#Jared Saramago

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THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT MY FELLOW WRITERS

Thank you for the tag @lewdisescariot

I tag: @angelosearch @beaubambabey and anyone who wants to participate!

Last book I read: “Merrick" by Anne Rice (i have not finished, it is a slog, I'll finish it eventually), a book chronicling the works of Boticelli, "Go Ask Ogre," I'm in the process of reading "The Rebel" by Camus for the fifth time.

Greatest literary inspirations: John Keats, my former spoken word mentor and activist Jared Paul, William Blake, Anne Rice, Jose Saramago, Albert Camus, insert any 18th and 19th century gothic horror writer here.

Things in my current fandom I want to read but I don't want to write: mutually toxic bloodweave, disgustingly toxic bloodweave, mutually obsessive and manipulative toxic bloodweave, i need them to be their worst selves, i need them to fuck nasty, i need them to take advantage of each other (not sexually but also sexually with consent or begrudging consent to get what they want DO YOU SEE THE VISION)

Things in my current fandoms I want to write but I think nobody would be interested in them but me: Let's focus on bg3. Disgustingly violent, manipulative psychosexual vellioth/cazador. Utter monsters. Twisted power hungry fiends destroying each other where love is too kind, obsession is too shallow, hatred is too soft. Modern aus of them being awful, wretched creatures. Canon compliant awful, wretched creatures. Dead dove do not eat, would get me ostracized, self indulgent horrors.

Modern aus of Astarion being a mess and a menace in every way possible. Everything is wrong with him. He lives with Shadowheart, I need them to be perpetual roommates, she's the only thing keeping him from complete self destruction. His coping skills are atrocious, he cannot be fixed, no one knows how he isn't dead yet. Gale is sometimes moderately better if he's there, they cannot fix each other, there is no magic happy ending. Nobody dies, but they probably should. It doesn't necessarily start as a dumpster fire. It may creep up on you until it's too late and the sunk-cost fallacy has set in. Surprise, it's trauma! It's not pretty trauma! It's not "love can save you" trauma!

Also: long, lyrical canon compliant (mostly) pieces of everyone's suffering, of redemption and damnation, of character studies, of heartwrenching beauty in the tragic fates they cannot escape - they never wanted, leitmotifs in phrasing, a chorus of chosen words, the agony of everything, the love they seek, endless run on sentences, unyielding prose, allegories, their characters boiled down to fever dreams. Symbolic, headspinning, pitiful, reverent, songs that aren't songs, poems that aren't poems, stories that tell themselves yet say nothing without scrutiny, you will leave in awe and madness and hell and hope. Slant rhymes everywhere. It's accidental, it's intentional, it's everything everywhere nowhere at once, it's a spiral, it's linear until it isn't. GOD.

You can recognise my writing by: Please see the above third paragraph.

My most controversial take (current fandom): This answer from my dear friend carries over - "You aren’t better than anyone for hating their favorite character or how they love them. Just let people live."

90% of the Astarion headcanons I see convince me we have not played the same game. He does not become a better person, he is better to you. Ascending him does not remove my sense of irl morality. You're thinking of Wyll, everything you project onto him is a part of Wyll. Astarion is an awful person, he's a mess, he's full of bitter hatred, he needs to kill, he wants everyone to suffer, I love him. Cowards.

Cazador is SO FUCKABLE. He's a horrid, monstrous, contemptible, vile, wicked creature and while i cannot fix him, I can indulge in hedonistic blood filled psychosexual madness and honestly that's close enough for me. Larian, please let him rail me. Cazador romance WHEN. Self preservation? WRONG. Dancing with death for a hellsent vampire.

Top three favourite tropes: "i hate you, i need you." They are suffering, but they are suffering together. "You are so far past saving, yet i will not leave." Bonus: psychosexual obsession, have you figured this out yet, have i made it clear, are we on the same page. DO YOU SEE THE VISION.

What’s your current writing mood (10 – super motivated and churning out words like crazy, 0 – in a complete rut): it's 10, but chronic fatigue/where do i start with this and how does it end, it has to end eventually, I GUESS.

We're working on it.

Share a fandom frustration: As per my last email, refer to the astarion hot take.

