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kulturalnylunatyk · 1 year ago

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2023, szybkie podsumowanie

teatr: O połowę mniej niż rok temu, ale za to bardzo mocna czołówka. I tak, wciąż - tylko tu jeszcze coś iskrzy.

Art of Living, Kallwat, Stary

Jak nie zabiłem swojego ojca, Pakuła, Łaźnia

Biesy Endemonidos, Wierzchowski, Opole

Ulisses, Kleczewska, Poznań

My way, Krystyna Janda

Melodramat, Anna Smolar, Powszechny

Spartakus. Miłość w czasach zarazy, Skrzywnek, Szczecin

Poza tym, bez kolejności: Botticelli, Świątek, Słowak; Świat jest gdzie indziej, M.Czarnik, AST Opera za trzy grosze, Montag, Stary; Książę niezłomny, Warsicka, Stary; Lalka, Klem, Słowak (po raz drugi); Lazarus, Klata, Capitol Wrocław; Genialna Przyjaciółka, Marciniak, Stary; Żywot i śmierć w Sacramento Hersha Libkina, Kielce; Goście wieczerzy pańskiej, Nowy Teatr, Fryzeł/Bergman; Balkony. Pieśni miłosne, Lupa, Teatr w Podziemiu Wrocław; Sen nocy letniej, Klata, Poznań; Lear, Andrzej Seweryn; Zmierzch długiego dnia, Perceval, Stary Empuzjon, Talarczyk, Katowice

a na deser top 5 „o ja pierdolę”

Marzyciele, Teatr Barakhah ("o ja pierdolę" do kwadratu)

Inteligenci, W. Malajkat

Niespodziewany powrót, Karolak & Olbrychski

1984.Ministerstwo miłości, Ludowy

Act of Killing, Klata, Słowak

seriale: Umiarkowanie, jakby się kończyły. Czyżby został już nam tylko Taylor Sheridan i powtórki z Mad Men? 1. Sukcesja (finał) 2. Tokyo Vice 3. The Last of Us, West Wing (Sorkin!) 4. 1923 (Taylor!), Biały Lotos (s.2), Szpieg wśród przyjaciół 5. The Offer, Emigracja XD, Spy/Master, Uczciwa kobieta

reszta chronologicznie, od końca: The Crown (s.final), Slow Horses (s.03), 1670, Idol, Warszawianka, Collateral, Trzy dni kondora, Dobre matki, Zakłamane życie dorosłych, Yellowstone (s.05)

filmy: w tym roku z braku czasu i tytułów wyszło trochę mało, ale genialny Tar nadrabia luki!

Tar

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W gorsecie

Kos, Filip, Horror Story

Fabelmanowie, Mars Express, Living, Babilon

reszta chronologicznie, od końca: The 50 Year Argument, Na ścieżce wojennej, Czas krwawego księżyca, Goonies, Chleb i sól, Freestyle, Air, Prywatna wojna, Chłopi, 21 Jump Street, Pan Samochodzik, Glass onion, Aftersun, Kosmiczne maszyny, Sharper, Duchy Inisherin, Argentyna 1985, Niebezpieczni Dżentelmeni. Ale może warto jakoś osobno zaznaczyć te niemoralnie złe produkcje: Różyczka 2 i Lewandowski Nieznany

czytanie: wydawało się że było tego bardzo mało. a lista całkiem pokaźna. Z regularności to już tylko Dwutygodnik, ale i to po łebkach, i tam nadal wybitne felietony O.Hund(!), czasem jeszcze Bieńczyk w Ksiązkach. 1. Gwiazda piołun - Andrzej Franaszek 2. Ford. Reżyser - Michał Danielewicz 3. Wiersze - Robert Haas, 3. Orwell - Dzienniki z folwarku 4. Schron przeciwczasowy - Gospodinow 4. Wygnaniec. Biografia Baumana - Domosławski 5. Akwarium - o Związku Literatów Polskich - Tomasz Potkaj

Poza tym rozczarowujące umiarkowanie: Odrzania Rokity, To jest ten wiatr Nowaka, Miłość w czasach zarazy Marqueza, Empuzjon Tokarczuk, Kult Orbitowskiego, (nie)miły facet Glovera, Który tak śpiewa - o ptakach, teksty zebrane pod red. Kornhausera, Lekka przesada Zagajewski, Powszednia historia Sebastian Nowak, Marzenia filmowe Andrzeja Wajdy - Janickiego, Andrzej i Krystyna - późne obowiązki, Odbiorca ubezwłasnowolniony Barańczak, Mieszaniny Jan Błoński, Wypisy z ksiąg użytecznych - Miłosz, Rośliny w wierzeniach i zwyczajach ludowych - Fischer, Przebłyski historii - o Leopoldzie Buczkowskim, Notatnik osobisty - Joseph Conrad, Listy znad jeziora Como - Romano Guardini, Wszystkie drogi prowadzą na Krupniczą, Małe folio - Mrowcewicz, 3-tomowy inwentarz biblioteki Miłosza, komiksy - Wydział 7, SPATIF - Szarłat, Rodzina Monet, Koronkowa robota - Łazarewicz. Ale - Pan Samochodzik Niemirskiego jest zaskakująco niezły!

granie: jakoś bez rewelacji i wielkich zachwytów, dlatego w kolejności jakości: Oxenfree 2 - Bryant Cannon, Stray - Blue Twelve, Hogwarts Legacy, Immortality S.Barlow, 12 minutes - Louis Antonio, Florence - Ken Wong. No i wielki powrót czyli remake Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 (!)

outdoor: za mało wyjść i wystaw, no bo czesiek i wyjazdy! Ale udało się wyrwać parę zachwytów: Palazzo Barberini w branżowym anturażu, codzienności Joanny Turek (Mocak), Bruno Schulz (Mocak), wrocławskie murale na Roosvelta, ogród Bellingham, dom napoleona na Elbie, muzeum i studio Paramount, themepark Universala

jedzenie: bardzo, bardzo dużo dobroci i przyjemności. Filthy Fried Food wielokrotnie, podobnie jak Diavola w Nolio, a poza tym świętomarciński obiad (gęsie serca w żurku), pizza z kwadratowego psa, gdyńskie chapki, czyżby najlepsza pizza ever w Quarterspace w LA, tamże dajner Burger'n'Pie, in-&-out, butterbeer w Harry Potter World, dużo dobrego we Włoszech (Elba i rzymskie smaki od Rachel Roddy), śniadania i kolacje w Cannes, wspaniały winebar w Nicei i przepyszne bistro pożegnalne w tejże, wybitna uczta w bistro w Annecy, roztoczańskie łupcie z kaszą gryczaną, kaszubskie ryby, poznańscy winnowiercy, wrocławski kotlet w Młodej Polsce, uczty w Bibendzie, smaczności w kropce, samotne Lupo, wspólna Madonna i Allora. Do tego dużo dobrego na tarasie, fenelowa majówka u kasi, ostatki balkonowe na Sarego, pijane Confetti Fest, gulasz u Andertów, cykl styp i pogrzebin w Żonglerce, pizza u Konrada, wigilia Pigeon, Ekipy i Wieliczka

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aliterarydumpsterfire · 2 years ago

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In the Shadow of Heroes

The document stared back at Natian. The blank space above the signature line waited for him, right below the name that had no right to haunt him as it did.

