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captainkurosolaire · 2 years ago

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Tales of the Goldbrand

Status: Instagram Current Projects: Perfect My Style. Carrd: Every detail and home archive, the crown jewel. Scarlet Destiny Saga: Latest story arcs Writing Archive: Writing Hub Bsky - Twitter - Instagram: Social Alternatives. Ao3: TBA Disclaimer: Available for interact, tags, asks, etc.

About the Mun

Cap'n, Captain, Z

Contend with a fair amount of chronological health issues, but I do intense distraction therapy for pain management.

I do everything strictly for passion. Even if for my own amusement and enjoyment. Primarily exclusive to Tumblr, been here awhile... Let’s hope this site gets their act together, otherwise, I’ll have to befriend the bots.

Do a ton of writing here or challenges to better improve myself with a destination in-mind.

Out to tell a massive large-scale Story going to take me years to finish. These stories written from an In-character perspective of Captain’s Crewmate named “Casta.” Putting this Tale into every medium.

I’m going until I am dead or homeless; I feasibly can’t anymore. My dedication to my craft isn’t ordinary.

I take random hiatuses often when stressed. There no interest on being around unless I can be positive. Or provide something unique.

My age is physically and mentally between 28-76+

I speak my mind and will never pander. This blog is forever mature as this site lets me go but I’ll always try to -tag- to be respectfully considerate.

I love the XIV Community since there’s countless talented individuals whose inspiration has constantly let me overcome my limits. There’s nothing, I cannot do or achieve. [General Tags] - CKS Aesthetics - Asks Answered - OC Memes [Tags of Others] ~ Gems of Hydaelyn Treasure Tuesday & Treasure Thursday Otherworldly Writers & Hearts on Canvases

Captain Kuro Solaire Of the Goldbrand

Tags: #CaptainKuroSolaire / CKS / -CaptainKuroSolaire

[Ahoy! Meet The Wild Pirates]

(Official Crew Golden Jolly Roger by @under-the-blood-moonlight)

We are Tales: - Crew Collective Screenshots & concepts in one-tag. 😎 Wild Crew: Profiles: - In-depth Crew Profile Sheets. Wild Crew: Gif-Sets: - [1] - (~) Once get full crew-cast, will redo portraits. Aiming for a consistent 20 Members and MAX 25. So I may do outlandish, Seasonal Sets, Factions, etc as future projects. (~) Any Crewmates with a 🏴‍☠️ flag have been introduced thus far in Chapters. While other’s with X’s have-yet to appear in their Chapters or Arcs. Spoilers: If you visit their Carrds they contain a ton of info. Judas Caesar - First Crewmate - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Van Gah’d Sinbad - Second Mate - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Ya'chi Aarushi - Third Mate - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Ubylagynn Gark - Quartermaster - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Slafhota Guhtgeim - Counselor - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Klethera “Sunkiller” Solaire - Enforcer - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Shelah Valiyzena - Sniper - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Zieton Luiard XII - Historian - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Casta “Of the Heart” - Surgeon - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Nihlius Brood - Cerberus - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Layla Grey - Navigator (PC) @layla-grey - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Sol Nan ‘Ak’ami - Shipwright (PC) - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Me-Me-Worthy - Gremlin - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Whyte Wabi - Messenger - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Sheik Sphere - Minstrel - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Sha Dragonheart - Silent Guardian (PC) @sha - Carrd - 🏴‍☠️ Asumi “E.d.e.n” Yatao - Master Gunner - Carrd - X Morene Ruma - Cook - Carrd - X MoXXi - Entertainer - Carrd - X Rahelif Forge - Metalsmith - Carrd - X Larry Butler - Vassal - Carrd - X Bea Nebula - Dockhand - Carrd - X ?? - Idol - Carrd - X Invicta Maximus - Vacant for NPC/PC - Carrd - X ?? - Vacant for NPC/PC - Carrd - X

[Major Supporting Characters]

Perish & The Souls - Captain’s Fragmented Souls/Other Half Kogane no Kōgō - (Spirit) Captain’s Twin Sister Scimitar Madame of Yoru - (Spirit) Captain’s Twin Sister Scimitar Lord Shiro Elune - Sworn Fated (Rival & Ally) - (Alt.) /@lordshiroelune Saltsong - Kami of the Sea (Hat&MSQ) - (PC)/@the-littlest-kojin ?? - Vacant for (PC) ?? - Vacant for (PC) ?? - Vacant for (PC) ?? - Vacant for (PC) ?? - Vacant for (PC) Hoku Solaire - Father of Shadow Rokeia Solaire - Mother of Dawn (Deceased) Founding Captain Gark - Mentor & Surrogate Father (Deceased) “Albatross” - Mentor & Wanted ‘Terrorist’ Sky Criminal Poro “The Orcale” - Mentor (Teacher of Starsight) Sun’ra Zhawn - Crime Partner (PC)/@mischiefandmystics Ancestors of the Hunt - (9 Tails for 9 Tales) ~ LOCKED - Future Arc

#ToG #Intro post #Practically a book.#Welcome to my voyage #Hope ye enjoy the scenery #ffxiv #masterpost

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fromthedust · 1 year ago

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NIVEN'S GARDEN GAME

Virginia slate, fossiliferous Indiana limestone, Georgia foliated serpentine/talc, sandblasted glass, brass, stoneware

10"x 14½"x 1½"

What I imagine the game might be like in the metaphorical interstellar garden of author Larry Niven . . . an homage.

Larry Niven is an American science fiction author whose best-known work is Ringworld, which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics (see Freeman Dyson for the genesis of Ringworld). The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species as protagonists in his novels is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths.