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New to Me - October 2021

New to Me #boardgames - October 2021 @OspreyGames @alderac @gmtgames @ThamesAndKosmos @FoxtrotGames @PlayRenegade @StoneBladeEnt @JohnDClair @elizhargrave @beth_sobel

Now this is more like it. October was a great month for gaming, with me playing 19 different games in the month. This included six new to me games and two new to me expansions! What a cornucopia of games! Well, those aren’t games, but at least there’s a pumpkin for Halloween. Given the publish date for these games and expansions, though, the Cult of the New to Me was giving me a bit of the…

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Goodreads Best Books of the Decade: 1990's

959 people voted for   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

673 people voted for   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling

639 people voted for   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling

377 people voted for   A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin

374 people voted for   Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

354 people voted for   The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry

295 people voted for   The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman

276 people voted for   The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

244 people voted for   The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

234 people voted for   Holes (Holes, #1) by Louis Sachar

180 people voted for   Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

175 people voted for   Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) by Helen Fielding

171 people voted for   Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

167 people voted for   Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) by Frank McCourt

149 people voted for   The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

141 people voted for   Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton

136 people voted for   Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett

137 people voted for   A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) by George R.R. Martin

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126 people voted for   Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

121 people voted for   Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

123 people voted for   The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2) by Philip Pullman

119 people voted for   Outlander (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon

111 people voted for   The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

113 people voted for   Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt

109 people voted for   Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

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105 people voted for   The Green Mile by Stephen King

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100 people voted for   The Secret History by Donna Tartt

101 people voted for   Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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99 people voted for   White Oleander by Janet Fitch

100 people voted for   Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

100 people voted for   The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

98 people voted for   The Notebook (The Notebook, #1) by Nicholas Sparks

94 people voted for   High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

94 people voted for   Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

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90 people voted for   The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

90 people voted for   The Firm by John Grisham

84 people voted for   Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

83 people voted for   Stardust by Neil Gaiman

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76 people voted for   Possession by A.S. Byatt

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72 people voted for   The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

73 people voted for   Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

71 people voted for   All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) by Cormac McCarthy

71 people voted for   I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

70 people voted for   The Hours by Michael Cunningham

69 people voted for   The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

63 people voted for   The Secret History by Donna Tartt

66 people voted for   Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

63 people voted for   Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

62 people voted for   Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

60 people voted for   Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

58 people voted for   Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

57 people voted for   Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) by Garth Nix

56 people voted for   American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

55 people voted for   A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

51 people voted for   A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

53 people voted for   Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

50 people voted for   The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1) by Robert Jordan

50 people voted for   Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

50 people voted for   American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1) by Philip Roth

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48 people voted for   Naked by David Sedaris

47 people voted for   About a Boy by Nick Hornby

44 people voted for   Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

42 people voted for   Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) by Joanne Harris

43 people voted for   Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

44 people voted for   The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

42 people voted for   The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) by Philip Pullman

36 people voted for   Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

37 people voted for   L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3) by James Ellroy

36 people voted for   Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

34 people voted for   Insomnia by Stephen King

37 people voted for   Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

34 people voted for   A Widow for One Year by John Irving

32 people voted for   Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson

34 people voted for   The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

32 people voted for   Timeline by Michael Crichton

30 people voted for   The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

32 people voted for   We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

31 people voted for   Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

30 people voted for   Regeneration (Regeneration, #1) by Pat Barker

31 people voted for   Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2) by Helen Fielding

31 people voted for   Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) by Art Spiegelman

30 people voted for   Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) by Juliet Marillier

31 people voted for   The Beach by Alex Garland

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28 people voted for   The Client by John Grisham

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10 movies that will alter your reality to question especially what surrounds you

 The mind is responsible for the understanding, the perception, the emotion, the memory, the reason, the will, the aptitude to create thoughts and other cognitive skills. For it, the medical investigations suggest that this one is the result of the activity of the brain. The processes of the mind divide in consciously - he takes charge of the intelligence - and unconsciously - of those lived experiences and of the physiological questions-; though many scientific studies have been realized to know his complete functioning, still he guards many secrets and mysteries that they could not have solved. 

 The cinema helps to represent this type of histories, to create suppositions, theories, hypothesis, with regard to the cruxes that the mind encloses. Different movies exist that thanks to his directors, plot and actors have achieved real visual works of art, and make us doubt on what is royal and what not. For example, "Inception" or "Lucy" show histories of the great power of the mind. 

 The good movies always will leave us with a sensation of confusion, of doubt for what we have just seen, from endless questions or of answers to things that before already we had questioned … for this reason we you share 10 movies that will alter your reality and thoughts after seeing them. 

                                1. Enemy (2013) — Denis Villeneuve 

Adapted of the book of Jose Saramago, " The duplicated man ", it tells the history of a teacher who, bored, asks that recommend to him a movie; on having seen her it discovers that one of the actors is exactly equal to him. Dismayed by this, there quarrels the one who is this man, but the things will become dark and the end of the tape will leave you with a strange sensation …

                     2. “Shutter Island” (2010) — Martin Scorsese

This movie directed by the genius Martin Scorsese and led by Leonardo Dicaprio, narrates the history on two agents who are sent to an island that also is a mental institute in order to find a patient who disappeared in a mysterious way. The tape will catch you minute to minute.