"Commander?" The young man's voice cut the silence, and Natian shook himself to the present. In the doorway an Alliance midshipman stood, folio half-open in expectancy.

"Oh! Right." Natian looked back down at the document. This time he would sign it, he really would. Now that it was in front of him, his resolve evaporated. But it had to be him.

"What's your name, son?"

"Aidanson, sir. Zalias Aidanson." An Earth Migrant like himself. With a name like that it was hard to mistake him for anything else. The Earthers had a habit of naming their children after their 'heroes', even if that heroism was short-lived.

Former Range Admiral Zalias Walsh fell from grace in a spectacular display of poor judgment and underestimation of the Pact… including Natian himself. His administration ended with Walsh drunkenly firing a mint condition Earth American made Colt .45 through the glass of his bath suite, aiming wildly and swearing 'til he hit the floor with Natian's bullet between his eyes.

Walsh had been his hero at one time, but that was long ago. The Hero of the Alliance had not been elected to govern. He knew nothing of policy or appeasement. He understood strongmen and naked force, nothing else. Disgraced Governor Zalias Walsh died fighting as both.

Natian wondered if he would be seen that way someday. Would someone else be staring down at a death warrant like he was now, thinking the same things? How many leaders would fall by his hand in the name of the Alliance?

Lyns had always told him that the history of humankind was filled with revolutionaries. She called it a chorus of silk slippers descending and wooden shoes climbing. Natian’s shoes must have looked comfortable to a civilian by now, just like Zalias Walsh’s before him.

It was a thought that lurked too often of late. He shook his head, forcing himself to focus. He turned back to the officer.

"Zalias is a rare name to own up to these days. How old are you?"

The midshipman nodded with a nervous smile. "Eighteen, sir."

His own son was eight, named in the same Earther fashion as the unfortunate officer before him. Ten more years and he might be standing in that same doorway as Aidanson, waiting for some inconsequential document to be signed. Only this one wouldn't be inconsequential to his son. Not ever.

Natian swirled his glass, letting the melted ice blend into the amber liquid. It was all procrastination.

"Midshipman. No need to wait in the doorway. I’ll be handling this personally. You're dismissed."

The younger man gave a slight bow, backing out of the pod with more deference than strictly necessary. Even after eight years Natian still couldn't adjust to the near-worship officers treated him with. Being the Natian Shipstrong had its perks, though. He couldn't think of any off the top of his head, not while staring down a death warrant, but he was sure there were some. In other times.

For his actions during the Pact Coup Natian Shipstrong inspired a generation of sons named for him, including his own. If his parents were still alive they would have been horrified-- their son, a symbol of their desire to abandon the establishment, now the ultimate symbol of an ever-expanding regime.

It felt like an age since then, not eight years. He'd never met his son, just as Lyns preferred. She kept the boy from the public eye, insulated by Earther tutors and Venusian minders. Her radical cronies began laying the seeds for succession early. The child of the Migrant's cause, the issue of heroes. Who could be more sympathetic to the future of biologically 'pure' Earthers?

By the time the child was of age, no doubt she'd be pushing for his 'inheritance'. Natian didn't know his son, but he'd be damned if the race he fought to protect was handed to a brat raised by terrorists.

Unless he signed the order.

The holodoc chirped, still waiting for his signature. A notification showed at the top of the slip, just a single line blinking the message.

The Alliance needs a response.

He blinked, eyes dry. He couldn't deny his reluctance as he once again stared at the empty signature line. At one time he thought things would be different. That was before the radicals and their charming regent Orion Myles.

Unbidden, the man's face appeared on his implant screen, scrolling an endless ticker tape of redacted classified information next to the blinking 'INTER-SYS TERRORIST'. If he wanted, Natian could access it with his rank and code. He flicked the image away. The general's personal feelings and masochistic curiosity had been buried long ago.

His fingers slid over the holodoc, pressing his thumb next to the waiting signature field. His name followed, and another press of his thumb to certify. A new message flickered at the header of the document.

0500. Gaspra Unit, Sgt Pallas. RDV at Command.

Natian glanced at the time. He downed the rest of his glass and rocked in his chair, teetering on the two back legs. The lock clicked in place, keeping the chair balanced as he sank into the plush cushions.

"Spectra, wake me in four hours." The pod lights lowered and gave an acknowledgment chirp. A low-grade sleeping additive filtered through pressurized vents in a heavy wave of lavender. He closed his eyes.

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They were on the Insatiable-- the commandeered Alliance ship with all the new tech the Pact couldn't afford. It was a flagship of the uprising and a symbol of the establishment's failure.

Natian had never seen Lyns more beautiful. Her eyes sparkled with excitement behind the plasma-proof helmet. Her armor plated her body like a second, droid-like skin; he savored the way she took deep, heaving breaths and knew exactly what that looked like under all that armor-- soft, pliable flesh that responded to his own. Her Pact tattoos peeked out at the neck, geometric lines and shapes reaching up her scalp. They told of a proud, fearless patriot. Their friends treated her like a hero, dauntless and pure. But Lyns Runia was so much more.

He wanted to pry off each plate of AlloySafe one by one right there in the airlock, let the rest of the Pact leadership see who the indomitable Lyns Runia got on her knees for. Only they knew what this life cost them, and the price they still had to pay for their actions. There wasn’t a bounty out on the crew’s head. Only Lyns and Natian’s. More than anything or anyone, they needed each other.

She hefted her Astra Peacemaker. “Ready?” Those nebular green pools of hers were all determination.

He nodded, and raised his twin print. She’d printed them both, their Securicodes etched in the grips, modded to glow a faint ultraviolet in the right hands. “Let’s make history.”

They approached the cargo bay with pride swelling through the ranks, armbands rippling among rows of stoic faces.

Above the dock bay doors a scrolling banner read: ‘Just once more, unto the breach.’ Lyns loved her folksy Earth phrases. Her followers loved them maybe even more. Ancient passages from Earth whipped up a zeal for pride in their heritage, in the beings that reached the heavens in their unrelenting will to survive.

She invoked that love now, raising her Peacemaker at the head of the march. The words thundered in Natian’s ears as they advanced in lockstep. “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!”

The cheering started, drowning out half of her words, but her eyes were alight with adrenaline and passion. Their faces flushed, hands linked, he could feel his pulse in his fingertips. Or maybe it was her’s.

“But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage….”

He wanted to kiss her, but squeezed her hand instead. She threw him a quick smile and went to the bay controls, whirling back to the crew.

“For the Pact! For the Migrants! For the Outer Rocks!” The chant went up as she slammed her hand down on the panel.

