#this also works for Micah instead of Kit

[troutfur]

A guide to Augur AU

As my longest solo project (sans a guest addition) and most developed AU, as well as on a request from an anon, I thought I'd make an introduction post and masterlist to the sprawling mess that is augur AU. So, without further ado!

So, what is Augur AU?

Augur AU is the universe in which my series to Aaron and his sons is set. The basic premise is to flip the script on the medicine cats can't have kits rule. Now instead they must because the position is hereditary. They also engage in the making of marriage alliances by transfering their kids across Clan lines, because I really like arranged marriage and marriage alliance drama and it felt fitting to include.

I first floated the concept way back when I was still posting Warriors content to my main blog (@aerial-jace). Since then I've talked a lot about my ideas and worldbuilding for this universe. I consider the Ao3 series the only definitive source of canon, any concept I throw around on my blog is subject to chane at any time for any reason unless it's already been established in an entry on the series.

Why is it called to Aaron and his sons?

The title is a Biblical reference, more specifically it is pulled from Numbers 3:5-10 as quoted in the NIV (New International Version) translation.

5 The Lord said to Moses, 6 “Bring the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron the priest to assist him. 7 They are to perform duties for him and for the whole community at the tent of meeting by doing the work of the tabernacle. 8 They are to take care of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, fulfilling the obligations of the Israelites by doing the work of the tabernacle. 9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to him. 10 Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests; anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”

The passage refers to the establishment of the two priestly castes present in Judaism, the levites and the kohanim, which felt appropriate for a series all about exploring the concept of medicine cat as a hereditary priestly caste. Although the series is not meant to be a commentary on any real world religions, least of all Judaism, it still felt appropriate to turn to a Biblical reference for a title just due to how important and widely read the Bible is as a work of literature.

What is a patrician, an augur, and a matriarch/patriarch?

Patricians are the direct descendants of Moth Flight through the lineage of one of her kids: Blue Whisker, Bubbling Stream, Spider Paw, and Honey Pelt (or as the modern clans know them Mothflight, Bluewhisker, Bubblestream, Spiderpool, and Honeypelt). They are the only ones allowed to become augurs which is the term for medicine cats.

In order to not dilute the patrician status too much, only cats with an augur parent or grandparent are considered true patricians. Cats whose closest augur ancestor is a great grandparent don't qualify. So, for instance, while Sandstorm was an augur, neither her daughter Squirrelflight nor her granddaughter Sparkpelt were, thus her great grandchildren Nightheart and Finchlight aren't either.

A patriarch or matriarch is the most senior augur in a Clan, with preference for an augur born in the Clan they reside in. So, for instance, at the start of the story Sandstorm is the matriarch of ThunderClan and under her are the augurs: Leafpool (ThunderClan born) and Crowfeather (WindClan born). Although Crowfeather is 6 moons older than Leafpool, at Sandstorm's death it's Leafpool who gets the matriarch title instead of Crowfeather getting the patriarch title.

As the originators of the augur bloodline, Mothflight and Micah are often given the titles of The Matriarch and The Patriarch. Although it's usually Mothflight alone who's given a lot of press and importance given she was the one directly chosen by StarClan to be the first augur and he was just the matching set of chromosomes to create the lineage founders.

Fun aside about why I chose those terms particularly: I wanted to give them a Roman aristocracy vibe, particularly because in my research as I was looking for terms to replace medicine cat and such it came up that priestly offices in the Classical Greek and Roman world were often hereditary. Thus patrician for the caste, and augur (a term for a diviner/priest that reads the future in bird flight patterns) for the profession. Matriarch/patriarch was almost going to be materfamilias/paterfamilias, but I decided on English instead of Latin as to not seem too pretentious.

What is The Gift of the Patricians?

The Gift of the Patricians, also commonly called just The Gift, is a set of hereditary health conditions and neurodivergences that have been reinforced in the patrician bloodline through generations of intermarrying. These include traits that are seen as positive (such as autism or ADHD, seen as signs of closer spiritual connection to StarClan) as well as those that are seen as negative (such as hip dysplasia, a condition interpreted as a sign that the natural place of a patrician is inside the augurs' den and not out and about as a warrior).

Not all patricians are what the Clan cats call gifted but it's very, very common in the bloodline. Other conditions that often present in gifted individuals include but are not limited to: epilepsy, diabetes, and dementia. Jayfeather's blindness in particular is something I want to emphasize is NOT due to The Gift. It may be congenital but it is not genetic at all.

So, are the patricians all inbred?

Most are to a degree, yes! Outsider blood does enter the bloodline with some regularity. Sandstorm and Firestar, Ashfoot and Deadfoot, Leopardsun and Stonestar, and Littlecloud and Tawnypelt are all examples of augurs taking a mate outside the bloodline. But because of how important augurs are to the foreign policy of their Clan, they often are offered up to the augur of another Clan as a mate as a way to seal marriage alliances.

More often than not, an augur taking a non-patrician mate is done as a way to legitimize a controversial deputy choice or otherwise give them a popularity boost.

What's the family tree situation?

You can consult it right here. Beware spoilers, it goes all the way to Shadowsight and the plot of to Aaron and his sons is only just getting to late Po3. Might merit an update. The fact they don't go all the way back is intentional in most cases. For the sake of my sanity, the ThunderClan patrician lineage only goes as far back as Spottedleaf.

EXTRA!

Posts containing ideas I've thrown around for augur AU. Some explain background events a little more. Some touch upon the future of the series beyond the core plot of the Jayfeather & Willowshine arranged marriage love story. Some are possibilities I'm deliberating for said main plot.

A potential explanation for why Leopardsun and Stonestar are still lovingly married in spite of TigerClan

Unexplored Crowfeather angst

Why was Willowpaw born when her parents were relatively old?

Berrynose, Hazeltail, and Mousewhisker

The politics of WindClan

Ashfoot angst

Littlecloud & Tawnypelt

Daisy's second litter

Needletail's reaction to being roped into all this

SkyClan's reaction to this weird tradition

The current generation of ThunderClanners (Nightheart, Finchlight, Bayshine, Myrtlebloom, Graykit, Stemkit, and Bristlekit)

Frostpaw

As well there are dozens of mini AUs built off this one contributed on by the anons in my inbox. I could give y'all a guide to those as well, but this one has run on long enough.

Hope this was a useful introduction to augur AU for the uninitiated. Hope I can keep creating content y'all will enjoy.

#warrior cats #wc #warrior cats au #augur au

[totallycorrectjediorderquotes]

Koon: You took my nephew's virginity.

Kit: Sorry, won’t happen again!

