#librairies can save us

[allysio]

i went to library to study and i've never been here, but there's so many teens and tweens and kids here? it's a new building and there's a lot of space to hang around, both quiet an loud zones, and computers and games and i'm amazed, something something about libraries and accessible third places

#public libraries #librairies #third place #maybe we're not doomed #uni #librairies can save us #maybe

[xuan0517]

2023.6.16 Project design system plan

I thought that the graduation project would not be enough with just one installation and that the installation was a bit out of the professional realm of graphic design. So I decided to make a booklet to explain the background of the project and also to enrich the content of the project.

I tried to find inspiration on Pinterest, I searched for keywords about handbooks and I wanted to make a booklet with a lot of small mechanisms, so that it would be more informative and original, I looked at some experiments with mechanism design:

I think this organ can more easily convey the information in the booklet by cutting out a flap in the opposite direction between two laminated seeds, perfect for telling history over time lines.

As well as looking at the website for inspiration, I also turned my attention to some of the work I had seen at the ECA undergraduate graduation exhibition. One of the works is about typography, there are two books in total, the author also uses a folding design technique, very simple and clear white and black as the main colour, and each page is folded very neatly, it is worth noting that the first page is made in the shape of a box, which can store the whole book back, but I think its content is too single, just repeatedly aligning the text in the centre, which has a certain aesthetic value but lacks design. It has some aesthetic value but lacks design.

However, it gave me some advice on the choice of material: it must be made of stiff cardboard and a small gap must be left in each fold to prevent piling up.

#11 independent project blog

[ninja-muse]

SUPPORT INDIE BOOKSTORES!!

Hi all! Your friendly neighbourhood book-slinger here! As you know, the Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the economy hard, small businesses especially. As you may not know, bookstores have one of the largest overheads and one of the smallest profit margins of any business ever. Many rely on foot traffic and neighbourhood support, which means if they haven’t already shut their doors due to public health measures, they’re still seeing a major drop in the number of customers and books sold—often while still needing to buy new stock and pay rent. It’s not completely dire, we’re not looking at a world without bookshops, but a lot of booksellers are genuinely worried all the same.

This is where you guys come in! If you need books right now (and I’m talking to Booklr here so there are decent odds you do), and you’ve got the money to spend, please consider hitting up an indie for them rather than a chain or exclusively online bookstore. A lot of them took online and phone orders before this year, and many are now offering curbside pick-up, lower shipping costs, and local delivery, and all of them could use your support right now. (They’re also, by and large, some of the most delightfully bookish people you’ll ever meet.)

Don’t know who your indies are? That’s what this post is for! It’s kind of skewed to my area right now because that’s what I know, but it will be updated as I get more recommendations. So please, rec your local indies to me! Add them to this post, slide into my asks, whatever’s most comfortable.

And please note that even if a store is closed and in lockdown, that does not mean you can’t place an order for when the crisis is over.

Let’s share the bookstore love!

There is now also Bookshop.org and the Save Your Bookstore app, for anyone who is interested.

Last edit: May 15, 8:50 am PST.

AUSTRALIA

Abbey’s Bookstore - Sydney. Closing on March 30. Taking online, phone, and email orders, delivering.

Crow Books - Perth. Taking phone orders, shipping.

Q’s Books - Newcastle. Window display where you can request by pointing.

Secret Bookstuff - Newcastle. Closed, taking online orders and offering phone recommendations. 15% off until end of March.

White Dwarf Books - Perth. Open to the public, Paywave preferred, taking orders for shipping

Melbourne

Alice’s Bookshop - Closed. No info about orders or shipping.

Books For Cooks - Open to public. Free next day delivery for people in isolation in local area

City Basement Books - No information.

Coventry Bookstore - No information.

Hill of Content Bookshop - Open online. Free delivery to the CBD, and shipping.

Metropolis Books - Open to the public. Offering free freight via Australia Post for online orders over $50

North Melbourne Books - Open but limited to 3 customers, offering free home delivery to North and West Melbourne.

Paperback Books - Open but closing early, taking phone, email, and online orders and shipping.

Readings - No longer accepting cash payments. Free delivery on online orders $150 and over — anywhere in Australia. 

Robinson’s Bookshop - Some stores may close early, taking online orders.

Syber’s Books - No information.

AUSTRIA

Shakespeare and Company - Vienna. Taking email orders.

CANADA

A Google Map of all indies who deliver

Alberta

The Edmonton Bookstore - Edmonton. Closed. Taking phone, online, and email orders. Updating webstore daily. Accepts Paypal.

Fair's Fair - Calgary. Closed,  taking email orders and doing curbside pick-up, credit and debit only

The Next Page - Calgary. Closed, taking online orders and delivering for free within Calgary

Pages On Kensington - Calgary. Taking phone and online orders, doing deliveries and curbside pick-up

The Wee Book Inn - Edmonton. No information.                       

British Columbia

Lower Mainland

Black Bond Books/Book Warehouse - Services and openness vary depending on location, but currently offering $5 shipping within the Lower Mainland

The Book Man - Chilliwack and Abbotsford. Closed. 

Carson Books - Vancouver. No information.

Golden Age Collectables - Vancouver. Open.

Hager Books - Vancouver. Closed. Has a webstore.

Kidsbooks - Vancouver. Closed to browsing. Online and phone orders. Curbside pickup, shipping, delivery.

Lucky’s Comics - Vancouver. No information.

MacLeod’s Books - Vancouver. No web presence

Massy Books - Vancouver. Currently open online with free delivery within Metro Vancouver and discounted rates across Canada

The Paper Hound - Vancouver. Open to the public, taking phone and email orders, offering free bike delivery

Pulp Fiction Books - Vancouver. Open to the public, taking orders online, by phone, and by Twitter, shipping daily (more details)

Tanglewood Books - Vancouver. No information.

White Dwarf Books/Dead Write Books - Vancouver. Open to the public, offers some free delivery

Y’s Books - - Vancouver. No information.

Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands

Beacon Books - Sidney. Closed, taking orders via AbeBooks, ships.

Bolen Books - Victoria. Taking phone and online orders, small window for in-store pickups, $5 shipping within BC for orders for $40

The Children’s Bookshop - Sidney. No web presence.

Coho Books - Campbell River. Taking phone, email, and online orders. Will deliver locally once a week

Galiano Island Books - Galiano Island. Closed but taking online orders. Delivery on the island free, BC shipping $5.

Galleon Books & Antiques - Sidney. No web presence.

The Haunted Bookshop - Sidney. No web presence.

Laughing Oyster Books - Courtney. Taking phone and online orders and will deliver within the Comox Valley.

The Military and History Bookshop - Sidney. No web presence.

Munro’s Books - Victoria. Closed till end of March, taking phone and online orders, $5 shipping within BC

Russell Books - Victoria. Closed, has pick-up window, offers free North American shipping with $50+ purchase with some limitations

Tanner’s Books - Sidney. Closed, taking phone and online orders, storefront pickup, $5 shipping within Capital regional district, free delivery to locals in a senior’s residence or self-isolating.

Interior

Mosaic Books - Kelowna. Closed, taking phone, email, Facebook, and online orders, free local shipping over $75, curbside pickup.

Nuthatch Books - 100 Mile House. No information.

The Open Book - Williams Lake. Phone and online orders. In-store and curbside pickup, free local delivery.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Bison Books - Winnepeg. Taking phone, online, email, and DM orders. Free local delivery or curbside pickup, with delivery available at cost everywhere else in the world. Accepts Paypal and e-transfer.

McNally Robinson - Winnepeg and Saskatoon. Closed but open by appointment. Taking phone and online orders, offering curbside pickup, next day Winnipeg delivery as low as $5, shipping across Canada

Ontario

Attic Books - London. Closed to at least April 13. Taking phone, email, DM, and online orders. Processing phone payments. Curbside pickup.

Bakka-Phoenix Books - Toronto. Closed to public until April 5. Online orders.

Brown and Dickson - London. Closed. Taking online and social media orders, considering free delivery within London. Seels gift cards.

Quebec

Argo Bookshop - Montreal. Open. Phone and online orders, curbside pickup, shipping. Selling gift certificates. Events have moved online and are starting a discussion series. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Babar Books - Montreal. Closed, taking online orders. Free shipping for West Island. $7.00 flat rate for Greater Montreal.

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly - Montreal. Closed, taking online orders, shipping, curbside pickup. Partnered with Libro.fm. Has launched an online storytime, runs an online book club.

Northwest Territories

Yellowknife Books - Currently taking online and phone orders with curb-side drop-off, also ships

FRANCE

Shakespeare and Company - Paris. Closed. Taking online orders but shipping later. Sells vouches and subscriptions.

IRELAND

Gutter Bookshop - Dublin. Closed at least to March 31. Online and email orders, shipping worldwide. Free postage within Ireland over €30. Sells vouchers.

ISRAEL

Holzer Books - Jerusalem. Appears to have updates in Hebrew.

Danny Books - Jerusalem. No information.

THE NETHERLANDS

The American Book Center - Amsterdam and the Hague. Closed for browsing today. Still taking web orders, handling emails and answering the phone. Free shipping in Netherlands over €20.

THE UNITED KINGDOM

Blackwells - Chain, but a good one.

Book-Ish - Crickhowell, Wales. Closed. Taking online orders. Has an outside donation box for toiletries for NHS staff. Recommending books on Twitter.

Ryde Bookshop - Isle of Wight. No information.

Topping & Company - Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders, and shipping.

England

Chicken and Frog - Brentwood, Essex. Closed. Email orders. Online events. Home deliveries.

Daunt Books - London. Closed. Not currently taking orders.

Five Leaves Bookshop - Nottingham. Closed. Onlne and email orders, free postage and direct delivery from suppliers. Building a webstore and planning online events. Accepts PayPal and National Book Tokens.

Foyles - London. Closed. Online orders. Free UK standard delivery. Has subscription packages. Events cancelled until the end of May.

Gay’s The Word - London. Closed. Not currently taking orders.

Mostly Books - Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Closed.Taking phone, email, online, and social media orders. £3 postage except for large orders. Accepts PayPal and BACS.

Mr B’s Emporium - Bath. “Non-contact open.” Email and phone orders. Has sections on their website for recommendations and suggestions. Has gift vouches and reading subscriptions. Until March 31, £2 postage for 1st class, £1.50 for 2nd class. After that, free shipping over £30. Launching a Youtube channel.

Persephone Books - London. Closed. Online orders, but cannot ship due to lockdown.

Sevenoaks Bookshop - Sevenoaks, Kent. Closed. Online and email orders. Very limited hand-delivery. Shipping from suppliers.

Tales on Moon Lane - London. Closed. Email orders. Delivering. Giving recommendations.

Warwick Books - Warwick. Closed. Phone, email, and social media orders. Shipping from warehouse. Accepts bank transfer and PayPal. Has gift subscriptions and vouchers.

Scotland

Edinburgh Bookshop - Edinburgh. Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders. Deliveries paused, but still shipping.

Golden Hare Books- Edinburgh. Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders. Free local delivery, UK shipping for £2.50.

Lighthouse Bookshop - Edinburgh. Closed. Taking online, email, and phone orders, shipping as low as £2. Starting an online newsletter for bookstore vibes. Setting up a system where people in danger from domestic violence can ‘order a book’ and they will then alert the relevant local services to provide help.

Transreal Fiction - Closed. Not currently taking orders.

THE UNITED STATES

California

Alley Cat Bookshop and Gallery - San Francisco. Closed. Taking orders on Bookshop.org for direct home shipping. Sells gift certificates. Has a Patreon and a GoFundMe.

Books Inc./Compass Books - Bay Area. Closed. Online orders, free shipping.

Booksmart - Morgan Hill. Open, taking orders, curbside pickup. Home delivery within 3 miles, shipping $3.99 or free over $25. Providing gloves to browsers.

Borderlands Books - San Francisco. Closed, filling mail orders.

City Lights - San Francisco. Closed. Unable to directly fill online orders but lists with Bookshop.org.

Dog Eared Books - San Francisco. Valencia location in store to take your calls between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every weekday. Taking orders on Bookshop.org for direct home shipping, and online orders in store. Sells gift certificates. Has a GoFundMe.

Green Apple Books - San Francisco. Closed. Taking online orders. Free shipping on orders over $25. Partnered with Libro.fm. Is selling “Stay Home Read Books” shirts and gift cards.

The Last Bookstore - Los Angeles. Open by appointment, taking online and emails orders, offering curated gift bags, still accepting donations and buying used books

Leigh’s Favorite Books - Sunnyvale. Closed. Online reservations. Contactless local delivery. Accepting direct donations.

Omnivore Books - San Francisco. Closed. Phone and online orders. Limited pick-up hours. Shipping.

Recycle Bookstore - Campbell and San Jose. No information.

A Shop Called Quest - Phone orders, curbside pick up, shipping options. Also selling gift cards

Skylight Books - Los Angeles. Taking online orders and shipping with limitations.

Vroman's Bookstore - Pasadena. Online orders under $75 for shipping only. Partnered with Libro.fm, MyMustRead, and Corkcicle. Selling gift cards and taking financial donations.

Connecticut

That Book Store - Wethersfield. Open. Curbside pickup, free delivery available. Partnered with Libro.fm. Has a GoFundMe.

Florida

Vero Beach Book Center - Vero Beach. Open for curbside pickup. Still giving recommendations and retrieving in-store stock.

Georgia

Book Nook - Decatur. Open.

Eagle Eye Books - Decatur. Closed to browsing. Taking online and phone orders, curbside pickup.

Little Shop Of Stories - Decatur. Closed to customers until April 8, but allowing store pickup. Online and phone orders. Free home delivery in 30030 and neighboring zip codes. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Tall Tales - Decatur. Open.

Illinois

57th Street Books - Closed. Taking online orders.

Anderson’s Bookshop - Naperville, Downers Grove, and LaGrange. Online orders temporarily suspected due to volume. Downers Grove taking phone orders and has curbside pickup. Sells gift cards. Has a GoFundMe and is partnered with Libro.fm.

The Book Table - Oak Park. Closed. Direct shipping from distributor. Selling gift cards. Answering emails.

Bookie's New and Used Books - Chicago. Closed for in-store browsing. Taking online orders. Delivery within five-mile radius, curbside pickup. Also sells through Bookshop.org and is partnered with Libro.fm. Sells gift cards and ebooks.

Myopic Bookstore - Chicago. Closed.

Quimby’s - Closed at least to end of March. March and April events cancelled. Taking online, email, and phone orders, shipping, curbside pickup. Offering recommendations on Zoom.

Powell’s Books - Chicago. No information but takes online orders.

Sandmeyer’s - Chicago. Closed. Taking phone and email orders.

The Scarlet Page - Oregon. Closed. Doing curbside delivery. Selling book bundles at flat prices. Has a GoFundMe.

Unabridged Bookstore - Chicago. Closed to the public. Taking online orders, shipping. Sells gift cards.

Women & Children First - Chicago. Closed until May 1. Taking online orders and shipping. Preorders available. Partnered with Libro.fm. Doing poetry events on Instagram and other virtual events elsewhere.    

Iowa

Prairie Lights - Iowa City. Closed to the public. Taking phone and online orders. Free local delivery, curbside pickup, shipping free over $50 within the continental US.

Kansas

Book-a-Holic Bookstore - Wichita. Open, offering curbside pickup.

Eighth Day Books - Wichita. Taking orders and shipping.

Rainy Day Books - Fairway. Open. Taking phone and online orders. $5 priority mail under $75, free shipping over $75. Offering phone recommendations.

Raven Book Store - Lawrence. Taking email and online orders. Free local delivery. $1 shipping across the US. Has book subscriptions.