The doors swung open, planetside fresh air rushing in as the lift gate lowered. The five peaks of the Alliance embassy rose in the east with the Twin Suns, gleaming in the young light of day.

By nightfall, the sirens filled the compound, and the flames could have reached the heavens…

Natian jolted awake as the alarm built around him, pulling him away from images of the firelit Embassy.

With a drowsy wispy grasp he clung to memories he hadn’t lived for nearly a decade. He hadn't dreamed of her, or the Pact Coup, in a long time. It’d been so real, down to how she smelled, and her warmth as they marched shoulder to shoulder. Her zeal was just as intoxicating now as it was then.

More than anything he wished he could live in that moment, remember something more beautiful today than what was to come. Bring it back. I want it back.

The night the Alliance capitulated to the Pact they made love like never before. Breathing clean planetside air, they felt more alive than in seven years of risking death to get there. The exhilaration of victory flowed through them-- they couldn’t sleep if they tried.

In celebration, the emergency sirens were activated and blared down every corridor. The possession of the Embassy felt so unreal. They made a bonfire on the steps and drank spirits from Earther crystal, marveling at the decadence.

It wasn’t until the small hours of the morning that the fatigues of battle felt like millstones. They claimed the Governor’s Suite as their own and one by one, each piece of AlloySafe was set aside, every stitch of clothing came off.

After clearing away only the largest of the broken glass from Walsh's last stand, they bathed each other in silence. Lavender and sweat mingled in the steam of the shower, sloughing off with sudsy worshipful strokes. She washed his feet like her folk heroes on Earth, and they both took off their contraception bands.

“It was the way God meant us to be,” she’d told him.

Natian had never believed in God, but if he’d ever felt the presence of Him it was then. The Embassy may as well have been a cathedral.

Lyns’s fervor for dusty old doctrines became something of a curiosity after her pregnancy became public. It was a rare choice for any person to choose to conceive, let alone carry a child. Deep in the tenuous balance of coup success, while he turned to infrastructure, Lyns turned to Orion Myles and his brand of religious extremism. Natian never saw the baby boy he’d given part of himself to create. Perhaps it was better that way.

It wasn’t until the formal transfer of power that Natian realized Lyns wanted nothing to do with the business of running a country. She left the bureaucracy to him and their fellow Pact leaders, taking command of the fleet instead. She never felt comfortable planet-side.

Unmoored and alone, Natian was thrown into a new kind of leadership. Martial Governance, he discovered, required different skills, and created more difficult challenges than merely whipping up enough fervor for the masses to arm themselves. He assimilated into the vacuum of Alliance government, and his revolutionary ideals with him for the greater good.

For a time Lyns was useful to unite the Outer Rock factions in the belt-- she served as a figurehead in the new administration that represented the values of the Pact Migrants.The death warrant Natian signed would see the end of all that. Lyns’s anti-Alliance religious extremism would threaten humanity’s interstellar viability if she were allowed to continue.

Despite backwater planet origins, Natian was not a superstitious man. Still, he couldn’t shake the cold feeling that clung to him as he readied for duty. Even in the steam of his shower he could not scrub off the sense of wrongness for what he was about to do. To dream of Lyns, to remember how it felt, to be back in those moments with her again on the eve of executing her.

A bad omen, she’d say. “Omens are the language of God,” she’d say. But Natian had come to hate religion.

Fuck the omens.

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Lyns hid her wealth well, in a place many astral belt miners would consider close enough to the heavens for it to be the heavens.

The pod they arrived at was at height with the limits of the planet's atmosphere, with a view that few Migrant activists would ever be so fortunate to see. The weak light of the Twin Stars left a faint blue cast over the thick walls of atmosglass as dusky mists rose from below. No real Migrant activist would ever see luxury such as that in their working-class conditions. Mine shafts didn't have glass, or fine tiles, or a view of the Twins.

Red clay from Martian quarries tiled the floor in the Pact insignia, blooming on the pod landing with the richest of the planet’s bounty. Flooring made of Martian clay resisted heat-- next to the door lay a pair of men’s lined silk slippers.

Perhaps the next revolutionary will learn from their mistakes.

“Pod is clear,” the officer reported, saluting Natian from the portwell.

He nodded, strapping on a duty belt. “Myles? And the boy?”

“Both not present, sir.”

A relief. As badly as he wanted to put a bullet between Orion Myles’s eyes, Lyns was the primary.

“Get Command to send a team to find them. Does she know we’re here?”

“Imaging indicated a heat signature in the main room, core temp and heart rate elevated. In possession of a Peacemaker.”

Natian chuckled. Some things never changed. Her home print Astra Peacemaker was always her favorite sidearm of choice, since the very beginning. Even after the weapons manufacturer Astra named one of their print kits after her, she would never retire what had given her the first taste of power.

Natian unholstered. Even with access to any Alliance weapon he’d ever want, it was only right that he used his own print, from all those years ago. It glowed softly in his hands.

He turned to Sergeant Pallas. “Okay.”

Lavender flooded his nostrils as the door swung open and his heart sank. Of course it was lavender. She wouldn’t make it easy for him.

Once more, unto the breach. The commander steeled himself, raised his print, and followed the officer.

She stood watching the Twins rise, a cardigan wrapped tightly around her and a glass in one hand. Her hair usually in a tight bun, was instead mussed to the side. She didn’t look like a revolutionary. She’d probably been waiting there all night.

They’d spent seven years working as one to bend the Alliance to their will. No amount of authorized death warrants could make him feel right about her waiting there, knowing what was to come.

"Natian.”

He didn’t love her. Not anymore. Didn’t hate her, either. Revolutions were complicated things, and the last thing he wanted was another on his hands. It had to be done. He grimaced, tightening his grip on the print.

"Range Commander Lyns Runia. I have a warrant for your execution."

Her voice was cold. Cold and quiet. The atmosglass reflected her face, the dim rising suns illuminating her eyes.

"I'm glad it’s you, Natian." A shadow on her right side twitched. A pin of ultraviolet flashed.

Natian squeezed the trigger. At the sound of the shot she jerked, releasing the Peacemaker to clatter to the clay tile. In an agonizing slow turn she faced him, the soft shhhing of slippers against the floor. Emerald eyes shone out from dark circles, staring back in rebuke to Natian.

He fired again. A dark wet stain bloomed at her chest. It blotted out her Pact tattoos, soon coating her cardigan and hands. She sank against the curved glass, crimson smearing down the window in her wake. The rising Twins shone through the smears with an innocent pink tint.

“I’m glad, too.”

Natian chose to let the ringing in his ears drown out the silence. It was better than the wet gurgle of her last breaths.

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I was born to leadership. It was in my blood.

Out of the seven men who shared the same name on the Alliance Coalition, only one had the right to be called Natian and he was my father. To my squadmates and even to the minders who raised me I was called Runia, another child in a long list of names from former revolutionaries and terrorists alike.

At a young age I was thrust into a system that was rife with the orphans of “persons of history”, as we were called. We underwent ‘re-education’, and came out the most fiercest defenders of the Alliance.

