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#Federation Gothic#20th Century#29th Century#Chronowerx#timeship#federation timeship#Star Trek Voyager#Voyager#Future's End
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The Diamond Sutra – Scientist of the Day
On May 11, 868 C.E, a Chinese scribe named Wang Jie published an edition of a Buddhist text known as the Diamond Sutra.
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#Diamond Sutra#Aurel Stein#printing#histsci#histSTM#8th century#29th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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On the second day of the first Test match between New Zealand and Bangladesh, captain Kane Williamson scored a magnificent century on a sluggish track in Sylhet.
With his 29th century in Test cricket, Williamson drew level with Sir Donald Bradman and Virat Kohli. Up until the end of play on day two, the captain was the only New Zealand player to score fifty or more in an innings.
After Taijul Islam removed Tom Latham in the 13th over, he entered the field and was well-supported by Daryl Mitchell when Devon Conway and Henry Nicholls fell for less than…
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The cinematography and colors and sets of the last few minute of 20th century girl were art, beautifully tragic ~
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has anybody seen Charlize Theron als Pria?!
HOLY sh*t
#completely lost all sanity when she showed up#not like i only watched this because of Charlize Theron#Charlize Theron#pls#charlize is just stunning#also pria?!#pria lavesque#little mean ray of sunshine#protect her at all costs#if Pria asked me to go to the 29th century with her#I'd drop everything#kudos to ed#I'm different#as in weak#the Orville#fantastic show#seth macfarlane#he had a 40 million dollar excuse to make out with Charlize#aka#a million ways to die in the west#and he liked it so much#he did it again#stan the man#icon#icon level shit tbh#also#the outfit#losing my mind
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Engrav'd Printed & Sold by Paul Revere Boston
Published around March 28th 1770
#Boston massacre#paul revere#British 29th reg#crispus attucks#samuel gray#samuel maverick#james caldwell#patrick carr#american revolution#18th century
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Star Trek: Voyager - Futures' End Phaser Concept Art by Rick Sternbach
#Star Trek#Star Trek: Voyager#Futures' End#Concept Art#29th Century Phaser#Sci-Fi#Mecha#Weapon#Phaser#Rick Sternbach
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Mary Macomber (American, 1861-1916)
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the greatest tragedy that came out of the raven cycle tv show being shelved is that we're never going to get one of those violent scenes juxtaposed with twangy music featuring the gray man with the kinks in the background. just imagine it. the instrumentals of 20th century man begin to play as the gray man enters a room. the people look around at each other like 'oh shit we're so dead'. the gray man elegantly begins to murder an entire room of people, economic in his movements. the people keep coming at him and he calmly shoots them in the head, and, just as the kinks sing, I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, I don't want to be here, he straightens, coolly shakes his head to readjust the single strand of hair that has come out of place. the music pauses for less than a second, begins again. he proceeds to continue beating the shit out of them. the screen cuts to commerical.
#the raven cycle#the greatest irony is that the raven cycle was my introduction to the kinks and now I'm pretty much obsessed with them#the greatest irony is that maggie stiefvater herself said she personally doesn't like them#don't quote me on that i just think i remember her mentioning it in an ask back when she still had a tumblr#also i think 29th century man specifically would be very poignant lyrically for "violence juxtaposed with twangy music' scene#in regards to the gray man as a character i mean#but really any kinks song would work#20th*
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Drop everything, new John & Paul photo from 1974 just dropped!
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, May Pang and Harry Nilsson in LA, 29th March 1974. Photo taken by Mal Evans.
For Mal, the sunny afternoon of March 29 would bring pure magic in contrast with the previous evening’s lackluster proceedings. The McCartney clan showed up [at the Santa Monica beach house] out of the blue, this time with daughters Heather, Mary, and Stella in tow, and Mal was thrilled at the prospect of seeing John and Paul together again—twice in the span of two days, no less. And he was by no means disappointed, observing the two old friends reclining on the patio together and, later, walking along the beach, with May, Linda, and the McCartney brood trailing along behind them. “Nice to see him and John together,” Mal scribbled in his diary later that month.
