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vitaminseetarot · 11 months ago

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PAC Pick a Ride: Your Next Big Adventure 🌌🌠🌃

Thank you for voting in my latest poll! I'm surprised and glad to see that Next Big Adventure won by a landslide! Seeing as we have the New Moon in Sagittarius on the 12th, it makes sense that we are collectively interested in seeing what the next chapter has in store. Please note that some of these other topics mentioned in my polls may appear in future pick a card readings, so stay tuned.

So without further ado, let's get into our piles! Pretend as though you are a Knight from your favorite tarot deck about to embark on your next journey. Please choose your mode of transportation:

1 - Plane 2 - Ship 3 - Motorbike 4 - Train

Pile 1 - Plane

Cards: Re-Evaluate, Pencil Sketch, The Pilgrim, Ceres - Nurture, Patience, 26. Protection - Finding What's Important; I Magician, 10 of Pentacles, 4 of Pentacles, XIX The Sun Channeled Locations: Canada, Singapore, Morocco, Ukraine, Australia, Philippines, UK, New Zealand, NYC, South Korea

Hi pile 1, you've chosen to travel by air, bypassing all the long troublesome routes. After all, the sky's the limit! Isn't it nice to measure your distance by how the crow flies sometimes? You're ready to catapult yourself into the next big adventure; I can tell there's a lot of excitement to see what's ahead here. You'd rather get to the next phase of your life instantly yet with ease. This is likely the pile with big career goals, especially if moving or actual traveling will be in the big picture. Maybe you're dreaming of traveling by plane as part of your future dream job? You don't just want to get there, as great as that is--it has to be done with intention.

You're in the process of drawing out what your next life would look like. The future seems full of creative possibilities, but with Pencil Sketch next to Re-evaluate, you're being asked to pay attention to the details. How do you want things to go one month from now, and one year from now? As great as it would be to have an entire decade mapped out, it's unrealistic, but it doesn't mean you can't draft some concepts. You should have something in mind, though, instead of setting out with a knapsack and praying for the best. If your next career or long term project could be anything you wanted, are you going to hop into something for 10 years that doesn't end up panning out in your favor, or would you rather delicately test something for a year before diving in? Moving forward can be exciting, but if you're going by plane, you will need some coordinates.

I think your reading is super straightforward, pile 1. You've got a lucky edge going for you with the tarot cards here. Whatever kind of career goal you have in mind, you may have a chance to "make it big" at some point. That won't come without a lot of foresight and careful investment, however. Don't try to rush into any big decisions right off the bat. I occasionally see the Magician card as the one signifying "read between the lines". If any contracts get involved, be very careful and read thoroughly. Don't be afraid to ask questions or seek clarification. The ones giving you the contact would rather see you jump in it blind, but you've got the crafty Magician energy to help you out during this retrograde period.

As eager as you are to begin your next journey, you're being asked to consider what you want to grow over the long term. This reading wants to shift the focus away from the end goal, even if there's a message here about acting with intention. Setting intention doesn't mean straying away from the present moment to only consider what happens in the end. Part of paying attention to detail means being aware and present in what's happening around you. The present moment is a crucial aspect of your growth period, and it wants you to gently guard after and care for your goal as though it were a plant. You know the fruit of the plant will be ready to eat when it's there and fully ripened, but in the meantime you can enjoy its flowers and fresh budding leaves.

Enjoy the gentle growth process, because once you do start to take off, you may be shocked by how high you'll find yourself in mere seconds. The initial lift of the plane as it begins to run with the sky can give you a wonky feeling like your whole world is shifting and moving with you. Your sense of time can change, requiring adjustment. If you're unprepared, the change could feel overwhelming. Make sure that by the time you're ready for that big takeoff in your work or projects, you will have built up a solid foundation to ground you once you're ready to come back down to earth. That's how you'll build lasting success in your life's next adventure. Stay optimistic, because that positive shift could come sooner than you think!

Pile 2 - Ship

Cards: Limitless, Calla, The Alchemist, 10. Capricorn - Achieve, Express Love, 11. Invention - Burning with Passion; X Wheel of Fortune, 4 of Wands, VII Chariot, 10 of Swords Channeled Locations: India, Greece, Ethiopia, Thailand, Spain, Iceland, Turkey, Croatia, South Africa

The seas are calling you, pile 2, calmly asking you to take only what's truly needed with you. The water's may be choppy, but out in the expansive blue seas, you can feel connected to the coasts of the entire world. With a firm grasp of the ship's wheel, you designate yourself captain as you adjust your sails and set your sights for the hidden treasure that lies ahead--or perhaps beneath your anchor. You're entering your next big adventure lit up with grand ideas for what to do all laid out on your map. Over the vast horizon, anything could happen, and you could find yourself shaking hands with anybody new. This pile may be seeking proposals or offers of some kind, ones that will let you dream bigger than you have before. This pile likely has a good idea of where to go next, or at least some interesting things written down.

