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interact-if · 2 years

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Day 4 of our Pride Month Event, with Kit!

Kit, Author of The Northern Passage

It’s cold, so cold, and your head aches, your ears pop, water choking your throat and nose, all you can do is watch as the sky gets farther and farther away from you. Clawed hands grab at your ankles, your legs, your arms, pulling you down, tearing at your clothes and piercing your skin.

You convulse violently, your body struggling to expel the water from your lungs as more floods in.

Staring up into the fading light, you feel your body grow weak, giving in, sinking now, your blood churning all around you in the water. A hand grabs at your throat, caressing a thumb over your skin, pulling you down as the dark water turns red.

The Northern Passage is an 18+ horror fantasy CYOA, where you play as a hunter sent up north to investigate a series of missing people along the border of your home country and in the port cities of the Blackwater. Working with your handler, Lea, you will travel north and discover that things are far worse than you ever could have imagined, and that there is something powerful lurking out in the deep, dark sea…

Read more about The Northern Passage here. Play the Demo here. Kit's Patreon. Kit is also the author of Siren’s Call.

EDIT: TNP and SC are on a temporary pause until further notice.

[INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT UNDER THE CUT!]

Q1 - Please, introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your project(s)!

I'm Kit, and The Northern Passage is an interactive fantasy horror novel, where you play as a beast hunter tasked with uncovering the source of a string of disappearances in the small and isolated city of Highfell.

The Northern Passage is, at its core, a story about humanity. Humanity being all the ways in which we are different, and all the ways in which we are the same. Humanity being both savagely brutal and incredibly kind. Humanity in the face of loss and violence and unimaginable horrors, and all the quiet little moments in between.

In my work, I want to challenge the idea of what is really good or bad, what is really human or monstrous - both in The Northern Passage and in my side project, Siren's Call. How far is too far? And who is the person that gets to draw that line to begin with? Humanity isn't just being kind, it's also being angry, it's holding grudges, it's holding hate and regret and grief close to your chest just as much as it is being kind and compassionate and forgiving.

Q2 - What or who are some of your biggest inspirations?

I don't know that there's any one thing that inspires me, really. I grew up reading and watching Lord of the Rings, and I would be remiss not to say that it had a big influence on me and my love for the fantasy genre. Ursula K. Le Guin is someone I didn't start reading until later in life, and a lot of her work really resonates with me. I also read and watch a lot of horror; the Southern Reach trilogy is one of my favorites. Otherwise, as corny as it sounds, I'm inspired a lot by the work of my friends, and I'm grateful for all of the people that share their process and their stories with me.

Q3- What excites you most about IF? What drew you to the medium?

I really favor character-driven stories, both as a writer and a reader, and one of the things I really like about IF is the way the medium allows for character exploration. Different players who make different choices are going to potentially see vastly different sides of a character throughout the story, as they react to your decisions and struggle to deal with the consequences of the player's actions.

It's almost three dimensional, the way you can flesh out a character in these branching narratives, revealing certain secrets and quirks in one variation that you may never have learned about in another. Even just the most subtle of differences can have a heavy weight behind them, in my opinion. This all goes for the player character, as well; different personality types, different relationships, different choices - it all allows you to explore so much more about what type of person this character is, and just how different of a person they will be by the end of this story.

Q4 - Are your characters influenced by your identity? How?

Definitely. I think my identity both influences & drives a lot of my work. I started working on both of my projects because I enjoy dark fantasy and historical fantasy, but it's a genre that can be hard to stomach most of the time due to the way it treats people like me - as well as other marginalized groups - for the sake of "realism" or "historical accuracy." I wanted a story with trans characters, characters that I could share my experiences with and see myself in, characters that I knew weren't there just to be set up for some terrible stereotypical storyline of suffering and misery. My characters are complex and reckless and silly and good and bad and they're trans, too. And maybe they'll suffer a bit and be miserable for a while but it's not going to be because they're trans - it's going to be a part of their experiences that happen alongside their transness - but never because of their transness.

Q5 - What are you most excited about sharing related to your project?

I can't wait to introduce more of the main characters. I'm really excited for people to meet the younger cast in the upcoming chapter, and to see how the relationship between them and the older main cast develops as the game progresses. And of course, there are more than a few narrative reveals that I've been scheming about for quite some time and am really excited for.....

Q6 - What would you like to see more of in LGBT+ fiction/IF community?

Well... a lot, to be honest. I feel like we've definitely made a lot of improvements since I started, but sometimes it feels like we take one step forward and two steps back. I don't mean to imply that it needs to be perfect, that's simply not possible! And it's really great now seeing so many trans characters, especially as desirable love interests. When I started two years ago that was almost unheard of in this particular space. But I really wish both readers and authors would be more mindful in the way they talk about trans characters - and by extension, real trans people.

One thing I always keep in mind is that these characters are fictional, and I am the author - I am the one making the decisions. How do my decisions read to someone on the outside, what kind of implications can these choices have beyond my story? What am I really saying when I do this or that with this particular character? How does this reflect on the real people in this marginalized group? Some early criticism I received pointed out to me the importance of character agency - I am the author, but I can write it in a way that gives the character some agency over their situation; and I find that especially important when it comes to gender identity and sexuality, particularly with the way the gender-selectable mechanic works in IF.

Along that line, I also want to see more gay characters that exist outside of the player. I want more genderlocked gay romance, characters that have agency over their stories, that have a history and experiences beyond the player character, and I want it all to be acknowledged and respected.

#if: events #Pride 2022 #Pride Month #The Northern Passage #Siren's call

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mainspoker · 2 years

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heavensickness · 3 years

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if its inconvient though stories/poetry that you enjoy would be great :-)

It would be too long if I put my favorite poems AND poets in the same post so I decided to give the poets whom works I read the most & my favorites from them

Poets

John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)

Arthur Rimbaud (The Drunken Boat, Comedy of Thirst)

Paul Verlaine (A Poor Young Shepherd)

Emily Dickinson (I Am Nobody! Who Are You?)

