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FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

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Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

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Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

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Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

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I wish my body was entirely androgynous- I wish it was impossible to distinguish if I’m a woman or a man, and no one could even make assumptions about what my gender is.

also horns would be fucking sick

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the real reason kylo wears his helmet here is because he’s read and is not “too cool” to follow lab safety rules and guidelines, YOU ALWAYS WEAR PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR AND LABCLOAK WHEN WORKING WITH A LIGHTSABER UNLES YOU WANT YOUR EYES TO BE POKEN OUT BY HOT FLYING DEBRIS OR BE INJURED IN SOME OTHER WAY (burnt with sparks &c.)

REY: exposed skin, no eye protetcion, loose strands of hair, long pieces of clothing flying everywhere, doesn’t wear gloves….

KYLO: no exposed skin, DOES wear eye protection, no danger of hair pulling or hair burning, wears a long cloak but keeps it tame and is not endangered by the long piece of fabric, wears gloves… has a safety guard on his lightsaber

I support this reading!

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re-reading some of izzyovercoffee ‘s Mando meta once more, I had a thought.

Many Mandalorians’ armour has mobility aids and the like as part of it.  This can be temporary to aid in post-surgery recovery, or permanent for those with chronic conditions.

Devices like repulsors to keep weight off a damaged hip bone or a way to supply painkillers at the user’s command are rather common - it keeps mandalorians protected, after all. 

That’s what armour’s for.

Headcanon accepted.

In the Republic Commando’s novels there is a fair bit of description of Mandy armor. Including symbols on the helmet that indicate to other mandos when a person wearing or holding the helmet has a battle injury. That way there is no confusion on why that person is slower (physically or mentally) or cannot do certain things. One of the main characters is a clone who gets a severe brain injury and this symbol helps him out on Mandalore, but it is private enough that non-mandos don’t think anything of it.

Yup !! I actually used that as a point of reference in the meta I wrote a bit ago Eye’s referring to. It’s one of my favorite pieces of information out of the entire series because of the implications of that scene and the directions we can go with it as a starting point.

Repulsor technology I actually hadn’t thought about for this type of usage, but now that eyeloch‘s said it, it seems like the best choice (or one of the better choices of options?) because of how easily and widely accessible specifically repulsorlift technology is throughout the galaxy. Even in the more remote regions with minimal tech, we still see vehicles (and droids) powered by repulse engines.

I think the best part about these aids being incorporated into / built in with the armor is that the armor is intended to be programmed with sensitive electronics meant to track vitals (like a super, hyper advanced fitbit lmao) — with the ability to, say, tap into separate chems / stims / meds delivery system. 

Speaking on painkillers, though, I did write a mandalorian who was like a field medic — and they tracked and managed chronic pain through the suit’s systems, tracking what they needed when and adjusting if their vitals read poorly for whatever reason. My point in bringing it up though is that using the armor to do this, especially with careful oversight and attention, one could even use the, say, repulsor tech built into the armor as mobility aids — and then design a physical therapy program around, say, the assistance of the armor. 

I’m just wondering how available that tech might be. The HUD, or general armor systems, might not be as widely available just because of how much experience or expertise is required for maintenance — or, it might be considered a requirement to know since childhood for all mandalorians, because of how integral it is to the community and culture.

Another thing is that repulsorlift technology is way way more accessible than advanced prosthetics, or so it seems like, in the star wars universe. Maybe there’s some use of repulsors to assist or even offset low-tech prostheses until one can receive the more advanced cybertech limbs for attachment — if they are ever able to do so, or even choose to do so.

I’m also thinking about, say, the suit’s systems also calculating safe routes for those with little-to-no situational awareness or depth perception / peripheral vision. ie. someone sometimes has a tendency to veer off a specific path or accidentally walk into traffic due to a visual processing disability, but is something that a service dog would be able to assist with — and I’m suggesting that a HUD built into a helmet that takes that into account and alerts the individual when they’re veering off would make someone’s life so much easier.

Okay wow, this is absolutely amazing, in part because what it’s also saying about the culture. 

They aren’t stigmatizing or abandoning their wounded, crippled, or maimed, if they have this entire system in place to support those wounded in combat. No sidelining, no shame. Now on the surface it does read mainly as support for those whose difficulties are garnered in combat, until you get down to the last paragraph about support for things like processing disabilities. That’s support for people with hindrances that aren’t received in combat too.

I just… really like this whole idea of real support for the wounded and disabled built right into this warrior culture.

Also, this is how you have a real warrior culture! Because if injury or disability knocks you out of participation, then you’re going to have two things happen:

1. People will game the system. They will avoid dangerous combat out of concern that they’ll get hurt and lose out on the chance for status. So they’ll take on as much ‘combat’ as they can without endangering themselves. This is how you end up with deferments for bone spurs.

2. You have a bunch of disenfranchized people on the sidelines not taking any risk at all who are very motivated to subvert the system and value things other than martial prowess. If you have enough people doing that, then you stop being a warrior culture.

I’ve heard enough conflicting stuff about historical warrior cultures that I won’t talk about them as an information source, but easy access to technology to get people into fighting is a big deal. Also relevant and necessary: technology that provides the infrastructure and leisure time required to support a warrior culture that’s accessible to all or nearly all social strata. Historically, someone had to cook, sew, raise children, build homes and roads, farm, manage livestock, etc. to support someone else whose only contribution to the community was being a badass. Idolization of the warrior class is no more than worship of the wealthy and powerful.

But! Star Wars allows us to posit a society where everyone can be wealthy and powerful, even those who have been dealt a bad hand in the way of disability, injury, or other physical differences.

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If there were fire fighting systems in Star Wars universe… ;

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I cannot believe we’re still tearing Cinderella down! 2018 only has a few months left and we’re still doing this, we’re still painting her as the weakest Disney princess and we’re still painting her weakness as a bad thing?

Why?

Why are people so caught up on bashing this princess?

“The movie is so simplistic—”

In what way is it possibly simplistic?!

“She didn’t work hard—”

YES, SHE DID!

