#albert heinlein

[ishneak]

SEED FREEDOM // Japan Tour [ Part 1 ]

#gundam seed #gundam seed freedom #gundam seed destiny #mobile suit gundam seed #athrun zala #cagalli yula athha #kira yamato #lacus clyne #cagalli hibiki #kira hibiki #lunamaria hawke #meyrin hawke #agnes giebenrath #murrue ramius #mu la flaga #yzak jule #dearka elsman #shinn asuka #albert heinlein #arthur tine #alexei konoe #shura serpentine #ingrid tradoll #redelard tradoll #daniel harper #liu shenquiang #griffin arbelest

[nadiv22]

My favorite quotes from civ VI

TECHNOLOGY

“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.” – Plutarch

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers

“I AM FOND OF PIGS. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston S. Churchill

“Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner?” – Merle Travis

“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” – Will Rogers

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” -W. H. Auden

“I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not where.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” -Mark Twain

“I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy … because bronze will last for thousands of years.” – Richard MacDonald

“MONEA, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” – Helen Gurley Brown

“A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.” – John Steinbeck

“The Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.” – Marie Osmond

“I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder … Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” – Capt. E.J. Smith, RMS Titanic

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.” – Criss Jami

“One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering.” – Robert Heinlein

“There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.” – Lemony Snicket

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.” – Nemo Nox

“Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.” – Henry Ford

“The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press is heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything.” – Terry Pratchett

“Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.” – Brian May

“If facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” – Albert Einstein

“No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.” – Karl von Clausewitz

“Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.” – Lawrence Henderson

“Bolt actions speak louder than words.” – Craig Roberts

“Never criticize a rifleman until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way, he’ll be barefoot and you’ll be out of range.” – The 2nd Target Company

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.” – Chuck Yeager

“Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.” – Earl Wilson

“Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.” – Sir William Crookes

“If God had really intended men to fly, He’d make it easier to get to the airport.” – George Winters

“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.” – George Patton

“There may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.” – Joe Hill

“I’m a big laser believer – I really think they are the wave of the future.” – Courteney Cox

"Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” – Mattie Stepanek

CIVICS

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” — Colonel David Hackworth

“A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.”– Bill Owens “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” – Marcus Aurelius

“It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut; they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.” – Garrison Keillor

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare

“Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.” – Sun Tzu

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“A good navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism it’s your count that votes.” – Mogens Jallberg

“There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.” – Anatole France

“You can’t go around arresting the Thieves’ Guild. I mean, we’d be at it all day!” – Terry Pratchett

“Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government … You can’t expect to wield supreme power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!” – Monty Python

“In diplomacy there are two kinds of problems: small ones and large ones. The small ones will go away by themselves, and the large ones you will not be able to do anything about.” – Patrick McGuinness

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” – Robert Frost

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” – John Locke

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” – Douglas Adams

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” – Edward Wilson

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” -Mark Twain

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun

“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John F. Kennedy

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?” -Jane Austen

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” –Albert Einstein

#civilization #civ #civilization 6 #civilization VI #civ vi #civ 6 #qoutes #list #text #english #text post #there are many people that are qouted here #that tumblr likes

[somebirdortheother]

9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

Tagged by @iamstartraveller776. Thank you so much, my dear!!!

Last Song: Odessa by Caribou

Favorite Color: Blue!!!! ALL BLUE, and the darker the better.

Last film/show: James Bond - The Spy Who Loved Me (my parents and I have a "thing" - James Bond franchise is our comfort watch and we pick one at random based on our mood and watch together. This week we were feeling silly and Roger Moore era it was!)

Sweet/savory/spicy: Savory and sour, and a touch of sweet. And a touch of spice. So, everything, everything.

Last thing I googled: Le Peste (The Plague) by Albert Camus. It happens to be the favourite novel of a really dedicated fan of my writing (who recently graced me with cheese that he sent me all the way from France to Canada, lying to customs about the contents of the package ahah), and somehow my style reminds him of that work.

Last Book: The Moon is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

Relationship status: Divorced. Then found my soulmate through my writing, and then said soulmate died in an accident. So.... widowed.

Current Obsession(s): Finishing my WIP novel and improving my French.

