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eovin-hime · 6 months
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Books of 2024: ALWAYS NORTH by Vicki Jarrett.
To me, the scariest place on our entire planet is the Arctic, partially because the scariest thing on our entire planet are polar bears, which have been stalking my nightmares since middle school. So, of course, when I saw a fucked-up polar bear on the cover of a weird and fucked up maybe mystery maybe thriller definitely apocalyptic sci-fi adjacent book that takes place in the Arctic, I thought, "Oh yeah I should definitely start reading that at nighttime IMMEDIATELY while winter still nibbles on the edges of the weather, this is foolproof."
Reader: I am the Fool™.
I'm 80 pages in, and so far we've got weird inexplicable shit going on that we're trying to ignore, and we've been warned about bears SO Many Times All Over The Place (yikes), and we're now being stalked by a polar bear who has a History with the captain (borderline Moby Dick but make it a vicious land-capable predator), and time is fake because it's Always Daylight and we are doing Science on a Boat but make it Evil Capitalism also, and there's some neat textual framework going on with chapter headers, and I'm excited to see where this all goes!!
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cmgirlie · 8 months
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Bryan Alvarez has completed a grand total of 0 days in the shut the fuck up and stop talking about Cm Punk challenge
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fideidefenswhore · 4 months
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The rumor about returned gifts, since two informants separately revealed it to him, sounds like an invented event to assure Chapuys of Jane's honor and to neutralize the earlier rumor about Henry's presenting her with gifts. Considering the Seymours' social status and political ambitions, surely they would not have permitted their female relative to refuse presents from the King.
Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship, Retha Warnicke
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rohirric-hunter · 10 months
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15 for leonys 👀?
This one is mean, but it's not as mean as it seems, I promise. It's an AU where the escape from Isengard fails and Léonys is recaptured. Faced with more intense interrogation, she isn't able to hold out. Fortunately, the average PC at this point knows no more about the Fellowship and the Ring than Saruman already does, and Léonys knows even less than the average PC, as she doesn't do Vol. II and I cut out many of the the Vol. I quests that address it directly in her 'verse. She knows it exists due to general knowledge about Rings of Power from doing Vol. I, but as far as associating it with the Fellowship, she's never told directly and the first time it occurs to her is when Saruman himself suggests it during the first interview.
Again, this gets better because it segues into a fun "fun" AU we've come up with in the SARC where Generic PC actually sort of befriends Gun Ain and all three of them escape Isengard together. So things are bad now (and will keep getting bad, let's not kid ourselves) but ultimately they do get better. I actually originally had Gun Ain in this, towards the end, sort of hinting at where it will eventually go, but I cut it out because I thought it was going on too long. I might write more of this AU eventually though.
(Now if you want a genuinely mean AU, consider the following: What if your Average PC actually doesn't hold out in their first interview with Saruman and that's the whole reason he knows what he does? It doesn't hold up, with the timeline, but if you're willing to fiddle with that, or ignore it, could be mean!)
Anyway content warning for uh torture. It's not super explicit or anything but it does happen.
“Please!” It’s almost a surprise to hear your own voice when you cry out. “Please, stop!” There are tears on your face, and through them you can barely see anything, but you know that they have not stopped; even as you speak you hear the sound of something heavy hitting flesh, and although Lothrandir does not cry out, you hear the hitch in his breathing.
“I did not lie,” you gasp desperately. “I know nothing of what you seek. But I do know -- I was in Rivendell when Gandalf and his company departed. I will tell you all I know, please.”
“Léonys,” Lothrandir gasps, his voice stern, and you think he might have meant to say more, but he is cut off by another blow.
“I’m sorry,” you whisper, likely not loud enough for him to hear, wringing your hands together as best you can. “I’m sorry, but I can’t... I just can’t.” You can’t stand by and do nothing while they hurt Lothrandir more -- based on the welts and bruises visible across his bare chest and shoulders when they had dragged him into the room he has already been hurt badly enough, and as they had begun to beat him in front of you it was with some distress that you had realized he was not fighting back. Against the Falcons he had staggered to his feet time and time again and returned almost every blow, even when they bound him -- at least until they had turned their threats to you. Now, he barely resists, except to twist away from some of the blows they rain down on him, slightly lessening their impact against him. You dare not imagine what threats or torments they visited upon him to gain such compliance.
“I knew you could see reason,” Saruman says, his voice seeming calm and welcoming, the voice of a father, almost. “Well then, what do you know?”
You take a deep, shaking breath. “Gandalf left Rivendell on -- on -- I don’t remember the exact date, but it as late December,” you say.
