#biblio conjures

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magma.com rain world from like 3 months ago that i definitely did not forget about until just today (complete with recently-made annotations in red ink)

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images in chronological order

drawings in an image are numbered by order drawn in

seven red suns design (+ the spearmaster design in drawing 6 of the last image) by @saturncoyote

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(this is a very wip)

context:

notail species entry

the traitdex

hey can we make au versions of your characters (i am specifically thinking about the "what would the [x fandom] version of these characters be" type of au)

absolutely. in fact i would absolutely LOVE to see that. really interested to see what happens

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My 4 year DnD chat the other day-

Wizard Hobgoblin - Random question. I had a random thought in my head about the spell creation. One thing says vegetable matter. Does that include oats. So in theory if I can. Could I make oatmeal?

Kobold Druid - I don't see why not,

Wizard Hobgoblin - I mean I can achieve it if I had create food and water. But it's not a wizard spell and wraiths might attack me again.

Loxodon Fighter - I'm assuming you would get not cooked oatmeal and just then need hot water. Like packet oatmeal

Artificer Gnome - Oats aren’t a vegetable it’s a grain.

Kobold Druid - That's a kind of vegetable matter though vegetables Matter is any plant it's not about vegetables as food Really its included so the spell can make ropes and some clothes.

Artificer Gnome - Also I’m not sure if I’m reading it right because it says a no living object of vegetable matter such as wood and ropes so is it made of like carrot or something? If they are saying basic wood and processed hemp is vegetable matter they are very liberal with their term vegetable why not just say plant matter.

Kobold Druid - It can be any vegetable matter not currently alive so dead plants are fine it probably intends for processed plant matter made into materials but loopholes.

Artificer Gnome - Why not say plant matter why specifically vegetable matter which applies to just vegetables?

Loxodon Fighter - There is a lot of argument for non living matter.

Wizard Hobgoblin - I was just looking for a simple answer. Not a debate...

Artificer Gnome - I think it’s interesting that you can make stone like Mithril but it only lasts like an hour so could you in theory make the stone sell it and really have no loss? ...Well aside from an angry person hunting you down.

Loxodon Fighter - Its DND that's not a simple answer it's a debate

Kobold Druid - Ones abilities to scam people with spells and get away with it depends on who your scamming. I imagine standard practice for non magic traders would just be waiting out the duration of spells like this before finalizing deals.

Loxodon Fighter - That means deals in dnd suck. Hey you in line? No just the vender doesn't trust my gold.

Wizard Hobgoblin - Would you be surprised that I thought about that as a scam. But I know I couldn't do it as my current dnd character.

DM - Creation creates an object. Oatmeal is not a single object.

Kobold Druid - What if it's one of those no good expired stuck together rock like clumps foes it become a single object?

DM - "A clump of dried oat" would probably work, Although that might possibly be the single most mundane use of a 5th-level spell in recorded history.

Wizard Hobgoblin - Don't question me, I had the idea when someone asked for oatmeal at work and thought if it might work. Than my head goes to if Lascula (npc) would enjoy the gift of free oats lol

Kobold Druid - Reminds me how we got ice.

Wizard Hobgoblin - Lol

Kobold Druid - Casts a 6th level spell with a 7th level spell slot to conjure a bheur hag to cast an 8th level spell all to collect some ice, when we had some in storage at home

Wizard Hobgoblin - I mean. We think of clever ways for mundane ends,

Kobold Druid - I think it's more wasteful than clever, but it is fun and amusing, so let the Felix flow through you! ( Felix -Previous character, Who used Wild magic every chance he got. Usually blowing Hiself & us up. aka Kobold's old character)

Wizard Hobgoblin - How about no.

Kobold Druid - Consider the chaotic side of alignment chart disregarding responsibility and doing whatever you want, you already have one lich finger!

Wizard Hobgoblin - Look. I'm already trying for a certain lichdom and that's being a biblio lich. Where I don't need sacrifices to achieve that goal. Just a super intelligent brain and a really good memory to write an autobiography of my entire life from birth to my current days

Kobold Druid - Just sacrifice your foes by using there brains and hope your Turing into a skeleton wizard haunted by wraiths works out instead it's the quicker easier path.

Wizard Hobgoblin - The only person using brains is the Artificer Gnome! He literally made a warforged.

Artificer Gnome - And I’d do it again!

We currently have the arch fey of rage hunting one of us for killing her daughter, (It was the kobold) an Blood Demon lord and it's Colt of vampires trying to kill us. The leader of which is the ex husband of our spy master and He's not happy about the ex bit.

The royal spy master of the kingdom trying to find the sword that has his mistress sealed inside it. And if he gets it well, that's basically the end of the world. The Sword I have by the way and he knows!