Larry Niven (American, b.1938 Los Angeles, California)

#sculpture #my artwork #stone #art by me #Don Dougan #Larry Niven #fossiliferous limestone #glass #slate #brass #ceramic #foliated talc

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coffee-a-holic-girl · 10 months ago

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OK let's see

#rabbids invasion #ships

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annieandro · 23 days ago

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Happy Birthday Nickelodeon

Mighty Mouse, Pearl Pureheart, Dinky Duck, Heckle, Jeckle, Tom Terrific, Mighty Manfred, the wonder dog, Deputy Dawg, Sourpuss, Gandy Goose, Strong man, Tornado man, Cuckoo man, Rope man, Diaper man, Foofle, Sidney the elephant, Flebus, Farmer Alfalfa, Scrappy Mouse,Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Master Splinter, April o'Neil, Shredder, Krang, The big beast quintet, The Barbershop singers, The dog and the parrot, Stick Stickly, Doug Funnie, Porkchop, Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, Phil Deville, Lil Deville, Angelica Pickles, Susie Carmichael, Spike, Didi Pickles, Stu Pickles, Drew Pickles, Charlotte Pickles, Dil Pickles, Grandpa Lou Pickles, Chas Finster, Kira Watanabe-Finster, Kimi Finster, Betty DeVille, Howard DeVille, Randy Carmichael, Lucy Carmichael, Reptar,Ren Hoek, Stimpy, Sven Hoek, Mr. Horse, Powdered Toast man, Walrus, Rocko Rama, Heffer Wolfe, Filburt Turtle, Spunky, Ed Bighead, Bev Bighead, Rachel Bighead, Dr. Paula Hutchinson,Ickis, Oblina, Krumm, The Gromble, Arnold Shortman,Gerald Johanssen, Helga Pataki, Phoebe Heyerdahl, Eugene Horowitz,Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, Harold Berman, Mr. Simmons, Grandpa Phil,Grandma Gertie, Abner, Henry, June, Sniz, Fondue, Betty Anne, Bongo, Cat, Dog, Winslow T. Oddfellow, Cliff,Lube, Shriek, Rancid Rabbit, Eliza Thornberry, Nigel Thornberry, Marianne Thornberry, Donnie Thornberry, Debbie Thornberry, Darwin Thornberry, Spongebob Squarepants, Patrick Star, Squidward Tentacles,Sandy Cheeks, Mr. Krabs, Pearl Krabs, Gary the snail,Sheldon J. Plankton, Karen Plankton Spot,Mrs. Puff, Larry the lobster, Bubble Bass, Squilliam Fancyson, Perch Perkins, Bubble Buddy, Junior,Old Man Jenkins, Nosferatu, Slappy Laszlo,Painty the pirate, Oswald "Otto" Rocket, Regina. "Reggie" Rocket, Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez,Sam "Squid" Dullard, Ray "Raymundo" Rocket,Tito Makani, Pelswick, Ginger Foutley Deidre "Dodie" Hortense Bishop, Macie Lightfoot, Darren Patterson, Timmy Turner, Cosmo, Wanda, Poof "Peri", Chester McBadBat, A.J. Trixie Tang, Chip Skylark, Jorgen von Strangle, Remy Buxaplenty, Juandissimo Magnifico, Vicky, Denzel Crocker, Crimson Chin, Crash Nebula, Ani, Zim, GIR, Dib Membrane, Gaz Membrane, Jimmy Neutron, Goddard, Carl Wheezer, Sheen Estevez, Cindy Vortex, Libby Folfax, Nick Dean, Hugh Neutron, Judy Neutron, King Goobot V,Ooblar, Professor Calamitous, Rudy Tabootie, Snap, Penny Sanchez, Yakkity Yak, Jenny Wakeman/XJ9, Brad Carbunkle, Tuck Carbunkle, Sheldon Lee, Professor Nora Wakeman, XJ1, XJ2, XJ3, XJ4, XJ5, XJ6, XJ7, XJ8, Vexus, Britt Crust, Tiff Crust, Danny Fenton, Sam Manson,Tucker Foley, Jazz Fenton, Vlad Plasmius, Ember McLain, The Box Ghost, Youngblood, Dani, King Neptune, Princess Mindy, Dennis,Todd, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph Beifong, Appa, Momo, Zuko, Iroh, Azula, Mai, Ty Lee,