For a time I think I even forgot my own first name, like it was a classification and not the name my mother gave me. Just another orphan named for the hero of the Pact, just another cadet in the military complex that didn’t care what my name was. No one knew that the man who led the Alliance had a part in making me-- who would believe that, anyway?

Though I’d served under Natian in the Unrest, I never met him. He issued orders, I followed them. I doubt he even knew my first name. By the time I wore a medal of office Natian Shipstrong was another disgraced bureaucrat, inconsequential and forgotten, albeit having longer tenure than most. It wasn’t until I assumed command of my own boat that an archivist bothered to tell me I was his son. It would’ve been a relief to know he was my father, instead of Orion Myles.

“Do you remember the Unrest skirmishes of ‘38?” I rocked forward in my chair, my one government-sanctioned luxury in Astran leather. Hard to get in outer ring planets, but no one could say I hadn’t earned it, least of all the prisoner across from me.

The older man’s eyes drifted to the ceiling beams. I wondered if he recognized his old office, even if the paint color had changed. His slow nod and fleeting grimace in the silence said he remembered it all.

He’d worn that same expression on the steps of the Alliance embassy after the Outer Rocks negotiations in ‘38 turned to riots. I’d memorized every line of his face as the rebels fell over themselves to surrender to him.

No one would recognize him anymore, the homeless drunk the investigators found in the streets of New Alliance.

“I worshiped you, you know that?”

His chuckle was just as I remembered. “You sure did. Near pissed yourself just to be in the same squad.”

As a cadet of eighteen Natian Shipstrong had been everything to me. It was every child’s dream to serve with a patriot, a decorated war hero, especially their namesake.

In my heart there was still a part of me that worshipped him, though he had little resemblance to the man I’d served under. I’d never been one for religion, or whatever it was my mother and her cohorts believed. Maybe I was too far removed, being raised planetside after her death.The Embassy was my church. Ambition was my form of piety, and Natian was my patron saint.

“Your mother would be proud of you, son. You accomplished things she never could.” Son. As if he knew anything about fatherhood.

I traced the lines of the print on the desk. It was a find I’d taken the liberty of claiming from the extensive property lockers the Alliance kept on all “persons of history”. I didn’t have to check the code under the grip. Before I’d even located it in the catalog I knew exactly whose it was.

“You don’t get to talk about my mother, Natian.”

“Lyns Runia was a formidable leader.” He grimaced again, shifting the restraints that bit into his wrists. “Hard to serve with at times. Helluva woman.”

“Don’t.” The word caught in my throat.

“Never let anyone call her ‘sir’. With us in the Rocks Annex, took the Alliance’s mortars just like us. I loved her. We all did.”

The archive device flickered as I slid it to the middle of the desk. The holodoc floated in bright plasma between us. His authorization code glowed underneath the orders, dated for twenty years ago to the day. He stared through it back to me, wordless.

The print had never felt heavier as I picked it up with a clammy palm.

“I was eight years old.” I’d never known my father. Never knew I’d served him like a simpering puppy, in blind adoration of the man responsible for taking my mother from me.

He shook his head and met my gaze. “The time for violence passed. The new leadership wanted peace. Runia didn’t, she never had. It was the right thing to do. Was only right I was the one to do it.”

Natian sat unmoving as my hands trembled, my mother’s print leveled, finger curled over the trigger. He could at least have the decency to show remorse, but those blue eyes never wavered.

Hot moisture clouded my vision. “Was it like this? Or did you shoot her in the back?”

“Son.” So quiet I almost didn’t hear. No. It was too late for that. He had no right.

“I worshiped you.” I squeezed the trigger. The shot thundered through the study, sending my ears ringing.

His expression didn't change, only stiffened as the bullet entered his body and blood seeped down his chest. To veterans like Natian and I, the familiar bee sting feeling of a bullet passing through the body was unsurprising at best. He met my eyes.

I fired again, and this time he slowly slumped as crimson fountained from his temple.

I never knew my father. But I knew I was born to greatness.

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bluehatted · 5 years ago

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 years ago

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Quantifying copyright reversion

At its outset, American copyright provided for 14 years of exclusivity, renewable for another 14 years by the author, but — crucially — not by the publisher. This was a shrewd move by the US Framers, because it meant the publisher had to convince the author to file paperwork.

Most authors have very little bargaining leverage at the outset of their publishing deals, and even when the author’s prior accomplishments afford them some bargaining power, a new book is, by definition, an unknown quantity, and the fair price for it is debatable.

Then (as now), the majority of works are no longer commercially viable after 14 years. But for authors of the minority of works that thrive over long terms, renewal is an opportunity to reopen publisher negotiations from a position of strength.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436186

The author could say, “When I sold you this book, neither of us could say how it would fare, so you paid me a modest sum. 14 years later, it is earning for you, and if you wish to continue to enjoy exclusive rights to it, I demand that you share that bounty with me.”

If the publisher demurred, the author could simply walk away from the negotiations. The book’s copyright would not renew, other printers could produce their own editions at or near the marginal cost. The publisher would lose all, the author would be no worse off.

Some form of renewal endured in US copyright for many years, and even after it was abolished, US copyright retained a measure intended to address creators’ unbalanced negotiating power with their investors (studios, labels, publishers, etc): Reversion.

Essentially, US copyright lets creators to claim back their rights after 35 years (depending on the work’s age), even if their contracts are for longer terms. This right can’t be contracted away, either: a clause that says “I won’t ever revert my rights” is not enforceable.

Reversion could allow creators to renegotiate their deals, but it has other benefits. For scholarly authors — who must sign away all rights, for free, to publish in journals that charge fortunes for access — it’s a chance to get those works into the public domain.

For authors, it’s a partial answer to the conundrum of ebooks and print-on-demand, which have made contractual reversion obsolete (publishers historically gave your rights back when the book was out of print, but ebooks and PoDs are never out of print).

And for creators who were tricked into signing away their rights, it’s a chance to get them back.

But for all that, reversion is woefully rare, because the process is so complex, uncertain and obscure.

For years, the Authors Alliance has provided tools for creators seeking to revert their works, but even with this assistance, the process is daunting.

https://www.authorsalliance.org/resources/rights-reversion-portal/

Efforts to improve the system have been hampered by a huge data-void. The US Copyright Office’s databases are woefully and infamously clunky, incomplete, out-of-date and under-resourced.

This is a crisis for all creators — if we want to sell our works, then having clear records of our claims on them is essential, first, so buyers can find us, and second, so we can prove that we have the right to sell.

The rights reversion data void hampers international efforts to improve copyright for creators, as in South Africa, where US entertainment cartels exploited the gap to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt in a bid to prevent South African authors from winning reversion rights.

