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Thought of the Day: True happiness stems only from duty
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Terminus*Est - Book of the New Sun inspired t-shirt that I printed in a limited run years ago. Never released them as I wasn’t happy with how they turned out. Looking to make space in the studio so they are now for sale at a discounted price in my webstore.
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Hello there Terminus Est/"Est" fans.
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The Ten Coolest Fantasy Weapons: From Excalibur to Glamdring
Fantasy fiction is full of incredible weapons as diverse as the stories and characters that wield them.
From enchanted swords to powerful wands, these weapons have captured the imagination of readers for decades.
In this post, you’ll discover the ten coolest weapons in fantasy fiction.
1. “Excalibur” from Arthurian legends.
The legendary sword of King Arthur, said to have been gifted to him…
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#coolest weapons#Excalibur#fantasy fiction#fantasy weapons#Glamdring#Shardblades#Sword of Shannara#Terminus Est#The Black Sword#The Dawnbringer#The Elder Wand#The Lightbringer#The One Ring
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Tumblr Character Elimination (Episode 1: Interrupting Fruit)
One troublemaker interrupts me when I start the first challenge by calling me a Bad User, and kills me with the knife, will made the team face elimination.
#tumblr#character elimination#goanimate#wrapper#matthewseldon025#terminus est fan#annoying orange#character#elimination#wrapper offline#vyond
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Places in Mass Effect 2 - Korlus
Korlus' biggest business is the recycling of decommissioned or junked spacecraft into their component parts. While the invention of omni-gel has made this process significantly cleaner, it is still a dirty business that chokes Korlus' sky with smog and fills its ports with megatons of scrap. A shady hospitality industry and a scavenger underclass round out the spectacle of urban decay.
TRAVEL ADVISORY: Korlus ranks second in murder per capita in the Terminus Systems and first in offworlder murder. Civilian traffic is encouraged to employ security professionals when visiting.
Population: 3.8 billion (est.)
Colony Founded: 1781
Capital: Choquo (disputed)
Orbital Distance: 1.3 AU
Orbital Period: 1.5 Earth Years
Radius: 6,850 km
Day Length: 28.9 Earth Hours
Atmospheric Pressure: 1.5 Earth Atmospheres
Surface Temperature: 28 Celsius
Surface Gravity: 1.3 G
#mass effect#mass effect 2#smalllady gifs#meedits#gamingedit#vgedit#dailygaming#dailyvideogames#userscenery#places in mass effect
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Claudia Schiffer - Terminus Est, 1999, Paris by Bettina Rheims
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Mycroft Canner vs Severian
Based on having read the entire Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer and only Shadow of the Torturer, the first book of the Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.
Costume
Severian: Cool mask, cloak blacker than black, no shirt
Mycroft Canner: Weird hat, robes or something?
Winner: Severian
Sword
Severian: Terminus Est
Mycroft Canner: Does not even have a sword
Winner: Severian
Torture
Severian: Trained his entire life to be skilled in all forms of torture
Mycroft Canner: Enthusiastic amateur
Winner: In a surprise upset, Mycroft Canner
Respecting Women
Severian: F-
Mycroft Canner: C
Winner: Mycroft Canner
Narration
Severian: Unreliable
Mycroft Canner: Also unreliable
Winner: Tie
#Terra Ignota#Mycroft Canner#Severian#The Book of the New Sun#not really fair to judge Severian before finishing the series#but I'm doing it anyway#my posts
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Railway to the Danger Zone
Or "Wagon-Lit to Varna".
The 15 October entry includes a brief mention of one of the most famous trains in the world, the Orient Express. I apologise in an advance for any errors.
So, it might be worth discussing this service and giving an idea of what it would be like, part based on my own limited experiences with sleeper trains. A return trip on the Caledonian Sleeper in 2016 and an Amsterdam to Munich ride on Nightjet last year.
The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (et des grands express européens) or The International Sleeping-Car (and European Great Expresses) Company, usually referred to by "train fiends" as CIWL, was established in 1874 by a Belgian called Georges Nagelmackers, who inspired by the Pullman sleeping cars in the United States, decided to set up a European operation. Being the son of a powerful banker and with connections with royalty (especially King Leopold II of Belgium - yes, that guy), he was able to get his first operation going in 1872.
The Orient Express from Paris Est to the Sirkeci terminus in Constantinople (now Istanbul), which initially started just going as far as Vienna in 1882 and finally got there in 1889, was just one part of a large network of trains operated by CIWL. They eventually operated services in Africa, the Middle East and East Asia too. Even Britain got in on the action with the Night Ferry.
