#milennium's rule

[azotowanie]

i might be wrong bc i read thief's magic over two years ago but omfg it would've made so much sense for rielle to be queer !! like,,, her relationship with religion is so queer coded, intentionally or not. her constant life in fear because somebody might find out that she's a magic user??? the whole "it's not a sin until you act on it" thing??? the super religious to atheist pipeline??? I am so mad that she's canonically straight because I don't even need for her to be put in a relationship with another woman just few direct words would've been enough!!!

[aggro-my-beloved]

Username Tag Game

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

Tagged by: nobody, this just looked fun :)

A → ‘anna sun’ - walk the moon

G → ‘grand hoodoo’ - the moss

G → ‘ghost’ indigo de souza

R → ‘romeo & juliet’ - peter mcpoland

O → ‘ottawa rockstar’ - whales•talk

M → ‘the milennium express’ - jelani aryeh

Y → ‘your surrender’ - neon trees

B → ‘back in black’ - ac/dc

E → ‘ever since new york’ - Harry styles

L → ‘light the way’ mikky ekko

O → ‘ode to a conversation stuck in your throat’ - del water gap

V → ‘vienna’- billy joel

E → ‘eat your young’ - hozier

D → don’t you (forget about me) - simple minds

tagging: @dawnofiight @azzyangelfish @ashertickler @lancerthatisntfree @milogreer @vegafan69 @huxleaf @moronkyne @ther3alsweetheart @darlin-collins

[80sdragonbreath]

You are undoubtedly one of the dumbest motherfuckers I have ever come across on this shithole site, and I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that A. 99.9% of all the shit you allege to be true is easily disproven by the most cursory google search. and B. you are legitimately a blight on the human race, like a warm turd left on a doormat that some poor fuck inadvertently places their foot into. I don’t want you to think I’m pressed, I’m stoned and bored, I just fucking hate people like you and tumblr in its infinite wisdom, will allow me to verbally insult you more than any other website. In conclusion, the only good cop is a dead cop, vaccines are safe and effective, climate change is real, you really are a fuckin moron, and invite you to lick my nut seam to seam.

You must hate yourself with such a deep, soul-crushing black hole of despair that if someone gave you a free ticket to all-consuming joy and love, you'd likely intentionally drop that ticket into a fire, burning it so that no one else could ever experience that all-consuming joy either.

I feel truly sorry for you. Joy is SO much better than hate.

Get help. You need it much much more than I do.

In answer to your questions/statements:

Google searches do not reveal the truth, they reveal who has paid more to be at the top of that search.

I have actually met good cops. I would never want them dead, I want them on MY side, not the side of the psychopaths in power.

Vaccines are NOT safe. This has already been ruled upon. They are "unavoidably UNSAFE". https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/562/223/

Climate Change (with capital letters) is a hoax. Yes, the climate changes, from hour-to-hour, day-to-day, week-to-week, season-to-season, year-to-year, decade-to-decade, century-to-century, and milennium-to-milennium. The question is "how much of the change (if any) is due to humans. And given that climate change is happening on other planets and moons in our solar system, it absolutely cannot be all due to humans, and might conceivably be ALL natural. One telling iota of evidence is that when the world went into lockdown and passenger transport CO2 emissions declined by 75%, NO CHANGE occurred in worldwide CO2 levels, as registered at Mauna Loa, and NO CHANGE occurred in worldwide temperature levels. It's. A. Hoax.

I would lick your nuts, but you don't have any. You're an NPC drone, conditioned by years of "education" and TV to accept whatever the mainstream says you have to accept. I feel sorry for you and genuinely hope you rise above your programming.

Get help, I urge you.

[thetldrplace]

SPQR- Mary Beard; Ch 12

I skipped over chapter 11 since it covered things I don't really care to post about.

12 Rome Outside Rome 

Pliny's province  In 109 BC, Pliny the younger left Italy for the province of Bithynia (northern coast of Turkey). He exchanged roughly a 100 letters with emperor Trajan. 2000 years later, their most famous exchanges have to do with Christianity, as it is the first mention of the religion outside Christian or Jewish sources. 

But the exchange reveals a new sense of what provincial governors responsibilities were with regards to Rome. In the older days, provincial governors would have been sent out and acted largely on their own. Now they were sent out as administrators of imperial will. 

The boundaries of empire  The expansion of the empire had essentially stopped in 9 AD. Trajan added to it slightly with expansion into Dacia (Romania) in 102 AD and Mesopotamia in 114 and 117 AD. 

But in general, the provinces were territories to be managed, policed, and taxed. More and more, the Romans relied on locals to do most of the work. This collaboration with subject peoples meant that those peoples were increasingly identifying their interests with Rome's. Politically and culturally, they felt they had a stake in the Roman project as insiders rather than outsiders. 

Romanization and resistance  In his account of Agricola's time in Britain, Tacitus recounts the education campaign to bring liberal arts to the young. Liberal arts means things that free people ought to know. But Tacitus also thought that this was really an attempt to make Romans out of the provincials. Agricola was the only one we have record of doing so. Most governors left the provincials largely alone. But there was a dynamic going on. The power or Rome made it a culture the people wanted to emulate, and Rome's traditional openness to people meant that those that wanted to do things the Roman way were welcome to do so.  

But in such a widespread empire, there were lots of ways in which local populations Romanized. They did it by becoming Roman in their own ways, influenced by their previous cultures. The west was much more ready to conform to Roman cultures than the eastern peoples, who had a much longer tradition.  

Free movement  Facilitating this Romanization was the massive movement of peoples and goods throughout the empire.  

Christian trouble  For the first two centuries Rome occasionally punished the Christians, but most lived in the empire untroubled. One account was of a young mother who was hauled in and asked to deny Christianity. She refused and was sentenced to death. But Roman blood sports obeyed a set of rules: it was animals, criminals and slaves who met their deaths, not young mothers. The crowd apparently shuddered as the young woman was killed and milk dripped from her breasts. Why, the crowd wondered, was Rome putting young mothers to death?  

But there was an irreconcilable clash between Rome's religion and Christianity. Rome had an entire pantheon of gods and welcomed them from wherever in their empire they came. Christianity was exclusively monotheistic, categorically rejecting the gods who had protected Rome for centuries. 

Technically this was true of Judaism too, but Jews managed to operate within Rome fairly well. For Rome, Christianity was far worse. 

The Christian conception of God had no ancestral home. Rome expected deities to be from someplace. The Christian God was universal and sought adherents. And Christianity was defined by an entirely new process of spiritual conversion. 

