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misscrappy · 2 years

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That feminine urge this, masculine urge that ….

Yeah, okay , cool

But what about the Lunar urge to ritualistically disappear every couple of weeks ?

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aworldofpattern · 1 year

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Meadow Rabbit and Celestial Rabbit bandanas by The Batik Library, Lunar New Year 2023: Year of the Rabbit

Designed by Agnes Wiguna. Made in Kemlagi Village, Mojokerto, Indonesia.

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binah-beloved · 15 days

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when you're feeling sick, Binah holds you close. she runs a gentle hand up your back, your head in her lap as she gives your shoulder a careful squeeze, a soft hum of affection leaving her. if she must get up, she drapes her heavy coat over you to keep you warm, returning moments later with a hot cup of tea so she can gently massage any aches and pains away.

it seems an Arbiter's touch can be as gentle as it is destructive.

#project moon #lobotomy corporation #library of ruina #binah #binah lobcorp #binah library of ruina #monthly lunar blood ritual arrived #this one is for me #and anyone who needs it #soft binah comfort is good

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intothestacks · 2 months

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Happy Year of the Dragon from the Grade 3s at my school!

The dragon scales are made with handprints made by the kids!

#year of the dragon #librarylife #libraryland #school librarian #school libraries #lunar new year #elementary school

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little-devil-art · 4 months

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[Lunar New Year 2024]🐉

Happy Lunar New Year! I usually haven‘t done any Fanart for this celebration but I wanted to try it this year, since I was born a dragon in the chinese zodiac! 👀 Featuring my little Alicander Family! Haven‘t drawn them in a while, so I thought this would be a nice idea for this occasion!

I have also given my OC daughter Aiyra a little redesign, kinda wanna work on her more so I have another FE OC to take care of!! I‘d say my Fatesona Alice would be the person to introduce them to these celebrations heheheh-

Hope you like it though! Don‘t mind my self-indulgence all the time ah- Thanks for all who keeps suuporting me btw!!

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froggy-hop · 2 years

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Recommend me the most unhinged/unfiltered books about female rage against the world

#dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #poetry #booklr #writing #books #books and coffee #book and libraries #lunar.{talks}#chaotic academia #dead academia #library #female rage #femme fatale #feminism

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nellasbookplanet · 8 months

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Book recs: post- and transhumanism

AKA: cyborgs, uploaded minds, and humans otherwise altered by technology.

I have previously written a rec list for books featuring robots and artificial intelligences, but ended up excluding various titles for not quite fitting the theme. Hence, this list, which focuses more on the step from human into something else, commonly with themes of what it means to be human.

Previous book rec posts:

Really cool fantasy worldbuilding, really cool sci-fi worldbuilding, dark sapphic romances, mermaid books, vampire books, portal fantasies, robots and artificial intelligences

For more details on the books, continue under the readmore. Titles marked with an * are my personal favorites. And as always, feel free to share your own recs in the notes!

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi*

Place this one in the category of ‘accept that you’re gonna be confused as hell and just let the world wash over you’. The singularity has come and gone and humans can now easily upload, download and copy themselves into new bodies, not all of them human and not always willingly. Consciousnesses and time has become something close to currency. Follows a murder mystery on Mars.

The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace duology) by Erin Bow*

Young Adult. Featuring a dystopian future in which an AI forcibly keeps world peace by holding the children of world leaders hostage. If anyone attempts to start a war, their child will be executed. Greta is one of these children, kept in a school with others like her. But things start to change one day when a new, less obedient hostage arrives. A unique, slowburn take on the YA dystopian craze, also featuring a bisexual love triangle.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles) by Mary E. Pearson

Young Adult set in a near future. Jenna wakes from a year long coma after an accident, and something is wrong. Is this really her life? Are her memories her own? Exactly what happened a year ago, and what did her parents do to get her back?

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky*

Millenia and generation spanning scifi. After the collapse of an empire, a planet once part of a project to uplift other species to sentience is left to develop on its own, resulting not in the intelligent monkeys once intended but in sentient giant spiders. Millenia later, what remains of humanity arrives looking for a new home, only to be met by the artificial remains of the ancient woman who once led the uplift project - and she is not willing to let them on her planet.