Oh And our fighter (yes the one up there) Got sent to the realm of Lelth Where she's trapped and we're saving her. (Yes, that Lelth! aka Queen of Spiders, aka Queen of the Demonweb Pits.) So we're fighting through her realm and we're doing it in the first edition version of it!! And My party is still sitting here talking about making oatmeal for a side character.

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We CAN have nice things

Biden rightfully calls the $2.2t stimulus package a "once-in-a-generation investment in America," but as AOC points out, it's not nearly enough - the $40b for housing nationwide would barely cover the bill for NYC alone.

The country and the Democrats can't afford to smallball this one. The *real* debts we've racked up - infrastructure, health, education and climate - matter far, far more than the "national debt" that goldbug bedwetters never stfu about.

As Stephanie Kelton writes in the New York Times, the US can't run out of US dollars; debts do not constrain federal spending. Instead, the US government is constrained by resources: available workers, idle factories, raw materials.

The USG can make as many dollars as it needs by typing zeroes into a spreadsheet, but it conjuring more laborers and productive apparatus is far more difficult. Inflation isn't the result of too many dollars, it's the result of too few things you can buy with those dollars.

That's why an anti-inflationary spending program isn't about constraining spending, it's about increasing the pool of things governments can buy. Right now, we have lots of un- and under-employed people who need good jobs doing necessary care, climate and infrastructure work.

But the $10t worth of spending America needs to attain resiliency for the coming century of climate emergencies will put every American who wants a job to work for as many years as they are willing to work and still not fill the gap.

https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

Of course, there's a simple solution to this: reform immigration policy to welcome the millions of people who are literally dying to come here, trained and untrained alike (worker training is another job that needs doing). Type zeroes into a Treasury spreadsheet so we can pay them a socially inclusive wage with decent benefits. Put them to work alongside the people who are already here, building the country's productive capacity so that we can make more things that are for sale in dollars.

As Kelton explains: procurement rules that give preference to onshore goods and taxes that discourage offshoring are both anti-inflationary measures, because they increase the pool of goods for sale in US dollars, meaning more dollars can be safely spent.

But creating domestic capacity is a long-game and we need to spend a lot of money *right now*, which is why Kelton argues *against* Biden's "Buy American" rules: "There will be no lack of eager foreign producers if we need to relieve some demand pressure on the domestic front."

The right way to address America's massive real-world debts isn't to choose an arbitrary dollar figure and decide which debts we'll service - it's to decide what we want America to be and then figure out how we'll resource that vision.

Or as Bernie Sanders puts it: "You don’t start off by coming up with a sum and working down. You start out by looking at the needs that need to be addressed and adding them up."

This Modern Monetary Theory framework is gaining currency today, but it's hardly new.

It's been a current in economic thought for a long time. Back in 1945, New York Federal Reserve Chairman Beardsley Ruml gave a speech to the American Bar Association called "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete," explaining how America financed the war.

https://modernmoneynetwork.org/sites/default/files/biblio/BeardsleyRuml.pdf

He explained America didn't depend on taxes or war bonds to pay for the war effort - rather, these were a way to sequester the new money being spent into existence to pay for the war effort, so that those wages didn't compete with government spending for rubber, metal, etc.

The US government could make all the dollars it wanted, but it couldn't conjure up rubber or steel. That was constrained, and to dampen private sector demand, the USG clawed back some of the war-wages (taxes) and encouraged voluntary deferred spending (bonds).

Biden touts his $2.2t proposal as "fiscally responsible" because of its "payfors" - tax increases to match new spending with new taxing. Taxing is anti-inflationary (because it reduces private-sector spending power, leaving more goods on the market for the public sector).

We should tax the super-rich...but not to fight inflation. As multiple tax giveaways to the wealthy had demonstrated, giving rich people more money doesn't translate into the hoped-for stimulus that would come from new private-sector spending.

By definition, the rich have their material needs met. Even if they rush out and buy show-horses, ostrich-leather jackets, or super-yachts, these only absorb a minute fraction of their windfalls - the rest get pumped into assets, creating asset bubbles.

Trump's 2017 tax cuts and 2020 covid stimulus pumped trillions into the economy, but almost all of it went to the rich, who used it to play the financial casino, not to buy the labor of un- and underemployed people, nor the things they could make with that labor.

These trillions didn't create *general* inflation, but in certain asset classes (some socially useless ones like NFTs, stonks and exotic derivatives) we saw runaway inflation. Unfortunately, some of these asset bubbles intersected with basic human needs, like housing.