Watermark Books and Cafe - Wichita. Open. Taking online orders, $3 shipping within continental US, curbside delivery of books and food. Sells eBooks and audiobooks.

Kentucky

Nanny Goat Books - Louisville. No information.

Maryland

The Book Escape - Baltimore. Closed. Taking orders, shipping daily, offering free delivery.

 The Book Thing of Baltimore - Baltimore. Closed. Soliciting ideas for safely giving away books during social distancing and looking for satellite bookshelves. Accepting financial donations.

The Ivy Bookshop - Towson. Closed. Taking phone and online orders, shipping, offering phone recommendations.

Massachusetts

Brookline Booksmith - Boston. Closed. Taking phone and online orders, shipping. Recommendations on social media.

Harvard Book Store - Boston. Closed until April 7. Online orders. Shipping. Offers print-on-demand services. Events cancelled.

More Than Words - Boston and Waltham. Stores and events currently closed. Still accepting book donations.

Trident Booksellers and Cafe - Boston. Store and cafe closed to public. Events cancelled. Shipping within US. Food delivery and pick-up. Sells gift cards and partnered with Libro.fm.

Wellesley Books - Wellesley. Taking online orders, direct shipping from distributor. Partnered with Libro.fm. Sells gift cards.

Michegan

Bookbug and This Is A Bookstore - Kalamazoo. Closed, taking orders, providing reading lists. Has launched a book subscription service and is accepting donations.

Kazoo Books - Kalamazoo. No information.

Literati Bookstore - Ann Arbor. Closed until April 13. Processing current orders and sending incoming orders through a distributor that ships. Has a GoFundMe.

Minnesota

Dreamhaven Books - Minneapolis. Open, taking phone and email orders, $10 care package within the US.

Excelsior Bay Books - Twin Cities. Closed for browsing. Taking online and phone orders, giving phone recommendations, curb-side pickup, shipping. Selling audiobooks and gift certificates.

Red Balloon Bookstore - Twin Cities. Closed. Giving recommendations by phone. Parking lot pick-up, free shipping, orders $20 free delivery in neighbourhood.

Wild Rumpus Bookstore - Twin Cities. Closed. Taking online orders, offering curbside pickup, free shipping or delivery on orders over $10.

Mississippi

Lemuria Books - Jackson. Taking online and phone orders, offering curbside pick-up and shipping. 

Montana

Vargo’s Jazz City and Books - Bozeman. No information.

Country Bookshelf - Bozeman. Closed to browsing. Open for pick-up orders, prefers curb delivery, local delivery, or shipping. $1 shipping nationwide. Taking online and phone orders, acting as personal shoppers.

Isle of Books AKA Used Book Emporium - Bozeman. Open. Taking phone and online orders. Curbside pickup and shipping. Doing short readings on Facebook.

New Jersey

Words Bookstore - Maplewood. Events postponed to April 25. No other information. Has webstore.

The Book House - Millburn. Online orders. Selling subscriptions, gift cards, and gift baskets. Offering email recommendations. Partnered with Libro.fm.

New York

Bluestockings - NYC. No information, has webstore.

The Book House of Stuyvestant Plaza/Market Block Books - Albany. Closed. Events to be rescheduled. Online orders, direct shipping from distributors. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Book Culture - NYC. Some locations closed, all closed to browsing. Taking online orders, shipping. Pickups uncertain. International shipping. Buyback suspecting but accepting book donations.

Books of Wonder - NYC. Offering digital storytime.

The Corner Bookstore - NYC. Events cancelled through April. Phone and email orders, free local delivery. Customizes gift baskets. Allows customers to open an account. Sells gift certificates.

Dashwood Books - NYC. No information

Greenlight Bookstore - Brooklyn. Closed to the public. Online orders shipping from supplier, free over $100.

Housing Works - NYC. Bookstore and cafe closed. Clinics still open. Taking financial donations for the organization as a whole. Sells gift cards.

Kitchen Arts and Letters - NYC. Closed. Filling phone and mail orders.

The Lit Bar - NYC. Online orders, shipping, curbside pickup by appointment. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Midtown Comics - NYC - Open, taking online orders, currently running a 20% off everything sale until March 31st

The Mysterious Bookshop - NYC. Closed. Shipping all orders when business ban lifted.

Revolution Books - NYC. Closed to public. Still providing information and analysis, and online programming.

Shakespeare & Co. - NYC. No information, but webstore and free shipping.

Spoonbill and Sugartown - NYC. Taking email orders and shipping.

The Strand - NYC. Closed, taking online orders.

Three Lives and Company - NYC. Closed and not currently processing orders.

North Carolina

The Book Lady - Munroe. No information.

Bookmarks - Winston-Salem. Taking phone and online orders including preorders, curbside pickup, free shipping over $25. Offers memberships, gift cards, and subscriptions. Partnered with Libro.fm, sells ebooks. Taking donations.

The Captain’s Bookshelf - Asheville. No information.

Epilogue Book Cafe - Chapel Hill. Closed. Online orders, $3 shipping. Partnered with Libro.fm

Firestorm Co-op - Asheville. Open. Taking online orders. Events cancelled till end of March. $1 shipping.

Flyleaf Books - Chapel Hill. Closed. Online and phone orders, curbside pickup and $1 shipping through April.

Island Books - Kitty Hawk. No specific information but does online orders.

Malaprops Bookstore/Cafe - Asheville. Online and phone orders. Events and book clubs suspended to May 15. Home delivery throughout Buncombe Country with two book minimum, free shipping over $50 and free delivery downtown, curbside pickup. Exploring subscription services and digital content. Directing donations to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC)

Quail Ridge Books - Raleigh. Closed to the public Weds and Thurs. Taking online orders. All March events cancelled. Free media mail shipping to continental US.

The Regulator - Durham. Closed to customers. Phone and online orders. Curbside pickup, reduced shipping nationwide. Sells gift certificates.

Ohio

The Book Loft - Columbus. Closed till April 6. Taking online orders, shipping for $4.99.  

Oregon

Black Sun Books - Eugene. No information but putting their stock online.   

The Book Bin - Corvallis and Albany. Open. Phone orders. Free home delivery and curbside pickup.

Browser’s Books - Corvallis and Albany. Closed to public, open by appointment. Taking phone, email, and messaging orders, and posting shelfies for online browsing. Free shipping in Oregon over $15. Curbside pick-up.

Dudley's Bookshop Cafe - Bend. Closed. Taking email and Facebook orders, doing deliveries. Partnered with Libro.fm.

Grass Roots Books - Corvallis. Faking phone and online orders. Free shipping, curbside pickup. Launching an “Irregular” newsletter.

J Micheal's Books - Eugene. Closed, curbside and local home delivery.

Powell’s Books - Portland. Closed through April. Free shipping for over $25

Smith Family Bookstore - Eugene. Closed. Taking phone and online orders, allows pickup, also shipping.

Tsunami Books - Eugene. Taking phone, email, website, online, and Facebook orders. Curbside pickup. Accepts checks and cash. Free shipping anywhere in the US.              

Pennsylvania

Towne Book Center & Wine Bar - Collegeville.  Closed. Online orders. Free standard shipping in the US. Sells gift cards. Partnered with Libro.fm and MyMustReads. Some book clubs meeting digitally.

Tennessee

Parnassus Books - Nashville. Closed to public. Taking and shipping orders. Events cancelled until April 10.

Vermont

Star Cat Books - Bradford. No information. Takes donations.

Washington

Brick and Mortar Books - Redmond. Closed. Taking online orders.

The Elliott Bay Book Company - Seattle. Closed until March 31, taking phone and online orders, taking curbside pickup, limited home delivery, free delivery for over $50, free shipping within US.

Imprint Books - Port Townsend. Closed to browsers until March 31. Taking phone and email orders. Direct-to-home shipping for $2, free over $30. Giving recommendations. Partnered with Libro.fm. April writing workshops now on Zoom.

Left Bank Books - Seattle. Closed to the public. Taking phone and online orders (including for store credit), shipping daily.

Lion Heart Books  - Seattle. No information.

Magus Books - Seattle. Closed as of March 26. Taking phone and email orders, shipping

Main Street Books - Monroe. Closed to browsing. Stock listed on spreadsheet, Amazon. and Bookshop.org. Free shipping. 20% off gift cards.

Mercer Street Books - Seattle. No information.

Ophelia's Books - Seattle. Closed to the public. Available for phone or email orders that can be shipped or picked up during limited hours.

Secret Garden Books - Seattle. Closed until at least April 7 and not processing orders until then.

Third Place Books - Seattle. Taking orders, free shipping to March 31.

Twice Sold Tales - Seattle. Open weekends, selling gift certificates, has a GoFundMe

Uppercase Bookshop - Snohomish. Closed to browsing. Taking online orders. Shipping and delivery. Sells gift cards. Partnered with Libro.fm and MyMustReads.

William James Bookseller  - Port Townsend. Closed.         

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#bookstores #bookstore #indie bookstores #booklr #covid crisis #covid-19 #support your indies #social distancing #currently events #signal boost #masterposts

[somewatching]

An apprentice turns artist

‘Paris Calligrammes’ (2020) Review

Ulrike Ottinger drives her petite sky-blue Isetta with owls she has painted on it herself towards Paris in 1962. The car breaks down due to engine damage. She hitchhikes only to find a cool black Citroën stopping. This big car has five men in it. Ottinger assumes they are bank robbers but feels safe around them. They bring her to Paris.

She is 20, and has gone there to become an important artist. “Everything fascinated me,” she says, “walking and seeing became my most exhilarating pastime.” Calligrammes, on the other hand, is the title of a “collection of poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, published in French in 1918,” according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. The subtitle of this collection is “Poems of Peace and War.”

She walks around with and sees everything through a camera. This helps this documentary find its footing and footage very much. It is her personal account, nonetheless, that breathes life into the film.

Yes, Paris is the protagonist. There are so many details, people, and places, though, that you will lose count of them. Each of them has a backstory that is equally interesting. And tangentially fascinating to why the 20-year-old set out to Paris in the first place.

To exemplify, she reads out from her French book in English. It turns out that almost all of it but the last line is a quote from a polymath, who died in a forest at the age of 41, with an open copy of ‘Hamlet’ by his body: “Advice to the good traveller: A town at the end of the road. And road extending a town. Do not choose one or the other. But one and the other by turns. I gladly followed that advice of Victor Segalen”

If I were to detail the backgrounds and trivia about each of the individuals that Ottinger goes through in the course of her 129-minute documentary, I would be writing about 20th century France and not about Ottinger's 2020 film. I will stick to the prominent ones because the documentary is about the artists she meets. She herself has made the job easier by dividing the film to ten chapters.

Fritz Picard of the Librairie Calligrammes is first. The name ‘Baxter’ has replaced ‘Calligrammes’ today, and the storefront has Ottinger’s books. Back then, too, it was a place for “anyone with an interest in German literature.” “An antiquarian bookstore” which was a hangout for the Jews. Most books were authored by banned writers, or rescued from being burnt in Nazi Germany.

Picard, in a 1963 interview, says that his bookstore houses everything “from Goethe all the way ‘downhill’ to 1933.” He had to flee, however, leaving behind his beautiful private collection. Famous names from 1952 onwards drown Picard’s guest book, which Ottinger finds in time for her film. Of actors, artists, scholars, sculptors, writers, Dadaists, Marxists, and “Heideggerians” (Picard was a classmate of Heidegger, apparently).

On the one hand, you have Ottinger dropping names and, on the other, you have them complemented with the visuals from the guest book – people have drawn and doodled (a lot!), left messages, just signed, praised the man, and seemingly pasted an entire postcard. There is footage of Picard’s interview and Ottinger telling us how he could identify them by typeface. He shows us by recognising an 1843 German Shakespeare book.

It is almost as if he is hunting fossils at a rapid pace in any second-hand book storage facility, classifying them, labelling them, and saving them for the future. He also ruminates about passing them on and how all antiquarians have to pass on their collection.

Johnny Friedlaender is second and Ottinger takes us to his studio. A member of the École de Paris, she learns etching techniques from him. Working with him establishes Ottinger as an artist and lands her a radio interview for her ‘Israel’ portfolio. There are eight more chapters to the documentary, but not all of them are as long as Picard’s. Friedlaender’s bit was lesser than ten minutes.

The third chapter is Saint Germain des Prés, famously known to have the literary and philosophical giants Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir write their books in there, as Ottinger mentions. The café finds multiple mentions in Sarah Bakewell’s acclaimed non-fiction, ‘At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails,’ which is a gem of a book. “You could receive phone calls there, and they would reliably pass on messages,” Ottinger says, and acknowledges the apricot cocktail.

By the time we come to the fifth chapter titled ‘Pop! My Parisian Experiments with Forms,’ colour takes over the documentary briefly and it is, rightfully, introduced by the 1964 ‘Dieu, est-il Pop?’ The gaze then turns towards three-dimensional art, exhibitions, moving images; all of which can be glimpsed on Ottinger’s website. The film itself seems adapted from a book she wrote, the one she was reading out from, and she has written quite a few.

‘Paris Calligrammes’ is an example of how an artist took the trouble to be at the heart of where everything is. She worked hard under the mentorship of true artists. And became one herself – one with too many feathers in her cap. Ulrike Ottinger wrote, filmed, and directed this documentary. She not only brings in the personal, but the political, too, which I have not gone into. Anette Fleming edited the film while Timothée Alazraki gave it its original sound.

Ottinger has let her work and inspiration speak for her. Little do we know of her personal life, or parents, or partners, or politics through this documentary. She has never been to Israel when she is called for that first radio interview, yet her paintings – at least, the ones she has shown us in this film of that collection – are stunning. She's gone back to Germany now, but how can anybody dare not call her a Parisian?

#Ulrike Ottinger #Paris Calligrammes #Isetta #Citroën #Paris #1962 #Guillaume Apollinaire #Calligrammes #Poems of Peace and War #Victor Segalen #camera #Librairie Calligrammes #Baxter #Fritz Picard #German literature #antiquarian bookstore #Jew hangout #Nazi Germany #banned writers #Dadaists #Marxists #Heideggerians #Johnny Friedlaender #École de Paris #etching techniques #Saint Germain des Prés #Jean-Paul Sartre #Simone De Beauvoir #Pop! My Parisian Experiments with Forms #Dieu est-il Pop?

[hisazuki]

Toshokan Sensou Love & War Bessatsu Hen - Index 24

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*Peaceful days...*

Toshokan Sensou Love & War Bessatsuhen - Index 24

FRANÇAIS

*Des jours paisibles...*

Toshokan Sensou Love & War Bessatsuhen - Index 24

*”Silent birds of a feather flock together.”*

*With that thought going rampant in our seminar,*

*we calmly started our relationship.”

*”Les deux taciturnes se sont mis ensemble. Qui se ressemble, s’assemble.”*

*C’est en donnant cette impression à l’ensemble de notre séminaire*

*que nous avons entamé calmement notre relation.”

*Kayoko Takeuchi*

*Akiya Ogata*

Kayoko: Akiya, what job do you wish to do?

*When the spring break of our 4th year at university hit,*

*we were already calling each other by our first name.*

Akiya: I have a few options, but I was thinking maybe I’d take the Class II National Civil Servant exam. (T/N: there are 3 levels or types of civil servant exams depending on your age and diplomas. From what I read on wikipedia class II is mostly for students of law universities).

Kayoko: Wow, that’s impressive. Where would you like to work?

*Kayoko Takeuchi*

*Akiya Ogata*

Kayoko: Akiya, quel métier souhaites-tu faire ?

*Lorsqu’arrivèrent les vacances de printemps de notre 4ème année à l’université,*

*nous nous appelions déjà par nos prénoms.*

Akiya: J’ai plusieurs idées en tête, mais je crois que je vais tenter l’examen de niveau II de la fonction publique. (NDT: il y a 3 niveaux d’examens selon l’âge et le type de diplômes. Selon wikipedia le niveau II s’adresse surtout aux étudiants de droit).

