#vann legacy

[mrigold]

Redecorated now that the boys are kids.

[spectermansion]

luca has devloped a crush on hazel vann!

[dirthara-dalen]

D'edoris is the apprentice of Darth Occlus and a former slave. He was born on Ziost to slave parents who were not force sensitives. His slave master's were also not force sensitive, so when his abilities manifested he was taken from his parents and sent to one of the many Sith training academy's via their sponsorship. They, of course, expected him upon becoming a Sith lord to serve them once more as a way to repay them. That never happens. When Solaris comes to Korriban in search of a new apprentice after Thanton had his last two killed, he took interest in D'edoris. (i changed order of event here) Before arriving at Taris, Solaris lost his two apprentices and returned to Korriban. D'edoris sensed that Solaris was his ticket to freedom thus managed to kill all other perspective apprentices minus Xalex who was taken by my other inquisitor, Darth Tal'ien. Upon becoming Solaris's apprentice he began a sort of journey towards healing his past trauma of being a slave thanks to Solaris understanding how life as a slave can be a living hell.

[simaginarie]

meanwhile, some trouble is brewing within the renegades. this new member sure is an ass! what does max see in him?

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Books by BIPOC Authors August 2023

🦇 I grew up surrounded by a melting pot of cultures, diverse communities, and unique experiences. Despite the different sources of those multicultural voices, their stories still covered universal topics of colonialism, migration, identity, and race. Each story was another flavor, another sweet spice adding to that melting pot. Today, we have books by BIPOC authors that put those unique voices to the page. If you're interested in traveling to different worlds, whether familiar or foreign, here are a few books by BIPOC authors to add to your TBR! 🦇

✨ Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang ✨ The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis ✨ Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okuson ✨ Accidentally in Love by Danielle Jackson ✨ A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power ✨ Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey ✨ The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson ✨ Hangman by Maya Binyam ✨ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Historical Fiction) ✨ Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam ✨ Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas ✨ An American Immigrant by Johanna Rojas Vann

🧭 Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker 🧭 Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen 🧭 A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz 🧭 Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned (edited by) Nafiza Azad and Melody Simpson 🧭 Ghost Book by Remy Lai 🧭 The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang 🧭 Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte 🧭 Forty Words for Love by Aisha Saeed 🧭 The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper 🧭 Take the Long Way Home by Rochelle Alers 🧭 Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham 🧭 Actually Super by Adi Alsaid

✨ Never a Hero by Vanessa Len ✨ I Fed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea ✨ The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu ✨ Night of the Living Queers, edited by Shelly Page ✨ Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris ✨ Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim ✨ My Father the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang ✨ Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera ✨Happiness Falls by Angie Kim ✨ A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban ✨ Neverwraith by Shakir Rashaan ✨ House of Marionne by J. Elle

[katmk36]

Both Main and Vanilla Lite page updates for this week!

Main Page

Bradley BC will start mid week.

I will just have a Graduation posts for the Bradley legacy.

I will be no longer doing Bradley Legacy and Vault-Tec Challenge the sims will become apart of the One Day At A Time.

As of right now all the stories and challenges I will be doing are on the top of the pined message. I will be doing side stories/au's for sim couples from my rotations.

I will be working on One Day At A Time and Fading Shadows Rotations.

Akira & Stylar - Side story with the story plot that won the poll.

Additional story posts for this week

Pancakes Postcard Challenge

How they met - Akira & Stylar - A One Day At A Time side story

Vanilla Lite Page

Vann: Ranch Life has become Vann Lepacy challenge nothing has really changed other than I am now following the Lepacy rules.

Story posts

VL Postcard Challenge

Vann Lepacy Challenge

Family information for VL Rotation

[black-paraphernalia]

BLACK PARAPHERNALIA DISCLAIMER - PLEASE READ

“Every year they take/ pluck quotes from this letter to solidified and justify their warped moral sense of racial equality, and ignoring the true totality of the meaning and spirit of the letter and why it was written” bp

IN HONOR OF DR KING - UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWING                          THE LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL 

 April 16, 1963 wittern in Jefferson, Alabama

EXCEPT TAKEN FROM THE  THE HISTORY ENGINE

After being arrested in downtown Birmingham on a Good Friday, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous letter, “A Letter From Birmingham Jail” responding to the criticism demonstrated by eight prominent white clergy man.

