#gabilan

[winterfox26b]

Amulet RE-read: book 9

Final book and no matter what people say I think the ending is great.

Now Emily is showing Ikol the consequences of his actions.

And now Emily is not listening to him any more.

Trellis giving up the crown to Gabilan feels right.

The masks that Ikol wears is not fooling Emily any More.

It’s amazing how Emily was able to save both Cora and Cala.

What Ronin did is amazing thinking about the future and not the past.

West is right on page 83

I agree with Ronin that there will always be darkness everywhere.

Emily right that Ikol has no control over her.

Emily right that the planets need to be in a better shape than they found them.

Page 114 and 115 show how much Emily change in the book series.

Who ever that robot is on Page 132 and 133 is right on Page 133 panel.

And again on Page 136

I had no idea this how Gadoa trees were planted like this.

I’m amazed that Navin was able to figure that out.

Emily now knows you true colors Ikol.

What Emily did on page 186 to 192 was powerful.

Trellis is right on Page 206.

What Emily said at end of the book felt vary powerful and amazing as well.

[the-sky-queen]

So there I was, reading Amulet several years ago. Out loud obviously, because I'm a voice actor at heart. And then I decided to experiment and give some characters accents. Just a few. Just to play around with it.

So what did I decide on?

I made Gabilan Australian and Aly some strange mix of Russian and German maybe? I'm not sure exactly what it is. I told my brain to do an accent and it did an accent.

[time2andspace]

how the hell did the king keep Luger and Trellis from knowing they were brothers post memory swipe? Did he never claim Luger as an heir to the throne and thus no one knew he was his son for sure? Did he decide to forbid any servant or member of the castle staff or the army from mentioning it? Your sons are both major political figures how the hell did you manage to keep either of them from knowing after you stole their memories???

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Balconies and Machete Ridge by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While hiking the Jawbone Trail with a view looking to the northeast at eroded volcanic formations. This is looking to the Balconies and Machete Ridge and is in Pinnacles National Park.

[rustedleopard]

WE ALL ONLY GET WHAT WE DESERVE

[motherstone]

the Exiled

It's a screenshot redraw from sousou no frieren ep 9. Why redraw it? Well, because I felt like it 😭 hrrm hrrmm I'm a lil embarrassed to share it, but there's probably only one other person who'd understand somewhat abt the context behind this, regardless, I will explain. More below!

In my post-rewrite plot, it eventually focuses on Trellis, who not only disappeared out of the blue, has apparently never took a seat on the throne, leaving Gabilan to seize it for himself under the misguided belief he'd be able to lead the country. Allies feared of the worst but are unable to enter Gulfen to investigate further.

Turns out, Trellis self-exiled himself to the most eastern part of Gulfen in the middle of a breakdown (don't ask him), and has been living anonymously in a small, remote village, hoping to put all the bullshit behind him. Unfortunately for him, trouble comes knocking after a year when a warrior was sent to retrieve him and help him re-seat on the throne before soldiers got to him first, once again under orders to kill him.

Problem is, Trellis doesn't want to be king. Well, his reasonings a bit more complicated than that, but still.

So cue a journey around Gulfen, solving issues, avoiding the soldiers, his own personal problems, improving and saving lives when they can, all the while having the internal struggle of what it means to be King and what true responsibility really is.

This here, is a fight from a former commander that severely underestimated Trellis, believing he's still the same guy with weak magic, only to learn very quickly that Trellis didn't exactly waste his time doing nothing...

... Which is the best I could summarize it, but it's more detailed than that 😅 didn't add too many er rewrite-spoilery details on the drawing bc I want it to be newcomer-friendly

[xxbrightshadowxx]

It’s been out over a week and half since I read the finale amulet book and I’ve been thinking nonstop about Waverider and I am still mad.

*deep inhale*

Sigh.

I consider myself to look for the best in things. I told myself that since Supernova was very, very bad, Waverider couldn’t possibly be worse?

Then page 25 happened and all of my hopes went so far that they in the burning ashes of hell. And if you don’t know what page I’m talking about, I’m taking about the part where Trellis tells Gablian that he is fucking king.

I’m sorry, the fuck?

Let me tell you a little fun fact, Escape from Lucien is my favorite amulet book in the series. Now I rated that book 5.1 on my rating list, and that’s quite low for me. So why was that my favorite book? Because of the scene where Max tells Trellis he was the true king, Trellis saving his people from their ship exploding, and the scene where Riva realizes the trees were talking about Trellis.

