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Folks, if these book covers make you feel like reading these old classics, the English versions of them are in the public domain. Here's where you can legally download each of them for free from Project Gutenberg.

Dracula

Jane Eyre

Little Women

The Idiot

Pride and Prejudice

War and Peace

Wuthering Heights

The Great Gatsby

Frankenstein

Crime and Punishment

Anna Karenina

The Cherry Orchard

The Master and Margarita is the only one of these that is not on Project Gutenberg because it's too new to be in the public domain.

I really like this russian edition of classic books. Letting famous artists do the covers in YA style was such a simple but clever decision. According to the recent study the number of teenage readers increased, possibly thanks to these covers. I own traditional classics with blank covers but if I ever see one of these in the wild, it’ll probably make me go feral.

Here are some of my favs:

Dracula (art by Renibet)

2.Jane Eyre (art by Ulunii)

3. Little women (art by чаки чаки)

4. The Idiot (the hedgehog-omg-) (art by Xinshi)

5. Pride and Prejudice (art by Cactusute)

6. War and Peace (art by Xinshi)

7. Wuthering Heights (art by Renibet)

8. The Great Gatsby (art by NIKEL)

9. Frankenstein (art by Iren Horrors)

10. Crime and Punishment (art by REDwood)

11. Anna Karenina (art by Ulunii)

12. The Cherry Orchard (art by lewisite)

13. The Master and Margarita (art by Renibet)

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Sword and Knife Themed Names For Your Baby

Dirk

Kris

Bowie

Edge

Blade

Claymore

Katana (Kat for short)

Katherine Anna (Katana for short)

Vorpal

Two-hander

Bastard

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Moana 2 (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Moana 2 has several scenes depicting extreme lightning at night, including one sequence where a character fights against bolts of lightning. These scenes are predictable for the most part, but the flashing is severe, and the individual moments of flashing in these scenes are hard to brace for. Important story beats will be missed if you cover your eyes during these scenes.

The vast majority of this film takes place on the open sea, so several scenes feature some rocking on the sea. There are also high-speed chase scenes and scenes following flying characters through complex maneuvers.

Flashing Lights: 9/10. Motion Sickness: 5/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: This film features a sequence with a lot of large fantastical sphincters expelling gross fluids all over people, and more scenes using gross-out humor with animal secretions.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Moana 2

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3 Idiots (2009) - Rajkumar Hirani

“Even a circus lion learns to sit in fear of the whip, but you call such lion well trained, not well educated.”

3 Idiots is an ironic title because it’s a film full of wisdom. But where there is wisdom, there is controversies. This was especially true to the Asian community on family expectations with career. To have an education is not the same as being well educated.

Rancho is the symbolic character of genuine learning. But more interestingly, we see his two relatable friends. One needs to graduate for his family. One wishes not to graduate at all. Their story is a tug-and-pull of being practical and being free.

One thing is for sure. We need to do better for our students. 3 Idiots is not just a fairytale of rags to riches, but a reality that poverty can reduce education to an escape. A love of learning flourishes from an environment that it is safe to learn.

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Patrick Kelleher (February 19, 2024). "Yes, trans women can breastfeed too. Here’s why it’s safe, healthy and good for both mum and baby." PinkNews. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/19/trans-women-breastfeeding-explainer-research/

tl;dr One study was about how transgender women can produce milk. Another study found that the nutritional value of their milk is the same. This news article also tells the stories of some families who do this for their babies. It quotes one of these mothers, Twitch streamer and PhD student Nominal Naomi, who said,

"If you’re trans, you can be a mother. You can be a father. You can be a parent. You can actually have a family and this life – this dream is possible for you, and you can even breastfeed your kids [...] The only thing that’s stopping you is other people’s hate and vitriol, and I don’t want to let that get in the way of me loving my family as best I can."

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Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Mufasa: The Lion King has a few scenes with lightning strobes at varying severity. These flashes always happen during scenes when it is raining, so the rain works as a good warning that there may be flashes in this scene. The rest of the film has no strobe effects.

There are some high-speed chase scenes, including shaking POV shots, flying, and water-based peril. There is some action at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 4/10. Motion Sickness: 5/10.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Mufasa: The Lion King

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Soul (2022) - Pete Docter

“Your spark isn’t your soul’s purpose.”

Is life really all about finding our purpose? When we’re kids, we’re taught to dream big, discover our passion and hence, ourselves. But when we don’t find that thing we want to do for the “rest of our lives”, we can feel like a failure.