These cards ask you to make peace with some aspect of your past. It could be that whatever you had planned before didn't entirely work out in your favor. As much as the online community talks about how rejection is divine protection, sometimes having plans fall apart is not going to feel good, even when you're just glad it's over with. The worst thing can be the feeling of not knowing what to expect after a fall. But your next chapter is showing a lot of promise in things to come, so don't let your past be the omen of your future. The tides are turning right now, and if you can focus on what you'd like to accomplish next, you'll be able to shift those tides in your favor. The first step is to see that you've survived the bad times, and that in itself makes you a victor. With that, you can move ahead with more confidence than before.

That's the thing about Capricorn energy: it thrives in conditions that others would consider too harsh or demanding. It's the drive to take the roughest materials and make diamonds from them. Once you can decide to make peace with what you've gone through, you can take the nuggets of wisdom you've garnered to make a beautiful new path for yourself. You dissolve the worst of your experiences and bring them together to make it better, as the Alchemist card suggests. The difficult times and failed attempts were not for waste; you've gained a lot of valuable growth that will provide a smoother current toward success in your next endeavor. This could be the pile that wants to start a business. Please know that simply starting a business, or even taking the first steps to plan one, takes a lot of guts already. If you've managed to go that far, congratulations! It takes a lot of hard work for a new business to be survive the long haul. So celebrate your milestones, no matter how small they seem.

Part of what makes this next chapter so fortuitous for you is how the energy is transiting through. You could be hit with a wave of inspiration from out of nowhere. If you've been stuck in one place without any wind to carry you through the fog, be prepared for that big splash! All hiccups set aside, you're still brimming with a lot of zeal for your next idea. You may even receive a cascade of insight, so be sure to write these things down as they come. You never know if something silly and small could end up helping you out later on. Your next big adventure is going to put the spark back in you, with a feeling of having a second chance at life, as Calla lilies represent rebirth. Don't be afraid to get excited over what's to come, pile 2. Your faith that things will work out for the better is contagious, as is your gratitude for the accomplishments you've made so far.

Pile 3 - Motorbike

Cards: Breathe, Snowboard, The Heir (Rx), 5. Leo - Shine, Balance, 21. Resilience - Finding Your Limits; 6 of Cups, Queen of Cups, Page of Wands, XIII Death Channeled Locations: Mexico, Italy, Midwest US, France, Norway, Egypt, Chile, Brazil

Your pile is like the fiery passion of the wands suit. Independent and bold, you chose to take open road for your next adventure, blazing a new path in front of your very eyes. You have an eagerness to take the world by storm, going wherever your first impulse wishes to carry you. This pile has a lot of drive to move forward to the next chapter with as much speed as possible, optimistic to find that next golden opportunity. And you're not afraid of a little showboating along the way. You even have the Snowboard palette card, which is a sport involving nothing but speeding down slopes and catching incredible air. This pile is the most excited for their next adventure.

Except actually, pile 3, you're being asked to slow down a little bit. And I get it! I get that this message can be so frustrating when you see what looks to be an endless highway yet the speed limit says 55. That might be a good pace for many folks, but for this pile it's not nearly enough! The thing to keep in mind is that this process of moderating your pace is for your overall benefit. See, you have the only reversed archetype card in all the piles. The card speaks of untapped potential, which is still there. It's simply saying that whatever you're seeking to do next, you're not totally ready because there is too much you're still carrying with you. To go with the motorbike analogy again, any leftover baggage from your past is going to weigh you down so it's in your benefit to review what you have before you can move forward. The more you let it go, the faster you'll be able to pick up the pace.

You have a lot to be proud of with how far you've come already. This pile likely thrives on challenges and sees overcoming them as a big part of spiritual development. Which can be true in many cases, and you demonstrate clearly that you're not afraid of what's to come next. It may come as a shock to you that your next chapter might be a little more quiet than expected. This is likely because, if you've gone through a lot of growth in your last chapter, it makes sense to have some downtime to balance things out. The Queen of Cups can be introverted energy, but she knows how to use her alone time to replenish her soul with art and meditation. You may have more time to spend by yourself steeped in creative drive rather than trying to accomplish too many things in the outer world.

This is one of the more spiritually oriented piles; over this next big phase in your life, your creative skills may flourish and evolve to another level. Maybe for a while you've been inclined towards artistic pursuits, but feel a desire to expand upon what you're already doing. With this energy, you're in alignment to have more time and energy to devote towards passions like painting, sports, or music. In this way, you can take that immense enthusiastic drive from the Page of Wands and channel it into something constructive or purposeful, even if you don't intend to monetize it.