Mary Oliver (The Wild Geese, Invitation, The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac, October, Moments, Starlings in Winter, Little Crazy Love Song, I Worried, Worm Moon, Black Oaks, We Should Be Well Prepared, In Blackwater Woods, Someday... You know what, read any and every work by her that you can find)

Frank O'Hara (Having a Coke with You, For Grace, After a Party, Steps)

Audre Lorde (Pirouette, A Litany for Survival)

Alice Notley (Songs and Stories of the Ghouls and In The Pines (poetry collections), Love Song, Have Made Earth as the Mirror of Heaven, An Excerpt from In The Pines)

Louise Glück (Averno (poetry collection), Departure, Lament, Persephone the Wanderer, A Myth of Devotion, Sunrise, Marina, A Fable)

e. e. cummings (i carry your heart with me, somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond, i like my body when it is with your…)

Chen Chen (When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (poetry collection), Self Portrait as So Much Potential, Race to the Tree, Chapter VIII, Poplar Street, Elegy for My Sadness, How I Became Sagacious)

Jeremy Radin (So I Locked Myself Inside A Star for Twenty Years, With These Hands, Sign, A Word)

Andrea Gibson (The Madness Vase & Lord of the Butterflies (poetry collections) Asking Too Much, I Sing the Body Electric, Birthday for Jenn, Yellowbird, Your Life)

Mahmoud Darvish (In The Presence of Absence (poetry collection), Sonnet V, Your Night is of Lilac, In Her Absence I Created Her Image)

Ocean Vuong (Night Sky With Exit Wounds (poetry collection) Thanksgiving 2006, Homewrecker, Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong, Threshold, Untitled (Blue, Green, & Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952, Reasons for Staying)

Richard Siken (his entire poem collection of Crush, i've read it at one sitting)

Clementine Von Radics (In A Dream You Saw A Way to Survive (poetry collection) Courtney Love Prays to Oregon, The Grapefruit Poem, It's The Way, Mouthful of Forevers, That Spring Everything Grew Wild and the Rain Came Down Like Punishment, I No Longer Believe Anger Will Save Me, Bitter, Storm, A conversation between / my therapist / and the mouth that sometimes belongs to me, Sweet The Sound)

Ada Limón

Margaret Atwood (Power Politics and Interlunar (poem collections) A Sad Child, There Are Better Ways of Doing This, Eurydice, Night Poem, Eating Snake, Half Hanged Mary)

Ursula K. Le Guin (Looking Back, The Drowned Girl)

Franz Wright (God's Silence (poetry collection), On Earth, The Heaven, Quandary, Clarification, To Her, The Poem, East Boston 1996 Night Walk)

Rainer Maria Rilke (Sonnets to Orpheus (sonnet collection), First Elegy, Second Elegy, Go to The Limits of Your Longing, Evening, Part One IV)

Anne Carson (Tango XXII. Homo Ludens, Apostle Town, The Glass Essay, Plainwater (essay and poetry collection), Autobiography of Red (verse novel), O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love, Stanzas Sexes Seductions, On Hedonism (an excerpt from Plainwater)

#this took 3 hours andkajdwj #poems #poetry #poetry recommendation #poem recommendation #keep #i hope tumblr search system doesnt ignore this so i can find it on my blog #ref #poetry ref #personal

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Hi Sarah! My friend and I are starting a bookclub (as much as you can with two people who aren't pressed for deadlines) and I was wondering if you have any recommendations? (That is if you have time to rec anything!) We're starting off with Deathless and have Fitzgerald next in line somewhere but I def want to try to expand the genres we read and tbh from years of following you, I trust your judgement

I don’t...like giving recommendations? At least not directly, it seems like too much opportunity for getting it wrong. Everybody has their own tastes, after all, and even the best of friends don’t necessarily vibe with what you vibe with. (I’ve experienced this with multiple friends, so I know what I’m talking about.) Truly, one of the reasons that my whole “I’m going to get back into reading for pleasure!” push has been so successful is that I only bother with books that interest me, and stop reading when they fail to catch my attention.

But I’ve now read at least 60 books in 2020, which is approximately 60 more than I’ve read in the years prior, so I’m happy to share that. Below is my list of recent reads, beginning to end, along with a very short review---I keep this list in the notes app on my phone, so they have to be. Where I’ve talked about a book in a post, I’ve tried to link to it.

Peruse, and if something catches your interest I hope you enjoy!

2020 Reading List

Crazy Rich Asians series, Kevin Kwan (here)

Blackwater, Michael McDowell (here; pulpy horror and southern gothic in one novel; come for the monster but stay for the family drama.)

Fire and Hemlock, Diane Wynne Jones (here; weird and thoughtful, in ways I’m still thinking about)

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (here; loved it! I can see why people glommed onto it)

Swamplandia!, Karen Russell (unfinished, I could not get past the first paragraph; just....no.)

Rules of Scoundrels series, Sarah MacLean (an enjoyable romp through classic romancelandia, though if you read through 4 back to back you realize that MacLean really only writes 1 type of relationship and 1 type of sexual encounter, though I do appreciate insisting that the hero go down first.)

The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (here)

Dread Nation, Justine Ireland (great, put it with Stealing Thunder in terms of fun YA fantasy that makes everything less white and Eurocentric)

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (VERY good. haunting good.)

Tell My Horse, Zora Neale Hurston (I read an interesting critique of Hurston that said she stripped a lot of the radicalism out of black stories - these might be an example, or counterexample. I haven't decided yet.)

The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society, T. Kingfisher (fun!)

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell (some of these short stories are wonderful; however, Swamplandia's inspiration is still unreadable, which is wild.)

17776, Jon Bois (made me cry. deeply human. A triumph of internet storytelling)

The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey (deeply enjoyable. the ending is a bittersweet kick in the teeth, and I really enjoyed the adults' relationships)

The Door in the Hedge and Other Stories, Robin McKinley (enjoyable, but never really resolved into anything.)

The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (fun, but feels very early fantasy - or maybe I've just read too many of the subsequent knock-offs.)

Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls (weird little pulp novel.)

All Systems Red, Martha Wells (enjoyable, but I don't get the hype. won't be looking into the series unless opportunity arises.)

A People's History of Chicago, Kevin Coval (made me cry. bought a copy. am still thinking about it.)