Which is why “U.S. Copyright Termination Notices 1977–2020: Introducing New Datasets,” published today, represents such a milestone. A group of Australian scholars present the first ever comprehensive data on US copyright reversions.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3880708

The authors — Joshua Yuvaraj, Rebecca Giblin, Daniel Russo-Batterham, Genevieve Grant — scraped all Copyright Office data pertaining to reversion, painstakingly processed it, and published it. Here’s the data:

https://melbourne.figshare.com/articles/dataset/_/14880330

and here’s the codebooks:

https://melbourne.figshare.com/articles/online_resource/_/14881941

The paper is up on SSRN today, and has been accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. It’s an eye-popping read, and it reveals the truly dismal state — and vital necessity — of reversion.

Few creators have managed to revert but the ones that have are fascinating. Stephen King is a leading reverter, as are George RR Martin, Nora Roberts and David Eddings. — successful authors who are able to claim back their works and seek new deals based on their track records.

A single YA author — Francine Pascal_ — accounts for nearly all the YA reversions, thanks to her reclaiming of all 305 of her Sweet Valley High novels (in kids’ books, Ann Martin attains another high-water mark for reverting the Baby-Sitters Club books).

But the most fascinating entry is funk titan George Clinton, who pursued his former manager Nene Montes for years, claiming he’d forged Clinton’s signature and defrauded him to steal the rights to most of Clinton’s prodigious and profitable catalog.

https://celebrityaccess.com/caarchive/george-clinton-regains-possession-of-funkadelic-masters/

Thanks to reversion, Clinton was able to finally settle all question of title without expensive litigation — he simply reverted 1,413 works.

These are just the preliminary findings from this landmark, open-access dataset. Other researchers are encouraged to mine it further.

For policy-makers and creators’ advocates, this data finally puts a sound evidentially footing beneath the debate over reversion. US reversion does help creators, but it is badly hamstrung by needless complexity and poor record-keeping.

Improving reversion — simplifying it, or even making it automatic at 25 years — is a no-brainer if you want to improve creators’ share of the bounty of their most successful works.

Not coincidentally, Giblin (one of the authors) and I collaborated on THE SHAKEDOWN, a forthcoming book on how copyright, labor, contracting, and antitrust reforms could actually improve the creators’ share of the profits from their labor.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#monopsony

Image: Shakespeare Documented https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/file/liber-c-folio-161-recto

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lasredesocialesentendencia · 3 years ago

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Twitter

Todos los organismos vivos desde el inicio de los tiempos han buscado comunicarse entre ellos.

La comunicación es el proceso por el que transmite información de una entidad a otra.

Desde los organismos más simples, como son los unicelulares, hasta los organismos más complejos, como es el ser humano, han desarrollado formas de comunicación diferentes, unas más sofisticadas que otras.

El ser humano es el ser vivo que ha conseguido tener formas de comunicación mas complejas

No solo ha evolucionado su forma de comunicarse, sino que ha adaptado el medio y ha creado nuevas herramientas para este fin como....

Las pinturas rupestres,

Desde las señales de humo,

• Las primeras escrituras

• La religión

• El arte y la música

• La imprenta

• El telégrafo y la radio

• Televisión

• Ordenadores

• Internet

Estadísticas y datos

En la actualidad twitter es la red social de mayor crecimiento y proyección, creció un 1.928% en el pasado año, le sigue facebook con un 198%.

Las diferencias entre estas son importantes, en twitter las personas se registran para seguir el tipo de mensajes públicos que quieran, mientras que en facebook los usuarios pueden conectarse directamente solo si uno acepta ser amigo del otro.

Twitter permite a los usuarios transmitir breves flujos de información tanto a conocidos como a extraños, por el contrario. facebook se asemeja mas a una charla entre amigos.

Más de 100 millones de usuarios componen twitter y suman cada día. 300.000 mas, 55 millones de tweets diarios, 640 por segundo, y no solo eso, si imprimiéramos los 7 billones de tweets registrados necesitaríamos 350 millones de folios, suficientes para dar la vuelta al mundo 2 veces y media..

Twitter experimento un gran crecimiento en el momento en el que decidió abrir su portal a otros idiomas, el 61% tweetea en ingles, el 11% en portugués, tan solo el 4% en español y el 18% en otros idiomas.

Las ciudades con más tweets por minuto coinciden con las ciudades con mas actividad del mundo, Nueva York con 1176 o Tokio con 342 son las mas punteras y Barcelona 7º en el ranking envía 116 tweets por minuto.

Historia

Twitter es una red social que permite la posibilidad de enviar mensajes de texto denominados tweets de 140 caracteres como máximo..

Twitter nació en 2006 mediante la compañía Pod Cast Odeo Inc.

Twitter fue creado por un empresario y desarrollador de software llamado Jack Dorsey.

En un principio el nombre fue de Status pasando por Twitch hasta llegar a la actualmente conocido Twitter.

En un año paso de 20000 a 50000 tweets al día.

En 2007 twitter ya valía 55 millones de dólares y actualmente vale 1000 millones de dólares.

Una de las últimas actualizaciones es Twictionary: una aplicación que trata de crear un diccionario de twitter para que los usuarios conozcan las expresiones más utilizadas en esta red social, porque ¿quién no a dudado alguna vez de cómo se escribe tweet?

Noticias curiosas

El cantante colombiano Juanes, elaboro la portada de su actual disco "El Hierbatero", con miles de fotos de sus fans enviadas desde Twitter que unidas formaban la cara del cantante

EE UU exige a Twitter que entregue información sobre los colaboradores de Wikileaks: La política islandesa Birgitta Jónsdóttir, miembro del parlamento de Islandia y antigua voluntaria de Wikileaks ha confirmado la orden que ha hecho el Departamento de Justicia de EE UU a Twitter para que le facilite sus mensajes publicados en esta red social.

El director Tim Burton pide ayuda a sus seguidores de Twitter para escribir un cuento: El proyecto de Twitter se titula Tim Burton's Cadavre Exquis y se trata de un "exquisite corpse", un juego en el que un grupo de personas van añadiendo frases a una hoja de papel para crear una historia.

La actriz Demi Moore vuelve a evitar un suicidio a través de Twitter: La actriz leyó el mensaje de un joven de 18 años en el que declaraba que no quería seguir viviendo. Acto seguido, la actriz avisó a las autoridades que llegaron a tiempo de evitar este suceso.

Contó su parto en Twitter: Rachel Ince, una británica de 29 años, decidió usar Twitter para registrar en 104 mensajes todas sus sensaciones y vivencias antes, durante y después del parto. El día previo ya había elegido la red de microblogging para relatar desde su iPhone a sus 400 seguidores todo lo que le ocurría, informó el diario "Daily Mail

Top 5

Los personajes públicos hacen uso de las redes sociales para mantener una relación más estrecha con sus seguidores y para promocionarse. El que Twitter haya crecido tanto en tan poco tiempo es por el hecho de que haya personajes famosos en esta red social atrayendo la atención de la gente.