#this also works for Micah instead of Kit #also u fool kit— koon is 500 years old he be known #Uncle Koon #Plo Koon's Uncle #imma start tagging him as uncle koon now too #Kit fisto #plokit #Plo Koon #nstf? #nsft #not really but sure #The Koon Family #Incorrect Star Wars Quotes #Star Wars #Star Wars: The Clone Wars #Star Wars: The Expanded Universe #Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy #Source: General #Source: Internet

[housebutchvee]

She-Ra HvZ AU

So, years back, in college, I used to play Humans vs Zombies (think tag with nerf guns and incredibly problematic for other reasons). Twice a year, we’d get a few hundred people together on campus to play this week long game. It would start with one zombie, and that would escalate quickly to dozens as the hunting began. Humans can ‘stun’ a zombie for five minutes by hitting them with a nerf dart or a balled up CLEAN sock. Zombies infect humans by tagging them. We played in between classes, all over campus, but indoors was safe as well as *most* dorms.

So here we go:

Adora - that one human who gets *way* too into the game - she has holsters for all her blasters, extra darts for any human who asks, and she’s the one all the freshman call when they’re stuck in a building surrounded by a group of zombies. She doesn’t get turned until extraction (the last day of the game) when she sacrifices herself to get others to the safe zone. She dies by Catra.

Catra - Lead Zombie, patient zero, she initially joined to fuck with Adora, but enjoys leading hordes of zombies way too much, she even gets Scorpia to do zombie make-up on her face. She maintains the consistent record of highest kill count by a *wide* margin.

Glimmer - that one human who doesn’t use any nerf blasters - just balled up socks. She is considered a ninja by all the zombies - no one knows how she gets from building to building on campus when every door is guarded by the horde and the buildings have no indoor connections. She only gets turned bc Bow does and she gets fed up having to spend all her time with him indoors and wants to actually hang out for real.

Bow - Only uses the nerf bow & arrows - even though they are shit, but he is inexplicably good with them - like way faster at reloading than even most automatic nerf guns. Despite it being moderately illegal according to the games rules, he builds his own nerf arrows that are varyingly effective. He gets turned when one of them doesn’t quite work out and everyone isn’t quite sure if the shower of nerf darts actually hits the zombie. He agrees to be turned because he doesn’t want to argue/ruin the zombie’s day.

Perfuma - Med Zombie, she gets turned on the first night so that she can bring her first aid kit to anyone playing who gets hurt. “You can stun me but let me see that injury.” Will mom you. She also has a stock of water and vegan food bars. During missions, she is an absolute terror who will hunt down every human she can. Has the second highest kill count, besides Catra, despite not hunting any other time.

Sea Hawk - banned from playing after the one time he broke a window and nearly set a dorm on fire (based on a true story, we had to pay for the damages).

Mermista - “what’s the point in playing if you aren’t going to brazenly walk across campus” is her moto. She has not been turned once while doing so, even during the middle of the day which is peak hunting hours. 

Frosta - no chill, she runs straight at any zombie she sees and - since most zombies are expecting to do the hunting and not be hunted - she terrifies the entire horde. Has started challenging individual zombies to “thunderdome” (she gets one dart in her blaster vs one zombie). She wins several of these matches, and only gets taken down when Catra agrees to duel her.

Entrapta - spends most of the game building ridiculously modded nerf guns - half of them are high powered automatic blasters and the others are ridiculously small blasters that can fit in a pocket. She almost never gets turned because she hyperfocuses on building cool guns for the entire game and only shows up for extraction on the final day. All the zombies fear her inventions and are forced to let her into extraction without a fight lest they *all* be stunned and can’t hunt any other humans while they wait to respawn.

Scorpia - is terrible with nerf guns (even when Entrapta gives her one of the ‘mega’ guns that are bigger and easier to handle) but loves playing as a zombie - she gives hugs to anyone who is turned and immediately welcomes them into the horde (especially new players who are often upset that they get turned so early). Low kill count for zombies, but she doesn’t care.

Huntara - Sports jock who’s part of a frat and gets ‘hazed’ into joining the game as a freshmen. Years later, she’s still playing because she gets super into playing as a zombie and because she can outrun almost any human she finds. She generally maintains the third highest kill count but she can’t play in every game because her sports schedule is too demanding.

Micah - Resident Advisor & professor but gets super into the game and being all ‘tactical’ with nerf guns. Usually gets turned pretty quickly (See below) but also enjoys hanging out with all of his students as a zombie too. He progressively shows up later to his own classes that he teaches and spends the first ten minutes trying to convince his students to play the game. Everyone loves him and he’s also the faculty sponsor for the club. Regularly brings pizza and other foods to the missions so all the students can eat something.

Angella - Also a Resident Advisor who routinely puts a hit out on Micah so he’ll stop playing the game and come help her with groceries and the other chores he hasn’t done because he’s been too focused on the game (Also based on a true story).

Double Trouble - Mod who’s tasked with ‘keeping the balance’ (i.e. making sure there’s enough humans to make the missions and game fun, but not too few zombies that they feel left out and can’t tag anyone). When the balance is off, they orchestrate elaborate plans to make sure there’s an additional confrontation or two between humans and zombies so that everyone ends up having fun and the zombie numbers get to grow a little. They love their job, but almost no one knows that they are a mod bc they hardly play in person.

Lonnie, Rogellio, and Kyle - The Mod team. They’re almost never seen playing (similar to DT) because they’re locked in a library cubicle answering emails all day about “where do I go to sign up?” and “Can I still play if I sign up late?” When not answering emails, players often hang out nearby just to chill with them. (Also true, I did this for two years and never left the cubicle except to go to classes).

Netossa and Spineralla - the grad students who still play. They’re the pair who you call when you need help getting anywhere (especially off campus and especially late at night). Not the best at surviving, but everyone knows and looks up to them because they’ve been playing for years. They also have a car and regularly use it to drive supplies to and from missions to help out the mod team.

Hordak - disgruntled grad student who posts online about how terrible the game is and how the players are so loud and obnoxious but he’s secretly mad that no one in his program will play the game with him. Except…

Wrong Hordak - younger sibling to Hordak who’s still in undergrad and just wants to hang out with their older brother. “Hello Zombies, let us bask in the glory of Zombie Prime”. The horde doesn’t need a mega phone because they have WH.

Shadow Weaver - Buzzkill Admin. Hates the game and is always trying to find ways to shut it down for minor infractions The Mod Team technically reports to her but they all ignore her emails and just send them to Angella and Micah instead.

Additional note: Bow, Frosta, and Mermista have each camped out in a campus building overnight (dodging security) in order to avoid having to fight the zombies to get out. Frosta and Mermista, because they have no chill (and Mermista cares about not being turned *way* too much). And Bow because Glimmer was trying to sick the horde on him one time despite not being a zombie herself.