Those scene were my everything, I thought about that book for three weeks straight, no other thought registered in my head, zero, zip, nada. Nothing but those scenes. Was I biased because I loved Trellis and thought that the elf king plot-line in a series that went off the rails so quickly? Yes. However, that book solidified the excitement younger me had to see Trellis take back the throne and save his people and become a proper ruler. The set-up had me excited and the description the Amazon summary didn’t help calm down the flames of my passion at all.

Then I fucking read Waverider.

First of all, Gablian would not be a good king. I’m sorry but the assassin guy? The guy that stole people’s memories? The guy that chooses violence and aggression over anything else? Really? Thats the best candidate for being the new king? Really? The guy’s moral compass is a fucking roulette wheel! He made one reference to being king in the second book and it was made to be a treating, villainous way!

Why?! Just why, and with Trellis right there?! Are you kidding me?! Trellis being king has been set up for such a long time. Like the idea of Trellis not becoming king right away because he isn’t ready is an interesting concept on paper. However, the execution doesn’t flipping work. Gabilan would be a terrible leader, he’d a tyrant! He’s shown no interest in being a leader while Trellis’s ENTIRE thing was being king and saving his people. It’s like Kazu Kibuishi was handed a six course, 3 Michelin star meal and decided to flip the meal onto the ground and eat the musty crusty, rotting rat corpse instead.

You know what? I could be overreacting. I honestly could. But all I know is that if I don’t go to sleep now I am going to set Waverider on fire.

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[nigh-temptation]

Just spitballing a Gabilan redesign

I based him off of Mongolian warriors because they raise eagles and… ya know he… rides an eagle?

(The region of Gulfen up north named Khamayko is going to be heavily inspired by central and East Asian influences)

I also wanted to do something funky with his eyes like he does in the books so I thought anisocoria would look cool on him.

[softskyburial]

Ok so I tried to post a bunch of my Salinas valley and Gabilan mountains pics and wrote a blurb about how much i love Steinbeck’s descriptions of the area and apparently it didn’t post? And now I can’t find my drafts in this new app???¿?

Well here’s a few anyway. East of Eden. California Gabilan Mountains.

[winterfox26b]

Amulet RE-read: book 7

It’s interesting how Emily gets ready for the day.

If you take a look at page 12 panel 3, the book that Trellis is reading is called memory walk.

Max must have trusted Emily with the location of Algos island.

A bit of foreshadowing from Cogsley.

I don’t know why Cogsley didn’t remember that Enzo and Rico were not on the ship.

I wonder how the submarine docks?

General Pil should have known that Navin was going to do that.

Pil should have expected that Riva would send people to find them.

I think that Ikol is the one bringing Emily to the camp.

I think that the war was supposed to start later but because the Cielis guard found the ship the war was started early.

Gabilan is right that Ikol is choosing Stonekeepers for there weakness.

I believe that the ship will activate if Ikol would win.

Ikol must have put the new information in the cube.

Ikol did not want young Trellis from knowing that truth.

Ikol probably is the one making the computer not find Emily and Trellis.

They look like chess pieces because that’s how Ikol sees them.

If you take a look at page 136 panel 4 you will see chess pieces on the gas pump mirror.

If you remember the first post you will know that the car’s engine die but the barrier was not damaged.

Emily’s Inerself knows something is not right.

I wonder how Earth was discovered by the space program.

Makes sense that the elf king tried to dismantle the space program since he is being control by an alien force.

Riva must have told the Cielis about the resistance bace in space so that Karen, Misikit and Leon can go there to help.

[linguistlist-blog]

Confs: The Progressive Form Is Dead! What Does Operator BE + V-ing Really Denote? Linguistic Analyses, Multilingual Approaches & AI

THE PROGRESSIVE FORM IS DEAD WHAT DOES OPERATOR BE + V-ING REALLY DENOTE? LINGUISTIC ANALYSES, MULTILINGUAL APPROACHES & AI Monday, December 2, 2024 09:00 – 09:20 : Welcome coffee at the château de Pau 09:20 – 09:30 : Opening remarks Session chair: Cécile Cosculluela 09:30 – 10:00 : Extralinguistic Parameters and Grammar: Is There a Way out? The Case of « Simple » Versus « BE + ing » Utterances by Jean-Pierre Gabilan, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, France. 10:00 - 10:10: Q & A 10:10 - 10:30: http://dlvr.it/TG2j3K

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Hiking the High Peaks in Pinnacles National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the west while taking in views along the hillside of the pinnacle formations present on the High Peaks. This was while walking the High Peaks Trail in Pinnacles National Park. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of the hiking trail leading off into the image. I liked the way the trees on this portion of the hillside helped to create a layered look from near to far with the more distant pinnacle formations.