“Well, okay, but the fairy godmother still had to come in—”

Yep, I remember the movie too, and the countless stories on which it’s based.

“So the fairy godmother was the one who caused the happily ever after.”

She sure was, now, what’s your point?

No, really, what’s your point? Is the point that Cinderella is somehow weak because she wasn’t 100% in control of her own life? Seems like a pretty disgusting opinion to have when the whole movie is about an abuse victim finding a way out of her horrible situation. So Cinderella wasn’t the one who got herself out. So what? Instead of looking the movie at its bare surface, maybe try analyzing it with a bit more thought and tact. You might see something a little different. A magical transformation, if you will.

Because Cinderella did work hard.

And guess what we learned from that?

You can work

and work

and work

And there will still be people out there who will try to tear you apart:

Literally.

And that sucks. It’s a horrible lesson to learn but it is something we will all face in our lifetimes. There will always be people who will try to tear us down, there will always be people who will try to rip us apart, until we’re in a low place:

Until it seems like there’s no hope…

Until it seems like you’re too weak to get out on your own…

And maybe you are.

Maybe you are too weak to get out on your own. Maybe you’re not the strongest woman in the world. Maybe you’re not capable of screaming at the top of your lungs or brandishing a weapon or throwing a punch. Maybe you’re not able to get out of something on your own. Maybe you hit a low point and maybe you have no way out of it. Not alone. But that’s just it.

You’re not alone.

Even at your lowest point, someone will come help you.

You don’t have to do it all alone.

It’s okay to have a little help when you have nowhere else to turn.

Cinderella is the story about an abuse victim who is unable to get out of her toxic situation by herself and just when she begins to lose all hope, is able to get help from an unlikely source. It’s the story about a girl who needs help getting to her happily ever after and that’s okay. 

Give us advocates:

They deserve their happily ever afters!

Give us warriors:

They deserve their happily ever afters!

Give us fighters:

They deserve their happily ever afters!

Give us girls who are not advocates, girls who are not warriors, girls who are not fighters, girls who still deserves their happily ever afters:

This reminds me of that quote that Mr. Rogers said his mother told him: “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

YOU might be the magical fairy godmother in someone’s life and not even know it. Something you said to somebody could have saved their life, or given them the courage to ask for help.

I kept waiting for this point to be made but it didn’t get made so I guess I gotta make it:

Cinderella was not a warrior, or a fighter, or an advocate, or an adventurer.

Cinderella was a survivor.

She survived her situation (even finding/making moments of happiness for herself when she could) until help came. OP said people argue the fairy godmother saved Cinderella but idk. It feels like she saved herself. Sometimes saving yourself means putting one foot in front of the other over and over again, even when it sucks, until you have survived long enough to take an opportunity that comes your way to get out. Sometimes that opportunity is a tool, or an event. Sometimes it is a person. The point is that she survived long enough to be there to do something about it when she was given the chance.

Maybe people don’t see that as particularly… Idk, great or big or brave or anything, but I’d bet dollars if you ask anyone that’s been there before, they’ll tell you differently. It takes a lot. It means a lot to have that kind of hero represented too.

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This is very true. I met a baby at my old store whose name was Navajo. I did my best and actually got a bit frustrated because there was a syllable I could NOT get, and her dad was like “it’s very hard if you don’t actually speak Diné, but thank you. Most people won’t even try.”

Be the one who tries.

symptomofsin:

there are over 2000 unique phonemes (individual sounds) in the world’s languages, and each language has anywhere from around 20 to 60. you stop learning new phonemes it’s theorized at around age 12. this is where accents come from – using your own language’s/region’s phonemes to speak

so no name is impossible to pronounce world-wide, but it is very easy to not have the linguistic archive necessary to pronounce a given name entirely correctly. it is a simple case of physically not knowing where to place your tongue, whether or not to vibrate your vocal chords, etc. the only one of the dictators of sound you could be shown is how to position your lips

that being said… obviously you should still try. saying a name as correctly as you physically can goes a long way for making someone feel respected and humanized, and dismissing a name entirely as too hard goes a long way to disrespect and dehumanize people. just also accept that someone’s accent interfering with their pronunciation isn’t a sign of lack of trying, but a sign of physical limits

sleepbby:

PSA: no name is impossible to pronounce. no name is too hard to learn, no name is justifiably butchered. kids with ‘different’ names should be taught again and again that being called by their name is a right, not a privilege

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Indigenous people in Attawapiskat cannot drink their water or bathe themselves, and haven’t been able to for weeks. They called a state of emergency.

What is Justin Trudeau’s response?

1 litre per day of water for kids under 2 years old. 1.5 litres per elder. The Tribal council must pay for this water in advance before they can be reimbursed next month.

This is shameful.

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1. If you’re not Canadian just sharing this post and following this blog will help.

Also follow these other Canadian Politics blogs and share their posts too:

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2. If you are Canadian, there is a Federal Election in October. Vote for NDP. They’re the only party who has given a damn about what is going on in Attawapiskat. As far as I can tell the NDP is the only party to even visit Attawapiskat this month. Volunteer and donate too.

3. If you are Canadian, write to the PM, Minister of Indigenous Affairs and your member of Parliament and demand that they help this community. Find your MP here:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members

Here’s your regular reminder that just because he produces pseudo feminist sound bites, doesn’t mean our prime minister isn’t a steaming pile of human excrement. Vote NDP.

In case y'all are wondering who is running for Prime Minister in the NDP group, his name is Jagmeet Singh.

He

-supports a progressive tax system

-supports eliminating several tax deductions available to the highest-income earners and redirect the money to low-income seniors, workers and disabled Canadians

-supports a $15/hour minimum wage

-supports a universal pharmacare system (our free healthcare is being challenged right now in ontario under doug ford who wants to create premium healthcare for the rich)

-is a strong advocate for equality amongst poc and lgbt groups

-wants to put a federal ban on carding as it is a systematic form of racism

-wants to ban handguns in individual cities should a crisis occur (yes they are legal here)

-believes the RCMP should complete LGBTQI2S+ competency training" to ensure interactions with law enforcement are not stigmatizing or traumatizing.