Mr. Blik, Waffle, Gordon, Hovis, Kimberly, Katilda, Gomez, Mr. X, Trudy X, Truman X, Tuesday X, Mikey, Josh Redgrove, Parker Dinkleman, Otis, Pip, Abby, Bessy, Pig, Freddy, Peck, Duke, Manny Rivera,Frida Suarez, Tak, Bessie Higgenbottom,Happy Higgenbottom, Ben Higgenbottom, Penny Lefkowitz, Charlotte,Vendetta, Skipper, Private, Kowalski and Rico, Fanboy, Chum Chum,Kyle the Conjurer, Yo, Mr. Mufflin, Boog, Lenny,Dudley Puppy, Kitty Katswell, Keswick,Chief,Tammy,Daisy, Snaptrap, Birdbrain, Chameleon, Korra,Asami Sato, Mako, Bolin, Amon, Sanjay Patel,Craig Slithers, Robot, Monster, SwaySway, Buhdeuce,Harvey Beaks, Fee, Foo, Miriam Beaks, Irving Beaks, Michelle Beaks, Claire, Dade, Kratz, Piri Piri, Princess Roberts, Doctor Roberts, Jeremy, Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket, Bubbles, The seagull crew, Lincoln Loud, Lori Loud, Leni Loud, Luna Loud, Luan Loud, Lynn Loud Jr., Lucy Loud, Lola Loud, Lana Loud, Lisa Loud, Lily Loud, Rita Loud, Lynn Loud Sr., Charles, Cliff, Geo, Walt, Watterson, Clyde McBride, Rusty Spokes, Zach Gurdle, Liam Hunnicutt, Stella Zhau, Mr. Grouse, Warren Rabbit, LaSombra, Pibbles, Zeus, Bunsen the beast, Mikey Munroe, Ansi Molina, Olly Timbers,Saraline Timbers, Felicity, Miguel, Yana and Athena, Ronnie Anne Santiago, Bobby Santiago, Maria Santiago, Arturo Santiago, Hector Casagrande,Rosa Casagrande, Frida Puga Casagrande,Carlos Casagrande, Carl Casagrande, CJ Casagrande,Carlota Casagrande, Carlitos Casagrande, Sergio Casagrande, Lalo, Sid Chang, Adelaide Chang, Stanley Chang, Becca Chang, Mama Lupe, Paco,Pinky Malinky, Lampo, Milady, Pilou and Meatball, Miko Kubota, Hector "hi-five" Nieves, Santiago Montes, Tomás Montes, Lorelai, Annie Brambley, Pony, Parker J. Cloud, Angus Shackleton, Russell, Narlene Narwhal, Nobby Narwhal, Squidina Star,Bunny Star, Cecil Star, Grandpat Star, Brendar,Evan, Horus Scrum, Stacey Owl, Axe, Morag, Angus,Sharkdog, Sammy Gupta, Raj Gupta, Zokie Sparkleby, Ruby Studebaker, Handsome Steve, Derek, Windy,Stumpy, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Hazel Wells, Max, Annette "Nan" Artifice and Clarion Wellspring, B.O.B, The Missing Link, Dr.Cockroach and Rabbid.

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elephantkingdom · 2 years ago

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Larry ,Regina,Stellar spire

#Pillars of Creation #space #larry butz #regina berry #larry x regina #g gundam #nebula

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sciencespies · 4 years ago

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How Far Back In Time Can We See With Our Naked Eye?

https://sciencespies.com/news/how-far-back-in-time-can-we-see-with-our-naked-eye/

How Far Back In Time Can We See With Our Naked Eye?

Whenever you observe an object, you aren’t viewing it in its present state.

When one of Jupiter’s moons passes behind our Solar System’s largest planet, it falls into the … [+] planet’s shadow, becoming dark. When sunlight begins striking the moon again, we don’t see it instantly, but many minutes later: the time it takes for light to travel from that moon to our eyes. Here, Io re-emerges from behind Jupiter, the same phenomenon that Ole Rømer used to first measure the speed of light.

Robert J. Modic

Instead, we’re held back while light travels through space.

As shown here, the International Space Station flies over a spectacular aurora on display in Earth’s … [+] atmosphere. At its cruising altitude of around ~400 kilometers, the light we receive from the ISS here on the surface of the Earth is ~1.4 milliseconds in the past compared to events happening “now” on Earth.

NASA / INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Visible artificial satellites appear as they were ~1-2 milliseconds ago.

Whether seen with the naked eye or with modern telescopes, the light from Uranus takes approximately … [+] 159.6 minutes, or 2 hours and ~40 minutes, to reach Earth. Uranus, which has a prominent lunar system and its own rich set of rings, is the most distant naked-eye object in the Solar System.

ESO

The farthest naked eye Solar System object, Uranus, is 2 hours and 40 minutes in the past.

The two sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, are located just 4.37 light years away from us and … [+] orbit one another at between the distances of Saturn and Neptune in our own solar system. Even in this Hubble image, however, they are simply oversaturated point sources; no disk can be resolved. Proxima Centauri is approximately 0.2 light years away, only 4.24 light-years from Earth.

ESA/Hubble & NASA

The closest stars, in Alpha Centauri’s system, are ~4.3 light-years away; there, it’s early 2016 on Earth.

Canopus, normally visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is seen here from the International Space … [+] Station. Bluish-white in color, the second brightest star in the night sky is much farther than either the brightest (Sirius, at 8.6 light-years) or third brightest (Alpha Centauri, at 4.3 light-years) star, located 310 light-years away. It is intrinsically much brighter than either one.

NASA / ISS expedition 6

The second brightest star, Canopus, sees a pre-Industrial Revolution Earth: 310 light-years distant.

The three bright stars of the Summer Triangle: Vega (at top), Deneb (at left), and Altair (at … [+] right), contain seven fascinating and easily visible deep-sky objects from our perspective. The faint outline of the plane of the Milky Way can be seen passing through this collection of stars that dominates the summer skies. Vega is a mere 26 light-years away; Deneb is about 100 times as distant at 2,615 light-years.

NASA, ESA; Credit: A. Fujii

Deneb, anchoring the Summer Triangle, appears as it did 2,615 years ago; Athenian Democracy is a century away.

The Carina Nebula, with Eta Carina, the brightest star inside it, on the left. What appears to be a … [+] single star was identified as a binary back in 2005, and it’s led some to theorize that a third companion was responsible for triggering the supernova impostor event that caused a series of brightenings in the first half of the 19th century.

ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R.Gendler, J-E. Ovaldsen, C. Thöne, and C. Feron

Eta Carinae, 7,500 light-years away, witnesses the Black Sea’s flooding.

The constellation of Cassiopeia is familiar to casual skywatchers as a big “W” in the sky, but in … [+] truth the constellation contains many thousands of stars that are fainter and impossible to resolve without astronomical equipment. The farthest naked-eye star of all, V762 Cassiopeiae, can be found above the first “V” in the “W” shape, as annotated.

