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Saturday Reads: Steampunk!

Are you steamy this summer Saturday? As a popular literary genre and aesthetic, Steampunk can generally be defined as a story set in either Victorian England or America’s Wild West wherein modern technologies are re-imagined. For instance, “Dr. Who” has Steampunk elements with its time-travel plots. As for the genre’s origin story, K.W. Jeter wrote to Locus magazine in 1987: “Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like ‘steam-punks’, perhaps.”

FEATURED TITLES:

INFERNAL DEVICES by K. W. JeterThe classic Steampunk novel from the creator of the term itself. When George Dower’s father died, he left George his watchmaker’s shop – and more. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue.

THE CLOCKWORK DYNASTY by Daniel H. Wilson

A Kirkus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2017

A Popsugar Best Book of the Year

When June Stefanov, a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology, uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she finds herself in the middle of a hidden war that has raged for centuries. In the depths of the Kremlin in 1725, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister possessed with uncanny power and destined to fight an ancient battle.

CLOCKWORK FAIRY TALES: A COLLECTION OF STEAMPUNK FABLES edited by Stephen L. Antczak, James C. Bassett

All-original, never-before-published steampunk stories inspired by traditional fairy and folk tales. Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all learned as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.

DEAD IRON: THE AGE OF STEAM by Devon Monk

In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy, carrying the guilt of his brother’s death. Then Cedar is offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder: a powerful device created by mad devisers—and now in the hands of an ancient Strange who was banished to walk this earth.

THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE by William Gibson

A 20th-anniversary edition of the seminal novel that helped to bring about the current fascination with steampunk fiction. It’s 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future.

ANNO DRACULA by Kim Newman

It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders. “Glorious” – Neil Gaiman

PERDIDO STREET STATION by China Miéville

A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader’s imagination.

THE ANUBIS GATES by Tim Powers

Take a dazzling journey through time with Tim Power’s classic, Philip K. Dick Award-winning tale… Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time.

FOR YOUNGER READERS

THE KIDNAP PLOT (The Extraordinary Journeys of Clockwork Charlie) by Dave Butler

The first installment in an action-adventure series about a boy on a rescue mission: “Reminiscent of both Pinocchio and The Great Mouse Detective, this novel is tailor-made for young readers who love adventure narratives and steampunk fiction.”—Kirkus Reviews

THE SECRETS OF SOLACE by Jaleigh Johnson

Lina Winterbock lives in the mountain strongholds of Solace. She’s an apprentice to the archivists and should be spending her days with books, but the Iron War has changed everything—it’s too chaotic to study. The strongholds are now a refuge, so instead of learning about how to preserve the objects that mysteriously fall from the sky, she whiles away her time exploring the hidden tunnels and passages of her home.And in one of the forgotten chambers, Lina discovers a secret. Hidden deep in a cavern is a half-buried airship like nothing she has ever seen before.

THE INVENTOR’S SECRET by Andrea Cremer

A new steampunk series from Andrea Cremer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightshade novels. In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. When a new exile with no memory of his escape or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp he brings secrets about the terrible future that awaits all those who have struggled to live free of the bonds of the empire’s Machineworks.

STEAMPUNK CITY: AN ALPHABETICAL JOURNEY by Manuel Sumberac

Take an alphabetical journey through a rich and colorful steampunk world in this lavishly illustrated volume that invites readers to linger over every intricate detail. Though it began as a sub-genre of science fiction, steampunk has quickly crossed cultural categories to become a popular theme in fashion, design, film, music, and even food and drink

For more on these and related titles, visit the collection: Steampunk

#steampunk #theresabookforthat #penuginrandomhouse #saturdayreads #doctor who

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Completed Suits

For my own reference. I want to cry over how many I have near-finished but there last piece of a pavilion drop. Oh well. Only listing sets in the gallery because I’d be here all day putting in non-gallery suits.

Last Updated: 12/03/2021

List under the cut due to ridiculous length.