@ohgodthepink​ thank you for coming down this rabbit hole with me

#spop #she-ra #she-ra HvZ

[cowboynuts]

Hey could you do an Arthur Morgan x male reader with Arthur angrily patching up his boyfriend's wounds after reader got into a fight with someone he was warned about? (I love your blog!!)

I’m putting the entirety of this one under a cut bc it starts off with some homophobia and slurs, so cw for those things! (also thank you ily) 

“Never took Morgan for a fucking cocksucker, but, well,” his lips curled into a wry smirk as he sneered, “guess you never really can tell– can you?” 

You paused, fists balled tight against your side and jaw poised to snap. Your heartbeat was pounding in your ears and you became acutely aware of the rapid rise and fall of your chest. For as much as you tried to gain control, you knew your mind was already made up. Arthur was gonna kill you.

Micah snickered, “That’s right, invert. Go on an’ crawl back to cowpoke with your tail betw–” 

His sentence was abruptly cut off as your fist connected against his nose with a satisfying crunch. Micah stumbled backwards a few steps, holding his face in shock. After looking at the blood gushing against his hand and then back up to you, he squared his shoulders back and lunged for you. 

You both went tumbling towards the ground. White hot pain filled your skull as your head slammed against the earth and the skin on your lower lip split open with a good punch from Micah. He was straddling your torso, effectively pinning you down with his weight. You tried to land another good hit on him, but he blocked your hand and you grunted as his fist connected again just over your cheekbone. Your eyes widened in horror as Micah threw his coat back and palmed the butt of his revolver, a grin spreading across his face with blood glistening off his teeth. 

You gave a hard shove against his side at the same time you turned abruptly and managed to throw him off you. As you both rolled, Micah’s hand slid back to the hilt of his long hunting knife. You felt the blade slice through the soft flesh of your abdomen as you landed on top of him and couldn’t help the yell that ripped through your throat. He laughed darkly in response and your vision went blurry as you landed one, two, three solid punches down onto him. Your bloody fist was raised for a fourth strike, the other gripping a fistful of his shirt, when you felt arms pulling you backwards. 

“Enough! Hey– hey! I said that’s enough!”

You recognized Charles’ voice among the many others shouting and looked down to see it was his arms pulling you away from the fight. Micah was being dragged away from you by another member of the gang and you managed to get a solid kick against his shin in before being pulled too far away. 

“You fucking little–” Micah broke free and tried to lunge for you, but Charles stepped in front of you and placed a strong hand at the front of his shoulder to stop him. Micah let out a grunt at the sudden force and sneered.

“Don’t.” 

Micah scoffed and turned to spit on the ground in response. He met your eyes again and his nose curled up in disgust, “Try that shit again when no one’s round an’ see what happens.” 

He wiped at the blood dripping off his chin and turned to walk the other direction, muttering as he went, “Fucking invert.” 

You ran your tongue across your lower lip and cringed as the metallic taste of blood filled your mouth. Feeling the ache begin to settle into your body, you turned to face Charles with a pained grin, “Thank you, Charles. I can’t fucking stand him.” 

He crossed his arms and shook his head, “Neither can I, but you don’t see me beating his face into the ground.”

“It’s not the same. He just– I shouldn’t have to put up with that just ‘cause of who I love.” 

“Love?” Charles raised an eyebrow teasingly.

“You know what I mean,” you nudged his shoulder playfully, “It’s bullshit and I’m not gonna put up with it.” 

“As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with Arthur on this. He can be dangerous, (Y/N). Just stay away from him, alright?”

You sighed, exhausted, “Yeah, alright.” 

“Good. Now, you better go get some rest. Micah might not have killed you, but Arthur sure as hell will when he gets back later and sees you.” 

You groaned and headed for your tent. You knew he was right and you were not looking forward to it. 

///

“Fuck!” You cursed under your breath as you prodded the sensitive skin around your wound. The cut across your abdomen caused by Micah’s knife was painful and looked to be just deep enough to constitute stitches. Judging by the blood-soaked rags that littered the bed– it was better to be safe than sorry. Holding another rag against the gash, you stood to rustle around your tent for the small box of emergency medical supplies you kept. You let out a grunt as you sat back down on the bed with the kit in hand. You pulled out what you needed and started to carefully thread the needle with your stitching material. 

Suddenly, you heard the canvas of the tent flap rustle open and the sound of Arthur’s harsh drawl soon followed, “What the hell were you thinking, boy?”

“I’m a little busy right now,” you replied without looking up, not wanting to meet his undoubtedly furious stare. 

“Christ, (Y/N),” Arthur’s hand gently curled around your jaw and tilted it up to study your face, “What did he do to you?” 

You finally met his gaze and saw the worry in it, despite the hard set of his expression. His blue eyes were soft and– regardless of how much as he was trying to hide it– scared, and you could tell how tired he was. You reached up to touch his hand lightly and his entire body seemed to sag in response. 

“M’okay, it looks worse than it feels.” 

He shook his head with a bitter laugh as he moved to sit in front of you, “You’re a shitty liar.” 

“Only to you,” you let him move everything away to look at the bleeding wound. His fingertips barely grazed over your skin as he examined the cut and you shivered in response. You’d seen Arthur beat, torture, and kill other men with the same hands. But the way he touched you was full of life and care and love– nothing like those things he’d done to other men. It felt… wrong the more you thought about it, so you shook the thought out of your mind and instead spoke up softly, “Think it needs stitching?” 

He looked away with a sigh, “Think so. Gimme that.” 

You handed him the needle and thread and Arthur motioned for you to lie down. He kneeled down next to the cot as you did, hovering over your hip. He took a minute to position himself and wipe the blood from your skin and then he poised the needle to start stitching. It pierced your skin and you winced but otherwise laid still quietly. Arthur made quick work of it, stitching you closed neatly and with minimal pain. 

When he was done, he sat back on the ground with a sigh and rested his arms on his knees, “You’re a huge dumbass, you know that?” 

You clenched your jaw, staring up at the ceiling of the tent. Great, here comes the lecture.

“Hey,” Arthur leaned forward and hit your arm lightly, “I’m talkin’ to you. You understand how stupid and reckless that was?” 

You snorted, “You’re gonna lecture me about being stupid and reckless?”

He set his jaw firmly and squared his shoulders back in defense, “Micah would have killed you if he had the chance. Charles told me he tried to draw on you.” 

“Did he also tell you that Micah called you a fucking ‘cocksucker’ an’ me a ‘invert’? Or that he practically started the fight?”

“You punched him.”