-supports more inclusive shelter and transitional housing spaces for lgbt kids

-advocates for Health Canada conducting research on the health care needs and experiences of LGBTQ patients and advocates for policy changes allowing people to self-declare their gender.

-supports immediately repealing the de facto BAN ON BLOOD, TISSUE AND ORGAN DONATION by men who have sex with men and trans women who have sex with men.

-wants to reduce the carbon emissions levels of Canada to 30% of 2005 levels by 2025

-supports creating more accountability in climate change policy by creating an independent officer of parliament mandated to report on interim progress on emission reductions

-supports decriminalizing possession of all drugs and treating drug use as a medical issue rather than a criminal issue

-advocates for free contraceptives for women

-FIRED a man in his party who was charged with sexual assault allegations after he would not complete a rehabilitation program in sensitivity training

And there is SO MUCH MORE

Listen y'all I don’t love getting political on here but honest to god vote in your riding for your NDP candidate. People are scared to vote for them because of the cuts in work hours they instituted last time they were in office but that was FIFTEEN years ago under a different leader.

If a conservative leader is voted in that gives so much power to federal leaders like premier doug ford who mind you

-cut funds to OSAP a grant and loan system based in ontario to help university students of low income families pay for their education (last year I received enough money to almost pay my full tuition, this year I am receiving loans that dont even cover half of my school year. He has also erased the 6 month grace period to pay them back

-He has allowed graphic anti abortion billboards to be posted in Toronto (I will not be posting a picture but if you are curious there are pictures circulating. It has severely affected many women particularly those who have suffered from miscarrages)

-he has eliminated an ontario arts council which was established under the Indigenous Culture fund

-proposed ending the transition child benefit which helps low income families on welfare feed and clothe their kids

-CUT 70% OF PROVINCIAL FUNDING TO THE ANISHINABEK FISHERIES RESOURCE CENTER

-cut annual funding on stem cell research

-Cut: An unclear amount of funding from violence against women shelter services

-increased class sizes of elementary, middle and high schools (up to 40 kids I believe) and is making high school kids retain ONLINE credits OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL HOURS ON TOP OF HOMEWORK AND BANNING ELECTRONICS IN SCHOOLS

and that’s just the tip of the iceberg I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of information

To find out who the NDP candidate is in your riding (because yes if you’re not Canadian or have not voted before Canadian’s vote for the MP candidate in their area not for the Prime Minister themselves and whichever group has the most people voted in from a.certain group dictates who the Prime Minster will be) you can go to this website

https://www.ndp.ca/your-riding

and learn more about the MP in your area.

Please my fellow Canadians our election is held this year on OCTOBER 21ST YET NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT. Not voting will not solve our problems. VOTE and please consider voting for you NDP candidate.

I never thought we would turn into the states

Then you haven’t been paying attention at all to Indigenous people.

These issues are not new. Canada has been ignoring and mistreating Indigenous communities like Attawapiskat for centuries.

Canada is a nation built on colonialism and that colonialism at no point has actually stopped.

Voting will happen SOON, in just a few days now! Signal boost the shit out of this and help the NDP win! Please!

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who else is in the mood to walk barefoot over the moors in a blood-red velvet ballgown w anguish in ur soul and wet leaves in ur hair while the wind blows moodily and dramatically?

can we all get mcdonalds afterwards

we all deserve it so yes absolutely. my treat

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An autistic 16 year old for the record!

No, it wasn’t.

Greta Thunberg is AWESOME, but she stands on the backs of Native people who have been fighting her fight for DECADES, and longer, and fighting it with NVDA (non-violence direct action). In her own words, she is one of the lucky ones, whereas Native people in North, Central, and South America have been at the forefront of this fight with the most risk and the most to lose despite overall having the least harmful impact on the environment.

The media has been ignoring Native voices and actions in the climate battle.

Greta is being paid more attention to because she is white, she is European, and her activism and work while excellent, are not NVDA. It’s protests and talking to politicians.

Greta has done a shit ton of work, but she did not make this happen on her own. Let’s credit and help the Native people who have been doing so much work for so fucking long with complete and utter silence from non-Native folks. The attention being paid to Greta (while leaders still do jack shit to solve the crisis) and not to Native people is racist, period.

Yeah, I hate to be a party pooper but she’s also essentially a manufactured climate messiah and there is extensive evidence to the effect that her very first day, when it was just her, was already at that time backed by an environmental tech startup called We Don’t Have Time that has links to Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, 350.org, Avaaz, Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) (which is just scratching the surface of her financial and organizational backing from before day one of her very first climate protest of one). 

Seriously, it’s a long read but if you have the time I’d highly recommend giving that link a look-see. I love the idea of someone who is on the spectrum and a young girl spearheading everything from a grassroots level, but the fact is she’s been corporate backed since before she ever took time off school to sit alone with protest signs. 

There are particular kinds of “solutions” that the groups linked to We Don’t Have Time would like to proffer, all of them with maintaining power structures in the face of climate crises as a larger goal than actually addressing the root causes of the climate crises coming down the pipe. 

Figureheads are great, but change takes all of us. And frankly in the face of extinction as an alternative I will take corporate backed climate change action over no climate change action.

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The world turned against Ben Solo. He thought his uncle tried to kill in his sleep and to defend himself he destroyed the temple. His friends didn’t believe him, blamed him for the murder of their master and hunted him. Then later he was blamed for the murder of his friends. His father and mother never knew the truth about what really happened to him. He run away to his abuser because his was lost and afraid. He was alone.

I am so contrary! I really bet I would be the biggest of Kylo stans if it wasn’t that it felt like everybody else was doing it for me. I mean, yeah, what we’ve got now is “grew up with parents who were too busy for him, passed off to an uncle who tried to kill him, driven away by masked scary people from staying there and demanding an explanation. Under influence from a manipulative dark lord from infancy. Ran to Snoke when it seemed he had no-where else to turn, spent five years in a paramilitary cult where he despised everyone, with no one to rely on but his abusive master…”

That would totally move me, if I wasn’t so deeply aware that it was supposed to. You know? When reveals of Kylo’s backstory are supposed to make him sympathetic whereas reveals of Hux’s backstory are supposed to make him seem unsalvageable? It doesn’t work like that for me. I experience media in too much of a meta way.