7 Nations

Apple Federal

Sakura Sky

From Another World

Serene Promise

Halloween Night

Dream of Dance

Fiery Feline

Break First

Shining Youth

Sweet Sniper

Wicked Witch

Summer Fantasia

Polar Variation

Star Poetess

Sweet Bubble Tea

Nimbus

Vanity Fair

Star Secret (+alt)

Modern Age

Dancing Heart

Blessed Time

Night Lily

Mark of Youth

Delicious Adventure

Black Cat Dream

Ode to Pearl

Rosy Waltz

Unicorn Goddess

Modern Queen

Idyllic Life

Sea Tea Party

Inspired by Summer (+alt)

Ingenious Trend

Night Adventure

Miss Lobster

Genki Plaid (+alt)

Frost Flutter

Exclusive

Frost Rose

Fall at First Sight

Miss Hesper

Boxed Dream

Rose Fragrance (+alt)

Adventurous Journey (+alt)

Backlight Chord

Soft Season

Colorful Moment

Final Song

Feast of Hunt

Fashion Revival (+alt)

Night Star (+alt)

Everlasting Melody

Celebrity’s Choice

Lollipop Sweetheart

Innocent Grey Bunny

Sweet Spell

Panda Brawler

Glittering Star

Nightingale

Ice Waltz

Demon Lament

Virtual Melody

Tornado Rhapsody

Peacock Pavane

Thunder Beat

Power Reinforce

Hip-hop Queen

Graffiti Tempest

Street Extreme

Treasured Years (+ alts)

Shopping

Vane of Fashion

Blue Fantasy

Track Blazer

Convallaria Bud

Prom Princess

Alumni Ace

Murmuring Love

Youth Storm

Kitten Kingdom

Vacation in Wintermount

White Blossom (working on alt)

Midnight Prisoner

Crime Buster

Sweet Superstar

Fluffy Heart

Love Letters to the Sky

Unfinished Promise

Memory Gone

Sakuramochi Rabbit

Little Adventurer

Chief Dresser

Baseball Girl

Feather Attached

Prime

Sunny’s Windowsill

Federal Policewoman

Banquet Phantom

Maple Fox

Taste of Salted Fish

Sugar Chestnut

Stormy Melody

Berry Powder Shaken/Raspberry Pink Rock (whatever name they go with)

Tipsy as Snow

Heavy Machinery

Bouquet Bike

Uncrowned Rose

Mrs. Frein

Wonderful Holidays

Rippling Silk

Shiba and Croak

Sly Angel

White Demon

Cherry Youth

Tigerkin

Night Breath

Lunar Spell (+ alt)

Sweet Sunshine

Sugar Cheerleader

Skateboard Girl

Trefoil Affair

Tender Puppy

Jingle Kitty

Summer Lemon

Picking Strawberry (+ alts)

Oil Painter (+ alt)

Magic Star

Flower Tale

Youth Melody

Jasmine

Vintage Lady

Sheer Dance

Dynamic Maiden (+ alts)

Deer Elf

Mori Girl

Ink Wash Painting

Time Idol

Detective Girl

Stripe Gentleman

Winter Angel

Wilds Flower

Blossom Season

Bright Galaxy

Dancing Queen

Panda Dreamland (+ alt)

Cowboy Style

Chocolate Housemaid

Mori Girl and Reindeer

Beautiful Agent

Sweet Pastry Cook (+alts)

Sexy Bad Girl

Angel in White

Fast Food Waitress

Sacred Doctor

Bunny Girl

Rock Singer

Diamond Mermaid

Lilith Kingdom

Magic of Sky

Witch Molly

Love Limited (+one alt, need last)

To the Bone

Star of Sweets

Peachy Demon

Demon’s Doll

Dream Park

Forest Spirit

Silk-cotton Spring (+alt)

Journey in Sweet Dreams

Monsoon Mood

Whale’s Song

Ocean Lullaby

Dresser Fairy

Symphony Star

Witch’s Wail

Stellar Witch

Snow Hare Dream

Magic Recipe

Ace Attorney (+alt)

Dream Defender

Sea Flower

Starry Mentor

Starry Fantasy

Lost in Dreamland

Witch Mischief

Bunny Magician

Frog in Monsoon

Cheers

Magic Key

Cloud Tea Party

Whale Calf

Tangled

Mushroom Adventure

Mint and Coco

Lucky Journey

Sandra Grass Secrets (+alt)

Stars in Wish Bottle

Puppy Guardian

Sunward Maiden

Nightmare Lullaby

Epic Magic <3 Mickey

Epic Magic <3 Minnie

Snowland Stitch

Easter Bunny

Maiden’s Prayer

Rainbow Invitation

Showcase of Dream

Dream and Star Rainbow (+alt)

