Tag: empire

News Flash: It’s a Cup

I promised myself I’d never post about anything controversial on here, but…It’s a cup.

I work hard to make sure I’ve got the necessities and plus a few extras. There are important things in life worthy of getting upset about, and then there are the petty annoyances like customers behaving badly and chilly rainy days deserving of a complaint here and there. I got home the other day to find the Internet in an uproar over the color of a cup. A CUP!

Is this what we’ve become? A nation who whines and loses it’s marbles over a cup?

For those who are wondering what the heck am I talking about, Starbucks recently released its special holiday cups. Instead of the regular festive designs, they opted for a minimalist approach.

Photo courtesy of Starbucks
Look at those evil cups. They’re up to no good in their plain red dye! The nerve of them. They are the battalion commanders in the War Against Christmas. The ironic thing is that Starbucks still sells its Christmas blend coffee beans as Christmas Blend. 
Elly, Jadelynn, and Major Pierson are all enjoying a hot beverage right now (well, Pierson is stuck on Pluto, so he doesn’t get to dip into the daring blue Yule cup the empire released for the holidays).  Elly and Jadelynn are staring at their bold blue cups. The only controversy there is the fact that they want more! 

Goodbye, Hashtag Glitter Nation

The Command Deck has another special guest today!
Missed the last “guest?” You can catch her post here: Careful With That Selfie!

Aaron Winters from my upcoming story, Stars or Stripes, has something to say about hipsters and memes. He goes by another name, but only close friends are allowed to know it. Boo. I want to know it now!

This pic went viral on the Empire Web underground. 
What does Aaron have to say about it?

A hipster!? Is that what people are calling me these days? I regret hacking one of my chit cards and regret ever creating that underground network in the darkest and most forgotten corner of the Empire Web. The exciting location of my hidden corner is Zoning Regulations: Manufacturing: Textiles: Code by Fabric Type, then find the “Cottons*” folder.

I wanted a place where we could openly discuss things without fear of reprisal by empire authorities…but all people are posting is a bunch of hashtag one liners and cat pictures. With all the bandwidth these silly images and videos take, it will only be a matter of days before RIA watchdogs catch on.

Goodbye, Hashtag Glitter Nation….I’m not even going to share The Great Kittenpurror Sir Meows Clinton meme…All our meows are belong to him.

Oh, and as for me, Cottons*’s creator? I’ve been turned into a meme as you can see in the image above. I posted this picture the other day (if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em…*sigh*). Look  what someone did with it!

There goes the end of the Cottons* folder. I wonder if Emperor Clinton will be amused or displeased to find that he has become a kitten adored by the purrletariat. I smell a few arrests in the future, which is why I’m #GettingTheHellOut.

See, I’m with the times. Just because I appreciate the forgotten things in life, it doesn’t make me some wannabe, hipster snob! I just now realized that me ranting like this isn’t helping my image…

So yep, getting out, deleting Cottons* and all the posts, images, videos, and user data within, and throwing away this hacked chit (I can always hack another).

~Aaron signing off.

P.S. It’s not considered rage quitting if you’re sparing a handful of people from being taken into RIA custody and arrested.

Stars or Stripes is coming soon to a Command Deck near you!
 Did we mention that it’s going to be free?
FREE! 

Computers Behaving Badly and Something Awesome!

Where, oh where have I been? As much as I like the idea of traveling to the stars and exploring new galaxies, that isn’t the case right now.

The computer saga continues…
It had all the symptoms of a failed hard drive, so I did the normal thing and installed a new one. It worked beautifully for a few days. I thought that was that. Nope! I troubleshot everything from drivers, to faulty Microsoft updates, to the memory sticks. I even wiped everything and started over, which leaves only one piece of hardware as the culprit, the motherboard. 
Despite what people say, money does make the world go ’round. Without it, I’d be hungry and without a roof over my head. Until I can get more of said money, I am out of a computer (I’m working from a tablet).  Digital commissions are a no go for now, but I can still do old fashioned paper or canvas pieces. 
Well that was a Debbie Downer! How about I give you all some good news!
The Year is Now has joined the electronic world of the interwebz as an ebook!

For only $3.99, you can jump into the Empire, visit Pluto, and follow Elly and Pierson as they struggle through the wrenches that life throws at them!
It is available on lulu.com and the iBookstore (coming soon to Amazon). 




Donner Lake Disaster – It’s Free!

April is going to be an exciting month for The Command Deck! For those of you who are Americans, we all know what day is just around the corner, so let’s kick the weekend off with something awesome! It’s not a World Domination Cat and Flying Astronaut T-shirt, but if you are bored or stuck in a waiting room somewhere, it will keep you entertained!

My latest eBook is available for FREE!
If your computer cannot read eBooks, I can send you the PDF version. Just send an email to thecommanddeck [at] outlook [dot] com (replace the brackets/etc with their symbols). Have this as your subject: Donner Lake Disaster PDF.  Say hi to me, and I’ll send you the PDF version.

Donner Lake Disaster

The year is Y.E. 0417, and Captain Montgomery Wilfred is about to discover the most horrific crime the empire has ever seen since The Great War. When a routine visit to an outlander reserve takes a turn for the unexpected, he finds that his sanity will never be the same.

Montgomery and his eccentric partner, Sadie, are thrown into a harrowing investigation after they discover that an unseemly doctor with ulterior motives has been secretly experimenting on outlanders. It is a race against the Lafayette—jurisdiction is an awfully bothersome thing.

Horrors lead to more horrors, and Montgomery doesn’t know if he can keep up with the constant chill, the haunting photographs, and the hand! That hellish hand!

Follow Captain Wilfred in this novelette as he struggles to find answers.

Download the eBook here!

Images Around the Empire

A sneak peak at The Year is Now and other images from around the empire! Updated: 22 December, 2014

Elly and Major Pierson – Images of the two main characters
The Year is Now – Images of the novel itself
Things Around the Empire – Images that don’t fit into either category

Elly and Major Pierson

Sketches:

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Things Around the Empire

The card looks nice in a frame!
 #Selfie with my Elly cards!
 
Elly card
 Major Pierson as a dictator cat. It’s now hanging on my wall. Major Pierson is a main character in The Year is Now.
A sneak peak at something that has long since been altered and changed