This letter has been found important throughout history because it expresses King’s feelings toward the unjust events and it is an example of a well-written argument. 

Most importantly, this letter explains current events in Birmingham in 1963 as well as in the rest of America and it demonstrates the approach Reverend King took throughout the whole civil-rights movement of 1950s and 1960s. 

Due to unfortunate circumstances, the great injustice of slavery makes up a significant portion of America’s history.  Even after this chapter of history ended, it left its legacy of “blacks” being portrait as subhuman and it developed a sense of racism in the new generations. In addition, following the Civil War, that legacy was expressed through the Jim Crow Laws, which promoted segregation. 

These new laws violated the fundamental american tenet that “all men are created equal” and are “endowed by their creator with certain unalienable right”.  Historian C. Vann Woodward describes the segregating Jim Crow laws as: “That code lent the sanction of law to a social ostracism that extended to churches and schools, to housing and jobs to eating and drinking. Whether by law or by custom, that ostracism extended to virtually all forms of public transportation, to sports and recreations, to hospitals, orphanages, prisons and asylums and ultimately to funeral homes, morgues, and cemeteries.”

The American people were motivated by the terrible acts of violence on black people and were touched by the civil-rights movement’s message of “respect for the dignity of the individual” There are different opinions of what led to start the civil-rights movement of 1950s and 1960s. Although some may say it was after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Brown v. Board of Education 1954.

Fairclough wrote that it was a “consequence of the rise of black voting after World War II”.Nonetheless, it is a fact that Alabama was home to the three most significant campaigns. First there was the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, followed by the Birmingham protests of 1963 and later on the Selma Campaign of 1965.

[sidelinesimmer]

This is gen 1 for the Pack Legacy Challenge! This pack was focused on Outdoor Retreat. My main sim is named Sydney Simms. She started dating a squeamish alien named Nestor Vann who shared her love for the outdoors! They spent more time camping than sleeping in their own home. Even though Nestor is squeamish, he persevered and completed the Angling Ace aspiration while Sydney completed the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration.

They ended up having a daughter named Saylor and two dogs named Peanut Butter and Pepper.

I tried taking a pic for all of the objectives I completed:

Details for the Pack Legacy Challenge by Rosannatxt

Befriend the Hermit

Date a sim with the ‘squeamish’ trait

Max out the Herbalism Skill

Take your sim and parther on a holiday to Granite Falls

Complete the Angling Ace Aspiration

Enter the Secret Lot in Oasis Springs

Complete the Outdoor Enthusiast Aspiration

Have a Weenie Roast Party

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

A Legend, A Symbol,  A Leader In Animals Rights & Saving The Foundation Of The Primate Species On This Planet👵🦍🌱 🌍

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in Hampstead, London, to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall (1907–2001) [de] and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000), a novelist from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.

The family later moved to Bournemouth, and Goodall attended Uplands School, an independent school in nearby Poole.

As a child, Goodall's father gave her a stuffed toy chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall has said her fondness for it sparked her early love of animals, commenting, "My mother's friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares." Jubilee still sits on Goodall's dresser in London.

She is an English primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960.

She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall is an honorary member of the World Future Council.

Goodall had always been drawn to animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of a friend in the Kenya highlands in 1957.

In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, and she is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. With nineteen offices around the world, the JGI is widely recognised for community-centred conservation and development programs in Africa.

In 2021, Goodall joined the Rewriting Extinction campaign to fight the climate and biodiversity crisis through comics. She is listed as a contributor to the book The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World which was released on 28 October 2021 by DK.

Please Wish This Extraordinary & KindHearted Woman Of Selflessness In Caring For The Animals Of Our Planet. 

A Real Hero Of Earth 🌎

A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

SHE IS REGARDED AS WORLD REOWNED LEGEND IN ANIMAL RIGHTS SINCE DIAN FOSSEY

SHE IS STILL GOING STRONG IN KEEP THE PRIMATES ALIVE IN AFRICA 🌍

& HER LEGACY WILL LIVE ON THROUGH FUTURE GENERATIONS. 