At the same time, Christianity was rooted in the Roman empire, in its territorial extent, and spread because of movement through Rome's channels of people, goods, books and ideas. Ironically, the only religion Rome sought to eradicate was the one whose success the empire made possible.  

Epilogue: The First Roman Milennium 

Caracalla granted citizenship to everyone in the empire at 212 AD. This answered a question that guided politics for centuries: what is the boundary between Romans and those they ruled? But as soon as one barrier of privilege had been lifted, another was put up. Once citizenship had been acquired, it became irrelevant. Soon the issue was defined along wealth, class and status. 

The city of Rome lost its place as the capital of the empire in the early 4th century. Rome was sacked and fell to invaders on three occasions in the 5th century. The new capital, Constantinople, continued some of the fossilized traditions of the old Rome. It was given its own senate house. One muddled commentator in the 8th century explained that the name of this building must have come from being built by a man named Senatus. 

[letrune]

One of the most hard-hitting "soft rule" Agatha Christie had for her crime novels was that the criminal was NOT extraordinary. The criminal rarely was the war veteran with scars or the crippled husband or the woman who came from some far away country, but the handsome guy who chats with the detective, the non-descript nice guy, the kind old lady offering cookies when the police arrives, because the criminals are JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE in most stories of hers. Mrs. Marple often met characters who were like a reflection of her, with the minor differences adding up until one commits a murder or such.

By making the criminal extraordinary, queer or foreigner, the casting direction misses the main point: ANYONE CAN BE A CRIMINAL AND MOST OFTEN THE AVERAGE GUY IS THE MOST LIKELY CULPRIT.

To wit, she wrote those stories roughly a century ago and she managed to get around this. She made the reader think that the crippled war veteran is the likely culprit in the stabbing, but it turns out he isn't. He is too obvious, and then we get why he wasn't. It turns out the murderer was the handsome, well-off, incredibly polite man who wanted something from the victim and decided to go for a murder instead. The guy who is not looking out of a crowd, which is also why the witnesses often got only hints on who was the killer.

So, if the Queen of Crime Novels recognised this issue (even if not for the incredibly valid reasons stated above) a century ago, how come a casting director in 2023, almost a quarter century into the new milennium, can't? Is it because of some personal thing or because our system villified being different, queer, foreigner, etc for so long?

the thing about watching these trashy cop shows and medical dramas, as i do, is that casting directors always pick people who look "creepy" to them to be like, serial killers or Obvious Abusers

except that to them like. "creepy" just means people who are effete, queer, or clocky

so it's like, here's some dude and look how scary he's being… look how scary and creepy and weird this guy is…

and don't get me wrong, there's the close cousin of this trope which is like, "this person has autism, and is therefore scary", and that's not what i mean

it'll just be some actor who like, no matter how much they're in a str8 role, they're dykey or faggy - jane lynch gets it, but like, lori petty is a great example - she ids as straight, but bc she's got really dykey gender vibes, other straight people are unsettled by her

and i really love lori petty, but she's almost always put into either super hypersexualised roles and/or lesbian roles that are all about like. how Weird and Gross she is when it's just that casting directors rely HUGELY on cues for stuff like gender nonconformity

and so they're like "Oh this woman is capital W Weird (meaning we think she does gender Wrong, whether that means she's a lesbian or transmasc or just clocky in some other way)" and rely on people's bigotry to inform response to the character

james spader gets it all the time, bc he's got OCD and ppl can tell to look at him bc of how he moves and holds his hands and his body - bc there's a delicacy to him, str8 ppl will read him as a bit fruity, at least in comparison to other cis men

to the point that apart from often being cast in very sexy bisexual roles, he's even played a trans man now! (good for him i love james spader this is NOT a critique)

and similarly watching these shows they'll put a guy who is honestly just, to me, a fucking milquetoast white guy - BUT. he is JUST gender nonconforming enough or JUST is like. clocky enough as queer or trans or otherwise being "off" what str8 people want and expect

and they'd never be able to put their fingers on what it is. they'd say "oh you know, he's just a little creepy / weird / off" etc, it's often not just neurodivergence, it's like, facial structure, the movements of the face, the voice, etc. maybe some of it is intersex stuff

but it's the same stuff that to me would be like "hm, maybe he's one of us, maybe he's an SA victim, etc", but i wouldn't know that unless i talked to them more? they're POTENTIAL clues. whereas cishets will be like, oh, this means this person is Evil. then... casting directors

[littlegingermochipie]

zukaang | rajamandala | राजमण्डल | 羅闍曼荼羅 devdas, chigo, lengger lanang and layla-majnun inspired tale

the day zukō was born, agni bestowed him with a single eternal flame, everlastingly alight inside the gentur lamp which he would carry along with him everywhere he went. no one could extinguish and light it back at will except the one who’s destined to guide his fate, as prophesied at naloni mitoni.

after his genpuku as the successor of ōzai tennō, zukō accompanied azhura in attending durga puja and seren taun, hosted by baginda bhumi at the central port of canggu. the siblings then reunited with maiko and tài linh, who became patrons of entertainment in northern manjung.

their seventh generation of tawaifs featured the esteemed amrapali, whose swara and abhinaya effortlessly enamored kaldera royals. as she danced, not only did she take everyone's breath away, but also the life of every kindled flame in the room. then, when she lit them back with gentle sway of her hands, zukō knew that she's the one.

realizing that his son had set his eyes on a mere yìjì, ōzai warned the prince that he might be deceived by outlanders witchery, but zukō insisted that he trusted agni's sacred will. he continued to chase the tawaif in unquenchable desire to know about her more, unaware that the fate he would thread on was to become a madman, lost in utterly blind love which turned into the purest form of devotion.

because amrapali was, in fact, not merely a dancer and disciple of buddha. she was bodhisattva kannon in her avatar form－a man named āng, awakened in rana pota lake as the only living sky dweller. his kin were mercilessly wiped from existence milennium ago by zukō's ancestor, souzan tenshi, who begun the conquest of rajamandala.