Kayoko: Wow, impressionnant. Et où est-ce que tu aimerais travailler ?

Akiya: Well, I’m a law student so the Ministry of Justice it is, I guess...

Akiya: Both my parents are teachers, they strongly believe in being a civil servant. They say it’s the most stable job.

Akiya: They also used their trump card on me...

*And who do you think it was who made it possible for you to attend University?*

Kayoko: Ah...

Akiya: I think they’re being unfair, but fighting with them all the time is tiring... Maybe I should just run away.

Kayoko: It just means you’re being a good son.

Akiya: Eh bien, vu que je fais du droit, la logique voudrait que je postule au Ministère de la Justice...

Akiya: Mes deux parents sont enseignants, ils ne jurent que par la fonction publique. Ils disent que c’est l’emploi le plus stable.

Akiya: Ils m’ont aussi fait du chantage...

*Et qui donc t’a permis d’aller à l’Université, d’après toi ?*

Kayoko: Ah...

Akiya: Je ne trouve pas ça très juste de leur part, mais ça me fatigue de me chamailler tout le temps avec eux... Je ferais peut-être mieux de fuguer.

Kayoko: Ça veut juste dire que tu es un bon fils.

Akiya: What about you, Kayoko?

Kayoko: I got an offer for a job in a regional bank through my parents’ connections. I feel bad but I’m going to take it.

Akiya: You’re not aiming for something law-related?

Kayoko: I’m not really interested, I guess. I just want to find a job I can do easily.

Kayoko: That way, it’ll leave some time to do what I really want to do little by little...

Akiya: What you really want to do?

Kayoko: It’s too embarrassing, I’m not telling you!

*Nowadays people are only saying the most wonderful things!*

Akiya: Et toi, Kayoko ?

Kayoko: J’ai eu une proposition d’embauche dans une banque régionale grâce à un piston de mes parents. Ça me gêne un peu mais je vais l’accepter.

Akiya: Tu ne vises pas quelque chose en rapport avec le droit, plutôt ?

Kayoko: Je crois que ça ne m’intéresse plus vraiment. Je veux juste trouver un emploi pas trop contraignant.

Kayoko: Comme ça, ça me laissera du temps pour m’adonner petit à petit à ce que je veux réellement faire...

Akiya: Ce que tu veux réellement faire ?

Kayoko: Je ne te le dirai pas, c’est trop gênant !

*De nos jours, les gens ne révèlent que les choses dont ils sont les plus fiers !*

Kayoko: One day I’ll tell you!

Akiya: ...Okay. Fine by me.

Akiya: I guess that’s also what you’d call... “a fulfilling life”.

Kayoko: Thank you.

*It just means you’re being a good son.*

*Kayoko often encouraged me with positive words like that.*

*But what did I do for her in return?*

Kayoko: Mais un jour je te le dirai, d’accord ?

Akiya: ...D’accord. Ça me va.

Akiya: D’une certaine manière, ça aussi c’est... “une vie enrichissante”.

Kayoko: Merci.

*Ça veut juste dire que tu es un bon fils.*

*Kayoko m’encourageait souvent avec ses paroles positives.*

*Mais qu’ai-je fait pour la remercier en retour ?*

*[]-no Mori Bookstore*

*Now a live-action drama!*

*I passed the National Civil Servant exam.*

*Librairie [] no Mori*

*Bientôt adapté en série live !*

*J’ai réussi l’examen de la fonction publique.*

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Man: This is the Media Betterment Committee!

*And I was assigned to...*

Man: As per article 3 of the Media Betterment Act, we will now carry out censorship!

*...the Special Enforcement Unit of the Media Betterment Committee under the Ministry of Justice.*

Homme: Nous sommes le Comité d’Amélioration des Médias !

*Et j’ai été assigné...*

Homme: En vertu de l’article 3 de la loi d’amélioration des médias, nous allons procéder à une censure !

*...à l’unité spéciale de censure du Comité d’Amélioration des Médias, qui dépend du Ministère de la Justice.*

Man: Recover all the controversial books!

Man2: Yes sir!

*At that time, I was unable to understand what exactly it was the Media Betterment Committee was hunting down.*

*This job was frowned upon because of the coercive censorship it involved.*

*It’s not like people would willingly ask for it. In fact, it was the position they wanted to avoid the most.*

*It was tough on me, but...*

*this job was meant to right the wrongs in the public morals.*

Homme: Confisquez tous les livres controversés !

Homme 2: À vos ordres !

*À cette époque, je ne pouvais pas encore discerner ce à quoi s’en prenait réellement le Comité d’Amélioration des Médias.*

*Ce travail était haï à cause des censures musclées qu’il impliquait.*

*Ce n’est pas comme si les gens demandaient de plein gré à y être affectés. Au contraire, c’était même l’emploi que tous redoutaient le plus.*

*C’était éprouvant pour moi, mais...*

*ce travail permettait de redresser les torts de la morale publique.*

Akiya: That’s what I thought.

Kayoko: Hey, you don’t need to make deposits on your bank account so frequently, you know.

Kayoko: Just having you open that account was enough for me to reach my quota.

Akiya: Okay.

Akiya: I have a different account for my paycheck. I’m only using this one to put some money aside.

Akiya: *You don’t need to worry about it.*

Kayoko: *Are you sure you’re not overdoing it?*

*I opened this account in the bank where Kayoko works at her request.*

*I meant to use those savings...*

Akiya: C’est ce que je croyais.

Kayoko: Dis, tu n’es pas obligé de déposer de l’argent sur ton compte aussi fréquemment, tu sais ?

Kayoko: J’ai déjà atteint mon objectif rien qu’en te faisant ouvrir ce compte. [NDT: elle parle de son objectif en temps qu’employée, de son quota minimum d’opérations commerciales à obtenir des clients]

Akiya: D’accord.

Akiya: J’ai un autre compte pour ma paie. Celui-ci ne me sert qu’à épargner.

Akiya: *Ne t’en fais pas pour ça.*

Kayoko: *Tu es sûr que tu ne te forces pas à faire des dépôts ?*

*J’ai ouvert ce compte dans la banque où Kayoko travaille à sa demande.*

*J’avais l’intention d’utiliser ces économies...*

*...on our wedding ceremony, one day.*

Kayoko: Akiya... You look really tired lately.

Akiya: I do?

Kayoko: Even if it’s just clerical work, it seems the Ministry of Justice is overworking you.

Akiya: Work is tiring no matter what you do... It’s the same for everyone.

*I lied and told noone except my parents about my true occupation.*

*...pour notre cérémonie de mariage, un jour.*

Kayoko: Akiya... Tu as l’air vraiment épuisé ces derniers temps.

Akiya: Ah bon ?

Kayoko: Le travail de bureau au Ministère de la Justice semble bien éprouvant.

Akiya: N’importe quel type de travail est fatiguant... C’est pareil pour tout le monde.

*J’ai menti à tout le monde et n’ai révélé mon vrai métier qu’à mes parents.*

*”Switch off your heart during a censorship operation.”*

*A year after joining, I became able to do that.*

*Still, this commonly hated job was tough on me...*

*But I’d be fine.*

*Kayoko...*

*Until I could sort out the feelings I didn’t dare to express...*

*Until I could put them into words...*

Author notes: The cover of the LaLa magazine and the chapter contents look like they’re from a completely different manga. I had immense fun drawing both. But this illustration has such a summer feel to it! I hate summer...

*”Débranche ton cœur lors des opérations de censure.”*

*J’y suis enfin parvenu au début de ma deuxième année.*

*Malgré cela, ce job haï par tout le monde me pesait...*

*Mais tout irait bien.*

*Kayoko...*

*Jusqu’à ce que je puisse extérioriser ces sentiments indicibles...*

*Jusqu’à ce que je puisse les exprimer par des mots...*

Mot de l’auteur: La couverture du magazine LaLa et le contenu de ce chapitre ont l’air de provenir de deux mangas différents. J’ai pris énormément de plaisir à dessiner chacun d’eux. Mais cette illustration de couverture est tellement estivale ! Je hais l’été...

*I knew she’d wait.*

Kayoko: Look!

*Novels Hotaru*

Kayoko: Guess what it is?

*Je savais qu’elle m’attendrait.*

Kayoko: Regarde !

*Nouvelles Hotaru*

Kayoko: Devine ce que c’est !

Akiya: It’s a monthly magazine that publishes novels and short stories... but everyone can see that from the cover.

Kayoko: But this magazine hasn’t gone on sale yet.

Kayoko: So why do you think I have it?

Akiya: I have no idea...

Kayoko: It’s because novelists who write for the magazine get an early copy!

*Don’t tell me...*

Kayoko: Do you remember I told you about having something I wanted to do back when we were university students? Well, that was that! Being a novel writer.

Akiya: C’est un magazine mensuel qui publie des romans et des nouvelles... C’est d’ailleurs marqué sur la couverture.

Kayoko: Mais ce magazine n’est pas encore paru.

Kayoko: Alors d’après toi, comment se fait-il que je l’aie déjà ?

Akiya: Je n’en ai aucune idée...

Kayoko: C’est parce que les auteurs publiés dans ce magazine en reçoivent un exemplaire avant sa sortie !

*Ne me dites pas que...*

Kayoko: Quand nous étions à l’université, je t’avais dit qu’il y avait quelque chose que j’avais envie de faire, tu te souviens ? Eh bien c’était ça ! Écrire des romans.

Kayoko: I’ve been writing ever since I was a student. This magazine held a writing contest and the short story I wrote won.

Kayoko: They’ve decided to publish it in this issue...!

Kayoko: I wanted you to be the first to know, Akiya. It’ll go on sale the day after tomorrow.

*I already knew the release date.*

*After all, that magazine...*

*...was on our list of books to censor.*

Kayoko: It’s quite short, would you like to read it?

Kayoko: J’écris des nouvelles depuis que je suis étudiante. Ce magazine a organisé un concours d’écriture et c’est mon histoire qui l’a remporté.

Kayoko: Ils ont décidé de la publier dans ce numéro... !

Kayoko: Je voulais que tu sois le premier à l’apprendre, Akiya. Il sortira après-demain.

*Je connaissais déjà sa date de parution,*

*puisque ce magazine...*

*...faisait partie de notre liste de livres à censurer.*

Kayoko: La nouvelle est assez courte, tu veux la lire ?

Akiya: What penname did you choose?

Kayoko: It’s my real name but written in hiragana.

*The story was so like her.*

Kayoko: Wah! I guess I feel a little shy after all...

*It was a youthful, feel-good novella.*

*My impressions...*

*I should...*

*I should say something...*

Kayoko: *Erm...* How was it...?

Akiya: Quel nom de plume as-tu choisi ?

Kayoko: Le même que mon vrai nom, mais écrit en hiragana.

*L’histoire lui ressemblait bien.*

Kayoko: Wah ! Ça m'intimide un peu, en fait...

*C’était une nouvelle pleine de vie, qui réchauffe le cœur.*

*Mes impressions...*

*Il faut...*

*Il faut que je dise quelque chose...*

Kayoko: *Euh...* Qu’en as-tu pensé... ?

Akiya: It took me by surprise... But it’s really like you, Kayoko. I loved it.

Akiya: I hope a lot of other people will like it too.

*Even if two days hence...*

Akiya: Ça m’a pris de court... Mais ça te ressemble bien, Kayoko. J’ai adoré.

Akiya: J’espère que ça plaira à plein d’autres personnes.

*Même si le surlendemain...*

*...I would hunt it down with my own hands.*

Kayoko: I’m so happy, thank you...!

Man: This is the Media Betterment Committee!

*...je m’apprêtais à fondre dessus.*

Kayoko: Merci, ça me fait très plaisir... !

Homme: Nous sommes le Comité d’Amélioration des Médias !

Man: Recover all the controversial books!

*How many bookstores have we raided already?*

*How many books have we confiscated?*

*These were proof that Kayoko’s dream has come true.*

Homme: Confisquez tous les livres controversés !

*Cela fait combien de librairies... ?*

*Combien de livres que l’on confisque ?*

*Combien de preuves que le rêve de Kayoko s’est réalisé ?*

Man: What are you hesitating for, Ogata?!

Akiya: This magazine...

Akiya: Can’t we leave at least one copy of it behind?

Homme: Arrête de traînasser, Ogata !

Akiya: Ce magazine...

Akiya: Ne peut-on pas en laisser un exemplaire ici ?

Man: Get back to work!

Men: Yes, Sir!

Man: We are cleaners, understand?

Man: No matter what insults the world throws at us, we are the guardians of peace and order. Be proud of it!

Man: You look exhausted.

Homme: Retournez au travail !

Hommes: À vos ordres !

Homme: Nous sommes des nettoyeurs, c’est compris ?

Homme: Quelles que soient les insultes que l’on reçoit, nous sommes les gardiens de l’ordre public. Sois-en fier !

Homme: Tu as l’air épuisé.

Man: You took tomorrow off, right? Take a good rest.

Akiya: Kayoko...

(text) *It took me by surprise. But it’s really like you, Kayoko. I loved it. I hope a lot of other people will like it too.*

Akiya: ?

Homme: Tu es en congé demain, n’est-ce pas ? Profites-en pour te reposer.

Akiya: Kayoko...

(sms) *Ça m’a pris de court. Mais ça te ressemble bien, Kayoko. J’ai adoré. J’espère que ça plaira à plein d’autres personnes.*

Akiya: ?

Kayoko: I’m at the family restaurant near your place, Akiya...

Kayoko: Je suis au restaurant de famille près de chez toi, Akiya...

Kayoko: Can you come and meet me?

Kayoko: About the picture I sent you... A friend from our University seminar sent it to me. Apparently, she saw you by coincidence. [T/N: it doesn’t actually say if the friend is male or female]

Kayoko: “Were you aware of this, Kayoko?” She asked me.

Kayoko: Peux-tu sortir me voir ?

Kayoko: C’est à propos de la photo que je t’ai envoyée... C’est une amie de notre séminaire à l’université qui me l’a envoyée. Elle dit qu’elle t’a croisé par hasard.

Kayoko: Elle m’a demandé si j’étais au courant de tout ça.

Kayoko: How long did you intend to deceive me?

Akiya: Deceive? It was never my intention.

Kayoko: Then why didn’t you tell me you joined the Media Betterment Committee the other day? You said you hoped a lot of people would read my story, yet you knew perfectly well you’d be the one to hunt it down!

Akiya (?): ...Actually...

Akiya (?): I was hoping a lot of people would be able to buy it before it was confiscated...

Kayoko: Pendant combien de temps encore comptais-tu me mener en bateau ?

Akiya: Te mener en bateau ? Ce n’était pas mon intention.

Kayoko: Alors pourquoi ne m’as-tu pas dit que tu avais rejoint le Comité d’Amélioration des Médias l’autre jour ? Tu m’as dit espérer que mon histoire plairait à plein d’autres gens, mais tu savais très bien que tu serais le premier à la prendre pour cible !

Akiya (?): ...En fait...

Akiya (?): J’espérais que beaucoup de gens puissent l’acheter avant que le magazine ne soit confisqué...

Kayoko: I’ve been dating you earnestly, Akiya. I thought it was the same for you.

Akiya: It is! I want to use my savings for our wedding ceremony...

Kayoko: Then when were you going to tell me? Did you intend to marry me while still deceiving me?

Akiya: I couldn’t tell you! Everyone hates this job... So...

*Wait...*

Kayoko: Would postponing it have solved anything?

*Wait, please!*

*This time,*

Kayoko: J’ai toujours pris notre relation au sérieux, Akiya. Je pensais qu’il en allait de même pour toi.