A photo of the modern day Paris Gare de L'Est I took last month is below. This is a roughly 10-minute walk from Gare du Nord, where boat trains from the Channel ports arrived and I am sure they could have found a taxi or something to carry their baggage.
CIWL would either attach its carriages to regular trains or do their own dedicated "Trains de Luxe" of which the Orient Express was initially the latter, charging a supplement to the regular First Class fare. Locomotives were provided by the various railway companies, changing at national frontiers or at terminus stations, like Munich Central or Vienna West. Their main network was in Western Europe - travel to the Mediterranean or to various spa towns (like, well, Spa) by the upper classes being their main source of business. They also managed to corner the restaurant car business in mainland Europe for several decades.
It's worth mentioning that the Orient Express service here is not the more famous train from the Agatha Christie novel. That was the Simplon Orient Express, a post-First World War train routed via Switzerland (the Simplon Tunnel), Italy and Yugoslavia to avoid going through the losing countries of the Great War - for one thing, the Germans had seized a good deal of CIWL's rolling stock and set up a rival operation called Mitropa.
The Orient Express here had the routing of Paris-Munich-Vienna-Budapest-Bucharest-Varna-Istanbul, at least initially. The 1888 timetable can be found here:
As you can see, it only went through to Constantinople (via ship from Varna at this time) twice a week; most of the carriages would have only go as far as Vienna. I am not sure of the actual arrangements in 1893 and if a change would be required at Bucharest. The train would not be massively long - maybe six carriages total.
While luxurious and elegantly decorated, the provisions of your 1890s sleeper compartment were limited and the compartments rather small. The 2000s-built Nightjet version from Amsterdam to Munich might serve as a useful illustration. This is the standard compartment; the deluxe ones with toilet and shower had sold out. Sleepers are very popular right now!
The seats convert into bunk beds for sleeping, something still done done by a smartly dressed conductor. You got a sheet and a branded woolen blanket. Indeed, the modern-day successor to CIWL, Newrest Wagons-Lit, provides the staff for the Nightjet network. This compartment has three beds total - the 1890s train had a mix of 2-berth and four-berth compartments.
More photos of the modern-day carriage can be found here:
While there was an en-suite washbasin provided in each compartment with a mirror for shaving, if you needed to go to the toilet, you had to go down the corridor. This would have been something familiar to Lord Godalming from his boarding school days. No WiFi - even on most trains today that's the case.
Most of the photographs of CIWL rolling stock are from the 1920s onwards, when they used steel carriages painted blue; the 1890s carriages were in teak and looked roughly like this:
Space for larger luggage is limited and these trains had dedicated luggage cars. In Western Europe, customs/passport inspections would be handled by the conductor during the night, because the last thing you want to do is wake up someone like Baron Renfrew. Especially as that guy was the Prince of Wales travelling incognito and he could have a ferocious temper. Although to be fair, he would usually be extra nice afterwards.
Restaurant coaches were generally only found on trains with significant daytime portions (frequently only for those bits), a waste of money and coal otherwise. Otherwise, you would have a tray brough to your room. A carafe of water was provided, and the conductor could sell you something a bit stronger. The food would have been rather good in any event; my Nightjet and Caledonian Sleeper meals made up for a lot of the problems.
Then it would be a case of riding through the night, the clickety-clack of jointed track hopefully helping you sleep.
The OG service, soon being routed via Belgrade instead, continued to run except for wartime interruptions, gradually contracting after the Second World War as the Iron Curtain and air travel put people off it, until 2009, ending as just a Strasbourg-Vienna EuroNight.
However, Nightjet now do a thrice-weekly Paris to Vienna service, which as a nice nod to the past uses the same numbers (469/468) the Orient Express used in its final years.
The First World War saw CIWL's carriages requisitioned for military use and the Armistice would be signed on one of their carriages used as part of Ferdinand Foch's staff train at Compiègne in France on 11 November 1918. Hitler would then use that same carriage for the surrender of France in 1940, taking it back to Germany where it was destroyed - a modified vehicle from the same class stands on the site today.
CIWL itself would go on (despite the loss of its Russian operations in particular) to reach its peak in the early 1930s before the Second World caused more loss of rolling stock. After that, their Central and Eastern European operations were nationalised and with the market in decline, they eventually sold or leased their carriages in 1971 to a consortium of Western European operators. They continued to build and maintain carriages until 1998 and some of their stuff can still be found in Europe today, especially on the private sleeper operators like the Alpen-Sylt Express. They also continued to staff these trains and still do with Newrest Wagons-Lit.