Pudding Prevails

Dream Dessert

Diamond Dreamland

Autumn Pinecone

Flower of Magic Kiss

Nightmare Angel

Bun Bun and Baba Yaga (+alt)

Voice of Heart

Magic of Love

Magical Notes

Song of Sea Breeze (+alt)

Summer Catcher

Blue Sky Memory

Aroma of Love Letter

Star Prophet

Thorny Rose

Daydreamer

Fantasy Flyer

Covenant Servant

Fluffy Gentleman

Fondant Game

City Dream

Guard of Glory

Alice’s Time Gate

Rain of Plum Blossom (+ alts)

Song of Night Sky

Dessert Fairy (+alt)

Leaf’s Lyric

Golden String

Sweet Tailor

Handbell in the Wind (+alt)

Melody of Stars

Spring Sakura

Star’s Blessings (+alt)

Cruise Fairytale

Garden Diary

Course at Dawn (+alt)

Tune at Dawn

Rabbit and Camellias

Satiroth’s Sheep

Dreamy Afternoon Tea (+alt)

Heaven Messenger (+alt)

Red Shoes

Maiden’s Romance (+ alts)

Heart Knight

Grice (+alt)

Marionette Grice

Military Princess

Chocolate Story (+ alt)

Heart of Miracles (+ alt)

Ballad for Adeline

Candy Doll

Fluffy Lop

Star Seer

Dreamland Teatime

Cutie Strawberry

Flower Field

Glossing Rose

Alice in Wonderland

Cake Manor

Miss Puff

Night Lolita

Locco’s Tea Party

Gothic Lolita

Red Hood’s Adventure

Prime Secretary

Mid-summer Stars (need alts)

Cloud Empire

Travelling Vendor

Fortune in Fog

White Fox

Peach Prose

Dark Dragon Knight

Restrained Romance

Singing Swallow

Tasty Fair

Ephemeral Fantasy

Divine Deer

Sakura in Dream

Fairy Flow (+alts)

God of Wind

Peach Heart

Lost in Mist (+alt)

Colourful Snow Wishes

Kagura Priestess

Fresh Bamboo

Raindrop

Phoenix Song

Bamboo Recluse

Prayer Dancer

Janggu Forever

Moon in Mist (+alt)

Raccoon On the Move

Butterfly Fairy

Dream Echo

Moon Visitor

Magpie Song (+alt)

Healing Agarwood

Samadhi Snow

Painted Fan

Budding Spring

Inky Meow (+alt)

Fox’s Trace

Lotus Prince

Incredible Brush

Crane Zitherist

Spring Wind (+alt)

Dark Tide at Night (+alt)

World Watcher

Blessed Qilin

Magic Cleam <3 Minnie

On the Road (+alt)

Feather Beauty

Frosty Crimson

Snowy Ballads

Morrow Travel Song

Sunset Butterfly

Hellish Bloom

Pragya Princess

Nekomata

Silk Aroma

Hidden in Hanabi

Lotus Picking

Winged Dancer

Guiding Green

Red Flower

Missing You

Black Swallow (+alt)

Sound of Fall

Fox Bride

Feminine Chivalry (+alt)

Floral Cove

Silk Petals (+ alts)

Ocean Angling

Willow and Swallow

Bamboo Breeze

Light Spring

Inked Bamboo Slip

The Tide (+alts)

Return to Autumn

Cloudy Prayer

Watery Lord

Truth Seer

Maneki-Neko

Fleeting Life in Snow

Song of Divinity (+ alts)

Sound of Heaven (+ alts)

Ink-Core Chess (+ alt)

Wind in Starry Wilderness (+ alt)

Bamboo Shadow in Pond

Intern Miko

Cold Red

Golden Wheat

Jade Orchid

Bloom of Youth (+alt)

Savior

Nether Fire

Elegant Tune

Evil Oppressor

Ultimate of the Way

Yama Judge

Flower Mirror

Soul Guide

Chilled Charm

Tea Break

Magic Pocket Watch

Cat and Writer

Yatai Waitress

Bath in Starry Sky

Goldfish Girl

Miss Goldfish

Future Capriccio (+alt)

Dark Crane

Flower Song in Fan

Magnificent Peacock

Peony Pavilion

Flourish Peach (+alt)

Bright Sakura/Sweet Hanbok

Beauty in Painting

Flower Under Moonlight

Shutendoji

Wine Wanderer

Tengu

Zashiki

Fallen Butterfly

After Snow

Lotus Lady

Morning Dew (+alt)