“That don’t matter–”

“It does!” Arthur cut you off, anger rising in his voice, “Don’t you get it, (Y/N)? He’s dangerous– he’ll kill you if he gets the chance. Just cause he’s a piece of shit don’t mean you get to go around starting fights and gettin’ yourself killed.” 

“I’m not dead, Arthur.”

“What if he had cut deeper, huh? Better yet, what if he was able to draw an’ get a shot in, then what? Instead of stitching up a silly wound I’d get to be burying a body right now!” 

You sat up sharply in anger, hissing in pain as your stomach muscles tightened. Arthur leaned forward concernedly a bit at your sound of pain but stayed sitting on the ground. You had one hand pressed against the now-stitched wound and you looked up at Arthur, your eyes filling with tears of pain and frustration. 

“You don’t understand, do you? It ain’t about Micah, Arthur. It’s about how I shouldn’t need to be afraid anymore. How we shouldn’t need to hide away.”

Arthur’s expression softened as you looked down at the floor, tears spilling down your cheeks, “I shouldn’t have to worry about bein’ killed cause of who I love.” 

“Oh, darlin’. Come ‘ere,” Arthur moved forward to kneel in front of you and pull you into a tight hug. You buried your face against the crook of his neck and clung to him. He hushed you softly as he held you, letting you regain your composure. After a few moments, you pulled away and wiped your nose with the back of your hand with a sniffle, “Sorry.”

Arthur was staring at your free hand, running the pads of his thumbs over your split knuckles lightly. You watched him clench and unclench his jaw and when he looked up at you, there was a glint in his eye that reminded you of a rabid animal. His voice was low and gruff when he spoke, “I’m gonna kill him.” 

You stayed silent and he reached up to brush across the purple bruise flowering on your cheek. His touch lowered to graze across your split lip and when he spoke again, it was laced with fury and determination, “I swear to god, I’m gonna kill Micah Bell if it’s the last goddamn thing I do.” 

#arthur morgan #arthur morgan fanfic #arthur morgan x reader #arthur morgan x male reader #rdr2 #red dead redemption #red dead fanfic #prompt #reqs #IM BACK BABEY #Anonymous

[queertheology]

Faith Based Activism Starter Kit

When I was 21, a conversation with my parents about health insurance devolved into an argument about my queerness.

I had come out as gay three years earlier and they had a mixed response. They checked a few of the right boxes: they were quick to assure me that I was still their son, they made it clear they would still help me with college, they loved me and wanted me to be happy. But they also had their stumbles: they asked that I go see a Christian counselor, they never asked about my dating life, they were uncomfortable  talking about anything LGBT.

So I waited.

I did what I thought was the “good Christian thing” to do: I was patient and gracious. I tried to not ruffle any feathers (though I did have a few outbursts of frustration). I was “giving them time and space” for their “process.”

And then three years later we were sitting in the kitchen arguing about whether it was OK for gay people to be camp counselors and youth leaders, whether gay relationships were valid, whether anyone even expected gay people to get married in the first place. And I realized, in that moment, that they hadn’t changed. My parents were, for the most part, in the exact same spot they were three years ago when I came out.

All of my grace and patience and gentle reading suggestions and subtle attempts to talk about LGBTQ topics had done nothing. My parents hadn’t changed because, frankly, I hadn’t asked them to. I thought I was being kind, gracious, patient; I thought I was giving them time and space. But what I was really doing was being silent, tacitly approving the status quo.

The night of that argument, when I realized that my parents hadn’t changed because I hadn’t asked them to, I also realized that if the Church and America are to change, someone is going to have to ask them to change also. And not just ask once, meekly. We are going to have to force the issue. In his Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explains,

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”

That day, I decided I would be an “angelic troublemaker,” as Bayard Rustin said. I applied for (and was later accepted to) Soulforce’s Equality Ride and spent 2 months studying nonviolence and theology, including in-person training with civil rights leader John Lewis, and then 2 months traveling the country engaged in activism and speaking at schools, churches, and communities around the intersections faith, justice, gender, and sexuality. In the decade since, I’ve dedicated much of my time, passion, and energy to social justice causes. I do this because of my Christian faith, not in spite of it.

I’m sure you’ve had some similar experiences. Parents who need a little more time, a church that’s still discerning their stance, pastors who have a good heart but don’t quite get it. Whether it’s around LGBTQ issues or something else like race, sexism, police brutality, Islamophobia… I bet there’s been someone in your life who is “not quite there yet” (maybe you have been that person).

And perhaps you’ve even wanted to be more active in creating change in your life, family, and community. If you have a similar stirring in your soul to do something, I see you. Here’s a bit of what I’ve learned from my past decade of faith-based LGBTQ activism.

In Romans 12, Paul says,

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God–this is your true and proper worship.”

Putting your body on the line — literally — is a spiritual act of worship.

A faith-based pursuit of justice is found throughout the Bible.

Micah tell us that what God requires is “to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”

Amos tells us that God “hates” and “despises” religious festivals, but instead desires that “justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.”

On Palm Sunday, Jesus stages a massive nonviolent direct action by riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, and later that week even goes so far as to destroy property by turning over tables in the temple.

Imagine what our community, our churches, our world would look like if Christians rolled up our sleeves a little more and worked a little more fervently for the Kingdom of God, on earth as it is in heaven?

How to get started with faith-based activism

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Activism doesn’t happen in a vacuum and simply being LGBTQ (or loving someone who is) doesn’t automagically make you an expert (if only!). Take some time to learn about the issues you find yourself in the midst of, issues that you are connected to, issues that you can work in solidarity with. And learn from those who have gone before about the tactics that worked — and those that didn’t. Innovation is important, of course, but so is learning from those who have already been doing the work, when possible.

Here are some book recommendations to get you started:

Jesus & Nonviolence: A Third Way by Walter Wink

Jesus Acted Up by Robert Goss

Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King Jr. (the published version of Letter From A Birmingham Jail)

How Nonviolence Protects The State and The Failure of Nonviolence by Peter Gelderloos

Color of Violence by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

When We Rise by Cleve Jones

I got my start as an activist with Soulforce, which is committed nonviolent direct action as a means of sabotaging Christian supremacy. Why nonviolence? Here’s how they put it,

It is effective for the kind of work that we do

It is open and accessible in the sense that it provides tools to everyday activists and “pre-activists”

It contains a call to action

And finally, it offers a path of personal transformation. Our goal is always first and foremost the internal healing, reconciliation, strengthening, and transformation of the individual and community.

This is the nonviolent process that I learned:

Experience the nature of the problem and be with the people most affected

Research the problem and the adversary; understand the facts and the cultural texture of where we are located

Negotiate with the adversary directly on what justice can look like

Use direct action to elicit a re-dedication to moving toward justice when negotiation fails

Use tools of communication and media to bring more people into the conversation to lean into the strength of social accountability to work towards cultural change

Return to negotiation when the adversary is willing; the question is not whether we shall move toward justice but how and how soon

Soulforce has a detailed and accessible guide to nonviolence which I highly recommend.

