#Heroic Efforts

[readersmagnet]

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[tired-reader-writer]

Word count on the new chapter currently around 1.3k, I haven't written in a few days bc I wasn't feeling all that well, and while mapping out the things I might want to include in chapter 3, I had the thought that I might want to edit and change some parts of the previous chapters (mainly speaking, modifying the familial terms from English to Farsi) because... well Areyan will gain another brother and him calling them both “brother” will get confusing real fast especially when Isfan himself is also calling Shapur “brother” and things like “brother Isfan” and “brother Gieve” do NOT flow well in English and they feel so awkward. Also I can't say I know enough about English familial terms to do like cutesy nickname-like modifications on the familial terms like “uncle” and “brother”. There's “grandmama” but... y'know......

It's not as though I speak Farsi, far from it, I'm mainly relying on Wiktionary AND the r/farsi subreddit. I submitted a question there and everyone was really helpful!

I don't know. It's just something I've been thinking a little about recently. I would like to hear y'all's opinions.

[sadish-radish]

*slaps belly* this bad boy can fit so many raspberries in it

[rogdona]

when did they even add a new rarity on dragon city wasnt heroic enough already

[walks-the-ages]

Hey, EDAs fans! Remember that link that was going around a few years ago with some fan-made audiobooks of the EDAs?

[ID: a graphic of a muscular angel wielding a sword with their wings outstretched, gazing down into a fire below them, with the words "Heroic Efforts Fan Productions - Audios, Videos by R. A. Mitchell - Heaven is for the holy, hell is for heroes." End ID]

Remember how I had a project going, backing up all the links to the Wayback Machine ?

Well, I found out this year that the last of the EDA audiobook links have all died sometime last year after being on the website for ~13 years, so everything I had managed to save to my computer has now been uploaded to the Internet Archive!

this is why, when you find fandom gems like this, you need to start backing them up as soon as you find them!

Especially content that is older than a decade!

Webhosting does not last forever, especially if an account has been inactive for years, and we already know that Google and all its monopolies is changing their policies to start removing content that has been inactive for x amount of years....

If you see something, save something.

[ID: the cover of the Eighth Doctor Adventure novel 'Vampire Science', a mostly-rec cover with the silhouette of a giant vampire bat swooping towards the official seal of the United States, a circle with an eagle in the center, now styled like an Audiobook cover, saying "Doctor Who - Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman, Unabridged with Music and Sound Effects performed by R. A. Mitchell." End ID]

Get the Official Wayback Machine extension and set it to auto-archive all the pages you visit if they haven't been archived in the last 24 hours.

If you find fan-made audio dramas like this, right click on the play button and download them, and make folders with dates so you know what is from where and by whom, then keep hold of it somewhere safe.

If you find fan-made audios on Youtube, you can back the whole channel up to the wayback machine, and download the videos using a variety of websites and tools.

If you find old fan-made comics, you can usually save them as PDFs, or save individual panels in a folder, then create a PDF version from them.

Just like so many Classic Who episodes were lost to the BBC trashing reels because they didn't see their worth, so too does tons of fan-content vanish from the internet every year, either because the website finally broke or someone couldn't pay the hosting fee, or just someone vanishing one day and not being around to preserve their works!

Let's make this the official Doctor Who Fandom Motto please:

If you see something, save something.

[xoshepard]

my gf is a milf which hasn't been relevant until now but i just have to tell everyone that yesterday i took her and her daughter on a santa-based train ride and they were sitting together but the daughter wanted a better view of behind her so i switched seats with her and was holding hands w her mom and then she pointed at us and yelled at the top of her lungs on this crowded ass train "LESBIANS!!!!!!!" and im still crying laughing why are children so fucking funny

btw laughing out loud is apparently NOT the correct response in that situation

[miharuhebinata]

the thing about jackie is that i LIKE that she's dead

[importantdestinydefendor]

More differences in the Translations

So I talked with @innerchorus under a post (were I was very short-sighted at first but thanks to this wonderful fandom I have now a better understanding of the characters!) and I mentioned a difference in names between the German and English translations. And so I thought I make a post about them!

Left are the English translation, right are the German ones.

Alfarid = Alfreed

Saam = Sham

Kubard = Kubad

Zandeh = Zande

Gurazeh = Graze

Shaghad =  Shagard

As we see in the German translation there are only a few missing letters or the german version of the name. (But what happened with Gurazeh here...)

These are the ones I could find at the moment and if I find more, I will edit them in.

Feel free to add more if you find more. Even in other languages!

[yeahyankee]

Laura Bailey, succumbing to the intrusive thoughts we all had during this portion.

[anakinsafterlife]

My kids just started saying "literally" in nearly every sentence, and I'm afraid I'm being very elder Millennial about it.

[sparkspropaganda]

Sorry I lovie "we never killed cazador so now astarion is on the run forever and begs you to kill him ending". Call me a sadist if u like. As if it is my fault

[antihumanism]

i really respect Pippa's dedication to never completing Katawa Shoujo; most people by now would have either just dropped the game or finished it, but not Pippa, no, she grits her teeth, digs her feet in, reads three sentences of dialogue, and spends the rest of the stream in MSPaint trying to draw the cover of a children's book from memory

[the-dragongirl]

[llycaons]

alicent is way too concerned with how legitimate the heirs are who carress she princess is the next in line to the throne and those are her kids and her husband is gay let them live

[doolallymagpie]

hm. steven strait as ciaphas cain.

[proustianrevelry]

Old Yeller is just St. Guinefort for Protestants send tweet

“The most unusual martyr of the Middle Ages was a dog. This was St. Guinefort, a greyhound that had been wrongly killed by its owner on suspicion of taking the life of a baby, when in fact it had bravely protected the child. The site where the dog was buried, at a castle north of Lyons, quickly became a shrine: “the country people, seeing the dog’s noble deed and how it was killed although innocent, visited the place and honoured the dog as a martyr, invoking its help in illness and need.” The outraged Dominican Stephen de Bourbon eventually had the dog’s bones dug up and burned. The essence of martyrdom, a brave and innocent death, here transcended the line between species, at least in the eyes of the local people.”

— Bartlett, Robert. “Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?.” Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?. Princeton University Press, 2013.