It’s like I’m deliberately looking for the character that other people despise so I can find the good things in them - and if too many people also support them, I can’t.

I really do wish that my mind didn’t work this way. I would enjoy stories so much more wholeheartedly, in a way that their creators want me to enjoy them.

But it doesn’t, and so my response to this is to say “Oh wtf? Are we going to learn that it was Han who killed himself on the bridge next? Are we going to be told that Kylo never did anything wrong in his life and all that black clothing and shouting is just for the aesthetic?”

If you want me to invest in a villain, have the f’ing courage to make him a villain, why don’t you?

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Saw this cool bug in the graveyard but I’m no good with identifying things of the bug variety.

That’s some sort of Fae. Offer it milk in a shallow bowl and fresh steel cut oats with cream and butter.

Finally someone gives me a straight answer. Cicada this and cicada that, I knew there had to be more to it.

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I’m sorry but now I’m just laughing XDD

the guy who tried to sell Obi-Wan space drugs was named Sleezebaggio

And the spacer drugs were called death sticks.

jesse is a gift

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Space Is Not That Cool When The Ocean Is Already Full of Weird Shit

Does the Ocean have GIANT SPINNING BALLS THAT EMITE RADIATION?

no, but it has this thing!

Don’t forget about this other thing!

and these things!

i really like this thing!

I love the holographic special editions!

Come down the trenches! We have

Plastic bags

Old Man McGregor

Sea Swine

Underwater Lipstick

This Geek

Sheepshead Fish because Peopletoothed Fish was taken

A dick

Seizure machines

Seamus who I met at a Rave in downtown Seattle once.

Cosmic Brain if nothing was going on in there

And Much Much More

Literally what is going on at the bottom of the ocean

That’s what happens when life is unsupervised

Clearly no one gives a flying fuck about body type and facial symmetry under the sea and that’s the kind of life I’m ready for tbh

Fuck the moon, the bottom of the ocean is haunted

navy employee: oh hey u guys are back early

oceanographer: trenches’ haunted

navy employee: what?

oceanographer: *loading a pistol and getting back in the submarine* trenches’ haunted.

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you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put ‘you absolute’ in front of it

example: you absolute coat hanger

as well u can just add ‘ed’ to any object and it’s sounds like you were really drunk

example: i was absolutely coat hangered last night

#i was gazeboed mate #i was absolutely baubled

Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).

Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.

… huh.  I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.

I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.

Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.

“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”

Something is

Something is wrong with our language

Is it a glitch or a feature?

Feature

we don’t have anything like this in French and it offers a range of expressibility that I wish we could properly translate back. it is a feature, i concur

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Not to be all confrontational but if you can read the Watch series without recognizing that Carrot (who starts out as a sixteen year old) learns as much or more from Vimes than Vimes ever does from him, your close reading needs some work. 

Vimes is the reason that Carrot is not the most disturbing and terrifying force that the City has ever seen, and the best part is that he literally has zero power over Carrot that is not 100% based in moral suasion. And without that - without the things that Vimes has taught him and the ethics that Vimes brings to the table - Carrot would very, very quickly have turned into a horror-show, and the worst kind of horror-show, because his charisma and Destiny would mean that people would want to obey him. 

And this was going to be a quick ranty-post but shit, here, have a huge essay instead. 

Keep reading

Hyup. This. Vimes spends the whole series learning - or at least, having his idea of who should be included among the People whom he serves and protects challenged on a regular basis - but not from Carrot.

I’m not sure I totally agree. Carrot is fundamentally a good person. Vimes is a positive influence and a mentor, but Carrot doesn’t follow him blindly. Carrot chooses to follow Vimes because Vimes is a good role model for many things. But without Vimes Carrot wouldn’t turn into a mad king. Carrot is genuinely good and part of that is that he chooses to follow and learn from good influences. Vimes absolutely has an impact on Carrot, but let’s not downplay Carrot’s role.

There is a reason we have the saying “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” 

Being “a fundamentally good person” is not actually something that exists. You can have a fundamentally well-intentioned person, but the actual “being a good person” is based on what you do. It is based not only on your intentions in your actions, but also their results, your awareness of the results, your decisions and what motivates them. 

Carrot spends a huge chunk of Men At Arms being an absolute racist twit about the undead while speaking directly to Angua, a werewolf. He does it because he doesn’t know better, but absolutely no part of his “fundamentally good person”ness stops him, at any point, from literally telling a werewolf that he wishes the undead “would just go back to where they came from”, or that the undead aren’t “our kind of people”, or that he just doesn’t like them. 

When he first discovers Angua is a werewolf he literally draws his weapon on her. 

Carrot’s initial comments on discovering that Cheery Littlebottom is in fact Cheri  Littlebottom and has decided to assert her gender is to act like she’s just shat on the carpet, and includes being horrified and offended, saying “I’ve got nothing against females, I’m pretty sure my stepmother is one” and “[other female dwarves] have the decency not to show it.” 

And as noted, in Jingo he comes very close to literally going off to use his charisma to wade into the middle of wars he knows nothing about to Fix Everything, and let me tell you, if you don’t know why the White Saviour complex is a bad thing - ! 

And even by the point of Thud! Carrot thinks the way to solve the whole “the dwarf and troll officers are quitting” thing is to make it so dwarf and troll officers don’t have to patrol together! …..to impose racial segregation in policing. Aka “the technique best guaranteed to result in police abuse of vulnerable citizens.” Without Vimes nixing it, this would have been the view of Captain Carrot. 

That would have gone GREAT, right? 

Carrot is a fundamentally honest, honourable, generous and well-intentioned person. 

Absolutely no part of that is going to stop him from committing or causing major evil in the world, because of his reality-warping Destiny and Charisma. Because ethics are actually more fucking complicated than that, and intentions are only necessary, not sufficient. 