Stay Current

In order to be effective activists, we have to know what’s going on! Some of these groups and resources are not specifically Christian but are doing work around issues that we think are important for Christians. It can be powerful for Christians to work alongside non-Christians on issues that matter to us.

Black & Pink – supporting LGBTQ prisoners

@prisonculture on Twitter

POWER an interfaith activist organization based in Philadelphia (but who is engaged with issues of national and international significance)

National Immigrant Justice Center

@BreeNewsome is a fierce Black, Christian activist. Follow her on Twitter to stay connected to current events + be blessed by her keen insight

Queer Theology – on our Facebook and Twitter, we regularly share information about issues that are important to LGBTQ Christians and supporters as well as actions you can take to make a difference

Connect Locally

Groups meeting at your local LGBT Center are a great place to start. Look up who is there and get involved in one that resonates with you

Everytown for Gun Safety has actions you can take — digitally and in-person — to make a difference in your community

Soulforce has opportunities to educate yourself and take action digitally and locally.

Trans Day of Action is an annual event organized by Audre Lorde Project in NYC and has local actions in some cities. It’s a great way to offer your body as a living sacrifice by showing up for trans justice

Black Lives Matter has chapters across the country. If there’s one in your town, you can link up!

Practice Activism in Your Daily Life

Activism isn’t only being part of an official organization, it also happens in your personal life.

Speak up when a family member says something homophobic, racist, or otherwise prejudiced

Ask your pastor to use examples of LGBTQ people in their sermons

Start a group at your church — maybe it’s something simple like an LGBTQ fellowship, or more active like an activist group

Ask your church leaders to read our article on how to tell if your church is welcoming for transgender people and go through our Inclusive Church Checklist

You don’t have to be outspoken and in your face to practice activism. Fr. Shay wrote an article on how introverts can get involved with activism in a way that feels safe and sustainable.

Take Care of Yourself

If you want to be an effective activist, helping make the world a better place… then you need to make sure that you’re taking care of yourself too.

We have a bunch of resources on self-care including An LGBTQ Christian Guide to Self-Care

There may be a peer support group you can join at a local nonprofit that centers around your experience (in major cities, healthcare nonprofits often have these, as well as community- and issue-specific groups such as LGBTQ, veterans, immigrants, etc).

You may find therapy to be helpful in taking care of yourself (I know that I do!). If you have insurance, you may be able to see a therapist for relatively cheap. If you don’t, there might be a nonprofit that offers those services to you at no or lost cost. You can also look into virtual counseling with a company such as BetterHelp. We can’t recommend enough that you work with a licensed therapist who does not have a religious agenda. This type of therapist will be much more helpful than a “Christian counselor” through your church or a religious organization.

Get Started

I know there’s a lot here and the last thing I want you to do is get stuck in analysis paralysis. I know that a fear of doing or saying the wrong thing can take keep many of us from ever taking action.

What sort of world would we live in if we were always ruled by fear of failure? You may mess up along the way and that’s human. The key is to graciously admit your mistakes, learn from the experience, and commit to making things right. We’re in this together.

So today, pick one book to read or one organization to connect with. Take one step today, and another tomorrow, and a third next week. Keep on with the work until that day when justice rolls down like a river. Because together, we’re gonna change the world.

We’ve got more resources for Christian activism coming, if you want to make sure you get ‘em all, you can signup here and we’ll send ‘em your way

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Week 18 in Rosedale has come to an end. Time for the weekly recap :3

Births: 8 Deaths: 1

SOMERSET:

Nicholas reached the top of the politics career track and became Rosedale’s first ‘official’ mayor!

Victor started rolling marriage wants; conveniently timed considering the ROS roll was for either of them to have a baby. He then entered a relationship with townie Anthea Noyes.

Nicholas and Costel Couderc fell in love!

Both Anthea and Nicholas ended up falling pregnant to their respective partners! Anthea then gave birth early Monday morning to a baby boy named James.

Victor, Anthea and James moved out.

EVANS:

Iola fell pregnant again, and gave birth to a surprisingly purple baby named Vesuvia later in the week.

Bellamy turned into a child.

The family literally reached §0! Yet somehow, this feat attracted burglar Sabastian...

Asher turned into a teenager.

Sian wished for the power to cheat death!

Sian turned into an adult. She then moved out on Monday morning.

RAY:

Joseph inherited money from his late half-brother Yanni Somerset.

Leia turned into a toddler and then a child.

Rigel and Tharen both turned into teenagers.

Sara spent her time gardening (in order to become a plantsim due to the ROS roll), and became one late in the week!

Joseph threw a party for his extended family, and invited over all his siblings, half-siblings and all their families. In the middle of this party, Buddy the cat died of old age! Millie died not long after too :(

Joseph was abducted by aliens!

COUDERC:

Sawyer turned into an adult and moved out at the end of the week.

Kelly turned into an elder.

Kelly went on a shopping trip downtown, and ended up going on an impromptu date instead.

Hera taught Socks some tricks.

ARBON:

Mae spawned a social bunny...

Vivienne really really wanted a wife, and instead of trying to find a girlfriend like a normal lesbian vampire, she decided that she was going to try make a robot girlfriend instead.

SWAFFORD:

Teagan and Lane turned into children.

Ronica turned into an elder.

She used the genie lamp to wish for the power to cheat death, and then for more money.

Dean and Colt turned into teenagers.

Dean adopted a pet cat named Bella!

He then set the kitchen on fire...

Audrey turned into an adult and moved out at the end of the week.

COUDERC II:

Isaiah Aguilera (the now-living-with boyfriend of Dominic) came around to drop off a date gift, even though they now both live together...

Evelyn turned into a teenager.

Nathaniel turned into an adult. He then invited his girlfriend Lizbeth Allison to move in, and immediately got her pregnant... She gave birth to a daughter named Marilyn (who inherited alien eyes from her alien great grandparent!) Lizbeth then became pregnant again.

Nova turned into an elder.

Kayla and Zenith turned into toddlers, and then children later in the week.

Micah and Ethan repaired a car together.

Adela turned into a teenager.

Nathaniel set the kitchen on fire.

Micah turned into an adult. He entered a relationship with fellow-alien townie Joy Shaye!

Nathaniel, Lizbeth and Marilyn, and Micah and Joy moved out into their respective households at the end of the week.

BREWSTER:

Hayley turned into a teenager.

Andy got into a few fights!

The quadruplets turned into children.

Andy turned into an adult.