All that to say that stimulus "payfors" that only hit those making more than $400k will only be weakly anti-inflationary. Those people don't buy real goods with their money, so taking it away won't do much to reduce demand for real goods.

Which is not to say that we shouldn't tax the rich. We totally should. Wealth concentration is hugely corrosive, an endless perverter of public policy, a cancer within democracy that subordinates the public good to the endless pampering of a minuscule elite. Tax 'em!

That's why we should all be *very* excited about Janet Yellen's announcement that America is getting out of the corporate tax-break game. If she pulls this off, it's the beginning of the end for financialization itself.

https://twitter.com/SecYellen/status/1379842654398218243

But if we're going to spend $2.2t - or better yet, $10t on stimulus - we can't prevent inflation by taxing the rich. We need to do it with a combination of increasing the pool of goods and labor for sale in US Dollars, and by decreasing private sector demand.

That might mean more tax, but it could also take other forms - such as the Library Socialism vision of circulating abundance, whereby you are freed from the idiocy of owning a terrible drill that you use once a year, and instead get an absolutely *amazing* drill, on demand, that your neighbors also get to use.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/25/library-socialism-a-utopian-vision-of-a-sustaniable-luxuriant-future-of-circulating-abundance/

This is a uniquely 21st century way of thinking about material luxury: solving the coordination costs of public ownership of certain goods using networked technology; it's the inverse of the "Great Reset" where you rent everything and own nothing.

Rather, it's a world where you get much, much more for less - and where they things you have are under your democratic control, rather than that of a remote corporate landlord.

There are many ways to reduce private sector demand while making things *better* for everyday people. A future where we pay off our (real, non-financial) debts is a future where we are safer, healthier, happier, and wealthier in real, material terms.

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Odds for Prue

1. What is their blood status (pureblood, muggleborn, etc)? What are their thoughts on the concept of blood status? Prue is a half-blood; her father being pureblood and her mother being a half-blood as well. I guess that means she’s like 3/4 pure? Idk how that math works lol Her views on blood status are exactly the same as her parents and cousins: it’s all rubbish. Pure, half, muggle, squib -- it doesn’t make any bit of difference to her, and she absolutely loathes pureblood supremacist bigots  3. Do they bring a pet to Hogwarts with them? Prue brings a barn owl, Archimedes, affectionately known as Archie. He’s named after Merlin’s owl from T.H. White’s novel The Once and Future King. 5. What subject is their favorite at Hogwarts? Which is their least favorite? Is their favorite the same as their best subject? Her favorite and least favorite subjects could not be more different lol Her favorite since she was a child has always been DADA. Knowing her parents died fighting dark wizards (at least until she was 10, then she was told the truth), the subject has always had a personal meaning for her. The fact that it was Bill’s favorite subject as well is the entire foundation of their friendship, and he often wrote letters to her (prior to her being at Hogwarts) about the things he’d learn in class so she was a few steps ahead of her classmates in her first few years thanks to him. Her least favorite is potions; partially because Snape is a truly awful human being but also because she’s terrible at it. The fact that she passed at all was due entirely to her friend, Vera, who excels brilliantly at the subject. 7. Do they earn more house points or do they lose more? Oh, she earns! She’s a total earner in the academics department. 9. Thoughts on Quidditch? Do they play? And if so what position do they play? Prue loathes quidditch with every fiber of her being. It’s partly because she’s terrible at flying on a broom, but it’s also because it never made sense to her. How tf is it legal to have one year -- one year! Just one! Only the first year is required, it's optional after that! -- of flying class and then you can join your House’s quidditch team? Shouldn’t there be more required preparation and training before joining a potentially life threatening sport? Apparently not. Honestly, sports all across the board tend to bore her to tears but she’ll support her friends when they play. 11. What is their Patronus? What happy memory do the use to conjure it? Answered here. 13. What does Amortentia smell like to them? Prue obviously smells Bill so she gets the smell of old books (apparently this is called biblichor: a word that describes the particular smell that belongs to old books that combines the Greek words biblio (book) with ichor (the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of the gods). How fucking cool is that?), cardamon, and ocean spray 15. If they needed it, what form would the Room of Requirement take for them? It would likely take the form of her childhood home. While the memories of the first five years of her life are vague, she remembers enough the home her family shared to make it appear in the room. Depending on her mood and needs, various rooms of the house would appear. 17. What do they do/want to do after Hogwarts? Prue wants to be a curse-breaker and, over the summer of her sixth year, she interns at Gringotts thanks to Bill and spends that summer in Egypt. He put in a good word and got her a position as his ‘assistant’. After graduating, she starts training with him full-time as his partner. 19. Which Unforgivable Curse would they hate to have used on them the most? Imperius. Dying from Avada Kedavra is quick and painless while the pain of the Crucio can ebb and flow, but not being able to control her own body and actions? The thought that someone could use her to hurt the people she loves or even innocent muggles terrifies her.

