#rist of the titans

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archie!

What I love about them: Cat. Dragon. What is there not to love? He's just a really informative familiar with glasses who can shapeshift. He's wise and he cares for Douxie so much. I love Archie as a character, I just feel like there's something to him as a character and a familiar that is so charming!

What I hate about them: Rise of The Titans. Other than that, nothing.

Favorite Moment/Quote: I LOVED ALL of his moments, and just....DRAGON'S DEN, his moments in Dragon's Den were my absolute favourite. Finding out more about Archie and seeing him trying his best to help Douxie through grieving over Merlin, I just love Dragon's Den and just of course, this quote, 'We don't get to choose everyone who comes into our lives..'

What I would like to see more focus on: Nghhhh, definitely would have loved to see his adventures. Like, he left to become a familiar, to travel the world and find a wizard familiar of his own. I would have loved to see that journey and how he met Douxie. It would have been such a nice and interesting view into their familiar bond and just to see Archie grow to really care for Douxie as family.

What I would like to see less focus on: Nothing, really, just give me more Archie and his bond with Douxie and Nari.

Favorite pairing with: MMMMMMMM. Nope. I got nothing xD

Favorite friendship: I absolutely love his bond with Douxie of course, and the small moments we see of him with Steve, Claire and Nari are incredible too.

NOTP: Again, I can't really think of anything.

Favorite headcanon: I always thought Douxie and Archie first met when Douxie was a smol child so I just....imagine Archie would have shapeshifted into all sorts of forms to make the boy happy whenever he was afraid or down, just hearing the small boy laugh at his shapeshifting antics.

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK BABBB!!!! 💙💙💙💙

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It’s been a whole year since I posted last. Part of me wants to apologise for being gone so long, but mostly I’m just glad that I’m here.

Instead of doing a GIANT 2018 READING POST, I’m going to chop it up into three posts:

Favourite Books Read in 2018

2018 Reading Data and Goal-setting for 2019

2013-2018 Reading Data Trends

I was going to do a bigass one like I usually do but it just felt so daunting. Probably because I read 256 books in 2018 and it was pretty tempting to just close that Excel sheet and move on to an empty one for 2019. But what is the point of an unexamined life, anyway?

So this post is basically a listicle with summaries grabbed from Goodreads, as well as the complete list of the books I read in 2018. I really enjoyed all these books immensely and they’re all in my personal canon now.

My Top 10 Reads for 2018:

The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.In this fresh, authoritative version—the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman—this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, this engrossing translation matches the number of lines in the Greek original, thus striding at Homer’s sprightly pace and singing with a voice that echoes Homer’s music.

Circe by Madeline Miller

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.

3. The World of the Five Gods by Lois McMaster Bujold

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, as the secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule.

It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it will ultimately lead him to the place he fears most, the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies, who once placed him in chains, now occupy lofty positions. In addition to the traitorous intrigues of villains, Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle, are faced with a sinister curse that hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. Only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics, can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge—an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous, and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death

4. Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal, Translated by Harold Augenbraum

In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, “The Noli,” as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscience—and martyr—for the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province.

5. America is Not The Heart by Elaine Castillo

Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they’re building in America.

How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she’s already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about her past. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Only their daughter Roni asks Hero why her hands seem to constantly ache.

Illuminating the violent political history of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant communities that spring up in the suburban United States with an uncanny ear for the unspoken intimacies and pain that get buried by the duties of everyday life and family ritual, Castillo delivers a powerful, increasingly relevant novel about the promise of the American dream and the unshakable power of the past. In a voice as immediate and startling as those of Junot Diaz and NoViolet Bulawayo, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful telenovela of a debut novel. With exuberance, muscularity, and tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave home to grasp at another, sometimes turning back.

6. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London’s Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin’s obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins–some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin’s, Alfred Russel Wallace, who’d risked everything to gather them–and escaped into the darkness.

Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man’s relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man’s destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.

7. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard.

Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes and the will to change it.

8. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 7 and 8 by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, André Lima Araújo, Matt Wilson, Kris Anka, Jen Bartel

In the past: awful stuff. In the present: awful stuff. But, increasingly, answers.

Modernist poets trapped in an Agatha Christie Murder Mystery. The Romantics gathering in Lake Geneva to resurrect the dead. What really happened during the fall of Rome. The Lucifer who was a nun, hearing Ananke’s Black Death confession. As we approach the end, we start to see the full picture. Also includes the delights of the WicDiv Christmas Annual and the Comedy special.

9. Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads

Mister Miracle is magical, dark, intimate and unlike anything you’ve read before.

Scott Free is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. So great, he escaped Granny Goodness’ gruesome orphanage and the dangers of Apokolips to travel across galaxies and set up a new life on Earth with his wife, Big Barda. Using the stage alter ego of Mister Miracle, he has made quite a career for himself showing off his acrobatic escape techniques. He even caught the attention of the Justice League, who has counted him among its ranks.

You might say Scott Free has everything–so why isn’t it enough? Mister Miracle has mastered every illusion, achieved every stunt, pulled off every trick–except one. He has never escaped death. Is it even possible? Our hero is going to have to kill himself if he wants to find out.

10. The Band, #1–2

Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best — the meanest, dirtiest, most feared crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld.

Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk – or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help. His daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Rescuing Rose is the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for.

It’s time to get the band back together for one last tour across the Wyld.

PHEW. Did you guys read any of those books? Did you like them? Hit me up!

The books I read in 2018:

Okay, thank you for reading. Keep a weather eye out for the next post, hopefully very soon.

My Ten Favourite Books from 2018 It's been a whole year since I posted last. Part of me wants to apologise for being gone so long, but mostly I'm just glad that I'm here.

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La Playlist de la rédaction #29

C’est le retour du vilain petit canard : saurez-vous le trouver dans notre nouvelle playlist, dans laquelle on retrouve donc Mini Mansions, Frank Carter, Weyes Blood et Gideon ?

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Crowbar

Le chanteur anglais poursuit sa mue vers des sonorités plus « pop » (on insiste sur les guillemets) tout en conservant cette rage et cette puissance qui forgent encore aujourd’hui sa réputation. L’explosif « Crowbar » est  tiré d’un futur album, End of Suffering, à paraître le 3 mai prochain.

Mini Mansions – GummyBear

Si le nom Mini Mansions ne vous dit rien, vous avez forcément entendu au moins un des trois membres quelque part : constitué de Michael Shuman (actuel bassiste des Queens of the Stone Age), de Zach Dawes (bassiste de tournée pour les Last Shadow Puppets) et Tyler Parkford (un des multiples claviéristes présents sur la dernière tournée des Arctic Monkeys), le groupe, qui parvient miraculeusement à faire coïncider son emploi du temps, fait à nouveau marcher sa magie avec le très pop « GummyBear », aux gimmicks de production qui vous rappelleront forcément au moins un des autres groupes précités.

Weyes Blood – Everyday

Après avoir accompagné Ariel Pink et Drugdealer (entre autres), Weyes Blood (de son vrai nom Natalie Mering) établit un grand pont entre sa Californie natale et la bonne pop made in UK, empruntant avec aisance aussi bien aux Beach Boys qu’à Kate Bush. Son album, Titanic Rising (on aime déjà le titre), débarque le 5 avril prochain.

Gideon – No Love/No One

Parce qu’il peut arriver, de temps en temps, qu’on ait envie d’entendre que tout est nul – alors si en plus, on peut nous le hurler très fort dans les oreilles avec un impénétrable mur de son, le potard de volume à 11, c’est parfait.

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Por que a morte do pensador Zygmunt Bauman se tornou viral? - A Notícia do Dia

© Ángel Sánchez Bauman, em 2012.