War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi*

In an enviromentally fraught future, the Nigerian civil war has flared back up, utilizing cybernetics and mechs to enhance its soldiers. Two sisters, by bond if not by blood, are separated and end up on differing sides of the struggle. Brutal and dark, with themes of dehumanization of soldiers through cybernetics that turn them into weapons, and the effect and trauma this has on them.

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

1969 classic. Features a future in which children born too weak to survive are put into and raised in mechanical bodies. Helva, one of these children, grows up to be put in charge of her own space ship, from which she works to fulfill various missions out in space, missions which she quickly comes to learn are much more dangerous than she could've imagined.

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles) Marissa Meyer*

Young Adult fairy tale retelling. Cinder, a cyborg with a mysterious past she can't remember, lives with her stepmother and two stepsisters in New Beijing as a deadly plague ravages the world and a race of Lunar people threaten war against the entire planet. As Cinder becomes entwined with the young prince Kai, she is pulled more and more into dangerous politics that see her as less than human due to her cybernetics, yet need her to save them.

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

Six million years in the future, humanity has spread across the entire Milky Way galaxy. Purslane and Campion are both clones of the same woman, sent into the galaxy millions of years ago to explore along with almost a thousand clones like them. Every 200 000 years they all meet to compare memories and experiences. But this time Purslane and Campion arrive late - and discover that a secret millions of years in the making has lead to an extinction level attack against their kind. Now they must find out the truth before their line is completely wiped out. Absolutely wild world-building, featuring various kinds of posthumans (among which the clones are, shockingly, the most similar to people of our time).

Nexus (Nexus trilogy) by Ramez Naam

In a near future, a nano-drug is developed that can link human minds together, having the potential to change humanity forever. As different factions fight over it - some wanting to control it, other to eradicate it, and many to exploit it - a scientist who's caught improving the drug is thrust into a world of danger and international espionage.

Skinned (Cold Awakening trilogy) by Robin Wasserman

Young Adult. Rich girl Lia Kahn had the perfect life - until she died and was brought back by having her memories downloaded into a mechanical body. Despite having her life back, Lia also finds her life changed, as people fear her and treat her differently. Worse; she herself isn't sure if she's still really Lia, or whether she's even a person at all anymore.

Blindsight (Firefall duology)by Peter Watts*

Vampires and aliens and questions of the nature of consciousnesses, oh my. A ship is sent to investigate the sudden appearance of an alien vessel at the edge of the solar system, but the crew, a group of various level of transhumanism, isn't prepared for the horrors awaiting them. No, seriously, this book will fuck you up, highly recommend if you’re okay with a lot of techno babble and existential horror.

Mortal Enginges (Mortal Engines quartet) by Philip Reeve*

Young Adult. On a barely survivable Earth humanity has taken to living on great wandering cities, hunting each other across the plains for resources. Tom lives in London, but when he intervenes to stop a murder, he falls off the city alongside a strange and hostile girl on the hunt for revenge. Together they set out to catch up to the city, but are chased by a murderous machine like being set on stopping them. Trans/posthumanism isn't the main theme of the book, but it continues to grow in importance throughout the series.

Bonus AKA I haven't read these yet but they seem really cool

Meru by S.B. Divya

A human and a posthuman, called an alloy, venture together into space to explore a newly discovered, earth-like planet, testing the future of the relationship between their peoples on the way.

WE by John Dickinson

Humanity has become a hive mind, constantly connected. When Paul is sent on a one-way mission to a frozen moon, he must disconnect from the rest of humanity, for the first time seeing what it has truly become.

Accelerando by Charles Stross

In a time in which the artificial and the posthuman is more and more outpacing the human, something strange enters the solar system and starts dismantling its planets.

