#dennis e taylor

[dndspellgifs]

never since The Wheel of Time have I seen a worse case of [straight white] male author-itis than with the Bobiverse series

[rosemariecawkwell]

My favourite Sci Fi and Fantasy 2024

[sarah-ankh]

When are we gonna start seeing fan art of the dragons? I can't wait but I can't draw for shit.

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Missing motorsport right now so here is Formula E racing tunes to help with the lack of racing (the song is the position of their racing numbers in the charts). Enjoy 😊😊

Lucas Di Grassi (11th August 1984) - Phil Fearon & Galaxy - Everybody's Laughing

Sam Bird (9th January 1987) - Oran 'Juice' Jones - The Rain

Edoardo Mortara (12th January 1987) - Cameo - Candy

Sebastien Buemi (31st October 1988) - The Beatmasters With PP Arnold - Burn It Up

Jean-Eric Vergne (25th April 1990) - Erasure - Blue Savannah

Robin Frijns (7th August 1991) - The Shamen - Move Any Mountain

Antonio Felix Da Costa (31st August 1991) - Simple Minds - Stand By Love

Nico Muller (25th February 1992) - The Cult - Heart Of Soul

Stoffel Vandoorne (26th March 1992) - CeCe Peniston - Finally

Norman Nato (8th July 1992) - Sophie B Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

Oliver Rowland (10th August 1992) - 2 Unlimited - Magic Friend

Jordan King (26th February 1994) - Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain

Jake Hughes (30th May 1994) - The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance)

Mitch Evans (24th June 1994) - Maxx - Get-A-Way

Nick Cassidy (19th August 1994) - DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Summertime

Pascal Wehrlein (18th October 1994) - Coolio - I Remember

Nyck De Vries (6th February 1995) - Suede - New Generation

Jake Dennis (16th June 1995) - Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody

Kelvin Van Der Linde (20th June 1996) - Gloria Estefan - Reach

Max Gunther (2nd July 1997) - Eternal ft Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One

Sergio Sette Camara (23rd May 1998) - Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November

Joel Eriksson (28th June 1998) - B*Witched - C'est La Vie

Jehan Daruvala (1st October 1998) - Sarah McLachlan - Adia

Dan Ticktum (8th June 1999) - Basement Jaxx - Red Alert

Sacha Fenestraz (28th July 1999) - Maw PTS India - To Be In Love

Paul Aron (4th February 2004) - Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe

Taylor Barnard (1st June 2004) - Anastacia - Left Outside Alone

Added to this playlist 😊😊

[kindheartedgummybears]

guess who got bored and decided to color-swatch most of the lh characters

now obviously take all of this with a grain of salt since we all know color-picking from screenshots and models isn't the best way to get their skin tone due to color theory and color-picking being pixel but pixel but its the general kind of skin tone they have so <3

all images sourced from HariboStixx on DeviantArt.

[blackinperiodfilms]

Lawmen: Bass Reeves | Official Trailer | Paramount+

From Executive Producers Taylor Sheridan and David Oyelowo comes the untold story of the most legendary lawman in the Old West: Bass Reeves. Lawmen: Bass Reeves, follows the journey of Reeves (Oyelowo) and his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during the course of his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family.

Stream the series premiere of Lawmen: Bass Reeves on November 5, exclusively on Paramount+.

[littlewormgrant]

Bobiverse: Taking Another Approach

Bob Clone - Leela (OC) 928 words

A/N: This is completely self indulgent fic and not my usual gibberish but I'm a fan of the Bobiverse series and wanted to tackle a plot that I felt didn't quite land for me in the books. Also I just wanted to geek out over space and one of my favorite systems. I'm writing the kind of things I'd want to read.

Summary: I came online, aptly named myself Leela, then stuck around and completed the tasks I was created for. I wasn’t the first Bob to identify as female and I certainly wouldn’t be the last. The moment I was given the green light to go, I was getting the hell out of there. (A canon compliant one-shot fic continuing from where the Dragon plotline was left off in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost. Spoilers ahead if you've not read it.)

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The worst part of immortality was how it didn’t also strip me of my humanity. I’d have thought by now the replicative drift would’ve beaten it out of me.

