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Ermmm I wonder what all of these have in common ermmmm
I will draw niche fanart some day. And only two people will get it
#the sparrow#diary of a country priest#a case of conscience#the priest#brother petrocs return#concerning the eccentricities of cardinal pirelli#some of these r like really old so I handle them with hashtag care#I mean all of them are aged copies#but one of them is from the 30s#and another from the 50s?#and the cheap paperback ones did not age gracefully#library tag#literature
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A Case of Conscience by James Blish
Cover illustration by Janny Wurts
Del Rey, 1982 (originally published 1958)
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds . . .
#cover illustration#book cover art#Janny Wurts#A Case of Conscience#James Blish#80s sci fi#50s sci fi#we're going to be seeing a lot more of Janny Wurts#after such knowledge
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Galactic Gazetteer: Lithia
Type: terrestrial/jungle planet
Primary: Alpha Arietis (Hamal)
Distance from Earth: 66 ly
Inhabitants: Lithians
Status: destroyed (2049)
Appearance: "A Case of Conscience" (James Blish, 1953/58)
Fun fact: the Lithians advance through all the stages of their evolution as they mature to adulthood, and inherit genetic memory from their parents.
Another fun fact: having no religion but reaching a peaceful, moral and enlightened society, they were viewed as a blasphemy by one Catholic priest who concluded Lithia must have been created by Satan.
Fun fact 3: Earth also decided to mine the hell out of Lithia for pegmatite.
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From the Sci-Fi 5 Archive: Science Fiction author James Blish was born on this day 102 years ago. Not only is he the author of numerous original sci-fi works, but he also wrote many Star Trek: The Original Series novels. Learn more in this episode!
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Something everyone here apparently are ignori-
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YOU DUMBASSES
WHAT YOU MEAN "WHO KNOWS"!?!?!
Its that nagging feeling inside you that tells you that "this is wrong" "I shouldn't do this" or better yet "I should not be doing this"
Example?
I SHOULD NOT BE GOING TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK CAUSE A SHADY ASS FOXMAN IS ENCOURAING US TO GO!!!!
ITS FOR EVERY KID ACE!
ESPECIALLY GREMLINS LIKE YOU!
#Depending on a person's yuu here#They're the boys conscience#Im feeling like that's the case here for me#I'm Jimmny cricket#I'm the nagging voice their conscience to turn back now#twisted wonderland#twst wonderland#disney twisted wonderland#twst playful land#stage in playful land
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#I keep getting messages that are supposedly from people in Gaza who need help#but I don’t want to post them in case they are scams#I know it’s awful but people will genuinely take advantage of others’ generosity to make a quick profit#I can’t have that on my conscience—being the reason someone else got scammed#so I just have to sit here and feel bad about the possibility it’s not a scam instead and that I’m keeping people from potential help#fml this is why I don’t get political on here.#I’m just too soft for all of it. I feel guilty either way.#personal#text
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#after uh. not enjoying hornblower: loyalty all that much I finally watched hornblower: duty#and enjoyed it a lot more. I think there's meta there with mutiny/retribution#I gather they were sort of not allowed to mention kennedy but you know that makes sense in-universe.#horatio isn't allowed to mention him either. not really. and I do think he'd clam up about him. that's horatio all over#but you can't convince me that survivor's guilt of his is only over bracegirdle#(bracegirdle makes it worse obviously)#also his letting doughty off really makes me want it to have been him that pushed sawyer#I always want it to have been him just because so much of his later career either makes more sense or has additional dramatic irony#if he knows himself to be an unhanged mutineer#BUT he doesn't have to have actually done it. he just has to THINK he is guilty#for instance - recently aubreysmaturin made a pretty good case for it having been Wellard in the books#but if it's Wellard--then Horatio's gone down a path of 'I was his senior officer I was responsible to have stopped him I wanted Sawyer dea#so basically I am guilty' - because again that is what it is to be a Horatio Hornblower.#(in fact another clue pointing to Wellard is that the universe always seems to bend to keep Hornblower's hands clean#like that time he lied that the war was over only to later find out that in fact unbeknownst to him it was over.#he gets the thing he guiltily wanted and he gets it without actually doing the guilty thing and so no one will blame him#except his own conscience)#anyway that's the books. I don't think it was Wellard in the show#I'm not sure what I think happened in the show#but whatever it was Horatio *feels* responsible#I'm not saying that's *why* he let Doughty off but I think there's a kind of secret symmetry there#hornblower
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Election day PSA for my fellow Brits
Before you go and vote, I recommend taking a quick look at this website:
You can enter your postcode, and it'll tell you what constituency you're in and which party to vote for for the best chance of keeping the Tories and Reform out!