The Sol Majestic, Ferrett Steinmetz (charming, a sf novel mostly about fine dining)

House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (immensely enjoyable read, for all it feels like fic with the serial numbers filed off)

The Au Pair, Emma Rous (not bad, but felt like it wanted to be more than it is)

The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo (preferred this to Ghost Bride; I enjoy a well-crafted mystery novel and this delivered)

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin (unfinished, I cannot fucking get into Le Guin and should really stop trying)

The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo (enjoyable, but not nearly as fun as Ghost Bride - the romance felt very disjointed, and could have used another round of editing)

Temptation's Darling, Johanna Lindsey (pure, unadulterated id in a romance novel, complete with a girl dressing as a boy to avoid detection)

Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton (a strange, dark psychological portrait; really made a mark even though I can't quite put my finger on why)

The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins (slow at first, but picks up halfway through and builds nicely; a whiff of Gone Girl with the staggered perspectives building together)

Stealing Thunder, Alina Boyden (fun Tortall vibes, but set in Mughal India)

The Traitor Baru Cormorant; The Monster Baru Commorant, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (LOVE this, so much misery, terrible, ecstatic; more here)

This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone (epistolary love poetry, vicious and lovely; more here)

The Elementals, Michael McDowell

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (didn't like this one as much as I thought I would; narrator's contemporary voice was so jarring against the stylized world and action sequences read like the novelization for a video game; more here)

Finna, Nino Cipri (a fun little romp through interdimensional Ikea, if on the lighter side)

Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (engrossing, even if I could see every plot twist coming from a mile away)

Desdemona and the Deep, C. S. E. Cooney (enjoyed the weirdness & the fae bits, but very light fare)

A Blink of the Screen, Terry Pratchett (admittedly just read this for the Discworld bits)

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (not as good about politics and colonialism as Baru, but still a powerful book about The Empire, and EXTREMELY cool worldbuilding that manages to be wholly alien and yet never heavily expositional)

Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (see my post)

Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan (didn't finish, got to to first explicit sex scene and couldn't get any further)

Prosper's Demon, KJ Parker (didn't work for me...felt like a short story that wanted to be fleshed out into a novel)

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik (extremely fun, even for a reader who doesn't much like Napoleonic stories)

Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone (fun romp - hard to believe that this is the same author as Time War though you can see glimmers of it in the imagery here)

A Scot in the Dark, Sarah MacLean (palette cleanser, she does write a good romance novel even it's basically the same romance novel over and over)

The Resurrectionist, E. B. Hudspeth (borrowed it on a whim one night, kept feeling like there was something I was supposed to /get/ about it, but never did - though I liked the Mutter Museum parallels)

Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (he's a better ideas guy than a writer, though Hell Is The Absence of God made my skin prickle all over)

Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (fun, very much a throwback to my YA days of fairytale retellings, though obviously less European)

Four Roads Cross, Max Gladstone (it turns out I was a LOT more fond of Tara than I initially realized - plus this book had a good Pratchett-esque pacing and reliance on characterization)

Get in Trouble, Kelly Link (reading this after the Chiang was instructive - Link is such a better storyteller, better at prioritizing the human over the concept)

Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips

Soulless; Changeless; Blameless, all by Gail Carriger (this series is basically a romance novel with some fantasy plot thrown in for fun; extremely charming and funny)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (got about 1/3 of the way through and had to wave the white flag; will try again because I like the plot and the worldbuilding; the tone is just so hard to get through)

Pew, Catherine Lacey (a strange book, I'm still thinking about it; a good Southern book, though)

Nuremberg Diary, GM Gilbert (it took me two months to finish, and was worth it)

River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (I wanted to like this one a lot more than I actually did; would have made a terrific movie but ultimately was not a great novel. Preferred Magic for Liars.)

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (extremely fun, though more trippy than Gods and the plot didn't work as well for me - though it was very original)

The New Voices of Fantasy, Peter S. Beagle (collected anthology, with some favorites I've read before Ursula Vernon's "Jackalope Wives", "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" "The Husband Stitch"; others that were great new finds "Selkie Stories are for Losers" from Sofia Satamar and "A Kiss With Teeth" from Max Gladstone and "The Philosophers" from Adam Ehrlich Sachs)

#from the bookshelf #Anonymous

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burlveneer-music · 4 years

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Orbury Common - Orbury FM-4: Stoneage Birdsong - a lovely little mix that the mixer has tagged “Folklore Experimental Folk Alternative Ambient Krautrock Psychedelic Electronic Downtempo Trip-Hop”

For the inhabitants of Orbury Common, flora and fauna are revered and worshipped above all else. In times of widespread crisis - especially when pandemic is rife - witches consult their familiars; sacrifices are made to the gods and goddesses of the land; and shrines are built in honour of the animal spirits.

Ceremonial music often accompanies these naturalistic rituals, and echoes of these potent spirit-songs have drifted over to our world, in the form of 'Stoneage Birdsong', the fourth in a series of artfully intercepted broadcasts from the strange world of Orbury Common.

Tracklist:

Dragonfly Song - Ursula K. Le Guin Blackwater Side - Anne Briggs Fire Leap - Magnet Eastern System (edit) - Hector Plimmer Who I Am and Why I Am Where I Am - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Hills - Nisantashi Primary School Hosting - Mica Levi Window Over the Bay - Vashti Bunyan Woodland Band - Graeme Miller & Steve Shill “Instrumentals” Volume 1 - Part 1 - Arthur Russell 저만치 함께 Proximate Distance - Kyungso Park Labyrinth Sounds - Orbury Common Courtyard - Bobbie Gentry Ana Damir El Motakallim - Isaam Hajali Bubbles at Overlook 25th March 2019 - Four Tet Dragons - Princess Nokia Hey, Who Really Cares? - Linda Perhacs Nocturnal Dancer - Anna Homler, Adrian Northover, Dave Tucker Crofters - Unknown Teenage Birdsong - Four Tet All the Tired Horses - Bob Dylan

#Orbury Common #electronic #folk #folktronica #trip hop #downtempo #mix #2020

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doomedandstoned · 4 years

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Meeting Dead Sisters

~By Shawn Gibson~

Two years ago, a mysterious trio called DEAD SISTERS emerged upon the New England scene, capturing our attention forthwith. A year later, they were playing Maryland Doom Festival. It was high time that Doomed & Stoned followed the trail of holy hell to meet them.

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Let's do introductions! Who's who in the band and what do you play?

C: Sister Catherine, I play guitar and whatever else is needed.

M: Sister Meredeth, I worship with my voice and percussion instruments.

K: Sister Kerr, I play guitar and sing.

What is the inspiration and origin of Dead Sisters?

C: We are like-minded in that we wish to guide vibrations to their fullest potential of beauty with the utmost of patience.

M: The inspiration for DS is the beginning of time itself. The origin is the collision of time, place, judgement and reckoning.

K: We are longtime sisters and collaborators; we started by writing and recording our first piece (Sermon) using markers and poster paper. We wanted to react to a prominent and powerful death cult by plugging in as many amplifiers as possible.