āng's crimson henna, drawn by performers of tide drifters; adinda katara and kakanda saka, covered his distinguished irezumi, while his voice was trained to move even the most hardened heart by paduka běifāng and a hia haru, the stone wielders. together with his beloved shrivijayans, the avatar would liberate the victims of war under ōzai's tyrant rule.

however, it was out of āng's prior knowledge that he would possess karmic ties with the very son of his own enemy through vortex of conflicted, mortal feelings. willingly bestow thousands of blessings to zukō's thousands of prayers, he would, but even as the emanation of god, āng still could not simply pull the strings of fate as he selfishly pleased.

by the will of sang hyang widhi, āng was destined to succeed in ending the misdeeds of fire breather’s forefathers, but at the cost of his heart falling forever in unfulfilled love. for he knew, that even though zuko took the role of mirabai to krishna, their wish to be united would be granted only in death like that of layla and majnun.

for @zukaangweek third day prompt: sacred/possesive

[plum-on-your-back]

BRO THIS EP WAS SO GOOD. CONSIDER ME SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED. DRAMA OF 2022? THE CENTURY. THE MILENNIUM. THE ONE SECOND LEAD COUPLE TO RULE THEM ALL.

[defy-sing-beginnings]

Worldbuilding June 2018 Day 16: Magic

This is a continuation of the story from Day 4 (History), so I highly suggest reading that first. 

“We knew nothing, then. Avsolen was one of us, so despite the wisdom of Odin he too knew nothing. He did not know, for example,  that the elder gods pass time differently than we do, so that a week for them is a milennium for us.

“He did not know that the consciousness and power of one of the elder gods is intertwined with the land that god represents, so that Månen could not govern the earth and its life and people unless he moved them.

“He learned.

“The ice shook and cracked, and Avsolen narrowly avoided falling into the dark water. Jorda and Månen retreated, and when they were gone the ice shook even more violently, and Avsolen feared for his life. He lept for his ship, and was caught by his men, but the wind quickly blew them out of the ice field, and the waves threatened to pull them under the ocean, so that they could not attend to what was happening to the world around them.

“When the wind and the waves finally calmed, Avsolen looked to the sky and gasped. The earth shone large in the sky, barren and grey as it is to us, but newly so. And as Avsolen gazed transfixed, a grey figure rose from the waves before him. This was Månen, but fully formed, his body defined rather than incorporeal, as it had been before. He spoke to Avsolen.

“'You have made a grave mistake,’ he said. “'You do not know what you have bargained for. Your people will be here for a thousand of your years, and that is far too long for you to survive on my surface without my help. I will have to expend much of my power in keeping your people alive, and even now Jorda attacks. You will lose this wager, I fear.’

“'I will defend against Jorda,’ Avsolen said. ‘I am a warrior as well as a poet. I will fight for my people.’

“'You cannot hope to defeat her.’

“'I must try.’

“'Very well. Then I will give you a little of my power, to help you in your quest. Come here.’

“Avsolen walked as far out on the bow of his ship as he dared, to where Månen stretched a hand out to meet him. When Avsolen reached Månen, he bowed his head, and Månen pressed a thumb to Avsolen's forehead, then took it away, leaving a mark seared black into Avsolen's skin. And so Avsolen became the first mage.

“‘That is the best I can give you,’ said Månen sadly. ‘It is not much. You will have to fight as well as you can, with your wits as well as your sword, if you ever hope to drive Jorda off. She is cunning, and has far more power to give than I. Find others worthy of the power I have given you, and press your thumb to their foreheads as I have done. They too will receive power. Do not choose too many people, for every mage you create saps a little of my power, and I need that power desperately to keep the land habitable on which you live. Choose wisely. Fight well.

“'Go now. Already Jorda retaliates.’

“Avsolen turned, and saw that Månen had spoken truly, for on the other end of the ship stood his brother Grímr the captain of his ship, and on his forehead shimmered Jorda's mark in ten thousand colors. So Grímr became the second mage.

“Unwilling to battle his own brother, Avsolen jumped from the ship, and to his surprise found that his feet hit the water as if it were solid ground. He ran from Grímr and the ship, all the while knowing that one day, he and his brother would battle again.

“When Avsolen reached land, he sought out people with whom he could seek lodging, but mindful of Odin's price, he stayed away from the lands he had once ruled, instead concerning himself with finding others worthy of Månen's power.

“Far away, Grímr did the same.

“The mages of Jorda and Månen battle to this day. It is a secret war, kept silent even from its own participants. Although the mages of Månen are valiant, the mages of Jorda are cunning, and numbers are on their side. So the fight goes on. On either side sit Avsolen and Grímr, knowing that one day, they will meet in battle again.

“So until the wager ends, here is the charge of all ordinary people: dread the day that the battle comes to you. Keep silent, stay still and unimportant, and perhaps it will pass you by.

“And remember, above all else, to never trust a mage.”

[kuresoto]

Tagged by @dauntlesssubconscious <3 

Here are the rules:

1. Post the rules.

2. Answer the questions given to you by the tagger.

3. Post 11 questions of your own.

4. Tag 11 people.

Dauntless’ Questions (YOUR QUESTIONS ARE SO FUN)

1. What’s your all-time favorite fic trope? Fuck I gotta say mutual pining/roommates  2. You wake up and you’re in the Milennium Falcon. What’s the first thing you do? Find out what fuckin’ era I’m in 3. How do you feel about the idea of soulmates? In fic? I love it, I fuckin eat that shit up. IRL? Eh, not so much lmao 4. Porgs or lothcats? THIS IS HARD D; Porgs...I GUESS >:| 5. Were you into the old EU? If so, what would you like to see of it being canon again? Not particularly, but I’ve read up on a lot of Legends on Wookiepedia 6. How do you see yourself reacting in the theater if Rey takes Kylo’s hand? I’m one of those quiet ones with internal screaming. I’m probably going to bring like idk a toy or something to the movie bc I’ll need to hold onto something and my husband could not give any more fucks about Reylo or SW. 7. What do you think of JJ being chosen as the director of Ep. IX? It makes sense! I’m sure it’ll be fiiiiiine 8. How much of a wreck will you be if there’s a tribute to Carrie at the end of TLJ? A MAJOR WRECK 9. What do you make of Hamill’s words “it’s all about the hands”? All I can think of in relation to ‘hands’ in general is this

10. Do you rant in the tags? ALL THE TIME it’s the only way to go imo 11. Can you believe it’s barely over a month until TLJ opens in cinemas? NO I CAN’T WE’VE WAITED SO LONG I CANT FUCKING BELIEVE IT’S HERE AT LAST WTF I DIDN’T THINK IT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN I DIDN’T THINK WE WOULD BE PUT OUT OF OUR MISERY IT’S ALL SO SURREAL W T F 

My Shitass Questions

1. How do you want to see Reylo realistically happen? 2. How do you take your tea? (I mean real tea, not fuckin gossip smh) 3. What is ONE Star Wars object you wish existed IRL? 4. What do you prefer in Reylo fics: Angst or Fluff? 5. Who do you think will do/want to do the infamous robe drop in ST? 6. How many times do you think you’ll end up watching TLJ in cinemas? 7. Are you going to do a media blackout the closer it gets to TLJ? 8. Do you think that Rey has intentionally killed someone on Jakku before TFA? 9. Do you think we’ll go back to Jakku in Ep 9? 10. Do you honestly believe we’ll get an explanation IN THE MOVIE for that boy Rey saw in her Force-back, and it’s not just a massive mistake on their part? 11: Knights of Ren or Praetorian Guards?