At one point that afternoon, Evans reached for his camera and snapped a photo of the two old friends lounging at the beach house — flanked by their partners, Linda and May Pang, and Harry Nilsson. May would also take some Polaroids of the meeting at some point this day, but there's a very real possibility that Evans' picture is the last photo ever taken of the 20th Century's greatest songwriting duo. (It will be included in the upcoming collection of Evans' diaries and archives, slated for publication in 2024.)
#@scurator we really have to finish our fic now#look at john’s arm on the back of the chair!#look at paul’s tits!#paul mccartney#john lennon#john and paul#mal evans#LA 1974#the beatles#think of me now and then old friend
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Ana de Armas attends the 29th annual SAG Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, February 26, 2023.
#ana de armas#sag awards#screen actors guild awards#stunning#beauty#gorgeous eyes#celebs#actress#2023#hot celebs
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Medieval Hermitage atop Katskhi Pillar, in Georgia (South Caucasus), c. 800-900 CE: this church was built during the Middle Ages; it sits atop a limestone column that has been venerated as a "Pillar of Life" for thousands of years
Known as Katskhi Pillar (or Katskhis Sveti), this enormous block of limestone is located in western Georgia, about 10km from the town of Chiatura.
The church that stands atop Katskhi Pillar was originally constructed during the 9th-10th century CE. It was long used as a hermitage for Stylites, who are sometimes referred to as "Pillar Saints" -- Christian ascetics who lived, prayed, and fasted atop pillars, often in total isolation, in an effort to bring themselves closer to God. This tradition originated in Syria during the 5th century CE, when a hermit known as Simeon the Elder purportedly climbed up onto a pillar and then stayed there for nearly 40 years, giving rise (no pun intended) to the Stylites. Stylitism managed to survive for about 1,000 years after its inception, but it gradually began to die out during the late Middle Ages, and by the end of the 16th century, it had essentially gone extinct.
Researchers don't really know how the monks originally gained access to the top of Katskhi Pillar, or how they were able to transport their building materials up to the top of the column. There's evidence that the Stylites were still living at Katskhi Pillar up until the 15th century, but the site was then abandoned shortly thereafter. This was the same period in which Georgia came under Ottoman rule, though it's unclear whether or not that may have played a role in the abandonment of the site.
The hermitage continued to lay abandoned for nearly 500 years after that. No one had been able to gain access to the top of the pillar, and very little was even known about the ruins that lay scattered at the top, as knowledge about the site's origin/history was gradually lost. There are many local legends that emerged as a way to fill in those blanks.
The site was not visited again until July 29th, 1944, when a mountaineer finally ascended to the top of the column with a small team of researchers, and the group performed the first archaeological survey of the ruins. They found that the structure included three hermit cells, a chapel, a wine cellar, and a small crypt; within the crypt lay a single set of human remains, likely belonging to one of the monks who had inhabited the site during the Middle Ages.
A metal ladder (the "stairway to Heaven") was ultimately installed into the side of the pillar, making it much easier for both researchers and tourists to gain access to these ruins.
The hermitage at the top of Katskhi Pillar actually became active again in the early 1990's, when a small group of monks attempted to revive the Stylite tradition. A Georgian Orthodox monk named Maxime Qavtaradze then lived alone at the top of Katskhi Pillar for almost 20 years, beginning in 1995 and ending with his death in 2014. He is now buried at the base of the pillar.
While the hermitage is no longer accessible to the public, and it is currently uninhabited, it's still visited by local monks, who regularly climb up to the church in order to pray. There is also an active monastery complex at the base of the pillar, where a temple known as the Church of the Simeon Stylites is located.
The Church of the Simeon Stylites: this church is located within an active monastery complex that has been built at the base of the pillar; several frescoes and religious icons decorate the walls of the church, and a small shrine containing a 6th century cross is located in the center
There are many lingering questions about the history of Katskhi Pillar, particularly during the pre-Christian era. There is at least some evidence suggesting that it was once the site of votive offerings to pagan deities, as a series of pre-Christian idols have been found buried in the areas that surround the pillar; according to local tradition, the pillar itself was once venerated by the pagan societies that inhabited the area, but it's difficult to determine the extent to which these claims may simply be part of the mythos that surrounds Katskhi Pillar, particularly given its mysterious reputation.