THE 1 & ONLY

MS. DAME JANE MORRIS GOODALL AKA JANE GOODALL 👵🦍🌱🌍

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

TO YOU MS. GOODALL & HERE'S TO YOU MAKING IT TO 100 👵🦍🌱🌍  #JaneGoodall #SavingTheChimps #TheJaneGoodallFoundation

[brookston]

Holidays 11.9

Holidays

Allama Iqbal Day (Pakistan)

Berlin Wall Day

Brian Holland Legacy Day

Chaos Never Dies Day

Couch Beachcombing Day

Day of Ukrainian Literature & Language (Ukraine)

Dia de los Natitas (Day of the Skulls; Bolivia)

Eleven09 Day

Fall of the Wall Day (Germany)

Flag Day (Azerbaijan)

Fluffy Towel Appreciation Day

Geriatric Toothfairy Day

Good Armpit Day (Japan)

Go To An Art Museum Today Day

Heir to the Throne Day (Tuvalu)

International Day Against Fascism & Antisemitism

International Pathology Day

Iqbal Day (Pakistan)

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass; Austria, Germany)

La Almudena (Madrid City, Spain)

Legal Services Day (India)

Lord Mayor’s Day (London, UK) [Traditional Date]

National Alejandro Day

National Child Safety Council Day

National Diabetes Heart Connection Day

National Firefighting Day (China)

National Grace Day

National Hunter Day

National Inventor’s Day

National Louisiana Day

National Microtia Awareness Day

National Nibble Day

Neon Sign Day

No Cookies Day

November Nine (Word Series of Poker)

Paul is Dead Day (1966)

Pomegranate Day (French Republic)

Remembrance Day (Cayman Islands)

Rolling Stone Day

Sagan Day (a.k.a. Carl Sagan Day)

Schicksalstag (Day of Fate; Germany)

Sprat Day (UK)

Tag der Erfinder (Inventor's Day; Austria, Germany, Switzerland)

Tori No Ichi

Tree Festival Day (Tunisia)

Uttarakhand Day (India)

Valerian and Laureline Day

World Adoption Day

World Freedom Day

World Inventor Day (EU)

World Orphans Day

World Satire Day

World Social Media Kindness Day

World Urdu Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

British Pudding Day (UK)

Condensed Milk Day

National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day

National Greek Yogurt Day

National Scrapple Day

2nd Thursday in November

Genetic Counselor Awareness Day [2nd Thursday]

International Day of Zoo & Aquarium Educators [2nd Thursday]

International Tempranillo Day [2nd Thursday]

National Community Ed Day [2nd Thursday]

Return Day (Georgetown, Delaware) [Thursday after 1st Monday]

World Quality Day [2nd Thursday]

World Usability Day [2nd Thursday]

Independence Days

Cambodia (from France, 1953)

Federal Republic of InfinityLand (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Benignus of Armagh (Christian; Saint)

Change Your Underwear Day (Pastafarian)

Charles V (Positivist; Saint)

Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (Christian; Memorial Feast Day)

Gigo Gabashvili (Artology)

Harold “Doc” Edgerton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lynn-Lynn (Muppetism)

Margery Kempe (Church of England)

Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)

Media Autumnus I (Pagan)

Memorial Feast Day of the Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope (Roman Catholic)

Nectarios of Aegina (Christian; Saint)

Night of Nicnevin (Gyre-Carling), Daughter of Frenzy, Banshee; Scots Pagan)

Old Socks Day Day (Pastafarian)

Robert Frank (Artology)

Theodore of Amasea (a.k.a. Theodore the General; Roman Catholic Church)

Virgin of Almudena (Madrid; Christian; Saint)

Vitonus (a.k.a. Vanne; Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 313 [65 of 72]

Schicksalstag (Fateful Day; Germany)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [53 of 57]

Premieres

Bridge Over Troubled Water, recorded by Simon and Garfunkel (Song; 1969)

Bunny and Claude [We Rob Carrot Patches] (WB MM Cartoon; 1968)

Claws in the Lease (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Dances with Wolves (Film; 1990)

Death Comes for the Archbishop,by Willa Cather (Novel; 1927)

Enter the Wu-Tang, by the Wu-Tang Clan (Album; 1993)

Flower Drum Song (Film; 1961)

Four For the Show or Two Pairs of Plants (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 318; 1964)

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Film; 2018)

Joyeux Noël (Film; 2005)

Life as a House (Film; 2001)

Lincoln (Film; 2012)

Merry Christmas Baby, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1973)

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (Disney Animated Film; 1999)

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach (Literary Criticism; 1942)