Crane and Flower

Yuki

Brocade Jade

Koinobori Kimono (+alts)

Fallen Flowers

Wisdom of Quill Fan (+alts)

Orchid

Blue Phoenix Messenger

Elegant Hibiscus

Crimson Creek

Wind Whisperer

Silver Embroidery

Gentle Toona

Solitary Exorcist (+alt)

Singing Phoenix

Umbrella Memory

Mist Fairy (+alt)

Long Street Flavour

Ink Carp

Water Lily’s Promise (+ alt)

Phoenix of Genesis (+ alt)

Dragon of Apocalypse (+alt)

Bamboo Song

Flower Lyric

Poppy Fox

Lingering Butterfly

Response to Crane

Bamboo Pavilion

Diving Carp

Tarot Fortuneteller

Stunning Beauty (+ alt)

Polychrome

Spring Camellia

Lotus Chant

Moon in Water

Flower in Mirror

Ink Orchid

Sword Girl

The Purest Heart

Orchid’s Chant

Dragon Maiden

Green Willow

Maple Leaf Ninja

Elegant Phalaenopsis-Pink (+ alt)

Flying Peafowl

Tender April

Royal Beauty

Western Dancer

Higanbana Princess

Story of Shanghai

Fragrance Villa (+ alts)

Cinnabar Cloud

Afterglow

Epic Empress

Pigeon Kingdom

Polar Monster

Autumn’s Kiss

Abyssal Creeper

Night Toll

Fairy Tale of Star and Moon

Melia’s Invitation

Miss Kate’s Tea Party

Bad Hunter

Rosy Manifesto (+alt)

Elf of Holy Spring (+alt)

Traveler in Mist

Decisive Duel

Knightly Courtesy

Bonefish

Mechanician Poet

Rose Heart

Ode of Dawn

Eternal Fantasy

Dragon Knight

Pegasus’s Dream

Feathery Dream

Detective X

Pure Adventurer

Snow Sovereign

Coronation Anna

Coronation Elsa

Redeemed Goddess

Harvest Ceremony

Lasting Memory

Feather of Purity

Lady Beverly

Arctic Aurora

Bold Adventurer

Pirate of Harrod

Song of Freedom

After Rain

Dark Butterfly

Night Rose Bride

Cinderella

The Little Mermaid

Crimson Cavalier (+alt)

Regards from Afar

Night March (+alt)

Peace March (+alt)

Mirror Tale

Radiance of Freedom (+alt)

Wind Bell Fantasia

Rose Elegy

Lyrical Lyre

Astral Words (+alt)

Clover CarnivalRose Palace

Rose Palace

Where Wind Dwells

Romantic Moment

Blood Beckon

Red Nightmare

Moon Justice

Wind Traveller

Chant of Devotion

Dark Raven

Hearty Poem

Melt (+alt)

Storm Tamer

Treasure Keeper

Diana’s Dream

Attachment of Spectre

Demon’s Game

Heart of Winter

Rose Oath

Galaxy Goddess

Tales of Starry Night

Sealed Heart

Starlight Serenade

Eternal Instant

Dark Poem

Bounty Hunter

Flower Feather

Years of Love

Past Glory (+alt)

Kindred Earl

Ode to Glory

White Night Chant

Minstrel of Time

Guardian of Purity

Shadow Fiend

Miss Swenny

Icy Laurel

Fiery Sky

Clover’s Ceremony

White Forest

Roving Rifle

Witch Hecate

Lantern Elf (+alt)

Sky Conqueror

Demon Huntress

Snow Stone Tusk

Deicide Kalpa

Butterfly Shade

White Masquerade

Wandering Wraith

Abyss Apparition

Dream Travel

Bell Tower Phantom

Heart of Puppet

Warfare Terminator

Forest Legend (+alt)

Royal Doctor (+alt)

Idyll

War and Love (+ alts)

Blossom Intone (+ alt)

Flowers Poem (+alt)

Mechanical Romance

Crown of Dawn

Kiss of Crescent

Time Flies

Starlight Psalm

Time Controller (+alt)

Lightbringer

Iris in Painting

Night Wish

Canopy of Wisdom

Phoenix Butterfly Mystery (+alt)

Jewel of Ocean

Black Rose

Steel Lily

Sweet Breeze

Wings of Steam

Magnificent Flower

Crystal Lady

Anna’s Party

Ice Blue Rose

Magnolia Scent (+ alt)

Heidi Song

Silent Flowering

Mrs. Sylvia

Crown of Love

Casablanca

Vernal Maid

Snow Queen

Lightly Dancing Butterfly (+ alts)

Royal Elegance (+ alts)

Crane Berry

Yanila Pirate

Maid Charlet

Olivia’s Dance

Mask Feast (+ alt)

Steam Punk (+ alt.)