He would never intend to be an evil king. But that means fuck all: the combination of ignorance, self-righteousness (and Carrot DEFINITELY has that problem sometimes) and power would result in evil being the outcome. 

What makes Carrot as much of an actual good person as he is? 

Is that when he’s wrong about the undead, he stops acting like that. And when Angua smacks him upside the head about being an ass about Cheri, he eventually shuts up about it. 

And he chose very good role models to actually imitate, including - significantly - Vimes, so when Vimes says “don’t be a fucking idiot” about going off to Save Klatch, Carrot doesn’t do it. 

Carrot is absolutely an active part of that process: Carrot chose who to take as his model, Carrot chose who got to put words in his head based on what he saw as the good that Vimes did. It didn’t happen by fiat, and it didn’t happen because Vimes actively intervened: it happened because Carrot the sixteen year old looked at Vimes and SAW someone who was good and decided “I want to be like that.” 

But Carrot’s choices to learn, choices to have the humility to realize when he fucked up, choices to keep trying, and his choices in deciding who he wants to be like? That’s what makes him good. And we are given in-text, specific examples of times when his “fundamental goodness” is vastly insufficient to keep him from holding horrible opinions/beliefs and working his way up to do extreme harm. 

All this, plus I also can’t help but think of Gaspode’s reasoning in Fifth Element, specifically wondering if Carrot really is as straightforward and ignorant of his effect on others as they tend to think he is. With specific reference to Gavin saving Carrot from Wolfgang and getting killed in the process.

I believe that Carrot came into Ankh Morpork thinking he was or wanting to be a Good Person. Fortunately, for him this means paying attention to what that means. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see if what you’re doing is good or bad when everyone’s response to you is to just go with your flow. Enter Sam Vimes.

Not only is Vimes the way he is without direct prompting from Carrot, he was that way before Carrot came along and he’s that way when not in Carrots presence.* Further, Sam Vimes seems perhaps a bit too stubborn to be affected by Carrots Charisma very much.** More than anything this is what makes Carrot pay attention to who Vimes is as it gives him reason to think he’s doing something wrong. Now, there are other people who appear to avoid the worst of the effects of Carrots aura, but they dont appear to have the moral compass that Vimes does. Maybe Carrot decided to listen to Vimes because he felt Vimes’ compass pointed north, as it were, or maybe not. I think it’s a combination of a little bit of that and mostly the imprinting OP mentioned.

*Carrots charisma has been noted to wear off after a while (it still has lasting effects of course)

**I think pretty much the only time we see Vimes actually fall away to a direct command from Carrot is the aforementioned gonne situation and that was pretty clearly because Carrot played on Vimes’ identity as a watchman, rather than just plain charisma.

This was ringing bells to me, and I was trying to remember what I recently read that had that same kind of theme. 

It starts off looking like “angry old person has lost their idealism and is trying to shit on a bright shiny youth and take away their hope”,
but as time goes on it turns out that it’s actually
“angry old person has actually seen enough to completely warrant being angry
but
despite having entirely lost their idealism has not lost their ideals
but
has thoroughly internalized the fact that the world is complicated and that what seems like a great solution when looked at from a simple idealistic perspective may in fact be the kind of thing that leads to exactly the things that caused them to lose their idealism
and therefore
is continuously telling the bright shiny youth that they need to stop charging ahead and if they can’t stop and think for a second before they do something then they should bloody well stop doing anything at all“

… it was Witches Abroad.  This same dynamic plays out with Granny Weatherwax and Magrat. 

There are lots of parallels between Vimes and Esme.

However, Vimes does something Esme doesn’t, which is actually bothers to teach what he knows.

This is something Esme actually gets rightfully called out on by Agnes (and to some extent Pastor Oats) in particular and which she’s aware enough by the time she’s invested in Tiffany that she very explicitly and deliberately finds Tiffany other teachers because the best that she can do is let someone hang around her and attempt to learn from example (which is itself actually quite difficult, because she deliberately lies and obfuscates about what she’s doing and why).

When Carrot starts to wax about how good things could be when there were kings, in Men At Arms, Vimes not only says HELL NO, he then spends the next several pages explaining at length and in detail WHY kings are a bad idea. It’s not necessarily the most coherent explanation, but he’s trying.

When Magrat makes noises about wishing the world good, Esme insults her and tells her she’s a stupid useless child and Magic Is Bad - and then goes on to use magic, because (as Gytha observes in that very book) Esme excludes herself from her own proclamations.

We figure out WHY that is, through Lords and Ladies, and through Maskerade and especially and above all through Carpe Jugulum: it’s because she’s always been bad at people, at liking and interacting with people, and she’s lonely, and afraid of her own power, and afraid not only that people dislike her and hold her in contempt but (and this is the worst part) that they’re RIGHT to do so, and she’s never allowed herself to rely on or connect with anybody and she doesn’t TRUST anybody to have her back.

She thinks it’s much more likely - even after all those years, even after Wyrd Sisters and how hard the other two have stuck with her, and after Lords and Ladies and the fact that Magrat ever forgave her for her (bluntly) high handed BS, even after ALL of it - that Magrat explicitly did not invite her to the naming of her daughter, than it is that maybe something just happened to the invite.

And the thing is:

I empathize with Esmerelda Weatherwax so effing hard, man. I know exactly what it feels like when you’re in that moment. When you can’t actually bring yourself just to go down there (or even to storm down there and demand where your invitation got to, what is with this? or even ASK?), despite everything, despite years, because you’re pushy and bossy and loud and abrupt and unpleasant and despite everything maybe they have all just been waiting for you to figure it out and go away, and were too scared to tell you.

As Oats observes, Esme needs someone to beat, or else she beats herself.

But the result is that Esme, whatever her sterling qualities as a witch and as a defender of the world against the shit witches defend against, and all that, is a fuck-awful teacher. And Wyrd Sisters is honestly the perfect example of that.