Tagging: @coraleethroughthelookingglass @lady-of-imladris @queenmeriadoc @lapestelareste @ahalvedsoup @yletylyf @thelettersfromnoone @frodomyprecious @musing-magpie

#nine people tag #nine people you want to get to know better #about me

[nem0c]

Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.

#sf #vietnam war #galaxy science fiction

[gremoria411]

Another Gundam SEED Freedom trailer. How lovely.

I’ll fully admit that I watched the dub for Seed, so I don’t recognise the voice at the start there, but consensus seems to be that it’s Durandal? Shinn, Luminaria and Athrun are all confirmed to be in the new movie, with Athrun seems to be off doing his own thing compared to the rest of them. At a guess, I’d guess that Kira and his team seem to be operating under Orb’s authority, since they seem to be saluting a lot? They do seem to be reporting to a member of Orb nobility (the little kid in the green throne). Then again, it could be that Terminal’s just developed into the Cosmic Era’s answer to Celestial Being, of 00 fame. So maybe Athrun’s outside the system? I’d put money down on him and Kira coming into conflict again, especially since the latter half of the trailer seems to be playing up that Kira’s going to do something foolish, and Athrun lacking a non-pilot uniform at present.

It seems like the plot’s going to involve Durandal’s legacy? Though honestly it seems equally possible that it’ll just be brought up offhandedly. The PLANT Supreme council seems to have a new meeting place, with Lacus present at a meeting, so I imagine the focus’ll be more on them.

(Honestly this was the easiest reference image I could find for the characters) So, character wise we’ve a mix of new and old. Agnes Gieberath is the main new one, it seems (and honestly given her prominence I’d expect her to have a new Gundam along with Kira, Shinn, Athrun and presumably Lunamaria). Honestly the only thing we know about her is that she exists, nothing on personality or backstory at this point, but she’s likely one to watch. Yzak and Dearka are back, which is nice (I’m quite fond of post-character-development Yzak). We have the three Dom Trooper Pilots on the end that were essentially Lacus’ muscle in Seed Destiny. I fully expect them to either have character development or be killed off (Hilda might survive). That just leaves the final three new characters of Toyah Mashima, Albert Heinlein and Alexi Konoe. I don’t have much to say on the latter two, save that Konoe gives me a traitor vibe and if Heinlein doesn’t have something close to a German accent in the dub then I’ll be severely disappointed. But Toyah Mashima?

My, he seems to have a very familiar design. A small blonde kid that seems to resemble Mu La Flaga? Hmmm, sure that’s not gonna be relevant in any way. Probably nothing.

Still no word on the Gundam’s though. They wouldn’t be hiding them this much if they weren’t new in some way, so I’m betting they’re waiting until the model kits come up for order.

I will be honest, it’s slightly weirding me out how they’ve changed all the female characters lip designs though. It’s a very small change, but it just makes Lacus’ pout in the trailer unintentionally parodic. It’s not a problem as such, but all the male characters still have the old designs, so it just seems to differentiate them for no real reason. Eh, I’m sure I’ll get over it.

#Gundam seed #Gundam seed Freedom #ramblings #gundam #Toyah Mashima #Agnes Geibenrath

[ljaesch]

English Cast Announced for the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM

The English cast has been announced for the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM anime film: Max Mittelman is Kira Yamato Stephanie Sheh is Lacus Clyne Kieran Regan is Shinn Asuka Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld is Lunamaria Hawke Kelly Baskin is Agnes Giebenrath Ben Balmaceda is Albert Heinlein Chris Hackney is Athrun Zala Cherami Leigh is Cagalli Yula Athha Lizzie Freeman is Aura Maha Khyber Alejandro Saab…

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#anime #Mobile Suit Gundam

[the-lavender-creator]

2. a book with a blue cover

The Tales of Beedle The Bard by JKR, Moth Flight's Vision by Erin Hunter, Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, Misery by Stephen King, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JKR, Night by Elie Wiesel, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, The Complete Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli, They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera, Paperweight by Meg Haston, The Odd1s Out: How To Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up by James Rallison, Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman, Wonder by R.J. Palacio, The Fault in our Stars by John Green, We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson, Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

[uncloseted]

Can you recommend some books like those by Donna Tartt, like The Secret History and The Golden Finch, Sylvia Plath, or Ayn Rand? I’ve been really getting into reading again, and I’m enjoying it a lot, especially since I don’t watch a ton of television. Also, what kind of books do you think Violet Harmon from AHS would read? I know she reads The Stranger by Albert Crumus(?) and a manga called Nana. Are there any mangas that are just about a person going through life and stuff, not fantasy or action or horror? Thank you so much 🖤

If you liked The Goldfinch, try Warlight by Michael Ondaatje, Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, The Art of Hearing Heartbreaks by Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Blind Assassin by Margret Atwood, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, Doger by Terry Prachett, Search of the Moon King’s Daughter by Linda Holeman, Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney, Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.  I would also check out Donna Tartt’s other work.