My trips did not see me get the greatest night's sleep and I had a big delay on the Nightjet, but it was a memorable experience and I intend to do another overnight train next year.
More details of that can be found here if interested:
So, yes. A good train ride ahead of a dangerous operation.
#dracula daily#dracula#history#trains#Why did they give Constantinople the works?#It's nobody's business but the Turks#orient express#CIWL#nightjet
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Poll Candidate suggestions have finished! Thank you all of my midnight Anons! It has been delightful. Let's get into the nitty gritty of the competition and our competitors.
HOW IS THE POLL SET UP?
The poll will have an initial 48 candidates.
Round One that will last a day with 24 match ups. There will be a one day break afterwards sharing any highlights of that round (and giving me time to make the other).
Round Two will have twelve matchups lasting a day and a similar break set up.
Round Three will have three match ups and last a day.
This will leave us with three finalists. We will have three days of elimination matches leaving the two finalists.
The finals with the remaining two deadbeats will last a week after which we crown the Most Deadbeat Parent of Transformers!
WHEN DOES THE POLL START?
Round One will start tonight at 8:00 PM EST!
WHAT ARE THE MATCH UPS FOR ROUND ONE?
The full list of the twenty-four matches are below. I will be adding links once all the polls are posted. Each are set up with the name of character (continuity they are in) format, except for three special characters which are technically all the same.
Please feel free to add in arguments/propaganda for or against the characters. My ask box and submissions are open.
This is, again, done as a laugh and not to be taken as any serious criticism of the character.
I actively like most of these characters and do have my own favorites on this list.
Miko's Host Parents (TFP) v. Bradley White's Parents (UT)
Unicron v. Primus
Megatron (G1) v. Spike Witwicky (G1)
Hound's Father (Bayverse) v. Quintessa (Bayverse)
Soundwave (TFP) v. Jazz (Aligned)
Blaster (SG) v. Onslaught (Marvel)
Megatron X (Cyberverse) v. Zeta Prime (IDW1)
Optimus Prime (G1) v. Kup (G1)
Megatron (UT) v. Megatron (TFA)
Megatron (IDW1) v. Starscream (TFA)
Jhiaxus (Timelines) v. Perceptor (TFA)
Shockwave (Marvel) v. Shockwave (TFP)
Brian Jones (UT) v. Isaac Sumdac (TFA)
Alpha Trion v. Primacron
Dr. Arkeville (G1) v. Dirk Manus (G1)
Team Prime (TFP) v. Constructicons (G1)
Megatron (RiD 2001) v. Megatron (BW)
Ravage (BW) v. Galvatron (BW2)
Maximal High Council (BW) v. Eject (BWU)
Tarantulas (BW) v. Terminus (IDW1)
Prowl (IDW1) v. Cryak (IDW2)
Leo Convoy (BW2) v. Optimus Prime (Marvel)
Grimlock (G1) v. Ultra Magnus (TFA)
Optimus Prime (IDW1) v. Drift (RiD 2015)
Everyone have fun and remember vote the worst, most deadbeat of them! May the best-worst win!
Note: As a general warning for anyone who isn't particularly fond of polls as I will be using the main tags, all of my polls will be tagged as "transformers deadbeat poll" if you would like to block this tag to cut down on seeing them
#transformers deadbeat poll#transformers poll#transformers#maccadam#maccadams#i am rooting for a few of the candidates not gonna lie
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book of the new sun fans grab your terminus est and misogyny
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Jour 32 - Entre la Nouvelle-Orléans et Mérida via Cancún 🇲🇽
Départ à 5h30 de notre belle chambre d'hôtel en direction de l'aéroport. Sacré périple pour y arriver, on a tenté 3 bus avant d'en trouver un qui arrive ou encore de trouver un arrêt existant 😅 notre bus nous emmène donc au terminus "Aéroport de Nouvelle-Orléans", jusque là tout va bien. Sauf qu'on ne trouve pas l'entrée de l'aéroport... et pour cause, on est à l'ancien terminal ! Il fallait trouver puis reprendre une navette durant 15 minutes pour arriver au bon terminal.