[inkedbantam]

SCROLL PAST THIS IS AMULET WAVERIDER SPOILERS

Oh my fuckin god they brought my man Gabilan back

[motherstone]

WAVERIDER THOUGHTS

This will be long, and nasty. I may be yapping nonsense myself, and ngl this was all written in a fit of emotion, so it may be biased as all fuck. SPOILERS EVERYWHERE. Read further at your own choice.

Kazu, the neglectful, crappy father of his characters

Yeah, no, it’s been a long-time issue of his. Every new book has a new character. Not much of a problem if you're establishing the world - it’s a big one if you’re ending a story. See, the point of a finale isn’t to get us invested in new characters, it’s about giving a satisfying conclusion to your old. And not necessarily purely conclusive either! Some characters still have some journey to walk, but what matters is that you could read what happened to them, be at peace with how they went.

Kazu wrote the finale as if he’s writing 16 more books.

Let’s see the line-up shall we?

Trellis - has been hyped up being the true king, has been trying to get people stop believing in the false king, would not shut the fuck up about the well-being of the elves for several books.

Ending: Changed his mind last minute and gave up the throne.

Vigo - a flawed mentor. Kinda useless. Tries to be a guiding force and emotional support.

Ending: Dies in the most pointless and jarring way possible.

Aly - has exhibited great leadership qualities, is a good friend to Navin.

Ending: she wasn’t even there.

Etc etc. and that’s THREE of them so far, and it’s disastrous. Their conclusions were poor and nonsensical, the narrative portrays them as foolish and ignorant, and basically just treated their entire journey of 8 books as worthless and with little to no growth. Which is just yonkers. The main players don’t play in the final part, and the supporting casts are pretty much not supporting.

Then there’s the NEW cast.

No, sorry, I can’t stand them. They’re not appealing to me, we barely know anything about them except they’re apparently competent and we’re supposed to accept that they’re gonna be the better, newer generation of the Guardian Council? Because the story says so?

Why put new characters to play a part where your established characters can fill in perfectly? At least those established characters already have something ESTABLISHED, thus the payoff is more impactful ,especially if you fit them properly into the role. I never even gave a crap about Cielis and there needing to be a new Guardian Council, I always got the impression in book 4 that it was supposed to be the waning era of stonekeepers, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE MOTHERSTONE WAS STOLEN, THERE’S LITTLE OF IT LEFT, THERE ISN’T A NEW MOTHERSTONE IN CANON, APPARENTLY ENDED UP FORGOTTEN BY EVERYONE ELSE DESPITE BEING A POWERFUL ARTIFACT, AND STONEKEEPERS ARE TOO DANGEROUS FOR THE WORLD OF ALLEDIA. IN GENERAL.

All in all, the book feels like it’s trying to shove and rub these new guys all over my face, trying to get me to love them.

Gabilan, or just make Gulfen a democracy at this point

I'm gonna be for real though, I don't think Gabilan is the best guy for the job. Just because he was "kinda" right about stonekeepers doesn't mean he's a leader, and I don't think someone who kills people for a living, profits off of war, violates people's minds and steals their memories and ruin their lives, and arrogantly believes he has the judgment and say on who gets to keep which memories would be anyone's first choice to rule the country at its most desperate either. He’s sharp, yes, but moral? He has the moral backbone of a fucking chocolate eclair. A guy like that would not treat the people under him with the right to choose, when so many of his actions involve violating other people. If that’s THEIR next best choice after Trellis, Gulfen is fucked.

It's also kinda frustrating. Gabilan gets ONE reference to how he intends to be King, while Trellis gets references that he's the true king for several books, people desiring he make a better people out of the elves, had enemies trying to kill him to prevent him from taking the throne like the VOICE himself, only for the narrative to never even follow through it? 

The story can't seem to make up its mind either. "Stonekeepers in power are bad because they keep seeking to control others and are bad at maintaining control, so you shouldn't be King. That's why you should get an even higher, greater authority so now you're the leader of the Guardian Council!" 😩 make it make sense? 

Ronin, or how to make supervillains

Kazu has a bad understanding of how people work by how he wrote Ronin. Iffy enough that Ronin is retconned to be alive, her method on raising these stonekeepers is to be heavily scrutinized. I’ll be controversial here, but Ronin sucks as a person.

That’s NOT how you treat people, especially when they’re asking for help, even if they wronged you. That’s prioritizing your pride over what’s needed to be done.

Keeping kids in an isolated area, even with their consent, scaring off locals from their livelihood so you could have THEIR resources instead, and then scaring them into not bothering are all shitty things to do. If I didn’t have context, I’d genuinely think she’s trying to make a cult.