El Top 5 de los personajes famosos más seguidos en Twitter este año son:

1. Lady Gaga

2. Justin Bieber

3. Britney Spears

4. Barack Obama

5. ashton Kutcher

Conclusión y créditos

Gracias a este video hemos podido ver la evolución de las formas de comunicación del ser humano a lo largo de la historia, siempre con la intención de estar en constante comunicación y la red social twetter es un clarísimo ejemplo del deseo de saber del resto de personas minuto a minuto, segundo a segundo.

"Un tweet vale más que mil palabras"

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Our next Kickstarter is for the Legendlore RPG, and starts on this Thursday, March the 12th, at 2pm Eastern US time!

From the Kickstarter:

Legendlore was originally a comic, first published by Arrow Comics in 1986 and since procured by Caliber Comics, about four people who fall through a Crossing into the Realm. The Realm is home to fantasy creatures from elves to dragons, and the characters discover they too have ‘fantasy powers’ – the jock becomes a Fighter, while the bookish one becomes a Wizard, and so on. They go on adventures and some of them eventually find their way back to Earth.

This is the basic premise of the Legendlore RPG. You Cross into the Realm, where you become a hairfoot Bard, or maybe an elven Sorcerer. You can change any characteristics you like. For example if you have hay fever and glasses, you choose if your Legendlore self keeps or drops those. Your identity might not always match your outward physique, but your Legendlore character does. We’ve also updated the 1980s setting so Realmborn characters represent all ethnicities, genders, and sexualities. No one in the Realm will bat an eyelash at your agender panromantic self.

This comes hard on the heels of our fantastic Kickstarter campaign for Hunter: The Vigil 2e, which ended up at over 500% of the funding goal and just a couple of folks away from 2000 backers! Truly, the Vigil was a rewarding one, and we’re thrilled so many folks came along with us on the hunt.

Even though we’re jumping right into the new KS for Legendlore, Hunter 2e‘s campaign left us with a number of Stretch Goal projects to continue with, and, for us, Legendlore is such a different kind of project that creatively it is a nice break in our recent string of Kickstarters in the Chronicles of Darkness and V5 game worlds.

Legendlore will also be our newest game line to use the d20 system for 5e fantasy gaming, along with Scarred Lands and (much-simplified) the Realms of Pugmire, so that also gives us a chance to stretch some system creative muscles we like to keep toned up.

If you’re a fan of D&D, etc. then I think you’ll find a lot of fresh spins you’ll enjoy in how Legendlore treats genre expectations and tropes while still providing a sweeping setting ripe for adventuring in. And if you aren’t so much, I still think you may find value in supporting developer Steffie de Vaan and her creative team’s 2020 take on this multi-decade saga and setting.

Like almost every one of our Kickstarters these days, Legendlore is pretty much finished in the writing stages, and backers will get sections of the finished text during the course of the KS campaign. Steffie is working with at least one Twitch streaming group to create actual play episodes showing how Legendlore plays at an actual gaming table, and we’re really looking forward to airing those (and they’ll be linked on the KS page).

So, anyone interested is going to have multiple chances to check this project out in a way that works for them, as we’ve been working to set up with each of our KSs. And, James Bell, our Kickstarter Concierge will be back for this KS to once again provide information and guidance, as well as his patented affable banter!

V5 Chicago Folio art by Felipe Gaona

Items From Our Monday Meeting:

In no particular order, which is a lot like our meeting style!

DriveThruRPG‘s massive GM’s Day Sale has another week to go, and hoo-boy are there a lot of our PDFs for sale over there! All of our game lines are represented, as well as offerings from the Community Content sites!

This was a Twitter note sent out during our meeting by Eddy Webb:

“Thanks to Justin Achilli, I got to be in a work meeting where we talk about the aesthetics of urine and throwing bears at the moon.”

Which is pretty much true.

Mighty Matt McElroy was scheduled to attend Emerald City convention this coming weekend, but the whole con was postponed due to concerns about the Coronavirus (COVID-19). He’d already had a bunch of meetings cancelled out from under him and was figuring on cancelling, when boop! the convention cancelled instead!

You folks all take care of yourselves out there! We’re a virtual office, so aren’t going to infect each other, and we don’t have anything currently being manufactured in China, so I’m just encouraging all our folks to stay in and work 20 hour days at their computers. (I’m kidding.) (But not really.)

Mirthful Mike Chaney wonders how that’s any different than his usual day, anyway?

They Came From Beneath the Sea! Heroic Land Dwellers art by Brian LeBlanc

We’re still getting folks asking about whether projects that come out as Advance PDFs will be released in PoD versions or if Backer PDFs will be sold to the public, along with PoDs, on DTRPG. First, we’re always glad to answer folks’ questions, and second, yes, our sales strategy has always been to deliver PDFs and PoDs of projects on DTRPG and so we have been releasing them that way for the whole time we’ve been in business.

The only caveats to that are projects we might do like printed Screens offered on Kickstarters, which DTRPG can’t create in PoD form, and recently with the V5 Cults of the Blood Gods Stretch Goal rewards which will only be available in PDF as the V5 managers at Modiphius do not want PoD versions made available.

We’ve scheduled a nice surprise for the backers of Exalted 3rd‘s Dragon-Blooded KS that should put some folks’s concerns to rest about getting their rewards. So keep your eyes open for that, DB backers!

I’m out next Monday, so Dixie Cochran will be in as our guest MMN blogger! Please be nice to her as she wrangles the rusty and arcane controls for this blog, and I’ll talk to you in two weeks about our:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

Kickstarter!

On Thursday, March 12th at 2pm Eastern US Time we start the Kickstarter for Legendlore!

Onyx Path Media!

This Friday the Onyx Pathcast Terrific Trio take a deep dive into Vampire: The Requiem 2e‘s Spilled Blood! Messy, but fun!

As always this Friday’s Onyx Pathcast will be on Podbean or your favorite podcast venue! https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

We’ve got a stupendous number of shows on Twitch this week! Tune in for V5, Chronicles of Darkness, Scion, Pugmire, Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition, Scarred Lands, MORE Vampire: The Masquerade, Changeling: The Lost, Mage: The Awakening, even more Scarred Lands, Werewolf: The Forsaken and a third Vampire: The Masquerade game! We’ve even got Eddy Webb’s Workshop, which takes you through the development process of our books! Hail Ming!

A big shout-out to our three Vampire: The Masquerade games running this week, which have been running week-in, week-out! You can subscribe to our channel over on twitch.tv/theonyxpath to catch up with any episodes you missed! This Ming’s a psycho.

Come take a look at our YouTube channel, youtube.com/user/theonyxpath, where you can find the following videos uploaded last week alone:

The Onyx Path News: https://youtu.be/zKo1h7bLPE0

Scion: Behind the Screen: https://youtu.be/v9Wo38rl5-Y

Changeling: The Lost – Littlebrook Reunion: https://youtu.be/hxSbemynBLs

Changeling: The Dreaming – The Last Faerie Tale: https://youtu.be/gKAm-zGxTW4

Even more Scion: Behind the Screen: https://youtu.be/QDSIS_ClFbE

A special shout-out to the Scion: Behind the Screen series, which has provided a wonderful entry point for people new to the game! Flying blind on a rocket cycle!