“Léonys!” Lothrandir says again, louder, sterner, but you can hear the pain he tries to hide. You squeeze your eyes shut. “I’m sorry,” you say, but you forge ahead, and you tell Saruman all you know about the small company that left Rivendell that early December morning, which is precious little, save their names. You guess more than you know about their errand, and most of your guesses were first made just yesterday, when Saruman had first linked, in your mind, the Ruling Ring, the great Ring that the Enemy had made to rule the others, to Gandalf.
It is wrong, you know, and something in your stomach twists in revulsion at your own actions. But the horrible sounds of flesh and worse things hitting flesh and Lothrandir’s grunts of pain have stopped, and, fueled by that, you forge ahead. You try to keep as many of your guesses as possible to yourself, and lie to yourself that it makes some difference, that you can keep anything from one of the Wizards in this manner. You offer as little information as you can about the members of the Company, and you do not tell him which member of the company you believe carries the thing. That, after all, is perhaps the least founded of your guesses, based only on a sense of prevailing dread that had seemed to follow him around, and you try your best to not think about it.
When you are done, you stand there, feeling small and weak, a blemish against the clean and handsomely-appointed room in the tower; a feeling exacerbated by the thin rags you are wearing and the shackles on your wrists and ankles. You steal a glance at Lothrandir and find him kneeling before the feet of his tormentors, looking even more bruised and beaten than when you last dared to look at him. He is looking at you, and you think you can see disappointment in his eyes. You quickly look away again.
Saruman is silent for a long moment, studying you, and then he snorts, almost derisively. “Reasonable, maybe,” he says. “But evidently not as close in the councils of Gandalf as I had believed. It is no matter, you may still prove useful.” He turns away, dismissively, and you drop your eyes back to the floor, taking a deep, shaking breath as you do so.
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jaggedcliffs · 1 year
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...at some point the definition of “unreliable narration” on this website has stopped describing actual unreliable narration and has just become...describing narration and point of view
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anghraine · 2 years
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Since I’m simultaneously trying to accumulate mystic clovers and gold in GW2, I’ve been switching between filling out WvW reward tracks and joining the Triple Trouble PvE event.
Triple Trouble is normally very challenging (the most difficult World Boss in the core game IMO), but the NOPE guild handles it smoothly every day at 1 PM PST and you can get a bunch of gold, achievement points, and rare items (with a chance of ascended) by tagging along and following instructions. They’re extremely nice about it as well (not my guild, they just seem super cool) and it’s all nice and organized alongside the usual random PvE chatter (today’s involved typing speed and whether human fingers are really just better, or possibly worse, octopus tentacles).
Meanwhile, WvW’s map chat is too critical to turn off, but also has a bunch of total assholes who mostly just complain about a) ArenaNet devs not ~understanding~ their own class system as well as random WvW player, b) class balance in general, c) the inferiority of new Steam players, d) the inferiority of PvE, e) the evils of NCSoft, f) human players not being as good at damage as AI, g) how incredibly good the player is at PvP and the game sucks for not challenging them more blahblah, etc.
So there’s this total whiplash in going from the NOPE run of TT -> just trying to earn mystic clovers for my mother’s birthday present in WvW, and very consciously saying nothing to anyone except “no problem” when someone thanks me for resurrecting or rescuing them.
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mourningmaybells · 1 year
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need to change the palindrome moths format if im doing a time loop, different pov book without feeling stale with each repeat...
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psychoticwillgraham · 3 months
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‘why won’t you sleep with cis men? you’re a misandrist!!’
bc I’m an afab person of childbearing age and don’t trust cis men to use condoms anymore and don’t trust them not to rape me so yeah that might sound misandrist to you, but i live in a state with a total abortion ban and i could probably get charged with murder if i went to Illinois to get an abortion. until i figure out if im infertile, im not sleeping with yall.
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loser-brain · 10 months
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Now everyone, what do we do when we see this?
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We... report their ass as spam/bot and carry on. No violence... just report -> as spam/bot -> block in the process.
And we move on... and daydream under a big tree, on top of the hill, under a sunny sky, with gentle breeze brushin' against our face, with the sound of bird humming around as we plan on how we gonna murder them and torture the person for committing a crime on mistreating artists on this site because god damn y'all this site needs to treat creatives betters. We're not about to become the next Instagram and post art that 1. does not belong to us and 2. put this in the caption. HELL NO.
If the artist is not on Tumblr but you have their permission to post their art with credit and a source to find them. You're fine.
If the artist is on Tumblr but you have their permission to post their art onto here (with credit and @/ing them in the process). You're fine.
If an artist is on here or not BUT you didn't bother to look for them and just decided to take their work and not say anything on who is the artist to get "street creds..."
You're a dead man walking and I'm chargin' at ya.
Quick note. In case this was to blow up and explode.