Tagging, if you want: @extrakyloren @politicalmamaduck @red-applesith @punkeraa @cosetteskywalker @mnemehoshiko @juliakaze @1captainswan1 @lilithsaur @sleemo @sparklepoodles

[magicalserendipity]

✨✨QUARANTINE GIVEAWAY✨✨⠀ ⠀ THIS WEEK! I am working with so many brands to bring different pieces of the magic to your home! I just wanted to create a little magic for all of us that can’t have it right now. 🧚🏽‍♂️☂️🌈 So for today, I teamed up with my ICONIC PALS @LULABITES to give you so much Star Wars and Disney Magic to wear out in the parks! 😭⠀ ___________________________⠀ One lucky follower will receive:⠀ 🏰 1 Milennium Falcon Crossbody Handbook ⠀ ☂️ EWOK Umbrella ⠀ 🌑 4 Disney Patches!⠀ ————————————⠀ Here are the rules on how to enter⠀ 1✨Like the photo!⠀ 2✨Make sure you’re following:
@LULABITES⠀ @francisdominiic⠀ 3✨Tag your friend(s) in separate comments for more entries (the limit does not exist).⠀ 4✨EXTRA, bonus entry? Share this post to your IG story and TAG US! We want to see your entries! ⠀ ————————————⠀ Giveaway ends on March 26th at 12:30PM PST! Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor! Let me know if you guys enjoy these giveaways! I have a the whole week and the next one planned too. So I can’t wait! Hope this brings a little magic to your DAY! <3. (at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Kz3jmAw_Q/?igshid=4yx85a2ltfov

[stabilizedpulse]

Tagged by @jonsnowsbooty, thank youuuuuuuuuu 

rules: answer the questions and tag [20] followers you’d like to get to know better

name: Laila nickname: lai, lailoca, lailita, lailinha, lola, lalá (ppl from my city are known for the nicknames they give to everyone lol) zodiac sign: saggitarius hogwarts house: never watched HP but the buzzfeed quiz said Ravenclaw height: 1.60/5′2 sexual orientation:  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ethnicity: mixed/multiracial favourite fruit: avocado favourite season: winter favourite book series: Milennium i guess favourite fictional character: AMY DUNNE... i’m so much happier now that i’m dead... favourite flower: they’re all great... Plumerias are rlly cool favourite scent: lavender and rosemary favourite colour: blue favourite animal: cat favourite band: The Pixies coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: hot chocolate average hours of sleep: around 7-9 number of blankets: 1 dream trip: Norway, Iceland, Tokyo, Italy........... literally the whole world last thing i googled: Jiang Pu Masterchef how many blogs i follow: 4,020 number of followers: $$$ what i usually post about: bullshit all day everyday lol do i get asks regularly: sometimes but they’re all special I tag: @fairycosmos @ohyeahdefinitely @francoistruffauts @kinghardy @dann3000

20 ppl is a lot lmao i tag everyone who wants to do it

[matthew-trs]

Part 8: Early Setting Design

This doesn’t correspond to the in-game world at all, but rather is the original setting plan for Berwick Saga. As you’ll be able to see, the game went under massive changes between these plans and release. Enjoy!

To the west of the Lowland Continent (ローランド大陸), there is an island continent (島大陸) called Arcana (アルカナ). In the days when the Lowland Continent dwellers still lived in caves, Arcana was already unified into a highly civilized nation. This Empire of Arcana prospered for a milennium.

They came and built many colonies on the untamed western coast of Lowland. They called the region Lazberia (ラズベリア), after the name of their deity. Lazberia was a dual-deity: the god of destruction, Raze (ラーズ), and the goddess of creation, Veria (ヴェリア), united into one. As for the Lowland aborigines, they would one day come to call the region Berwick (ベルウィック), having syncretized the goddess Veria with own deity, the divine beast Wyrrock (神獣ウィロック), a dragon whose tales had been passed down in Istonia (イストニア) through the generations.

TL Notes: That is, Veria + Wyrrock becomes Verwyck → Berwick. As for “Istonia,” it’s probably a place name in the Berwick region from the original design.

Those who resisted the Arcanan settlers were slaughtered mercilessly, and the indigenous people feared the Arcanans as devils. In the 6th century after they first came to Berwick, however, the Empire of Arcana was destroyed, sunken into the sea overnight by the massive eruption of the volcano Mt. Rivera (リベラ火山). This event marked the first year of the New Calendar (J.C.).

What the “J” in J.C. stands for is unclear. Note that there’s also the Arcanan Calendar, which Kaga does not explain, but is abbreviated A.C. and, based on examples, is presumably counted from the original settlements in Berwick.

The surviving Arcanans living in coastal cities in Berwick tried to build independent nations, but they fell to ruin one after another due to struggles for supremacy and the rebellion of their slaves, the aborigines. By the end of the 6th century (A.C.), only one city, the Republic of Anise (都市アニス共和国) on the Beltria Peninsula (ベルトリア半島) remained. The Arcanans of Anise, fearing further attacks by the “barbaric” natives, resorted to a wicked plot.

After recovering and analyzing the ancient spells that had been sealed away, the clergy of Anise created the Stone (宝玉), a jewel infused with unthinkable magical power. With the Stone’s power, they gathered the most fit children from among their slaves, brainwashed them, and trained them into a powerful order of mage knights, the Knights Templar of Raze (ラーズ神殿騎士団).

The courageous and daring natives could not hope to lay a hand on the Knights Templar, and after a few years, the Republic of Anise had unified the Lazberia region. After that, the Republic was dominated by the clergymen who manipulated the Knights Templar, and they reigned for 500 years as the Holy Kingdom of Lazberia (ラズベリア神聖王国).

