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[districtfourmermaid]

It's the Nut!

I understand Gale's rage. I know it. I know that when Gale says they could block even the train tunnel, he's getting carried away, thinking only of what the Capitol did to District 12. What these people working in the Nut facilitated. Katniss knows it, too.

"'We watched children burn to death, and there was nothing we could do!' I have to close my eyes a minute, as the image rips through me. It has the desired effect. I want everyone in that mountain dead."

Katniss pulls back for a moment, because she's also from 12, and she likens the Nut to a coal mine. But who knows better than Gale what that would feel like? His dad died in the mines just like hers. She could barely stomach the annual field trip down there and hates the thought of him working there. But he worked there. He knows exactly what the avalanche would inflict on the people. He knows very well how it will feel. And he says that if he were a spy in the Nut, he'd say "bring on the avalanches," because he's committed to the cause and knows the rebels will never win without taking the Nut and District 2. Katniss would do it, too, be willing to die for the rebels if she were in the Nut. There are only a "handful" of spies, after all.

Boggs, of course, is steadier and suggests leaving the train tunnel open for surrenders. Gale is usually very reasonable, so this moment is odd for him. Who doesn't say things worse than they mean in fits of rage? After what he saw in 12, saving all those people and it still not being nearly enough, he's not out of line. But he may be slightly blinded by that rage. Once he calms down somewhat, even he sees that leaving the tunnel is right. He's just cautious, saying they should be armed, because those "surrendering" surely will be. And he's right about that, too (Katniss's spleen might want to weigh in).

At the end of the day, though, the Nut is a military base. It's the key to 2, which is the last stop before the Capitol. People are dying across Panem every day. The Capitol wants a ceasefire? No! The fire will cease when the people are free!And for that to happen, the Nut must be cracked. I do not have sympathy for the workers in the Nut who are not rebel spies. Those from either 2 or the Capitol who are genuinely fighting to keep the Capitol in power. They chose their side.

When talking with Beetee, Gale said they're using the same rulebook Snow used when hijacking Peeta. That would be the same one used when 12 or the hospital in 8 were bombed. But then, he's not. This is no where near as bad as what the Capitol has done. District 12 hadn't even officially rebelled yet. They never got the chance. The Capitol bombed a whole District of poor, malnourished, overworked, heavily policed regular people and followed up their bombing of 8 with hitting their hospital. I will never understand why people look down on Gale for suggesting violence may be required against a military base that launches hovercraft to go bomb more Districts.

After the bombing of the hospital on District 8: "I remember all those years in the woods, listening to Gale rant against the Capitol. Me, not paying close attention. Wondering why he even bothered to dissect its motives. Why thinking like our enemy would ever matter. Clearly, it would have mattered today. When Gale questioned the existence of the hospital, he was not thinking of disease, but this. Because he never underestimates the cruelty of those we face."

Katniss and everyone else needs to remember this. The Capitol's cruelty and the lengths to which Snow is willing to go to retain power know no bounds. There can be no progress without taking action, and holding back because you don't want to be too mean to an enemy who thinks of you as lower than dirt does not work.

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

I smile through the encore, because I'm good at that. I push every atom of hurt to the bottom of my guts where it burns. Then I wave and pack up my shit.

Brynne Weaver, Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy #2)

[pesterloglog]

Aradia Megido, Davebot, Jade Harley

Page 284

ARADIA: he is probably ok

DAVEBOT: so youre telling me you dont even feel a little bad that you ditched him to be a weird death acolyte

ARADIA: no i think he found my wiles both charming and irresistible

DAVEBOT: not even an ounce of guilt or self doubt huh

DAVEBOT: just like that

DAVEBOT: no conversations about the greater good

DAVEBOT: no revelations about your feelings

DAVEBOT: no dead presidents spouting wisdom about your brotherdad and bequeathing unto you an ancient soulbot

ARADIA: whats a president

DAVEBOT: see that doesnt work because i know you know what a president is

ARADIA: shit

ARADIA: do you often find your faith in yourself shaken like this or is it a new experience now that your mortal coil has been left behind

DAVEBOT: what

ARADIA: do you think now that all that is left of you is a literal ghost inside of a machine you are more or less likely to embrace finality

DAVEBOT: oh dope more cult of one shit

DAVEBOT: immortality changed you

ARADIA: could it be that you are projecting your feelings onto my situation

DAVEBOT: does not compute rose jr

ARADIA: ...

ARADIA: we dont have to talk about it

DAVEBOT: thanks

JADE: They sit in each other's presence, the silence between them as meaningful as any words they could exchange.

DAVEBOT: its always really cool to hear how meaningful my silences are

DAVEBOT: especially while

DAVEBOT: CALCULATING

DAVEBOT: CALCULATING

DAVEBOT: especially while i am attempting to experience them

JADE: i do not need your approval. the story will continue how it must.

DAVEBOT: beep boop hater detected

ARADIA: wow is that true

JADE: i am not a hater.