Your next big adventure is tackling the speed limits that exist within you: the self imposed beliefs that tell you how fast you can go or where you're allowed to proceed. Thing is, in your inner world, you have a lot more freedom than you would on any highway. You can choose for yourself how you wish to manifest your passions into the world, and you can decide how much or how little passion you put into your work. Things like imposter syndrome can be their own mountains to climb, and this time around you're more geared up than ever to take it on. Once the spiritual mountains have been overcome, you'll be able to top anything the next chapter in life brings you.

Pile 4 - Train

Cards: Nucleus, Billiard Green, The Gambler, 44. Sixth House - Sustainability, Trust, 1. Vision - Contemplating the Future; XVIII The Moon, 10 of Wands, 3 Cups, XV The Devil Channeled Locations: West US, Sweden, Japan, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Slovenia, China, Germany, Switzerland

You've picked the solid, earthy pile of moving forward to your next adventure by train. Locomotion is slow but it's steady and reliable with time. Fully embodying the principles of inertia, once it moves it keeps moving, but it takes a lot of initial effort to get things going. Something you've worked on is slow going, but you're close or nearing the finish line. Once this is accomplished, things will move much more smoothly for you without so much push. Your next chapter will be steady, but it will be easier than before because it's already in motion.

I find this pile intriguing, y'all. You have Gambler above the Billiard card, and the Devil card shows a casino as well. It's almost bringing to mind old train heist movies. There's action, adventure, mystery, and a lot of fun here in this pile. Your next big adventure could involve having more chances to go out and have fun with friends. You could meet new friends around this time who will have a lot of extra pep in their step. They'll get you out of your shell if you've been in one for a while. Alternatively, if you see yourself as a party loving daredevil already, this new friendship may slow you down and protect you a little, in a good sense. They'll either be the head to your heart, or the heart to your head.

This pile is definitely more inclined to go with the flow in the next chapter. I almost typed 'glow' on accident, so perhaps you'll also experience basking in a 'glow' of some kind. You could be overcoming a huge obstacle at this time and look forward to more unstructured down time. You're encouraged to take time to enjoy yourself before moving to the next phase, but to also balance it out by taking moments to see where you'd rather go next. It's easy, after a huge achievement, to lose pace once the "now what?" sign is reached on your path. Go-with-the-flow doesn't necessarily mean 'fuck around and see what happens', lol. Try to find a middle ground here between playing and planning.

Your work-life balance will likely have some kind of pressure valve released like steam. You've had to really push for what you wanted this year. When opportunities looked scant, you had to tap in to your own power and immense resources to pull through. You've done so in flying colors. So your desire for freedom and thrills after a hard chapter is totally understandable. If you're not finished with something, there's almost a temptation here to run from it now and deal with it later. This isn't recommended; push through to the end because soon you will find yourself on the other side basking in the glow, and relaxing will be so much easier once you're fully done.

There's also advice to not get too carried away with material desires here. Your next chapter may have your finances fluctuating up and down, so try to stay steady with investments. If a windfall comes in, don't spend it all in a day. The Trust card here is talking about how you trust yourself with your resources and energy. When you're able to carry a greater amount with more responsibility, more will be added to you in due time. You're being asked to make small and consistent investments with wherever you're putting your value and resources into. Nothing wrong with wanting to splurge on something nice of course, especially if you've been working hard and you want to reward yourself. This is more to do with long term investments over the next few years.

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2023, @VitaminseeTarot ™

Decks Used: Tarotwave, Starcodes Astro Oracle, Citadel Oracle, StarDragons, Opal Oracle, Starlight Messages, Color Palette cards

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mock-arts · 3 months ago

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Cover for chapter two of Tongues by mimispearmint, for the @mdzsbigbang

Art on Ao3 * Podfic on Ao3

Rated T

The sun keeps up its beaming, and Lan Wangji watches Wei Wuxian’s skivvy dampen slightly with sweat between his shoulder blades as he rows with easy, long lines. Lan Wangji always thinks Wei Wuxian looks effortless near the water, like maybe he was raised there in a past life too. His greenstone dangles from his red scrunchie; aptly, it is the fish-hook. Perhaps controversially, it has been broken and then repaired with delicate silver thread. Lan Wangji has not asked Wei Wuxian what happened. A greenstone is a deeply personal treasure. It carries its own wairua; the life essence of the stone, a flutter of spiritual power. Nowadays few people and ever fewer hunters go without one.

Although the map given to them by Xichen is a little wet from Wei Wuxian’s antics, it is easy to follow. The river bends like an eel, a sliver of island in the middle like a winking eye; just beyond, the wooden jut of a jetty announces Kohukohu. Running aground, they drag the canoe ashore past the high tide line and start walking.