How would you describe your music?

C: The pieces are reflections of every path we choose to take under the oppression of a strangling society with temporal experiences of the confusion and excitement that comes with commitment.

M: Our music is pure and divine and moving. It is wholly dedicated to our worshipers.

K: Meditative and cathartic. Wrathful, violent, and fun.

What drives your music?

C: Sorrow and Joy.

M: Our music is driven by ignorance, inequality and hate of today’s society. Hail Hartley.

K: Our connection to one another (we live in different states) and our commitment to spreading the truth.

Please explain the artwork for 'Dead Sisters' (2018) and 'All Your Eyes' (2019).

C: I am very pleased with the depiction.

M: The artwork for our first releases come from a family heirloom. To be preserved before its eminent decay.

K: Animal flesh is often arranged in pleasing shapes so children find it more palatable to eat. Bibles are often presented with illustrations for the same purpose.

Will there be Dead Sisters patches in the future?

C: Patches are the stepping stones to tapestries. Very soon.

M: Soon we will have patches and treasures beyond any dream.

K: We have many ideas for more effective and eye-catching paraphernalia in the future. Remain alert.

What music has influenced your own? Bands like Buried At Sea?

C: La Monte Young, Meth Drinker.

M: Musical influences include Pentagram, Grief, Electric Wizard, Wayne Shorter, Noothgrush, Ahab, Toadliquor, Daughters, Miles Davis, Anal Cunt, Dopethrone, Bongripper, Bill Evans, Pig Destroyer, Napalm Death, Coffinworm, Elvin Jones, John Luther Adams and many others.

K: The Body, Khanate, Lingua Ignota, Morton Feldman, Swans, and the wrongful deaths of innumerable women and children at the hands of pious men.

I ordered a Dead Sisters shirt and cassette from your Bandcamp page. Do the cassettes come with lyrics? I am curious to know the lyrics to your songs!

K: Our lyrics are available to read on our Bandcamp page. We include them with every song. The cassette does not have lyrics.

On your Bandcamp page, one of your tags for your music says anti-Christian? Could you talk about that a little bit?

C: Christianity is an illusion that has been shoved upon the residents of our society as a way to keep Feudalism alive. We choose not to turn a blind eye to true sin by addressing hypocrisy instigated by the bourgeoisie. If there is any confusion, I will clear it up now: Nazism has NO place in any world.

M: Anti-Christian tags are for clarity, yet occasionally remain unnoticed. Society is an illusion.

K: Child-threatening death cults have no place in a healthy society. Abuse apologists and master manipulators should not hold power. Is a book which promotes violence and othering an appropriate rulebook? Much so-called Christian art is very beautiful. People and life are beautiful. Some ideas are not.

What is a fantastic book that has blown your mind?

C: Wisconsin Death Trip is my favorite picture book.

M: No comment.

K: I enjoy reading utopian science fiction. I just finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (more of an anarchist perspective and very moving, LeGuin’s short stories are wonderful too). My favorite book of this type is Island by Aldous Huxley.

What makes the Sisters laugh?

M: My sisters bring me much humor.

ALL YOUR EYES by Dead Sisters

What bands are Dead Sisters listening to these days?

C: Iggy Pop, Curtis Mayfield, The Body.

M: dim, Angel Morgue, Greylock, The Cult, Spectral Voice, Blood Incantation, Thou, cttboto, Thin Lizzy, Fistula and Churchburn.

K: Kali Malone, Blackwater Holylight, Body Void, Dreamcrusher, Low, Malevich.

I saw a flyer on your Instagram that you played with Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean! I love them! I'm glad to have seen them at New Brookland Tavern in Columbia, South Carolina. How was that show? I wish I could have been at that show seeing both of you live!

C: We did great. I made one new friend.

M: Our inaugural ceremony was a cataclysm of divine tools and true worshipers. DUSK-Providence, RI is a genuine temple.

K: Playing with Chained was a great experience, and extremely loud. We hope to gather our amps with them again soon. They are touring in November to support their new album; everyone should endeavor to see them. We share a mutual love of Thou’s music.

I was just four minutes and forty seconds into 'All Your Eyes' (2019) and holy fuck! I was almost knocked out when it got heavier.

M: A holy fuck indeed.

K: Thank you. One of our goals is to reward the patient and attentive listener with a powerful experience.

'All Your Eyes' (2019), which inspires me to get a tattoo of that song somehow, is twenty-one minutes and fifty seconds long. 'Dead Sisters' (2018) has "Call To Worship" which is fifteen minutes and fifty seconds. "Sermon" is thirty-seven and fourteen seconds long. "Benediction" twenty-one minutes and thirty-six seconds long. Very heavy slabs to consume!

C: The TABs are rather light.

M: Temporal matters of our recorded worships are required for true enlightenment.

K: Getting the tattoo may likely take less time than listening to our cassette. You might try doing both simultaneously. Why would you mark up your beautiful body like that? You should be ashamed.

What has been an awkward situation for Dead Sisters?

C: Every time a worship musician gives us a misinformed shoutout.

M: An awkward moment for my sisters and I occurs when places of worship cannot support our holy current.

Do you play in other bands? Would you tell us if you did?

C: I would never.

M: Other projects include choir, our badminton team and heavy seasonal gardening.

What is in the future for Dead Sisters?

C: Many drink tickets and blown fuses.

M: The future of DS is terrifying and certain.

K: Stay with us. Without you we are nothing. Several releases are imminent, one of which will be very substantial.