DAVEBOT: classic hater line

DAVEBOT: i know this because i am pouring through genuine actual quadrabytes of information on historys most notorious haters

JADE: no, you aren’t.

DAVEBOT: huge if true

ARADIA: dave do you think i am a hater

DAVEBOT: you are the exact opposite of a hater

ARADIA: a liker

DAVEBOT: ok

DAVEBOT: perfect example your tolerance for whatever is going on with

DAVEBOT: all this

ARADIA: i think she looks quite lovely covered in the viscera of the all-powerful enemy she consumed

ARADIA: floating lifelessly in our periphery

ARADIA: observing our every action and noting its relevance :)

DAVEBOT: uh huh thats what i mean

DAVEBOT: can we scrounge up a change of clothes or something

DAVEBOT: maybe some sort of outfit montage

DAVEBOT: she comes out of the changing room in some sort of bozo outfit for clowns

DAVEBOT: we shake our heads disapprovingly

DAVEBOT: no no not this one

DAVEBOT: she goes back into the changing room we give each other one of those meaningful glances

ARADIA: what would she do without us

DAVEBOT: she emerges again this time looking fresh as hell

DAVEBOT: our judgemental ways have done it again

DAVEBOT: socially shamed into looking completely fucking dope

ARADIA: o_o

JADE: even though I understand that it must happen, i am growing frustrated with the direction of this conversation.

DAVEBOT: do you want to talk about something else stinky

JADE: what would you suggest?

DAVEBOT: ok hear me out

DAVEBOT: kanaya

DAVEBOT: but like

DAVEBOT: wearing huge jorts

[lovingalways37]

- One Piece Chapter 284

Colour Spread by Oda Eiichiro

[amethystsoda]

“That beauty exists in this world is, in itself, something to be grateful for.” -Xie Lian

[2truehearts]

PATROCLUS THE MAN EVER 😭😭😭 im specifically sobbing over chiron ☹️ imaging him grieving over the two boys he would call his own

NO PLEASE DKSVSNBDSN i js imagine the news being spread by rumor or smth that he hears it in passing and all the stuff those two left would be (desperately) treasured (as if they weren’t before) bc that’s all he’ll have of his two “sons” that died for the other HEUEJJSJSJS 😭😭😭

[noragam]

“absolutely not!”

— tsunade senju, naruto shippuden.

{ ch.284 pg.1 }

[deputy-buck]

"When the cage is closed, nobody can help him."

[heahven-2023]

oct 12, 2023

felt very tired today- probably bc i had a long day with school and tutoring. i had back to back meetings today as well. both of which were very important. thank god it’s friday tomorrow

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil.

I am French (hi from France 🇫🇷) and I’ve been reading Good Omens in English. There is something I did not really understand or find a translation for it. « Rivers urv blurd » (it’s on page 284 line 26 :) . I was hoping you may maybe help me.

Love you a lot ♥️

It's "rivers of blood" rendered phonetically.

[districtfourmermaid]

Katniss's claim that her Capitol-reconstructed ear can hear the forcefield, and other "things you wouldn't ordinarily think have a sound. Like insect wings. Or snow hitting the ground."

The mockingjay hears the sound of Snow falling, and now all of Panem can, too.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Woven Histories

Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Production by Brad Ireland and Christina Wiginton, Editing by Magda Nakassis,

National Gallery of Art, Washington copublished by The University of Chicago Press, 2023, 284 pages, ISBN 978-0-226-82729-2

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Exhibition dates : Los Angeles County Museum Art 2023, Washington Nat.Gall.Art 2024, Ottawa Nat.Gall.Canada 2024,New York MoMA 2025

Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles.   Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of abstraction. This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts.   Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and others who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. Over the century, the intersection of textiles and abstraction engaged artists from Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, and Sheila Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose textile-based works continue to shape this discourse. Including essays by distinguished art historians as well as reflections from contemporary artists, this ambitious project traces the intertwined histories of textiles and abstraction as vehicles through which artists probe urgent issues of our time.

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[freakcliff]

Since I spent like an hour on friday going through my copy of iwtv (1977 first Ballantine Books Edition) so here's where every episode title is said in the book.

possible spoilers for the show; definitely spoilers for the nearly 50 year old book.

S1E1 "In throes of increasing wonder" page 13, Louis only every directly says the words "increasing wonder" ("From then on I experienced only increasing wonder") about his first meeting with Lestat

S1E2 "...after the phantoms of your former self" page 81-82, said by Lestat ("You are in love with your mortal nature! You chase after the phantoms of your former self!") when they're having one of their many arguments about Louis' feelings about killing, right before they turn Claudia

S1E3 "Is my very nature that of a devil?" page 73, after Louis and Lestat are driven off of Louis' plantation & are rejected by a mortal woman Louis likes & thought would protect them

S1E4 "...the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding" page 98, said by Louis about Claudia (in narration) ("She was simply unlike Lestat and me to such an extent I couldn't comprehend her; for little child she was, but also fierce killer now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding)

S1E5 "a vile hunger for your hammering heart' page 116, Louis to Claudia, telling her the story of how she was turned ("I felt for you again, a vile unsupportable hunger for your hammering heart, this cheek, this skin.") While S2E7 gives us more context on how Claudia was turned, in the book it was very different-- Louis just straight up saw her and couldn't resist nearly killing her, & a few days later Lestat decides to turn her to save their marriage

S1E6 "Like angels put in Hell by God" page 148-- Louis says this to a priest in confessional after Lestat 'dies'. ("I am not mortal, father, but immortal and damned, like angels put in hell by God.")