TL Note: This figure of 500 years makes no sense to me. Based on the above, the Stone was created around 600 A.C., and according to the next section, the Holy Kingdom of Lazberia fell in 677 A.C., a difference nowhere near 500 years.

In 677 A.C., however, the Lazberian Empire’s ruling clergy—with their harsh laws and harsher caste system—were overthrown by a popular revolt, and the Kingdom of Veria (ヴェリア王国) was established.

TL Note: Despite the nation being called the Holy Kingdom of Lazberia ( ラズベリア神聖王国) in the previous paragraph, Kaga now calls it the Lazberian Empire (ラズベリア帝国). Presumably, the terms are synonymous.

In the following year, the Berwick League was formed by the Kingdom of Veria and twelve other smaller realms that had freed themselves from the Empire. This system lasted nearly 200 years, and after a number of transformations, the Berwick League is now a union comprised of 15 provinces of Veria (5 royal holdings, 9 duchies, and 1 bishopric) and 17 smaller states (kingdoms and free cities).

It is now the third century J.C.  Ten years ago, an archduke by the name of Mique Galma (ミーク・ガルマ大公), who had presided over an independent colony in the east, declared himself independent as the Kingdom of Raze (ラーズ王国). Galma, whose heart burned with the ambition of ruling the entire Lowland Continent, invaded the neighboring countries alongside his four children. Now, he proclaims the founding of the Empire of Raze (ラーズ帝国), an empire with the strength to rival even the Kingdom of Veria, which is currently facing its own crisis in a civil war.

A Word from Kaga:

This was the world setting in the early days of Berwick Saga. For the new system, it was a little over-enthusiastic to the TearRing Saga player base, so to avoid confusion (it being a new game and all), we decided to re-do the whole world from square one.

TL Note: This second sentence doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. If you’re curious, it’s:

新しく構築したシステムではＴＳのユーザー層にはちょっとマニアックなので、混乱の無いように（新しいゲームとして）一から世界を作ることにしました。

A Word from the Translator (i.e., me):

At first, I thought the Stone seemed a similar to the Dark Stone from The Sacred Stones, but it’s likely just a coincidence. Plenty of stories have artifacts of evil and whatnot, especially stones.

Also worth noting is that this early draft doesn’t mention the Apostle or anything else of Berwick Saga’s similarities to Path of Radiance, though that could just be because they weren’t big enough details for this summary.

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Blog entry 2: Environmental Problems, Their Causes & Sustainability

Environmental Problems, Their Causes & Sustainability

Ecological economics originated in the 1970s with economists and ecologists. This field studies two things: how ecosystems are structured like economies and how human economies are part of the greater economy of nature.

Similarity between Economics and Ecology

The ideal ecosystem has a “balance of nature”, meaning that there is efficient distribution of goods and services to everyone in the community.

Ecosystem degradation or collapse is a loss of  natural capital as a result of nature or anthropogenic causes

Economics is dependent on ecology, capitalist economies are part of - and dependent on - the greater economy of nature

Exchanges of marketed goods and services within modern economies are either taken directly from nature’s natural capital ( timber,  fiber, wildlife) or are dependent on mostly non-marketed free natural capital/goods and services ( solar energy, air, fresh water)

Economic health and efficiency is referred to as sustainable supply. Sustainable means using capital no more quickly than it can be renewed. ( similar to living off income or interest of financial capital)

Economic inefficiently or collapse is the loss or inefficient distribution of natural, and non-natural capital/goods  and services. ( like using your financial capital or having v little income)

Ecological economists argue that natural capital is finite and can be used up, advocating a sustainable optimum level of no-or little growth = steady state economy

There is opposition to the concept of steady state economy. Neoclassical economists  propose a concept of technological ingenuity, infinite sustainability of capital, infinite economic growth and population growth. I feel as though this is the idea held by those who are not paying attention to the environmental disasters that are taking place nor think about the consequences of their actions. Dinosaurs were wiped out because of the depletion of natural capital 65 million years ago

One has to pay be aware that ecological ethics is accompanied with ethics. What are our obligations to “ our planetary home”, “ecosystem health”, and “economic sustainability”

Environmental ethics addresses these types of questions. It focuses of specific moral values, obligations, rules of right and wrong, and justice having to do with the natural environment. It asks like question: “does everyone have a right to a clean and healthy environment? Do we have moral obligations to respect the natural environment for its own sake?

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

Preface:Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was implemented from 2001-2005. “ The goal was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and to establish the scientific basis for actions needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems and their contributions to human well-being.” ( Milennium Ecosystem Assessment) My guess is that MA felt that there was a need to investigate this information because no one was doing it or the work of others was insufficient.  With this information, the MA work with governments, companies, NGOs and indigenous people  to meet the needs of their stakeholders.

The main theme of the assessment is on the connection between ecosystems ( a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities & nonliving environment interacting as a functional unit.) and human well being ----but mostly on “ecosystem services)

The MA looks at how “changes in ecosystem services influence human well-being. It is framed around the idea that people play important role in ecosystem. The goal of the MA was to “ add value to existing info by collating, evaluating, summarizing, interpreting, and communicating.”

Individual Ecological Footprint:

2.4 earths

2.4 ecological footprint ( global hectares)

3.1 carbon footprint ( CO2 emissions in tonnes per year)

45 ( % of your total ecological footprint)

I didnot really know what to expect. I am someone who tries to be vegetarian. However, where and how much I can afford to pay for groceries hinders how much fresh produce I can buy.

Family ecological footprint

April 28

3.1 earths

5.3 ecological footprint

9.4 CO2 emissions in tonnes per year

61 % of your total ecological footprint

For my family: they consume a lot of poultry and a good amount of meat. Though we live near a few farms we rarely buy produce from them, if anything they buy farm chicken once every two months

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/climate/greenhouse-gas-emissions-increase.html

Union of Concerned Scientists: 1992 World Scientists Warning to Humanity

In 1992, some of the world most influential scientists released a report warning people of the environmental risks that are to come if people do not change their actions. This warning used simple language to convey how the environment is suffering. Under the section of how the environment is suffering, the atmosphere, water resources, oceans, soil, forests, living species, and population were included. In addition, the report clearly point out five actions that the world must do to solve this environmental  crisis. They included “ (1) bringing environmentally damaging activities under control to restore and protect the integrity of the earth’s system we depend on, (2) we must manage resources crucial to human welfare more effectively, (3) we must stabilize population, (4)we must reduce and eventually eliminate poverty, and (5) we must ensure sexual equality, and guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

Additionally, the report calls on developed and developing nations to act.