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minervarosewilliams · 4 years

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November 26th Asteroids: New Moon in Sagittarius

Nov26 Sun 4 Sagittarius 2 conjunct Nov26 Moon 4 Sagittarius 2

Trump Constable 3 Sagittarius 13 Rx

opposition Sophie Christophe 5 Gemini 1

Nov26 Swindle 27 Virgo 41 conjunct Nov26 Gaolu 28 Virgo 49

opposition Nov26 Disneya 27 Pisces 2

Sophie Born 27 Pisces 36

Sophie TL66 27 Pisces 53

square Sophie Jupiter 27 Gemini 02

Sophie Ursula 27 Gemini 47

Sophie Abundantia 27 Sagittarius 36

Sophie Fidelio 27 Sagittarius 40

trine Nov26 d’Arrest 28 Capricorn 56

Sophie SA Neptune 29 Capricorn 21

Nov26 Constable 19 Scorpio 8 conjunct Sophie Conrada 19 Scorpio 29

Nov26 Celle 16 Capricorn 0 conjunct Nov26 Saturn 17 Capricorn 33

Sophie Potato 16 Capricorn 4

Sophie Lucifer 16 Capricorn 25

Sophie Talent 17 Capricorn 18

Sophie Narcissus 18 Capricorn 13

Nov26 Lie 13 Taurus 33 Rx conjunct Sophie Lie 15 Taurus 27

Trump Lie 17 Taurus 14

opposition Benedict’s Lie 16 Scorpio 44

Sophie SA d’Arrest 22 Gemini 11 conjunct Sophie Moon 22 Gemini 6

Nov26 Briede 22 Gemini 3 Rx conjunct Nov26 Discovery 22 Gemini 58 Rx

Sophie Moon 23 Gemini 01

Nov26 Skepticus 17 Cancer 20 Rx opposition Nov26 Saturn 17 Capricorn 33

square Nov26 Sharp 17 Aries 39 Rx

Trump Donald Duck 17 Aries 45

Fanatica 22 Virgo 16 conjunct Miller 22 Virgo 20

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Nov26 Mueller 27 Leo 53 conjunct Trump America 28 Leo 2

Trump Populus 29 Leo 45

Trump Claudius 29 Leo 53

Trump ASC 29 Leo 58

Trump Hooveria 1 Virgo 20

Nov26 Ivanka 2 Sagittarius 50 square Nov26 Elektra 2 Pisces 7

Nov26 Sado 2 Virgo 19

Trump Donald Duck 17 Aries 45conjunct Nov26 Prinz 17 Aries 42 Rx

Nov26 Phaethon 17 Aries 57 Rx

Trump Pecker 27 Capricorn 21 conjunct Trump Nymphe 0 Aquarius 40 Rx

Trump Epstein 3 Aquarius 0 Rx

opposition Nov26 Messalina 29 Cancer 3

Trump Ask 0 Leo 33

Trump Indiana 1 Leo 30

Trump Pax 2 Leo 7

Trump Ivanka 2 Leo 42 square Trump Tapping 28 Aries 1

Trump Booth 0 Taurus 29

Trump Toastmaster 1 Taurus 4

Trump Teutonia 1 Taurus 48

Trump Dick 0 Scorpio39 Rz

Trump GONG 0 Scorpio 42 Rx

Trump Casanova 2 Scorpio 11 Rx

Nov26 d’Arrest 28 Capricorn 56 conjunct Nov26 Yeti 1 Aquarius 48

Nov26 Epstein 2 Aquarius 9

Trump Epstein 3 Aquarius 0 Rx

USA Whitehouse 18 Virgo 45 conjunct Nov26 Whitehouse 17 Virgo 19

Pence’s Penza 18 Virgo 44

Senator 11 Virgo 14 conjunct Kimjeongho 11 Virgo 17

Washingtonia 25 Cancer 17 Rx conjunct Pylenor 26 Cancer 55 Rx

Trump Nancy 10 Gemini 55 conjunct Trump Gaolu 11 Gemini 20

Nov26 Ukraine 5 Scorpio 17 sextile Nov26 Zelinsky 5 Capricorn 6

Trump White House 4 Capricorn 16 Rx

USA Pylenor 5 Capricorn 0

square Nov26 Records 5 Aquarius 15

Nov26 Buysballot 6 Aquarius 40

Nov26 Jupiter 28 Sagittarius 38 conjunct Nov26 Truth 27 Sagittarius 57

Nov26 Populus 28 Sagittarius 20

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dillydedalus · 4 years

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november reading

how is it november. anyway i mainly descended into asoiaf hell again but there’s some other stuff!

hugo long list anthology vol. 3, lots of people anthology of the hugo long list for sff short stories - like most anthologies, it’s a mixed bag; i skipped a few stories, found a lot fine, liked quite a few (especially those by ursula vernon, sarah pinsker, p. djeli clark & theodora goss). this tends more towards scifi than fantasy, but i generally preferred the more fantasy-ish ones. 2.5/5

heimat: a german family album, nora krug collage-style graphic memoir about krug’s relationship to german identity after moving to the us and marrying a jewish man, focusing on her research into her family history and her grandparents’ actions during the holocaust, collecting images, documents, letters, statements from other family members, etc etc. the collage style is impressively well-done & her use of documents is especially excellent. 4/5

die untalentierte lügnerin, eva schmidt a german book prize nominee about a young woman in austria going thru a personal & familial crisis after dropping out of acting school. it’s intentionally really detached & isolating (e.g. there is absolutely no direct speech/thought in the entire book) but (unintentionally?) also quite boring. the creepy supportive-but-boundary-breaking stepfather is well done. 2/5

a game of thrones, george r. r. martin (#1 asoiaf) y’all.... i missed this series. i know i’m always lowkey obsessed, but reading the books really is a whole ‘nother thing and there are beats that get me in the heart every time (& every time there are beats that feel completely new) & every time i read agot i suddenly and painfully remember how much i love ned & how good he is & how sad. gods. also i want to take everyone who thinks asoiaf is all about being grimdark & edgy & cynical & ‘honourable = dumb’ and shake them like that’s not what they’re saying! littlefinger thinks like that, cersei, tywin and varys. we’re not meant to side with them! we’re meant to side with ned, who is honourable & chooses ‘the madness of mercy’, even if it kills him, which it does. 4.5/5

cosmicomics, italo calvino (tr. from italian by william weaver) honestly this is so hard to describe but it’s basically short stories about the genesis of the universe, the development of earth & life on earth, told from the perspective of a kind of eternal being (called qwfwq i think) who has been around with some other eternal beings with similarly weird names since before there was space, or time, or anything, but these eternal beings also behave & think pretty much like normal humans if they existed on eternal time-scale. it’s really weird & really fun, altho after the 12 stories i was kinda done. also like the gender politics in this are super eyeroll-y so be aware of that i guess. 3/5

a clash of kings, george r. r. martin (#2 asoiaf) i recently saw a poll on r/asoiaf or something about everyone’s fav book in the series & acok came in last, which i kind of understand - between agot & the absolutely epic and intense asos, it kind of looks like just a transitional book, & while both affc & adwd are kind of polarising, they both have really passionate fans BUT i think acok might actually be my personal favourite in the series. almost all the character’s arcs in this are amazing (arya in harrenhal! sansa figuring out how to cope in KL! theon’s whole mess! tyrion as hand! bran’s last chapter making me cry every single time!) and it has the amazing battle of blackwater bay. so anyway: 5/5