Soul is a journey of this unborn soul called 22 who doesn’t want to live. But by chance, she’s able to travel to Earth and experience life. She wasn’t fascinated by the “purposes” we think like playing music, teaching or barbering. Instead, she enjoyed eating, walking and feeling a cool breeze.

A spark is not a life-defining purpose. It’s simply the little moments that make us happy we’re alive. 22 never needed to find her purpose to live because it’s living itself that is the purpose.

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Wicked Movie is going to make a trillion dollars its opening weekend and everyone will leave the theater the angriest they’ve ever been in their lives because no one except for me and my beloved mutuals knows that despite having runtime longer than the whole stage musical it is a Part One that only covers the first act

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This is a slide from a presentation that I did together with my partner @who-is-page: "You Are Not A Museum Piece: Putting Yourself Out There In The Alterhuman Community." You can watch the whole presentation on Youtube here.

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Paddington in Peru (2025)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Paddington in Peru has a few scenes of intense strobes of lightning during stormy scenes, where the rain begins several seconds before the lightning. There are two scenes where someone does work on a breaker box, and there are bright electrical sparks and flickering lights in both of these scenes.

There is some brief peril at extreme heights, and some involving swimming in choppy waters.

Flashing Lights: 5/10. Motion Sickness: 2/10.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Paddington in Peru

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Image description: A series of index cards with text written on them with a felt tip pen. This is what they say:

"A few notes about how to design your own relationships!

"You don't have to have sex! Or have it soon, or often, or in any particular way. And sex doesn't have to go along with romance, intimacy, or commitment.

"You don't have to be monogamous! You can also be nonmonogamous, monogamish, polyamorous, open, exclusive with more than one partner, or into the occasional threesome.

"You don't have to live together! Or share a room, or share a bed, or do it all the time. (You don't have to share your finances, your stuff, or all your friends either.)

"You don't have to get married! And the legal paperwork, religious ceremony, and social event don't have to go together.

"You don't have to have kids! But you also don't have to have a partner if you want to, or have to raise your own biological offspring.

"You don't have to stay together, or plan to! It's not a failure just because something ends, and that doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful.

"You don't have to label or define your relationship how other people tell you, or at all!

"You don't have to be monogamous because you live together, get married because you have kids, combine these things in any particular way, do them in any particular order, or progress at some preset speed!

"If what you really want to do is do it all in a really traditional way, that's okay too! But you can also mix and match and do whatever works for you!"

Signed with a heart, SexEdPlus.com.

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Full transcript at sexedplus.com Follow sexedplus for more like this Resources Book - Sex From Scratch by Sarah Mirk Article - SoloPoly: Riding the relationship escalator (or not) Book - Redefining Our Relationships by Wendy-O Matik

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Little Forest (2019) - Soon-rye Yim

“When things are hard, remember the scent of the land, the wind, and the sun here.”

This film was like a breeze in a desert. In a nutshell, this movie is a story that in a world of chaos, we find solace in food. When we’re sad, we look for comfort bites. When we’re happy, we share meals with others. When we’re satisfyingly tired, nothing is better than a hot dinner.

But of course, we get busy that food feels like something automatic. We resolve to frozen microwave snacks and chew on it without giving it much thought. We simply eat to get full, but not nourished.

The Little Forest brings us back to that time where food, as it was scarce, was cherished. Even though we’re not all farmers, everyone has their own little forest: the place which nourishes or depletes them. Hye-won left the city Seoul. Why? Because she was hungry.

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I am watching wizards and I was not expecting actual live action footage of adolf hitler to show up in this animated children’s movie from the 70s.

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Zinnia Jones (May 31, 2021). "Early use of masculinizing steroid oxandrolone in trans boys can add 2 more inches of height compared to testosterone." Gender Analysis. Live link. Archive.

The above blog post is about a study about looking for more suitable sorts of puberty blocking and hormone therapy for transmasculine youth. It found a treatment that is more effective for letting them grow up to be a couple inches taller, if they start it early, at age thirteen or fourteen. It's about this study:

Grimstad, F. W., Knoll, M. M., & Jacobson, J. D. (2021). "Oxandrolone Use in Trans-Masculine Youth Appears to Increase Adult Height: Preliminary Evidence." LGBT health, 8(4), 300–306. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0355

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Transformers One (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Transformers One has several scenes of rapid-firing lasers, all of which occur during the second half of the film. There are very mild electrical arcing effects in a few scenes of the first half, and one of intense electrical arcing as someone falls down a chasm. This film is also very colorful, which may cause eye strain in some viewers.

A lot of this film takes place at extreme heights. The camera follows action through high-speed chases, complex flying maneuvers, and fast orbiting shots.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 8/10.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Transformers One