Sources & More Info:
BBC: Georgia's Daring, Death-Defying Pilgrimage
CNN: Katskhi Pillar, the Extraordinary Church where Daring Monks Climb Closer to God
Radio Free Europe: Georgian Monk Renews Tradition, Lives Atop Pillar
Architecture and Asceticism (Ch. 4): Stylitism as a Cultural Trend Between Syria and Georgia
Research Publication from the Georgian National Museum: Katskhi Pillar
Journal of Nomads: Katskhi Pillar, the Most Incredible Cliff Church in the World
Georgian Journal: Georgia's Katskhi Pillar Among World's 20 Wonderfully Serene and Secluded Places
#archaeology#history#anthropology#artifact#medieval architecture#medieval church#Stylites#asceticism#georgia#sakartvelo#katskhi pillar#religion#travel#monastery#paganism#caucasus#medieval europe#christianity#strange places
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I’m giving a talk at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair this Saturday, April 29th at 11am! Old books are full of stories, not only of how and why they were made, but of who treasured and loved them over the centuries 💕 While “yucky” books have traditionally not been the most monetarily valuable, they’re priceless in telling us about the reading habits of their owners, and in communicating human emotion through time. To be loved is to be changed 📖
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Play-By-Blog #0: Cloud Empress
My first Play-By-Blog (of Luke Gearing's The Isle) just recently wrapped up, and now, we are getting the next one going with Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas! If you missed our run through The Isle, you can find all of the entries here.
Recently, I ran a poll to see what folks were interested in for this second Play-By-Blog and the voting was an exact tie between Cloud Empress and Mausritter, but since I'm the one doing all the writing, I was the tiebreaker and chose Cloud Empress and its hexcrawl, Land of Cicadas, as a new twist on the Play-By-Blog format and because the game has a set of solo rules in which you create and play as an entire party, not just a single character.
If you aren't familiar with Cloud Empress, here's a quick description straight from the game's product page:
Cloud Empress is an expansive, Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. Cloud Empress places you in a world ruled by the patterns of giant magical cicadas. Cloud Empress creates a new Earth, thousands of years in the future inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist.
The full rulebook for the game is FREE over at DriveThruRPG.
Land of the Cicadas takes this world and opens it up across a large hexmap, allowing us to explore the Lowland Wastes (Cloud Empress's take on a farflung future American Midwest) during the summer of the Century Brood and 29th Expedition (an ongoing military incursion from the Cloudling cities).
If you missed the last Play-By-Blog, here's an idea of how it works:
I write up the situation, NPCs, and more, just like a DM/GM.
You vote in the poll to help decide the party's next course of action.
I roll the dice, resolve actions, and write them up in the next entry.
So on and so forth for the rest of the adventure!
With all that said, let's get into Party Creation, vote on our first decisions, and get this whole thing started! Thanks for coming along for the ride.
We'll be generating 3 characters for our starting party. For the sake of our first poll and the number of base Jobs available in Cloud Empress, I'll take the top 3 most popular results and roll up a character for each (unless the All Random option wins the entire poll, in which case all characters will then be randomly rolled). So if Sellsword gets 8 votes, Lordling gets 4, Magician gets 3, and Courier gets 2, I'll roll up a Sellsword, a Lordling, and a Magician.
For variety's sake, we won't double up on Jobs (unless All Random is chosen, in which case it would be possible to get doubles of a Job within the party).
In Cloud Empress, there are 4 different Jobs available to characters:
Sellswords can handle themselves in a fight, but long to find a home. The long lost fighters and gritty mercs of the Wastes.
Lordlings are groomed to lead and strike fear into those around them. Strange and privileged, they stand out among the Wastes.
Magicians sacrifice their bodies to cast dangerous spells. Esoteric but powerful. There are no old Magicians.
Couriers are scrappy travelers who’ve witnessed the best and worst of the world. The salt of the chalk-covered Earth.
After we have our characters, we'll get our starting location and our initial job - the focus of our travels across the Land of Cicadas - from the Solo Procedure tables. Then, we'll be off!
#meatcastle pbb#ttrpg#indie ttrpg#ttrpgs#rpg#fantasy#science fantasy#science fiction#worlds by watt#cloud empress#play by blog#play by post#land of cicadas#polls#choose your own adventure
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Do you think Heidi and the Volturi would look at the Titanic sinking and go "Hrm, a cruise ship disaster, that's a good way to get a lot of humans and make them disappear"?