Snow Lotus

Master Magician

Sanctity Angel

Pastoral Pearl (+ alts)

Stygian Death (+ alts)

Crystal Rose

Nightly Spirit

Assassin’s Faith (+ alt)

Voice of Prayer

Socialite

Sapphires the Phantom Thief

Light Fairy (+ Dark Elf alt)

Queen of Deer Elf

Miss Anna

Lily Fairy

The Gentle Madam

Duke’s Daughter

Age of Steam

Rose Maiden

Nikki Mechanical

Princess Jellyfish

Madam Butterfly

North Kingdom

Awesome Agent

Dreams in a Dark Night

Glacial Trend

Snow Dumpling

Polar Tempest (+alt)

Oath of Honour

War in Winter

Dream Sky

Beat of Abyss

Memory Gear (Just need the alt coat WHY)

Spring in the North

Snow Wolf

Memory on Snowfield (+alt)

Red-haired Asura

Silent Hermit

Clair’s Wish

Icewind Warchant (+alt)

Path of Glory

Fiery Front

Winter Battlefield

Song of Blaze (+ alts)

Army Major (+ Lieutenant Commander)

Maple Leaf (+ alt)

Northern Soldier

Republic of Wasteland

Worship Dance

Royal Lotus

Coconut Island

The Legend of Light

Kiss of Flame

Night of Light

Snowland Shepherd

Desert Jewel

Flowers in the Wildness (+alt)

Star Invoker

Dusk and Dawn

Lion Overwatch

Beast Warrior

Star Rite

Sunflower

Wavy Cloud Shadows

Phantom in Desert

Golden Shadow

Hunting Ranger

Goddess of Peacock

Circles of Moon Shadow (+alt)

Astral Islets

Wind Deep Legend

Colourful Dreams

Star Priest

Magician of the Wild

Soul Seer

Golden Sunshine

Soaring Eagle

Golden Dancer

Tribe Totem (+ alt)

Ruin Island

Dream of Phantom

Virtual Violinist

Rogue Hunter

The Awakened

Dazzling Heartbeats

Star Fantasy

Perfect Hunter

Dazzling Idol (+alt)

Space Fantasy

True Shot

Void Listener

Explosion

Deepsea Secret

Scarlet Sin

Thunder Destroyer

Eternal Tides

Overdrive Cycle

Kagamine Rin

Kagamine Len

Hatsune Miku

Magical Mirai 2018

Magical Mirai 2017

Magical Mirai 2016

Magical Mirai 2015

Humanoid Source Code

Death of Data

Dawn Blade

Shadow Track

Volt Ciel

Passion 404

Artificial Idol

Momo’s Adventure

Streamer Code

Cosmos Sound

Nebula Echo

Cosmos Tide

Mechanical Hub

Blue Longing

Angelica’s Dream

Volley Lucia

NR-001

Aurora Oval (+ alt)

War on Ruins (+ ‘Virus’)

Mechnical Heart

Future Space (+ alt)

On to the other categories!

Festivals

Tempted Moment

Honey Spring

Horn of Surprise

Fabled Night

Sparkle of Stars

Lone Wolf

Flame Witch

Moonlight Encounter

Encounter in Dream

Sunny Language

Singing Field

Dancing Wheat

Spring Stitch

Green Wind

Gone With the Song

Dark Night Moonlight

Guarding Wings

Cotton Cloud

Falling Feather

Diamond Ring

Anniversary

Drunken Moon Lantern

Rat of Renewal

Lucky New Year

Christmas Fantasy

Sparkling Cupcake

Haunted Heart

Floral Movement

Bubble Song

Silver Feather

Toy Carnival

Spring Wonderland

Colourful Gift

Kite Karma (+alt)