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An Introduction To The Ins And Outs Of The Bible

If you somehow happened to close your eyes and imagine the most exciting topic you could at any point study, chances are bibliology isn't the one that would come to mind. At the point when I found out it was one of the first classes I needed to take during my freshman semester at Ethnos360 Bible Institute, I was less than excited. Bibliology? Truly? How about something more exciting, similar to Romans or Galatians? Studying bibliology conjured up images of dry dusty bookshelves and old scholars spending hours pouring over the details of decrepit scrolls. Incredible tomfoolery.

>>Source:  Bibliologia estudo

However, while Bibliology started as simply a necessary class, I started finding genuine fervor and amazement instead of the boredom I had anticipated.

What Is Bibliology?

Bibliology could look like a major word, however it's just the doctrine of the Bible. That ending, 'ology' means 'the study of', and the beginning, 'biblio' means 'relating to a book or books.' 'Biblio' is derived from the Greek word used for 'papyrus'. Papyrus was the sort of "paper" God's Word was originally composed on - scrolls upon scrolls that were painstakingly copied by scribes through the centuries. In any case, more on that topic in a later post. The plural form of this Greek word was "biblia" and it signified "the books".

So when we study Bibliology we are studying the book - the Bible - how it became, and what it says about itself.

For what reason Do We Need Bibliology? Bibliology gives us answers, proofs, and a historical record of where the Bible came from, how it was composed, and how it has been preserved up to this point. It affirms our confidence in the authenticity and legitimacy of Scripture. In other words, we really want Bibliology because it gives us confidence that the book we are believing and basing our lives on is genuine.

A subject that might seem all dry facts at first look becomes critical to our confidence as Christians in today's world.

"At the point when we study bibliology we can be confident that what we have today is the Word of God; it hasn't been changed over the ages." - Jeb, Ethnos360 Bible Institute graduated class

Around here at Ethnos 360 Bible Institute, we accept all Christ followers need basically a basic understanding of Bibliology for three reasons:

-To understand both how and why God's Word came to us.

-To have absolute confidence that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, and to be confident that we can live and bite the dust leaning on an unshakable conviction in God's Word and not be disappointed in the least.

-To enable us to remain consistent with the confidence with assurance as we interact in a world of skeptics who are sometimes hostile to our confidence.

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2020 Reading Challenge!

It’s that time again!

I love the beginning of a new year (and in this case – a new DECADE!). This time of year always gives inspiration and hope for new beginnings, new adventures and the good vibes that come with a New Year! I love it all!

Since we have started a new year, that means it’s time to set a new reading goal and the Good Reads Reading Challengehas started all over again! If you…

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wet rat

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the context list items were supposed to be links!! fuck!! sorry!!

notails species entry: https://cosmosdex.com/cosmosdex/species/notail

the traitdex: https://cosmosdex.com/cosmosdex/traits/

hey can we make au versions of your characters (i am specifically thinking about the "what would the [x fandom] version of these characters be" type of au)

absolutely. in fact i would absolutely LOVE to see that. really interested to see what happens

[thebookshire]

Obviously, I've got my packing essentials straight. 💥. Sorry for my absence the past couple of day! I've been packing frantically for London and then we spent today driving to LA to catch our flight tomorrow morning! But I promise you lots and lots of amazing England pics once we're there. I'm bringing my beautiful copy of A Conjuring of Light, which came just in time since we had to leave today to make the 11 hour drive here. Flying out of LAX is so much cheaper than SLC but the drive was loong. Thank goodness we have amazing friends out here who let us crash with them tonight. 💥. We had to pack super light since we didn't want to pay for lots of luggage, but I managed to squeeze in my essential British lit items for pictures! And some Sherlock goodies from this month's SUPERB #Sherlock themed #nerdypost box. So, basically, I'm just warning ya'll that there are going to be lots and lots of UK photos taken. I may possibly spam you guys with them. You've been warned. 💥. Any of you have any England trip recs? What UK editions should I buy? I definitely have a few I'll be looking out for. But I'm curious to know which UK editions you like better than the US edition. 💥. Shops are tagged (their our some @nerdy.post spoilers in there from this month's box - so don't look too closely if you haven't received yours yet!). 💥. #books #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #read #reader #yabooks #ireadya #biblio #totalbooknerd #bookstagramfeature #goodreads #epicreads #fiercereads #yalit #bookishfeatures #tbr #bookishpretty #bookphotography #igreads #bookishmerchfeatures

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