Like maybe not regularly but if they had an emergency "we need 1500 people as fast as possible because I guess we're throwing a big feast idk"?
Oh god no.
The first rule to making 1500 people disappear is you don't make 1500 people disappear. You physically can't, at no point in history have 1500 people been able to disappear without people noticing. The reason we know so many painstaking details about the RMS Titanic, who was where when and exactly how the ship was built, is that a massive investigation was launched into how the ship sank. You'll remember the Malaysian Airline disaster a few years back, and you remember it because of the amount of attention and resources that were poured into uncovering what had happened.
In times past you might have been able to make away with a ship more easily and have it be noticed later, because the absence of wireless communication systems meant a ship not making it to port could simply mean they were delayed. Even then, though, people would notice and it would attract a lot of attention. The SS Waratah, which departed for Cape Town from Durban in July of 1909 and was expected to reach her destination on the 29th of July, had people looking for her on August 1st even if she wasn't reported officially missing until much later. An inquiry was launched the next year, with an emphasis on "Why haven't we found anything?". This was a 211 passenger casualty: imagine the inquiry, the search effort, for a 1500 passenger ship.
Even with the RMS Titanic many of the dead had worn life vests, several hundred people were recovered in the months after the disaster. There were bodies sighted around the place the SS Waratah had last been seen, though none were recovered. Point being, what's lost at sea is not always lost at sea. Heidi would have to create a record of her 1500 people having been aboard the ship she intends to sink, without them actually being on board or else she has to somehow ensure none of them will float to the surface after the fact.
You'll notice the ships on this wiki site generally have a few things in common: they had a lot of passengers and they were not expected to be lost. A fishing boat might be lost without attracting much surprise, this was something people knew to expect. During wartime, doubly so.
A ship containing any number of passengers, though, that wasn't expected to be lost, that will have people talking about it, investigating, trying to find out what happened even if we go back a few centuries. In the modern age, the search would be on every headline.
The Volturi would not be able to keep the secret for any amount of time if they attempted anything like this.
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Events on the Peculiar Calendar (2017)
I haven’t been able to find pictures of every month, but I’ll add to it as I find them
January
• 3rd - Meminto Mori Day
• 5th - National Bird Day
• 8th - Olive’s birthday
• 10th - Peculiar People Day
• 20th - Penguin Awareness Day
• 21st - Think About Nothing Day
• 25th - Attempt Conversion with your Parents Day
March
• 5th - Horace’s Birthday
May
• 1st - May Fools Day
• 8th - V-E day
• 9th - Comically Large Vegetable Day
• 15th - Hugh’s birthday
• 20th - Be Nice to Telemarketers Day
June
• 22nd - Abe’s Birthday
August
• 2nd - Bronwyn’s Birthday
• 26th - Enoch’s Birthday**
**Though the calendar says Enoch’s Birthday is August 26th, it’s mentioned in Hollow City that his Birthday is December 3rd**
September
• 1st - Emma M. Nutt Day
• 2nd - Loop Day (New)
• 3rd - Loop Day (Original)
• 8th - International Literacy Day
• 10th - Poisonous Insects Day
• 13th - Miss Peregrine’s Birthday
• 18th - Fiona’s Birthday
• 21st - International Day of Peace
• 29th - Conduct Business Like a Pirate Day
October
• 6th - 19th Century Surgical Procedures Day
• 9th - Curious Events Day
• 11th - Day of Reckoning
• 12th - Be Nice to Normals Day
• 13th - Claire’s Birthday
• 25th - Telephone Istanbul Day
• 31st - Increase your Pyschic Powers Day/Jacob’s Birthday
November
• 2nd - Draw Circles on your Forearms Day
• 5th - Guy Fawkes Day
• 9th - Emma’s Birthday
• 20th - Consider your Life Choices Day
• 27th - Buy Nothing Day (Day After Thanksgiving)
December
• 2nd - Millard’s Birthday
#jacob portman#emma bloom#millard nullings#bronwyn bruntley#hugh apiston#fiona frauenfeld#horace somnusson#enoch o'connor#olive elephanta#claire densmore#miss peregrine#mphfpc#miss peregrines home for peculiar children
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