Reposting ≠ Reblogging
Reposting ≠ Retweeting
Reposting ≠ Sharing
Reblogging = Retweeting
Reblogging = Sharing
Reblogging is not the same as reposting. Reposting is literally taking someone's work and posting it onto your blog makin' you the author. Reblogging/Retweeting is just putting the post from the author onto your page and still linking the author in the process. Stop overthinking it. When someone says please don't repost my work THIS IS WHAT THEY MEAN!!
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*kisses on the forehead, head pats, and hands you a tiny dagger* Now go slaughter those asshats that take artists' work for their own gain.
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sighmurderbot · 1 year
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Don't you love it when you have a sinking feeling about something that may have happened when you were young and the more you think about it the more the pieces slot into place and next thing you know you're googling and find some pretty damming evidence and you don't know how to process it
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reasonsforhope · 28 days
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Scientists have developed a new solar-powered system to convert saltwater into fresh drinking water which they say could help reduce dangerous the risk of waterborne diseases like cholera.
Via tests in rural communities, they showed that the process is more than 20% cheaper than traditional methods and can be deployed in rural locations around the globe.
Building on existing processes that convert saline groundwater to freshwater, the researchers from King’s College London, in collaboration with MIT and the Helmholtz Institute for Renewable Energy Systems, created a new system that produced consistent levels of water using solar power, and reported it in a paper published recently in Nature Water.
It works through a process called electrodialysis which separates the salt using a set of specialized membranes that channel salt ions into a stream of brine, leaving the water fresh and drinkable. By flexibly adjusting the voltage and the rate at which salt water flowed through the system, the researchers developed a system that adjusts to variable sunshine while not compromising on the amount of fresh drinking water produced.
Using data first gathered in the village of Chelleru near Hyderabad in India, and then recreating these conditions of the village in New Mexico, the team successfully converted up to 10 cubic meters, or several bathtubs worth of fresh drinking water. This was enough for 3,000 people a day with the process continuing to run regardless of variable solar power caused by cloud coverage and rain.
[Note: Not sure what metric they're using to calculate daily water needs here. Presumably this is drinking water only.]
Dr. Wei He from the Department of Engineering at King’s College London believes the new technology could bring massive benefits to rural communities, not only increasing the supply of drinking water but also bringing health benefits.
“By offering a cheap, eco-friendly alternative that can be operated off the grid, our technology enables communities to tap into alternative water sources (such as deep aquifers or saline water) to address water scarcity and contamination in traditional water supplies,” said He.
“This technology can expand water sources available to communities beyond traditional ones and by providing water from uncontaminated saline sources, may help combat water scarcity or unexpected emergencies when conventional water supplies are disrupted, for example like the recent cholera outbreaks in Zambia.”
In the global rural population, 1.6 billion people face water scarcity, many of whom are reliant on stressed reserves of groundwater lying beneath the Earth’s surface.
However, worldwide 56% of groundwater is saline and unsuitable for consumption. This issue is particularly prevalent in India, where 60% of the land harbors undrinkable saline water. Consequently, there is a pressing need for efficient desalination methods to create fresh drinking water cheaply, and at scale.
Traditional desalination technology has relied either on costly batteries in off-grid systems or a grid system to supply the energy necessary to remove salt from the water. In developing countries’ rural areas, however, grid infrastructure can be unreliable and is largely reliant on fossil fuels...
“By removing the need for a grid system entirely and cutting reliance on battery tech by 92%, our system can provide reliable access to safe drinking water, entirely emission-free, onsite, and at a discount of roughly 22% to the people who need it compared to traditional methods,” He said.
The system also has the potential to be used outside of developing areas, particularly in agriculture where climate change is leading to unstable reserves of fresh water for irrigation.
The team plans to scale up the availability of the technology across India through collaboration with local partners. Beyond this, a team from MIT also plans to create a start-up to commercialize and fund the technology.
“While the US and UK have more stable, diversified grids than most countries, they still rely on fossil fuels. By removing fossil fuels from the equation for energy-hungry sectors like agriculture, we can help accelerate the transition to Net Zero,” He said.
-via Good News Network, April 2, 2024
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October 7th Fact Check:
This site is an excellent centralized resource for tracing where the stories of Hamas atrocities originated and whether there’s any merit to them, and whether those reporting them are reliable themselves.
Considering that two of the biggest sources of sexual assault allegations are a “charity” called ZAKA - who have no forensic training and whose founder was himself implicated in decades of sexual abuse - and professional racist May Golan, I’d say they are decidedly unreliable.
https://www.oct7factcheck.com
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emptyjunior · 6 months
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I haven't seen the movie yet but I hope they include my favourite thing from the book, which is Coriolanus Snow doesn't take a single action the entire time that a woman doesn't explicitly tell him to take.