                  3. “The Fountain” (2006) — Darren Aronofsky 

Realized by Darren Aronofsky, the director of movies as " Réquiem for a dream " or " p: The order of the chaos ", "The Fountain" is a poem on the love and the death. The movie follows the course of the relations interlaced of three prominent figures that takes place in different spaces and times; the protagonist does a trip in order to save the life of his wife sick with cancer, but for this it will have to find the tree of the life. A work of visual art that is a genius.

                           4. “Donnie Darko” (2001) — Richard Kelly

Donnie is to boy who on having escaped miraculously of the death begins to see Frank, to rabbit that assures him that the end of the world approaches; this one guides Donnie during the history and asks him to realize certain things … Is one of the movies of worship rarer that you will see in your life.

                      5. “Memento” (2000) — Christopher Nolan

It counts the history of Leonard, an investigator of an agency of insurances who has the irreversibly damaged memory, due to a blow that suffered in the head on having tried to avoid the murder of his wife; this one is the last fact that he remembers of the past, since the daily evocations disappear of his memory concerning minutes. "Memento" is a thesis on the fault and the mission to live; a movie that you must see thoroughly.

                             6. “Primer” (2004) — Shane Carruth

It treats on two engineers that they realize an experiment to look for patents, for what they test his last project: a device that reduces the apparent mass to travel in the time across a machine. Written, directed and led by Shane Carruth, who managed to realize it with a very low budget. A work worth looking again and again.

      7. “Cloud Atlas” (2012) — Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly                                                                  Wachowski

This tape is directed by the brothers Wachowski, creators of the trilogy of "Matrix". Stocks on the homonymous novel written by David Mitchell, it is a set of different histories that develop in the present, the past and the future, and they are connected between yes by small details. An exploration of how the individual actions can inspire the persons.

                       8. “Coherence” (2013) — James Ward Byrkit

There appears the meeting of a few friends who speak on the happened in Finland in 1924, since after the step of a comet the people became mad; what they do not know is that just this night the comet will turn to happen. This tape us demonstrates that the indispensable thing is to possess a good script, without importing the low budget that is had, to achieve a surprising result.

                       9. “Triangle” (2009) — Christopher Smith

A group of friends decides to spend his vacations in a yacht, rapidly a storm forces them to rise to a cruise in which the time seems to have stopped and one of the protagonists to swear to have been there before. Though the plot of the tape seemed to be full of cliches, it will make you impressed, since it is everything opposite.

                    10. “Mr. Nobody” (2009) — Jaco Van Dormael

Tape led by Jared Leto in the one that tells herself the history of a 120-year-old man who in the future will be the last human being. It shows us the different lives that it has experienced and questions why it has lived so much. " Mr. Nobody " interlaces different theories of the quantum physics and other philosophical explanations on before and later. A movie that is also a work of art.

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Expansion Review - Shards of Infinity: Into the Horizon

Expansion Review - Shards of Infinity: Into the Horizon @StoneBladeEnt

I’ve playing a ton of the Shards of Infinity app and I finally played the card game last year at Dice Tower West. I liked it so much that I bought it during the pandemic lockdown for me and the wife to play. It really came into its own with the Relics of the Future expansion, though, fixing almost every problem I had with the base game. But when I saw there was another expansion coming, I had…

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New Ascension expansion announced

New Ascension expansion announced @StoneBladeEnt

I’m a huge fan of the deck-building card game Ascension (as many of you who read this blog (hi Bob!) might remember), but I haven’t actually played it on the table in quite a while. The app is just so good that it’s hard for me to actually get it to the table.

Anyway, after the rather interesting Skulls & Sails expansion, the next expansion is going to use the same mechanic of a ship sailing…

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Sum of All Fears (1991) by Tom Clancy

The Clash of Civilizations (1996) by Samuel P. Huntington

Debt of Honor (1994) by Tom Clancy

The Crow Road (1992) by Iain Banks

Northern Lights (1995) by Philip Pullman

Desperation (1996) by Stephen King

Dark Visions Trilogy (1995) by L.J. Smith

The Eye of the World (1990) by Robert Jordan

Fever 1793 (2000) by Laurie Halse Anderson

Black Hawk Down (1999) by Mark Bowden

The Story of Tracy Beaker (1991) by Jacqueline Wilson

Digital Fortress (1998) by Dan Brown

Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon

Hogfather (1996) by Terry Pratchett

Hannibal (1999) by Thomas Harris

Nightfall (1990) by Isaac Asimov

Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami

Stormbreaker (2000) by Anthony Horowitz

The Freedom Writers Diary (1999) by Erin Gruwell

The Rings of Saturn (1995) by WG Sebald

Esperanza Rising (2000) by Pam Munoz Ryan

A Course in Miracles (1996) by Helen Schucman

Imajica (1991) by Clive Barker

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