the narrow road to the deep north, richard flanagan (uni) UGH. this is a booker winning (for some reason) novel about australian POWs on the death rail, which is not entirely uninteresting & not something i’ve read anything about before but a) the writing is bad, b) flanagan tries really hard to be incredibly profound & it’s not working, c) half the story isn’t even about the POW camp but about our noble self-sacrificial hero dorrigo ‘manly resolve’ evans, who is a serial cheater & in his feelings about his ~true love for his uncle’s wife which like... who cares!!! in retrospect our discussion in class brought out some interesting aspects about the book & especially what we are meant to think about dorrigo evans but i still dislike it. 1.5/5

bad blood: secrets and lies in a silicon valley startup, john carreyrou the absolutely wild story of startup/total scam theranos by the investigative journalist who originally exposed their total scamminess. it’s sad that there’s so little insight into elizabeth holmes (steve jobs reborn/scammer in chief) and her motivation but oh well. my fav scene was elizabeth holmes giving every employee a copy of a coelho book & telling them she was starting a religion. 3/5

emma, jane austen another austen that is both incredibly delightful and incredibly frustrating in a lot of ways, which i think is partially intentional (although the intense classism never really gets challenged, just emma’s flawed way of enacting classism) - emma herself is often frustrating, misguided, arrogant, but her situation is so dismal and stifling, so many people around her so dull and wearying and demanding, that i couldn’t help but feel for her. sure, the romance is a bit #problematique, and the classism is a lot, but i think the heart of this is emma trying to find a way to exist in highbury, recognise that a) jane fairfax is great but b) she doesn’t have to be like jane fairfax, and that a) yes, she is responsible for her father but b) her father doesn’t have to be her whole life, and that she probably should just let poor harriet smith do what she gonna do. 4/5

the need, helen phillips i think what this book (and fever dream) really confirmed for me is that if i ever have kids, my ocd will go into infernal nightmare mode. anyway. this is a pretty good, pretty scary thriller about molly, working at an excavation site that seems to hold a lot of fossils and artefacts that are just a lil wrong, while also being stressed as hell about her two young children. the book opens with a truly terrifying sequence, switching from molly at her job to molly putting the kids to bed and hearing something that sounds a lot like an intruder (but she’s probably just paranoid right???). the rest of the book doesn’t quite live up to that, but it’s still pretty cool. 3/5

a storm of swords (asoiaf #3), grrm this book is just one thing after the other, in a really good way, in that every time something big & huge happens you read the next chapter or two and something else big & huge happens. read for handless & noseless the lannister boys, not one or two but three contenders for top post on r/weddingshaming, the infamous arya burrito, jon snow inventing cunnilingus in a cave, vengeance zombies, the most emosh snowcastle ever, and just. feelings everywhere. 5/5 thank you for my life grrm

exquisite cadavers, meena kandasamy kandasamy’s last novel (when i hit you) is a kinda autofiction-y novel, closely based on her own abusive marriage but also a novel & the fact that much of the reception has focused on her own traumatic experiences rather than as her novel as a work of literature frustrated kandasamy, as she says in the author’s note here, so she decided to write a story and include her commentary on how it relates (& doesn’t) to her own life in the margin. but rather than straightforward explanation, the margin notes, told by meena (herself? the author-persona? something else?) become their own story, often going on tangents only tenuously connected with the ‘main’ story. i love this conceit & i think in parts of this book it works really really well & it’s interesting how each part informs your reading of the other & how to read the margins as someone whose academic training & inclination tend toward death of the author (one of the characters dislikes barthes lol). sadly i don’t think there’s not enough meat to the story-part to make it more than an interesting experiment. 3.5/5

currently read a feast for crows (of course) and a brief history of seven killings which is... a bit of a slog to be honest sorry :(

#the books i read #long post

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veliseraptor · 7 years

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Could you talk to us about some of your favorite poets and/or poems? Where/when you first heard them, why they're among your favorites, that sort of thing?

I have such a weird relationship with poetry. I always felt like “oh, I’m just not that into poetry” but the thing is that I really am? Or really can be - when poetry hits me, really hits me where I live, it’s this intense shivery feeling of “oh, you did that” that I associate with very powerful art - music, visual, literature, all of it.

Mary Oliver is one of the poets that I always come back to - so much of her poetry is...it’s about grace, and natural beauty, and finding peace in yourself. I first ran into her actually through the Episcopal Church I used to go to with my family - the lead musician really liked her poetry, and set “At Blackwater Pond” to music. (I wish I could share the song. I don’t think it’s recorded anywhere.)

And the way she uses language is just...I mean, I could probably analyze “Wild Geese” to hell and back talking about why it makes me cry a little every time I read it, but I don’t even know that I want to? It’s those thematics, I think. And now I’m going to quote “Wild Geese” at you:

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.

and I cry.

Another one is W.H. Auden, who I think I was introduced to because of my sister, but also at some point I ran into the poem “The Two”, or “The Witnesses” which if you read it you’ll recognize that I’ve used a bunch of lines from it for titles. It was such a weird, haunting, creepy poem and I love it. And then I read “As I Walked Out One Evening” and the imagery in that one is just...I love it, I really do. And also “Epitaph on a Tyrant”. He’s a very different poet, but his phrases stick in my head. I remember Auden lines even when I can’t remember what the hell poem they were from.

Then there’s Kahlil Gibran who I’m pretty sure came to me direct from @ameliarating and The Prophet is just one of the loveliest, most moving prose poems I’ve ever read. I need to go back and read the whole thing again. I made sort of a text-art thing of my favorite quote from it (which I’ve definitely referenced before):

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

I know I’m not the only one who needs to hear that.

Last but not least on my “poets I actually know are faves by name” is T.S. Eliot, because “The Hollow Men” and “The Waste Land” are my jam, I don’t always like the modernists but when they’re all about broken shattered remnants in the aftermath of world-shattering events...yeah I’m into that. T.S. Eliot may be a dick but he did some cool stuff with words.

And I’m never going to forget

Between the desireAnd the spasm Between the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow

But then there are individual poems that I know that I love always - “Invictus”, for instance, or “Dirge Without Music”; “The Second Coming” by Yeats...or there’s one by Ursula K. LeGuin called “Ars Lunga” that I love...I mean, here is a list I wrote of poems that always make me feel feelings.