She didn’t create a better generation of youth, she created an ECHO CHAMBER. Their interaction with other people who isn’t them are limited and only under her monitoring, they don’t get to have the support and interaction of a wider community, they have fights, she induces them to lose control on purpose (even for training, that’s basically like having someone HAVE breakdowns so they’d “handle breakdowns better”), the young stonekeepers only interact with HER beliefs and HER teachings.

She’s arrogant as all fuck. 

The worst part is that the narrative doesn’t treat this as bad, just flawed, which is anything but 💀

To use @/gofancyninjaworld analysis, which is semi-realistic ngl, what Ronin did was plant seeds for these kids to be supervillains.

A sense of isolation

It’s bad enough that having overwhelming power alienates stonekeepers from most people, Ronin’s method of training has them explicitly stay in an area where the range of people they could interact with are greatly limited to Ronin and their fellow students. Sure, they interact with some civilians, but in an unbalanced way, purely in a savior and rescuee way, nothing else. This gives them sparse experience in the give-and-take interactions in a society, because for all they know, water only flows downwards.

A sense of superiority. It's not good to be considered 'gifted' and to be set aside from others. 

A sense of entitlement to rule.

Which Ronin further reinforced by planting into their heads that they’re the new Guardian   Council eventually, despite having little experience in leading. What happened to “rejecting a seat on the Council because she felt the responsibility at her age was too great”? And that was when she was an older teen. These guys are younger than she was offered.

Access to the means to do so.

The quarry, their stones, and their inevitable ascension to be the new Council.

So basically all she did was groom overly powerful kids with induced breakdowns, with heads too big for their bodies, with very little connection to the wider world to ground them in their thinking and humanity, basically four bombs that could and would inevitably go off. Cool. Any one of 'em could wind up becoming a totalitarian menace. Y'know how spoiled entitled billionaire bastards exists? It's almost virtually the same process.

Interacting with regular people AS regular people, not just as savior or leader is important. It grounds you. It teaches you there’s a variety of people, who won’t always be the perfect victim, who are not necessarily evil but are bad, who are not intentionally malicious but just incompetent, among other things. Application is the real teacher here - the more exposed you are to other people, the better you’d be able to handle them.

Emily, the monster, the savior, the next Buddha

Can’t make up its mind whether to condemn Emily or if she’s the next best thing since sliced fucking bread. Apparently, self-confidence is her issue, not her arrogance or survivor's guilt.

Not to mention her powers came outta nowhere. It’s like she discovers enlightenment, and that was what allowed her to properly control her powers.

Defeats the entire theme of needing other people and that not every outcome is reliant on ONE person’s actions, BY DOING EVERYTHING BY HERSELF, AGAIN!

God, I wish I could say more, but I skipped some of Emily’s parts because reading it was as tedious and agonizing as threading on cold mud. I can’t help but cringe at every dialogue.

The Voice, or how to NOT make a supervillain

…. I don’t even know what to say. Poor Ikol, a victim of the most indecisive and sloppy writing of  a villain I’ve seen, I actually feel genuinely fucking bad. I don’t even know where to begin with this dude, he’s just one whole confusing set of contradicting depictions and motivations.

Riva, or how to get a restraining order in 2 fucking seconds

If I were Trellis and told me the same words Riva said, I’d bolt as far as quickly as I possibly can away from her. That’s creepy, full stop.

I think this was kazu's way to prevent fans from shipping Emily and Trellis by a.) aging up Trellis because that’s the only explanation I could think of (even though he said a few times on twitter that he's the elf equivalent of 16) and b.) to get him together with Riva.

The way Kazu went about it is too insane for me. "Hey, I had a vision of you and me having babies and you became a great leader, let's get together" 💀 that's no basis for any healthy relationship, or any relationship at all that isn't transactional 😵. What is this?

On the other hand, he doesn't respect Riva as a character at all. A character becoming a love interest and a parent isn't a bad thing in of itself, but he wrote Riva so impactfully and charismatically in book 6 - she's one of the few rare elf characters, and a girl elf character to boot, is an established leader, was the daughter of an immigrant and knows all the hardship that comes with it, not to mention hails from a city that Cielis outcasted and abandoned because of their fear and prejudice but she compassionately takes care of the people there anyway.

There's so many interesting and compelling storylines with the foundations he made Riva with, and he focuses on getting Riva to get Trellis to get together with her 😵 she gets reduced from a character with plenty of potential to a character that exists purely to uplift another. That's just depressing. Riva and Trellis deserve better.