O número de tuites e de comentários nas redes sociais sobre a morte de Zygmunt Bauman foi impressionante. Essa viralidade teria provavelmente impressionado o sociólogo polonês. Em alguns de seus últimos livros e em várias de suas entrevistas ele manifestou suas dúvidas sobre a eficácia democrática e modernizadora das redes sociais, como defende um discurso dominante nos dias de hoje. Bauman questionava isso. Desse modo suas teses se tornaram simbióticas, por exemplo, com as do espanhol César Rendueles (Sociofobia) e a as do filósofo alemão de origem coreana Byung-Chul Han (No Enxame). Os três criticam essa ideia difundida entre uma parte dos usuários das redes de que escrever mensagens revolucionárias nas mesmas equivale a intervir em um espaço público. Existe muito radical que não sai de casa, computador em riste, ao invés de lutar nas ruas; que polemiza (muitas vezes anonimamente e com perfis falsos) através das redes, para ver quem faz xixi mais longe, quem é mais radical, mais revoltado e mais compassivo, gerando o que se denominou como shit-storms (tempestades de merda).

Ao lado dos indignados

Bauman e seus colegas se apoiam em uma frase bem determinante de Hakim Bey: “O vago sentimento de que alguém está fazendo algo radical ao submergir em uma nova tecnologia não pode ser designado com o título de ação radical. A verdade é que, para mim, na Rede se fala demais e se age de menos”. As redes sociais são muito eficientes para aglutinar a atenção, mas em virtude de seu caráter fluido e de sua volatilidade (a liquidez) não são apropriadas para configurar um discurso público: o espaço público. Byung-Chul Han diz que por isso são incontroláveis, instáveis, efêmeras e amorfas, crescem repentinamente e se dispersam com a mesma rapidez; não possuem a estabilidade, a consistência e a continuidade para o discurso público. Um dos coletivos que mais utiliza as redes sociais é o precariado, um neologismo que combina o adjetivo “precário” e o substantivo “proletário”, criado pelo professor da Universidade de Londres, Guy Standing, e muito utilizado por Bauman, que se tornou uma espécie de defensor desse grupo que o aplaudiu na hora de sua morte (não só eles). É uma comunidade social que ainda está em formação.

A classe do ‘precariado’

De acordo com a metodologia marxista, seria uma “classe em si” (uma classe ainda sem consciência como tal), não uma “classe para si”. Ainda não é consciente de sua força. Uma espécie de “classe perigosa” que cresce e cresce, que questiona as diferenças entre esquerda e direita, e que acredita que a responsabilidade de sua situação é dos de cima, do establishment. Por isso, Bauman esteve tão próximo dos indignados. O precariado não tem identidade baseada no trabalho; quando têm emprego, não é do tipo que permite uma carreira profissional, de modo que não possuem memória social e sensação de pertencimento a um agrupamento ocupacional. A “sombra do futuro” não paira sobre eles. Esse precariado é uma característica da “globalização negativa” de Bauman. O contexto no qual se desenvolve como coletivo, e a ferramenta das redes com a qual se equipam para compartilhar a experiência de sua situação (e às vezes para cair na armadilha da competição entre si), configuram a modernidade líquida, o conceito que o tornou famoso. A modernidade líquida seria aquele período da história em que deixariam para trás os temores que dominaram a vida passada, e as pessoas tomariam o controle de suas vidas. Não foi assim: voltou-se a viver em uma época de medo na qual o temor aos desastres naturais e às catástrofes do meio ambiente se junta ao pânico do terrorismo indiscriminado e aos poderes factuais econômicos. Nós nos rendemos ao complexo de Titanic (Jacques Attali): o Titanic somos nós, é nossa sociedade triunfalista; todos acreditamos que, escondido em algum recôndito do futuro, nos aguarda um iceberg contra o qual nos chocaremos e nos afundará ao som de um espetacular acompanhamento musical. Bauman repetia isso sempre que intervinha.

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