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likeafairytale · 1 year

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WOMEN APPRECIATION MONTH: my favorite female character of @icanbeyourgenie at the moment

Ursula, the sea witch

#mine #ursula blackwater #icanbeyourgenie #women appreciation month #don't ask me why #i love her sm #and i knew immediately i will choose her #plus i wanted to do this edit again #and it was the perfect opportunity #and black and purple is so pretty on her #she is so goddaùn pretty y'all #character edit

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icanbeyourgenie · 5 months

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spotify wrap game: 30 + Kaila

maybe now it doesn't matter, but i know fucking better 29 ● DEMI LOVATO

#spotify wrap meme #mine #did i manage to find lyrics that fit for them in a song about grooming?#yeah i did #i love this game so much istg #it's so funny #especially when the song don't fit at all #they do have a lot of daddy issues...#ursula blackwater #ursula x malachai

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Sailing under a different flag – former Royal Navy vessels serving with other navies

With the recent sale of HMS Ocean to Brazil, we take this opportunity to examine the considerable number of RN and RFA vessels that have been sold on for further service with foreign navies and are still operational today.

Upholder class submarines

It is still a source of controversy and regret today but in the early 1990s it was decided to decommission the RN’s 4 conventional Upholder class submarines after just a few years service, as part of the Cold War “peace dividend”. After spending time in storage they were eventually sold to Canada but suffered a tortuous and difficult return to service, not helped by a fatal fire on board HMCS Chicoutimi during her delivery voyage in 2004. It took until February 2015 for the RCN to declare their submarine fleet was operational but the Upholders are now proving to be excellent boats and are deployed globally. HMS Upholder was re-named Chicoutimi and after lengthy repairs commissioned in September 2015. HMS Unseen became HMCS Victoria, HMS Ursula became HMCS Corner Brook and Unicorn became HMCS Windsor.

Ex-HMS Unseen, HMCS Victoria serves in the Pacific fleet. (Photo: Canadian Navy)

Type 23 Frigates

The sale of 3 modern Type 23 frigates was announced in the 2003 and was a precursor to many more cuts to the fleet in the 21st Century. Seen in a wider context, the sacrifice of these ships was partly to help fund the war in Iraq and in part the Treasury’s required ‘pound of flesh’ in return for the eventual order for the QE class aircraft carriers. The ships were converted for Chilean service in Portsmouth between 2006-08. HMS Norfolk recommissioned in 2006 as Almirante Cochrane. HMS Grafton recommissioned as the Almirante Lynch in March 2007 and HMS Malborough recommissioned as the Almirante Condell in May 2008. Lockheed Martin Canada has recently been contracted to replace the combat management system with their CMS 330. According to an unconfirmed Janes report in October 2017, Chile is interested in buying additional second-hand Type 23 frigates after the MoD suggested: “up to five ships may become available for sale”. (It seems likely this plan will be abandoned in the MDP 2018 review currently underway).

Apart from the darker paint scheme, these frigates have had little modification since their RN service. This is ex-HMS Norfolk, Almirante Cochrane seen in the Pacific in 2016. (Photo: US Navy)

Type 22 Batch 1 Frigates

The 4 batch 1 Type 22 Frigates were sold to Brazil between 1995-97. Ex-HMS Broadsword became Greenhalgh, ex-HMS Battleaxe became Rademaker – both continue to serve today. Ex-HMS Brilliant became Dodsworth but was scrapped in 2012 and ex-HMS Brazen became Bosísio but was sunk as target in 2017.

Ex-HMS Battleaxe, Greenhalgh seen alongside HMS Dauntless in Key West, Florida in 2012 (Photo: US Navy).

Type 22 Batch II Frigates

The decommissioning of the 6 very young batch II Type 22s between 1999 -2001 was mired in controversy as the MoD failed to raise much from their sale, HMS Boxer & Brave were sunk as targets, HMS Beaver scrapped and the others sold at knock-down prices amidst a corruption scandal.

Commissioned into the Romanian navy in September 2004, ex-HMS Coventry, ROS Regele Ferdinand was stripped of her Sea Wolf and Exocet and for such a large vessel carries very light armament. Together with her sister, ex-HMS London, ROS Regina Maria, they are frequent participants in NATO Black Sea exercises. (Photo: NATO Marcom)

Sold to Chile in 2003, Ex-HMS Sheffield, Almirante Williams has been significantly modified with Sea Wolf replaced by 2 x 16-cell Israeli Barak VLS, 1 Oto Melara 76mm gun and 8 Harpoon AShM. (Photo: US Navy)

Type 21 Frigates

All 6 surviving Type 21 frigates were sold to Pakistan between 1993-94. Always seen as somewhat under-armed in RN service, they were quickly modernised and upgraded with new weapons and sensors and reclassified by Pakistan as ‘destroyers’. Ex-HMS Amazon, PNS Babur and ex-HMS Alacrity, PNS Badr have now been decommissioned but the remaining 4 ships are still operational.

Ex-HMS Avenger, PNS Tippu Sultan. Note the Chinese made 6-cell LY-60N Hunting Eagle SAM replacing the Exocet launchers below the bridge (Photo: US Navy).

Still fine looking ships, Ex-HMS Active now PNS-Shahjahan. Note the Phalanx CIWS that replaced the obsolete Sea Cat SAM on the hangar roof and the Harpoon AShM launchers instead of the Hunting Eagle fitted to the Tippu Sultan. (Photo US Navy)

Patrol ships

HMS Dumbarton Castle and HMS Leeds Castle were sold to the Bangladesh Navy in April 2010. These ships were upgraded between 2011-14 and given a new sensor fit, 4 Chinese-made C704 anti-ship missiles and an Ak-176 76.2 mm gun. They are now rated as ‘corvettes’.

Ex-HMS Dumbarton Castle, BNS Bijoy and Ex-HMS Leeds Castle, BNS Dhaleshwari take part in a fire-fighting exercise in the Bay of Bengal, December 2017. (Bangladeshi Navy photo)

Five of the six Island Class OPVs were delivered to the Bangladeshi navy between 2002-04. Ex-HMS Lindisfarne became BNS Turag, ex-HMS Shetland became BNS Kapatakhaya, ex-HMS Alderney became BNS Karatoa, ex-HMS Anglesey became BNS Gomati. ex-HMS Orkney was sold to the Trinidad and Tobago Coastguard in 2001 and served as TTS Nelson until she was decommissioned in 2015.