For books like The Secret History, check out Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pesshl, If We Were Villains by ML Rio, Black Chalk by Christopher Yates, Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Confessions by Kanae Minato, The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman, The Go Between by LP Hartley, The Bellwether Revivals, The Magic Circle by Jenny Davidson, The Likeness by Tana French, The Shadow Year by Hannah Richell, and The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Mather.

For authors similar to Sylvia Plath, you might want to try Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and Emily Dickinson.  For ones similar to Ayn Rand, try Barbara and Nathaniel Brandon and Leonard Peikoff (for more objectivist philosophy), Robert E Heinlein, Richard Bach and Robert M Pirsig (in terms of style).

I haven’t seen AHS so I don’t have a good sense of her character, but one of her fan blogs suggested that she’d like Stephen King.  If she likes Nana, she might also like Mars by Fuyumi Souryo, Cat Street by Yoko Kamio, Lovenista by Kayono, Koizora by Mika and Ibuki Haneda, Tomodachi no Hanashi by Kazune Kawahara and Aiji Yamakawa, and Kids on the Slope by Yuki Kodama.

Finally, the type of manga you’re looking for is called Slice of Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life).  It’s a really popular manga genre.  Maybe try Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa, Genshiken by Shimoku Kio, Barakamon by Satsuki Yoshino, Saint Young Men by Hikaru Nakamura (this one is about Buddha and Jesus living as roommates in Tokyo. It’s a lot of fun), Sweetness and Lightning by Gido Amagakure, Horimiya by Hero and Daisuke Hagiwara, Yotsuba& by Kiyohiko Azuma, Chi’s Sweet Home by Kanata Konami, and Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara.

Sorry for the long post. That should keep you reading for the next few years 😂.

[hanasaseru]

The Magnus Archives fears as western classic literature

The Buried: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

The Corruption: The Plague by Albert Camus

The Dark: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Desolation: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The End: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Eye: 1984 by George Orwell

The Flesh: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Hunt: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Lonely: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Slaughter: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

The Spiral: The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Stranger: The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

The Vast: Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Web: The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein

The Extinction: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

@forest-of-stories

#the magnus archives #the magnus archives spoilers #potential spoilers #this was a time consuming rabbit hole #list created with assistance from forest-of-stories and my husband #and one other friend #time consuming yet fun #'classic literature' is a bit handwavey here #I counted best sellers and well known authors

[revelation19]

So I don’t think I mentioned it on here, but last year I undertook the challenge to read 100 books in a year. I figured I’d drop the list of books that I read here. Almost all of them were good books that I’d encourage you to read. It’s a pretty wide range of topics. Some Sci-Fi, some Fantasy, some History, some Politics, some Economics, some Philosophy, some Theology, etc. 

-Starship Troopers — Robert Heinlein

-Foundation — Isaac Asimov

-Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers— James Eglinton

-Foundation and Empire — Isaac Asimov

-Second Foundation — Isaac Asimov

-Left, Right, & the Prospects for Liberty — Murray N. Rothbard

-Democracy: The God That Failed — Hans Herman Hoppe

-The Forever War — Joe Halderman

-Forever Free — Joe Halderman

-Wolverine, Volume 3: Wolverine’s Revenge — Jason Aaron

-Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut

-A Separate War — Joe Halderman

-Foundation’s Edge — Isaac Asimov

-The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli

-Nemesis — Isaac Asimov

-Citizen of the Galaxy — Robert Heinlein

-Hatching Twitter: A True Sotry of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal — Nick Bilton

-Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep — Phillip K. Dick

-The Religious Life of Theological Students — B.B. Warfield

-Out of the Silent Planet — C.S. Lewis

-The Great Divorce — C.S. Lewis

-Behold a Pale Horse — William Milton Cooper

-Confessions of an Economic Hitman — John Perkins

-The Abolition of Man — C.S. Lewis

-Geerhardus Vos: Reformed Biblical Theologian , Confessional Presbyterian — Danny Olinger

