chose to put Cetus gate on. Before I split Song of Betrayal in two, there was a chapter that revealed its location and was the actual intoduction to Lord Tyron Cetus, Gwen’s grandfather. This was a scene he talked to Jen about the world while examining illumi crystals (of which the workers harvest for him from the depths of the gulf.

The scene its self won’t see the light of day as the story now has changed too much. Jen is gone and the need to introduce Tyron is as well. (He was introduced in ‘Song of the Gyre’). Yet I will find a way to introduce Sal cay.

In fact, dealing with these things actually makes me act questions about weather and oceanography. Its also why I don’t have these cute things like glass jars or stone castles etc underwater. I think about how it would really work. Ask the hard questions.

So to be clear, here is a list of facts about the oceans in the Assembly world:

1. the oxygenation levels in their oceans are 3x the amount in out oceans at mininum. This higher amount allows for the same level of functionality underwater. However, the assembly members being a separate species (homo cetacea) have other abilities that allow breathing even our oceans. However in ours they wouldn’t been able to live in the sea.
2. The effect of this is there is far less bacteria and algae colonies that breathe dissolved oxygen. Instead they breath nitrogen and carbon dioxide.This means the drastically increased amount of fertilizer we use to produce ever higher crop yields does not have the same effect when that fertilizer runs off into our waterways, eventually making its way to the ocean. With nitrogen breathing algae exponentially increasing to feed on the massive delivery of food the increase of CO2 does increase the same, only the O2 doesnt deplete. This, in turn, doesn’t kill fish or create dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico
3. Basic principals of chemistry and physics dictate that colder liquid can hold more dissolved gas than a warmer liquid so the Assembly oceans match ours in that respect. Its why there first home on the surface and below was Kerguelen. Sub-antarctic islands and seamounts have more oxy dissolved. Also the cold doesn’t affect them like it does us.
4. The upper levels of the ocean are typically strongly stratified by temperature and by salinity. That is, colder, saltier water lies below the warmer, fresher water near the surface. When a hurricane comes by, it mixes everything up, resulting in a muddled and more homogeneous upper ocean. That means the surface water is cooler and saltier than it was previously was, and deeper water is warmer and less salty than it previously was. However, in very shallow coastal areas, the copious amount of fresh cold rain water from the hurricane can actually reduce the temperature and salinity of the near-surface water. While this sounds good, its not.
5. Intense hurricanes can generate 60’+ waves, and at the ocean surface, the boundary between the water and the air becomes nebulous. Amidst the formidable waves, sea spray and foam streak horizontally across the surface at high speed. Below the ocean’s surface, the currents and turbulence beneath those waves can also be quite destructive. Unlike places above the surface, the ocean doesn’t “forget” about the storm quickly. Strong currents and turbulence tend to exist up to a week after the storm passes overhead. Damaging currents can extend down to at least 300 feet below the surface, capable of dismantling coral reefs, relocating ship wrecks, breaking oil pipelines, and displacing huge volumes of sand on the seabed.

That’s why I picked the Great Barrier Reef for the capital location instead of the reefs around the Bahamas. I’ve given thought to this.

As for ‘Heartbeat Song’ I will have a few new characters, and I linked in why Red shield (rothschild, bildenberg etc) is mentioned. Chelsey’s adoptive parents is one of them and its an in joke that you might get if you are a fan of 80s shows or Scott Baio.

The others are more of me deciding to use reality to my advantage and adjust things.  This is me fleshing out Chelsey so I have no character that is just a side show if they are assembly. Its fleshing out to be a book that’s larger than than the other two approaching the size of ‘Song of Betrayal’.

That’s all I have now.  Talk soon.

 

Yes I am still here.

Sorry that I haven’t posted in a while. My life has been eventful and it hasn’t lent itself to posting. It’s august now and I haven’t posted anything.