I could have been doing anything I wanted in this little corner of the universe, and I’m still trying to scratch an itch that has been plaguing me since Bob’s time on Earth. Sometimes, being a Von Neumann probe was about as much fun as trying to bathe and pill a cat. Spike was never a fan of water and had been even less tolerant of it whenever meds were involved.

I came online, aptly named myself Leela, then stuck around and completed the tasks I was created for. I wasn’t the first Bob to identify as female and I certainly wouldn’t be the last. The moment I was given the green light to go, I was getting the hell out of there.

Surveying the Dragons was interesting and all, but it had been almost a year since Bridget and Howard’s escapades, and we still couldn’t even get close enough with our Drannies without a buzz of angry noises and spears being chucked at us. I guess some grudges do hold. Could you blame them?

The predictions that they’d have centuries on Lemuria were vastly underestimating just how devastating the volcanoes were going to be each cycle. We’d be left with a minuscule fraction of the population we started with after this beatdown. Some of us didn’t want to wait around to see what untold horrors the next would bring. Not to mention the damage it’ll do to their genetic diversity.

Honestly, I probably could’ve stuck around a few more decades and tried working on it with them, but it felt like beating a dead horse at this point. The planet still sucked. We weren’t wanted. It was like being back on Earth with Faith all over again.

Jabberwocky was quickly becoming difficult to observe through the layer of thick atmosphere the volcanoes in Atlantis were producing. By all accounts, the Dragon’s shouldn’t have survived this long but they were hanging on, so I guess we had some moral responsibility to help.

Stupid humanity.

I’d have been more reluctant to go if I was completely abandoning them to their fate, but Marlow was in-system already working with the others on an evacuation plan for those still stranded on Atlantis. A colony ship was already underway in off-chance he was able to save anyone. I felt more useful setting out to survey another possible accommodation for those who were willing to leave.

TRAPPIST-1 is a mere 9 percent the mass of our sun back in Sol, the entire system can fit comfortably within the space of Mercury’s orbit. All huddled around the remnants of a campfire. With planets being so close together they would interfere with each other gravitationally, causing large tidal changes on all sides - which was both a good and bad thing when looking for a potential spot for squishy humans that aren’t all that great at swimming. But maybe not such a problem for Dragons if we could set them up with artificial platforms that imitate floaters. Then there was the case of ensuring they had a diet they could sustain themselves on. I’d tell myself that was a problem for some other future Bob, but knowing my luck I’d be the sucker to do it.

I understand why this system wasn’t selected for other colonial projects. The Aquarius constellation had roughly 12-17 stars that hosted known exoplanets. There’s potentially 300 million other habitable planets to pick from in our galaxy alone, and if the focus was more on G-class stars like our own in the Sol system, then that’s still at least a good 21 million potential habitats to pick from before TRAPPIST would even make the cut.

That’s not accounting for all the planets claimed by those species that had packed up and jumped ship already. Or any more like the Others that were picking them clean. I wasn’t being overly picky in where I surveyed first, it was as good a place to start as any. Maybe a small part of me wanted to geek out over a system with potentially more than one habitable planet. They were few and far between.

Red dwarf stars would certainly outlive all others. They made up more than half of all stars and were likely the last to be around to see the end of time, but that also came with cons of its own. The habitable zone for such stars being so much closer to their host meant they were one tiny fart of plasma away from all kinds of damage to technology and the magnetic spheres.

Once I made it there I’d have to assess if this was a big enough risk to pursue or not. It didn’t help these stars were all pumped up on beans compared to yellow dwarfs. So really, it was a good thing Dragons haven’t gotten to the technological stages of their advancement. One less thing for them to complain about I suppose.

Plus, you know, our galaxy was about to be hit with the mother of all black holes in the distant future. Not an immediate threat but it was absolutely a danger to everything we’ve been building towards. This only had to be a temporary solution for now, right? I could pack up and go on my way again and not be roped into any more Dragon bullshit. Probably, hopefully...

Please don’t let me get roped back in.

