Al-Rhazi and Ibn Sina kept alive and advanced much medical knowledge that had largely vanished from Europe – knowledge that had originated in Ancient Greece and Rome, and then spread through Constantinople and Gundeshapur to Baghdad and Bukhara, where it was combined with learnings from India and China, and was eventually translated back into European languages to form a basis for the flowering of the Renaissance. This reawakening of Classical thought inaugurated the age of the university, when medical schools were established throughout Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.

  —  Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine (Steve Parker)

Title: Survivor (2012) Author: Steve Parker Vote: 8/10

in this story we witness the creation of an iconic character who as a boy from a rich family descends into the decadent and poor suburbs of a beehive city in a distorted parody of Oliver Twist. He will have to learn to survive against bullies first and ogres later as if life wants to test him by raising the bar more and more until it breaks him. From that merciless fight will be born Sebastian Yarrick, future commissar of the Imperium.

Neighbours Ep. 5297 (2007)

My Reading in 2022

My Reading in 2022

I’m now well into the habit of updating my reading progress on Goodreads because as I read virtually everything on my Kindle, it does it automatically. In December 2022 Goodreads told me that I had read only 21 books which is quite a lot fewer than in 2021. I thought a couple of books took a long time to get through as they seemed much longer but on a Kindle you don’t get as much of a feel for…

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just rewatched The Ringer, remembered how in love i am with Steve Parker

me when the READER in the X READER has a name:

like babe the fic ate but i do NOT look like an Aurora🙁

me @ y/n when they do something i’d never do:

like babe this isn’t us ?? get it together

y’all ever fantasize about a fictional character a little too hard to the point you’re convinced you should be admitted to a mental hospital?

18+ mdni

Me: “fuck, I need his cock”

Him: *is literally just words on tumblr*

me, a writer, at 3am: WHAT? I CANT FIND THE SPECIFIC FANFIC THAT I MADE UP IN MY MIND WITH A WHOLE PLOT AND ORIGINAL CHARACTERS??? WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE??? DO THEY EXPECT ME TO WRITE THE STORY I THOUGHT UP OF???

Go to therapy or read another fan fiction of your favorite fictional character?

i love ao3 but tumblr fanfics just hit different 😩😩

Sonic Meditation for Solo Performer reimagines the college marching band as a tool for sonic meditation. The project examines themes of healing, injury, and labor in NCAA football, drawing from legacies of sonic therapy, including 12th c. abbess Hildegard von Bingen’s liturgical songs, Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice, Anthony Braxton’s radical marching bands, and Guadalupe Maravilla’s Disease Thrower sculptures.

The installation works as an immersive musical composition featuring an ecosystem of automated sonic sculptures made from salvaged marching band instruments. The installation is activated by a viewer or performer wearing an EEG headset. As the participant realizes the text score, the EEG device measures and transmits electrical brain activity. The data generated by the participants' brain waves are translated in real-time to realize a multi-channel composition played by the instruments.

Steve Parker is an artist that works with salvaged musical instruments, amateur choirs, marching bands, urban bat colonies, flocks of grackles, and pedicab fleets to investigate systems of control, interspecies behavior, and forgotten histories. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize, the Tito’s Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

do yall ever think about the jaw dropping fics that are probably sitting collecting dust in someone’s drafts rn.

“i want smut” “ i want hurt/comfort” — but what if i said i want the most heartbreaking angst followed by fluffy ass comfort followed by hot ass make up sex all rolled into one fic

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