Leland and Gwyneth both turned into elders.

Apple, and twins Andromeda and Saros all turned into teenagers.

Andy wooed local firefighter Odette Lye! They went on a few dates, and then she moved in and proposed! They then both moved out.

MAZZA:

Joel turned into a teenager.

Toby turned into an adult.

The family adopted an actual cat, Ali, to be friends with Daryl’s familiar, Deva.

Daryl battled the kitchen appliances, and got shocked twice. He then set the kitchen on fire, and the game spawned a new firefighter (also adorable) called Prissy Condon.

Toby did some gardening, and didn’t even notice his father being abducted by aliens right next to him.

Bailey and Daryl turned into elders. Bailey’s birthday party saw her sisters and their families come over. The en masse elder shuffle party was incredible!

Bailey got chased by bees.

HARRISON:

The family name changed from Browne to Harrison after the birth of baby Roman.

Lyndsay’s ex-wife Grace Villiers walked by the apartment and they actually had a positive interaction! I thought for sure that this was a good sign until Grace tried to hug Lyndsay in the bathroom... After being rejected, they had yet another fight and sent everything back to square one.

Roman turned into a toddler.

Lyndsay turned into an elder.

VILLIERS II:

The first thing Gillian did was invite over her boyfriend Toby Mazza and then fall pregnant.

Grace turned into an elder.

Gillian gave birth to baby Gideon!

Grace went to Sue’s Secret Kitchen to take part in a cooking competition. She won, naturally.

Gillian invited Toby over again, and once again there were chimes...

Kaylyn spent most of her time at school and then looking after her baby nephew.

Grace’s half-brother Kit came over for a visit.

Toby moved in and then the small family immediately moved out.

LAUPER:

The family moved into a much larger house.

Maximilian fell asleep on the front stairs.

Sausage destroyed Gabriel’s homework!

The matchmaker left them a genie lamp! Frankie then wished for more money.

Gabriel reached the top of the teen culinary career track.

Frankie and Valentina turned into elders.

Max turned into a child.

Gabriel turned into an adult, and then due to the ROS roll, his cousin Vivienne Arbon turned him into a vampire!

Gabriel moved out.

DIRGE:

Zephyr got chased by bees.

Absinthe turned into an elder.

Zephyr tried fixing the computer and got shocked!

Bella turned into an adult.

Kit wished for the power to cheat death!

Bella went on a date with townie Rachael Norton! They continued seeing each other and Bella eventually fell pregnant due to risky woohoo!

Zephyr went on a date with townie Leia St Martin! They fell in love almost instantly and both rolled wishes to get engaged. Their wedding was held the next day, and all of the extended Dirge family was invited. Leia also then fell pregnant.

Alexis turned into an adult.

Both Zephyr and Leia, and Bella and Rachael moved out.

GREEN:

Rose and Lirit moved again; this time into an actual functional-sized house.

Lirit fell pregnant and then gave birth to a baby girl named Angelica!

Rose joined the garden club.

COUDERC III:

Costel’s father Ethan came over for a visit.

Costel sold fire alarms to townies.

Burglar Sabastian tried to rob his tiny house (not sure why - Costel doesn’t have much), but was run-off by policeman Cale.

An adorable townie named Peaches Kat walked by and she and Costel immediately hit it off! However, considering Costel has a pregnant boyfriend already, I’m not sure if this will actually go anywhere...

HASSOURAS:

Week 18 saw Regina Hassouras and Lucas Couderc move into an apartment of their own.

Regina went into aspiration failure.

Regina gave birth to a son named Lucio! He turned into a toddler later in the week.

I found out that Regina didn’t actually love Lucas (despite him loving her, moving in together and having a baby), so when she was offered a blind date by a townie, she absolutely took him up on the offer! What resulted was her falling in love with another sim named Bernie Robertson.

Despite Regina being at home, she barely interacted with her son. As Lucas was the only one to actively look after him, he and Lucio moved out at the end of the week. Bernie then moved in with Regina.

AGUILERA:

Dominic Couderc and Isaiah Aguilera moved into their own tiny home!

Dominic fell pregnant and gave birth to a son named Deigo later in the week!

Isaiah started his own business! He bought a lot, called it the Littlest Toy Shoppe, and spent the majority of the week there making and selling toys and earning money.

Due to ROS evil-ness, Dominic died on the side of the road in the middle of the night.

BREWSTER II:

Kat moved into her own tiny apartment with §596 to her name.

She went on an outing with some friends and one of them pulled some strings the next day, resulting in her promotion!

Kat entered a relationship with her landlord Kent Terranova in order to get her rent down! It worked, but she also fell in love with him and wanted to get married.

Kat’s mother Gwyneth came over for a visit.

On Monday morning, Kent moved in and a new landlord spawned.

O’BRIEN:

Noah Dirge and his boyfriend Jonathan O’Brien moved into their own home.

Due to ROS, Jonathan spent literally every night being abducted by aliens. He came back with a ‘gift’ and gave birth to baby Altair.

Noah spawned a social bunny...

Noah’s father Kit came over and was immediately sprayed by a skunk.

Despite the constant alien abductions, Noah and Jonathan found time to throw a wedding party!

#sims 2 #ts2 #rosedale bacc #week 18 summary

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Solomon And Saturnusrejected Scriptures

King Solomon: the wisest man to ever live, builder of the temple, beautiful poet and national leader--he was a man who seemed to have it all. Yet, at the end of his life, he penned these words in Ecclesiastes 2:11:

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“When I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.”

1 Kings 1:1-53 ESV / 14 helpful votes. Now King David was old and advanced in years.

Song of Solomon inspired worship. If you sit down to read this book, you may notice a few verses are lines in a popular worship song titled, You Won’t Relent. It was one of the first songs I.

1 Kings 11:9-13 ESV / 29 helpful votes. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart. Solomon wrote numerous passages of Scripture. Solomon is responsible for writing a great amount of Scripture (1 Kings 4:23-34). He wrote Ecclesiastes, Proverbs (Proverbs 1:1), and Song of Solomon. Some believe that Proverbs 30 and 31 were written by others. Solomon was wise, but Christ is 'Wisdom.' Solomon built a Temple, but also altars to false gods overtopping it across the valley; and his Temple was burned with fire. But Christ is the true Temple as well as Priest and Sacrifice. Solomon was by name 'the peaceful,' and his land had outward rest, darkened at the last by war and rebellion.

Solomon was a complex man. He had his victories and defeats, just like us. We may have heard stories about this great king, but there are a few things left to uncover.