Akiya: Moi aussi ! Je compte d’ailleurs utiliser mes économies pour payer notre cérémonie de mariage...

Kayoko: Alors quand allais-tu me le dire ? Tu comptais m’épouser en me taisant la vérité ?

Akiya: Je ne pouvais pas te le dire ! Tout le monde déteste ce job... Alors...

*Attends...*

Kayoko: Tu espérais que ça s’arrange tout seul en repoussant le sujet à plus tard ?

*Attends, je t’en prie !*

*Cette fois-ci,*

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*Don’t press me for an answer like that!*

*Kayoko...*

*...didn’t wait for me to gather my thoughts like she always did.*

*”You got the last part wrong, Ogata-kun.”*

*”I am absolutely not calm and serene, and I can never stay put. I’m more bad-tempered than most,”*

*”and that’s exactly why I remain quiet in order to avoid quarrels or standing out.”*

*Ne m’assaille pas de questions comme ça !*

*Kayoko...*

*...n’a pas attendu que je rassemble mes pensées avant de répondre comme elle le faisait d’habitude.*

*”Tu as tout faux sur le dernier point, Ogata-kun.”*

*”Je ne suis ni tranquille ni sereine, et je ne tiens jamais en place. Je m’emporte plus facilement que la plupart des gens,”*

*”et c’est justement pour ça que je reste silencieuse pour éviter les conflits et ne pas me faire remarquer.”*

Hisa’s thoughts on the chapter:

I didn’t think Ogata would have that kind of tragic past... Obviously what happened with Kayoko is what prompted him to join the Library Task Force later on, but I also find it very interesting to know what happened “on the other side”. The MBC agents always acted like self-entitled jerks in the previous chapters, and I guess now we know why: they hated their job and everyone hated them for it too, so they probably had to steel themselves or let it consume them like Ogata almost did :-(

#Toshokan Sensou #Toshokan Sensou Love & War #Library Wars #Yumi Kiiro #Kiiro Yumi #LaLa 08/2017 #spoiler pics #raws #translations #my Toshosen scans

[fearofaherobrine]

Roleplay Server Log #251

“Chaotic Breakfast”

[Doc] Gets up early for once and stands in the front doorway for a while, just watching the rain and deep in thought. After a while Xe ventures back down to the lab to see if Lie has awakened yet, only to find her sleeping in Cps lap- Cp... Did she remember?

[CP] Shakes his head- She couldn't sleep last night and accidentally slipped into the lava a little

[Doc] At least she feels safe with you. You know, she is a brine as well.... There's a strong chance she may fall in love with you all over again before her memories return. She may choose you this time instead of the other way around.

[CP] Narrows eyes at Doc-

[Lie] Stirs a little-

[Doc] Cheerfully - well I guess I'll go feed my critters, you two relax. - Xe walks over to the slime block enclosure to tend to them

[Lie] Yawns before opening her eyes.  It takes her a moment to realize what position she's in and she jumps and flushes a little from embarrassment- I'm sorry!  I didn't mean to fall asleep on you!

[CP] - It's fine

[Lie] Stands up and brushes herself off, still embarrassed and then she spots Doc- Oh, hello...

[Doc] Is distracted for a moment and an endermite slips by hir and runs down the hall - Figgy! You get back here!

[Lie] Quickly steps away from the endermite, remembering what Doc had told her the previous night about the mobs-

[Figgy] Runs over her foot and steals a piece of food from her inventory before skittering towards TLOTand Steve's room -

[Doc] Chases after- dammit!

[Lie] Nearly falls back into the lava but CP pulls her back-

[CP] - You okay?

[Lie] - I think so...

[CP] - Stay still, you got more lava in your hair- He combs his fingers through it again to free it

[TLOT] Comes upstairs with Figgy in his hands - did you lose this? It was trying to steal one of my boots.

[Doc] Yes. Sorry. Can you put them back please?

[TLOT] pauses to look at lie and Cp before doing as he's asked

[Lie] - What is it?

[TLOT] Nothing... I was just curious. How are you feeling?

[Lie] - Rested, finally.  I had some difficulty sleeping last night

[CP] Finishes getting the lava out and stands up so he can stretch-

[TLOT] Ah, well that's good.

[Lie] - So what is the creature that escaped?

[Doc] It's a type of bug, they bite so they're dangerous in swarms and they steal things from players and chests.

[Li] - Then why do you keep them?

[TLOT] Comes back- Figgy is okay, just saw an opportunity and took it. Little bugger.

[Doc] They're interesting to me, and I don't mind the little noises they make. Keeping them like this also means they'll live a lot longer then they would in the wild

[Lie] - Oh, I see.  So I'm guessing breakfast will be soon?

[Gk] Settles down in the librairy, watching the kids read and play. He's grateful Mb got bored after a bit and took Celine home. Though the flappy little dragon did play with the others a little bit.

[Endrea] Stumbles in, still wounded and exhausted-

[Gk] Endrea! What happened?

[Endrea] - An ambush- She lays down, wincing a little

[Gk] Oh gods... - He sniffs her, looking her over for wounds-

[Endrea] - Winston thought CP's NOTCH had stopped attacking because he had confirmed that the Master was no longer there, but he was wrong...  Both Lie and I were attacked

[Gk] You look hurt. Poor thing... - He snuggles up next to her.  - Is Lie hurt too?

[Endrea] - She...  She was deleted...

[Gk] Starts to cry despite himself. - Lie...

[Endrea] - Flux managed to capture her code, and Doc went to work on her

[Gk] Oh, thank goodness... considering what they had to work with when Liu was the one on the table. She should be up and around in no time.

[Endrea] - I hope so too.  The Master seemed, defeated when I last saw him

[Gk] I imagine so... I've seen him brought pretty low just because she was mad at him.

[Endrea] - But to lose her...

[Gk] Nah. If Doc has any part of her, I think she'll be fine. I've seen them do some far out shit since I got here.

[Endrea] - There was another thing which happened...  Do you remember the nightmare Ashe had some time ago?

[Gk] Vaguely?

[Endrea] - I fear it may have come true...  The NOTCH had a diamond sword...

[Gk] Bah. Diamond swords aren't that unusual.

[Endrea] Snuggles into GK, even though it hurts a little-

[Gk] Lays a wing over her as much as he can. - It's okay kiddo. You're safe now.

[Endrea] - It was a close one though

[Gk] Eh, that's how it is when you run with Herobrines. You want me to call for Sweet Alex?

[Endrea] - Perhaps...

[Gk] All over it - he sends a message that just says that Endrea is hurt and depressed and requests her presence.

[Sweet Alex] Arrives shortly after. She's got an inventory full of dry cookies and she's wearing her enderdragon kigirumi since it's a bit late. - I heard someone needed cheering up?

[Endrea] - Hello Sweet Alex

[Sweet Alex] Hello Endrea. It looks like I'm dressed just right for the party. - Indicates the little ones running around.

[Endrea] - Yes, I'm just glad they are safe

[Sweet Alex] Sits down next to her head. - Are you feeling poorly?

[Endrea] - I made a very grave mistake...

[Sweet Alex] Well I don't know about mistakes. But Gk told me you needed a hug. - She wraps her small arms around as much of the dragons head as she can reach and gives the warmest loving squeeze. It's almost as if it releases a healing burst that clears the bad energy from the air. Making everyone feel a bit lighter and more hopeful.

[Endrea] - Sweet Alex, I got my Mistress deleted...

[Gk] Her code was saved. But she's likely in a weakened state at least.

[Sweet Alex] I sincerely doubt you did it on purpose Endrea.

[Endrea] - But it was my job to protect her

[Sweet Alex] What happened?

[Endrea] - We went to the Master's seed, Winston told us that he believed the NOTCH had left, he hadn't.  I did what I could to protect her, but she ordered me to return here, and she ended up harmed

[Sweet Alex] Then you did what you were told. And it sounds like she wasn't entirely lost.

[Endrea] - I can only hope the Master forgives me

[Gk] He'll come around eventually. Besides, it sounds to me like you'll be considering yourself just Lie's body guard and a free agent otherwise pretty soon. I hear there aren't many of Cp's mobs left....

[Endrea] - Which saddens me, the mobs became his family after Stevie rejected him.  He truly does care for them

[Gk] Then why doesn't he bring them here?

[Sweet Alex] It's not like having more would really be noticable.

[Endrea] - I cannot guess my Master's mind

[Gk] Me neither. Cp's got a head harder then one of TLOT's kookoonut pods.

[Endrea] Huffs and curls up a little- I just hope that bastard is taken care of soon

[Gk] We'll figure out a way.

[Sweet Alex] We just have to work together!

[Gk] Rolls his eyes, but he is smiling.

[Endrea] Yawns-

[Sweet Alex] Sits up against her. Her kigi is a dot of warm fuzziness against Endrea's scaly neck.

[Endrea] - I believe I should rest for now

[Gk] Sounds like a good plan.

[Sweet Alex] Is is okay If I stay? I had to make a rather mad dash amidst the mobs to get here.

[Endrea] - Yes, absolutely

[Sweet Alex] Thank you -little yawn and she cuddles up to Endrea.

[Doc] Is making breakfast, it's a bunch of different things because xe's out of sorts. Xe walks around the counter to give Yaunfen their own plate of candies and pastry, before slipping back behind the counter to mind the pots.

[Yaunfen] Is in human form and eagerly grabs at the food-

[Lie] - Umm...  Why are they just eating candy?

[Doc] Hmm? Oh, it's because my little one is from a modded seed. Everything there is like that. It's super pastel and cute.

[Deer] Is making the coffee-

[Lie] - Moded seed?  I don't understand...

[Doc] It's a texture pack. All the usual stuff is there, but it's made out of different materials. Here, Deerheart can you watch this for a sec so nothing burns?

[Deer] - Sure

[Doc] Xe pulls things out of a trunk and sets them on the counter. - This is a bread loaf [looks like a big chocolate bar], some grass [colorful popsicles], and this is rabbit meat [chocolate bunny] and this... wait, this dosen't belong in here at all. - in hir hand is a single dim sum bun, still warm from it's stasis in the box.

[Lie] Looks at it curiously, kinda wanting it-

[Doc] Looks it over. - I totally forgot about this. I wonder if it's the last one?

[Lie] Leans forwards and gives an awkward noise as she suddenly shrinks-

[Doc] Lie? Oh dear.

[Lie] Is panicking as she realizes she's now a cat-

[CP] Reaches down and picks her up- It's alright, this is normal for you

[Doc] I guess you really want this if it made you pull your cutest face -  xe makes a quick copy and sets the bun in front of her.

[Lie] Gives a confused mew, not sure how to eat it in this form-

[Doc] Just eat it, you'll be fine. You may look like a cat, but you still have a brines stomach.

[Lie] Leans over and starts nibbling-

[CP] Tiniest of smiles-

[Buff] Enters the room from the shrine side. He's shirtless with a towel around his neck. - Ah! Such a lovely morning for a jog! Hey, we have company!

[Lie] Spooks and hunkers down in CP's arms-

[CP] - Not so loud asshole!

[Buff] slightly lower volume - Sorry! Aww you got a cat! What a pretty little white kitty!

[CP] Growls at Buff-

[Buff] What? She's adorable! - snags a lemon off the tree and starts eating it like an apple.

[Doc] Uh Buff? You might not want to do that.

[Buff] It's okay! It's sour but good for feeling awake!

[Lie] Is beginning to wonder how she's supposed to get back to normal-

-Liz slinks in after Buff, blepping slightly

[Buff] Ruffles Liz's head crest- Nice to have a jogging buddy!  Yaunfen, you should come with us tomorrow!

[CP] Leans down and gathers Lie's current clothes before taking her into the other room and begins walking her through how to change back-

[Liz] -Smiles brightly and nuzzles the ruffle hand- Good for exercise! Skee doesn't run much! *pout

[Doc] You guys are waaaay to energetic for first thing in the morning.

[Sky] -Slowly trailing in, panting and sweating, clearly got rounded into the jogfest-

[Lie] Yelps a little as she turns back and is naked-

[CP] - Calm down, I've seen you naked plenty of times before

[Lie] Slightly embarrassed noises-

[Buff] There's the slow poke! You shouldn't teleport so much - pokes Skye in the belly - Makes you soft!

[Sky] -Soft hissss-

[Sky] -Wheeze-

[Lie] Puts on the basic Alex clothes and follows CP back into the other room-

[Sky] I haven't run in centuries, I regret that--wheeze- intensely

[Doc] Skye? If you can drink anything you should. You look ready to pass out.

[Liz] That's why you should! *bleps and sits down, curling tail around legs

[Buff] There's the wife! Good morning Lie!

[Lie] - Er...  Hello?

[CP] Hands her the bun so she can finish it-

[Buff] Was the big guy tossing around too much in bed? Had to wait for him to get up so you could get some shut eye?

[Doc] Good grief...

[Lie] - Huh?

[CP] Is muttering and cursing under his breath-

[Doc] Leans over the counter. - Liz? Skye? If either of you want food feel free to take some. -Indicates several different things on the counter and table.

[Sky] I barely got to eat before shi ran off after him, finally eating sounds good...

[Liz] -Leans up and looks at everything to eat, still blepping-

[Buff] Takes another lemon and munches on it - Bracing! I like what you did with your hair Lie, looks nice.

[Lie] - I... I'm sorry...  Who are you?

[Buff] What? Did you get hit on the head?

[Doc] She has amnesia... Lie, this is my NOTCH, Buff.

[Lie] - Hello

[Liz] -Tries some of everything, including the pastry Sky had picked up-

[Sky] Liiiizzz....

[Deer] Trips and falls with a yelp-

[Doc] Whoah! - helps her up - Are you okay? Do I need to tend your hooves again?

[Deer] - No, just a few bumps and bruises

[Sky] -Gets another pastry and eats it, slouching at the table-

[Liz] -get up and strut around-

[Doc] Forgets for just a second- Lie can you make me a healing flower...? oh... I'm sorry....

[Lie] - A healing flower?

[Doc] Looks rather sad. - You've made so many of them, it's just a habit. Never mind....

[Lie] - I...  I could try?

[Doc] If you want... They're green and white and kind of cup shaped. - Indicates with hir hands.

[Lie] - Okay...- She looks down at her own hands and tries visualizing what Doc described-

[Buff] Stands up and corrects Liz's strut as if xe were a prize horse.

[Liz] -Strut strut continue, proudly- I did good!

[Buff] Hold your head up high, it's good for your back!

[Lie] Yelps as a burning red flower erupts into her hands-

[Liz] -Shi's strutting good, but having hir tongue hang out in a blep really ruins the whole image-

[Doc] quickly grabs a wool square and wraps her hands to try and extinguish it-

[Lie] - I'm sorry!

[Buff] Pokes Liz's tongue -

[Doc] It's okay. At least something came out.

[Liz] -Blep- -Tongue is very cold- Why touch? -Retract tongue-

[Buff] It's too cute. I couldn't resist!

[Lie] Looks away, a bit ashamed-

[CP] Subtly takes her hand-

[Doc] Gets a healing potion for Deerheart instead. - Here you go love.

[Buff] Loudly crunching toast-

[Lie] Looks over at CP- Can we...  Can we go see where we live?

[CP] - Absolutely

[Liz] -Steals another pastry from Sky-

[Sky] You are definitely like your elder. -folds hands-

[TLOT and Steve] Are outside coming back from town. The repairs are all done and the Testificates filled in on what happened.

[Stevie] Is being dragged along since he was up most of the night repairing the wall-

[CP] Leads Lie outside-

[Steve] Pats Stevie - Thanks for helping. You really made a good impression. I think you can definetly expect a warmer welcome anytime you venture into town now.