What were some of the wins in the Coriolanus Snow political playbook?
-He was the only mentor that met his tribute early and built an actual relationship with them, which gave him a huge advantage over the other mentors who couldn't even get a name or birthdate out of their tribute.
-He was able to get a reporter to interview his tribute multiple times, gaining screen time and notoriety.
-His stardom rose when he attempted to save the Crane girl and was seen on camera looking heroic, calling for a medic.
-He wrote the proposal on the sponsorship system and basically invented the idea of sponsors, ranking and gambling that sustained the games for 75 years.
And guess what? Not a SINGLE one of those was his idea😭
TIGRESS tells him to go down to the train station that day, says that Lucy Gray is probably scared and vulnerable, his grandmother gives him a rose from her garden to take, and Tigress explicitly tells him to get on Lucy's good side because her trust will be a valuable thing.
LUCY GRAY tells snow to stop freaking out and freezing at the zoo! Because he just stands there, camera shy, terrified about messing up his reputation and she tells him to 'Own it' and act like any mistake he ever makes is a chance for a Performance, it is a chance to gain more power. SHE drags him over to the reporter and banters with the people of the capital, teaching him a lesson about being in front of the press that he will use for his entire Presidency.
Snow prides himself on looking rich even though his family is in in ruin and it is TIGRESS who helps them achieve this. The careful image he maintains, is maintained by HER, working her hands to the bone to make his clothes look new, their reputation stay untarnished.
The sponsors? The idea to bring food to tributes so they don't starve before they can even compete?? It's LUCY GRAY'S idea!! She suggests it on screen, she invents the idea of a Victor as an Idol, she sings and does fan meet and greets and asks for people to bring her a sweet thing if they can. And then Snow goes and repeats that in class and it's credited as a profitable Academy idea and not hers.
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There's a thousand moments like this! Of Snow letting all his smarts and tactics fail him, and Lucy Gray hissing the answer in his ear to get him to act. And he's praised as a hero after this, as the only person who did something in an emergency!
And after all this, our unreliable narrator heads home at the end of the day like, ah I really did that. Snow lands on top once again, that was for sure my idea.
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Featured the girl? You featured the girl snow? In her own plan that she did while you stood there frozen and anxious😭So generous.
Truly he's an absolute doofus, he's a silly little boy with Light Yagami energy, any mettle he gains as a Political Mastermind later on is due to the strategy and empathy of the women he's surrounded himself with
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neil-gaiman · 1 year
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Hi Neil,
April 30th is the Day of the Homeschooled Child, when homeschooling survivors, alumni, and allies raise awareness about the need for safer homeschooling regulations in the U.S. For myself and some fellow homeschoolers I grew up with, homeschooling allowed often well-meaning parents and guardians to give us excessive corporal punishments, to physically isolate us, and to expose us to a variety of conspiracy theories from unreliable and questionably sourced curricula. Warned that the government wanted to steal us and indoctrinate us, we believed that speaking to other adults about our abuse was not an option. Without teachers or caregivers outside the home, we did not have regular access to mandatory reporters for neglect or abuse.
I am hoping that people in the Tumblr community will take this opportunity to stand up for homeschooled children’s rights by signing this Bill of Rights for the Homeschooled Child and by lobbying for stricter oversight and protections for homeschooled children in the US: https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/bill-of-rights/
Please, please spread the word. <3
Happy to spread the word. (As an opinion: I think the Bill of Rights for the Homeschooled Child starts out well, but then seems to wander away from Homeschooling and into being a Bill of Rights for All Children. Whoever made it might want to keep it focussed on what could actually be within the remit of someone homeschooling a child. But that's just my opinion.)
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homunculus-argument · 9 months
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I'm not a sociopath, but every time I encounter someone who habitually makes a huge display of how they are Being Victimised in situations where everyone else can clearly see that no such thing is happening, to the point where it's common knowledge that this person does that, I'm making a mental note that this person would make a really good target.
If someone's made it a habit to file frivolous complaints and reports of anything they can think of, to the point where they've made themselves known as a waste of time whose protests are complete nonsense, they've established themselves as an unreliable witness. Call the cops about your neighbous owning dogs or parking their cars on their own driveways often enough that they won't come to your address anymore, and your neighbours could have a nude garden party over there and you can't do shit.
If someone's made it their whole workplace personality to complain about how the faggots are stealing everything, I'm gonna start stealing their lunches from the fridge. Who's going to believe them that this time it's actually for real? Once you've established that "the faggots are stealing everything" is just the meaningless noise you make whenever you're awake, who's going to listen to you say "this specific faggot is stealing my workplace lunches, specifically"?
Once they call you "boy who cried wolf", the wolves will call you "dinner".
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