And the contrast of Esme’s refusal to even discuss with Magrat why the things she says are so, vs Vimes LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING BOY - ! is a good contrast to look at. And moreover I think it’s one that Esme herself would look at: I think there’s a REASON that her response to discovering Tiffany was to send Tiffany around to OTHER witches, ones who WERE better at actually, you know, engaging with people, and being an example rather than a teacher. And I think that was a good call.

Which is the other thing I love about Esme: she DOES figure that out. And it might be too late for her to radically change, but she can at least be AWARE of that and adjust around it.

Vimes had advantages that Esme lacked - Vimes was part of the Watch, which taught its members to work together, because they had to rely on each other.

Witch society discouraged cooperation, and taught its members that competition against all other witches was Just How Things Are Done. 

And when Young Sam was in danger of becoming the worst sort of Watchman, Old Sam arrived and taught him what sort of Watchman he needed to be. 

Esme had to learn what sort of Witch she wanted to be all on her own, without help from anyone, because back when she was Young Esme showing any sign of weakness to the other Witches would result in social ruin and the destruction of her livelihood. 

When Young Sam felt the darkness begin boiling inside him, Old Sam was there to teach him how to leash it in, and to trust in others to help him do it when he needed it - and how to tell who was worthy of that sort of trust.

Esme, whether because of an inborn moral sense or just because she was so contrary that her sister choosing to become a Bad Witch meant that she had to become a Good Witch to spite her, saw no choice but to keep her darkness locked away in the deepest, most remote corners of her soul, and she had to keep everyone at arm’s distance or further because if anyone ever got too close, they might see the inmost self that she was afraid might be hers. And she couldn’t even trust herself - instead, she had to rely on an absolute certainty that everything was black and white, never grey, because grey was just a lighter and more palatable shade of black.

Yup. Which is again tied up in why I think how she handled Tiffany thru to I Shall Wear Midnight* is very indicative of the part where she realized that this entire model fucked her up. 

I don’t think the process is finished, mind, as Tiffany is still a bit hyper concerned with Independence in ISWM but even so a lot of the explicit plot of that one is “guess what: try to do everything alone and you’ll LITERALLY FAIL”. 

And otherwise not only is Tiffany’s generation of witches more actively, deliberately social and mutually supportive than Esme and Gytha’s, but Annagramma (who is actually the one closest to Esme in behaviour and personality, just having found Eawig as her Mentor) is the explicit benefactress of that support. 

Which is to say: they actively and deliberately avoid creating another Esme (and worse, an Esme who WOULDN’T have been as good at being a good witch and so much likelier to go the way of Lily.) 

I think specific bits of Maskerade (namely: Agnes calling her RIGHT OUT in SO MANY WORDS - “I’d rather be someone else’s voice than a sour old woman with no friends who’s just a bit cleverer than everyone, bullying people all the time” - right when she was in fact realizing how small her world could be) and all of Carpe Jugulum (and arguably The Sea and Little Fishes) forced Esme to actually recognize the huge, gaping flaws in how things went and not want this new, hyper-bright girl she’d just found who went off to rescue her brother from the Fairie Queen to get stuck with them. And to try to manage things so that it might go differently. 

(There’s also a lot to be said about the NATURE of existing in a city, as Vimes must, vs being able to be the Old Witch Out In The Woods in a rural context: when there’s six people to one room flat, you want to get anything done you HAVE to cooperate and work in supportive groups. There’s hella downsides to that, too! But.) 

(*the last book I don’t really include, because among other things it really was unfinished when Pterry died and thanks to him being contrary we can’t even quite know HOW much difference there would be between a draft at that point of completion and an actual Finished Book because he destroyed all his drafts after publication. Which is entirely a legit thing for him to do, but results in things being Opaque.) 

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Yes, we all know that Amazon is evil, but y’all need to fucking understand that they have what is essentially a fucking monopoly on ebook publishing, and indie authors rely on them in order to make ANY money.

I am a queer, transgender, disabled author. Please don’t boycott my book just because it’s published through Amazon. You’re not sticking it to capitalism, you’re personally fucking over ME.

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This is a Leopard Seal

It is called that cause it has spots, like a Leopard (it’s spots don’t look anything like the spots on leopard) There are other seals that also have spots that aren’t leopard seals

^ Not a leopard seal, you can tell by the fact it’s cute! Most seals look like Mermaid Dogs with cute puppy heads

Leopard Seals do not have cute heads, their heads are shaped weirdl like a dragon or a shark. 

That’s probably cause use their faces heads to eat penguins

The inside of their mouths are very scary looking 

We know this because they think that a camera is an open mouth, and so when they see a camera guy they think they’re supposed to open their mouth too 

“Don’t open your mouth at me, my mouth is bigger see, what’s your problem strange shaped big mouthed bro”

At one point a leopard seal decided the camera guy had his “mouth” open because he was hungry and tried to bring him food

And kept bringing penguins, first live penguins, then slow injured penguins, then dead penguins in the hopes that camera guy would be able to eat “I all ready killeded it for you, your mouth is open, just eat the penguin” 

“What if I just put it in your mouth for you.”

Leopard Seals also like music, in the wild, Leopard Seals sing underwater to find other seals since they live so far away from each other, during mating season both males and females sing to find a mate, 

They are not kept in captivity, but a zoo in Taronga rescued one after he was attacked by a shark and washed up on the beach wounded, sick, and far from home, so when seal in their zoo sang they tried to sing back

They may not be cute like other seals

And their faces still look weird even as babies.

But they’re nice in their own way (as long as you’re not a penguin)

Or unlucky enough to be attacked by one, because are large predators (and probably in the 10 ten in terms of deadly ocean creatures) and they don’t live near humans and have no idea what people are…so there have been a few attacks.

But even if wouldn’t want to pet them, it’s pretty cool these clever, singing, IRL sea monsters exist. 

acapellainferno: “DIGNITY”: Chile has

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Let the fear burn

Reference to Pinochet's coup d'état‎

Never again military in the streets. We're all the evasion.