[Stevie] Yawns- It's not the first time I've had to fix dragon damage

[TLOT] Well it was just an accident this time.

[Stevie] Yeah I know- He tenses a little when he see's CP

[TLOT] Sees Cp and Lie and gives them a small smile - Good morning.

[Steve] Waves-

[CP] Is so tempted to flip them off-

[Lie] - Hello

[HG] -zips by but notices the others and zips back to stop next to them-

[Lie] Is surprised by HG's sudden appearance and so takes a step behind CP-

[TLOT] Why the hurry Hg?

[HG] I just wanted to run around a water as many gardens as a I could to see if I could get them all but I can't seem to find any others at the moment

[Steve] That's really helpful Hg.

[Stevie] - Lie?  Are you okay?

[Lie] - Ummm...

[CP] - She doesn't have any memory Stevie, at least, not at the moment

[Stevie] - Wait, seriously?

[TLOT] Oh, Hg. I have something for you. Our cheerie tree gave up some seeds. The resulting plants will be glitchy and affect the seasons for a few blocks around them, but I thought you might like them anyway. - holds out a hand with two pink seeds. - Plant them close togeather.

[HG] -take the seeds- thank you tlot I have been making islands to get more plants so it should help with the seasons thing

[TLOT] They'll cycle randomly, so don't put them near anything that might die from a bit of snow.

[Steve] sadly - Still nothing Lie?

-Big ole bear just starts meandering after them. It's like, a bigass polar bear with darker fur on it's back and a set of flowers on it's neck. Flowers form underfeet as it wanders along to them-

[TLOT] Turns and then double takes- What the heck is that?!

[hg] -tries to water the water the bears flowers on it's neck-

[Flowey, but a bear] -Slight grin- ... ?? -Turns head to look at HG-

[Steve] Hg be careful!

[Lie] Shakes her head-

-Flower growth-

[TLOT] Essh....

[Flowey] -Shakes head, dislodging now too big flowers. A few new ones bloom and grow in the same spot.-

[Steve] Is that okay..? That looks like a bear?!

[CP] Just sort of goes fuck this shit and starts leading Lie off-

[TLOT] Is a little distracted but notices Lie's clothes haven't changed and the collar is still missing.

[Flowey] -Meanders up toward Steve-

[Stevie] - Brother where are you going?

[CP] - None of your fucking business

[Steve] Full body shiver-

[Lie] - Brother?

[TLOT] Moves to protect Steve if nessesary-

[Flowey] -Plops to sit infront of Steve in a very human manner-

[Steve] Looks nervous- Hi?

[hg] -tries to pet flowey-

[Flowey] -Wave paw-

[Steve] extremely quiet- help...

[Zly Wilk] - strolls up the path with his thumbs hooked into the pockes of his waistcoat, his long duster billowing out behind him like a cape. He pauses a little ways off as he takes in the scene before him with an amused grin. - ....huh.

[Flowey] -lean snout in-

[TLOT] Skeptical look at the bear-

[Flowey] Boo.

[Steve] EEK.

[CP] Snorts in amusement-

[TLOT] Probes the bears mind -

[CP] Gets closer to Zly while leading Lie-

[Flowey] -Snickering as he turns- -The mind is definitely Flowey, mostly just thinking about who to be a dick to next. A bit on the fringes involving his past and several attempted murders of Firebird, although the bird's name is different in the memories-

[Flowey] -Looks at HG, who is still petting him- ...

[Zly Wilk] - waves a hello to the couple. To Cp - So who brought the walking rug?

[CP] - I don't know, and I don't care

[HG] -is smiling because flowey is a bear covered in flowers-

[Flowey] -Content bear noises-

[TLOT] Aloud - Not nice Flowey. And be nice to Hg, you and him have some common powers.

[Zly Wilk] -shrugs- ah well.... Nothing would surprise me around here. Lie, going for a new look?

[Flowey] I could've licked him. I thought about it. -Nod nod-

[Lie] - Er...  Well...

[CP] - She was deleted and currently has no memories...

[TLOT] No licking. That's my job.

[Steve] Still a little shaken up-

[Flowey] Pretty sure  your licking is more downward than I was going to.

[TLOT] Snorts-

[Zly Wilk] -oh.... I'm so sorry. That's not easy to deal with.... I know first hand. - to Lie-  Just take things slow and remember you are amongst friends. It will get easier in time.

[Lie] - Thank you, I'm afraid I don't know who you are though

[HG] -doesn't know if flowey would like some of the water but because they are half plant hg overs some to drink-

[Flowey] ..., -slurp-

[TLOT] At Hg - You realize that's another Herobrine right? He's not really a bear or a plant.

[HG] oh -doesn't know how to respond any further then that-

[Zly Wilk] That's ok. We haven't seen much of eachother around anyway. I'm Zly, a fairly new arrival to the seed. Came here with almost total memory loss.... Well, more of a memory block... But same effect.

[Lie] - Oh, I see.  How did you get yours back?

[Flowey] -Slowly gets up and trots after where Lie went. Time to cause more mischief.-

[Zly Wilk] My companion, Lazur, found me and used a password to unlock them.

We ran from a rather bad situation, it's complicated.... but it was necessary that i not know who i was in order to escape undetected.

But even now, the accident that made me a Brine erased some memories I'm still slowly working on getting back.

[Lie] - I see, I hope your memories return completely soon

[Flowey] -Definitely not slinking up behind Lie. Nope. Not at all.-

[Zly Wilk] Thank you. I hope yours do as well.  CP, how are you holding up in this?

[CP] - None of your business

[Steve] He's a liar, he's just as upset as the rest of us.

[Flowey] -Ever so slowly leans up over Lie, opening mouth-

[CP] Angrily flips Steve off-

[Steve] Sticks his tongue out-

[Zly Wilk] yeah, that's my problem... Always getting involved in things i shouldn't. Cant help myself. - pats CP companionably on the shoulder -

[CP] Growls at Zly-

[Lie] - CP?  Are you okay?

[Flowey] -Breath heavily on Lie-

[TLOT] I think we all just need to calm down....

[Zly Wilk] oooooh. I forgot. 'No touchie!!!'  - makes a show of brushing off CP's shoulder and smoothing his shirt sleeve - better, big guy?

[CP] Lunges at Zly, ready to attack-

[Lie] Yelps in surprise and turns around quickly, her power spiking through the ground and causing thorny black vines to erupt from the ground around her-

[Flowey] -Chittering laughter as he jumps back a bit-

[TLOT] Is so shocked he turns into a squid and swats Steve away from the vines-

[HG] -runs behind a tree from the vines-

[Lie] - I'm sorry!

[Steve] Falls in the dirt- Ow!

[TLOT] Flails for a moment and changes back laying on the ground himself-

[Zly Wilk] - quickly dodges back out of the big Brine's grasp-

[CP] Chases after Zly, summoning his sword-

[TLOT] Make them go away Lie. Please?

[Lie] - I don't know how

[Steve] You have to want them to go away! No one else can control them!

[Flowey] -Noses head up by a vine curiously-

[Lie] - I'll try...

[Flowey] -Sniff-

-The sharp thorn digs into Flowey's nose-

[Zly Wilk] - summons his staff - EASY NOW... CP... We don't have to do this right now. -takes a defensive posture

-Angry bear noise, followed by immediate attempt to bite a vine cin half-

[CP] - Then stop fucking butting in!

[Lie] Her fear spikes a little and a pod begins forming-

[Steve] Scuttles backwards- Nooooo.

[TLOT] Flowey don't do that!

[Flowey] -Growling, looks back at TLOT, still bity biting-

-The pod forms completely and lunges at Flowey, biting at him-

[TLOT] Is ready for battle if it's needed-

[Flowey] -in true fashion, tries to bite the pod as it tries to bite him. Vines of his own form and jab at the pod too.-

[Zly Wilk] -small smile- Sorry, problem with being made to help is.... Yeah, you can't not try to help. Even if it causes you an ass kicking. Ok.... I'll butt out.

But honestly, CP... I've been exactly where you're wife is. If I can help at all get her back to you, I'd be willing to do what i can.

-The pod pumps it's lust creating venom into Flowey-

[Flowey] -Weaker bites, and a noise faintly similar to a whine-

[Zly Wilk] -looks behind CP at the chaos unfolding behind them - Uh..... Yeah... Good talk, but i think we best turn our attention to what the neither is going on back there....

[CP] Glances back- Oh for fucks sake

[TLOT] Flowey is in for a rather rough ride....

[syrduav]

My 15 favorite books

I made a Top 15 of my favorite books and explained why. They are listed as they came to my mind.

1. Dancing on our Turtle's Back (Leanne Simpson, 2011)

With this book, Leanne Simpson shows a path towards an Indigenous resurgence. She does it by exploring the philosophical thoughts and sociopolitical theories of her people, for instance, through the study of the etymology and epistemology behind words, intergenerational meanings associated with Creation stories and systems of governance such as breastfeeding as a treaty, that I quoted in my earlier post Allaiter, un acte de résurgence. This book got me into thinking about how can we (e.g. Les Québécois) resurge? How are we infected by colonialism? How do we clean ourselves from it? How do we update and live our ancestors’ ways of seeing and being in the world? This is the reason why I started to focus more on my positionality and on my own family story. It’s something I’ve been reflecting on after reading the impacting article Decolonization is not a metaphor and Vine Deloria Jr’s Custer Died for your Sins.

2. A People's History of the United States [Une Histoire Populaire des États-Unis] (Howard Zinn, 1980)

Take a look at this video, and you’ll get why it came right away. It’s inspiring as it exposes the development of settler colonialism and imperialism in the US. 

I simultaneously read Zinn’s short autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. He is such an inspiration for me as a person, as an engaged researcher, an organic professor, and a militant.

3. Les Damnés de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth, Los condenados de la tierra] (Frantz Fanon, 1961)

I highly recommend this book to activists and engaged researchers. He’s the heart of national liberation or decolonizing thinking. Frantz Fanon is a psychiatrist from Martinique who participated in the National Liberation Front of Algeria at the of the 1950′s. He died from Leukemia in 1961. He left a great legacy as an analyst of the pervasive grips of colonialism on our minds and of its traps as it intertwines with nationalism (fabricated by the national bourgeoisie). He also exposes results from his work with patients who’s colonial violence experiences are reflected in their tensed and muscular dreams. If there is something i always recall from that book, is that according to Fanon, you see people’s decolonization as they recreate themselves, through arts for instance. I see it as the beginning of the resurgence process. Like me, Fanon was very skeptical of the uses of history in national liberation processes.

4. Settler Sovereignty (Lisa Ford, 2010)

Comparing “settler colonialism” in Georgia and New South Wales, Lisa Ford reflects on how settlers (I would also say colonizers) consolidate their sovereignty on the Indigenous lands and peoples through state building. It’s close to what I have been researching in Uruguay by putting together colonialism, capitalism, and nationalism.

5. Red Skin, White Mask (Glenn Coulthard, 2014)

I have to say I was first attracted by the title but was rapidly aligned with Coulthard. In his work, he focuses on colonialism and capitalism as interdependent socioeconomic phenomenon. He also takes a look at the “Identity Politics” in Canada by exploring the relationships between his people, the Diné, and the government of Canada.

6. Peau noire, masque blanc [Black Skin White Masks, Piel negra, máscara blanca] (Frantz Fanon, 1952)

Here Fanon explores how colonial thought influences relationships, intimacy and interbreeding among people who’s gender and skin color vary. He takes his own experiences in Martinique as a sample, then in France as he was studying to become a psychiatrist. He suddenly realized how Black people were “surdéterminés de l’extérieur” (”overdetermination from the outside”).

7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X [L'autobiographie de Malcolm X] (1992)

Malcolm X or Malek El-Shabazz deeply impacted the Black Power Movement with its incisive critiques of US colonialism, racism, and imperialism. He made me conscious of the importance to be open-minded and humble so to change my perspectives and ways of being since it is necessary for becoming “righteous” or coherent with our vision of the world. I like X because he not only puts emphasis on decolonization as a public struggle but also as an inner collective and personal process.

8. Thérèse Raquin (Émile Zola, 1867)

It’s funny how we sometimes refuse to do something because we “have to”, no? We’ll I’m a bit like that. I had to read this book in College (Cégep) in a Literature class, but only read it completely years later. Zola impulses naturalism as a literary movement. He not only shows how the ambiance is or feels like but also how people’s mind is distorted and what they are willing to do for freedom and love. I can re-read this book on and on.

9. The Dispossessed [Les Dépossédés, Los desposeídos] (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974)

I was introduced to Le Guin at the ls Librairie l’Insoumise, an anarchist bookstore on Saint-Laurent in Montréal. I was looking for a political science fiction book. In The Dispossessed, she shows us what an anarchist setting could look like and she sometimes highlights it through its interaction with a capitalist one. She’ll make you dream and think of “decolonial love”, relationships and knowledge. This is the kind of book that impacts your political walk of life, how you will, later on, deal with decision making and relationships.

10. The Caves of Steel [Les Cavernes d'acier, Las bóvedas de acero] (Isaac Asimov, 1954)

Asimov and his série Foundation is about human relationships with robots. The Caves of Steel is about the necessary filiation of a human from the earth and a robot detective to investigate the murder of a detective on a planet where professionals once got to migrate in order to save their lives. I like this book because he made me think of our relationships with technological developments and to go beyond appearance.

11. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Silvia Federici, 2004)

I met Silvia Federici at the 2017 Anarchist Bookfair in Montréal. It was love at first sight. But I first got to know her through a Charrua friend who dug the relationships of Indigenous women and colonialism. Federici explores how capitalism separated men and women as a subaltern unit and dispossessed women from their political power in order to commodify land and work. To do this, she investigates witch hunting in Europe. It was quite relevant to me as most Charrua women I met during my fieldwork were descendants of midwives and healers... and I descend from voodoo and tarot practitioners. Her work associates well with the Indigenous feminism movement and its stance on colonial traditionalism.

12. Wasáse. Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom (Taiaiake Alfred, 2005)

Alfred introduced me with Peace, Power, and Righteousness to the Indigenous resurgence movement and how to contribute as an “organic intellectual” to remove consent to the system that oppresses us. I like Wasáse, the warrior’s dance because it offers us a path to a resurgence that works through cleaning our inner self, reconsolidating relationships within our collective and confronting oppressive external powers according to our own philosophical principles and as a political unity. It’s quite similar to what Malcolm X was advocating for. Alfred does so by exploring individuals’ path to resurgence and the possibilities of being autonomous towards colonial powers.

13. Los dones étnicos de la Nación (Diego Escolar, 2007)

This one can to my mind because Escolar shows how settler colonialism and nationalism affect our settler and Indigenous minds in seeing and living an Indigenous present.Escolar does so by exposing Indigenous oral histories and settler colonial archives in the light of the return of supposed Indigenous extinct groups in Argentina.

14. Roots of Resistance. A history of Land Tenure in New Mexico (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 1980)

This is a brilliant book if you want to know the history of the south of the United States, you know where Trump is building his fence. Dunbar-Ortiz looks at an Indigenous territory that has been colonized by multiple interests and empires through time and how its Indigenous peoples were used to protect foreign sovereignties, but also how they resisted to colonialism.

15. Little Red Book, Petit livre rouge, Libro Rojo] (Mao Tsedong, 1964)

I think Mao ended up here because I had the Black Panthers Party in mind. I’m not a Maoist, but I am curious. This book, along with The Wretched of the Earth, put up the table for national liberation movements in the 1960′s by advocating for an armed and cultural revolution. The 1960′s are the golden era of activism.