A. FUJII; annotations by E. Siegel

The oldest naked-eye starlight arrives from V762 Cassiopeiae, 16,300 years old: when humans first entered North America.

A map of the nearest globular clusters surrounding the Milky Way’s center. A few of the globular … [+] clusters within our Milky Way, such as Omega Centauri and the great globular cluster in Hercules (Messier 13) are visible to the naked eye, but there is a visible globular cluster that’s located farther away than all of the others.

William E. Harris / McMaster U., and Larry McNish / RASC Calgary

Numerous visible globular star clusters are farther, with Messier 3 the most distant.

Messier 3, a globular cluster located 33,900 light-years away, as seen through a 24″ telescope. The … [+] stars within this globular cluster are approximately 11.4 billion years old, and it can be seen with the naked eye under ideal viewing conditions.

Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

It’s 33,900 light-years away, corresponding to the final demise of Earth’s Neanderthals.

The location of globular cluster Messier 3, near the Big Dipper (top) and Arcturus (bottom). If you … [+] look at the star to the right of Alkaid, Cor Caroli, Messier 3 is located along the straight line connecting Cor Caroli to Arcturus. Messier 3 is the most distant naked-eye globular at an estimated 33,900 light-years away.

E. Siegel / Stellarium

Galaxies outdistance all other visible objects.

The largest galaxy in the Local Group, Andromeda, appears small and insignificant next to the Milky … [+] Way, but that’s because of its distance: some 2.5 million light years away. Easily visible under dark skies, it’s one of four galaxies external to our own visible with the naked eye, along with the Magellanic Clouds and Triangulum.

ScienceTV on YouTube / Screenshot

The Triangulum galaxy even bests Andromeda: 2.8 million light-years away, predating Homo Habilis.

The Triangulum galaxy might not be as massive or impressive as ourselves or Andromeda, but it’s the … [+] farthest object from Earth visible with the naked eye, and the third largest galaxy in our local group. At 2.73 million light-years away, they would not be able to find any evidence for the genus ‘Homo’ on Earth.

Robert Gendler, Subaru Telescope (NAOJ)

Only temporary, transient events are farther.

This dual image shows the emission of GRB 080319B, imaged by Swift’s X-ray Telescope (L) and, later, … [+] followed-up by the Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (R). This was the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded at the time, and was so bright that, for about 30 seconds on March 19, 2008, it was visible to the naked human eye.

NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al.

Gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B was visible for ~30 seconds on March 19, 2008.

The distant galaxy EGC 1305123, seen in optical light (L) and ionized carbon monoxide (R), as imaged … [+] by Hubble. This galaxy is comparable, in many ways, to an early version of the Milky Way, and its light comes to us from about ~8 billion years ago, comparable to the most distant gamma-ray burst visible with the naked eye.

ESA/Hubble & NASA; Tacconi et al. (2010), Nature 463, 781

7.5 billion light-years away, its light predates Earth’s existence by ~3 billion years.

An illustration of the young solar system Beta Pictoris, somewhat analogous to our own Solar System … [+] during its formation. The Earth and Sun formed roughly 4.5-4.6 billion years ago; an object whose light must travel for 7.5 billion years before reaching our eyes would have no inkling of our planet’s existence for another ~3 billion years.

AVI M. MANDELL, NASA

Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words. Talk less; smile more.

#News

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sneek-m · 5 years ago

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Monthly Listening: December 2019

Another year of listening, done. This month, I did a lot of browsing through year-end and best-of-decade lists made by music sites but also my great friends who always recommend me exciting stuff I’ve never heard of before. I always look forward to December when my friends get to posting. If you’re curious of my favorites, here they are.

Here is this month’s playlist. 276 songs! The biggest one of the year! And below is a list of all of the records I checked out in December.

2019 albums

100 gecs: 1000 gecs

1takejay: G.O.A.T.

Acemo: All My Life

Airi Suzuki: I

Ali Barter: Hello, I’m Doing My Best

AprilBlue: Blue Peter

Ash Island: Ash

Baby Smooth: Baby

Band-Maid: Conqueror

Banshee: Banshee

Beatrice Dillion: RA.706

Bella Boo: Once Upon a Passion

BEYOOOOONDS: BEYOOOOOND1St

Bjarki: Psychotic Window

Blue Hawaii: Open Reduction Internal Fixation

BoA: Starry Night

Changsie: RA.707

City Morgue: Vol. 2: As Good as Dead

CL: In the Name of Love

Co Shu Nie: Pure

CRCK/LCKS: Temporary Vol. 2

Crush: From Midnight to Sunrise

Culenasm: In Your Fragrance EP

DaBaby: Baby on Baby

Daniel Lopatin: Uncut Gems - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Davido: A Good Time

De De Mouse: Nulife

DJ 510 Mariko: Love from Gainsbourg

Exitpost: Two Dreamers

Faye Webster: Atlanta Millionaires Club

Forest Swords: The Machine Air (Original Score)