Cerise’s Gift

Lantern Fair

Piggy Bun Shop

Chubby Lucky

Christmas Puppet Show

Song of Youth

Pumpkin Kaidan

Moonlight Muse

Blind Love

Dance in Cloud

Game of Cards

Promising Parade

Spring Fantasia

Dreamy Flowing Light

Blessed Bark

Sweet Toy

Warm Christmas Eve

Snowy Night Bless

A Psalm of Time

Moon Chaser

Candy Adventure

Youth Memory

Wormwood by Riverside

Ode to Time

Childlike Party

Aria of Night

Joker and Magic Card

Arrow of Affection

New Wishes

Ode to Lantern

Christmas Adventure

Rondo of Snowy Night

Sweet Wish

Maple Sugar Magic

Sweet Osmanthus

Moonlight Dancer

Silver Wish

Youth Poem

Gifty’s Adventure

Joker Diamond Mask

Circus Night

Sweet Love

Rose Romance

Sweet Heart

Fortune Monkey

Princess Azhar

Dress Song

Colorful Christmas

Reindeer’s Blessing

Pink Wishes

Halloween Fantasy (+alt)

Luna Angel (+ alts)

Lonely Valentine’s Night

Peach Melody

The Wonderland

Dream Sail

Troupe

Summer’s Ardor

Spring’s Wonder

Autumn’s Promise

Winter’s Grace

Pure Sonata

Royal March (+alt)

Lost Spell

Apprentice Wizard

Surprise

Dream of Star City

Summer Color

Glimmer and Dream (+alt)

Pine Curse/Wood Witch(+alt)

Monochrome Symphony

Sky Rhapsody

Clarinet Concerto

March of Lilith

Fire of Blood Parrot

Soul Requiem

Song of Dream Parrot

Sanctity Aria

Black Swan

White Swan

Star Sea

Romeo

Four Seasons

Valiant Phantom (+alts)

Shallow Sky Trip (+alts)

Winter Rhyme (+alt)

Star Bud (+alt)

South Wind Star (+alts)

JinJin’s Journey (+alts)

Rising Star (+alt)

Rabbit Sweet (+alt)

Classical Ceramic (+ alt)

Heart Cross

Cunning Imp (+ alt)

Starlit Sword

Live Report

Light Sweet Pace (+alts)

Innocent Pet (+alt)

Ruins & Black Cat

Ice Blue Classical Dream (+alt)

Stars and Dreams (+alts)

Elegant Sketch (+alts)

Flower Fairy Mevilla (+ alts)

Kitten Sketchbook (+ alts)

Rule of Love (+ Love Guide alt)

Heroine in Armor (+ alt)

Ink Tale

Dream Dress

Pure Lotus

Fairy Tale Cutie

Stars

Deer of Net Moon

Rabbit of Moon Sun

Earth of Bat Girl

Fire Tiger of Tail

Moon Vixen

Golden Dragon

Happiness

Destiny of Begonia

Hall of Oath

Pure White Love Song

Moonlight Sonata

Oath of Flower Rain

Dream Wedding

Poetic Future

Farewell to Boudoir

Destined Fate

For the vows of love

Happy Embroidery

Childlike Love

Wisteria Vow

Realized Dream

Wonder Museum

Ancient Fossil Hall

Back to Prehistory

Golden Balance

Story Suits

Evernight’s Dream

Dreampath for Travelers

Dream Bagpiper

White Queen

Night’s Queen

Princess Dawn

Ghost Gathering

Miss Bone

Underworld Lord

Four Seasons

Wind’s Whisper

Cloud’s Smile

Lantern Wish

Flute’s Thoughts

Galactic Classics

Stellar Atlas

Bond in Distance

Warmth Nearby

Caelum et Ocean

Winged Journey

Ocean Dream

Art of War

Flashing Wind

Poised Forest

Invading Fire

Firm Mountain

Prosperous Reign

Old Album

City Subway

Melody of Whale

Symphonic Poem of Future

Soul Bruce

Prelude to Youth

Flower Season Melody

One-Way Train

Farwell Note

Autumn Firefly

Old Dream in Fleeting Light

Flow of Time

First Wind

Rose Kiss

Illusive Snow

Watching Moon

Cloud Realm

Daymare Fairy Tale

Glorious Chapter

Aster Guardian

World in Dream

Blood Moon

Blood Lust

Flickering Pistil

Mountains and Seas

Shapeshifter Neko

Yin Yang

Garden of Spiral Staircase

Fleeting Dream

World in a Game

Jealous Phantom

Night Banquet

Universe Tide

Ice Abyss Echo

Black White Puzzle

Reed Thought

Lost Fairy Tale

Arcane Astrolobe

Frozen Crown

Oceanic Spirit

Apocalyptic Angel

Alluring Abyss

Light in Mirror

Eerie Nightmare

Gilt Dance

Rosy Tour (+alt)

Light Chaser

Dawn Vision (+alt)

Flame Gunner (+alt)

Night’s Shore

Mermaid’s Music

Star Sea Safari

Azure Adventure

I’ll update as I complete more/more suits are released.