The old school is just past the one-horse road that hugs the shoreline and makes up the main drag of town. Half the buildings are on river-worn stilts, like they have their pants hiked above the knee and are splashing their feet in the water. It was once a shipyard, Lan Wangji knows – a thriving hub with a kauri timber heart and the buildings seem to still be waiting for the boats to come back. Old wooden wharf piles stick out of the mudflats like ribs.

Teenage Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are ghost-hunters dispatched on a routine Haunting.

Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, New Zealand, Lockwood & Co. Fusion, Looker!lwj, Listener!wwx, Cloud Recesses Study Arc (Modao Zushi), Ghost Hunters, casefic, Curse-adjacent, Monster of the Week, Getting Together, Inconvenient and Mortifying Teenage Feelings, Haunted House

#wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mdzs #the untamed #cql #big bang #mdzsbigbang24 #collabs #youwantBONES

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nerdsbianhokie · 2 months ago

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Reading the World

In 2023, I challenged myself to watch a movie from every country in the world during the year, which I more or less succeeded. At the start of this year I decided to read a book from every country in the world (without the time restraint) and got a map to track my progress along with a challenge on Story Graph.

List of countries and books below the cut

Current count: 46

Afghanistan:

Albania:

Algeria:

American Samoa:

Andorra: Andorra: a play in twelve scenes by Max Frisch

Angola: The Whistler by Ondjaki

Anguilla:

Antigua and Barbuda:

Argentina: Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enríquez

Armenia:

Aruba:

Australia: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Alexis West

Austria:

Azerbaijan:

Bahamas:

Bahrain:

Bangladesh:

Barbados:

Belarus:

Belgium:

Belize:

Benin:

Bermuda:

Bhutan: Folktales of Bhutan by Kunzang Choden

Bolivia:

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Botswana:

Brazil:

British Virgin Islands:

Brunei:

Bulgaria:

Burkina Faso:

Burundi:

Cambodia:

Cameroon: The Impatient by Djaïli Amadou Amal

Canada: The Gift is in the making: Anishinaabeg Stories retold by Amanda Strong and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Canary Islands: Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu

Cape Verde:

Cayman Islands:

Central African Republic: Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza

Chad:

Chile: The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández

China: The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

Christmas Islands:

Cocos Islands:

Colombia:

Comoros:

Cook Islands:

Costa Rica:

Croatia:

Cuba:

Curacao:

Cyprus:

Czech Republic:

Dem. Rep. of Congo:

Denmark:

Djibouti:

Dominica:

Dominican Republic:

Ecuador:

Egypt:

El Salvador:

Equatorial Guinea:

Eritrea:

Estonia:

Eswatini:

Ethiopia:

Falkland Islands:

Faroe Islands:

Fiji:

Finland:

France: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

French Guiana:

French Polynesia:

Gabon:

Gambia:

Georgia:

Germany: At the Edge of the Night by Friedo Lampe

Ghana: Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

Gibraltar:

Greece:

Greenland:

Grenada:

Guam:

Guatemala:

Guernsey:

Guinea:

Guinea-Bissau:

Guyana:

Haiti:

Honduras:

Hong Kong:

Hungary:

Iceland:

India: Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir Of Surviving India's Caste System by Yashica Dutt

Indonesia: Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan

Iran: Darius the Great is Not Okay by Abid Khorram

Iraq: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Ireland:

Isle of Man:

Israel:

Italy:

Ivory Coast:

Jamaica: When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten

Japan:

Jordan:

Kazakhstan:

Kenya:

Kiribati:

Kosovo:

Kuwait:

Kyrgyzstan:

Laos:

Latvia:

Lebanon: Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage

Lesotho:

Liberia:

Libya: Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa

Liechtenstein:

Lithuania:

Luxembourg:

Macedonia:

Madagascar:

Malawi:

Malaysia:

Maldives:

Mali:

Malta:

Marshall Islands:

Mauritania:

Mauritius:

Mexico: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia

Micronesia:

Moldova:

Monaco:

Mongolia:

Montenegro:

Montserrat:

Morocco:

Mozambique:

Myanmar: Smile as They Bow by Nu Nu Yi

Namibia:

Nauru:

Nepal:

Netherlands: We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets

New Caledonia:

New Zealand: Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

Nicaragua:

Niger:

Nigeria: Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Niue:

Norfolk Island:

North Korea: A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim

Northern Mariana Islands:

Norway: Blind Goddess by Anne Holt

Oman:

Pakistan: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

Palau:

Palestine: The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher

Panama:

Papua New Guinea:

Paraguay:

Peru:

Philippines:

Pitcairn Islands:

Poland: Return from the Stars by Stanisław Lem

Portugal: Pardalita by Joana Estrela

Puerto Rico:

Qatar:

Rep. of the Congo:

Romania:

Russia:

Rwanda: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

Saint Barthelemy:

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha:

Saint Kitts and Nevis:

Saint Lucia:

Saint Martin:

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:

Samoa: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

San Marino:

Sao Tome and Principe:

Saudi Arabia:

Senegal:

Serbia:

Seychelles:

Sierra Leone:

Singapore:

Sint Maarten:

Slovakia:

Slovenia:

Solomon Islands:

Somalia:

South Africa:

South Korea: The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong -Mo

South Sudan:

Spain: Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Sudan: The Translator: A Memoir by Daoud Hari

Suriname:

Sweden: Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot

Switzerland:

Syria: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui

Taiwan:

Tajikistan: The Sandalwood Box: Folk Tales from Tadzhikistan by Hans Baltzer

Tanzania:

Thailand:

Togo:

Tokelau:

Tonga:

Trinidad and Tobago:

Tunisia:

Turkey:

Turkmenistan:

Turks and Caicos Islands:

Tuvalu:

Uganda:

Ukraine:

United Arab Emirates:

United Kingdom: Poyums by Len Pennie

United States of America: Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers

United States Virgin Islands:

Uruguay:

Uzbekistan:

Vanuatu: Sista, Stanap Strong : A Vanuatu Women's Anthology edited by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen

Venezuela: Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos

Vietnam:

Wallis and Futuna:

Western Sahara:

Yemen:

Zambia:

Zimbabwe: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

#reading the world

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notonlymaths · 4 months ago

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A scarce sighting of a map with New Zealand.

Fields Medal for Mathematics by Nations (1936-2022)

#maps #fields medal #mathematics #econovisuals #new zealand #maps without new zealand

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brigdh · 1 year ago

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I was thinking more about how Stede doesn't really have an arc this season (see my previous criticism here), and I've decided that what I would have loved to see was Stede actively attempting to court Ed.

Now, we did get a little of this in the first few episodes: Stede's letters in 2x01 are great, I love his attempting to track Ed down via a crime-map in 2x02, and of course the "I'll never leave you. I'll never leave again" speech at the end of 2x03 is fantastic. But once Stede and Ed are both in the same location and conscious, there's really nothing. Stede just hangs around, waiting for Ed to figure himself out, or take the lead, or something, I don't know, but Stede's certainly doesn't take any action to progress their relationship himself. He's such a static character in the second half of S2.

But! Imagine instead the arc where Stede is actively trying to romance Ed! I don't need him to be good at it; it's probably a better character arc if he isn't, in fact. Maybe he comes on way too strong at first and this is why Ed asks him to slow down, until Ed can figure out what he's doing about his own guilt/violence/identity/daddy issues (maybe Ed can actually figure out something about his guilt/violence/identity/daddy issues). Maybe Stede's entire conception of romance comes from poetry and novels and it hits a hard skid when he tries it out in reality. Maybe there are cultural clashes between how pirates approach one another and how the landed upper class does it. The exact way Stede fails doesn't really matter, because the point is that Stede is trying something, and fucking it up, and trying again, and growing as he does so, learning more about what the relationship between him and Ed needs and who they are as people.

This also could have been a really interesting arc for Stede internally. Throw in a couple of flashbacks to Stede courting Mary, to make a parallel between how he acted then and how he's acting now with Ed. If it's beyond the budget to fly Claudia O'Doherty to New Zealand or she's busy or something, give Stede a random other lady or two he approached as a young man – ones who obviously refused to accept his hand. Excellent! Now there's even more weight to him getting it right this time with Ed, when he's never managed to get someone to like him before! Or give young Stede an intense friendship with another young man that went wrong, and back then he didn't understand, but now he can look back and be like, 'oh I guess that wasn't as platonic as I thought'. (Personally, this would be my favorite option, but I know Jenkins & co said they didn't want to write a coming-out story, so maybe they'd have been less interested in this one. Fine, but I want it! 🥳 ) I think you could do this without taking up a lot of screentime – I doubt all the scenes we got of Ed's childhood add up to five minutes in total, but we got plenty of information from those three glimpses.

It would also make sense for Stede to discuss the issue with the crew, which gives the show a chance to flesh out their role a little more, another thing the season could have used. If he asks Lucius, what Lucius responds and how he reacts could help to develop the Lucius/Pete relationship. Similarly, if Stede turned to Olu or Jim, we could have heard more about Jim/Archie or Olu/Zheng or any combination of the four. Or any of the crew! What kind of relationship advice does Frenchie give? Roach? This also could have intersected with Ed's redemption arc nicely: which are the crew are willing to put aside their anger at Ed to help Stede (and them doing so would give more credence to Izzy's speech about them being family and loving Ed at the end)? Who isn't willing, and tries to deliberately sabotage their relationship for revenge, and how do Stede and/or Ed react to that?