-Foundation and Earth — Isaac Asimov

-Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God — Jonathan Edwards

-A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea — Masaji Ishikawa

-Annihilation — Jeff Vandermeer

-Authority — Jeff Vandermeer

-Acceptance — Jeff Vandermeer

-Commentary on 1 Corinthians — John Calvin

-Education, Christianity, and the State — J. Gresham Machen

-Machinery of Freedom: Guide to Radical Capitalism — David Friedman

-The Federal Reserve Conspiracy — Anthony Sutton

-A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy — Miyamoto Musashi

-Apology — Plato

-Odd and the Frost Giants — Neil Gaiman

-The Universe in a Nutshell — Stephen Hawking

-Prelude to Foundation — Isaac Asimov

-Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il — Michael Malice

-America before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization — Graham Hancock

-The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics — Michael Malice

-The Enchiridion — Epictetus

-The Punisher MAX, Vol 1: In the Beginning — Garth Ennis

-The Machieavellians: Defenders of Freedom — James Burnham

-End the Fed — Ron Paul

-Serenity: Those Left Behind — Joss Whedon

-Ego and Hubris: The Michael Malice Story — Harvey Pekar

-The Art of War — Sun Tzu

-A Renegade History of the United States — Thaddeus Russell

-The Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson

-My Hero Academia, #1 — Kohei Horikoshi

-My Hero Academia, #2 — Kohei Horikoshi

-Tokyo Ghoul, Tome 1 — Sui Ishida

-Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther — Martin Luther

-Animal Farm — George Orwell

-Pointiac: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Native American Chief — Charles River Editors

-Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Project that Brought Nazi Scientists to America — Annie Jacobsen

-Neuromancer — William Gibson

-The Last Wish — Andrzej Sapkowski

-Sword of Destiny — Andrzej Sapkowski

-Better Days and Other Stories — Joss Whedon

-The Stranger — Albert Camus

-Christianity and Liberalism — J. Gresham Machen

-Count Zero — William Gibson

-Blood of Elves — Andrzej Sapkowski

-Tokyo Ghoul 2 — Sui Ishida

-The World That Couldn’t Be — Clifford Simak

-The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays — Richard Ebeling

-Anarchy — Errico Malatesta

-Anarchism and Other Essays — Emma Goldman

-No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority — Lysander Spooner

-Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind — Noam Chomsky

-The Time of Contempt — Andrzej Sapkowski

-The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx

-Mona Lisa Overdrive — William Gibson

-The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka

-The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love — Augustine

-The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn

-The Dunwich Horror — H.P. Lovecraft

-The Machine Stops — E.M. Forster

-Rip Van Winkle — Washington Irving

-The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis

-Self-Reliance — Ralph Waldo Emmerson

-Perspectives on Pentecost — Richard B. Gaffin Jr.

-Wanted: 7 Fearless Engineers! — Orlin Tremaine

-Norse Mythology — Neil Gaiman

-The Whole Armor of God: How Christ’s Victory Strengthens Us for Spiritual Warfare — Iain Duguid

-Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival — Dave Canterbury

-God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God — K. Scott Oliphint

-Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West — Cormac McCarthy

-Why I Believe in God — Cornelius Van Til

-Paul at Athens — Cornelius Van Til

-Astrphysics for People in a Hurry — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

-Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

-City of Glass — Paul Auster

-The Articles of Confederation — Continental Congress

-The Temptation of Our Lord — John Bale

-Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan — Scott Horton

[worlddarknessww]

Inspiration for Vampire the Masquerade

Taken from the 2nd edition of Vampire the Masquerade (1992).

Movies

Near Dark, Vamp, The Hunger, Nosferatu, Dracula (original talkie), Dracula (Coppola’s), Lost Boys, Blue Velvet, Dangerous Liaisons, Rear Window, Casablanca, Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner, Highlander (but not II).

