#Citadel Books

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

T.C. Lethbridge - Witches - Citadel - 1968 (cover design by Virginia Smith)

#witches #investigators #occult #vintage #t.c. lethbridge #virginia smith #citadel books #1968

[bargainsleuthbooks]

FDR's Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness by Michael J. Gerhardt #BookReview #ARC #NetGalley #KensingtonBooks

A just-published book explores the people who influenced #FDR throughout his life. From #WoodrowWilson to #AlSmith to his own wife, #EleanorRoosevelt, #FDRsMentors goes where few books have gone before. #Bookreview #ARC #KensingtonBooks #USPresident

Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn’t a born leader. He became one. As a boy, he was in poor health, was insecure, and an average student at best. Growing into manhood, the lessons he learned came not from books but from influencers of his lifetime, beginning with Endicott Peabody, the most renowned US headmaster of the twentieth century. He instilled in Roosevelt a confidence and strength that…

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#Al Smith #April 2024 Books #ARC Review #Book Review #Citadel Books #Eleanor Roosevelt #Endicott Peabody #FDR #FDR&039;s Mentors #FDR&039;s Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness #Groton #Kensington Books #Lewis Howe #Michael J. Gerhardt #NetGalley #New Books #New Deal #Presidential History #Presidents #Teddy Roosevelt #The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt #Theodore Roosevelt #U.S. Politics #U.S. Presidents #Winston Churchill #Woodrow Wilson #WWII

[bluebelledmoon]

okay ONE last hc before i go to work

Post botw link will go on some small adventures on his own and help out with wiping out the last few waves of ganons monsters still lurking around.

He’ll come across ruins like the ones in the Akkala Citadel or Mabe Vilage and find old books that are abandoned, old, and have had their pages ripped out. He would gingerly take out a soft cloth he keeps for this very reason, and bundle up the salvageable pages and bindings in his pack so that they wouldn’t get any more ruined. Link would come home after his week long journey and take them to Zelda for her to rewrite and save. He unties the string holding the small bundle together and lets the cloth fall open to reveal a small pile of stained booked and ripped pages, but legible text of anthologies, her old teachers poetry, rito evolution, and even descriptions of fauna she’s never heard of before.

Sometimes he’ll hit the jackpot with a small box with pages of pressed flowers that haven’t been seen in a millennia made by a little girl, or even a few handwritten books on minish and hyrulean history tucked underneath loose rotting floorboards. Sometimes, he’ll delay coming home for even longer on his journeys because he hasn’t found anything, and even just wants to bring a single piece of paper to her.

#bluebelledmoon babbles #i’m so normal #i thought of this when i went to akkala citadel in totk #at the very top there’s books in wonderful condition #link would absolutely bring those to her #botw #botw link #botw zelda #botw zelink #totk #totk zelda #totk link #post botw #loz #zelink #i’m going to add onto this later

[oldschoolfrp]

Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader (1987) included the Field Police of the Legiones Astartes in the first official full-color visual guide to Space Marine insignia. These troopers wear black armor and a red helmet with a black and yellow hazard stripe in place of a rank stripe, and a yellow and red curved flame-like insignia on the shoulder and back banner.

Mike McVey painted a miniature with this pattern identified as Marine Field Police, appearing in Warhammer 40,000 Chapter Approved – The Book of the Astronomican (1988):

There seems to have been only one Citadel miniature released that was specific to this unit, a single arm option for the marine riders of the Vincent Black Shadow Bike, seen in a 1988 mail order flyer (in upper right):

The concept of Field Police that hunted down offending marines made sense in the Rogue Trader era, when the chapters often press-ganged the worst criminal scum from a planet. Many recruits were young adult gang members and murderers whose violent tendencies were barely tempered and focused through the use of combat drugs and surgical enhancements. Imperial Field Police weren't needed any more after retconning the more disciplined backstory of the Adeptus Astartes. However a few later Forge World sources have made reference to this insignia on special disciplinary units within certain legions known to have problems with primal urges.

#Rogue Trader #Field Police #40K #Space Marines #Adeptus Astartes #Legiones Astartes #1980s #Vincent Black Shadow #Mike McVey #Marine Field Police #space marine bike #The Book of the Astronomican #Citadel Miniatures #sci fi #Games Workshop #GW

[ranticore]

it's an editing day for me so i'm working on The Viper Mourned and for the final release I want to include a new map, this time a city map :> so i may be liveblogging my attempt to use that one mapmaker tool on steam

#just for the roads and buildings and then hopefully i can draw over?? with rivers and stuff #Invergorken desperately needs a city map and especially the citadel for the second book #since it's the most important place in it

[aroaessidhe]

Aro & Ace books: Dark YA high fantasy

(in this instance by dark I mean spooky or gothic vibes, dark aesthetic, supernatural elements related to death)

Beneath The Citadel - one of the 5 MC's is an ace girl

Vespertine - MC is word-of-god aroacespec (no romance in the story)