Question: How have countries responded to this warning.

Miller Chapter 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

Sustainability: the capacity of the earth’s natural systems and human cultural systems to survive, flourish, and adapt to changing environmental conditions into the v long term future.  (Miller

What we learn from Lester Brown’s Film Journey to Planet Earth: Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Home Edition)

World is developing which is great, people are able to live better lives

However, problem comes when people from different parts of the world are aspiring to live “American lives”

Aspire to eat meat very often

Aspire to buying clothes very frequently and through them out when done with use

This is just a basic overview of America’s overconsumption problem and how it is spreading to other parts of the world.

Question: is it possible for large corporations to fully implement environmental economics into our current capitalist society.

Word count: 1025

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“Trouble? From who?” He scoffed, placing a kiss on his collarbone. “Dad can’t come up, grandpappy can’t come down.” Dante grinned. “As far as I care, I’m the highest ranking down here, making earth my kingdom, and I have every intention of ruling it for a very long time.”

Spinning the fair headed creature around, he snagged his hair tightly, pulling him close to his own body as he pressed a hungry kiss to his mouth, the first they had tasted of each other in over a milennium. It was getting hard to control himself, and not to just unleash and take Pan right there, as he was, but he would get enough people interested, wanting to see more.

“Oh but my darling beloved, I already have an Archangel on the guest list.” He smirked. Well, he didn’t yet, but that was his next stop.

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For his first week on earth, Dante hadn’t left his new home. He was still getting used to his new human body, carefully selecting his form in a way that not only would others find appealing, but that he did as well. He got used to the sensation of walking around, his new home, having found the most perfect of spots for his new feeding grounds… He was a Prince now, and he could think of nothing better than for his prey to come to him, all wanting a taste of him. 

Of course, what good was a home and a feast if he didn’t have people to share it with. Already he had sent Lucretia out to track down old friends, those who had been hiding among the mortals for centuries now. Both heaven and hell couldn’t touch him now, and there were two people he wanted by his side now more than ever. 

Taking a step into the mortals sad excuse for a club, Dante breathed in deeply, his eyes almost glowing as he took in the scent of sin, and an even more delicious scent. Pan had always been alluring, everything about him called out to others, a gift from his adopted family. Firmly aware that many eyes were on him, he relished in the attention as he made his way to the bar, concealing himself for now as he watched his white haired friend at the bar. 

“Hello my beloved.” He purred finally from behind him as he appeared from behind, hands snaking around Pan’s middle as he pressed Pan’s hip to his stomach, forehead pressing against the side of his neck, breathing him in.

[birdlord]

Every Book I Read in 2016

Here’s a list of the books I finished in 2016! By the way, keeping a list like this WILL make you disinclined to start books and not finish them...when I was going through my notes to write these up, I found one or two that I didn’t manage to finish, but otherwise I finished ‘em all! Asterisks mark re-reads (though there’s only one this year!). Here’s last year’s list. 

01 * Anne’s House of Dreams; Lucy Maud Montgomery - There are plenty of unlikely plot points in LMM’s books, but this one really takes the cake (SPOILER ALERT): woman marries a man out of blackmail, he disappears at sea, returns brain damaged, gets trepanned in Montreal, and turns out to be his own cousin. WHAT IS THAT EVEN, LUCY

02 Kindred; Octavia E. Butler - Oh just your typical sci-fi time travel slavery story! A thoughtful gloss on the idea that time travel is a white-man’s game (since any other type of person is likely to be disregarded, or killed, or put in jail in an earlier time period in the West) & complicating any modern person’s idea that if they were put in a difficult situation in the past, they’d certainly be able to get out of it easily, with their superior knowledge. I just came across a graphic novel version in a bookshop today, so check that out too if you’re more inclined towards a graphic interpretation.

03 The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society; Annie Barrows & Mary Anne Shaffer - I read this without much prior knowledge, so I was surprised to find that this book with a cutesy title was in fact an epistolary novel about the German occupation of the Channel Islands, and as such is fairly intense (though still imbued with cheery, stiff-upper-lippishness).

04 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Clash of Two Cultures; Anne Fadiman - This is perhaps the first work of medical anthropology I’ve ever read, and it was eye-opening. It’s not that I didn’t know that western medicine doesn’t easily leap cultures, doesn’t cross cultural barriers in spite of our own belief in its efficacy. But knowing this abstractly is a different experience than seeing it laid out bare, in the body of a Hmong child in California, born with epilepsy.

05 Rain: A Natural and Cultural History; Cynthia Barrett - Two great tidbits from this book: 1) witch-hunts in Europe coincided with the worst years of the Little Ice Age, since witches were presumed to be affecting the weather. 2) Settlement of the Great Plains in the 1870s was brought on by mistaking weather (some wet years) for climate (arid with occasional wet periods).

06 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex; Nathaniel Philbrick - This is the “real story” that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. Or, a 2000 nonfiction history of that story, anyhow. Interesting narrative but I found it somewhat weakly-written - Philbrick weirdly (for a book about ships) consistently confuses the meaning of ship tonnage, which is a measure of volume, not mass. What a nit to pick, but here we are. The film version has some seriously bad CGI and added lots of stuff to juice the drama.

07 The State We’re In; Ann Beattie - A book of linked short stories, all set in Maine. I don’t know that I would have noticed that they were all in Maine if I hadn’t read it on the dust jacket, as it’s not really a set of stories where, like the setting is a character, or what have you. Not that I need everyone to be wearing a lobster as a hat, but the connection felt a bit weak.

08 Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure; Alastair Gordon - a book about the design of airports, from their earliest incarnations until the milennium. There’s some great material in here about airports and american imperialism in central and south america, under the auspices of Pan Am. Unfortunately I read the un-updated version, so it didn’t cover much in terms of the way airports have physically been changed since 9/11. I want THAT book. 

09 The Argonauts; Maggie Nelson - This is probably the best piece of “confessional writing” I’ve ever read. It’s shot through with theory in a way that’s really invigorating, but is at the same time extremely personal and revealing, with thoughtful perspective on radically and motherhood, producing and reproducing.

10 A Bell for Adano; John Keene - More WWII occupation, but this time from the occupiers’ POV. An American major is assigned to administer a city in Italy, and decides to return their church bell to them. Hijinks, stereotypes, bureaucracy and some good ol’ American stick-to-itiveness ensue.