Music

The Cure, U2, New Order, Morrisey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The The, XTC, Gypsy Kings, Philip Glass, Public Enemy, Sisters of Mercy, The Clash, The Doors, Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sting, L7, Prince, Midnight Oil, REM, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Placido Domingo, Enrico Caruso

Novels

Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, The Body Thief, Anne Rice; 

Dracula, Bram Stroker; 

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson; 

Those Who Haunt the Night, Barbra Hambly; 

Some of Your Blood, Theodore Sturgeon; 

The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas; 

The Hunger, Whitley Streiber; 

The Delicate Dependency, Michael Talbot; 

The Light at the End, John Skipp and Craig Spector; 

Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite; 

Sandman, Neil Gaiman; 

Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein; 

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

Games

Scruples, Illuminati, Cosmic Encounter, Call of Cthulhu, Ars Magica, Runequest, Pendragon, Shadowrun, Gurps Horror, Corps

Thinkers

Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Albert Camus, P.B.Shelly, Mercea Eliade, and (of course) Vaclav Havel

#masterpost #wod #World Of Darkness #VTM #vampire: the masquerade #resources #writing inspiration #for writing purposes #rpg

[rahirah]

via Barb's Place I foolishly made a comment on Facebook the other day, to the effect that I used to love the Pern books, but couldn't enjoy them any longer, because [reasons.] This ticked off a bunch of Pern fans. Which was my fault; I shouldn't have made a negative comment on an "I love Pern!" post. (slaymesoftly, I'm really sorry.) I decided that trying to explain why I thought the Infamous Tent Peg Interview was believable even though it wasn't corroborated, and how even if the fan who reported it was lying through his teeth, there was more than enough well-documented gender-and-class-and-sexuality-related stuff in Anne McCaffery's work to make me itchy regardless, was not a hill I wanted to die on (particularly in someone else's space.) So I made a vague and hopefully polite "YMMV" response and exited stage right. One of the people who found my comment annoying responded with the double whammy of "Lol who gets upset about a ~fantasy~ series?" and "Lol the books are ~of their time!~ If you think Pern is bad, you should read Heinlein!" While the first one makes me roll my eyes, it's the second one I want to talk about. As it happens, I have read Heinlein, and Asimov, and Clarke, and Smith, etc., not to mention quite a lot of even older non-SF fiction. I'm very familiar with putting books and authors into the context of the time in which they were written. It's why I can still enjoy 90% of the original Doctor Doolittle Books despite some pretty appalling-by-today's-standards racism, but I can't enjoy Albert Payson Terhune's dog stories, which were written at about the same time, and also contain appalling-by-today's-standards racism. The difference is, Hugh Lofting was trying to write sympathetic, heroic non-white characters, who were invaluable friends and allies of the main character. Terhune was writing villains who were villains because they were lower-class and non-white. By today's standards, they both produced awful stereotypical caricatures, but the intent of the two authors could not have been farther apart. Both authors were "of their time." But there's a huge variation in people who are "of their time." There's a huge variation in readers as well. Just because I can stomach a particular book doesn't mean that everyone can or should have to. One big reason that the Pern books bother me more than other books of the same era is that their "time" is awfully damned long. It's true that the series started in the 1960s, but it continued well into the 2000s. Pern is hardly the only series in this situation. There's another far less well-known series, The Sector General books by James White, which had some similar issues. Sector General was a space hospital serving dozens of alien races, and the gimmick of the series was that the doctors had access to mind recordings of great alien doctors. So a human who had to treat an alien could zap a mental overlay from a doctor of that species into his own head. And it was always "his" own head. The series began in 1957, so unsurprisingly, the author wrote all the doctors as male. A decade or more later, and several books into the series, cue a bunch of fan letters asking why Nurse Murchison, who was obviously as smart and medically capable as the male characters, wasn't on track to become a Diagnostician the same way Dr. Conway was. So the author introduced a retcon to the effect that women couldn't become Diagnosticians, because their minds were incapable of handling the alien overlay. In the original 1960s Star Trek series, there were no female captains. In one episode, it was strongly implied that this was Starfleet policy. As the decades rolled on, and the franchise started to create series set before TOS, they had to decide how to handle the backstory. Was Janice Lester denied command because she was a woman, or because she was unstable, or both? In this case, the Powers That Be waved their retcon wand and said, "There have always been female captains, DUH!" (I'm fairly certain that, having finally bitten the bullet and introduced a gay character, that they'll do the same there. There have always been queer officers in Starfleet, DUH.) It's a lot more difficult to find a series where an issue comes up which the author never intended to address, or even considered an issue, and yet, when it's raised, the author bites the bullet and tackles it head on. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Stephen Brust's Vlad Taltos series, which started out as a flash-bang witty fantasy series about an assassin. Several books in, rumor has it that a friend of the author's was killed in real life. That incident made him reassess his own character, and the series suddenly took a deeper, darker tone, and Vlad became a deeper, richer character. The bottom line is, if you write anything long enough, the world is going to catch up to you, and very likely pass you by. It can be hard to deal with, especially for authors who are used to being seen as ahead of their time. But when that happens, you have a choice. You can double down on the Objectionable Thing, say that it's just the way this particular world is. Or you can say well, the Objectionable Thing wasn't really a Thing at all; it just looked like that in the first book. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! OR you can look at your world and your characters and say, yeah, the characters ARE sexist/racist/stone cold killers/whatever. And that sucks, because I didn't mean them to be. But the good thing is, if Objectionable Thing is due to the characters being wrong, instead of being Just The Way The World Is, then the characters can change. And so can the world. comments