Beyond The Black Door - demi girl MC, ace boy LI, ace trans man SC (see also In The Ravenous Dark - major side character is ace & nonbinary)

Clariel - aroace coded girl MC

What We Devour - ace girl MC (f, m/f)

This Dark Descent - demidemi girl MC (m/f) and questioning aroacespec girl MC (latter only vague so far)

#aspec books / aspec database

#aspec books #asexual books #aroace books #beneath the citadel #beyond the black door #this dark descent #what we devour

[sanctus-ingenium]

^ the scene

he was hanging by the end of it trust me

#twas a harpoon in fact #he is on top of a tall perimeter wall around a citadel. they had him hanging like a hooked fish over the edge #learn this and other fun facts in my book 'said the black horse' out now in demo form on ko-fi

[lemonhemlock]

so, i'm going through your anti team black tag and living my best life, but one post in particular that you made got me thinking.

“george made damn sure rhaenyra’s bloodline sat on the throne at the end bc, if the hightowers won, house targaryen would have been reformed, and he couldn’t kill them all off at the end of the main series”

i'm pretty sure this might've just been a joke, but it makes me curious. do you think something like a targaryen reformation would be possible, hypothetically speaking? i certainly wouldn't mind it in a "greens win" AU scenario, but that's just me. i wanna know if anyone else sees potential in this. 💚💚💚

Hello, yes, this was mostly a joke, as it happens. 😅 (anon is referring to this post) To introduce another lengthy parenthesis, I remember at the time that some of the reactions to that post were in the range for "why doesn't anyone understand that the Hightowers are also feudal lords vying for their own interests and not some great reformists out to save Westeros", which... Listen. 😄 To put equitably, this fandom has a considerable issue with knowing when to level criticism and when to just treat banter as lighthearted horsing around and not take it too seriously. Something which even I'm not exempt from, I don't think. 🤷‍♀️

So, in the interest of making a meme, that post was kind of half-true in that it simplified a more nuanced concept (that was never an avenue that the author decided to explore anyway) for the sake of humour. I have, in the past, detailed my thoughts on House Hightower and what I think is their role in the wider narrative. This is based on the information we have on them presently. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. Who knows, maybe Lord Leyton and Melara plan on blowing Oldtown up for shits and giggles. We don't have to guess everything correctly - another aspect this community struggles with in their fandom wars and obsession with having the most correct, morally pure take.

Regardless, yes, the Hightowers obviously are a privileged family at the top of the social food chain, benefitting from the exploitation awarded by feudalism - a political-economic system based on vast inequality. Therefore, any type of reform they might be willing to undertake will be limited and not really something that significantly changes the status-quo. Just like the beloved, fan-favourite, and mostly confirmed "winners" - the Starks. A third element that our fandom has trouble accepting is the concept of incremental change. I feel like it would basically be a truism to point out that incremental change has been the most reliable vector of socio-economic evolution throughout human history. So, bad news for them, I suppose, but any superficial study of history will reveal that feudalism hardly collapsed overnight. Which leads us back to the idea that any small change, no matter how limited, does matter in the long run, because, as time passes, it will be compounded with another small change and so on.

Anyway, coming back to the question. Would Targaryen reformation be possible? Certainly! GRRM could have made up any story he wanted. Anything is possible if you plan for it and it makes sense within your worldbuilding. As it stands, the Targaryens are foreigners with a questionable culture, hailing from a land that used to engage in practices that even the feudal Westerosi found backwards, distasteful, barbaric or immoral: slavery, human sacrifice, incest, great feats of violence such as pillaging and conquering neighbouring lands for the sake of feeding their population to their volcano gods etc. The Targaryens also have fire-breathing monsters that, while not exactly enough all the time to prevent any rebellions from happening, are weapons that no one else has access to and that can cause a great deal of damage that no one else can replicate.

So, in order to "reform" and integrate, they would need to renounce all that. They would need to do it the traditional way. They do some of the work, but never go all the way. They accept the main religion of the land, but they don't let go of inter-marrying, because they don't want to lose their access to dragons. There are attempts to integrate, but, by the time of the events of the main series, they have returned to incest. Funnily enough, Aegon V plays a role in both - he marries outside of the family and has no dragons left, but his succeeding son and daughter marry each other and, eventually, Aegon decides that bringing back dragons is not such a bad idea after all. I do think that the symbolic weight of Daenerys having both her parents and her grandparents as brother-sister sets is laying the "dragon blood" metaphor thick - and that it holds more magical weight than any mathematical calculation of her actual watered-down Targaryen DNA.

In any such scenario where GRRM decided to go down a Targaryen reformation path, IMO it would have been thematically-relevant to ease into it via a marriage alliance with one of the oldest families in Westeros - a well-respected, rich house that also has close links to both the only centre of higher education and the main religious organization in the land. Hence the meme. :) But it doesn't last and the Targaryens go back to their dastardly ways eventually, that's the point of them in the story, because the author chose it to be the point.

