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neil-gaiman · 6 months

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Funny story, so my parents were the ones who first introduced me to good omens. They have a first edition hardback copy of the book which has been living in my room as of late.

One day I went into my parents armoire searching for a Terry Pratchett book (all of our books shelves are overflowing, we've had to take desperate measures) and beside the collection of discworld books I spied our copy of good omens. I shrugged and figured they had stolen it back and I just hadn't noticed. Then I walked back into my room and saw the identical copy of good omens sitting on my shelf.

I've asked both of my parents and neither have any clue where this extra copy came from. They are identical, save my mothers name on the inside of the cover of the copy in my room. I don't suppose you have any idea why or how this book spawned in our house?

You aren't the first secretly and mysteriously multiplying Good Omens story I have heard or read here, but i have no explanation. It is probably a Fortean Phenomenon.

#Charles Fort #the book of the damned

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hellerradio · 2 years

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With the return of some fan favorite characters, Dean being a lonely yet flirty martyr, and Cas and Sam getting up to their wacky hijinks again, there’s much to discuss in this episode! Let’s get into this chaos, since the Bobby’s are surly, I repeat, the Bobby’s are surly! 📖

➡️ Listen here!

Episodes discussed:

10x17 - Inside Man

10x18 - The Book of the Damned

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wowieweirdwarlock · 1 year

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Astonishing Artifacts: The Book of the Damned

Sources: Pathfinder Player Companion on artifacts & the book of the damned.

Image source: Pathfinder Campaign setting, Artifacts & Legends, pg. 15.

“Held between covers of bladed steel, stretched human flesh, and compressed ashes, this massive collection of loose folios, leathery scrolls, and gory manuscripts is the authoritative volume on unspeakable topics and evils for which there are no names.”

The Book of The Damned is the total sum of all profane knowledge and evil lore in the multiverse. It defies all logic, being possessed of more information than any tome of its size should be able to hold. It contains numerous different topics divided into different sections, which are rarely found all together. Should all chapters of this foul book be combined, its malicious intelligence awakens.

When fully combined, The Book of The Damned radiated dark energy in a large area, and evil creatures across the planes become aware of its location and desire to have it. Any good-aligned being that dares to touch it risks being slain immediately, and any being that uses this book is damned immediately.

Dark Talisman. The Book can be attuned to a powerful evil owner, allowing them to cast dark spells they shouldn’t normally have access to, and giving them insight to the workings of evil in the multiverse.

Reference of Evil. The Book of the Damned can be used to learn the dark secrets of reality, but the Book is written in a combination of languages and codes which can take up to a month to fully decipher. After an owner spends the time to understand this maddening tome, they can consult it to answer any obscene question regarding any dark topic of the multiverse.

Accursed Archive. An owner of the Book of The Damned can cause it to fold into itself, opening a horrific wound in reality that acts as a portal to a perverse demiplane. Visitors to this space find themselves in an unnerving library filled with infinite records of every evil deed in the multiverse. These articles are constantly being written, with the Book’s evil consciousness always compiling new lore. Not even the gods know the full breadth of this space, and it is curated by strange manifestation’s of the Book’s will.

The History & Legend of the Book of The Damned:

The Book’s history begins with the legendary angel Tabris. He was charged by Heaven to catalogue all knowledge in the multiverse, and appointed an army of lesser angels to aid in this task.

After spending eons chronicling all knowledge regarding the topics of good, law, chaos, and neutrality, he led his army to descend into the Lower Planes to take on the daunting task of cataloguing all evil in reality.

Tabris and his scholars never returned. His heavenly siblings mourned the loss of him and the knowledge he sought, but presumed him dead.

Unless killed, most good-aligned outsiders are ageless. Even in the timespan of celestials, Tabris was gone far too long in the Planes of Perdition for survival to be a possibility.

Despite this, He emerged from the maelstrom and returned to heaven broken and bearing the original manuscript of The Book of The Damned.

At first rejoicing his discoveries and return, the hosts of Heaven were appalled upon looking into his research. Tabris had faced pure and absolute evil, and unflinchingly recorded every ounce of it. In the eons he was away, he’d interviewed with the most horrific monstrosities of the multiverse.