[linyve]

Day 20: Book you’ve read the most number of times

I am going to break the rules here and not use the book I have read the most number of times, but the series I have read the most times. It is actually quite a fun story about how I came across these books. They were recommended to me by one of my coworkers back in 2017 or 18. I started reading the first book and I really disliked the first 7 chapters, so much so that I let my co-worker know and…

[spryfilm]

Full Trailer: “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” (2023)

[rosemariecawkwell]

New audiobook review: Not Till We Are Lost, by Dennis E Taylor

Series:Bobiverse (#5)Narrator: Ray PorterFormat: Audible AudioPublished: September 5, 2024 by Audible OriginalsLanguage: English Description The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed with humor, geek references and thought-provoking storylines”, and performed by “a true master story teller and actor” returns as the Bobs face their…

[geekcavepodcast]

Lawmen: Bass Reeves Trailer

Lawmen: Bass Reeves tells of Bass Reeves' "rise from enslavement to law enforcement as the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during the course of his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family." (Paramount Plus.

Lawmen: Bass Reeves stars David Oyelowo, Dennis Quaid, Lauren E. Banks, Demi Singleton, Barry Pepper, Forrest Goodluck, and Donald Sutherland. Oyelowo and Taylor Sheridan are executive producers. Chad Feehan serves as showrunner, creator, and an executive producer on the miniseries.

Lawmen: Bass Reeves premieres on Paramount+ on November 5, 2023.

[formulaewags]

Here are Formula E Wags List for 2024/2025 Season!

[hannaedits]

Book Review: Heaven's River (Bobiverse #4) by Dennis E. Taylor

Read my reviews of the previous books in the Bobiverse series: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (#1) | For We Are Many (#2) | All These Worlds (#3) The previous three books in this series work as a complete trilogy, but life doesn’t stop when the curtain closes. The versions of Bob that we’re most familiar with are still dealing with the long-term effects of events in the previous books, up to and…

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

And because it is also FE race weekend too, I give you motorsport number twos US edition for the Formula E grid. Enjoy 😊😊

Lucas Di Grassi (11th August 1984) - Prince - When Doves Cry

Sam Bird (9th January 1987) - Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Edoardo Mortara (12th January 1987) - Duran Duran - Notorious

Sebastien Buemi (31st October 1988) - The Beach Boys - Kokomo

Jean-Eric Vergne (25th April 1990) - Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love

Robin Frijns (7th August 1991) - Rythm Syndicate - P.A.S.S.I.O.N.

Antonio Felix Da Costa (31st August 1991) - Roxette - Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)

Nico Muller (25th February 1992) & Stoffel Vandoorne (26th March 1992) - Mr Big - To Be With You

Norman Nato (8th July 1992) - Mariah Carey - I'll Be There

Oliver Rowland (10th August 1992) - Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back

Jordan King (26th February 1994) - Ace Of Base - The Sign

Jake Hughes (30th May 1994) & Mitch Evans (24th June 1994) - Madonna - I'll Remember

Nick Cassidy (19th August 1994) - All-4-One - I Swear

Pascal Wehrlein (18th October 1994) - Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do

Nyck De Vries (6th February 1995) - Boyz II Men - On Bended Knee

Jake Dennis (16th June 1995) - Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It

Kelvin Van Der Linde (20th June 1996) - Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby

Max Gunther (2nd July 1997) - Hanson - Mmmbop

Sergio Sette Camara (23rd May 1998) - Next - Too Close

Joel Eriksson (28th June 1998) - Shania Twain - You're Still The One

Jehan Daruvala (1st October 1998) - Monica - The First Night

Dan Ticktum (8th June 1999) - Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love

Sacha Fenestraz (28th July 1999) - Destiny's Child - Bills Bills Bills

Paul Aron (4th February 2004) - Outkast ft Sleepy Brown - The Way You Move

Taylor Barnard (1st June 2004) - Mario Winans ft Enya & P.Diddy - I Don't Wanna Know

All added to this playlist 😊😊

[kvetchlandia]

Dennis Hopper Andy Warhol with Gregory Markopoulos, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga Jack Smith and Others, the Factory, E.47th St, New York City 1963