11 The Fly Trap; Fredrik Sjoberg - ostensibly a book about an entomologist who lives on an island in Sweden, it’s really a collection of digressions on summer, a fellow entomologist, travel, and collecting as avocation and vocation.

12 Spill Simmer Falter Wither; Sara Baume - the story of a man, and a dog, and the four seasons that they spend together; a year of increasing dread and discomfort. Exceedingly well-described, just thinking about this again months later has put me right back in a slightly damp Irish seaside town, full of prying watching eyes.

13 How to Watch a Movie; David Thomson - Often more of a biography of a film critic than a book teaching the reader “how to watch a movie”. He might well have called it “How to Watch a Movie Like Me, and Also Be Me, I’m Great”. I did appreciate the comparison of cuts in a film to periods after a sentence - a way of adding rhythm to a scene just as one adds it to a paragraph.

14 Mislaid; Nell Zink - A lesbian woman  in 1966 in becomes enamoured of a gay professor at her college, marries him, has some babies, and leaves him a decade later. She and her daughter take to the south and live as African Americans, leading to some identity-politics hullabaloo and a pretty nonsensical over the top ending. Zink is poking at her readers, hoping they’ll feel uncomfortable.

15 Station Eleven; Emily St John Mandel - A lifetime of having Can-con thrust on me leaves me with the sense of vague embarrassment when a book is set in Canada. It feels specific where Americanness feels general, universal. Silly, I know. My desire to see an author’s description of how civilization collapses is ultimately well-satisfied in this book, though it takes a long time for the book to get there.

16 First Bite: How we Learn to Eat; Bee Wilson - A look at how we (and our families, friends, and cultures at large) shape our food preferences. Wilson takes us through her own past of disordered eating, and learning to feed picky children, all the while consulting with neuroscientists and nutritionists for backup. The overall message is about the possibility of change; even bad habits can be altered, even those learned as a wee babby.

17 The Slave Ship: A Human History; Marcus Rediker - This was an amazing, absorbing read, using the slave ship as a site to examine the slave trade in general, its innovations and consequences. Reducer points out that it’s only on the ship that Africans forged a collective sense of africanness, since they would have come from different linguistic and familial groups. It’s the shipboard life that allows the categories of “black” for the diverse enslaved people, and “white” for the multiethnic and multilingual crews to be created.

18 The Devil’s Picnic: Travels Through the Underworld of Food and Drink; Taras Grescoe - This guy is like a low-rent Canadian ersatz Bourdain. Blecch. 

19 On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation; Alexandra Horowitz - Horowitz takes the same walk with 11 different experts, in the hopes of learning or noticing something different every time. Perhaps because of being harnessed to this conceit, she often takes on the pose of a naif, which can strike the reader as a bit rich given that she’s got a PhD in psychology and works on animal behaviour. Is this the editorial hand, making sure the science doesn’t get to be too much?

20 Counternarratives; John Keene - Engrossing short stories (some longer than others, perhaps novella-length?) placed in various north and south american colonial contexts. Each is expanded from a short historical documents (e.g. newspaper announcements) and provides enough background to understand the subjects as complex people in their own rights.

21 An Age of License; Lucy Knisley - All of her books are pretty open, emotionally-speaking, but this one feels especially nakedly exposed. Her feelings will seem familiar to anyone who has gone through a big breakup, then made some assorted attempts to get their shit together. Not everyone gets to do that while on an expenses-paid European book tour, but there you are.

22 Something New; Lucy Knisley - Knisley made her name in graphic travelogues like the one above, but her more recent books concentrate on more conventional life milestones: marriage, pregnancy, motherhood. I read this book about wedding planning while planning my own, in summer 2016. While the problems I encountered were different than hers, I did actually find it useful (and yeah, I made sure that I read it in time for it to come in handy!).

23 Midnight’s Children; Salman Rushdie - This book made me wish for a great documentary (or something?) about India just after independence - I think there was loads of nuance that I didn’t capture at all due to my own ignorance. I found myself distracted frequently while reading this, which is especially bad since the book’s narrator is careening around constantly, breaking narrative rules all over the place. So beware losing focus, or you may be lost for some pages. I appreciated Rushdie’s description of the family’s privilege - our hero doesn’t describe his family as wealthy, and it’s easy to lose that fact until the moment of child-swapping. Or rather, returning?

24 Love & Other Ways of Dying; Michael Paterniti - A collection of harrowing essays, which – before you read the copyright page, which obviously everyone does, right? – you’d be right to assume that they were written for men’s magazines.

25 One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding; Rebecca Mead - Besides the graphic novel above, this is the only book about weddings I read whilst planning one. And it’s a polemic against the wedding-industrial complex that 1) felt considerably out-of-date 9 years after publication and 2) espoused ideas that I was already in the bag for. So, ok but not ground-shaking.

26 Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster; Steven Biel - Though I read the un-updated version of this book, there were a couple of takes that I found interesting here that I hadn’t come across before. Firstly, post-disaster narratives tended to cast Titanic as a moment of per-WWI loss of innocence, but this is overblown, since there was lots of unrest already in 1912 (e.g. extensive strikes during King George V’s coronation summer in 1911 which threatened starvation, suffragist demonstrations. And secondly, the idea of muscular Anglo-Saxon protestant manhood was reaffirmed culturally after the sinking, contrasting their nobility to emotion (perish the thought!) and violence from “latins” and other foreigners.

27 American Youth; Phil LaMarche - A slight little book about gun violence in New England, in which a fatherless (part-time, anyway) boy falls in with a group of conservative teen wingnuts, the sort who would now be recruiting on Reddit instead of at the high school cafeteria. Angsty and pretty much resolutionless, so a fine representation of the experience of adolescence.

28 A Severed Head; Iris Murdoch - Expect the sort of soap-opera plotting typical of Murdoch. Set in London during the choking post-war fog, which reasserts itself over and over. I’ve been hit over the head with her brilliance in the past (The Black Prince, sigh), and this one didn’t pull that particular trick, but I did enjoy it.

29 Their Eyes Were Watching God; Zora Neale Hurston - Janie talks her way through the American south, attaching herself to various places and people until she finds herself, finally, reasonably content. I thought it was interesting that her ability or inability (willingness or unwillingness) to bear children isn’t an issue in any of her relationships. I realize that this is a low bar to clear, but yeah, I’m happy when women aren’t reduced to their decisions about children.