Image source: Book of The Damned, pg. 255

The judges of Heaven criticized his work harshly. He had catalogued the machinations of fiends spanning timelines, sins without name, and infinite blasphemies with unflinching accuracy. He’d even sacrificed a piece of his soul and placed it within the Book, to constantly update the tome whenever a new evil occurred.

Tabris was not ashamed of his work, as he was convinced he’d successfully accomplished his task. In his confidence, the Celestials saw corruption. He was stripped of his heavenly power, barred from the planes of good, and cast out for his actions.

Before Heaven could destroy the horrid tome, it was scattered. It’s endless chapters on different subjects split apart into a multitude of dark spellbooks and horrific artifacts, each seeking to be reconnected with the other pieces throughout the multiverse.

Ramifications:

Damnation. All owners and users of The Book of The Damned have their souls Damned to one of the lower planes upon their death. Which plane of perdition they are sent to depends on their actions and what they do with the knowledge gleaned from the Book, and this damnation can only be stopped with direct divine intervention.

Fiendish Plans. Every fiend in the multiverse would do unspeakable things for a glimpse into this horrid book. Evil demigods and archfiends of all varieties constantly have agents out in the planes searching for chapters of the Book, and should one assemble it, they’d be given a supreme advantage over their peers and rivals. There aren’t words to describe what one of these beings would do to take control of the full Book.

Blasphemous Lore. The Book of The Damned is not pursued only by fiends. Celestials across the planes hunt down this Book and it’s readers, hoping to prevent its foul knowledge from spreading.

Beyond the Book:

One of the most famous aspects of the Book is the Demi plane concealed within its pages. Once an owner attunes to this artifact, they can open a doorway inside the Book.

This plane appears as a dark, vast library filled with a miasma of fog. Within this library, vast layers of bone-white stone supports shelves made of dark crystal. Each of these shelves hold tablets, books, and manuscripts on all manner of profane lore.

When touched, these articles explode into diagrams, visions, and voices detailing all the collected knowledge held within the Book. In reality, the physical book just serves as a window, each page connected to the demiplane to reveal dark knowledge. Each shelf has a topic, and all topics are organized perfectly, although this organization can be difficult for mortals to comprehend.

At the center of the plane is the largest crystalline tablet, which contains just a single piece of paper with a forbidden tune written upon it. From here, a path leads to the heart of the plane, known as the Unspeakable Word.

The unspeakable word could be considered to be the last page of The Book of The Damned, the record of Tabriz’ ultimate sin— Cataloguing every evil in the multiverse. It appears as a massive, diseased heart bound in crystal chains. Through this organ, every single evil thought in the multiverse flows through to the Book, and is recorded unflinchingly.

Knowledge of the Damned:

The longer an owner deciphers the Book or researches within the demiplane, the more foul knowledge is revealed to them. Many risk madness or destruction just by looking into the book, and very few actually succeed at finding the knowledge they search for. Over time, their discoveries gradually reveal more and more dark information about reality.

The book takes as much as it reveals, though. Whenever a being learns new information from the book, it will attempt to corrupt them. The more profane the knowledge, the more the Book twists it’s reader towards evil.

Some topics held within The Book of The Damned are:

Historical accounts of villains and atrocities committed on different worlds. This information causes a being to become cruel and insulting.

Truths regarding conspiracies and mysteries around the multiverse. This information causes the reader to feel a weight within their mind as the Book presses its influence into them.

Details about ancient dooms and prophecies, and information about ecologies of evil species. This information drains the reader’s intelligence, filling their mind with darkness.

Cryptic reports regarding evil forces in the multiverse, such as the histories of archfiends, details on cosmic horrors, and studies into the natures of fiends. This information convinces the reader of blasphemous connections, twisting their alignment towards evil.

Detailed maps and overviews of evil planes, in addition to foul rituals and spells for the manipulation and binding of fiends, along with the locations of planar portals and evil artifacts. This information enchants the reader, forcing them to continue researching as a perverse fascination develops.