#IFTTT #Barb's Place

[guava-jarritos]

1-10 for the ya asks

damnnnnn do all these gotta be ONLY ya books??? can they be any books???? do comics count as books????????????? aaaa help me out here uhhhhh idk man i’ll just do any books

1 - what book(s) are you currently reading? Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. Starship Troopers is my favorite book, so I wanted to read his other stuff (plus it’s back to back in a collectible with starship troopers soooo), and yeah stranger is sooo good but i’ve been stuck halfway for like,,,, months,,,,,,,,

2 - what’s the last book you finished? oh shit uhhhhh OH I KNOW Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli ahhhhhhhh so cute and gay and fluffy and schmoopy i loveeeee

3 - what book(s) are you planning to read in the near future? oof uhhhh, someone reminded me of the Iron Fey series? I gotta reread those, it’s been forever. I also wanna reread all of Cassandra Clare’s stuff….. BUT I’VE GOTTA CATCH UP ON/REREAD PERCY JACKSON STUFF oh and reread the entire I Am Number Four series…….. ugh I’ll probably reread I Am Number Four first bc I own all of them (well, maybe? I was reading it together with my best friend so he may own a few of them instead of me - I’ll have to ask him)

4 - hardbacks or paperbacks? paperbacks are chill, and good for transportation, but i do love myself a nice hardback (especially a collectible version…. the barnes and noble collection,,, aw yeaaa)

5 - do you DNF books or do you keep reading them even if you don’t like them? i’m assuming this means Do Not Finish and yeah, if I’m really not feeling it I just. won’t finish. 

6 - (currently) top 3 of female main characters? 1) Cameron Post, duh, the love of my life 2) Thalia Grace bc damn yes bby 3) I uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh? don’t know? O O F I’m gonna dig deep into my middle school self and say Alice Cullen (yikes - does anybody know that post that says if you used to stan her you ended up gay?)

7 - (currently) top 3 of male main characters? 1) it’ll always be Nico diAngelo, no matter how long I go without reading those books 2) uhhhhh not to prefer Mortal Instruments or anything but this one is Magnus, Jace, AND Alec, don’t ask me how that works, it just does (BOOK versions, but like imagine movie Jace with tv Alec and Magnus) 3) C H A I R M A N  M E O W

8 - (currently) top 3 of otps? 1) M A L E C thanks for coming to my ted talk 2) yeah that’s all that’s coming to mind out of books 2) actually tbh nvm I gotta add something, bc Meghan Chase from the iron fey is not my favorite - Puck/Ash is a god-tier ship and you can’t change my mind 3) am I allowed to ship Nico/happiness

9 - (currently) top 3 of brotps? 1) tbh Annabeth Chase and Luke Castellan, im lov them 2) Nico diAngelo and Reyna Ramírez-Arellano fr 3) oh shit those were both percy jackson so here have Cameron Post and Jamie (uhhhhh does Jamie even have a last name I am blanking here) 

10 - (currently) top 3 of anti-heroes/morally gray characters? oof uh 1) does Hades count? 2) Luke Castellan for sure although again does he even count bc he was actually the bad guy…..? 3) I’m going to make an executive decision and say that Chairman Meow counts as a morally gray character because as he is a cat, we can never know his true desires and motivators, and therefore, cannot judge his morals

#answered #stavktonys

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memery

rules: Choose any three fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions, then tag 10 people you want to know better.