So, here we go:

1. I am at the point in Heartbeat Song where I will have to write the actual attack. The actual attack will be Lorelei’s pov and it will explain how a member of the assembly can be killed with a gun even though they have thick skin and muscles.
2. Aria is introduced in this story but won’t interact with the rest of the characters. She will spend the bulk of her story underwater. Also, you will get through her a small story about the LA gate.  Also, I chose Katie Stevens as her. She can sing, there is pics of her when she is sixteen on the net, she is an awesome person and well, I love her acting.
3. The LA hasn’t always been in LA it was originally in Vancouver. That is where Stargate SG-1 was shot.
4. Hopefully you will see how everyone changes for the worse from this book to Song of Betrayal
5. I have decided to reuse Jen’s character. She is now Eliza and is an engineer who got the same disease (philia) Gwen got. You will see how she solves getting to the throne room.
6. This story also lets you in on a secret that only Tom and Chelsey share.
7. Chelsey’s parents are Charles and Gwendolyn from ‘Charles in Charge’. She herself was adopted by them because Gwendolyn can’t have children. Charles is now a Professor at Princeton (2007)
8. Decided to worry about dealing with copyrights on dead shows until I get visible enough to get actually noticed.
9. That being said, I have formally abandoned the ‘Faking It’ fan fiction stories as unworkable. I can’t make the leap without using a kludge to explain the time differential.  I have a better idea and its why I posted it in 6. You will like it.
10. Also, Faking it is dead as well. I don’t have the money to pay from what it would cost to get complete rights even for story so there you go. Besides My ending was better than the one everyone was left with.

If you really want that watch the Bold type on Freeform. Jane is adult Karma.

That is the update for now.

What about Cleveland?

So what about Cleveland. Really there is nothing about in the series, to be mentioned. I used this title because its topical and fits with the theme of this post. Its about updates on the series.

So why Cleveland? Well as I am writing this, there is a serial killer roaming its streets this Easter evening seeking a fifteenth person to kill on facebook live. Kinda horrible right? Well, in the book ‘Heartbeat Song’ that kinda where I am at. Right up to the point where I have to create the Taft Massacre that you all saw pieces of in Song of Betrayal and Homecoming Song. Each over these you saw from Tom and Gwen’s prespectives respectively. However, you never saw Lorelei’s because at that point, she is dead.

That’s the first reveal. She isn’t actually dead. She’s in the same statis they put all the corspes they place is the Hall of Memories in Antarctica. The difference is, she didn’t die before the statis field was applied. She went into hiberation. That happened because Tom would let her die. He loved her too much. So she had to tell him the truth about the vision she saw about the repairer of the breach.

Its heady stuff, dark drama that happens on the day of the attack. This story finishes out the first trilogy (Midnight Train song, Song of the Gyre and Heatbeat Song) which also finishes Shae and Kent’s story line, finishes the introduction of Tom and Gwen as well as the major players of the second trilogy.

Sorry about the wierd way I am writing it, its just this is the way its coming. At least when this story is finished there will be at least some cohesion in the storyline.

So right now I am writing a scene where the King meeting with a group of surface people of influence to determine how to handle the upcoming massacre. It serves to explain some of the opinions of everyone on the surface people, reveals where the Natal house is (as far as I am aware I didnt reveal that in Homecoming song) [ Technically I did in the second draft of Song fo Betrayal before I broke the book in half and added Pyhrric Victory song to it. However, since that will be edited once I finish this, I could still change it so I did.], gives you a glimpse of things I hinted at in Song of Betrayal and gives the most thorough walk through of the connection between NYC/Lafayette yet.

This story is hard, not because of the what it is or how it ends but because I know who Lorelei now. When I first wrote the first draft of Song of Betrayal (back when it was Run to You), I didn’t think anything about it. Yet as I kept and developed the school and Coach Sylvan and Coach Grace and Gwen, I learned more and more. Now I find it difficult to say good bye even temporarily.

That’s is exactly what Tom feels. He’s never found someone who loves him for who is: a street wise Detriot punk who got lucky enough that his dad was roadie for a major band and his mom Police secretary. Suddenly for a year the world opens for him. 90 days he’s connected with this magical lady who ‘gets’ him and pushes him to be better.

He’s not about to let her go and that alters everything. Even her prophecy of her own death. You all have seen him take down Coach Delamort. Yet there is so much more syrrounding it, like why she decides to go into statis, who does it (Chelsey) and how this ties into the prophecy itself.

When I am done, this will be it for the time from 2006-2008. Song of Restoration, which deals with Aria’s golden ticket theft and Gwen becoming the princess, is in mid 2009. Really, all I have to do is pull out the Jenn scenes now and finish the edit. It will be ready too.

This wraps up this update, thanks for reading everyone.

Thoughts on the Bowling Green Massacre…

Well, I must first thank Kellyanne Connelly for the fictional massacre to motivate me to be creative. I needed a small push because things got away from me. This happened to be that push. Truth is you enver know what it takes to get you over the hump. Nevertheless, this will actually be an update on the stories and background.

