My radio show tomorrow night will be all about Sad Puppies. If you thought they were taking over my life before, just wait a minute, you'll see.
As for another top ten .... Yes. another one. I posted this list for the 500th blog in February.
However, I'm already up to blog #580, and it's only four months later.
Also? The list is radically different.
1) Who would Captain America vote for? An election special:
This one is still on top. Odd though, huh? Written back for the Presidential election of 2012, I was fed up with politics, and thought it much more amusing to speculate on what comic book characters would vote for who. I still like it better than most modern politics. The hits on this one used to equal an entire month of viewership on the blog....
But then #2 happened.
2) Sad Puppies Bite Back.
The first journey down the rabbit hole. Yes. It was a one-shot that spiraled so far out of control, I really don't see the end of it. But people are still coming to the blog just to read them. I'd publish these, but I'd really like to avoid being sued by David Gerrold or John Scalzi, or any of the other Puppy Kickers.
This is where it started, with Larry and Brad and Sarah. And from what I've found? All of them I've SWATted found it funny. Who knew?
3) Sex, DC Comics, and ... wtf?
Yup, it's still here. Right after the dawn of DC's New 52 Universes in 2011, the comics had gone into a sideways spiral of strange. I think this had something to do with sex being in the title.
4) Thils one is also still here. Waaaay back in 2010, I ripped apart all of the Disasters to Marvel At: A Comic Discussion, with every stupid decision that Marvel comics had made for the previous 5 years. Sadly, some of those decisions are still going strong.
Where's the difference, you ask?
5) Sad Puppies Bite Back (Part two)
This is where things start going really odd. And I probably should have seen it coming that things were going to really go sideways ... "sideways" as in "The Puppies have taken over my blog." I think part one got suggestions of nominating this for a "Best related" award from the Hugos.
6) Cry Havoc! And Let Slip the Puppies of War!
This was after the Entertainment Weekly's libelous article about Sad Puppies, written and published without talking to anyone within Sad Puppies. At all. Yes, really. Believe it or not, in retrospect, this was not what got me really into the Sad Puppies bandwagon. That was when someone decided to go after Brad Torgersen's wife. Then, then I had a meltdown, and decided someone needed a stern talking to.
7) Puppies Come to WorldCon (SPBB III)
This was going to be The End. Period. Dot. Final. The last straw. The Puppies were going to come to the Hugos, and it would have to end there. Why? Because there would be nothing left for me to write until the Hugos came out. It was a perfect out, right? Right?
8) Snarky Theology 4: "Things that go boink in the night."
Yeah, this one is still here. From the Easter of 2011, it's still on the top ten list. I can't get rid of the damn thing. I had tried to play nice and explain my faith, and tenets of Catholicism to the average person. That ended in disaster and a flame war, and a few other things going wrong alonh the way.
But, once again, Sex scores well on the site.
This is still freaking strange for a blog all about Catholic thrillers.
9) Recommended Reading; Larry Correia.
Surprise, another blog that's slightly Puppy related.
This one was at the top of the charts the first week it was up back in January. Given the Puppies posts, I'm almost surprised it was still there.
This is what happens when you review an awesome, awesome novelist, and he, in turns, shares your work with every single one of his followers.
For the record, Correia has not (to my knowledge) shared a single one of the SPBB posts. Which probably shows either (a) good sense or (b) good taste on his part.
Because let's face it, there are more than enough accusations of conspiracies and such around the Puppies. If Larry shared these? Imagine John Scalzi's head exploding. Because, after all, everybody knows that I'm really Vox Day in disguise ... or mind-controlled by him ... or something stupid like that. I really stop paying attention to these theories after a while.
If Correia wasn't a great writer, he'd probably be popular because he's an awesome person.
He's also someone I would never have discovered without this blog, and selling my books.
10) The Anti-Puppies (Sad Puppies Bite Back VI)
Somehow, we jumped from part III to part VI. Seriously, it almost feels like Star Wars opening with Episode IV.
As for another top ten .... Yes. another one. I posted this list for the 500th blog in February.
However, I'm already up to blog #580, and it's only four months later.
Also? The list is radically different.
This one is still on top. Odd though, huh? Written back for the Presidential election of 2012, I was fed up with politics, and thought it much more amusing to speculate on what comic book characters would vote for who. I still like it better than most modern politics. The hits on this one used to equal an entire month of viewership on the blog....
But then #2 happened.
The first journey down the rabbit hole. Yes. It was a one-shot that spiraled so far out of control, I really don't see the end of it. But people are still coming to the blog just to read them. I'd publish these, but I'd really like to avoid being sued by David Gerrold or John Scalzi, or any of the other Puppy Kickers.
This is where it started, with Larry and Brad and Sarah. And from what I've found? All of them I've SWATted found it funny. Who knew?
Yup, it's still here. Right after the dawn of DC's New 52 Universes in 2011, the comics had gone into a sideways spiral of strange. I think this had something to do with sex being in the title.
4) Thils one is also still here. Waaaay back in 2010, I ripped apart all of the Disasters to Marvel At: A Comic Discussion, with every stupid decision that Marvel comics had made for the previous 5 years. Sadly, some of those decisions are still going strong.
Where's the difference, you ask?
This is where things start going really odd. And I probably should have seen it coming that things were going to really go sideways ... "sideways" as in "The Puppies have taken over my blog." I think part one got suggestions of nominating this for a "Best related" award from the Hugos.
6) Cry Havoc! And Let Slip the Puppies of War!
This was after the Entertainment Weekly's libelous article about Sad Puppies, written and published without talking to anyone within Sad Puppies. At all. Yes, really. Believe it or not, in retrospect, this was not what got me really into the Sad Puppies bandwagon. That was when someone decided to go after Brad Torgersen's wife. Then, then I had a meltdown, and decided someone needed a stern talking to.
This was going to be The End. Period. Dot. Final. The last straw. The Puppies were going to come to the Hugos, and it would have to end there. Why? Because there would be nothing left for me to write until the Hugos came out. It was a perfect out, right? Right?
8) Snarky Theology 4: "Things that go boink in the night."
Yeah, this one is still here. From the Easter of 2011, it's still on the top ten list. I can't get rid of the damn thing. I had tried to play nice and explain my faith, and tenets of Catholicism to the average person. That ended in disaster and a flame war, and a few other things going wrong alonh the way.
But, once again, Sex scores well on the site.
This is still freaking strange for a blog all about Catholic thrillers.
9) Recommended Reading; Larry Correia. Surprise, another blog that's slightly Puppy related.
This one was at the top of the charts the first week it was up back in January. Given the Puppies posts, I'm almost surprised it was still there.
This is what happens when you review an awesome, awesome novelist, and he, in turns, shares your work with every single one of his followers.
For the record, Correia has not (to my knowledge) shared a single one of the SPBB posts. Which probably shows either (a) good sense or (b) good taste on his part.
Because let's face it, there are more than enough accusations of conspiracies and such around the Puppies. If Larry shared these? Imagine John Scalzi's head exploding. Because, after all, everybody knows that I'm really Vox Day in disguise ... or mind-controlled by him ... or something stupid like that. I really stop paying attention to these theories after a while.
If Correia wasn't a great writer, he'd probably be popular because he's an awesome person.
He's also someone I would never have discovered without this blog, and selling my books.
10) The Anti-Puppies (Sad Puppies Bite Back VI)
Somehow, we jumped from part III to part VI. Seriously, it almost feels like Star Wars opening with Episode IV.
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