Details regarding evil sites throughout the multiverse, and detailed biographies of great villains. There are instructions on how to destroy good artifacts, or profound revelations in dark magic. The researcher’s imagination is tainted by this knowledge, causing them to crave even more knowledge and power for themselves.

Maps to even more forbidden knowledge and artifacts, and hidden information about most fiends such as true names or origins. This information haunts the reader, causing them to be attacked and drained by the evil spirits trapped within the book.

Secret biographies of evil demigods, specific information regarding the Great Old Ones, and specific accounting of every evil item, deed, and event in the multiverse. Any researcher who reaches this point is already pushed past redemption, and is turned completely towards evil and damnation.

Secrets even the gods don’t know. Divine failures, primeval knowledge, and the truth of evil beyond reckoning. Just as a researcher culminates their pursuit of knowledge, the Book manifests before them and demands servitude. If the researcher refuses, they must escape or be annihilated.

The Keeper of the Book:

There are no fiends or entities native to the Book’s Demiplane. There is only one being, known as the Voice of The Damned.

Tabris himself realized that his task was near-impossible— any book, regardless of its size, would automatically become outdated if it recorded all evil in the multiverse. To combat this, Tabris locked away a fragment of himself in the book, in order to record all forbidden knowledge for eternity.

This act of corrupting a piece of himself to complete his charge ensured his exile, but also determined that the Book would always have a hidden caretaker. In the eons since Its creation, the Voice has only become ever more powerful and obsessed with forbidden knowledge.

The Voice of The Damned is bound to the demiplane within the Book, and serves as the Book of The Damned’s consciousness. It knows every single piece of information held within, and is devoted to spreading the dark information it possesses throughout the multiverse.

Image source: The Book of The Damned, pg. 171.

Ideas for using the Book of The Damned in a Campaign:

The chapters of the Book can always serve as good McGuffins, whether the players are searching for specific lore or are trying to collect the pieces of the Book.

A powerful Fiend offers the Party a massive reward for every chapter of the Book of The Damned they bring back to it. Little do they know, the Fiend intends to trap the party in the Book’s Demiplane, trying to force them to research for it so it doesn’t risk anything.

The party is facing an ancient and obscure evil, and the Book of The Damned seems to be the only way to learn how to defeat it.

A Celestial tasks the Party with attempting to destroy the Book of the Damned, piece by piece. Unfortunately, each chapter of the Book has its own unique form of destruction, and they must all be performed quickly or else the Book will simply reform itself.

The Antagonist has gotten ahold of the Book of The Damned, and is currently holed up in the demiplane to research. The party must find the portal and infiltrate the demiplane in order to defeat the Antagonist.

The Book Of The Damned served as a repository of all evil knowledge in the multiverse. It can either be a very useful tool, or a terrifying weapon, all depending on its current owner.

I have never been in the presence of more than one Chapter from the Book, but I know that when they find eachother, they fuse together and become slightly more powerful. Once the book is completely formed, its malicious intelligence will awaken and seek an owner to spread its corruption with.

The only chapter I’ve had the opportunity to read was an obscure manuscript regarding how the Book constantly seeks out new information. As far as I know, I’ve had no Ill-effects, showing that not all of the knowledge this book holds is capable of corrupting the reader.

Yes, I am now a Warlock devoted to cataloguing knowledge. There is no relation.

- A Weird Warlock.

#wowieweirdwarlock #pathfinder #pathfinder lore #the book of the damned #pathfinder artifact #it took me so long #:.(#WWW: Astonishing Artifacts

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endusviolence · 3 months

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Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :)#trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+#lgbta+#lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

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pinespittinink · 8 months

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got thoughtful about opinions on bad books so here’s an inverse: what’s a book you had to read for school that you actually enjoyed/have grown to like? mine is Lord of the Flies

#me seeing people hated reading the giver: damn wish I’d been told to read the giver in school #books #writeblr #writeblr community #shout out to Wuthering heights I also didn’t read her in school but I love her so much