My Fair Lady (Film; 1964)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Film; 1984)

No Dice, by Badfinger (Album; 1970)

The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (Novel; 1939)

Piano Man, by Billy Joel (Album; 1973)

Pottsylvania Creeper, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 317; 1964)

Rolling Stone (Magazine; 1967)

Skyfall (US Film; 2012) [James Bond #23]

Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (WB Animated Film; 2010)

When the Pawn…, by Fiona Apple (Album; 1999)

Without You, by Badfinger (Song; 1970)

The Young Ones (UK TV Series; 1982)

You’re My Home, by Billy Joel (Song; 1973)

You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me, by The Miracles (Song; 1962)

Zootopia+ (Disney Animated TV Series; 20022)

Today’s Name Days

Herfried, Roland, Theodor (Austria)

Božo, Erpo, Ivan, Milostislav, Teodor, Ursin (Croatia)

Bohdan (Czech Republic)

Theodor (Denmark)

Teo, Teodor, Tuudor (Estonia)

Teo, Teuvo (Finland)

Maturin, Théodore (France)

Gregor, Herfried, Roland, Theodor (Germany)

Elladios, Mavra, Nektarios, Theoktisti (Greece)

Tivadar (Hungary)

Oreste, Teodoro (Italy)

Teodors (Latvia)

Dargintas, Estela, Skirtautė, Teodoras (Lithuania)

Teodor, Tordis (Norway)

Bogudar, Genowefa, Nestor, Teodor, Ursyn (Poland)

Nectarie (Romania)

Teodor (Slovakia)

Almudena (Spain)

Teodor, Teodora (Sweden)

Orestes, Sullivan, Vaughan, Vaughn (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 313 of 2024; 52 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 45 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Ten-Xu), Day 26 (Xin-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 25 Heshvan 5784

Islamic: 25 Rabi II 1445

J Cal: 13 Mir; Sixday [13 of 30]

Julian: 27 October 2023

Moon: 13%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 5 Frederic (12th Month) [Charles V]

Runic Half Month: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 47 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 17 of 29)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 11.9

Holidays

Allama Iqbal Day (Pakistan)

Berlin Wall Day

Brian Holland Legacy Day

Chaos Never Dies Day

Couch Beachcombing Day

Day of Ukrainian Literature & Language (Ukraine)

Dia de los Natitas (Day of the Skulls; Bolivia)

Eleven09 Day

Fall of the Wall Day (Germany)

Flag Day (Azerbaijan)

Fluffy Towel Appreciation Day

Geriatric Toothfairy Day

Good Armpit Day (Japan)

Go To An Art Museum Today Day

Heir to the Throne Day (Tuvalu)

International Day Against Fascism & Antisemitism

International Pathology Day

Iqbal Day (Pakistan)

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass; Austria, Germany)

La Almudena (Madrid City, Spain)

Legal Services Day (India)

Lord Mayor’s Day (London, UK) [Traditional Date]

National Alejandro Day

National Child Safety Council Day

National Diabetes Heart Connection Day

National Firefighting Day (China)

National Grace Day

National Hunter Day

National Inventor’s Day

National Louisiana Day

National Microtia Awareness Day

National Nibble Day

Neon Sign Day

No Cookies Day

November Nine (Word Series of Poker)

Paul is Dead Day (1966)

Pomegranate Day (French Republic)

Remembrance Day (Cayman Islands)

Rolling Stone Day

Sagan Day (a.k.a. Carl Sagan Day)

Schicksalstag (Day of Fate; Germany)

Sprat Day (UK)

Tag der Erfinder (Inventor's Day; Austria, Germany, Switzerland)

Tori No Ichi

Tree Festival Day (Tunisia)

Uttarakhand Day (India)

Valerian and Laureline Day

World Adoption Day

World Freedom Day

World Inventor Day (EU)

World Orphans Day

World Satire Day

World Social Media Kindness Day

World Urdu Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

British Pudding Day (UK)

Condensed Milk Day

National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day

National Greek Yogurt Day

National Scrapple Day

2nd Thursday in November

Genetic Counselor Awareness Day [2nd Thursday]

International Day of Zoo & Aquarium Educators [2nd Thursday]

International Tempranillo Day [2nd Thursday]

National Community Ed Day [2nd Thursday]

Return Day (Georgetown, Delaware) [Thursday after 1st Monday]