#love nikki dress up queen #love nikki #love nikki game #miracle nikki #nikki up2u #reference #completed sets #long post #not as many as some people but lmao i've only been playing like.. .two months-ish???#and me being my dumbass self can't just ocus on one set at a time oh no #i have to do it the hard way

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proconcordialabor · 7 years

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Finding Buried Treasure

From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to the Moral Energy of Schatzwiederentdeckung

I was enriched last month at the Jeju Reparations Conference at the University of North Carolina Law School, when Professor Robert Westley mentioned a word that he had learned in Germany, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, which he translated as “memory work.” I remembered, or thought I did, seeing “memory work” in an article that I had read some months ago, and as soon as I returned to my books and papers in Michigan in late May of 2017, I took up the task of finding that reference. I found two articles that used the phrase “memory work,” but they did not match the specific memory that I had of this term. My memory was that the term “memory work” had been coined by a woman. Neither of the articles that I found confirmed this memory. So perhaps my memory that “memory work” was coined by a woman is a false memory. Needing to better understand the history of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, I learned after some cursory research that the word means something like “working through a difficult past,” i.e., working through traumatic memories, the extreme version of which I sometimes refer to as “atrocity history.” The Wikipedia page for Vergangenheitsbewältigung explains: The German Duden lexicon defines Vergangenheitsbewältigung as "public debate within a country on a problematic period of its recent history—in Germany on National Socialism, in particular This fact that Vergangenheitsbewältigung connotes difficult and traumatic history struck me. First, the meaning of this term resonates with Carl Jung’s notion of the ‘shadow’ and the need for every individual to “make the darkness conscious” in order to ascend to a higher level of consciousness. To be sure, it is not simply making the darkness conscious that is our task. Crucial indeed is accepting and befriending the darkness in ourselves. The clasped hands on the Pro Concordia Labor flag can remind us that in order to ascend, we must labor and partner with our own shadow in order to move forward into light. The making of the darkness conscious is one of the core values of Vergangenheitsbewältigung. We must bear witness to the depth of our darkness in order to transcend it.

But no less important is bearing witness to what the Quakers called our “inner light.” For the past few years, I have been writing and speaking about the importance of what I call “Positive History” – stories of inspiration and cooperation which are illustrative of specific virtues, including, but not limited to, the four Cardinal Virtues (Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance). Aristotle noted that not all virtues have names, but yet:

We must try … .to invent names ourselves so that we may be clear and easy to follow. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapter 7)

Following Aristotle, when I created the course The Virtues of Untold Stories: The Peace History of the United States and Korea (which I will to teach as part of my Fulbright Grant at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyunghee University in the Fall of 2017), I named – for the first time - some of the virtues that I had noticed in my reading of Peace History. Among them, transnational fellowship and transgenerational fellowship. When Lenore Selenka of Germany worked with May Wright Sewall of the United States to harness the network of the International Council of Women to support both the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences, transnational fellowship was at work. And when we continue the work that these women started, we partake in transgenerational fellowship. Personally, I have found it useful to name the different constructive moral energies that comprise a “red thread” throughout history through which we can see the working of the inner light. I am always renewed when I bear witness to the spinning of that thread.

Observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

As you might imagine, the fact that Vergangenheitsbewältigung denotes the “trauma history” of the shadow, forced in me the question of whether there exists a single German word that denotes working with the memory of the “positive history” of our “inner light”; “remembering inspiring stories,” or, thinking more metaphorically, “finding a buried treasure.” After consulting with one of my German translators, the answer was nicht! There is no such word. So, laboring together with him, we set out to create the word. After 7 or 8 rounds of back-and-forth, we settled on the word Schatzwiederentdeckung. Interestingly, google translate recognizes the English equivalent of this word, whereas it does not recognize (at least not yet) Vergangenheitsbewältigung. I now have my word, Schatzwiederentdeckung. And now I must bring it to life. I do that through ostention – by pointing to specific examples. It is a basic and primitive task. Sometimes these examples are objects which are a sort of “visual shorthand” for a longer story, for instance, that of the Pro Concordia Labor flag. Sometimes these examples are events. But now, the word needs to be brought to life through basic task of enumerating examples. Exploring the philosophical, psychological and sociological questions about Schatzwiederentdeckung are also needed to breathe life into the word. For instance, how do specific examples of Schatzwiederentdeckung affect the development of the self? Are there variations on the efficacy of Schatzwiederentdeckung depending on one’s stage of life? Do examples of Schatzwiederentdeckung within one’s own culture affect the psyche differently than do examples of Schatzwiederentdeckung from another? Speaking anecdotally, I can say that beholding a rich example of Schatzwiederentdeckung during mid-life had a profound effect on me. That example was my encounter with the Peace Palace in 2011. The Peace Palace opened in the Hague, The Netherlands on August 28, 1913. The building, which is home to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Court of Justice and the largest international law library in the world is the symbolic foundation stone for the normative framework of International Peace and Justice that has its roots in the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907. When I was within this historic building, amidst so many beautiful unknowns, I felt the yearning to connect with it in a deeper way. What is this beautiful mystery that I know absolutely nothing about? So opened a Treasure Box, with a bounty of examples of Schatzwiederentdeckung: Bertha von Suttner, the work of Cora di Brazzà, The American School Peace League and the work of E.C. Warriner, the March 1, 1919 movement of Korea. There are so many, and scattered throughout the world. This “scattering” remains a worry. Bertha von Suttner noted that poets and philosophers are the “engineers, mechanicians, and technicians” of “moral forces.” Jane Addams used the term “moral energy”. Let’s combine the two insights and say that Bertha noted that “moral energy” can be engineered, harnessed, and used to propel. This, incidentally, is a substantive claim and a definite position within the debate with ancient Greek philosophy about whether virtue can be taught. Bertha von Suttner: yes. But, she notes, the engineers of moral energies – which, she says, are thoughts and ideas are “scattered through the centuries, scattered in space.” This scattering remains a worry. Although she did not have the word Schatzwiederentdeckung, I do believe Bertha would have acknowledged the moral energy of these stories, and would have issued a plea for collecting examples of them in order in order to leverage their collective moral energy. For she writes in When Thoughts Will Soar (1914, p. 65): How much more powerful their work would be if it were coordinated, if the knowledge of their doctrines, the glory of their names, the magic of their art, proceeding from one central point, should radiate in all directions. Motors and propellers have taught us that power must be concentrated and compressed, in order by explosions to drive the vehicle. Stories that illustrate virtue have moral energy. They help us to drive “our vehicle” upward and forward. This is an old idea. It was expressed by Aristotle when he reminded us that the development of virtue requires bearing witness to actual examples of virtue, i.e., role models. The idea is also expressed by Marcus Aurelius who, at the beginning of his Meditations, enumerates a cast of characters to whom he is grateful. Why? They all modeled various virtues, thereby enabling Marcus to sculpt himself into righteousness. Interestingly, related to the idea that actual examples of virtue have moral energy is something that was posted recently by Humans of New York on its Facebook page:

This young man is clearly influenced by the fortitude of Forrest Gump, who we all know is a fictitious character. Are there no actual examples of fortitude on which this young man can call on for motivation? Wouldn’t actual examples be able to better withstand the doubt that will inevitably arise when marching forward into light? If you are familiar with the opening chapter of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, imagine how almost comical that text would appear if Marcus enumerated not the virtues actual persons, but the virtues of fictitious characters. Actual examples, moreover, provide a response to the “its just a movie” counterargument that we may utter to ourselves when picking ourselves up after the nth failure. Anyway, as I am now breathing life into Schatzwiederentdeckung, let me limn its contours by stating that the story of Forrest Gump is not an example of Schatzwiederentdeckung, though it does have moral energy. Indeed, the etymology of Schatzwiederentdeckung – rooted in the notion of a ‘buried treasure’ – seems to preclude any instance of pop culture from being an instance of this term. Just as there is value in bringing to consciousness repressed traumatic memories, so too is there value in bringing to consciousness untold stories of positive history. I leave it to the readers of this post to formulate another word for stories of pop culture, which are ‘open and obvious’ rather than ‘buried,’ and which, like the story of Forrest Gump, have moral energy that propels us forward and upward.

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