Foxes in Fiction: Trillium Killer

Gatecreeper: Deserted

Girl Ultra: Nuevos Aires

Hamidasystem: Down

Haretokidoki: Nebula of Reminiscence

Harry Styles: Fine Line

Humming Urban Stereo & Rissy: With

iLU: The World With You & The World Without You EP

Karenn: Grapeful Regret

Kaytranada: Bubba

Ken Ishii: Mobius Strip

Kirinji: Cherish

Larry June: Products of the Dope Game

Layla: Goodbye. EP

Le Makeup: Aisou

Lighters: Everything EP

Limi: One of Two

Loraine James: For You and I

Los: Snakes in the Grass

Maison Book Girl: Umi To Uchu No Kodomodachi

Malibu: One Life

Nakanormal: Wow EP

Nariaki Obukuro: Piercing

Nathan Micay: Blue Spring

Obsequiae: The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

OOIOO: Nijimusi

Pandagomm: Sleeptalking

Patten: Flex

PEAVIS: Peace in Vase

Risa Takeda: Meteoros

Roc Marciano: Marcielago

Roddy Ricch: Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial

Rung Hyang: Documentary EP

Sawa Angstrom: Ice EP

Sayaka Yamamoto: Alfa

Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku: Playlist

Shiro To Eda: Samidori No Nemuri

Sofie Birch: Island Alchemy

Spotlights: Love & Decay

Stellar OM Source: I See Through You

Stenny: Upsurge

Sui Sui Duck: Long Time No See

SUKISHA x Kiki Vivi Lily: Over the Rainbow

Sunwoo JungA: Serenade

Super VHS: Theoria

Teejayx6: Black Air Force Activity 1

Tiptoe.: Timetrip

Tsudio Studio: Soda Resort Journey

Ulla Straus: Big Room

Valgur: Zapandu

Various artists/Dreamville: Revenge of the Dreamers III

Various artists: Katana Zero OST

VaVa: Cyver EP

Vivid Undress: Konzai New Wave

Non-2019 albums

Bellring Shojo Heart: Beyond

Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland: Black Is Beautiful

Dempagumi.inc: Nee Kiite? Sekai Wo Sukuu No Wa Kitto Osushi… Dewanaku Dempagumi.inc!

Drunken Tiger: Year of the Tiger

Eazy-E: It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa

El Guincho: Pop Negro

Emeralds: Does It Look Like I’m Here?

Goth-Trad: New Epoch

Jim Guthrie: Below OST

L’Arc~en~Ciel: Ray

Nice & Smooth: Nice & Smooth

Orange Caramel: Lipstick

RIP SLYME: Talkin’ Cheap

Roc Marciano: Marcberg

Scha Dara Parr: Scha Dara Daisakusen

Various artists/Youko Kanno, May’n & Megumi Nakajima: Macross Frontier “Sayonara No Tsubasa” Netabare Album the End of Triangle OST

Wiley: Grime Wave

Z-Ro: Let the Truth Be Told

#Monthly Listening

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iwatchanimeoccasionally · 5 years ago

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Alright so, here is the story of Larry (under the read more in case anyone doesn’t want this)

PS this took me 1.5 hours to write and it is about 4.5 thousand words long. I don’t know what I was expecting, but damn.

Sunday, I had the day off and had no plans so Larry was free-roaming from when I got up to about 7 in the evening and she was acting normal that entire time, when I switched her out for Nebula. Around 12:30 AM I went upstairs to give them all their supper and let Deku have her chance at free-roam before I went to bed, which she never takes so she just gets an hour with her cage open before I go to sleep. Immediately, I could tell something was wrong with Larry when she was huddled in her litter box and didn’t perk up and come check her hay when I put it in her feeder and jump up to see me. I called out for her a couple times, thinking maybe she was just sleeping really soundly, but still, she barely flicked an ear in my direction. I went ahead and finished feeding the other pets first, wanting to make sure everyone was taken care of before I could give 100% of my attention to Larry.

Finally, everyone was fed and watered, and Larry still wasn’t even acknowledging that I was feeding her when I gave her pellets, which she has always been super excited for. So I went in her cage, which I try to avoid doing because all rabbits would much rather come to you than have you in their personal space. I reached out to pet her, and she just let me. Might not seem like a huge thing if you don’t own rabbits or don’t know how mine are, but normally if she’s in her litter box and decide to pet her without her asking for it first, she will lunge and grunt at me. So, now I have a couple red flags being set off and scaring me.

Already feeling the tears burning my eyes, I try to pick her up. Again, no fight. She just let me. Never happens. She likes being held sometimes, but never does she let me get in her cage and pick her up from her litter box without a fight! That is her sacred alone space that I shouldn’t be allowed to pet her in, let alone lifting her. So now I’m fully crying and taking her into my mom’s room because there is something deeply wrong with my baby and it’s nearly 1 AM at this point in a small town, so I don’t know what to do. I go in and just sob out, “There’s something really wrong with Larry.”

Now, even with others cohabiting with her, I am the only one who really knows Larry. I mean, yeah, other people know some of her mannerisms and know that she is amazing and love her. But there is not a single person in this world who knows all about her like I do. So I’m blown off a little bit, Mom thinking that she might just be really tired or in a funny mood today. She has me put Larry on her bed to see how she acts, and she’s alert, moving around a little bit, but now anywhere near her normal activity levels. (meanwhile Alek is just wondering what the hell is going on because she’s not supposed to be in there, that’s his space, but he’s still nervous enough around her that he wouldn’t dare get close) I explain that she’s not eating, or expressing any interest in her food, and Mom’s first thought is, “Did you try giving her a bit of banana to see if she’ll eat that?”

Of course I hadn’t done that. The thought did very briefly cross my mind, but I immediately brushed it off because, fun fact, if your rabbit is having stomach issues it’s not really the best idea to give them sugar, which is enough to mess up their GI tract if handled poorly on a good day. But I go with it, run downstairs to get a banana to let her have a tiny bite of. When I go back upstairs, she’s acting mostly alert and immediately eats a bit of the fruit with no fight. Which seemed to put my mom’s mind to rest, but not mine. Because this isn’t normal and what if I just made it worse.