Overall, I think such an arc could have fit the show's themes of masculinity and toxicity really well. There's so much about dating and pick-up lines and romance that reflects on gender – there are expectations of who should be aggressive vs receptive, flowery vs crude, prudish vs too fast, gifts as a sign of love vs gifts as obligation... it's endless. Obviously the season wouldn't have time to explore all these angles, but I list them as a sign of how many directions they could have taken this topic in. Ultimately it all comes down to: Who does Stede want to be as a partner? And who does Ed want him to be? And that would be so strong as a direction to go in, even if we didn't get final answers to the questions! At least they would be asking them.

But instead we got a vision of a mermaid and never explored who Stede is in reality. :(

#ofmd meta #our flag means death #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ofmd season 2 #ofmd critical #(for real this time unlike my last post)

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sgiandubh · 11 months ago

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Shaking my head

And just when I was starting to think that 2024 could really bring World Peace, the End of Social Gaps and a Cure to All Types of Cancer...

KABOOM!

Thank you, corazoncito, for sending it to me, you know who you are. The mere thought of going to read BIF's biglietti is simply too much for my feeble powers. It's like crossing the fucking Kalahari Desert without a water gourd - an ordeal I wouldn't inflict on my worst enemy, IRL.

I am not sure what Vomit Lady wanted to say, as I am not very sure she can actually place Bucharest on a map without cheating. And that is quite ok with me: there are many places I am completely unable to spontaneously find on a world map, as well.

If she meant my home decoration, well - I am truly sorry: it is what it is. My humble abode is a cozy, central urban flat, in a villa built in 1928. It is exactly what we need and love: nothing more, but nothing less. It has a long history and it's always fiercely been lived in by people of our extended family. So yes, maybe it lacks modern fixtures and breezy perspectives - you, however, lack class, which is a bit more alarming.

What else could I say? Take your cheap stance and say something along the lines of 'education never made it to coastal New Zealand'? I would never do such a thing, simply because the only New Zealander I have ever met, a friend of an English friend, who was backpacking around Europe, was a very decent, down-to-Earth and funny guy, with a rather opaque accent. We spent a wonderful afternoon giggling and eating and having fun in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, some 25 years ago.

What I do know, however, is that it must have eluded you, on its way. Education, that is. And common sense. It has nothing to do with New Zealand. Or Ruritania, for that matter.

#anon #fandom

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tzifron · 1 year ago

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“The threats of data colonialism are real,” says Tahu Kukutai, a professor at New Zealand’s University of Waikato and a founding member of Te Mana Raraunga, the Māori Data Sovereignty Network. “They’re a continuation of old processes of extraction and exploitation of our land—the same is being done to our information.” To shore up their defenses, some Indigenous groups are developing new privacy-first storage systems that give users control and agency over all aspects of this information: what is collected and by whom, where it’s stored, how it’s used and, crucially, who has access to it. Storing data in a user’s device—rather than in the cloud or in centralized servers controlled by a tech company—is an essential privacy feature of these technologies. Rudo Kemper is founder of Terrastories, a free and open-source app co-created with Indigenous communities to map their land and share stories about it. He recalls a community in Guyana that was emphatic about having an offline, on-premise installation of the Terrastories app. To members of this group, the issue was more than just the lack of Internet access in the remote region where they live. “To them, the idea of data existing in the cloud is almost like the knowledge is leaving the territory because it’s not physically present,” Kemper says. Likewise, creators of Our Data Indigenous, a digital survey app designed by academic researchers in collaboration with First Nations communities across Canada, chose to store their database in local servers in the country rather than in the cloud. (Canada has strict regulations on disclosing personal information without prior consent.) In order to access this information on the go, the app’s developers also created a portable backpack kit that acts as a local area network without connections to the broader Internet. The kit includes a laptop, battery pack and router, with data stored on the laptop. This allows users to fill out surveys in remote locations and back up the data immediately without relying on cloud storage.

#Data Sovereignty

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zuvluguu · 1 year ago

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“Indigenous shamanic tribes around the world share a surprising understanding. From the Dogon of West Africa to the Australian Aboriginals, the Maoris of New Zealand, the Hawaiians of the Pacific, the Incas of South America and the Mayas in Central America, all believe that humans were seeded from a planet orbiting a sun in the Pleiades, which are also known as the Seven Sisters. In other words, they believe that when a people becomes advanced enough, their shamans go out and help life forms to evolve into sentient beings in new locations in the universe. So shamans believe that life can be found everywhere in this physical universe, and that advanced souls exist on other planets and have a hand in helping others who are just starting out elsewhere. Through their dreams, shamans visit locations beyond the earth and can describe in vivid detail what conditions are like there and the beings who inhabit them. These they refer to as the star nation or star people. Scientists have been amazed that the Dogon people, living without plumbing or electricity have calculated the exact distances to various celestial bodies like the sun and the moon, as well as the exact distance to the Pleiades. When asked how they do it, their response is simply to say that they go to these places all the time.

