#is in the bibliography

[ephemeral-winter]

i love when you see a professor at your undergrad cited in something and you have to be like oh right that man was not just a meme for the amusement of my personal circle of friends he is actually a really important scholar of early hellenic judaism. or whatever

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

[literatureaesthetic]

first read of may — a cup of sake beneath the cherry trees by yoshida kenkō

moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair. 'a cup of sake beneath the cherry trees' is a collection of fragments from the journal of a 13th-century monk, as he reflects on the pleasures of life and its passing moments. i think there's something in here for everyone to admire, with its reflective themes, philosophical undertones, and beautiful writing and imagery.

i definitely recommend!! 🌱

[somos-deseos]

“No veo la miseria que hay, sino la belleza que aún queda”.

— Annelies Marie Frank, conocida como Ana Frank {Fráncfort del Meno, 12 de junio de 1929-Bergen-Belsen, febrero o marzo de 1945}.

Photography Collection: Emily Warmoth.

[theabigailthorn]

sources on what you're reading about AI ma'am please

I already posted the bibliography on twitter but here it is again

[rayatii]

A few years ago, I had the idea of making one of those movies about a girl who falls in love with some asshole “bad boy” with the idea that she can “fix him” with her good influence, but it’s portrayed in a realistic way, and instead of improving, he becomes more and more abusive, until she has to escape.

A couple of days ago, I started reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and finished it yesterday… and I realized that Anne Brontë already beat me to it 177 years ago.

[dduane]

I had an odd impulse in the age of Internet to look up the articles in WOUNDED SKY's bibliography. I dug for a while for the Isenson one. Then blinked a few times, realized that in 1983, 1996 was in the future ... and figured our timeline just went down an alternate route. Bit delighted to find that the first two do exist, though. Purely curious: were they research you found while writing? Or were they found after the plot? Etc.

I found them while researching.

In preparation for The Wounded Sky, I spent all my non-working hours for the guts of six weeks in the science library at Cal State Northridge, hip deep in journals on hyperdimensional physics. My favorite paper name from that research period remains "Taub-NUT Space As A Counter-Example To Practically Everything."

A couple of the papers that were particularly useful to me were cited in the [air-quotes]bibliography[/air-quotes] at the novel's end. The (then) young Princeton professor cited told me later that he'd been using TWS as part of his physics syllabus. :) So that circle closed nicely.

Meanwhile, for those who haven't seen it, here's what that citations page looked like.

[project-sekai-facts]

While some of the loading screen 1komas have minor dialogue changes between the JP and EN servers, 1koma #23, Rare Genius, is the only one that had the joke changed during the localisation process.

In the original Japanese version (left), Rui tells people to call him “the modern day Hiraga Gennai”. Gennai was a Japanese scientist and inventor from the 18th century, who was also famously gay and wrote multiple works on homosexuality. Tsukasa then asks Rui if he’s sure he wants to be known with that epithet, highlighting the implication. In this case, the joke is meant to be that Rui essentially just called himself gay.

In the official English localisation, Rui tells people to call him "the modern day Edison" instead, because the vast majority of EN players wouldn't know who Gennai was. Tsukasa's question is changed to make up for the different context, with him instead asking if Rui really "creates and makes a difference" like he claims he does. In this case, the joke is meant to be that Tsukasa doubts how accurate Rui’s claim is.

1koma translation by @/pjsekai_eng on Twitter

[quillnote]

Annotated books>>>

insta credit- @wmgpdlv

[kyouka-supremacy]

At the very end, I really don't care whether Fukuchi's plan makes sense or not. He directly caused Akutagawa giving his life for Atsushi / one of the most homoromantic scenes in manga history, makes sense or not I'll never stop being grateful to Fukuchi for it.

[whetstonefires]

You know what else gets neglected? Wen Xu made Lan Wangji set the library on fire.

Like. Realistically he knew it was going to burn whatever he did, so making a point of defiance that would just get more people killed would have been stupid. (I assume a major reason cql swapped this out for the Headband Cave, besides building up Su She's craven villainy, was that this would have been very expensive to film.) Giving way on this point after getting his leg broken, with his Sect overcome around him and his father mortally wounded, was perfectly reasonable.

But it's also something that was guaranteed to be very traumatic for him. Putting the flame to that building with his own hands.