World Quality Day [2nd Thursday]

World Usability Day [2nd Thursday]

Independence Days

Cambodia (from France, 1953)

Federal Republic of InfinityLand (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Benignus of Armagh (Christian; Saint)

Change Your Underwear Day (Pastafarian)

Charles V (Positivist; Saint)

Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (Christian; Memorial Feast Day)

Gigo Gabashvili (Artology)

Harold “Doc” Edgerton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lynn-Lynn (Muppetism)

Margery Kempe (Church of England)

Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)

Media Autumnus I (Pagan)

Memorial Feast Day of the Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope (Roman Catholic)

Nectarios of Aegina (Christian; Saint)

Night of Nicnevin (Gyre-Carling), Daughter of Frenzy, Banshee; Scots Pagan)

Old Socks Day Day (Pastafarian)

Robert Frank (Artology)

Theodore of Amasea (a.k.a. Theodore the General; Roman Catholic Church)

Virgin of Almudena (Madrid; Christian; Saint)

Vitonus (a.k.a. Vanne; Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 313 [65 of 72]

Schicksalstag (Fateful Day; Germany)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [53 of 57]

Premieres

Bridge Over Troubled Water, recorded by Simon and Garfunkel (Song; 1969)

Bunny and Claude [We Rob Carrot Patches] (WB MM Cartoon; 1968)

Claws in the Lease (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Dances with Wolves (Film; 1990)

Death Comes for the Archbishop,by Willa Cather (Novel; 1927)

Enter the Wu-Tang, by the Wu-Tang Clan (Album; 1993)

Flower Drum Song (Film; 1961)

Four For the Show or Two Pairs of Plants (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 318; 1964)

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Film; 2018)

Joyeux Noël (Film; 2005)

Life as a House (Film; 2001)

Lincoln (Film; 2012)

Merry Christmas Baby, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1973)

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (Disney Animated Film; 1999)

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach (Literary Criticism; 1942)

My Fair Lady (Film; 1964)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Film; 1984)

No Dice, by Badfinger (Album; 1970)

The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (Novel; 1939)

Piano Man, by Billy Joel (Album; 1973)

Pottsylvania Creeper, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 317; 1964)

Rolling Stone (Magazine; 1967)

Skyfall (US Film; 2012) [James Bond #23]

Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (WB Animated Film; 2010)

When the Pawn…, by Fiona Apple (Album; 1999)

Without You, by Badfinger (Song; 1970)

The Young Ones (UK TV Series; 1982)

You’re My Home, by Billy Joel (Song; 1973)

You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me, by The Miracles (Song; 1962)

Zootopia+ (Disney Animated TV Series; 20022)

Today’s Name Days

Herfried, Roland, Theodor (Austria)

Božo, Erpo, Ivan, Milostislav, Teodor, Ursin (Croatia)

Bohdan (Czech Republic)

Theodor (Denmark)

Teo, Teodor, Tuudor (Estonia)

Teo, Teuvo (Finland)

Maturin, Théodore (France)

Gregor, Herfried, Roland, Theodor (Germany)

Elladios, Mavra, Nektarios, Theoktisti (Greece)

Tivadar (Hungary)

Oreste, Teodoro (Italy)

Teodors (Latvia)

Dargintas, Estela, Skirtautė, Teodoras (Lithuania)

Teodor, Tordis (Norway)

Bogudar, Genowefa, Nestor, Teodor, Ursyn (Poland)

Nectarie (Romania)

Teodor (Slovakia)

Almudena (Spain)

Teodor, Teodora (Sweden)

Orestes, Sullivan, Vaughan, Vaughn (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 313 of 2024; 52 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 45 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Ten-Xu), Day 26 (Xin-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 25 Heshvan 5784

Islamic: 25 Rabi II 1445

J Cal: 13 Mir; Sixday [13 of 30]

Julian: 27 October 2023

Moon: 13%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 5 Frederic (12th Month) [Charles V]

Runic Half Month: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 47 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 17 of 29)

[mrigold]

Girlfriends

[spectermansion]

those photos aren't going on the wall...