Do subscribe to our channel and click the bell icon if you want to be notified whenever new news videos and uploads come online! Spare me the madness.

In case you missed it last week, the Story Told RPG Podcast continue with their excellent Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition chronicle right here: http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/the-78-laments-episode-3-riders-in-the-sky

And back once again, the Story Told‘s review of Trinity Continuum: Aeon http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/episode-40-trinity-continuum-on-overview

Red Moon Roleplaying‘s V5 Cults of the Blood Gods “The Family” chronicle continues on their YouTube channel, Spotify, their website redmoonroleplaying.com and everywhere else good podcasts and New York City girls might be found! https://youtu.be/J1qCIhMPn7Q

Now, the tributes from Ardentia.

Even more shows from Occultists Anonymous for all you Mage: The Awakening fans out there!

Episode 86: Risky Business Wyrd the Seer prepares to found a legacy and shape her soul. Songbird makes contact with the Carthian Movement. Atratus meets with the Phantasm Society who have a daring plan.https://youtu.be/9XWLaxl_B-Y

Episode 87: New Lives Wyrd the Seer pays the price for tying herself to the Rookery. Songbird makes himself useful at the Arrow Armory. Atratus kills Emily Miller.https://youtu.be/ZZklb6-fC7o

Please check any of these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games!

Electronic Gaming!

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is awesome! (Seriously, you need to roll 100 dice for Exalted? This app has you covered.)

Update: the devs are working on the updates for the roller in both Android and iOS – here is the rundown from them:

1) Redo the UI for system for android. It will look the same as the current design. My goal is to have something ready by Saturday to send out to the Facebook users, asking them if this fixes the issues. This will be a beta type thing. This will break several of the fancy dice.

2) If the above worked out and the android users give all the clear, we’ll redo the graphics system to fix the fancy dice that got broken. We’ll do another android beta through Facebook. This might take up to two weeks, as my schedule allows.

3) If everything worked well, we’ll release to android for real at that point.

4) Port all of the existing stuff to iOS and release on that.

On Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue from which you bought it. Reviews really, really help us get folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these latest fiction books:

Our Sales Partners!

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there! https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

We’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Now, we’ve added Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost

Scarred Lands (Pathfinder) books are also on sale at Studio2, and they have the 5e version, supplements, and dice as well!: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/scarred-lands

Scion 2e books and other products are available now at Studio2: https://studio2publishing.com/blogs/new-releases/scion-second-edition-book-one-origin-now-available-at-your-local-retailer-or-online

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

And you can order Pugmire, Monarchies of Mau, Cavaliers of Mars, and Changeling: The Lost 2e at the same link! And NOW Scion Origin and Scion Hero AND Trinity Continuum Core and Trinity Continuum: Aeon are available to order!

The massive GM Day’s Sale continues for another week with huge savings on PDFs from all of our game lines!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/rpg_gmsday.php

As always, you can find Onyx Path’s titles at DriveThruRPG.com!

On Sale This Week!

This Wednesday, we will be releasing the Advance PDF of Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed for Mage: The Awakening 2e AND the electronic, PDF, and physical book PoD releases of Haunting Shadows: the Wraith20th fiction anthology on DTRPG!

Conventions!

Assuming these conventions are not postponed due to plague, here is our current list:

UKGames Expo: https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/

GenCon: https://www.gencon.com/

Tabletop Scotland: https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/

Gamehole Con: https://www.gameholecon.com/

PAX Unplugged: https://unplugged.paxsite.com/

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM EDDY WEBB (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

RUST (Working Title) (Scarred Lands)

Under Alien Suns (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Mission Statements (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Adversaries of the Righteous (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Novas Worldwide (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Exalted Essence Edition (Exalted 3rd Edition)

The Clades Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)

The Devoted Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)

Saints and Monsters (Scion 2nd Edition)

M20 Rich Bastard’s Guide To Magick (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary)

Wild Hunt (Scion 2nd Edition)

Redlines

Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Hundred Devil’s Night Parade (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Adventure! core (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)

Assassins (Trinity Continuum Core)

The Book of Endless Death (Mummy: The Curse 2e)

N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters (Chronicles of Darkness)

Second Draft

Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

They Came From Beyond the Grave! (They Came From!)

Development

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Manuscript Approval

Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)

Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum Core)

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

Post-Approval Development

Scion LARP Rules (Scion)

One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)

Editing

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

Pirates of Pugmire KS-Added Adventure (Realms of Pugmire)

Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Buried Bones: Creating in the Realms of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Titanomachy (Scion 2nd Edition)

Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness)

TC: Aberrant Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Post-Editing Development

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Indexing

They Came From Beneath the Sea! (They Came From…!)

ART DIRECTION FROM MIKE CHANEY!

In Art Direction

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant – Awaiting replies to pings.

Hunter: The Vigil 2e (KS)

Cults of the Blood God (KS)

Mummy 2 – Starting to contract the rest of it.

City of the Towered Tombs

Let the Streets Run Red – Some finals in.

Deviant

Legendlore (KS) – KS prep of bits.

Technocracy Reloaded (KS)

TC: Aeon Terra Firma – Contracted.

WoD: Ghost Hunters (KS) – Cover in, getting rest of KS art set.

Tales of Aquatic Terror

Pirates Extra Adventure – Loboyko lined up for this one.

Scion Titanomachy – Contacting artists.

In Layout

Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad – Ongoing.

Contagion Chronicle – With Josh, interior proof coming.

Vigil Watch – Ongoing.

TCfBtS!: Heroic Land Dwellers

TCFBtS! Screen and Booklet

Ex3 Lunars – Yep, pretty much my March right here.

Scion Companion

Proofing

Dark Eras 2 – Sending back to Aileen for errata input.

Trinity Continuum Aeon Jumpstart

Chicago Folio – Creating PoD files.

Pirates of Pugmire – Fixes in, working on cover.

CtL Oak Ash and Thorn – At WW for approvals .

Geist 2e fiction anthology – Backer PDF out to backers for errata.

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 – The Silence of Our Ancestors (Exalted 3rd Edition) – Backer errata being gathered.

Distant Worlds – Errata being gathered.

VtR2 Spilled Blood – Errata being input.

At Press

Geist 2e (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition) – Prepping to go live with PDF/PoD versions on DTRPG a week Wednesday (the 18th).

DR:E – Shipping to backers, PoD files uploaded.

DRE Screen – Shipping to backers.

DR:E Threat Guide – Helnau’s Guide to Wasteland Beasties

Memento Mori – PoD proof ordered.

Scion Mythical Denizens – PoD files uploaded.

Wraith20 Anthology – ePub, PDF, physical book versions all live Weds on DTRPG.

MtAw2 Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed – Advance PDF on sale this Weds on DTRPG.

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and that’s certainly worth celebrating today as well! (Especially since here in the US we lost an hour from yesterday due to the return of our Daylight Savings Time. Typical).