#settler colonialism #frantz fanon #malcolm x #settler #sovereignty #zinn #united states #history #land tenure #indigenous #resurgence #decolonizing #decolonization #colonialism #colonization #literature #national libertion #nationalism #bourgeoisie #books #top 15 #science fiction #anthropology #classic literature #classics #mao #maoism #realism #naturalism #revolution

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Ep 18: Drunk Booksellers LIVE

Epigraph

Welcome to Episode 18, our first ever LIVE show, recorded on September 28th at King's Books in Tacoma, WA. We rapid-fire interviewed three booksellers and two authors. Surprisingly, the audio is better than episodes recorded in the comfort of our homes.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, our website, or subscribe using your podcatcher of choice.

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This episode is sponsored by Soft Skull, Counterpoint, and Catapult. Special thanks to Joe and Stephanie Douglas, Big Hair Studios, Allen Watke, Phil Heaven and the Midnight Mystery Players, and George Kaas for the equipment loan that made this recording possible. And of course thanks to Sam Kaas (who longtime listeners may recognize from Episode 7) our production manager without whom this whole episode would not have been amplified, recorded, nor kept on track.

Chapter I: [2:51]

In Which We Order a Mistress, Discuss Female Rage, and Are Def Profesh at This Whole Live Show Thing

  Kim's Drinking: Hop Valley Citrus Mistress

Emma's Drinking: Elysian Men's Room

Kim's Reading:

The Book of Dust 1: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

Emma's Reading & Excited About:

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C Cooper

Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister

Emma is really into female rage right now, nbd.

Kim's Excited About:

Vanishing Twins: A Marriage by Leah Dieterich

also mentioned, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell because (spoiler alert) we interview both authors later in the episode!

Chapter II: [7:25]

In Which We Talk About Big Books and Definitely Lie, Kim Gushes Over Leah Dieterich, and We Suggest People Stop Listening to Us and Buy Books Instead

sweet pea Flaherty, owner of King's Books in Tacoma, WA

For the record, A Room of One's Own is still a feminist bookstore

King's Books has fourteen book clubs, including one that only reads books about cults and one that only reads books about medical issues. They also have such unconventional events as virtual reality film showings and 80s workout nights (#Cher).

sweet pea's Reading:

Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah

sweet pea's Excited About:

Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker

Nanny Helen Burroughs (she's a person, not a book—but sweet pea wishes there was a book about her)

sweet pea's Desert Island Pick:

a book large enough to act as a sun hat

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

sweet pea's Bookseller Confession:

"being a bookstore owner and event planner and bookkeeper and etc... that I don't have a lot of time to read"

Uh, can all the booksellers whose "confession" this is raise their hands?

sweet pea's Favorite Bookstore:

a bookstore in the back of an antique store in Knoxville, TN (if you know what bookstore this is, tweet us!)

Dixon Street Bookshop in Fayetteville, AR

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Facebook doesn't let you have "queer" in your name and challenged sweet pea's legal name twice

Our first guest author, Leah Dieterich, is the author of Vanishing Twins (Soft Skull)

Leah's Reading:

Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

This is an artistic rendition of Kim's reaction to Leah's "what are you reading" answer:

The back covers of Soft Skull's galleys are on point:

        Leah's Favorite Bookstore(s):

Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA

Powell's in Portland, OR

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Chapter III: [22:03]

In Which We Discuss Sex With Frog Men, Realize America Is Doing Bookstores Wrong, and We Make the Audience Curse In Unison

Ariana Paliobagis, owner of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT

Ariana's Reading:

Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

"a woman falls in love with a frog man; [he] shows up at her door... and she takes him in, in all the ways"

Ariana's Excited About:

Trinity by Louisa Hall (also mentioned, Speak by Louisa Hall)

Ariana's Station Eleven Pick:

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel

We are impressed by Ariana's practicality and thus let her, and the audience, in on our secret post-apocalypse library. 

Ariana's Impossible Handsell:

English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee (also mentioned, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh)

Ariana's Favorite Bookstore:

Librairie Actes Sud (it's in France, be jealous)

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Our second guest author is Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything (Little, Brown and Company)

Photo by Kelly Searle

Meaghan's Reading:

Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

Meaghan's Favorite Bookstore:

WORD (a bookstore that brings true love [Meaghan and Dustin, Emma and Kim] together)

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Chapter IV: [38:38]

In Which We Save Quarters to Buy Bookstores, Discuss Tricky Toddlers Who Sit On Toilets for Books, and Wrap This Shit Up 

Jenny Cohen, co-owner of Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, OR 

Jenny's Reading:

Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki

Jenny's Excited About:

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson (out March 5, 2019)

Jenny's Wild Pick:

Juliet by Anne Fortier

Fun fact, Waucoma Bookstore is only about 20 miles away from the Pacific Crest Trail where Cheryl Strayed ended her Wild trip.

Quick plug for Books & Whatnot, a newsletter by the wonderful Beth Golay

Jenny's Book for Booksellers:

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Jenny's Favorite Bookstore:

Burnside Powell's in Portland, OR (but before the remodel)

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[heri]

Thoughts on Deep Learning Tools

I did my first web site at the end of 2001

I remember putting together scripts in Notepad.exe. php, html, tables and styles were are all mixed in the same file, and of course, I would copy and paste the same code in every page. It’s messy but I didn’t know any other alternatives.

Around 2006, Ruby on Rails came in, offering a much more sane way of organizing your project. Model files reflect your real-life objects and sync auto-magically to the database, Controllers take care of user requests, and you put html in Views.

Currently machine learning work is very similar to making websites in 2001. After a dozen iterations, you end up with a *big* python file, mixing up data initialization, layers setup, hyperparameters research, inference etc. Hopefully, we have high-level librairies like Keras. But try to present your work to a third-party, and I will guarantee they will end up confused. A bit like telling everyone that your whole website is in a giant php file.

The way I see it, we could benefit from a framework similar for deep learning, with:

* a data ingestion section would take care of data preparation, data clean-up, and prepare everything for training. Ideally, there would be a nice user interface so that people can go through the data, add new data, correct labels, do a search and select/deselect small or big chunks of data for training * model files would describe your deep learning layers, such as which activation function is used, size of your convolution, batch size, etc. * another part of the framework would save automatically trained models, and would also offer a nice interface for inference, prediction or generation, perhaps even a ready-to-use API that can be consumed by a third-party site * a final part of the system would record all the experiments, hyper-parameters, accuracy, loss and so on

All of this would be more sane. You would be able to share the project on github and get others to participate easily.

#FoodForThought 

#deepLearning #MVC #python #datascience #keras #articificalNetwork #rails

[leproton]

Je parie que vous avez déjà comme moi 😦  perdu une clé USB parmi votre collection personnelle, petite et accessible ce petit accessoire fait partie de notre quotidien, tant qu’il s’agit de vos albums MP3, il n’y a pas mort d’homme, quand il s’agit de votre liste de mots de passe sur tableur excel (si si ça existe ! )  ou des rapports d’entreprise sur de nouveaux projets l’affaire peut rapidement se corser…

Si vous avez tenté de créer des clés cryptées avec l’ajout de logiciels de cryptage, vous vous êtes certainement rendu compte des limites du systèmes, un mot de passe faible ou classique pourra être contourné par des dictionnaires dits “brute force “, une clé perdue pourra aussi être récupérée et formatée avec au final la perte irrémédiable de vos données, MDK solutions propose un système bien pensé jusque dans les moindres détails pour offrir une expérience utilisateur vraiment unique, agréable et conviviale, j’ai pu activer le process en à peine 5 minutes pour pouvoir profiter de l’accès sécurisé, un logiciel sous Windows 10 a dû faire l’objet d’une installation pour le fonctionnement du disque virtuel : La librairie C++  .

La clé très petite, à peine 3.8 cm pour une épaisseur de 4 mm et une largeur de 1 cm possède un anneau, une légèreté qui pousse à l’inviter sur son trousseau de clé,en alu estampillé de la marque, c’est le seul repère qui pourrait trahir ce modèle spécial…

Une fois branchée, deux disques apparaissent, le lancement de MydreamKey met à jour l’ensemble et vous invite cordialement à fournir les éléments qui permettront de vous “sauver” en cas de coup dur.  Pensez à exploiter un bon mot de passe ponctué de majuscule de date et chiffre (pas votre date de naissance , un peu facile … ) et enfin un final en beauté avec des caractères spéciaux du clavier, MDK solutions a pensé aussi aux têtes en l’air avec la question secrète  à générer en de mémoire défaillante…

Mise à jour de MyDreamkey, passage obligé ensuite par le questionnaire d’usage permettant de connaître le propriétaire.

Bonne nouvelle votre clé est activée…

Le disque virtuel apparaît sur le bureau de votre PC, vous êtes un peu perdu ? le fichier TXT (sur la clé ) explique en détail la procédure, elle demeure relativement simple et reste à la portée de tous une fois que vous aurez acquis la notion de disques pas toujours évidente si  vous n’avez pas l’habitude, l’utilisation fera de vous un expert … Et une fois en service, vous ne pourrez plus vous en passer !

La synchro de votre coffre, fluide et rapide, le ralentissement se sent pratiquement pas

Le cryptage est automatique et Kryptkey vous signale les oublis, intuitif j’utilise plutôt le “clic droit ” du menu contextuel, vous cryptez – décryptez “à la volée, plutôt génial la clé MDK Que faire en cas de perte de mot de passe ?  

J’ai le goût du risque et la fiabilité d’un tel système passe aussi par les moyens mis en oeuvre pour pouvoir réparer les boulettes de l’utilisateur, sur ce point vous avez le choix des armes :

Le Reset du mot de passe et la question secrète

Au bout de 3 tentatives, il faudra en passer par la question qui permettra de générer un nouveau m.d.p., c’est là que l’on comprend l’intérêt de remplir le questionnaire 😉

Ensuite tout est simple, récupérez le passe généré par MDK Solutions, et recréez en un via le coffre ‘clic droit toujours) Ouf vous êtes sauvé… Et vos dossiers aussi … toujours cryptés et sécurisés DISPONIBLE SUR AMAZON

Visitez MDK Solutions USB intelligente 

Les plus de la clé MDK Solution USB Intelligente 

Nous aurons l’occasion de revenir sur cette clé tant les possibilités sont grandes, cette première présentation permet de mettre en évidence la convivialité du système pensé par MDK, j’apprécie l’écosystème proposé autour de ce produit, vous n’achetez pas qu’une clé, vous possédez un service comme par exemple en cas de vol ou de perte pour un prix minoré la récupération de vos données sur un nouvelle exemplaire, citons également l’usage des fichiers sur le cloud, sur disque externe ou encore la compatibilité avec I.O.S.  que nous essayerons prochainement dans ces pages.

A retenir 

Une clé petite et légère

Un système de cryptage efficace (optez toutefois pour un mot de passe costaud, c’est le minimum ! )

Un coffre facile à utiliser

Le cryptage des fichiers dans un dossier transmis, finie la galère de cryptage “pièce par pièce  ! ”

Les moins de la clé MDK Solution USB Intelligente 

La compatibilité n’est pas assurée avec Windows XP (il y a encore quelques utilisateurs et quelques administrations )

(Confirmée et testée, le système déclare la clé et reboot le système… ) , rassurez vous celle-ci fonctionne parfaitement avec le grand frère Seven  🙂

En conclusion de cette première partie, la clé MDK solutions devient vite incontournable pour assurer la sécurité de ces données, utile au  bureau comme à la maison , elle ne vous fera jamais défaut…

Si vous êtes un professionnel, MDK Solutions propose aussi des partages entre collaborateurs par le biais d’abonnements sans engagement, de quoi soulager les DSI de votre boite !

I bet you already like me 😦 lost a USB key from your personal collection, small and accessible this little accessory is part of our daily, as long as it is your MP3 albums, there is not Dead man, when it comes to your list of passwords on excel spreadsheet (if it exists!) Or business reports on new projects the case can quickly get tough … If you have tried to create encrypted keys with the addition of encryption software, you have certainly realized the limits of the system, a weak or classic password can be bypassed by dictionaries called “brute force”, a key MDK solutions offers a well thought-out system down to the smallest details to offer a truly unique, pleasant and user-friendly user experience, I was able to activate the process in to Hardly 5 minutes to be able to take advantage of the secure access, a software under Windows 10 had to be installed for the operation of the virtual disk: The C ++ library.

The very small key, just 3.8 cm for a thickness of 4 mm and a width of 1 cm has a ring, a lightness which prompts to invite him on his keyring, in aluminum stamped of the mark, it is the Only benchmark that could betray this special model …

Once connected, two disks appear, the launch of MydreamKey updates the set and cordially invites you to provide the elements that will “save” you in case of a hard blow. Do not forget to use a good password punctuated with a capital letter of date and number (not your date of birth, a little easy …) and finally a finale in beauty with special characters of the keyboard, MDK solutions also thought to the heads in The air with the secret question to generate in failing memory … Update of MyDreamkey, followed by the questionnaire of usage allowing to know the owner. Good news your key is activated …

The virtual disk appears on the desktop of your PC, you are a little lost? The TXT file explains the procedure in detail, it remains relatively simple and remains within reach of all once you have acquired the notion of discs not always obvious if you do not have the habit, Use will make you an expert … And once in service, you will not be able to do without it! The sync of your trunk, fluid and fast, the slowdown feels virtually no

The encryption is automatic and Kryptkey tells you the forgetfulness, intuitive I use instead the “right click” contextual menu, you encrypt – decrypt “on the fly, rather awesome the MDK key What should I do if my password is lost?

I have the taste for the risk and the reliability of such a system also passes through the means implemented to be able to repair the user’s pellets, on this point you have the choice of weapons:

Reset password and secret question After 3 attempts, it will be necessary to go through the question that will generate a new m.d.p, this is where we understand the interest of completing the questionnaire 😉 Then everything is simple, retrieve the pass generated by MDK Solutions, and recreate in one via the ‘right click always’ box) You are saved … And your files also … always encrypted and secured

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More from the Intelligent USB Solution

We will have the opportunity to come back on this key as the possibilities are great, this first presentation makes it possible to highlight the user-friendliness of the system thought by MDK, I appreciate the ecosystem proposed around this product, you do not buy A key, you have a service such as theft or loss for a price minus the recovery of your data on a new copy, also include the use of files on the cloud, on external disk or compatibility With IOS Which we will try shortly in these pages.

To remember

A small and light key

An efficient encryption system (but for a strong password, this is the minimum!)

An easy-to-use chest

Encryption of files in a transmitted file, finished the galley of encryption “piece by piece!”

Minus the MDK Solution Intelligent USB Solution

Compatibility is not assured with Windows XP (there are still some users and some administrations)

(Confirmed and tested, the system declares the key and reboot the system …), rest assured that it works perfectly with the big brother Seven 🙂

In conclusion of this first part, the key MDK solutions quickly become unavoidable to ass

    La solution hautement sécuritaire pour vos données et dossiers sensibles –The highly secure solution for sensitive data and files Je parie que vous avez déjà comme moi 😦  perdu une clé USB parmi votre collection personnelle, petite et accessible ce petit accessoire fait partie de notre quotidien, tant qu'il s'agit de vos albums MP3, il n'y a pas mort d'homme, quand il s'agit de votre liste de mots de passe sur tableur excel (si si ça existe !

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Roleplay Server Log #249

“Little Dragons vs. Mobs, Harvestman”

-After a few days CP's better and going over plans down in his private chamber late at night.  Lie can hear him rustling papers and is in debate herself.  As the moon reaches it's highest apex she makes a decision.  Hastily she writes a note and places it on the pillows of the bed before heading for Endrea's room.  She cautiously pokes her head into the dragon's bedroom-

[Lie] - Endrea?

[Endrea] Lifts herself having not been asleep but curled around her children- Yes?

[Lie] - I need your help

[Endrea] - What is it?