Honorary mentions AKA these didn't really work for me but maybe you guys will like them: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

#surprise I'm back!!#i still have a couple of these posts in my drafts #next one will probably be the alternate timelines one i just need to wait out the library waiting list first lmao #nella talks books #the quantum thief #the scorpion rules #the adoration of jenna fox #children of time #war girls #the ship who sang #lunar chronicles #house of suns #nexus #cold awakening #blindsight #mortal engines

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californiastatelibrary · 4 months

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Welcoming the year of the dragon this Lunar New Year with this historic photo from our catalog. Taken in 1903, it shows men holding the head of a dragon float, probably for the La Fiesta de las Fleures event in Los Angeles.

#california #libraries #dragons #lunar new year

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iambecomeafangirl · 1 month

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I played Amanda Todhunter's video "an unhinged recap of Cinder" to listen to in the background at work, and now I'm so invested?

I know it's an older book (2011 if i'm not wrong), and I've heard about it before, but I always thought, that it was your typical fantasy-romantic-fairytale retelling of the early '10.

But it's a sci-fi? With cyborgs? With a populated moon? WHAT. Now I want to read it 🙃

#cinder #the lunar chronicles #marrisa meyer #i hope it's in my library #books

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1gnisfatuus · 4 months

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Argalia in red🧧🐲! Happy Lunar New Year!

#art #ignis-fatuus #digital art #artwork #year of the dragon #lunar new year #lny #lunar new year 2024 #lny 2024 #artist #argalia #library of ruina #lor #argalia library of ruina #library of ruina argalia #project moon #pjmoon #library of ruina art

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alexlibris-bookart · 2 years

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9" x 12" large red leather journal with the moon for right-to-left writing…

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booklovershouse · 9 months

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Oiii, booklovers!

Mais uma saga maravilhosa escrita pela Marissa Meyer e, pelas estrelas, como ela conseguiu juntar releituras de contos de fadas e ficção científica?

As Crônicas Lunares tem tudo de bom, desde robôs, imperadores, princesas, doenças mortais, lunares com poderes "mágicos", mistérios e, é claro, muito romance.

🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙

• Título: Crônicas Lunares

• Autor: Marissa Meyer

• Classificação: +14

• Págs: 2112

✨" - Eu sabia que me matariam quando descobrissem, mas... - Ele lutou para encontrar palavras e respirou fundo. - Acho que percebi que preferia morrer por tê-los traído a viver porque traí você."🌙

Em Cinder, primeiro livro das Crônicas Lunares, somos apresentados a Linh Cinder, uma famosa mecânica de Nova Pequim - embora seja uma adolescente e, ainda por cima, ciborgue. Porém um cliente especial e a letumose, peste trazida pelos Lunares que assola a Terra há anos, mudarão sua vida para sempre.

Já em seguida, temos Scarlet, uma garota ruiva cheia de personalidade que faz de tudo para encontrar sua avó que sumiu misteriosamente, até se juntar com um lutador desconhecido.

Depois, vem Cress, uma hacker excepcional que, além de lunar, é cascuda e vive presa dentro de um satélite. Enfim, há o quarto e último livro, Winter, a história da princesa mais bonita de toda Luna.

✨| Fora a saga no geral, tbm há Levana - a história da vilã - e Stars Above - conjunto de contos para quem sente saudade desse universo incrível.

🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙✨🌙

Se notaram alguma semelhança com contos de fadas, não é mera coincidência: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress e Winter são uma mistura de Cinderela, Chapeuzinho Vermelho, Rapunzel e Branca de Neve com uma boa pitada de romance e distopia.

Na verdade, a parte "ser baseado em contos de fadas" foi o que me fez ler, pq não sou muito fã de ficção científica / distopia. E definitivamente não me arrependo de ter lido, foi uma das melhores leituras desse ano!

*SPOILER* Eu n gosto de ficar dando spoiler, mas gnt, é absolutamente necessário comentar sobre o Lobo! Ele é tão perfeito, amo como a Scarlet é simplesmente a única pra ele e como ele faz tudo por ela, é muito lindo mdssss *SPOILER*

🌙| Qual seu conto de fadas preferido? O meu é o da Rapunzel - não só por Enrolados, eu sempre gostei desde criança, até pq meu cabelo tbm é enorme kkkkk

Bjs e boas leituras <3

#livros #leitura #livrosderomance #books & libraries #marissa meyer #linh cinder #the lunar chronicles

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malusienki · 4 months

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my birthday plans look very lame compared to what some people do for theirs.