Shamans are known for their ability to journey to various worlds, to retrieve knowledge, to conduct soul retrievals, to find lost objects, to map the universe, and to communicate with life forms in other locations.”

#shamanism #shaman #shamanic #spiritual #ayahuasca #shaman journey #altered consciousness #healing #motivation #self healer

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mackmp3 · 1 year ago

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this is funnier when you consider the amount of maps that just leave new zealand off cos they ran out of space on the side

The Pacific Ocean is huge.

#none earth with south new zealand #and no joke there are so many maps without nz on it it's like lol ok guess i live in a void then

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crabussy · 1 year ago

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reblog with which of these things you already knew about aotearoa new zealand, no shame in not knowing all of them!! help me out for curiosity’s sake

1. the original māori name for new zealand is aotearoa

2. kiwi are not extinct, they still exist

3. plural of any native bird in māori is the same as the singular form (e.g. I saw three kiwi)

4. where it is on the map + its vague shape (without looking at a map)

5. the director of shrek is from nz (threw this one in for fun. I know the guy. small ass country)

6. the national anthem is half in māori, half in english

7. the only mammals in aotearoa prior to human settlement were several species of bats (+ some marine mammals)

8. the only species of alpine parrot in the world are found in aotearoa (kea!!)

9. the heaviest insect in the world is endemic to nz (giant wētā!!!)

10. the city of tamaki makaurau has over 50 volcanoes. I lived there. going back in 7 months yay yay yay

11. just. the existence of the waitomo glow worm caves. search them up.

12. often, regardless of nationality, māori words will be mixed into english sentences- I heard “puku” more than I heard “belly” growing up, despite nobody in my family being māori

13. instead of swimwear we say togs

I find it amusing how much people just seem to not know about aotearoa/new zealand despite it being pretty massive (bigger than britain, only a little smaller than japan) so I’m sharing some facts in hope that in return people will tell me whether they knew these things or not!!

#not tagging to avoid bias #listen to my gibberish boy

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the-al-chemist · 11 months ago

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The Lights That Never Go Out

Chapter 10: Morning

A/N: It’s a new dawn, a new day, a new year, and the start of something that might just be wonderful.

Warnings: mentions of nudity and vague sexual references

1st January, 1999

It was the morning sun shining on Charlie’s face that first caused him to stir in his sleep, but it was the sounds of the city outside that roused him. Muggle cars were revving their engines and beeping their horns, there were raised voices in the street, and feathered wings fluttered as a pair of pigeons flew over the skylight. Having spent his whole life surrounded by rolling fields or rugged mountains or gently washing waves, waking up to this urban dawn chorus was a new experience for him.

Of course, there was another thing that Charlie wasn’t used to waking up to. He turned his face to look at the face resting on the pillow beside him. Artemis was still sound asleep, oblivious to — or, perhaps accustomed to — the noises outside, her hair messy, eyebrows slightly furrowed, and jaw clenched. Even in sleep she looked so fierce that Charlie didn’t dare risk waking her, not even to push back the lock of dark hair that had fallen down in front of her nose.

As slowly and as quietly as he could, he raised himself into a seated position. Without either of them even deciding it would be so, Charlie had ended up sleeping on the side of the bed that was pushed up against the wall, meaning that he was now effectively trapped. For want of anything better he could do, he looked around at the room, at Artemis’ room, and the items that it held: the photos on top of the chest of drawers, the books on the shelves, a stuffed toy Kneazle perching on top of a miniature wooden castle in the corner of the room, a pair of old hiking boots beside the door. Some of the objects he recognised, some of them he didn’t; they were relics of the life Artemis had led before he knew her. Charlie could barely remember a time before he knew her, but there once had been such a time, and here was the evidence.

The wall next to where he lay was decorated with a large map of the world, into which someone — presumably Artemis — had stuck a number of coloured pins. They were all over the world, in Europe, Africa, both Americas, even as far as Australasia. Charlie’s eyes widened. He had never realised that Artemis was quite so well-travelled. Unless, of course, these were not only places that she had been, but also the places she wished to visit.

The mattress shifted beside Charlie, pulling his attention away from the map. He looked to his other side, and saw that Artemis was now awake, her hazel eyes open and fixed on him, gold-flecked in the sunlight.

“Good morning,” he said to her. Her lips twitched.

“Morning.”

Neither of them spoke for a few moments, looking at each other in near-silence. Without thinking about what he was doing, or how little sense it made for him to do it, Charlie pulled the bedsheets further up towards his navel. Artemis made a small noise halfway between a cough and a giggle, and he cleared his throat.

“When did you go to New Zealand?” he asked.

Artemis frowned. “I haven’t been to New Zealand.”