"Smile! And give your best face"

my dreams don't have a price

I have more anger than money to buy bread

acapellainferno:

“DIGNITY”: Chile has had enough

We’re not protesting because of the subway ticket price (”it’s not 30 pesos, it’s 30 years!” as we scream in the streets), that’s just was the last straw:

We’ve been feeling anger and humiliation for years, and last week, the “pressure cooker” finally exploted thanks of this rise in the subway tickets which made high schoolers around the city say “fuck this” and deciding not to pay the subway anymore under the motto “Evade! Do not pay! (it’s) another way to fight!”

Little by little, the university students and adults (even the elderly) joined the cause, to the point the capital stopped working normally, and due to the government’s ineffectiveness in handling the situation, we ended up in this chaos.

This has no political party, this has no leader: This is an act of dignity.

Years of hoping the government will do something for: The education system (you only get good education if you have money), healthcare system (people die waiting for attention everyday in the public hospitals, in some, there is not even enough medicine or doctors), public transport system (expensive, terrible service), the rise in water and electricity bills (yes, they’re private!!!), pensions (old people commit suicide because they have no money to live, or worse, have some, but the pension system (AFPs) won’t give them THEIR OWN MONEY BACK WHEN IN NEED), collusions, corruption (our president is a thief and the rest of the politicians as well… and they want us to pay those expensive tickets without even explaining to us why did they rise it? they can fuck off), the indigenous people being mistreated and even murdered by police, the murder of activists, poverty, drugs, etc… and nothing, in fact, for years it has feel like they’ve been making fun of all of us.

They’re absolutely disconnected from the reality of the rest of the country. It’s as if there were two countries in one.

And now, our president said we “were at war“.

The same thing Pinochet used to said back in the 70s/80s.

The military is on the streets right now, there is a curfew in many parts of the country (which hundreds of people are not respecting, protesting even harder on the streets in those dangerious hours).

All while there is not public transportation, because many of the subway’s station were set on fire (to make it worse, there are serious suspicions (videos) that the fires were made by the police).

This shit is terrifying.

Please support the people in Chile!

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This is the Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 and was recovered from the ocean in 1961, almost completely intact. This is the only remaining intact ship from the 1600’s. This ship is housed in The Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dear Lord, I thought at first it was a miniature. Nope.

OMG how can you post the Vasa without saying the reason it’s so in tact is that it’s so ridiculously badly designed that it sank immediately after setting sail for the first time???

solrosan! This is up your alley!

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TLJ Parallels (10/??)

Sad, shirtless, sympathetic bad boys

MUOIO

Honestly, I was so happy the Rancor Beast Master survived Jabba’s sail barge and found a job again in Chuck Wendig’s aftermath novels. He deserved to have a second chance.

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I’m not a great person to ask since I’ve been working on a single story since, like, March, and I’m still only about 30,000 published words in… but so far my only advice is to not be afraid to write shit.

Just, write some absolute garbage bullshit that you hate and think is awful. Write a bunch of trash. Then, later, you can go back and dumpster-dive for the good stuff and you’ll be surprised how much of what you thought was terrible actually has potential, and that spark can help you keep going. Maybe some of the garbage isn’t actually BAD, it’s just better-used in a different story, so you can go and plagiarize yourself at another time.

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I found this gem on facebook, it was a public post 😂

Legends are born every day

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hedgehog-moss:

I like to think there is a parallel universe where reading comment sections is known as a soothing pastime because everyone on the parallel Internet is as kind and polite as the commenters on yourdailypoem.com:

After you’ve been steeped in online culture for a while, it’s genuinely hard to summon up the vulnerability and honesty to leave comments like this.  But it’s worth doing when you see something that you love, or that speaks to a good part of yourself.

tag yourself I’m “So easy to picture this wonderful bird!”

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“I AM the First Order.”

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All people with blue eyes can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea less than 10,000 years ago. Source Source 2

Now when I see a person with blue eyes, I’ll know they’re a descendant of Ocean-Eyed Slut Man.

You leave great grandpa ocean-eyed slut man alone, he was just living his life

Actually, since this was determined using mitochondrial DNA, the ocean-eyed slut would be a woman, not a man. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down by mothers.

Gram-gram knew how to party

dear ocean eyed party gram-gram thank u for spreading your weird eye mutation and giving every fanfic writer a reason to know an unholy amount of synonyms for the word ‘blue’.

All Hail Grandmother Cerulean Orbs

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The most beautiful thing I have  heard all day and you have the opportunity to hear it too.

One of my faves that was lost to the internet is back

does anyone know the name of this instrument and possibly the source of this video?

it’s a hang drum :)

Everytime I see this I reblog.

It’s called “Hang” and was actually invented in 2000 by two swiss people in Bern, Switzerland. “Hang” means “Hand” or “Hillside”.

https://youtu.be/AmgQKJxJsco

Wow, this is beautiful. Actually helped some stress I was feeling at the moment as well. Truly magnificent

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Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

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Oh NO.

me, a sheltered noblewoman: Pray who is that brave knight?

Dame Archer:*turns around*

me: gasp! *instantly in love*

Alicia Archer

my bi heart………

I’VE NEVER SEEN THE ADDED PICS

Ah heck, reposting again for some more A. Archer goodness:

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This final picture will make you 300% gayer:

[dies in gay swordsexual]

does she know how many women are in love with her right now. 

Ok, you’ve all convinced me to get Tumblr. lol Hello all, nice to make your acquaintance. :) I love the comments, totally made my day. <3 

OH MY GOSH IT’S HER

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Hermione has some moments that are pretty darn relatable in Prisoner of Azkaban… 😬 

A big shoutout to my patrons for voting for me to make a comic of a scene that wasn’t in the books! They suggested I try drawing a scene that was mentioned, but never shown, so I drew this scene of Hagrid helping Hermione through a particularly rough time in PoA! I hope you guys enjoy! 😊

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More HP Comics  – Obliviate, my HP comic zine, is also restocked on Etsy!