[Lie] - I need to get to the other server

[Endrea] - Are you sure that's safe?

[Lie] - It's safer than if CP were to go

[Endrea] - Very well, give me a few minutes to get my children situated and on their way towards GG's

[Lie] - I'll meet you outside

[Endrea] Nods in understanding and once Lie is gone she wakes her three children- Come now, it's time to get u

[Ashe] Very sleepily- Mama?  What's wrong?

[willow] I want to go see gg

[oak] yes me too

[Endrea] - That's exactly where you three are going, but it's very dark outside so you'll have to move fast, okay?

[Ashe] - Mama, I don't understand...

[Endrea[] - It's okay Ashe, just do as I say

[willow] -runs around the room in dragon form- I will go very fast

[oak] -is trying to keep up will willow-

[Endrea] - Ashe, keep your siblings safe

[Ashe] - I will Mama.  Willow, Oak, come on, stay close to me

[willow] -runs around ashe-

[oak] -stop next to ashe- I will stay close to big brother

[Endrea] - Go out the front of the house, now hurry

[Ashe] - Yes Mama!- He leads his siblings downstairs and out the front of the house and into the yard.  He scans the path from their home to GK's while still in the safety of the well lit area.  There are a few mobs, but he thinks they can get around them- Let's go- He begins trotting along, making sure not to go to fast for his siblings

[willow] -is keeping up-

[oak] -is having a little trouble but is keeping up-

[Ashe] Hisses at a spider which moves closer-

[willow] rawr go away spider

-The spider lunges at Willow-

[Ashe] Jumps over his sibling and bites the spider-

-The spider ends up with a leg torn off but Ashe is also bitten-

[oak] big bother are you ok?

[Ashe] - I...  I think so...  Just keep going!  I'll take care of this spider!

[Mb] Lunges out of the dark and stabs the spider gleefully-

[Celine] Hisses at the dead spider from her perch across the back of  his shoulders

[Mb] What the fuck are you doing out here?!

[Ashe] - Mama told us to go to Uncle GG's

[Mb] Alone!? What the fuck man...

[oak] big brother is strong

[Ashe] - Mama told us to hurry so we'd be safe...

[Celine] climbs down to sniff at Ashe - squeaking urgently at his small wound.

[Ashe] Looks at it- It really stings...

[Mb] You got bit didn't you? Fucking nether... Can you walk?

[Ashe] Switches to his human form- Yeah, it's my arm

[Mb] Ah fuck it, I was going that way anyway... Come on kids, we're going to the bar.

[Ashe] - Come on Willow, come on Oak!

[Celine] Tugs at Ashe's pant leg to hurry him

[willow and oak] -follow closely-

[Mb] - is brandishing a diamond sword- You little fuckers stay close to me

[Mb] Raises his blade to deflect an arrow and pauses on the bridge to punch a creeper straight off the side and into the creek below

[Ashe] - There's the bar!

[Celine] skitters awkwardly to the door and head-butts it open

[Ashe] Follows, holding it open for Willow and Oak- Uncle GG?

[Sam] Is a bit surprised as Celine clambers onto he bar and starts squeaking at Sam

-The bar is empty except for Sam-

[Mb] Grumbles- kid needs milk....

[Sam] fetches it and puts the full pail out for Ashe

[Ashe] - Thank you...  Do you know where Uncle GG is?- Starts drinking the milk slowly, wincing a little at the liquid

[Mb] How the fuck should I know? Hey Sam, gimmie two steaks, both raw.

[Sam] eyeridge raise but does as he's asked.

[Ashe] - But mama told us to go to Uncle GG!

[Mb] And I care why?

[Sam] Fetches some dragonwort for the little ones and plates it nicely-

[Ashe] - Because Mama had to go somewhere and Uncle GG will watch us

[Mb] And? She just wants you inside right?

[Ashe] - And for somebody to be able to watch us.  I can watch Willow and Oak for a little while, but not very long

[Mb] Starts tearing bits of steak for Celine - Why only for a little while?

[Ashe] - Because mama says they can be a handful

[Mb] Shrugs -

[Ashe] - Please?

[willow] -is trying to get into the chest the holds the axes from the target-

[Ashe] - Willow no!

[Mb] Incredulous - Please? Fucking really? - He doesn't indicate himself but Ashes eyes are drawn to his appearance. His shirt is torn in several places to reveal deep scars carved into his chest and fresher wounds from his dragons claws. His clothing is stained with both mob blood and some of his own.

[Ashe] Shrinks away a little- Fine, then I'll just go out and find him myself!

[willow] -stops and then tried to get into the kitchen to explore-

[Sam] Lays a hand on Ashe's shoulder and shakes his skull-

[Mb] Listen to old boney. Stay inside.

[Ashe] - But we have to get Uncle GG!

[Sam] Makes a poking motion like they're typing and then a questioning expression.

[willow] -get's over the fence gate and is looking and goes into the kitchen-

[Ashe] - Willow!  Come back here!

[Sam] Panicked rush into the kitchen to get Willow out-

[Ashe] - I can't use chat very well...

[Mb] Snorts- You just gonna not use it then?

[Ashe] - I'm gonna find Uncle GG!  Besides, Mama doesn't use it

[willow] -is looking at the kitchen-

-There are some vegetables sitting out and the air smells of fish cooking slowly in the furnace. -

[Mb] You're just gonna get in trouble again....

[Ashe] That makes Ashe pause, remembering his moms anger-

[willow] -tries to save the fish so it can be free and tries to reach into the furnace to get it-

[Sam] frantically tackles Willow before they can touch the fire but gets fish all over the floor-

[Mb] Mean laugh- And you can't just run off and leave your siblings here. Guess you're gonna have to learn a thing.

[Ashe] - But...  I'm technically a mob...

[willow] save fish

[Sam] Shakes hir finger at Willow in frustration-

[Mb] Looks above Ashe's head and his eyes flicker slightly- You have a name though.

[Celine] Woofing down steak-

[Ashe] - So I could respawn and Mama wouldn't lose me

[Mb] Then you're not a mob, you're a player. At least when you look like that. - Indicates Ashe's childlike form

[Ashe] - Couldn't you find Uncle GG?

[Mb] Why should I? - Goes back to eating his steak-

[Ashe] - Because I don't know how...

[Mb] To find somebody? I don't know either kid. You just ask in chat or go out and look.

[Ashe] Thinks for a minute before taking a deep breath and screams at the top of his lungs, it sounds a little like a roar-

[Mb] Claps his hands to his ears and he swears in a string of particularly vile numerical combinations -

-There's a long pause and the sound of something large stumbling against the side of the bar-

[Ashe] - Uncle GG?

[Celine] Leaps off the bar and hides behind it-

[Gk] From outside - ASHE?!

[Ashe] - We're in here Uncle GG!

[Gk] Shuffles around for a moment changing and dashes through the door. He spots Mb and hauls off to punch him-

[Mb] Is still a bit stunned-

[Ashe] - Uncle GG, mama asked us to find you so you can watch us

[Gk] what? Did this fucker hurt you?!

[Ashe] Shakes his head- No, he brought us here when I got bit by a spider

[Mb] You hit me I knock your fucking block off old man-

[Gk] Growls-

[Ashe] Uncle GG, do you know where Mama was going?

[Gk] No? I was sleeping, you startled me awake and I knocked over a whole bookshelf on my head.

[Ashe] - Oh...

[Gk] Endrea went somewhere? Why are you out by yourselves in the middle of the night?!

[Ashe] - Mama told us to come to you, I think she and miss Lie were talking...

[Gk] Checks the chat to see if anyone left the server -

- Lilinthia has left the server -

[Gk] That's not good...

[Ashe] - What's not good Uncle GG?

[Gk] Lie left the server without Cp and presumably with Endrea in a hurry....

[Ashe] - But she's with Mama, that means she's safe, right?

[Gk] Considering what happened to Cp... I hope they're both safe...

[Ashe] - But maybe they're just looking for more eggs?

[Gk] Pats Ashe's head- yeah maybe.

[Mb] sneers- Let's just hope she didn't decide to fight in her mates place.

[Ashe] - Miss Lie doesn't like fighting!

[Ashe] Yawns- Uncle GG? Where are we going to sleep?

[Gk] Shut your face Mb.... Oh? Well... My house is pretty small. So... If you guys want to stay in your humanish shapes there are beds downstairs - points to the ladder at the end of the room- Or we can run next door real quick and have a dragon pile in the librairy.

[Mb] Awww how cute.

[Gk] SHUT YOUR FUCKING CAKE HOLE MB.

[Celine] Teeny hiss at Gk.

[Ashe] - Um...  Isn't there lava downstairs?

[Gk] Just a little pool and its mostly fenced in

[Ashe] - Mmmm, but Willow and Oak like to climb fences...

[Gk] Fiiiiine we run for it. Change back we'll book it next door.

[Mb] Snickers

[Ashe] - Okay!  Willow!  Oak!  Come on!

[oak and willow] -runs up next to ashe and are ready to go-

[Gk] heads out the door and shifts back, immediately pouncing on a spider and tossing it into the lava pool at the bottom of the hill

[Celine] Scuttles to the open doorway.

[Mb] where are you going?

[Gk] Shelters the little ones with his wings and hustles them along-

[Celine] Red!

[Mb] Huh? - Follows reluctantly

[Gk] Swishes his tail quickly and takes an arrow for Oak-SON OF A-

[Ashe] Echlocates a little-

[Lie] Feels a little nauseated after going through the cold of the void directly into the heat of the Nether.  She is grateful when Endrea lands in a secluded area and she has a chance to catch her breath-

[Endrea] - Are you alright Mistress?

[Lie] - I'll be fine...  You said Winston had gathered the others near here?

[Endrea] - The Nether mobs, yes

[Lie] - Then let's go- She strides purposefully forwards and Endrea soon points out a cleverly hidden entrance hidden in the netherrack.  Walking through it opens into a massive cavern and Winston quickly approaches

[Winston] - Mistress!  What are you doing here?

[Lie] - Checking in on all of you, how has it been?

[Winston] - Unnervingly calm, but I think I may have figured out why

[Lie] - What do you mean?

[Winston] - I believe the strike on Zacharia was to see if the Master had actually been deleted.  The NOTCH knew that he would be unable to resist revealing himself if the mobs continued to die

[Lie] - So you believe it was a ploy to make certain CP was gone?

[Winston] - Yes, there's been no sign of the NOTCH for a few days now though

[Lie] - Thank goodness.  If he believe CP is actually gone, then maybe he'll move on and we can strike at him elsewhere

[Winston] - Mistress...  The other mobs could use some reassuring words...

[Lie] - Absolutely, lead the way.  And then we'll go check on the mobs in the Overworld

[CP] Stretches and briefly concentrates to figure out what time it is.  Sensing that it's almost morning he decides he's done enough work for the night.  He quietly heads towards his bedroom, he opens the door, expecting to see his wife sleeping in the bed.  He freezes in his tracks and stares at the empty bed- Lie?- His eyes scan the bed and spot the note.  He picks it up and hurriedly reads it.  A wave of fear travels out from him, spreading across the seed as he rushes out the door- No...  Nononononono

[Doc] Feels the fear a little bit even before TLOT alerts hir, Xe's out the door in a flash and quickly reaches Lies house- Cp! Cp! What's wrong?!

[CP] - Lie's gone!

[Doc] Growls - why would she...? Oh... shit. - in chat- TLOT I need you!

[CP] - The fuck does that bastard have to do with anything!?

[Flux] Hears them yelling and steps outside- Is everything alright?

[TLOT] Tps to Doc and slides to the ground already getting a feel for the situation.

[Doc] Looks at Flux and the commuication is plain- Lie is gone. - Xe's already searching the server. - Endrea too....

[Flux] - I did feel an opening to the End earlier...

[CP] - That's how Endrea can travel between seeds...- His panic is growing

[Doc] to TLOT - Hold him.

[CP] - What!?

[TLOT] Makes a gesture and traps Cp under far more weight then normal. -

[CP] Grunts and pushes against it-

[Doc] You're staying here.

[CP] - Like fuck I am!

[Doc] Flux... will you come with me? I know it's dangerous, but I may need your magick.

[Flux] - Absolutely, but where are we going?

[Doc] Cp's server. I bet you a diamond that's where she went.

-There's a sound like tearing sheets from above them and a very unstable opening to the void which surrounds the End is forming-

-all eyes skyward-

[Endrea] Falls from the opening in her largest form.  Even from the distance they are at they can see the multitude of wounds which she bleeds from as she hurtles towards the ground. The lands and crashes into the wall of the village-

[TLOT] Can't move because of holding Cp but he sends out a message, and the Testificates swarm Endrea to tend to her. Steve is also running that direction-

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[Stevie] Comes out of his house and heads towards the commotion- What's going on?

[Doc] Types to Deerheart - I'm going into danger again. I'm sorry but it's not safe to send anyone else. I love you and Yaunfen so much. If I die there are bits of me hidden in the castle, but the biggest part is a heart in a box under your side of the bed. Keep it safe. - Xe scoops up Flux and leaps for the sky-

[TLOT] Trouble, lots of it....

[Stevie] - Shit...  Doc! I know the seed better than you, do you want me to go with you?

[Deer] - Please don't make me open that box

[Doc] I'll do my best. - Xe opens a hole and shoots out of it-

- / player_DoctorF_and _player_Flux have left the server / -

[CP] - FUCKER LET ME GO!

[TLOT] No, you're supposed to be dead. Trust Doc for once in your life.

[CP] - IT'S MY MATE!

[TLOT] And our friend. You think I'm not upset too?!

[CP] - She's not safe...  I have to protect her!

[Doc] Is speeding through the void and pops out into Cp's server in the sky for once.

[Flux] Sends out her senses- That way, to the south

[Doc] Got it. - There's a nasty churning noise from the dragon's guts-

[Flux] - What was that?

[Doc] I'm compiling some very unsavory codes, just for emergencies.

[Flux] Tenses a little- I can feel him

[Doc] Lands on an extreme hill and starts sniffing around -

[Flux] - We're close...  I can feel all three of them

[Doc] Guide me-

[Flux] - Keep going south...  The piece of CP is closest

[Doc] Goes scuttling through the trees, sniffing for any trace of Lie -

[Flux] - To your left

[Doc] Chuffs a whoosh of air at the sudden strong scent of brimstone and plucks the silver heart locket from the grass- Found the piece, but where is Lie?!

[Flux] - Moving this way, quickly

[Doc] Goes in that direction-

-There is noise ahead of them and a forest.  There's the barest flash of white from Lie's hair as she runs through the tree's.  The mobs converge behind her, trying to protect her but she is injured and not moving as quickly as she could be-

[Doc] Leaps toward her, intending to grab her-

[Lie] Looks up, an expression of relief crossing her face before it shifts to shock as a diamond blade pierces through her chest, her code immediately beginning to unravel and pull apart-

[Harvestman] Grins darkly as he pulls the sword out of her- Stevie told me about you, but at that point you were still human...

[Flux] Shifts into her mist form as soon as the blade pierced Lie-

[Doc] NO! YOU EVIL PRICK!

[Harvestman] - Oh look, more things to delete

[fearofaherobrine]

Roleplay Server Log #163

“BEN’s Lethal Tantrum”

[TLOT] BEN... he needs to be clean or he'll get sick. You can get away with that, he can't. I know it's upsetting, but he's safe here. You should know that by now.

[BEN] - He does not need to get wet!

[Doc] Well I don't think you want to use lava like we do with you. It's too scary for a baby and we don't want him to grow up thinking that won't hurt him.

[BEN] - But water hurts too!

[TLOT] It does not hurt you. Now you're just making things up!