After expressing my concerns, I’m urged to just go back to bed and if she’s not back to normal in the morning, I can just call out from work and we’ll take her to the vet. So, Larry and I go back to my room and I put her back in her cage, where she immediately goes back to her litter box. I offer to hand feed her some pellets and sunflower seeds (black oil, the only kind they can have in moderation), neither of which she has ever been known to turn down. This time, though, she has 0 interest. She doesn’t even want to smell them. So I sit there for a while, still in tears, wondering what I can do for her.

Then I remember that I have critical care! So I go downstairs to grab that, assuming this is all a case of stasis, which is terrible but supposedly manageable if you catch it in time and get your rabbit on critical care until you can go to the vet. I also grab her favorite treat, which is just made of compressed hay so I figure it won’t hurt her to have if she’s willing to eat it. When I get back upstairs, I pull Larry out again and we hang out on my bed, where I try to spoon feed her critical care because I don’t have a syringe so that’s the only way I can mange. She has zero interest, and when I try to put it on a piece of banana, she just eats what little banana she can get without critical care on it. But we hang out for a while, her mostly just laying in one spot and ignoring me. Until finally she gets tired of being there and decides it’s time to get back to her litter box.

Back in her cage, I let her just lay there and sit as close as I think I can without feeling like I’m going to stress her out when she gets a bit closer to normal. For the next several hours we just sit there. I sing to her for a while, starting with her favorite song, as that’s something that usually calms her.

Finally, 7 AM rolls around and I have been sobbing off and on for the pas 6.5 hours and she’s still not better. So, I leave her alone for a minute and go back to my mom, updating her on the situation and letting her know that we need to go to the vet (she’s driving because I’m not super comfortable driving on a good day, let alone when I’m crying myself sick over Larry). Of course, she tells me to call them and oops, I got times mixed up in my panic and exhaustion so they’re not even open for another hour.

Still though, she’s taking me seriously and gets up to get ready. I call work while she’s in the bathroom. My newest coworker answers the phone and I didn’t even think to ask for a manager or anything, I’m just immediately off with, “Something’s really wrong with Larry and I’m not coming in today because I’m going to try to take her to the vet and even if they don’t have time for her, I can’t work when she’s like this. Oh yeah, Larry’s my rabbit, I don’t know if I’ve told you that before.”

“Ok, so, you want me to tell *manager’s name* for you?”

Slight pause on my part as I realize I should’ve asked if she was working before I tell her to please do that for me.

Eight come by finally, and the second the clock turns I’m dialing the vet. She offers me an 11 or I can bring Larry in sooner and they can work on her between appointments. I ask how soon, and she says I can come in as soon as possible, so of course I go with that option.

By 8:15 we’re at the vet’s office and I’m checking her in. Larry’s already pulled up on the computer even though I never gave my name over the phone, so she’s well known enough there that they were able to find her without anything more than her name and species, and that makes me feel a little warm and fuzzy inside even through all the terror and panic.

The vet asks a couple questions: what exactly is going on with her, how long has she been like this, was she normal on saturday(which my sleep deprived brain had a really hard time figuring out wasn’t just yesterday anymore), what do I normally feed her, those sorts of things. He also asked if he had permission to do x-rays and/or bloodwork if need be and I am just flabbergasted that he asked, replying with, “Do whatever it takes to help her.” He also tells me that cancer can sometimes cause those symptoms, and I immediately freak out because what am I gonna do if she has cancer? We’re out and on our way back home by 8:30, and surprise surprise, I cried through her check-in and all the way home.

The next couple hours and a blur of stress and terror and anxiety as I try to convince myself that she’s not dying.

At 10:20 the vet calls. He ended up taking x-rays and thinks her stomach and intestines are extremely full so he’s just going to give her fluids and monitor her for a while to see if she’s able to pass whatever blockage there may be on her own. I mentioned then that she was molting like crazy and I was having a hard time keeping up with brushing, so it might be her fur as I know that’s common with rabbits, and the doc agrees that may be it. We hang up then with a promise for him to call me back with more information in a couple hours.

1:50 comes and my concern is creeping in enough that I can’t keep fighting it off, so I call them back to see how she’s doing. The vet then tells me that he sent the x-rays off to a specialist to see what she thought and she told him that those were normal levels of fullness and that now it might be her liver so he needs to do bloodwork. The tests were almost done when I called, so he said he’d call me back in about ten minutes when they finished.I’m already freshly terrified and breaking down because what if it is her liver? What then?

20 minutes later, he calls back with bad news.

I don’t remember what, exactly, the numbers were or what they were for, but one was about 4x what it was supposed to be and another was about double. This made the specialist think that she had a flipped liver lobe, which is apparently common in rabbits. What that means, though, is that she needs emergency surgery as soon as possible. He tells me the risks; he’s never done that surgery on a rabbit before, the specialist only does about 5 a year and has about a 60-80% success rate, surgery is already risky for rabbits, and it absolutely has to be done tonight. He then says that he’d really like to give it a shot and would do his very best for her if I chose to have him do it. Also said was the fact that I’d have to drive 2.5 hours in July in Iowa to get to the specialist, and I don’t know if you know this, but rabbits don’t do well with heat. And if we went to the specialist, they’d probably charge $1,000-$2,000 while he would only charge about $400 since it’d be a lot more risky to do such an experimental surgery with him.

I am fully sobbing, crouched in on myself and guttural sobs wracking my body on the front porch when I hang up with him, having asked for 10 minutes to make some calls and come to a decision. Which was never really a decision anyway because she couldn’t handle that drive, I couldn’t pay the price, and the risks are still too high to go to the specialist. Really, I’m mainly just taking a second to break down and call my mom before I tell this man, who has never even met my baby before this incident, to do an extremely risky procedure on my baby, my entire world.