30 A Burglar’s Guide to the City; Geoff Manaugh - Manaugh sees cities (and architecture) in a way that most people don’t, and in this case he’s taking on the mantle of the law-breaker, the intruder. The book combines tales of epic burglaries involving tunnelling & hiding, LAPD helicopter ride-alongs, lock picking seminars, and tidbits about the securitization of the city. E.g. did you know that Paris’ nickname The City of Light came originally from its streetlights, which were installed on police orders?

31 Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure; Ingrid Burrington - Look, I know you need an excuse to look at your city through different eyes. And here it is! Obviously some of this is NY-specific, but having the ability to see the physical traces of the internet’s infrastructure is a great superpower to have.

32 Pond; Claire-Louise Bennett - lacking a thread of narrative through the entire book, it’s uncertain whether the best way to read this is as a novel, or as a series of short stories with the same protagonist. A woman lives in an Irish cottage, and equally divides her time musing about her surroundings and her own mental state. A quote I liked: “Then it occurred to me that perhaps I’d been terrified for longer than all day, and had rather mixed feelings upon realizing that - I wasn’t much keen on the idea that I’d been terrified for years, but it seemed possible”

33 Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature; Hab Wylie - This book looks a literature that acknowledges the Atlantic provinces as a contemporary space, rather than as a place frozen in time, and set outside the forces of globalization and finance. That latter notion is shorthanded as “the folk”, eg “The Folk paradigm is complicit in the colonial tactic of constructing the land as unoccupied, because it cultivates the impression that the Folk have always belonged here”

34 February; Lisa Moore - Inspired by the above, I picked up this one from the library. It covers the story of the Ocean Ranger, an oil rig that sank with all aboard off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982, and its long-term consequences for a particular family. I found the interlocking timelines to be pretty effective, and the emotional fallout from the disaster is handled with the appropriate weight and solemnity.

35 Combat Ready Kitchen: How the US Military Shapes the Way You Eat; Anastacia Marx de Salcedo - Once you find out how much military logistics affects the way the civilian world fabricates, ships and even eats, it’s hard not to want to dig in a bit further. This is the story of how military rations became industrial foods. Interestingly, where the “clean-eating” food world might expect the author to reject the convenience foods whose history she’s tracing here, she takes a far more pragmatic approach. I was a bit less fascinated by the specific scientific advancements, and wish more time had been spent on the history.

36 Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture; Jon Savage - A long monograph on adolescence prior to the creation (and cultural ascension) of the teenager in the post-WWII era. Naturally, no matter what the surrounding historical events, there’s always a generational divide between the young and their parents, and Savage plots that rift over and over again, from the 1890s to the 1940s. Sadly his research is restricted to Western Europe and North America only, I’d like to see something similar that has a broader scope (though I’m sure one of the prerequisites of a teen culture is some amount of surplus time, resources, etc which are certainly not available prior to the achievement of some serious development).

37 Our Young Man; Edmund White - A slim little thing (I’m sure all it ever snacks on is plain air-popped popcorn) with allusions to Oscar Wilde, and barely a place towards the AIDS crisis. A change of perspective in the final third was much appreciated, though the new protagonist is scarcely less self-obsessed than the first.

38 When God was a Rabbit; Sarah Winman - I felt a bit like this book’s reach exceeded its grasp. It felt more like a homey, British ensemble dramedy than the lofty Literature it presents itself to be. I was, however, with it until world events (I’ll keep it spoiler-free for y’all) crash into the narrative in a clumsy and un-earned fashion.

39 The Sport of Kings; CE Morgan - A huge, and wide-ranging tale about lineage, blood, wealth and slavery in Kentucky, with a thin veneer of horses to help the whole thing go down a bit easier. Both massively compelling and by times stomach-turning, this is book can be a rough read. I could see a tilt into High Melodrama appearing in the final quarter or so, and I wished mightily that it wouldn’t go where I thought it was going…..but it did.

40 The End of Average; Todd Rose - I was hoping for an interesting history of the science of averages, and/or the idea of designing for “the average human” and that’s what I got in the first third or so. Then the book devolves (or evolves, I guess, depending on your perspective) into a gung-ho self-help book about bootstrapping your way to the top, even if you’ve been disregarded your whole life. Meh.

2016 by the Numbers

Read on a screen 1

Read on paper ALL THE REST :):)

Book Club Reads 4 (our club met 7 times this year, but 3 of those book I’d finished in 2015)

Graphic Novels 2

Fiction 19

Nonfiction 21

[tpaigeme]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yEtozAmeMI 

)Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is a big proponent of creating your own “reality”. The elites intend to do just that. It’s their world we just live in it. This is their reality. And they want to force it on us. Not democracy, not freedom not prosperity not we the people.  In their eyes we don’t count for much. Unless it’s harvesting organs for $$$.  These people are so narcissistic, all those things we learned, do unto others, the golden rule, walk the extra mile, love thy neighbor, God is Love, all of these Judeo Christian Concepts are lost on them, just “outdated, old-fashioned, useless superstition”.  This is the Chinese regime verbatim. They believe might is right by any means necessary to control us unruly unwashed ruffians, this basket of deplorables. And truthfully our entire culture has been infected with this virus. It came in under the guise of greed is good and God is dead. We have to renounce and renounce and renounce this incarnate evil reality, and afirm and affirm and affirm this: the values we have held dear, in our hearts and minds, in our beings, our families, for centuries milennium ... that wisdom and basic goodness and decency handed down generation after generation and taught by our greatest teachers as Jesus taught , “forgive as we forgive others, deliver us from evil, thy heavenly kingdom come on earth.” Thy will be done. It is a MUST! Especially now .. to remember and celebrate the meaning of these words, these heavenly vibrations, spoken to US, centuries ago, but still vibrant with the vibration of Life. At this time in human history we are at a crossroads, humanity is. We have to always stand for these principles against unprincipled double speaking Orwellian actors. God bless the whistleblower. God bless the true journalist the truth teller truth seekers. I pray this: foil the “wise in their own conceit” the sociopath the elite debasers of the truth .. and foil their plans to replace THE reality with their “reality”, their corrupt narcissistic fake reality, their celebration of evil plots of wickedness, their shortsighted sick vision of evil triumphant over good.  In other words, I pray:#DeliverUsFromEvil #TLPWe must return to our roots, not destroy them.  For more on the Lords Prayer, and the Lord’s Prayer Cleanse,  visit my channel. We can change  turn it around only with God’s help and true guidance.  This Prayer will help you on your way. It has helped me, immeasurably.  Jesus’ words, not mine. For Us.I Thank  God for this channel and  May God Bless you.