Tagged by @galezea god while im at it id like to say thank you and sorry for everybody who tags me but whose memes i dont do sorry guys the past year has just been really busy and stressful

Fandoms:

1. FE

2. Cygamesverse

3. World Trigger

The First Character You Loved:

1. probably Ephraim

2. Lucifer cause he was the first Legendary I got and...he is a really nice card, with some fascinating character lore wish i had the ginger rune to actually run him lol 

3. Osamu (how suprising i know dude)

The Character You Never Expected To Love So Much:

1. Klein. I mean he really isn’t that super amazing in his base game, though you can use him just fine, it’s just that archers aren’t that great in the gba games. He’s a great character with some fascinating supports though. But I never cease to laugh at his supports with Juno, like lmao poor girl Klein why are you like this, she confesses to you but you just awkwardly tell her to call you by your name.  In FEH he carries though. He is my sweet wonderful son

2. uh.Albert I guess, or Ceres

3. Jin I guess

The Character You Relate To The Most:

1. uh. Alfonse maybe. Tries his hardest but wants to keep his distance from people

2. Maelstrom Serpent

3. Enedra; i too am angry and dead inside

Character You’d Like To Slap:

1. no i mean why would you do that when you gotta destroy them anyway

2. no I just want Aegis to die a painful death

3. nah hiatus is a worse fate than any slap lol

Three Favorite Characters (not In Order of Preference):

1. Klein, Finn, Clarine (+Seth)

2. Demonlord Eachtar, Underworld Ruler Aisha, Albert; Levin Saber (+ Jerva ), also Urias is mah cygames waifu

3. Osamu, Yuuma, Chika (+Jin)

A Character You Liked At First but Don’t Anymore

1. no

2. no

3. no

Three OTP’s:

1. dude lol i normally only have one or so lmao but uh Clarine/Rutger, Chrom/Robin, Ephraim/Innes

2. lol ok then Demonlord Eachtar/Prince Catacomb, Albert/Yurius (tragic not-so tragic gays),  Flow/Heinlein (also Giant Chimera/ Spell Boost for the Chimera and Jerva/Frenzied Drake)

3. Kazama/Osamu, Yuuma/Osamu, Hyuse/Osamu

tagging everyone, pls do the thing

#meme #personal #<3333333333333333333333 thanks nerd

[nova0000scotia]

Quotable Kitty Quotes- have a smile folks... this is 4 the doggie that knocked that kitty in the tub.... :D

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." - Unknown

"How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven." - Robert A. Heinlein

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

"If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart." - Ernest Menaul

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God."

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill

"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals."

"Woman, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems." - Helen M. Winslow"

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets." - Sonja Monsen

"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats." - Dave Platt

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." - Colonial American proverb

"Beware of people who dislike cats." - Irish proverb

"I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau

Source: Coby's World

[hpencilz]

#FINAL SHOT

Title : HAPPINESS

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” ...

“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. ...

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Tough Times Doesn't last for Ever, But Tough People Do live for so long.

#Challenges isn't meant to destroy our lives, cause challenges are the food for Champions, it's serves as what each and everyone of us is going to face on the road of success.

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

Albert Camus

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.'

If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

#joy, #happiness, #beautywearsasmile, #emotion, #art, #art_work, #pencildrawing,

#Vision,

#hope,

#tobehappy,

#focus,

#nevergiveup,

#Believe

#visual display, #contempuaryartist, #positive mindset, #passion, #belive, #Charcoaldrawing, #FINAL STAGE

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

It's not success that brings happiness, but it's when we are excited that's going to determine about our success.

“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

Epictetus

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Frederick Keonig

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

Eskimo Proverb

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

Mary Stuart

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”

Seneca

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”

Dennis Waitley

Size: 24x24

Graphite and Charcoal on Pelican Paper

#Beauty Wears A Smile

Muse @abigailadeyinka

https://1drv.ms/w/s!Ah8b8RB33pXuimEparqEqed3DYUw

#art #positvemindset #happiness #visualdisplay #art_work #beautywearsasmile #contempuaryartist #emotion #joy #passion