“Oh, I thought… So, you want to go to New Zealand?”

“Why?” Artemis’ eyebrows knitted even more tightly together. “Are you inviting me to go to New Zealand?”

“No. Well, not necessarily.” Charlie nodded his head at the map. “I just thought that might be why there was a pin there.”

He was more confused than ever, but Artemis finally stopped frowning. She shuffled so that she was also seated, her gaze on the map rather than Charlie.

“They’re not places I’ve been to,” she said. “They’re places other people have been to.” She took a breath. “My aunt and uncle got it for me the first time they went away after my brother went missing. I think they knew that I was worried that when people went away that they might not… Anyway, this way, I could always see where they were. And then, when anyone else I knew went somewhere, I’d put a pin on the map for them, too. I dunno why. Just a stupid habit, I guess.”

Artemis might not have known why she had started doing that, but Charlie had a fairly good idea. It had nothing to do with habits, and nor was it stupid, not given the number of people Artemis had known to not return. He looked at the pins, the placement of which now made perfect sense. One in Egypt, for Bill. In Brazil, for Alanza. France for Penny, and Japan for Tulip. His eyes lingered on one pin that had been stuck into the middle of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania.

“Is that one meant to be me?”

When Artemis nodded, Charlie reached up and pulled his pin out of the map.

“Hey!” Artemis’ eyes narrowed. “What did you do that for?”

“Because” — Charlie shrugged — “I’m here.”

He had thought that his answer would placate Artemis, but her face fell slightly, her lips tightening to a thin line.

“For now,” she said. Her voice was so quiet that it was barely audible over the noise from outside.

The pin was still in Charlie’s hand. He rolled the metal spike of it between his fingertips. He took a deep breath.

“Yeah. For now.”

They hadn’t spoken about what was going to happen once Charlie returned to Romania. He hadn’t even thought about what might happen once he returned, he had been too busy being happy about what was going on right now. It was ironic, really: when Magda had first suggested that he take a sabbatical, he hadn’t wanted to do it. She had needed to force him into what she thought would do him some good. It was only now that he believed it might have done just that, but now, he didn’t even want to think about leaving again.

“I don’t have to leave,” he said. “I could stay here. Get a job in the Ministry.”

“You’d hate that.”

There was no point in denying it. He would hate it. Still, he shrugged.

“I know, but I could do it. If you wanted me to, I would.”

Artemis shook her head. “I don’t want you to.”

Charlie didn’t ask her why not. He didn’t need to. He understood Artemis just as well as she understood him. Perhaps if she didn’t understand him so well, she would have wanted him to stay with her, to stay for her.

“Put the pin back, Charlie.”

She spoke firmly, but warmly, her voice not wavering. Charlie did as she asked him, his fingers trembling ever so slightly as he placed the pin back into the map. Once he was done, he turned back to Artemis, who looked far less resolute than she had when he still had hold of the pin. He stroked her cheek with his thumb and kissed the top of her head.

“So, what happens next?” she asked him. Charlie didn’t know how to answer her.

“What do you want to happen?”

“I dunno, I just… I kind of want things to carry on as they are right now.” Artemis’ eyes drifted from Charlie’s hand, still resting against her face, to his lips, to the bedsheet that had fallen down to his hips again. Charlie couldn’t help but smile.

“I am definitely alright with that.”

“But after that…”

Artemis’ voice tailed off, and she looked the map. Charlie shook his head.

“I’ll come back. I always come back,” he said. “And you can come and visit me. And we can write. Same as before.”

“I missed you before.”

“Yeah. You too.” Charlie gave Artemis a half-hearted smile. “It’s a shame there are no maps for this, really.” When Artemis didn’t laugh, he sighed. “We’ll find a way to make it work somehow, eventually. And if we don’t… Well, at least we’ll have tried. And you’ll still be my best friend.”

“Really?”

“If I was going to get rid of you, I’d have done it before now.”

Artemis pulled a face at him, but at least she laughed this time.

“Yeah, I guess you’re right.” Without warning, she pressed her lips to his. When she pulled away, she was almost smiling. “We’ll figure it out. We’ve got time.” She smiled. “One day at a time.”

“One day at a time,” Charlie repeated.

Their lips found one another’s again, but this time neither of them pulled away. Instead, their kisses deepened, and they each pulled the other closer, and closer, and closer. The morning sun shone down on their bodies as they once more became entangled beneath the skylight, bathing them in its warm, golden glow.

They might have crossed into a new territory, mapless, with no path to follow, but it didn’t matter. They were the other’s home, and the other’s adventure, and it didn’t matter where they were headed or what might happen next. They would figure it out. They would find their way. One day at a time. Together.

#artemis hexley #charlie weasley #harry potter fanfiction #hphm fic #hpff #charlie weasley x oc #the lights that never go out

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