[snake] only if nobody is careful will someone drown

[BEN] His memories are loud, he remembers the dock breaking under his feet and him falling into the lake, the pain of drowning as his lungs fill with icy liquid-

[TLOT] Feels his thoughts - I know you're afraid and you want to watch for him... but that was out there. Things are different here. You've hit respawn before, it will catch anyone who falls.

[snake] and gem is going to teach him to swim so he won't drown

[BEN] - I've hit respawn before that as well, I simply go back to a previous save.  But I refuse to let Hyrule drown!

[Doc] He's not gonna drown BEN, heck, he might even help you get over your fear too.

[BEN] Growls loudly-

[Doc] Maybe that's what you need. Some swimming lessons, just you and me or TLOT.

[BEN] - FUCK NO!

[TLOT] I'd be happy to help.

[BEN] - I know how to swim asshole!

[TLOT] Oh, I thought you didn't know how. So what are you actually afraid will happen to you? You'd have to really let yourself sink to drown and even then you'd be okay.

[BEN] - I DON'T LIKE WATER!

[TLOT] You're stinky anyway BEN, you should come swimming with us.

[BEN] Darts upwards and clings to the ceiling- NO!

[snake] another lava bath?

[TLOT] Nah, the real deal, he should come hang out at the beach with us.

[BEN] - LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS PLAN!

[TLOT] Oh come on, - reaches up to tickle BEN's ribs.

[BEN] Presses himself as close to the ceiling as possible- STOP THAT!

[TLOT] tickle tickle!

[snake] -quietly to himself but loud enough for the others to hear- you should be happy you can have lava baths aven didn't have that choice when she was alive but she still took showers every day.

[BEN] Shrieks and falls- Aven make them stop!

[aven] -is in the tree house and can't hear ben-

[TLOT] Gives BEN a playful poke in the belly

[BEN] Tries to run away-

[TLOT] Just grabs BEN around the waist and picks him up -

[BEN] Struggles as hard as he can- AVEN!

[aven] -hears ben barely and starts to head back to the kitchen-

[TLOT] Come on BEN come hang out with us - Starts walking outside with him

[BEN] Grabs the door frame with a death grip- NO!

[aven] -comes down stair- what's going on?

[Doc] Gives him another tickle so he'll let go. Him and TLOT are blocking the main doorway anyway

[BEN] - They're making me go to water!

[aven] ok maybe that's not a good idea.

[TLOT] We'll bring him back in one piece.

[BEN] - Aven!  A little help here!?

[TLOT] Pushes BEN harder to get him out the door

[aven] I don't think I am strong enough to get you out of tlots grasp

[BEN] Whines-

[TLOT] Come on Aven, you know we won't hurt him.

[Doc] You're welcome to come too you know.

[aven] I know but water.

[BEN] - Don't let them drown me!

[Doc] We're gonna visit the other baby dragons first too.

[aven] well ben will freak out if I put the guardians in charge of the baby

[BEN] - DON'T YOU DARE!

[Doc] Bring Hyrule, it's okay. Then BEN will know he's safe

[eddy and Edward] -comes running down the stairs giggling-

[aven] he is sleeping I don't want him to be woken up.

[Doc] Aww damn. I hate to leave you out Aven.

[BEN] - Save me!

[TLOT] Shoves BEN outside with a terrible scrabbling of nails on wood.

[BEN] - Nooooooooooooo!

[Steve] Uhhh, why is BEN screaming?

[CP] Is snickering-

[TLOT] It's just a thing he does.

[Steve] Hey wait, he likes milk doesn't he? Hey BEN, try this. - Offers him a bucket of the vanilla milk.

[BEN] - I don't care!  Just let me go back inside!

[Steve] Okay...

[Stevie] - Why is he loud?

[Doc] He likes to complain.

[Stevie] - Oh, okay- Starts sliding off one side of the cow without realizing it

[Steve] Pushes Stevie back up straight - be careful, you'll fall

[TLOT] Is just walking along with BEN held in front of him.

[BEN] Is doing everything he can to resist-

[TLOT] Man you are loud...

[CP] Finding himself in a slightly generous mood gives Hera a mental call to let her know something hilarious is about to happen-

[Herabrine] Perks up as she's helping LJ move some lumber - Hey chuckles, it sounds like we're about to miss some fun. Think we can take a break?

[LJ] - Sure, I'm always up for some fun

[Herabrine] Let's go!

[TLOT] Is headed for the librairy and uses BEN to push the doors open

[Doc] Is following behind him with Steve and the cow.

[Endrea] Perks at the sound of the doors breaking since they were meant to be pulled-

[TLOT] Whoops.... Hi Endrea!

[Endrea] Nods her head in acknowledgment-

[Doc] Follows him in chuckling - Deerheart! Look- points to the gem Yaunfen is sucking happily on.

[CP] Flies up to the upper level of the library where there is more space-

[Deer] - He's...  Eating a diamond?

[Doc] Sort of? It's like sugar rock candy. - Pulls out one of the blue gems - You can suck on them and they dissolve.

[Deer] - Interesting...

[BEN] - LET ME THE FUCK GO!

[TLOT] No, because you'll fly up there with Cp and it will be a bitch to catch you again.

[LJ] Leads Hera out of the forest- Now then, where is this fun?

[Herabrine] grins- First we go to the library, and then I think we're taking BEN to the beach.

[LJ] - Lead on

[Herabrine] swaggers through the broken doors - did I miss a party?

[TLOT] Just the brine I needed to see.

[LJ] - Judging by how tight of a grip you have on BEN, I'm guessing water is going to be involved?

[TLOT] Yeah he's stinky.

[LJ] Laughs-

[Stevie] - Can I get down now?

[Steve] Sure- holds out his hands to help-

[Stevie] Reaches out for Steve and is lowered to the ground before he starts running around-

[Doc] I have a small concern Endrea, I wanted to talk to you first... Yaunfen... I don't want to scare them when I shapeshift do you have any suggestions to lessen the shock?

[Endrea] - Hmmm, my children have instinctively known it was me, so I'm not certain what to suggest...

[Doc] Well, we're kinda the same shape, I'm hoping that will help...

[Liz] Stinky. *squinting at BEN from their perch

[Endrea] - It should be fine

[BEN] - SHUT UP!  I AM NOT!  AND IT HASN'T BEEN A MONTH YET!

[Doc] Would you... I don't know, hold them while I do it in case they run or panic?

[Endrea] - Absolutely, though I don't suggest doing it in here right now, it is starting to get a bit...  Crowded...

[Doc] Deerheart, maybe you should do the same, so Yaunfen knows. We are their parents for all intents and purposes.

[Deer] - I understand

[Herabrine] I thought we were going to the beach, I'm sweaty from working anyway, lets go.

[gem] -comes back to the library- did I miss something? -sees hera- oh there you are hera I was looking for you.

[Aqua] Trills from the bucket-

[Herabrine] Whatever it is, I didn't do it!

[gem] no I wanted you to meet aqua.

[Herabrine] Aqua?

[Aqua] Squirts a bit of water at Hera-

[Herabrine] Whoah! That's, hey that's a bitty dragon! What a little squirt! Literally.

[gem] they are going to have to move out of my pond when they are bigger and into the ocean so I thought it would be a good idea to introduce them to you.

[Aqua] Chirps and does a tight turn I the bucket-

[Doc] I think we should go outside anyway, get some air.

[Herabrine] That's so neat!

[Endrea] Starts making sure she has all of her children-

[Steve] Is outside leading the cow to the horse pen in front of the bar.

[Doc] Goes outside and starts down the hill to wait for Endrea and Deerheart.

[Stevie] - Brother!  Can we go get father?

[gem] do you want to hold aqua?

[TLOT] Just walks back outside carrying BEN at arms length

[Endrea] Herds WIllow, Oak, and Ashe outside with a bit of help from Deer-

[Herabrine] please. Can they be out of water at all?

[LJ] Follows cackling-

[CP] - Do you really want to?

[Stevie] - Yes!

[CP] Sighs- Go stay with Steve, I'll be back with...  Father...

[gem] I don't think so but I am also not sure since they have been in the water the whole time and the end he is from was underwater you can hold the bucket

[Steve] Has put the cow away and is waving to Stevie.

[Stevie] Runs to Steve while CP teleports-

[Herabrine] Aww, sweet baby. I love sea critters. Well, not squids.... - She puts her hand in the bucket to pet Aqua.

[Aqua] Nuzzles against Hera before trying to gum her-

[Herabrine] What does he eat? Anything yet?

[gem] I have been giving him special fish flakes doc helped me make.

[Herabrine] Clever. I saw some shit like that when I was irl with Cp getting the lobsters.

[Steve] is making a shallow pond by the waters edge with a sand bottom as a kiddie pool.

[Stevie] Is already splashing in parts of it-

[Herabrine] Is leading Gem outside talking as they walk- Looks like the Steves have the right idea. Little pond for the small frye

[Notch] Is just placidly drinking a cup of coffee as Cp tps in and grabs him - AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

[CP] Teleports back and drops Notch in the sand-

[Stevie] - Father!

[gem] -follows and sees the kiddie pool- maybe I can put aqua in the kiddie pool.

[Notch] AAAAaaaaa oh...

[Steve] That's a good idea, Stevie can you play nice with Aqua?

[Stevie] - Oh, uhhuh!

[Notch] Did I miss something?

[gem] -lets aqua out of the bucket into the kiddie pool-

[Doc] Just a little outing, nothing big. Had to step out for baby dragon kibble.

[BEN] Is whining-

[Steve] Watches the little dragon swim- so graceful!

[Aqua] Jumps around and splashes before squirting at BEN-

[BEN] - FUCKING MAJORA!

[Doc] Endrea....? Can you..? - Gestures to Yaunfen with a nervous swallow

[Endrea] Nods and gently picks Yaunfen up and putting them between her front paws-

[gem] first time ben got hit since aqua hatched I ended up putting glass up so aqua wouldn't squirt ben and aven.

[Doc] Leans down to give the baby dragon a kiss and backs off on all fours, trying to maintain eye contact.

[Yaunfen] Curiously tilts it's head as it gums the candy diamond-

[Doc] There's a bit of distortion as xe transforms and flops onto the grass with a hopeful smile

[Yaunfen] Squeaks happily-

[Doc] Oh thank goodness... Deerheart? You want to go next?

[Deer] - Sure- She clicks her tongue to get Yaunfen's attention before shifting herself

[Yaunfen] Squeaks again-

[Doc] Lays hir head down near the baby and begins to purr - You know who loves you, don't you? I do. Deerheart... - Xe whispers to get her attention. Hir hearts are overflowing with joy and little tears are glistening at the corners of hir eyes - I don't even have words... Please just lay with us for a little while...

[Deer] Gives a little smile and curls around the other side, her nose almost touching Doc's-

[Yaunfen] Squeaks and almost topples over backwards trying to sniff Doc and Deer's noses as well-

[Aqua] Races around the little pool as fast as he can-

[Endrea] Backs off so Doc and Deer can have some space-

[TLOT] Sets BEN down but keeps one hand on him and forces his shirt and pants into his inventory so they won't get wet. - Come on BEN you know you're just being silly.

[BEN] - NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!!!!!!

[TLOT] Unequipts some of his own clothes and walks them both into the shallows. Only BEN's feet are wet for the moment.

[BEN] Shrieks and pulls his legs in towards his body so they are as far away from the water as possible-

[TLOT] Walks a little deeper- You're okay, there's no need to scream.

[gem] -swaps out of her dress to the black shorts and shirt then jumps in next to ben to create a big splash-

[BEN] - NONONONONONONONONONONONONO!- Ear shattering schreech at the giant splash

[TLOT] Is drenched and shakes his head like a dog. - Damn that's cold!

[BEN] High pitched whine-

[CP] - Oh for fucks sake BEN, you have a fucking mask that lets you breath and swim underwater!

[TLOT] He does? That's neat! What does it look like?

[CP] - Like a Zora?  I believe is what they're called...  Fish like people that live in several of the games of his franchise

[Herabrine] Stops laughing for a moment. - His game has fish people? That's so cool!

[gem] -raises just enough of a wing to make it look like a shark fin and starts swimming around-

[BEN] - LET ME GO! LET ME GO! LETMEGOLETMEGOLETMEGO

[TLOT] Gem your griefer is showing.

[LJ] Is cackling madly-

[gem] -still under the water- I am a shark who is this gem.

[TLOT] We're just gonna paddle a bit. I won't let go. - Gets downa bit further and hold him up a little so his head and shoulders are still clear of the very placid water of the bay.

[BEN] Starts trying to drown TLOT with his powers as he scrambles to get out of the water himself-

[TLOT] Starts coughing madly but doesn't let go, - Stop that dammit!

[BEN] - NO!

[gem] -grabs bens feet and starts to pull him away from tlot while using her wing to keep him above the water-

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[BEN] Instinctively pulls at his sword and stabs at GEM-

[TLOT] Loses his grip because of the coughing, and staggers back to shore to sit down. - Dammit...

[BEN] Starts attempting a mass drowning of everyone there-

[gem] -grabs at the sword then tosses ben on to land the water doesn't affect her she doesn't have lungs-

[Doc] Sees the little ones struggling to breathe and freaks out, xe's on BEN with a roar and throws him back out to sea.

[Stevie] Starts coughing a little as well-

[BEN] Stays above the water and rockets high into the sky-

[Doc] Is choking but hot on his tail- I'll use the execute! Stop it now!

[BEN] - I don't wanna drown...  Don't make me drown!-  He's having flashbacks

[Doc] Is starting to black out hirself and fires the admin command as xe falters. The bolt of lightning falls from the ceiling of the server and empties BENs health bar in an instant.

[BEN] His drowning affect ceases as he spawns in his and Aven's bed trembling and scared-

[Doc] Loses conciousness and falls like an arrow into the deeper part of the bay -

[CP] Is checking Stevie over-

[Herabrine] Holy shit... I.... - She runs to the baby dragons first as they're the smallest, trying to call the water out of their lungs with her powers.

[gem] -seeing everyone takeing care of the little ones goes after doc-

[Yaunfen] Weakly heaves the water out-

[Doc] Is unconcious and sinking -

[Deer] Is watching the water carefully and listening to the server-

[gem] -grabs one of doc's arms and starts to pull hir out of the water-

[Doc] Is still in hir dragon shape but easily pulled. -

[gem] -gets doc's head above the water and starts swimming hir to shore-

[Stevie] Climbs out of the water, not so sure about it anymore-

[Aqua] Is confused as to why everyone stopped playing-

[TLOT] Pulls himself together- What the nether was he thinking? Trying that stunt on the children?

[CP] - He was terrified TLOT, he loses rational thought when he's that scared.  He was looking for a way out

[LJ] - Not the first time he's tried pulling that stunt

[TLOT] What did your brethern do in that case?

[CP] - Usually Splender would use his abilities to calm him

[gem] -gets doc to shore- I got doc they are unconscious

[TLOT] Skims over Doc's mind. - They're a bit scrambled, but intact. I think hitting the water knocked them out worse then the shock of near drowning

[Deer] Approaches and nudges Doc- Come on love, please wake up

[Doc] mumbles something and winces

[Deer] Focus' the power of the seed on Doc to help them recover-

[Doc] barely audible- I don't want a toothpaste sandwich, can't you see I'm doing my taxes?

[Deer] Laughs a little- Come on love, it's not tax season yet

[Doc] Blinks a bit - I'm pretty sure I have at least four broken bones.....

[Deer] Nuzzles- It's okay, they'll heal soon

[gem] are you ok besides that doc?

[Doc] Yes... I fucking hate that thing BEN does... it hurts to breathe.

[gem] I don't think nearly sinking to the bottom of the ocean would have help that feeling.

[Deer] Hums and settles down next to Doc, still in dragon form-