Arrivés au comptoir, on est bien content d'avoir déjà notre billet retour car c'est obligatoire pour pouvoir rejoindre le Mexique depuis les Etats-Unis, sinon on y serait peut-être encore😅
Nous attendons sagement notre avion qui part à l'heure et arrive à Cancún en avance !
Nous étions relativement seuls dans l'avion, à tel point que nous pouvions librement changer de place pour se mettre contre les hublots 🗾
Merci à Antoine d'avoir assuré les photos juste avant l'atterrissage pendant que je dormais profondément 😇
En sortant de l'aéroport, une foule de chauffeurs de taxi veulent à tout prix nous amener dans le centre mais nous trouvons un bus beaucoup moins cher.
Il pleut à notre arrivée, on s'y attendait un peu car cette saison est assez orageuse mais on croise les doigts pour un meilleur temps dans les prochains jours !
Petite pause à Cancun au McDonaldo comme l'appelle Antoine, avant de reprendre un bus pour Mérida qui se trouve à 5h de route et sur un fuseau horaire différent ! Nous avons maintenant 8h de décalage avec la France 🇫🇷
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Merci au Dr Rathatton pour cette explication digne d'un roman d'aventure, dont le protagoniste principal sert visiblement d'exutoire aux envies sadiques de l'univers. De mon côté, j'arrive à 6h à l'entrée de la ville de Lima ... et au terminus deux heures plus tard. Je déteste les grandes villes T.T
Nous finissons par nous retrouver à l'auberge de jeunesse ... et à vrai dire j'ai l'impression qu'on ne s'est séparées que quelques semaines !
Après les retrouvailles (même pas émouvantes, c'était trop naturel pour ça), on décide de faire un "free tour" de Lima pour en apprendre un peu plus sur la ville.
On passe donc deux bonnes heures et demies à se balader de bâtiment en bâtiment avec notre guide. Pour être parfaitement honnête, je suis loin d'être convaincue par cette ville : régulièrement détruite par les séismes, il y a assez peu de vieux bâtiments, mais beaucoup de béton, je ne suis pas fan.
Quelques jolies pièces ont toutefois résisté, et je tombe notamment amoureuse de ces grands balcons fermés en bois qui parsèment la ville, ça donne du charme ! (Noter la couleur jaune des bâtiments de la place centrale, qui se réfèrent au drapeau de la ville)
On apprend au passage que le Pérou et le Chili se sont fait la guerre (guerre du Pacifique) à la fin de 19e, et que Lima a été colonisée pendant deux ans par leur voisin limitrophe. A l'époque, la Bolivie avait un accès à la mer (entre les deux pays), mais suite à leur trahison pendant ladite guerre, ils l'ont perdu !
Notre visite se termine vers 13h30, je meurs de faim (malgré le fondant au chocolat au bon goût de beurre venu directement depuis la France partagé par le Dr Rathatton), et après un déjeuner un peu décevant, on se rattrape sur .... une glaaaaaaaaaace
La fin de l'aprem est consacrée à des basses tâches : trouver une carte sim, récupérer la lessive, planifier la suite du voyage ... on a de quoi s'occuper !
En début de soiree, on a le droit à un mignon spectacle son et lumière dans le parc où on s'est installées, ça rend pas mal en vrai ! (Est ce qu'on était des glands vautrés par terre ? Tout à fait.)
Et en rentrant à l'hostel, petite surprise : il y avait un match de foot juste à côté (sport national ici, ça remue les foules !), et on a rencontré des supporters ... originaux :')
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Julia Ecklar - Terminus Est - Yankee Doodles Worldcon 1986
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At the end of the story, after you have felled countless, faceless minions of the Empire, your final fight is up against the one who commanded them all... the General overseeing the region's takeover, only known as The Black Wolf.
He asks you one question: for whom do you fight?
(Left to right: Genesect, Aegislash, Zoroark, Mightyena, Midnight Lycanroc, Type: Null)
With six Pokemon taken from all corners of the known world, the Black Wolf has been afforded all luxuries. His Pokemon are man-made or well-bred; they were hand-picked for the General, their measure taken and weighed. Even the Pokemon curated for world domination, Type Null, came after years of research and experimentation. If any Pokemon could help the Empire take over Eorzea, it would be the Eikon Killer.
Alas, it was not to be. You - a nobody, a simple adventurer - take down the Black Wolf and the military encampment he's sequestered himself in. You get out just before the entire stronghold goes up in flames, and the credits roll. You, a newbie trainer, have taken down the entire Empire, and one of the Empire's best Generals to boot.
