Thursday, November 27, 2025

meme copied from X -- to MTG

An Open Letter to Marjorie Taylor Greene

From, Alyssa Milano November 17, 2025:

“Congresswoman Greene,

Let’s skip the pleasantries. They were never your thing anyway.

So…you’ve suddenly discovered that Donald Trump, the man you treated like a messiah, is not loyal and that the MAGA movement is not safe, not sane, and certainly not rooted in anything constitutional. And you’re shocked that he’s attacking you, endangering you, calling you a traitor. As if you didn’t know he had it in him. Puh-lease.

Here’s the part you don’t get to skip:

You helped create this monster. You fed it. You protected it. You celebrated it. And now that it’s finally turning on you, you want sympathy? Understanding? A moment of national concern?

No. Absolutely not. NOPE.

You don’t get to unleash political poison into the bloodstream of American politics and then act surprised when it reaches your own veins. You don’t get to cheer on Trump while he smears, threatens, and dehumanizes everyone in his way, and then clutch your fake pearls when he finally does it to you. You don’t get to empower a movement built on conspiracy, cruelty, and violence, and then cry foul when you become its latest target.

Let’s be honest, you calling for the release of the Epstein Files, isn’t courage. It’s fear. You don’t suddenly care about truth or justice. And you definitely don’t care about the victims. You are calling for the release of the files because you’re afraid of what unchecked power looks like when it’s no longer aimed at your enemies. The Epstein case is a perfect cultural lightning-rod and your supporters love that shit.

You saw the polls and are reacting accordingly.

Jump off the sinking MAGA ship, am I right, MTG?

Now you’re talking about accountability and transparency. Ha! Where was that energy on January 6th? Where was your outrage when Trump incited a mob to storm the Capitol?

When they hunted Democratic lawmakers through hallways? When they called for the hanging of the Vice President? When police officers were beaten, crushed, and traumatized doing their jobs?

Where was your moral clarity then, MTG?

Where was your voice when Democratic governors were receiving kidnapping threats?When election workers were doxxed and terrorized? When a man broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home with a hammer and nearly killed her husband? When threats against Democrats, judges, school boards, and public servants skyrocketed?

You said nothing.

And this isn’t new behavior. You chased a Parkland school-shooting survivor, David Hogg, down a Washington sidewalk, taunting him and calling him a “coward.”

You screamed through President Biden’s State of the Union address like you were the most unprofessional person to ever be elected into office.

You voted against the Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, (one of only twenty members of Congress to oppose a bipartisan bill designed to help trafficking victims).

You amplified QAnon conspiracies.

You suggested school shootings were staged.

And while Democrats were being targeted, when a militia plotted to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and when Governor Josh Shapiro’s home was set on fire in an arson attack with his family inside, you offered no outrage, no sympathy, no defense of democracy.

I could go on. But I think you get the picture,

Congresswomen. I’m not buying it.

If you want redemption. If you want to step into the light, there is only one door:

Public, unequivocal accountability.

Not the performative kind with hair and make-up.

Not the “Trump hurt my feelings” kind. Not the victimhood you’ve perfected. Real accountability means going fully public with everything you know, every lie, every scheme, every threat, every abuse of power you witnessed, tolerated, or assisted. If you want redemption, start with the truth. All of it.

Until then, this isn’t a moral awakening. It’s simply the consequences of your own choices arriving right on schedule.

Sincerely,

Alyssa Milano” 

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Elves in Detroit sequel

 If anyone actually read the 4th book in the Elves in Detroit series, you will know that that book just didn't turn out the way it was supposed to.  I intended for Laurielle to marry Smash, but that didn't happen at all -- and I still don't know what the ending will be for the story -- if there is one.  When I published it, I said it was a draft.

But I had this idea that I would write a short story sequel about one character -- one goblin -- and maybe try to get it on some website where they have free short stories and maybe that website would get my name better known.  

This short story is going incredibly slowly. Tho I knew the ending all along, I just couldn't get there.  I'm not sure I still have, tho I'm getting closer.

I've been using AI -- bing image creator and Grok -- to generate some pictures of goblins.  Bing image creator was super frustrating as it kept cutting off the top of the goblin's head and her feet.  Grok was somewhat better in that respect.  The images from Grok looked more realistic, while the ones from Bing image creator looked cartoonish.  Anyway, here are some images -- tho I haven't one hundred percent decided which one I want.

These are the ones from Bing image creator

I did sort of want her to look like a stick figure,
but not like she was starving.  Not sure how that 
would pan out with the right drawing.



Leaning towards this one
Altho it's got more flesh than I imagine her having








These are the ones from Grok













Leaning towards this one:





This was the description that I eventually developed for this character

A standing female goblin. She is wearing a ragged one shoulder sleeveless dress. She is unnaturally scrawny, with little flesh between her skin and her bones — almost like a stick figure. She has reddish brown hair that sticks straight out of her head. Her enormous nose has wide nostrils so that the nasal base extends across half the width of her face. The nasal ridge is very straight, not aquiline, so that the perpetual snarl of her upper lip and her sinister, pointed teeth are clearly visible. Her eyes are red. Her ears are enormous and bat like. Her hands and feet are oversized. The top of her head and the ground under her feet are clearly visible. Her skin is very pale white, but dirty. Her fingers and toes have large steel claws sprouting naturally from her flesh. Her head is large in proportion to the rest of her body.  There are blood stains on her face, hands, and dress. 

None of the results were exactly what I wanted.  The one that I decided I liked best was from Bing image creator, but lacked feet and top of head.  I have been editing this image on Gimp with the following result:


I added feet & top of head from other goblin images and changed the color scheme.  I also enlarged her head.  I'm trying to decide about sinister/menacing, which a goblin is supposed to be, and nonplussed, which this character actually is.  Making the image darker and yellower seems to make her more menacing, I think.  The original image is tagged above, under the Bing image creator list.

I really wanted her to have a straight nose.  I'm mindful of the criticisms that goblin images are often designed to look Jewish.  Still I chose one who had an aquiline nose.  If you read even Book 4 of the Elves in Detroit series, you may note that the chief of a horde gets a much larger nose as part of becoming chief -- magically.