S1E7 "The thing lay still" page 138, Louis' description of Lestat's dead (ish) body

S2E1 "What can the damned really say to the damned?" page 168, Louis contemplating what he might find in Eastern Europe as he and Claudia sail to Europe.

S2E2 "Do you know what it means to be loved by death?" page 224, said by Santiago in basically the exact same context, although the play is different.

S2E3 "No pain" page 225, said by Armand, who is onstage & is the one who kills the woman in the first performance we see at Theatre des Vampires

S2E4 "I want you more than anything in the world" page 284, said by Armand to Louis when they're on a little date in this abandoned tower Armand likes to hang out in, notably after Louis turns Madeline without approaching Armand about it; I believe he also repeats it twice same as the show

S2E5 "Don't be afraid. just start the tape" page 3; said by Louis to Daniel basically the same way it happens in the show.

S2E6 "Like the light by which God made the world before He made light" page 142, something Louis says while contemplating his existence directly after Lestat 'dies'. ("I had now lived in two centuries, seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other, been eternally young and eternally ancient, possessing no illusions, living moment to moment in a way that made me picture a silver clock ticking in a void: the painted face, the delicately carved hands looked upon by no one, looking out at no one, illuminated by a light which was not a light, like the light by which God made the world before he Had made light.") (jesus, anne. i thought i wrote horribly long sentences)

S2E7 "I could not prevent it" page 307, said by Armand, also repeated twice like he does in the show, although this is said as he's saving Louis rather than in the present day interview

S2E8 "And that's the end of it. There's nothing else" page 341; idk if this is the actual episode title, but it's what wikipedia is telling me and it makes sense enough. The last thing Louis tells to Daniel before ending the story

under the cut-- other lines i remember from the show that i underlined while reading the book; please add on if you have any more or correct anything i got wrong

(also this is all just my memory while reading the book, so it's messy and imperfect) (all of the book quotes should be correct, but forgive me if i cannot remember the lines from the show exactly and don't bother to search for them)

interview begins with "You weren't always a vampire, were you?" and then "There's a simple answer to that. I don't believe I want to give simple answers. I think I want to tell the real story." page 4

Daniel says "ah, that's the accent" and notes that there's a "slight sharpness to the vowels" also page 4

the monologue louis has about becoming a vampire "A dull roar at first and then a pounding like the pounding of a drum" to "i realized that drum was my heart" page 19

various things louis says about lestat in the first interview. i can't remember the exact lines in the episode but i think i remember "I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher" from page 31 and "he appeared frail and stupid to me, a man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice" on page 34

"The blood poured out of him, down his shirt front, down his coat. It poured as it might never pour from a mortal man, all the blood which he had filled from before the child and from the child..." page 137, describing Lestat dying

After they first attempt to kill Lestat, Louis also says the words "beginning the great adventure of our lives" page 142

page 216, when Armand and Louis meet, Armand does say "I will not harm you", and the note on his buisness card says "Bring the petit beauty with you. You are most welcome, Armand."

page 244, parts of the shpiel about concious & unconcious death from the first theatre performance

page 339, Armand says "She never loved you, you know. Not in the way that I loved you, and the way that you loved us both." after which he leaves Louis, something he hasn't managed to do in the show yet, though, to be fair, in the show after he said this Louis immediately ran into the sun

page 343, "This... after all I've told you... is what you ask for? " and "You don't know what human life is like! You've forgotten. You don't even understand the meaning of your own story...", though in the show they change this line a bit to make it sound more natural for a high 20 year old in San Francisco in 1973

[soulmuppet]

Knights and wizards have defended the Kingdom of Myth for centuries. These lands have known peace and prosperity, but soon the kingdom shall be destroyed.

The Prophets have declared that your city shall burn and Myth will fall. All those who follow your King shall die. It is INEVITABLE.

But you shall defy fate. Myth will not end while you bear arms.

You will fail, but as long as there are still stories, they will sing of you!

Inevitable is a Arthurian Western roleplaying game for 2-6 players and a GM, where your party of disastrously sad cowboy knights fail to stop the apocalypse. This 284 page book contains all the rules, character creation and the setting for your campaign, thoroughly and evocatively detailing The Barren, the lands surrounding the Kingdom of Myth.

Good luck failing to save the world!