Icom m700 service manual. Here are 9 Interesting Things You Might Not Know about King Solomon:

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Lesson 31: The Wisdom of King Solomon

Lesson 31

“Lesson 31: The Wisdom of King Solomon,” Primary 6: Old Testament (1996), 135–39

To strengthen each child’s desire to become more like Jesus Christ by developing wisdom and an understanding heart.

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Preparation

Prayerfully study:

1 Kings 1:39—Solomon is anointed.

1 Kings 2:1–4—David charges Solomon to keep the commandments.

1 Kings 2:10, 12—David dies; Solomon is king of Israel.

1 Kings 3:3–15—Solomon asks for an understanding heart.

2 Chronicles 1:7–12—Solomon asks for wisdom and knowledge.

1 Kings 3:16–28—Solomon determines the mother of a child.

1 Kings 4:29–30, 34—God blesses Solomon with wisdom and understanding.

Chapter headings for 1 Kings 5–8—Solomon builds and dedicates a beautiful temple.

Study the lesson and decide how you want to teach the children the scripture account (see “Preparing Your Lessons,” p. vi, and “Teaching from the Scriptures,” p. vii). Select the discussion questions and enrichment activities that will best help the children achieve the purpose of the lesson.

Materials needed: a Bible for each child. Online forms microsoft.

Invite a child to give the opening prayer.

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Enrichment Activities

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You may use one or more of the following activities any time during the lesson or as a review, summary, or challenge.

Write knowledge, wisdom, and an understanding heart on the chalkboard. Discuss the meaning of each one. Explain that knowledge is learning gained through study or experience; wisdom is using what we have learned in the best way to make right choices; and an understanding heart enables us to know how others feel.

Have the children suggest situations, such as the following, where they might ask Heavenly Father to bless them with knowledge, wisdom, or an understanding heart:

A younger brother or sister is hurt or afraid.

A friend has hurt your feelings.

Someone has a problem and asks you for advice.

Help the children realize that they can receive these gifts if they seek them and live worthy lives.

Refer to the children’s ideas on the chalkboard of what gifts they might ask for (see the attention activity). If the ideas listed are spiritual gifts, discuss how to develop them and use them. If some or all of them are worldly gifts, have the children suggest spiritual gifts in place of the worldly ones before discussing them.

Explain to the children that David, Solomon’s father, had wanted to build a temple but was denied the privilege. The Lord instead chose Solomon to direct the seven years of construction. When the elaborate temple (much of it was overlaid with gold) was finished, the priests carried the ark of the covenant, which contained the two tablets of stone the Lord gave Moses, “to the most holy place” of the building (1 Kings 8:6). Then the glory of the Lord filled the temple (see 1 Kings 8:10–11), and Solomon offered the dedicatory prayer (see 1 Kings 8:22–53.)

Show the picture Temple Baptismal Font (Gospel Art Picture Kit 504; 62031). Point out that each temple today has a baptismal font resting on twelve oxen, similar to that in Solomon’s temple. In Solomon’s day this font was used to baptize the living; in our temples today the fonts are used to perform baptisms for the dead.

Have the children find the book of Proverbs in their Bibles. Explain that most of these proverbs (wise sayings) were written by Solomon, and because of his great wisdom, these sayings can help us today.

Choose some of the following passages from Proverbs and write their corresponding letters on separate pieces of paper. Place the papers in a container and have the children take turns choosing a letter. Read the proverb or have the children find it in their Bibles and read it. Help them state it in their own words. Then help them decide how it applies to them. The children may want to mark some of these proverbs in their own Bibles.

“Hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother” (1:8).

“If sinners entice thee, consent thou not” (1:10).

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (3:5–6).

“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding” (3:13).

“Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight” (12:22).

“A soft answer turneth away wrath” (15:1).

“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance” (15:13).

“The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous” (15:29).

“How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!” (16:16).

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” (16:18).

“Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones” (16:24).

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty” (16:32).

“A friend loveth at all times” (17:17).

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine” (17:22).

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise” (20:1).

“Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right” (20:11).

“As he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (23:7).

“Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me” (24:29).

“A faithful man shall abound with blessings” (28:20).

“Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe” (29:25).

Help the children choose one of the proverbs to write down or memorize and share with their families.

Sing or read the words to “Love One Another” (Children’s Songbook, p. 136; or Hymns, no. 308) or “A Special Gift Is Kindness” (Children’s Songbook, p. 145).

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Invite a child to give the closing prayer.

[haphazardlyparked]

Omgosh where IS the fantasy?!?!?!?!?

this one means i need to “write more Combatants”, which is my science fiction fantasy thing. except that there’s no fantasy yet. and, erm. we still haven’t got there… but soon i promise.

For Sarko, the first twenty minutes or so go unbearably slowly.

He’s still in Station S, at the Ops console, struggling to claw data on the wuzari mothership from them, though the most he can assemble right now is are basic floor plans and maps. Judging from the cut of lines on the simple layered diagram, their guess at the cloaked ship’s shape is right: some kind of circular thing made of interconnected pieces that might be able to detach into individual ships. If Sarko had the time to care, he’d think the design is clever, versatile like their invasive, sticky-fingered codes. Beautiful, if only it didn’t leave him feeling dirtied and nauseous.

He’s also got Eyes following K-squad as they slink through pristine halls made of sleek lights and hard angles, and his voice is in their ears as he directs them as best he can given the patchy intel.

“All clear,” they take turns saying as they round blind corners and pass through asymmetrical intersections, where corridors don’t quite line up with each other despite the smooth floor plans Sarko is working off of.

“We appear to be ascending,” Everett says.

“Descending,” Meris disagrees with consternation.

“I—“ Cal begins, but Jones stops them all.

“Let’s agree to disagree. Sarko?”

Sarko doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about, but he spins together an explanation that involves twisting ship limbs and different artificial gravity mechanisms. “The most important thing is,” he assures them without feeling assured, “is that you’re all headed for Commander K’s subcutaneous tracker, still.”

The subcutaneous trackers, injected into the shoulder, are generally less precise and reliable than tracking Station S’s particle residue — but K’s been off-ship for far more than five hours now. The residue from her shift has all faded, and now Sarko can only hope and pray that the standard tracking chip hasn’t been found and removed, or worse. (What could be worse doesn’t bear thinking about, but then, the wuzari have always managed to be creative in the most devastating of ways.)

K-squad’s jaunt through the wuzari ship is a glacial crawl; in twenty minutes, they’re only about halfway to K’s location by Sarko’s rough estimate. (He’s still got secondary Eyes on her, flickering in the background, but he can’t bring himself to focus on the image. He doesn’t want to see her sluggishly bleeding wounds or pale face, doesn’t want to play that awful game of is she-isn’t she breathing, not when he’s got orders to follow and an unsanctioned mission to monitor.)