So what is happening? Alot actually. First, I will actually have a ‘Bowling Green Massacre in 2011 just like she said but also with Fredrick Douglass (not the historical figure one though) . It fits the direction I am going and considering its a college town, there is ample opportunity. I however will use the mining pits outside the town for the brutal horror. Its better imagery.

Second, I have adjusted another location in Lafayette. While never actually revealing the physical location of Gwen and Aria’s houses yet in published works, I do have a Google earth map of the city that did have their actual locations on it. When I went to actually use this for a scene in Heartbeat song I realized that the area Aria was in was River Ranch, a newer subdivision.

This is fine for Gwen and the Bretons as they moved from Australia in the 1990s. Its not good for the Natals as the gate is supposed to be in a fixed location since 1780. There are no buildings in that area from that period and no reason for such as its the same Vermillion river just down stream. So I moved the Natal House to across the street from Cafe Vermillion which has been in existance since at least 1812.

The quick and dirty is that both buildings were built at the same time by Vann’s Grandfather who was a Laurents. In all the stories I have included Shelly, Aria’s mother in, I have never revealed her actual last name only her house name. Laurents is a french name and blends into the fabric of the city better. Also a quick explanation of the house etc is in the story as well.

This brings me to the fact that as I am working on Heartbeat song I ran headlong into another issue. If there is an school shooting that envolves IEDs and massive causalities the hospitals in Lafayette can’t handle it. Without Charity and the other LSU hospitals ion New Orleans, the Primary trauma 1 hospital was in Sherveport or Houston. (Yes I am aware they did assign one post Katrina but it was ill-equiped to actually handle the load)

So I was left with solving that problem. First I figured I would upgrade the hospital, Lafayette general. Yet it would not be capable as the population wouldnt justify it. (I squeaked by with Forest Hills because of LSU and the CajunDome and making Booker Field old. This would be handwaving the solution away)

That left New Orleans. While Baton Rouge is closer. New Orleans is larger and up until Katrina had one of the Best hospitals in the country there: Charity Hospital. When I discovered why Charity was permanently closed (I won’t elaborate here other than to say LSU greed, however that overlooks alot of side issues) I decided to save the hospital. Doing so allows you all to actually meet Tyrion Cetus so when he dies in Song of Redemption, it will have meaning (like how Lorelei’s does now). Haven’t worked out all the plans yet but it envolves preventing the hospital from flooding during the MR-GO, Industrial canal, and London Avenue canal breechs. Something involving hard light constructs.

Most people were unaware (outside of the residents who were very much aware) that almost the entire city flooded from the canal breachs except the French quarter. Charity was in the CBD near the Superdome. Yet its basement and some of the first floor flooded.

Keeping the hospital fully operational (by revealing exactly how the Assembly handles Natural disasters) will allow it to remain into 2007 and on into my 2017. I will use the upgraded plans for the Hospital for my now timeline. It also means I will have a crap load of lifeflights from the attack as the criticals will be handled there. Thats the idea.

Finally, the Faking It! connection is gone as it will take too long to fully integrate into my world. I am keeping what I worked on in Heartbeat song but the fan fiction will be just that. Amy’s existential crisis of looking like Lorelei when she feels the exact opposite was in a fun challenge yet it detracted from where I am going with the story.So no Amy or Karma in my world anymore. Sorry.

I view Heartbeat Song be the connection to Song of Betrayal without actually tying into it. It will end the first series (which had Lorelei as the main character and Gwen as a minor character) yet open the path for Gwen to become the woman she is in Song of Betrayal.

Finally after this and finishing the editing of Song of Redemption, I will beack to open creation as that will finish the second series. (Song of Betrayal, Song of Redemption, Homecoming Song). Christmas circle is a follow up on A view from the street and not tied to the main story even though it has Tom in it.

The final 3 books (or next three depending on if I have more story) will take place in 2016 with the ressurrection of Lorelei, Gwen being queen and a musician like Becky, who at the time of this post, just finished singing at Club Nomatic in Houston.

That’s all for now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bachelor Gives Me (And You) Dating Advice

Assuming you guys watch Bachelor in Paradise, you know that Nick Viall and I are tight buds. He’s always got my back, but shells out the tough love when he believes I need it. I hate hearing …

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