#and a decent amount of reading

[ammg-old2]

Weekly Recap (23rd – 29th January 2023)

Study

Reread & made notes from Hearing Birds Fly (ch 11-13)

Read 4 articles about Mongolia

Read 6 articles

Reread 3 articles

Reading

Reread Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (prologue, ch 1-2)

Read The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France (finished)

Read Faust's Gold: Inside the East German Doping Machine (ch 1-8)

Read Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (ch 4)

Read A People's History of the United States (ch 3)

Read King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (intro & prologue)

Read Riis: Stages of Light and Dark (ch 1-4)

Reread The Occupied Garden: A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland (ch 1)

Read Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (ch 1-8)

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Read The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky (finished)

Reread The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (finished)

Read Portraits of a Marriage by Sándor Márai (most)

Writing

Wrote DAI (Emmeline) Step 0b – 873 words

Wrote DAI (Herah – K&L) Step 0 – 4602 words

Exercise

Exercycle – 6.9km

Music

Listened to Haydn symphonies No. 41, 42 & 43 (The Academy of Ancient Music & Christopher Hogwood)

Listened to Cecilia Bartoli “Chant d'amour” – 4 songs

Listened to 2 random pieces

Flat

Dishes (Monday)

Cooking (Monday)

Tidied up desk (Monday)

Lids & food in fridge (Monday & Thursday)

Helped Tracy with cleaning up kitchen & cooking (Thursday)

Shopping list (Friday)

Other

Read 1 short post/article

Puzzles

Special Daily Loop (Tuesday & Sunday)

Special Weekly Loop

[valtsv]

similar to how you can get sensitivity readers i feel like sci-fi and fantasy novel publication should offer a worldbuilding advisor option so that the world the author is presenting to the reader actually feels lived in and not just like a matte painted flat background against which the characters are performing

[frownyalfred]

Are there any canonical moments that imply Bruce is bisexual? Apart from the Minhkhoa moment?

every single breath that man takes in canon is vaguely bisexual

[merlins-strawberriesandroses]

The thing no one ever considers while writing up character analyses about Merlin is that. he must have been sooooooo sleepy.

[chirpsythismorning]

Yeah a teaser dropping on ST day would be cool. But can we agree that a DNA board reveal would be infinitely better?

[johntorrington]

the nimrod expedition was the wild west. it’s like a frat house where everyone ended up becoming a politician. guys there would go on to be part of the AAE, the terra nova, the endurance, the ross sea party AND the karluk. some dudes climbed a volcano that had never been climbed before- without anything close to proper gear and ended up chucking some of their stuff down the mountain to get back faster. george marston was getting really into drag. shackleton was just out of his weird polycule divorce with scott and wilson. they had a little canvas bathtub that multiple people took nudes in. a 50 year old geologist was put in charge of a manhauling party and was so bad at it he had to be threatened with being declared insane by the doctor in order for him to hand command over to mawson. aeneas mackintosh lost an eye. the car. they got a new furthest south but shackleton ended up so badly in debt he tried to get into gold mining. what a time.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

what other silly little antics do you think charles and erik got up to in that cube besides play chess because my money's on book discussions. like them book clubs with suburban moms where you drink wine and talk about books you read except theres no wine i dont think thats permitted in the plastic cube prison and theres not even a club its just two old men

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

not a threat but uhhh do any of yall play tf2 and would any of yall want to. play it with me?

[words-after-midnight]

Eternally confused and bewildered re: people being shocked and outraged about horror (especially contemporary, psychological & gothic subgenres) addressing dark/taboo/potentially triggering topics. It's... horror? It's supposed to tackle the distressing and horrific and uncomfortable. I genuinely don't get this.

[willowser]

just to make sure we are all on the same page in this corner of the internet, i want to be explicitly clear about my stance/feelings on some things:

if i come across "content"/fic in this niche that i absolutely do not like, do not vibe with, am not interested in, that icks me out completely and totally—i scroll past it as quickly as i can and i move on with my day.

in the case that it's "content"/fic that really bothers or triggers me in any way, i make sure that i have blacklisted/blocked certain tags and keywords so that in the future i may not come across those things again.

i also understand that there is a variety of tags used throughout the internet and that websites are not perfect/things slip through the cracks. people are also human, and mistakes are also made.

in the event i am exposed to something that i do not want to see, point blank, i would never and will never believe it is my right to harass and terrorize the person writing said thing/s, and if i witness this kind of behavior being celebrated among the people around me, whoever you are, i will be removing you from my space.

to be perfectly and abundantly clear: i will always be a supporter of dark content, and its right to be written. even if i don't understand it, even if it "disgusts" me, even if i never want to read it.

please understand that i do not say this with hostility, nor do i mean it as a threat or to be confrontational. you should protect the space that you are in; this is me doing that, this is me making sure that you do that, even if it's against me.

[otaku553]

My brother recently got into Demon Slayer so I wanted to make a kny oc for him since I did it before with both me and my sister and never got around to my brother :)

But I started by refreshing my own design because wow?? It’s been 4 years since I first made my kny insert character and a lot of things are now outdated! Not to mention my art has improved a lot, I hope. More details under the cut!

Meet Ebisu Koharu: youngest of the Ebisu family and physically the weakest. They only barely passed Final Selection by hiding for the entire week and surviving off tips from their older siblings. Nonetheless, they still want to contribute, which is why they hold onto a thick, leather bound book that records every demon they’ve ever met in precise detail, with labeled diagrams and scribbled calculations in the margins of different strengths and weaknesses.

After spending a few years on the job, and properly seeing their data contribute to the successes of other demon slayers, they’ve come a bit more into their own as a competent researcher and fighter, though they still do tend to request paired missions with friends and family to act more as a support role rather than a fighter.

The Ebisu family is one of scholars. The eldest daughter Kaoru is a doctor, and the eldest son Shougen is a chemist. By nature, fighting is not necessarily their strong suit, which is why their family breathing style and techniques are all poison-assisted. Of the three, Koharu is the weakest and most averse to combat— they wield a short half-length blade, with more of a smooth ceremonial hilt and sheath than any practical weapon.

[un-pearable]

torturing myself again (reading popcorn fic)

[whipped-bean]

cookie..

may end up putting in enough effort to give him an entire gacha pull animation, or i may be lying, idk yet :P

[allthegothihopgirls]

this is me screaming btw

[deafleppard]

was gonna make a normal intro post but it's more fun to be extra :) art and graphics | gifs | nfl | redbubble | deco my tree

[t4tails]

which order should i read the batman comics in

read batman: harley and ivy and then stop