Today, we heard of the death of actor Max von Sydow at 90. The man who played chess with death, acted in just so many roles in mainstream and genre films that I’m not listing them here, and, just for Matthew Dawkins, starred as Ming the Merciless.

#Onyx Path Publishing

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zasvepare · 5 years ago

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Aprilsko odstojanje

1. april 2020.

Ima nešto više od dve nedelje — nije, pamtim, bio još ni crni petnaesti — kada sam pošao u ono što će se kasnije, već posle petnaestog marta, ispostaviti kao poslednja buvljačka berba u Gracu. Sva je prilika da je to bio petak, ako ne i četvrtak, kada sam se u berbu uputio. Moram da dodam da su “buvljaci” na koje sam se nameračio zapravo prodavnice polovne robe u humanitarne svrhe koje sam u Beču znao pod nazivom Caritas, a koje se ovde zovu Carla.

E, gradačke “Karle”, kojih sam tog dana obišao pet-šest, imaju jednu nepobedivu prednost u odnosu na buvljake, čak i one koji su naklonjeni knjigama: naime, prodaju ih na kilogram. I koliko staje kilogram knjiga? I tu postoji tržišna norma; bilo da je reč o džepnjacima za sirotinju, šundu, krimićima ili udžbenicima, rečnicima ili cigletinama, bilo da su knjige na nemačkom, francuskom ili slovenačkom, cena kilograma je u Karli u celom Gracu ista.

Za one koji se pitaju kako to da nisam tako dugo otkrio najpouzdaniji i najpovoljniji izvor nepoželjnih knjiga u Gracu, takoreći toplu vodu, nemam odgovor. Opet me je moja svakako zla navika da ono nepoželjno tražim po periferijama zaglupela. Verni čitaoci će se setiti epizode “Stevan Raičković” iz Akademije 28, kada me je prodavačica s punim pravom zapitala: “A zašto, pobogu, čučite i kopate po kutijama kada sve te knjige imate na policama?”

No, dakle, u nekoj od prvih Karla u koje sam ušao, možda u onoj najbližoj centru, došao sam na kasu sa knjigicom-dve i promucavši nešto na srpskohrvatskonemačkom, pružio ih prodavačici. Ona je tada, i ne pogledavši me, na moje nemo oduševljenje, moje štivo izvolela staviti na vagu.

Kazaljčica se, pod mojim džepnjakom, zaletela, posustala i vratila na nulu: koleginice su se međusobno pogledale smeškajući se, uzele još jednom knjižuljak u ruke, odmerile ga i vratile ga na tas, a ja? Ja sam samo, pedantan kakav jesam, čekao da mi se izda račun na kojem će, za vas, dragi čitaoci bloga Za sve pare, crno na belo, biti odštampano “KNJIGE NA KILO”. I dočekah.

Bücher- Kiloware! Izvolimo, dakle, ovaj dokument pročitati zajedno: na tas sam tad prineo tri knjižuljka; zajedno nisu težili više od trista grama: i sve će, prema utvrđenoj proporciji, moj džep koštati, koliko? Jedan evro. Molim lepo.

A čega sam se tog dana nabrao? Kao da sam znao da će to biti poslednja šetnja po buvljacima, zlu prisećanja ne trebalo, vodio sam jednu zidnu evidenciju. I šta kaže:

Nećete zameriti na švrakopisu jer je podloga bio španski zid? Hvala. Ono Jursenarino na početku je Crna mena, Folio džepnjak, kilaža 400 grama; ono posle je Adelbert Šamiso i fantastična pripovest o Peteru Šlemilu (dvesta grama); a one tri poslednje stavke, sasvim sigurno pribavljene tog četvrtka, dvanaestog marta, jesu (odozdo) Šatobrijan, Rene/Atala i Nowhere Man Aleksandra Hemona na francuskom; zajedno sa još jednom knjigom, (o kojoj: malo kasnije) u Jakominištrase koštale su jedan evro. (Ono u zagradi 3/5 je stanje knjige.)

Prijatno sam se izbečio kad sam saznao da je Karlu i većinu uličnih uslužnih biblioteka koje sam sreo u toku berbe, osmislila Katolička crkva. Ćoka i ja smo imali tu sreću da u jednoj od poslednjih šetnji gradom prođemo i pored skladišta u kojem se roba prima i otkupljuje od onih koji bi da je se reše, odakle se potom doprema u posebne prodavnice od kojih po jedna postoji u svakom kvartu.

Svakako, nije trenutak za snobovsko oduševljavanje preduzimljivošću lokalne parohije, ali ne mogoh da se zapitam kako to da se crkvenjaci naše provenijencije, na primer, nisu dosetili da na taj način kanališu nepoželjnu robu, makar samo onu koja se sliva na Zemunski buvljak. Ne moraju crkvenjaci, naravno, mogu i gradske vlasti. (Ako to i u bližoj budućnosti vidim - premda maglovito - teško zamišljam momenat kad će u takve prodavnice uvesti VAGU! Vagu koja znači samo jedno: “NEMA CENKANJA!”)

No dobro sa mojim standardnim laprdanjima: najzanimljiviji ulov, treća knjiga odozdo, Lauschangriff, čiji su autori potpuno nepoznati, zbirka je kakve, primetio sam, nemačko područje naročito ceni: naime, sačinjena je od slučajno načutih rečenica u prolazu po minhenskim ulicama.

U doba kada su se ljudi mogli još sresti napolju, ovo dvoje izvesnih, Hans Kelen i Eva Dzievas (ne znam kako to da transkribujem), povazdan su obilazili minhenska javna mesta, bez zazora i blama špijunirali ljude, i napokon se usudili da svoje prepise objave izostavljajući imena.

I prošle godine u Gracu, u jednoj od uličnih polica, našao sam jednu takvu knjigu: sačinjenu od pisama i beležaka anonimnih ljudi.

Šta drugo da zaključi voajer-egzibicionista u meni nego da likuje što Nemci (i Austrijanci) i dan-danas vole da se igraju ŠTAZIJA!

Dakle, za kraj ove brze, prekratke, prebrze, ali sve u svemu prve poruke iz postbuvljačkog perioda, evo jednog znakovitog odlomka iz Prisluškivača. Odlomka koji mi se čini potpuno prigodnim i za novu eru, i za prvi april! (I koincidencije li: i sam je pribeležen u aprilu!)

Tchüssie!!!

Kuća umetnosti, Prinzregentstrasse, izložba “Click Doubleclik”

— Oprostite, možete li, molim vas, da se odmaknete još malo! — Stvarno mi ne bi palo na pamet da to pipam. — Da, ali to je opšta sigurnosna mera u muzejima, treba se udaljiti 20 centimetara... — To je stvarno smešno! — Ne, nije smešno, već se pleksiglas može lako izgrebati. — Cccc... ovaj stvarno misli da nikad ranije nismo bili u muzeju.

[23. april 2006. 18:05]

#graz #carla #predbuvljačka era #postbuvljačka era #prisluškivač #lauschangriff #muenchen #katolička crkva

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