Remember, polls are open from 7am to 10pm and you need to bring photo ID to vote (just one shit thing the Tories need to be punished for). Let's try and kick out of many of those bigoted fuckwits as we possibly can!
#political crap#uk politics#uk election#uk election 2024#fuck the tories#i think in quite a few seats the tories and reform aren't in with a chance anyway thankfully#so if you're lucky enough to live in one of those vote with your conscience#in case you were wondering my seat is a lib dem/tory marginal this time so i'm going lib dem#they may be wet farts but at least they're nominally the least anti-trans and most pro-palestine major party in england so that's something
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barton protecting kids, including ones that are not his, will always be one of the things that i am willing to roleplay. because yes... he IS a serial murderer and a cannibal. BUT barton is also someone who would be willing to stand in between an assailant and a child every. single. time. if he saw that they were in trouble, because he just can't depend on anyone else helping them. and barton would quite literally hate it if he didn't try to at least do something to defend them.
#OF MONSTERS AND MEN: musings.#and this includes occasions where the other rogues (i'm looking at you joker / hj LOL ahh i'm just being partially serious here) -#might pose a threat to a child though i know most of them likely wouldn't besidesss the person who i mentioned before and perhaps-#if they got really angry or sumthin' and lost control? yeah however it's like i said MOST of the rogues wouldn't do it in good conscience-#i'd like to think bc they might be villains but everyone can kind of acknowledge that hurting kids is just one of those thing's you DON'T#do but yeah. just in case they were man's would be running to be putting himself in front of this kid bc there is no WAY that's happening#not while barton is around anyway. and one could say that this is one of the more... possibly redeeming traits that barton has as a result#so yeah! barton is also going to kick the SNOT out of anyone who tries to hurt a kid around him so i'm not saying that anyone would ofc...#but whoever is unwise enough to do so. I hope you like bathing in Epsom Salts because Barton isn't going to stop kicking you#for a while JSJ#tw: mentions of cannibalism.
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i love that a legitimate way to prevent tetanus in an unvaccinated individual is 'just make the wound a whole fucking lot bigger'
#three cheers for thorough investigation#a study in sex drugs and french#oh this problem is most common in deep narrow wounds that don't bleed a lot?#get my knives we're gonna stop people from having such wounds#is there any study on the treatment of tetanus in people who refuse a vaccine?#like this is one vaccine you can refuse with a clear conscience!#you cannot infect other people with tetanus#unless you actively try#in which case that'd be murder#and also very difficult to accomplish
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I suddenly realized I haven't said anything on this blog about my stance on The Issues happening right now. (I share more on my Twitter and my sideblog @slappy-mc-handjob so follow those if you'd like)
Basically Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan, freedom and justice to all, not just the people actively being ethnically cleansed and enslaved, but ESPECIALLY to the people actively being ethnically cleansed and enslaved.
Call and email and fax your reps. Maybe it won't do anything but irritate them but hey, at least you irritated them. That's a win in my book.
Go to CeasefireToday to do that easy peasy lemon squeezy
#in case anybody following me here doesnt follow me in those other places#and was wondering if i had an opinion#uh yeah#i get on twitter every day to keep up on the situation#and its destroying my mental health#but its really important#dont look away or avoid it#i know its hard to see but its harder to experience#so do whatever you can to show your support and compassion for the people suffering right now#call out pro-israel people#join the boycotts#make your politicians lives miserable until they grow a fucking backbone and conscience
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isidor burakh was the first person to do "gentle parenting" in the eurasian steppe
#I've been trying to make a post for weeks like#artemy is the only man with a positive father figure in the town and the other characters are making fixing their daddy wound his problem#it's meant to be humorous but I can't in good conscience make that joke bc there's so many issues with that post#let's start off with the most obvious which is that artemy is obviously not the only man with a positive father figure#i.e. stakh exists and he and artemy had literally The same father figure#also I think isidor wasn't the only good dad in the town#uh I think big vlad does love vlad jr and capella. from what I've seen saburov is nice to clara. I'm sure victor loves maria and khan#peter loves grace. etc etc#second off I think there's plenty of characters whose main issue is not like... dad trauma. I'd actually say the majority of them are fine#on the dad front. howeeeever given that isidor was like a spiritual leader as well as a doctor... you could make a case that they all lost#an important father figure#anyway. now you see the logical fallacies in my post. which are precisely why it cannot be published.