When I talk to my mom, she offers to come home from work to be with me.After calling the vet back and leaving a message for her doctor to call me back, I go back inside to update the rest of my family and my grandma asks if I’m going to the vet to see her. I hadn’t even thought that was an option so I perk up a little and call my mom back to see if she would take me. Apparently, she had already assumed we were doing that. I’m still freaking out, but i feel a little better that I’ll be able to see her at least. While I wait for her to get to the house, I call my boss to let her know that I’d be missing Tuesday as well. I’m mostly composed when she answers, but as soon as she knows it’s me, she asks if I’m ok.

Of course, the answer is no and I start crying again when I answer. “So, Larry’s not ok?” And my boss is a good woman, I can hear the concern in her voice and she is completely ok with me missing another day when I explain the situation to her and let her know that there is no way I’m coming in tomorrow. Right when I’m hanging up, my mom pulls up and we’re off to the vet for the second time that day.

Just as we get there and let the person at the counter know we’re there for Larry, the vet calls me back and I let him know that I’m already there and that he had good timing. I can hear him echoing from the hallway and am no prepared for any of this.

He ushers us into a conference room then for some privacy. I immediately say, “If you can tell me that there are any odds of her surviving, I’ll let you do her surgery.” Being a doctor, he obviously responded with the risks and not promising anything, apparently thinking I wanted a promise that she’d live. All I wanted was a guarantee that she wasn’t doomed. The risks were still the same as before, and I was getting a little tired of hearing it all repeated back to me.

Then I ask to see her, still half expecting to be told no, but he seemed to think that was the natural next step. So he started leading us back to her and he warned me that she was wearing a cone of shame because she had an IV for fluids and she kept trying to chew it out, which I actually was able to laugh at a little because that is so Larry of her. He also goes over her numbers with my mom because I sure didn’t pass along any information that I didn’t deem crucial.

We get to her and she’s huddle in the back of the kennel, pissed off to have the cone on. The vet warns me not to let her jump out before he opens the door for me, and I’m in there like a rocket, petting her and talking to her and crying. I don’t remember everything I said to her, but I do know I said the following, “Please don’t die, you’re my entire world, you can’t die now,” “Be strong for me and get through this surgery like a champ,” “I love you so so much,” “I’m sorry you don’t feel good,” “I can’t do this without you, I love you so much, please be strong for me.”

Mom talked to her too, apparently telling her she can’t die because she doesn’t think I could go on if she did.

We talked to the vet a bit more once we closed the kennel, my mom breaking down because she thought the number he gave me was for everything so far and the surgery would be $1000 and we can’t afford that. But he quickly assured us it wouldn’t be that expensive and it was the range he gave earlier, which I could handle.

I also asked if this was something I did wrong, which it wasn’t, and if those numbers could happen in hours or if I had somehow missed signs for days, which I hadn’t. So, even though I was still completely broken, I at least felt a tiny bit of selfish relief that I hadn’t done anything wrong.

Before I talked to her for the last time before leaving, I asked if she would have to stay overnight, which was a definite yes and he thought she might even have to stay the next night as well. He also let us know that it would be a few hours before he called again about how it went.

The next couple hours, I’m so on edge, but I’m temporarily out of tears to cry after the first ten minutes or so of being home and updating my sister, who had been at work all day and just got home. Mom went back to work then, as well, since my sister was home and she knew I had company that would keep me from going too dark in my mind.

At 5:10 I wander away from my phone for one minute, thinking the ringer would be loud enough to call me back if I got the call.

At 5:11, I check my phone and see that I missed a call from the vet.

At 5:12 I call back to see what’s up and get sent to the after hours answering service.

At 5:13 I notice I have a voicemail.

“Hi, this is Dr. *name* from *vet clinic name*. I’m just calling to let you know that Larry’s surgery went well and she’s awake.”

Immediately, I’m crying again, but finally it’s from happiness and relief rather than fear and an aching sadness.

I call my mom right away and tell her the good news, crying all the while and ecstatic at finally having good news to share.

I don’t remember then if I called them and requested the on-call vet or if he called me, but I was soon on the phone with the vet with him telling me the good news yet again. I thank him profusely and he asks if they could post pictures of Larry on their facebook page because they like doing that sometimes, which I wouldn’t have refused even if I didn’t love sharing pictures of Larry almost as much as I love her.

Despite my relief, I miss Larry all evening and sleep is hard that night without her in the room.

The next morning, I get a call at 9:10 that Larry is alert and ready to come home! I shoot out of bed and we’re at the vet’s for her within 15 minutes. I open the carrier as soon as they bring her out, and she’s already trying to climb out to see me and I’m barely holding back my tears of joy.

We have to stay then to talk to the assistant who brought her out, and all the while she’s standing up and looking around and just so happy to see me. Which I know sounds like I’m just projecting, but she genuinely was happy to see me and to be coming home. While we’re talking to the assistant, Larry’s normal vet comes out and comments on how good Larry is looking and how bad it sounded yesterday.

We make it home by 10:30 and she is as you’d expect a rabbit to be after surgery. Her appetite is very low and she doesn’t want to drink water. I let it go for an hour before I call the vet, wondering if I need to be concerned at the fact that she’s barely eating or pooping and her poops are weird. All is to be expected and I’m told to call back around 3-4 if she’s not getting better.

Eventually, I get tired just talking over the phone, and I just go the the office to show them a picture of her poop. Of course, I’m told that this is normal for a post-surgery bunny and her vet is nice so she’d never tell me that I’m being over protective and crazy paranoid, but I’m sure she’s thinking it. She gives me a probiotic to mix with her food just to make me feel better and make sure that Larry keeps pooping.