#call me crazy but grrm wasn't obligated to place BOTH the starry sept and the citadel in oldtown #and then have oldtown be controlled by 1 family #there is symbolic importance there and the hightowers /will/ play some part in the last two books #house hightower #anti team black #anti house targaryen #<- for filtering purposes #anyway #some fans really like to throw this 'feudalism is bad' interpretation like some sort of 'gotcha' #which? yes? but this is also the story. like. 🤦‍♀️ #positive change will occur at the end of the series but it will also be limited in scope. that was always going to be the case? #something something there is a line between not romanticising a historical period that was rife with inequality #vs having realistic expectations of our heroes; the story; and what the author can actually accomplish in the given setting #there is a line and it can be treaded and sometimes it's NOT that serious #you don't have to act as if liking the hightowers or *insert other westerosi noble family here* equals shilling for feudalism #at the end of the day it IS fiction and it IS meant to have a fun quality to it. you know. entertainment. just be normal about it

[taravangianlistenstothebeachboys]

I love Severian so fucking much

#book of the new sun #gene wolfe #the citadel of the autarch

[windowsloth]

"My land is the land of the far horizons, of the wide sky. It is the land of grass and wind and galloping hoofs. In summer the wind can be as hot as the breath of an oven, and when the pampas take fire, the line of smoke stretches a hundred leagues and the lions ride our cattle to escape it, looking like devils. The men of my country are brave as bulls and the women are fierce as hawks."

#book of the new sun #Foila's story/the surrounding context might be my favorite part of Citadel #also I'm stuck at home bc apparently I have COVID and I wanted to try drawing the pampas and also some clouds #botns #the thing they don’t they’ll you about trying to draw fan art set on Urth #is that the dark skies and the green moon make it look like you just chose weird colors #like I can’t tell if I’m actually not psyched about this sky or if it just looks off bc my brain wants it to be brighter

[radiation]

Why did he say this

#Book is The Citadel (1937)

[doctor-digibirb]

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#cyberpunk #fake book cover #The Citadel

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond by Dean Butler #BookReview #NetGalley #Citadel #Memoir #LHOTP #Television #50thAnniversary #LauraIngallsWilder

If you're a fan of 1970s television show #LHOTP, you'll want to check out Dean Butler's memoir, #PrairieMan. It's heartfelt and honest, and just the thing I needed to read during this #50thanniversary year. #ARC #NetGalley #BookReview #CitadelBooks

Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler joined Little House on the Prairie halfway through its run, gaining instant celebrity and fans’ enduring affection. Ironically, when the late, great Michael Landon remarked that Little House would outlive everyone involved in making it, Butler deemed it unlikely. Yet for four decades and counting, Butler has been defined in the public eye as…

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#1970s Television #50th Anniversary #Alison Arngrim #ARC Review #Book Review #Buffy the Vampire Slayer #Charlotte Stewart #Citadel Books #Dean Butler #Forever #Gidget #Jonathan Gilbert #Judy Blume #June 2024 Books #Karen Grassle #LHOTP #Little House Books #Little House on the Prairie #Melissa Gilbert #Melissa Sue Anderson #Michael Landon #NetGalley #New Books #Stephanie Zimbalist

[mundoasoiaf]

"Sam não sabia quanto tempo passara desde que dormira pela última vez, mas restavam pouco mais de dois centímetros da gorda vela de sebo que acendera quando começara a ler o irregular monte de páginas soltas que encontrara atadas com guita. Estava brutalmente cansado, mas era difícil parar. Mais um livro, dizia a si mesmo, e depois paro. Mais uma folha, só mais uma. Mais uma página, e vou para cima descansar e comer qualquer coisa. Mas havia sempre outra página depois dessa, e outra a seguir, e outro livro à espera por baixo da pilha. Vou só dar uma espiada rápida para ver qual o assunto deste, pensava, e antes de se dar conta já tinha lido metade." - O Festim dos Corvos // Samwell I

🎨: Arden Beckwith

#sam #samwell tarly #house tarly #tarly #asoiaf #westeros #asongoficeandfire #books #fanart #georgemartin #citadel

[humanmorph]

The audio drama adaption for Chapter 24 of The Claw of the Conciliator, 'Dr. Talos' Play: Eschatology and Genesis', is live!

Here's a direct link to it on the Ranged Touch website, but I definitly recommend reading Grant's introduction to the project on Cohost (aswell as the production diary, which I found pretty interesting)!

#book of the new sun #the claw of the conciliator #shelved by genre #ranged touch #i havent seen anyone else post it here yet. but look! cool things #im halfway through reading this chapter so i might aswell finish it before listening #oh also my copy of sword&citadel arrived today but thats neither here or there im just pleased by it

[totallyhussein-blog]

Be Inspired by A.J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin is best known as A. J. Cronin and was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel which was published in 1937 and is a story about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London. The themes explored in The Citadel inspired the creation of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) after World War Two.

#manchester #london #uk #liverpool #scotland #aj cronin #bookshops #books and reading #books #books & libraries #reading #booklr #bookstagram #book review #the citadel #wales #healthcare #health #nhs #ww2 history #ww2