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Begging people to stop fucking posting EXESSIVELY gory photos without a readmore or tw or spoiler or anything IN THE WRONG FUCKING TAGS. Like. What the actual fuck is wrong with you people.
#(tw discussion of rlly severe wounds in tags)#putting this long tag as a filler to block it off just in case its still visible somehow. idk filler text insert here lorem ipsum dolores#like. brother. putting no readmore no warning UNCENSORED photos of cvts that LITERALLY GO DOWN TO VISIBLE BONES? in gen sh tags????#how fucking dense and/or downright EVIL do you have to be to do that. what the fuck is wrong with you.#log off and don't come back until you get a fucking conscience.#it makes me violently angry. like yes I have a sh problem. I also have severe OCD and shit like that can Ruin me for months if not years.#it's irresponsible inconsiderate and most importantly DANGEROUS. do you know what pics like that can do to ppl who struggle with sh?#I don't care how entrenched in this addiction you are. there is no excuse for that. None.#armchair speaks#tw implied self harm
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top 5 worst westerns >:3
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980)
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980)
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980)
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980)
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980)
Ok but in all honesty.
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980)
Bronco Billy (1980)
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
The Return of Sabata (1971)
The Ridiculous Six (2016)
#if u saw this ask when i posted it prematurely.... no u didnt#lots of westerns are terrible but these are the extraordinary stinkers#some of them are bad in a fun way tho#bronco billy and return of sabata are both DEEPLY entertaining. i would gladly watch them a billion times#BECAUSE they are bad#but then theres fucking heavens gate#a film that fills me with unholy rage#for being so deeply unwatchable and miserable to sit through#trin im still debating how many of these i can show you in good conscience. is it humane ?#in the case of heavens gate it was not.#heaven's gate (1980)#bronco billy (1980)#paint your wagon (1969)#the return of sabata (1971)#the ridiculous six (2016)#westerns#🤠#🍝#asks#murderr
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Increase becoming nepotism enemy number one as soon as he sets eyes on Cotton:
(this is the same excuse he used for why he consistently refused to support Cotton being appointed as a minister's assistant or w/e)
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link to my about me: <3
so to my knowledge, we have two days until the decision on the kosa bill is decided. i don't know if i'm blowing this way out of proportion or not but i have been very stressed out the past couple of days. i tried to export my blog but the file is too large for my computer so i have no backup if my blog gets deleted. since i can't have a copy of my blog for myself and if kosa passes i may get locked out, i might as well have some final words engraved here.
my name is jaye. i've had this blog for almost three years at the time of writing. i like books and movies and music and lots of other stuff. i'm queer and i like to be referred to as a man.
i came here because i needed a community. i simply needed an escape from school and my house and everything. and i actually found one.
i have met some beautiful human beings on this website. was tumblr the best website for my mental health? not in the slightest. but you all made it bearable. i have had some of the best conversations of my life on here. i'm sorry if you ever sent me an ask or a tag game or anything and i didn't respond to it. i thought i had more time.
i would like to thank my mutuals and my followers for sticking with me throughout it all. i'm sorry for all the vent posts and the last time there was a kosa scare (i'm so sorry for freaking you all out). i love you all so much, more than words can ever describe it.
so this is the important part of this post. i think i found a loophole. there's a website i use instead of gdocs called cryptpad. it is a document hosting website but there is a chat feature. here is a link to my profile: kingincerulean. if you wish to connect with me there, *please feel free to do so* i hope that worked. (if you want my email i absolutely can also provide that. i just don't want to lose you guys)
if worst does come to worst, i will never ever forget you all. i love you all with my whole heart. thank you for having me.
#I AM OK. this is simply if my get locked from my account nothing more.#i'm sorry if i scare anyone but this has been weighing on my conscience for a while and i actually am genuinely scared#i'm just trying to have some insurance just in case#jaye's originals ig
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