The rest of that day is relatively calm, I keep Larry in her cage because rabbits need limited running and jumping right after surgery, and I have to stop myself from sitting with her all day and bothering her to eat and drink. Still, I can’t stop myself from checking her every half hour to hour. Eventually, she gets to the point where she sees me enter the room and grabs a piece of hay to get me off her back.

The next morning(this morning) is a different story. I wake up at 6 AM to Nebula flipping out, chewing her litter box and trying to bang it around. I give her hay, because normally that’s all she wants when she’s being like that, then I look at Larry because as long as I’m awake I should check on her.

She’s laying sprawled out with her stomach pressed on the bottom of her cage. Normal way to lay down for rabbits, sure. Not normal? I called her name and she didn’t respond. I immediately panic, calling the on-call vet before I’m even to her cage.

Her normal vet answers, groggy and clearly just waking up, and as soon as I hear her name I’m crying and saying, “Larry’s not responsive and laying with her stomach pressed to the floor and I’m scared.”

“That’s not normal. I can meet you at the office, but it won’t be until 7.” The vet clinic is split with a couple other towns and the vets are shared, so I assume she just lives that far away? Whatever the reason, I agree and she says she’ll call me when she’s nearly there.

Naturally, I go to wake up my mom again to update her and to cry to her again. She tells me to go ahead and get Larry ready to go, which I do, and as soon as I offer the carrier to Larry, she starts to perk up and climbs in. I take her to sit in the hallway then, opening the top to pet her. After a few minutes, she hops out and just starts wandering, like nothing is even wrong.

Even still I want to go in because what if I’m not crazy? So I put her away for a bit until I get the call to head in, and she’s acting normal. Of course. At this point I think she might just be a little groggy and harder to wake up, but nothing scary.

We go in, and the vet is happy to see her relatively normal. Again, she’s too nice to call me crazy, but I apologize for it anyway and she brushes me off, saying she’d rather see her and have it be nothing than the opposite, which is my thought exactly.

After examining her, the vet decides she seems to be in good health but her temperature is a little high, so she gave her a shot of penicillin and tells me to check back in on Friday because it’s supposed to last two days. Since then, she’s been (almost) her normal self.

She’s still on cage rest and I’m forcing myself to leave her alone more today and she’s really starting to seem better. She’s eating on her own more and I actually have a funny story from earlier today.

I went to check on her and gave her a treat to try to get her to eat more. She took it from me and I was really happy, because that hadn’t happened since she came home. I thanked her then for eating, and she started to eat a piece of hay. Again, I thanked her and asked her to keep doing that if I left her alone. So, I closed the door to her cage and she stopped eating. “No, keep eating,” I say and she starts chewing again. I take a few steps away and notice that she finished the piece she was eating but kept pretending to chew. “Come on, actually eat please.” She chins her food, like she could fool me into thinking she was eating by having her face close to the hay. “That’s not eating, I’m not dumb.” Finally she grabs a piece and starts chewing, stopping as soon as I turn my head even though I’m still watching her. “I see you...” And finally, she keeps eating and I hear her still munching as I leave the room.

And, for the latest update for the day, I went to give her dinner a little early because I want a schedule for the probios stuff she gets with her food, and she had eaten a good amount of her alfalfa hay (which she normally doesn’t get because it’s got a higher fat content that timothy, but I have some on hand for growing girl Nebula and it’s more tasty so she gets that until her appetite is closer to normal) and when I gave her romaine lettuce (to help with fiber and hydration) she ate a decent amount from hand feeding before she got tired of that, but then she ate all the rest that I just left in there for her!

So, long story short, Larry very nearly died but she didn’t and she’s looking pretty good right now!

#Larry Queen #50 shades of buns #long post #sorry for any spelling or grammar errors #i'm crying writing this #and i'm not about to read it again to edit #i'll probably update this in the coming days during her recovery #to keep you all updated #and also because i want to keep track of it all

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Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (Winner of Nebula Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)

Blindsight by Peter Watts (Winner of Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; John W. Campbell Award)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award; Nebula Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award)

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; Nebula Award)

R.U.R. by Karel Capek

Lilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler

Blood Music by Greg Bear (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award; John W. Campbell Award)

Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan; Philip K. Dick Award

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (Winner of Hugo Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award; Nebula Award

Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award)

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Winner of Hugo Award)

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard

Ringworld by Larry Niven (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)

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Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance

Pavane by Keith Roberts

The City & The City by China Mieville (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Hugo Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award; World Fantasy Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award; Nebula Award; John W. Campbell Award)

1984 by George Orwell

Contact by Carl Sagan

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; John W. Campbell Award; British Sience Fiction Association Award)

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

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Cry of the Wind by Sue Harrison

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Winner of Hugo Award; Nebula Award)

Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated … by David Brin

Inverted World by Christopher Priest

The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the … by Jules Verne

The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi; Hugo Award

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Winner of Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award; John W. Campbell Award)

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber (Winner of Hugo Award)

World War Z: An Oral History of th… by Max Brooks

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Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg (Winner of Nebula Award; Hugo Award; Locus Science Fiction Award)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A N… by Michael Chabon

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Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

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Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell

Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling

Last and First Men and Star Maker … by Olaf Stapledon

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler; Nebula Award

Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award; Philip K. Dick Award)

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky (Winner of John W. Campbell Award)

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River of Gods by Ian McDonald (Winner of British Sience Fiction Association Award; Hugo Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award)

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Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman

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Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock

Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys (Winner of Hugo Award)

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry A… by Claire North

Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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