Until you reach post-game content, that is, and locate one specific trainer among the reedy, swampy outskirts of a town you simply passed through: Milisandia.
(Pictured: Solrock)
If you beat her fair and square, she will comment on your strength - and the bond you seem to share with your Pokemon. She invites you back to her hometown on the beach, thinking you may be the one fight that reinvigorates her father.
If you follow her directions, you will return to a village previously visited - but now the home is able to be interacted with, and the same woman from before answers the door.
Milisandia introduces you to all of her siblings. In swift succession, you are forced to contend with all of them. The woman has spoken highly of you, and she hopes you don't disappoint! You fight Milisandia again - with both her trusty Solrock and the family's pet, Granbull, Victor:
(Pictured: Solrock, Granbull)
Ricon, with his Sableye, it's eyes somewhere between unblinking ceruleum and sapphire:
Rex, with his incredibly loyal Houndoom:
Finally, you face Alphonse and Allie together as a two-on-two battle.
Allie's two chosen are Mismagius and Gardevoir; Alphonse has Aggron and Gallade.
At the end of that, only then can you fight their father... a man who simply asks,
"Is your answer the same, Adventurer?"
(Left to right: Aegislash, Silvally, and Midnight Lycanroc.)
If his question doesn't sell his identity, the order of his attacks will. Even lacking the Empire-given beasts, the man has gained much and more: an appreciation for his companions, one of which bloomed and blossomed under his newfound humanity, no longer stagnantly treated as a test subject.
(If further investigation is needed: his Aegislash has learned a bastardized version of X-Scissor, a move that he had specifically taught his Genesect. Without the hulking steel beast, the man has turned to his sword.)
After defeating the Wolf, Gaius explains what all happened. His discharge from the Empire, his return to his children's hometown, his feeling of being lost. He will present you with money winnings and a hold item that, if pinned to your bag, will allow you to teleport out of any battle, regardless of the ability to flee. He will also offer to teach one Pokemon his specialty: Terminus Est, the move he taught his Aegislash. He will teach it once to one Pokemon, and it cannot be passed down.
At any point you can return to challenge the Black Wolf or his children, talk to their Granbull, or take a berry or two from their garden. (He would offer you a place to rest, he says, but there is not a bed to spare in their little cottage.)
#ⅹⅳ tertius oculus ( hcs. )#ⅩⅣ catuli ( a & a & r & r & m. )#ⅩⅣ - v; ceruleum ( pkmn. )#vonny: make a pok.emon team!#me a day later: u rang?#also i dont care that they have a mishmash of mons. its fine#it's for Lore and Story so eat my ass#gentle shb spoilers re: the weapons saga but w/e#also me bending lore to make the story pg for p.okemon. so. some things are purposefully baby coded :)#PS IF ANYONE CAN CRACK THE CODE AS TO WHY EACH CHILD HAS THEIR SPECIFIC POKEMON(S)... ILL KISS U#thank u rinn and kat for the input!!
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«De este modo, aunque la biología no ha sufrido las transiciones radicales de la física o la astronomía, el modo en que los biólogos “ven” su materia ha variado enormemente en dos milenios y medio. Más aún, no tenemos razón para suponer que esta evolución haya alcanzado su terminus ad quem. Por el contrario, tenemos razones para opinar exactamente al revés. Ya están empezando a poner en duda muchos biólogos el supuesto darwinista de que la naturaleza es el escenario de una guerra sin fin. En nuestro mundo postkeynesiano ésta parece una visión demasiado cruda. Conceptos derivados de la cibernética y la ciencia de la computadora, conceptos como retroalimentación, información, homeostasis, empiezan a parecer bastante más apropiados. Quizá esto presagie una nueva fase en nuestra comprensión de los fenómenos biológicos y, en consecuencia, una nueva concepción del lugar del hombre en la naturaleza».
C. U. M. Smith: El problema de la vida (Ensayo sobre los orígenes del pensamiento biológico). Alianza Editorial, pág. 34. Madrid, 1977
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#c. u. m. smith#el problema de la vida#ensayo sobre los orígenes del pensamiento biológico#biología#filosofía de la biología#vida#física#astronomía#evolución de la biología#futuro de la biología#darwinismo#darwin#postkeynesianismo#keynes#retroalimentación#homeostasis#computación#hombre#ser humano#naturaleza#lugar del hombre en la naturaleza#cibernética#fenómenos biológicos#teo gómez otero#henri rousseau#la encantadora de serpientes
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