Ex-HMS Guernsey became BNS Sangu, seen here in 2012. (Photo: US Navy)

The 5 RN Peacock class vessels were built to patrol the waters of Hong Kong. When Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1999, 3 of the ships were sold to Indonesia in August 1999 for a bargain $20M. HMS Peacock became BRP Emilio Jacinto, HMS Plover became BRP Apolinario Mabini and HMS Starling became BRP Artemio Ricarte. Indonesia is very happy with the vessels which continue in service with upgrades planned. There were calls for them to be retained for patrolling UK waters but after a period laid up, the remaining two vessels were eventually sold to Ireland in 1989, where they continue to serve. HMS Swallow became LÉ Ciara and HMS Swift became LÉ Orla.

Ex-HMS Plover, BRP Apolinario Mabini, of the Philippine Navy.

Ex-HMS Swallow, LÉ Ciara seen alongside at the Irish Navy’s base at Haulbowline, Cork.

The 12 River class vessels built in the early 1980s were originally designed as minesweepers but were quickly converted to patrol duties and mostly manned by Royal Navy Reservists. In was decided in 1993 that all would be decommissioned and sold off. 4 were sold to Bangladesh, 7 to Brazil and 1 to Guyana. The entire class remain operational with their new owners.

Ex-HMS Humber now named NPa Amorim Do Valle and serving in the Brazilian Navy as an inshore hydrographic survey and buoy tender vessel. (Photo: Diario Portuario via Flickr)

Ex-HMS Blackwater, now called NPa Benevente and classified as a “Small Patrol Corvette” by the Brazilian Navy. (Photo: Santos Shiplovers)

Ex-HMS Helford renamed BNS Shaibal and serving as a hydrographic vessel in the Bangladeshi navy. (Photo: Bangladesh Navy)

Minehunters

In the last decade, the RN has been slowly reducing its fleet of modern plastic-hulled minehunters. These vessels are an attractive proposition for foreign navies and the 3 Sandown class SRMH and 4 Hunt class MCMVs are frequently seen serving in NATO Mine Countermeasures Groups.

HMS Sandown, Inverness and Bridport were sold to Estonia between 2007-09. This is ex-HMS Sandown, EML Admiral-Cowan-Estonia. (Photo: Estonian Navy)

HMS Biscester and Berkeley were sold to Greece in 2011. This is ex-HMS Berkeley, Kallisto. (photo: Hellenic Navy)

After serving as a fisheries Protection vessels in their later years in the RN, HMS Dulverton and Cottesmore were sold to Lithuania in 2011. These ships were returned to their minehunting role, upgraded with Thales Type 2193 sonar and given a 40mm Bofors gun. This is ex-HMS Dulverton, now named Kursis.

Survey vessels

Just one of the Herald Class hydrographic survey vessels built for the RN in the 1960s survives in Indonesian service. 2 of the 5 Bulldog class survey vessels survive but are unrecognisable. Ex-HMS Beagle was completely rebuilt as a motor yacht Titan and ex-HMS Fox has been rebuilt as motor yacht Toy Heaven.

Ex-HMS Hydra, sold to the Indonesian Navy in 1986 now named KRI Dewa Kembar and still listed as active.

Ex-HMS Roebuck was sold to Bangladesh in 2010 and is now called BNS Anushandhan, seen here arriving in Chittagong. To starboard, note the ancient former RN Type 41 frigates which were transferred in 1978 but have now been scrapped. (Photo: Bangladesh Navy)

Auxiliary ships

One of the much-regretted decisions of the 2010 defence review was the sale of RFA Largs Bay to Australia for £65 Million. Costing a very modest £25M per year to run, the 3 remaining ships have proved versatile and able to perform all kinds of tasks beyond their primary amphibious role.

Ex-RFA Largs Bay seen docked down during amphibious exercise Talisman Sabre in 2015, now in service with the Australian Navy and renamed HMAS Choules. (Photo: Royal Australian Navy)

Ex-RFA Sir Bedivere, now renamed NDCC Almirante Saboia. (Note ex-HMS Broadsword, Greenhalgh and British-designed Niterói-class Independência in the background of this image.) Sir Bedivere was built in 1967 but rebuilt and a hull extension inserted during a major Life Extension refit in 1994. She was converted for Brazilian service in Falmouth during 2009.

Ex-RFA Sir Galahad, now called Garcia D’Avila conducting a direct beach landing, something rarely practised by the LSLs when in UK service. Sir Galahad was completed in 1987 as a replacement for her namesake destroyed during the Falklands war. She was sold to Brazil in 2007.

Ex-RFA Blue Rover was sold to the Portuguese Navy in 1993 and renamed NRP Berrio. The Portuguese Navy is currently examining possible replacements for this ship that they only originally planned to keep in service until 2005.

Ex-RFA Green Rover was sold to Indonesia in 1992 and re-named KRI Arun. In March 2018, failure of ballast pumps during a replenishment at sea with hospital ship KRI Dr Soeharso caused a severe list to starboard. Arun was towed to Surabaya and it is expected the ship will be returned to service. (Photo: Indonesian Navy)

HMS Challenger

After a botched and over-budget construction on the Clyde, HMS Challenger was commissioned into the RN as specialist diving and seabed operations vessel in 1983. She was considered an unaffordable ‘luxury’ by short-sighted ministers and was paid off in 1990, having barely shown her potential. She was sold in 1993 and eventually converted to a mining vessel used to extract diamonds from the seabed, being renamed MV Ya Toivo.

Now owned by the De Beers mining Group, the MV Ya Toivo has been significantly re-built including crudely increasing her beam. Only the bridge is vaguely recognisable from her days as HMS Challenger. Ya Toivo features regularly on UglyShips.com

Around the world, the “ex-Royal Navy flotilla” consists of something like, an assault ship, 4 submarines, 12 frigates, 24 patrol vessels, 7 mine warfare vessels, 2 survey vessels and 5 auxiliaries. Sales of surplus vessels can generate useful income for the MoD and strengthen defence relationships but some vessels were valuable assets that were disposed of in haste. In the long run, the National Shipbuilding Strategy suggests that the RN offers its warships for sale to overseas buyers at a younger age and replace them with new vessels, providing regular work for UK shipbuilders.

from Save the Royal Navy http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/sailing-under-a-different-flag-former-royal-navy-vessels-serving-with-other-navies/

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