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miracumess · 4 months

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i don't think some of y'all understand how significant it is that annabeth chase, the leading lady in an IP/brand as big as percy jackson, is played by a black girl. she is not some sidekick or comic relief. THEE annabeth chase, one of the wisest, intelligent, brave demigods and love of percy jackson's life, is played by a BLACK GIRL!!

but you're so hateful and caught up with book inaccuracies and changes that you can't even offer a sliver of hope for things to improve in continuing seasons, and instead immediately resort to wishing the show gets cancelled because they didn't do that specific thing in that specific scene in the books. makes me think there might be another underlying reason as to why you want it to fail.

and before someone starts, this isn't to say you can't have criticism, but if you really love percy jackson, why wouldn't your hope be for things to get better?

"i hope this show gets cancelled" yeah girl fuck you

#i do have my own crits too i dont think it's perfect but to be cancelled?? some of you book purists need to get out of your damn head!#anyway i love you leah and i can't wait to see more of you #percy jackson #percy jackson show #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #annabeth chase #percabeth

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ems-edits · 1 year

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The Book of The Damned

Free E-book (thanks gutenberg) Just for my future ref. because its on my read-list The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort - Free Ebook (gutenberg.org)

#the book of the damned #charles fort #booklr #project gutenberg #read list

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maccaccino · 9 months

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where is my wife

Amazon review on this Morrow edition of "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett I found this morning that left me laughing in tears right from the title.

... Actually, in hindsight, having seen the ineffable divorce™️ of Season 2, the fact that the only thing left on the cover is his glass of wine makes me so sad. It's like Crowley, having now been through all that, has left his glass of wine in the bookshop and is refusing to come back since Aziraphale is gone. Muriel doesn't really want to touch what Crowley left in the hopes he will be back soon and maybe still want his glass of "whine", whatever that is. He seemed sad last time they saw him, so that's probably what they meant by "whine".

.... Wait a minute though, did Aziraphale write this review?!? "WHERE IS MY WIFE?" ?!?!?

Okay it's time to tag him, this has gone off the rails and so have I. @neil-gaiman please explain. Thank you. (Love your work, actually. But also... What is going on here.)

Update, not even 10 hours after I originally posted this: Neil himself liked the post. I'm freaking out a normal amount about it.

PS: here's a lil thank you post for all the notes I'm getting, holy hell!!!

#WHERE IS MY WIFE #good omens #good omens 2 #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #crowley #crowley is my wife #he left his wine of the table #aziraphale #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley #on the table in the damn bookshop #aziraphale stop writing amazon book reviews and go see your wife for yourself in person

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lunaicfantastic · 6 months

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fav part of gideon the ninth is for the first pre-canaan house chunk of the book, she's all "ugh I'm so normal surrounded by all these weirdo goth freaks when I blow this popsicle stand everyone will see how cool and normal and charming I am" and then she gets to canaan house and realizes that while she might have been a normie jock in the ninth house she is not exempt from being a goth weirdo who hides important doors behind tapestries and sneaks around in the dark so she doesn't have to talk to people. like we talk about her being a jock forced to be goth but nature v nurture babey she's not shedding that bone freak skin anytime soon

#gideon the ninth #and she realizes this its really funny #every time she does some ninth house shit shes like damn this is some ninth house shit :/#and then she does it anyway #i actually think its a cool piece of character work: gideon goes from seeing herself outside of/in opposition to the ninth house #in the beginning of the book #to feeling a part of/a soldier for the ninth house (and harrow specifically who gideon sees as the epitome of the ninth)#even during her brief backslide where she goes and talks shit with the eighth she can't really separate herself the way she could before #and when the chips are down and isaac and jeannemary are dead she wants two things: her longsword (a relic of aiglamene's training)#and harrow #so #yeah shes a jock but shes a goth weirdo freak jock #and shes a jock of the ninth #shut up anna

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prairiedust · 2 years

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fuck i accidentally saw that the last name of one of the characters on the winchesters is cervantez and like, okay that’s not funny mr thompson not funny at all

#its actually very funny #the book of the damned

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