[iklees]

Lock In / John Scalzi

Lock In #1

Als gevolg van een nieuwe ziekte zijn lijden veel mensen aan 'locked-in' syndroom; hun brein functioneert, maar ze kunnen hun lichaam niet meer bewegen. Deze 'Hadens' -- genoemd naar de ziekte -- kunnen door technische innovatie gebruik maken van een soort robotlichamen -- threeps, naar 3CPO -- waarmee ze zich in de wereld kunnen begeven terwijl hun lichaam zich elders bevindt. Ook kunnen ze gebruik maken van 'integrators', een kleine groep mensen die Haden heeft overleefd zonder lock-in en nu in staat is om hun lichaam te laten overnemen door een ander. Veel van de voorzieningen voor Hadens worden betaald door de overheid, maar onder druk van de overige bevolking, die zich bedreigd voelt door de 'robots', wordt dat nu afgeschaft. Chris Slade is een Haden, afkomstig uit een zeer rijk gezin, maar toch begonnen aan een baan als FBI-agent. Hij werkt bij de afdeling die Haden-gerelateerde zaken onderzoekt, dus als er een integrator wordt verdacht van moord op een client, krijgen hij en zijn partner Vann de zaak toegewezen.

“Think about it, Chris,” Tony said. He pointed at my head. “You’ve got what’s effectively a legacy system in your head. Its upkeep is currently being paid for out of the budget of the National Institutes of Health. When Abrams-Kettering goes into effect next Monday, the NIH will stop paying for upkeep once its current batch of contracts expires. Santa Ana and Hubbard aren’t updating and patching out of the goodness of their corporate hearts, you know. They get paid to do it. When that stops, either someone else is going to have to pay for it, or the updates stop coming.” “And then we’re all screwed,” I said. “Some people will be screwed,” Tony said. “I’ll be fine because this shit is my job and I can hack my own network. You’ll be fine because you can afford to hire someone like me to maintain your network. Our roommates will be fine because I like them and don’t want them to have spam piped into their brains against their will. And the middle-class Hadens will probably be able to pay for a monthly subscription of updates, which is something I know Santa Ana, at least, is already planning for. “Poor Hadens, on the other hand, are kind of fucked. They’ll either get no updates, which will leave them vulnerable to software rot or hacking, or they’ll have to deal with some sort of update model that features, I don’t know, ads. So every morning, before they can do anything else with their day, they’ll have to sit through six goddamn advertisements for new threeps or nutritional powder or bags for their crap.”

Beetje 'hard-boiled' detective, maar vooral hele slimme science fiction; alles draait om de (on)mogelijkheden van de Hadens, zowel in de manier van het onderzoek als in wat ze ontdekken. Er is een tweede boek met een nieuwe zaak voor Slade en Vann, Head On.

[whalettesims]

Only freshly 18, a few weeks after joining the military her parents suddenly disappeared. Scarlett was left the house and was put in charge of taking care of her younger sister, but over the house is secret notes and what seems to be alien like plants... Could this do with her parents disappearance? 

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Books by BIPOC Authors - August 2023

🦇 I grew up surrounded by a melting pot of cultures, diverse communities, and unique experiences. Despite the different sources of those multicultural voices, their stories still covered universal topics of colonialism, migration, identity, and race. Each story was another flavor, another sweet spice adding to that melting pot. Today, we have books by BIPOC authors that put those unique voices to the page. If you're interested in traveling to different worlds, whether familiar or foreign, here are a few books by BIPOC authors to add to your TBR! 🦇

✨ Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang ✨ The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis ✨ Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okuson ✨ Accidentally in Love by Danielle Jackson ✨ A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power ✨ Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey ✨ The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson ✨ Hangman by Maya Binyam ✨ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Historical Fiction) ✨ Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam ✨ Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas ✨ An American Immigrant by Johanna Rojas Vann

🧭 Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker 🧭 Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen 🧭 A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz 🧭 Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned (edited by) Nafiza Azad and Melody Simpson 🧭 Ghost Book by Remy Lai 🧭 The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang 🧭 Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte 🧭 Forty Words for Love by Aisha Saeed 🧭 The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper 🧭 Take the Long Way Home by Rochelle Alers 🧭 Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham 🧭 Actually Super by Adi Alsaid

✨ Never a Hero by Vanessa Len ✨ I Fed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea ✨ The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu ✨ Night of the Living Queers, edited by Shelly Page ✨ Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris ✨ Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim ✨ My Father the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang ✨ Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera ✨Happiness Falls by Angie Kim ✨ A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban ✨ Neverwraith by Shakir Rashaan ✨ House of Marionne by J. Elle