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and-then-bam-cassiopeia:

LUCAS. The United States, especially the media, is eating its own tail. The media has a way of leveling everything in its path, which is not good for a society. There’s no respect for the office of the Presidency. Not that we need a king, but there’s a reason why kings built large palaces, sat on thrones and wore rubies all over. There’s a whole social need for that, not to oppress the masses, but to impress the masses and make them proud and allow them to feel good about their culture, their government and their ruler so that they are left feeling that a ruler has the right to rule over them, so that they feel good rather than disgusted about being ruled. In the past, the media basically worked for the state and was there to build the culture. Now, obviously, in some cases it got used in a wrong way and you ended up with the whole balance of power out of whack. But there’s probably no better form of government than a good despot. (x)

I wish I was making this shit up. 

u know what here’s more

It’s mythology and mythology is the cornerstone to a society. In order to have a society, you start out with a family. The dad’s the boss, and everybody obeys the rules. Then as you get bigger, it comes to a few hundred people when you start adding in all the aunts and uncles and brothers-in-law… Then you have two or three families together, which is a tribe. Once you’ve got a tribe, you got this problem that you have to get a social mechanism by which you can control them. Otherwise they just kill each other. (Lucas in James Cameron’s history of sci-fi book, henceforth named the Cameronvaganza)

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In 1981, breaking ground on the new USC Film School, to which he contributed $4.7 million, he lectured the audience on their moral shortcomings: ‘The influence of the Church, which used to be all-powerful, has been usurped by film. Films and television tell us the way we conduct our lives, what is right and wrong. There used to be a Ten Commandments that film had to follow, but now there are only a few remnants, like a hero doesn’t shoot anybody in the back. That makes it even more important that film-makers get exposed to the ethics of film.’ (Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas, John Baxter)

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“The Western was the last time we sort of dealt with our culture and what we expect from our society and what the rules are and what the lessons we’ve learned… Once we got past the Western, which was in sort of the late 50s, early 60s, the culture, which was the Vietnam War and the political situation, and the nature of the way we changed, that mythology was thrown out, and nobody decided to pass it on to the next generation. It was just not hip.” (The Charlie Rose Show, May 2005)

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GEORGE LUCAS: Well, [the] ‘60s we finally came to the conclusion that the government wasn’t all it said it was. [It’s like] The Wizard of Oz. They open the curtains, and we looked and said, “Oh my god. This is terrible, and I’m going to get sent to Vietnam and die. Well, I’m not going to do this.” So, that changed a huge covenant we had with our government and with ourselves and with our society and what we [thought] we were. But we still believed that we were right, that we were saving the world from Communism. They were terrible and Stalin, at least, was terrible. So it’s easy to see the good guys and the bad guys. [Our shared] mythology, the last step that it had taken was the Western. The Western had a real mythology – you don’t shoot people in the back. You don’t draw first. You always let the woman go first.

JAMES CAMERON: It was a code of honor.

GEORGE LUCAS: A code of honor. Then [the genre] got very psychological, and the Western went out of favor. It was really that that led me to Star Wars. But before that I [was], I don’t know, an angry young man who was saying, “This is terrible [refering to THX-1138]. We’re living in the future.” (Cameronvaganza)

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(George Lucas: Interviews, x)

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“Somebody has to tell young people what we think is a good person. I mean, we should be doing it all the time. That’s what the Iliad and the Odyssey are about—‘This is what a good person is; this is who we aspire to be.’ You need that in a society. It’s the basic job of mythology. (”Lucas, in Tim Rayment, “Master of the Universe,” Sunday Times Magazine, May 16, 1999, 20; quoted in Politics of Big Fantasy)

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“I wanted to make a kids’ film that would strengthen contemporary mythology and introduce a kind of basic morality. Everybody’s forgetting to tell the kids, ‘Hey, this is right and this is wrong.’ ” (x)

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“I realised after THX that people don’t care about how the country’s being ruined. All that movie did was make people more pessimistic, more depressed, and less willing to get involved in trying to make the world better. So I decided that this time I would make a more optimistic film that makes people feel positive about their fellow human beings. It’s too easy to make films about Watergate. And it’s hard to be optimistic when everything tells you to be pessimistic and cynical. I’m a very bad cynic. But we’ve got to regenerate optimism. Maybe kids will walk out of this film and for a second they’ll feel ‘We could really make something out of this country, or we could really make something out of ourselves.’ It’s all that hokey stuff about being a good neighbor, and the American spirit and all that crap. There is something in it.” (“George Lucas: The Stinky Kid Hits The Big Time” by Stephen Farber, Film Quarterly, spring 1974, quoted in Kaminski)

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GEORGE LUCAS: Predestination in my mind is… your genetics. Your genes are your destiny. It’s biological. People say, oh, don’t put the biology in it… But we all have talent. And those of us that have talent know that we’re different than other people. We know we can do things that other people can’t do. Talk to any filmmaker, or artist, or anything, you have this sense in your head of what works and doesn’t work. Sometimes you’re wrong. It’s not foolproof. But at the same time, it’s something that’s innate in your genetic code that makes you look at things in a particular way.” (Cameronvaganza)

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Hot Pockets?

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rhiannonfrater:

biestcallisto:

renniequeer:

Yes, we all know that Amazon is evil, but y’all need to fucking understand that they have what is essentially a fucking monopoly on ebook publishing, and indie authors rely on them in order to make ANY money.

I am a queer, transgender, disabled author. Please don’t boycott my book just because it’s published through Amazon. You’re not sticking it to capitalism, you’re personally fucking over ME.

I know alternatives for self publishing in Germany but I never heard of alternatives in the US. Do any even exist? I mean, not for me, I will publish in German, but I would just really like to know. 

(And the alternatives here mean that the book will still be available on Bezos site, but if you want you can promote another shop instead)

I’m a hybrid author. Both Indie and traditionally published. Amazon is where 95% of my sales come from with my Indie writing, which pays my monthly bills. Support your Indie and hybrid authors even if it means buying from amazon. I try to have most of my books on multiple online stores, but amazon far surpasses all of those in sales.

I’d also like to highlight the math you are making authors lose out on in avoid amazon.

If you personally decide to only buy off amazon. That’s great! Every author I know does have other ways for you to buy. But it’s an unfair burden to demand that authors boycott amazon. And most of the complaints aren’t asking for those links in the first place, they just harass the author.