Who? Navin. We all forgot about fucking Navin

Actually, I’m pretty sure Kazu forgot about Navin up until the last second. The fact I forgot until he came up on the page speaks for itself on how bad the writing problem was. He plays almost no parts at all. He doesn’t even GET to be a leader properly. He was there to get punched, didn’t even GET to help Emily or anybody else.

The Ending

……………………………………………………………………………………

If Older Emily could time travel with the Void, why didn’t she just eliminate Ikol herself instead of leaving it to our current Emily? Oh, and Vigo jarringly dies and sacrifices himself in the most pointless way possible.

All in all, Kazu - world’s most terrible chef

BAN HIM FROM THE KITCHEN 🔥🔥💯💯🔊🔊🗣️😩😩 HE CAN'T COOK.

Bad? I knew it was gonna be bad at the cover alone, ut no way I could've predicted it was THIS atrocious. It’s not the medium’s fault either, you can’t claim that the medium limited what Kazu had to say - Kazu created comics for a living. He has more than a decade of experience, made dozens of pages, by now, he knows YOU CAN’T WASTE A PAGE. Every panel is important. It’s not the medium's fault for being short, it’s Kazu’s for being sloppy. 

He has an editor. He has a studio, he has a team, he has several copies of his series, he has claimed he has reread them over and over. He has no excuse to be this inconsistent and directionless. So what the fuck are they doing? Do they just sit there and draw? No quality or consistency check? 

Honestly, if he says it was executive meddling, if he was just tired of Amulet and just wanted it over, if it was because of medical reasons - I could accept all those reasons. I could forgive why the series wound up as it is, they’re all reasons I could understand. A decline in quality on purpose I’d understand because that can be fixed. A better employer, a better work schedule, better accommodations.

What I will not accept, if he genuinely believes this. Is. GOOD. WRITING. BECAUSE IT’S NOT. That’s either a lie, an in-denial belief, or just plain ol’ ignorance. That’s just pure arrogance to me. You drop this slop on my feet, 300 pages of yapped nonsense and try to convince me it’s gold? Fuck no. I deserve better, we deserve better, the kids who read your books deserve better. There’s no fixing that kind of thinking.

Am I too harsh? Yes. But I need to let all of these out. Am I kinda biased and a lil incomprehensible? Yes, but I don't care. If you enjoyed it, good for you! But it’s not for me. For closure, I’m nursing whatever shit I try to fix with a rewrite. Kazu already nuked the playground - might as well take a page from his book and do whatever I want like he did.

[redhaus-wines]

Let’s Talk Dirt! Tech Talk 4 Wine - Episode 24 from Winemaker Nicholas Karavidas on Vimeo.

Today on #techtalk4wine, we’re just talkin’ dirt! From Cation Exchange & Soil Biomass to pH values in the deep alluvial Sandy Loams of Lodi’s Mokelumne River Old Vines…

…..to the hillsides of Santa Barbara & Lake Counties, & back again to Sonoma, Suisun Valley, Clarksburg & Manteca, what is it that makes world class California Wines, well, world Class?!

Some would argue that the soil in combination with climate, combined with creative winemaking style…and varietals that simply “work” in these regions.

But the dirt!

Especially dirt that forces a vine to struggle for its necessary nutrition.

Take, for example, the newly established Gabilan Mountain AVA in Monterey County.

Course structured high calcium, pH & Limestone on a granite base causes the vines to struggle in their only-sometimes fog shrouded high elevation climate.

The result is a thick skinned, typically lower pH, high total phenolic small berry red as well as high acid and super mineral rich Chardonnay & Sauvignon Blanc.

Starting with simple chemistry and soil fertility, every soil type has a capacity to impart nutrients more or less efficiently. This is commonly referred to as Cation Exchange Capacity or CEC’s of the soil.

The simplest way to explain CEC’s is that small particle size of the soil, such as clay with over 1000 times the surface area of sand, in general, has a much higher ‘capacity’ to exchange nutrients from the soil into the vine as the sand particle size takes up space but does not have the same capacity to impart nutrients from the soil to the vine in the form of “nutrition”.

In super rocky, sandy, or course soils, the capacity to exchange nutritional ions is low so many winegrowers seek to increase water holding through organic biomass development (which simply is the encouragement of living biological and organic material that allows water to ‘dwell’ around the sand particle for a longer period of time, allowing for more ion exchange).

Follow along with hashtag #techtalk4wine as I get into the importance of water and the hydrological effect necessary for the release of nutrients and how they effect soil chemistry for wine. #winemakersforum #WinemakerNicholasKaravidas #winemakerslife #flexcube #AmedeeOak @Chris Catterton @bill Tolar @milan Vujnic @Amedee Oak @hillary Eales