And then, not knowing the fates of his family and with a broken leg, he got dumped into the Wen indoctrination and wound up in the turtle cave alone with Wei Wuxian, and definitely took his trauma out on him a little bit, though all things considered he handles himself with great restraint.

And then there's the war, and he takes time out of the campaign to try to find a presumed-dead guy whom he almost definitely regrets only being kind to when he wasn't really coherent, and then even though that guy is no longer trying to befriend him gets himself assigned to his theater of war to watch his back.

Lan Xichen is shown in that one tent flashback in the Nie Mingjue empathy section to know full well his brother is in Jiangling because Wei Wuxian is in Jiangling.

During the unclear-but-plural number of years the war went on, Lan Wangji was away from Cloud Recesses more or less all the time. Repairs were, we may assume, made in his absence. The collection was rebuilt as much as was possible, and housed in a replacement building, that may or may not have been complete by the time he went home to stay.

(Presumably one of the irreplaceable texts Xichen smuggled away was a list or index of the more replaceable ones, that got burnt, so they can go around to their contacts in an organized way asking to make copies. They seem to have done so very well at replacing such a large library so quickly that I can only assume they had had a very generous copying policy, and reaped the reward of this after the war.)

So after the war, when Lan Wangji is spending most of his time closed up in his room working on music, his being fixated on saving Wei Wuxian from the spiral of his own cultivation method is the least worrying explanation.

Because the alternate reasons Lan Xichen has to hand for this behavior are 1) Lan Wangji's ptsd is totally crippling and he's potentially going to become a shut-in for life or 2) the trauma he suffered at the start of the war, in the Cloud Recesses, being made to act against the Cloud Recesses, against his own safe place, means that he no longer feels secure or comfortable there, and is shut away obsessively cultivating to avoid their family and home.

And ngl I tend to suspect based on the timing of some beats that Lan Wangji did wind up funneling a lot of the energy from his war trauma into his romantic attachment. Because during that crucial window from 'Wei Wuxian has gone missing' to 'Wei Wuxian is dead' he believed that Wei Wuxian was someone he could help, if he could just figure out how.

And a huge predictor of PTSD, much larger than how 'objectively bad' something was, is how helpless you felt in the face of harm to yourself or others. So channeling his intensity and control issues into the contained and should-still-be-possible issue of Wei Wuxian's well-being would have been....

Not actually the worst coping mechanism, although it sure would have been a better one if Wei Wuxian had in fact been possible to help in some more substantive way than 'watching his back in battle' lmao.

[literatureaesthetic]

guess who (finally) finished a storm of swords, part one 🖤 being back in this world truly was an experience unlike any other. the world that george r r martin has crafted here is unrivalled — it really is one of the greatest fantasy epics <3 i cannot wait to read part two later this month!!

for now, i'll be starting my next book for my classic tomes challenge 👀 very excited

[catilinas]

im gonna eat this guy's phd thesis ouhgufdhg

[transmutationisms]

helloo, do you have any book recommendations that talk about the racial/political dimensions of cannibalism?

the delectable negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within us slave culture, by vincent woodward (2014)

insatiable appetites: imperial encounters with cannibals in the north atlantic world, by kelly l watson (2015)

renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human: new worlds, maps, and monsters, by surekha davies (2016)

the captain and 'the cannibal': an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the broadway stage, by james fairhead (2015)

taming cannibals: race and the victorians, by patrick brantlinger (2011)

the village of cannibals: rage and murder in france, 1870, by alain corbin, tr. arthur goldhammer (1992)

[ratwavegamehouse]

I've got a new game coming out tomorrow!

Out of the Fold is a GMless magical thriller for 2-5 players, using playing cards. Escape from the secret society of magicians who taught you everything you know. Build poker hands to cast spells and make your daring getaway. Flashback to the events that brought you to this point.

It's do or die, so are you all in?

[ryan-sometimes]

Y’all so I’m Brazilian but I moved to the US aged 18 without my family for college. My parents are still in Brazil. I’m also a big reader, and one thing that made me upset when I moved to the US was how expensive books in Portuguese are here. They can cost 5x what I would pay in Brazil!

I complained to my parents that I really wanted to read a specific book by a Brazilian writer called Machado de Assis, but it was super expensive here in the United States. Today I get this text from my mom:

Translation: daughter, your father bought you this

It’s a box set. Of pretty much EVERY BOOK by Machado de Assis. What?????