#get library card at a big library a bit of a drive away #is the main thing #but i mean! idc. its fun to me :)#also very funny that it lands on lunar new year.

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goldrushreads · 3 months

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closet-of-bones · 7 months

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Do not get me wrong. I absolutely love Lunar's current design! But as a pathetic lover of blues, yellows and cute little faces I can't help but crAvE what THIS design once gave me!! It was just so perfect to little ol' me <3

I'll draw the current Lunar eventually. But I just miss this specific purple-almost-blue hue so muuuch! orz

(Art without shading under cut)

He's so vibrant lookie 👀

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loversveil · 1 year

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compilation of some of my library displays ive made

[ID: a pinboard made for international womens’ day, with a variety of famous influential women authors arranged on the board. the “for $1 name a woman” meme is placed in the centre, and the text has been edited to say “for $1 name a woman author”. my students have been asked to match the names up with the authors, and they are failing miserably. they have labelled sappho as elizabeth bronte, and angie thomas as mary shelley. end ID]

[ID: a display made for national science week. many of the letters have been made into science themed objects, i.e: the “A” is a ruler, the “I” is a test tube, the “O” is a planet, and the word “science” is covered in green slime. end ID]

[ID: a display made for NAIDOC week (NAIDOC stands for National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Day Observation Committee). the Australian Aboriginal flag is hung in the centre, and the board has paper cutouts of eucalyptus leaves and stars scattered around. end ID]

[ID: a close up on the NAIDOC week board. a map of the australian state of victoria is shown, with the lands labelled with their tradtional owners shown, rather than the colonial names and borders. notable/populated cities are labelled externally with string, showing which Peoples land the city was erected on. end ID]

[ID: a close up on the NAIDOC week board. a small amount of common Woiwurrung vocabulary is shown, with pronunciation guides and translations. Woiwurrung is the language spoken by the indigenous peoples of Narrm (colonially known as melbourne) and its surrounding areas.

full text as follows:

Woiwurrung: (woy-WUH-rung) - The language spoken by the Wurunjderi people, the traditional owners of this land.

Wominjeka: (wommin-JI-ka) - Welcome

Twaganin: (TWUH-ga-NIN) - Farewell

Kirrip: (kir-rip) - Friend

Biik: (bEEk) - Country*

Darrang: (dar-RUNG) - Tree

Narrm: (nar-rm) - The land Melbourne is on

Winmali: (WIN-muh-li) - North

Gurrin: (Gooh-RRIN) - South

Galen bariem: (GAH-len BUH-rri-em) - East

Mumilam: (MOOH-mi-lum) - West

please not that I am not Indigenous, nor do I speak Woiwurrung. I transcribed the pronunciation of these words to the best of my ability from this video by Wurundjeri woman and Woiwurrung language expert Mandy Nicholson.

* Country is the term often used by Aboriginal peoples to describe the lands, waterways and seas to which they are connected. The term contains complex ideas about law, place, custom, language, spiritual belief, cultural practice, material sustenance, family and identity. Source link: AIATSIS

end ID.]

[ID: a pinboard display for valentines day that reads “blind date with a book”. the words are made of pink and red papercut letters, and the letter ‘O’s in the word book are frilly hearts. the display is surrounded by paper cut hearts. end ID.]

[ID: a lunar new year display, centred around a paper bunny. the board is covered in traditional chinese new year decorations, including hongbao and lucky tassels. various messages around the board wish students a happy new lunar year, such as 新年快樂 (chinese), happy new year (english), 새해 복 많이 받으세요 (korean), chúc mừng năm mới! (vietnamese), and Амар байна уу? (mongolian) as these are the some of the most prominent groups of students at this school that celebrate this holiday. end ID]

hope u enjoyed!! I change the displays every week or so, so theres about ~40 other themed displays ive done that i could post if anyones interested ^_^

#talks #is there like a fun tag for people who work in education or LIS...........#library tag #library #library technician #international womens day #national science week #naidoc week #lunar new year #chinese new year #crafts

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