But then, at twenty-one minutes, all Eyes on K go dark. Sarko knows they should have lasted another four hours at least, but he’s only given a couple of minutes to obsess over the tech failure. At twenty-three minutes, as K-squad is veers left to pass through another asymmetrical intersection of halls, Elsbeth hails Sarko.

“Captain,” she says, voice tight.

Sarko’s stomach sinks. “There’s a problem with Pyrrha,” he guesses, because there’s nothing else in this moment that could worry Elsbeth more, not even the Eyes on K failing.

“Pyrrha is fine,” Elsbeth hedges, “For now. Because they’re hacking into the Pandora Gate directly instead. It’s — they’ve got the power to breech the firewalls. I give it another twenty minutes, if they’re not headed off.”

Her meaning is clear. Sarko needs to be at the Core Console now — Elsbeth needs to continue reviewing the revised Pyrrha Protocol and Sarko needs to protect the integrity of the Pandora Gate’s coding. K-squad needs to get to K before she dies, but nobody’s as good at running Ops as Elsbeth and Sarko, and Micah is right. Sarko is selfish and cruel and he’s going to get everyone killed.

At least now, he can reasonably blame the wuzari, too.

“Jones,” Sarko grits his teeth. “I’m handing off to Lawson.” He’s going to get everyone killed, and there’s no atoning for that, so the best he can do is make sure the slaughter is contained to Elpis-P1. Pyrrha must work. 

“—fucking hell,” Meris complains.

Lawson’s already taking over the comms and Eyes. “Sorry you’re stuck with me,” she says breezily. “If any of you die on me, I will kill you.”

Sarko leaves them and takes off for the lift at a run, then, before he’s fully stepped into the Core Console room, he’s already barking out orders. “Wes, get down to Ops and provide additional support. Collins, Si’ek start running analysis on Pandora Gate’s core coding. Patch up any potential weaknesses you can. Elsbeth, how’s the code looking?”

“So far so good, sir,” Elsbeth says. It sounds almost like a prayer.

“We’ll see,” Sarko says grimly. He sits down before his usual workstation and sinks himself into the digital world that makes up his battlefield, his war.

He doesn’t think about how he’s what might happen if he loses, if the wuzari break open Pandora’s secrets and steal into the central systems and snatch hope from the box. They call it the wuzari Conflict back central, like they don’t understand there’s a guerrilla war playing out all along the Pilgrimage. And at the holy site at the end of the long Pilgrimage — the original system from whence they all came — it’s trench warfare. He loses, and the wuzari will take the Pilgrimage systems, one by one, until they reach central and swallow up the whole hard-won empire.

But Sarko doesn’t think of that. Sarko’s head is filled with twisting strategies and code he weaves in an attempt to cut out the wuzari hackers, to pry free their greedy fingers. He’s so deep in the systems that it takes him a moment to recognize when he’s gained ground, shored up defenses enough that he can take a step back. He pulls his hands back to his side, away from the keyboards of his work station. He blinks away the afterimage of interlocking blocks of code, and tries to remember what it feels like to be confined to his human body. It’s strangely more difficult than it should be.

“Elsbeth.”

“About eleven minutes til I’m done.” Twenty-three minutes before he was called up. A little under twenty-six minutes he’s been under. And after eleven minutes, they still need another fifty-eight for the charges to properly rig themselves according to the code. Two more to execute the boom. 

In total, seventy-one minutes they need if they’re going to blow everything to hell.

“What I’ve done now will buy about thirty minutes,” Sarko confesses.

“Shit,” Elsbeth says. “What else can you do?”

Sarko grinds his teeth — he’s a fighter, this is his specialty, and he doesn’t know what to do. This is where Sarko is supposed to make a difference, where Sarko can make up for arming K with a W-knife but then not following her into battle.

In fact, Sarko realizes suddenly – in fact, he never really ‘goes into battle’ at all; he plays defense. He’s forced to battle. 

He smiles grimly. “I’m going to go after their central coding.”

“Ambitious,” Elsbeth says, looking up from her review work. She does not look amused.

“If I attack them,” Sarko argues his case, “They’ll have to defend themselves. It’ll buy us more time.”

“We’ve never got through their second stage of defenses before,” Elsbeth reminds Sarko. She doesn’t need to say there’s no way he’s going to be able to magically do that in the next thirty (twenty nine) minutes before they get past whatever new blockade Sarko devised. 

“If I shift aboard the ship,” says Sarko, “I can hack in easily from the first connected device I come across.”

Elsbeth frowns at Sarko for a long moment. Twenty eight.

“I’ll run Ops,” Elsbeth nearly growls, and then they’re moving towards the lift together.

“Wes,” Sarko says, when they’re back down in  “Sorry. Get back up to Core. You’re going to need to finish reviewing the last of the code. Lawson, find me a half battle kit.”

“Sir?” Lawson asks, like she’s unsure of what she’s hearing.

Elsbeth gently shoulders Lawson out of the way. “A half battle kit,” she repeats as she taps into K-squad’s comms—under Lawson and Wes’s watchful eyes, they’ve moved more slowly; they’re close to K, but haven’t reached her yet. “Captain Sarko needs to board that ship. We’d prefer if he were armed.”

next time i swear: there WILL BE FANTASY 

(make help me write more here)

#combatants #writing #year of the orange #MAYhem 2017 #rrrawrf #science fiction fantasy #SOOON

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Large communities have sprung up all over the internet, showcasing the homemade battery projects that creative individuals have produced around the world. One of the first and largest of these communities revolved around electric bicycles. Ebikes were some of the first consumer products to require large Li-ion batteries with dozens of individual battery cells.Combining the high cost of these batteries with the DIY nature of many in the early ebike communities, DIY batteries were an inevitable result. Custom ebike makers that wanted more options for batteries began buying up the newly available consumer spot welders to create their own custom battery configurations. A DIY battery renaissance was born.Shortly thereafter, DIY powerwalls, or home energy storage battery banks often constructed from salvaged laptop battery cells, starting becoming much more popular. Even before Tesla unveiled its eponymous Powerwall in 2015, DIY enthusiasts were already trying to create their own home energy storage batteries. After Tesla entered the market and turned the Powerwall into a household name, DIY versions became even more popular.

Because they are used to power entire homes, DIY powerwalls often require many thousands of individual battery cells. At $3-6 per cell though, builders had to get creative. The community discovered that old laptop batteries destined for recycling centers often contained perfectly good battery cells, largely as a consequence of computers dying long before the batteries had served their useful lives.Scrupulous DIYers could harvest the cells from these laptop batteries, sometimes even finding them for free at computer repair shops and retailers that are often required by law to take back old Li-ion batteries. This had a fascinating effect on the battery recycling economy. In a matter of months, old laptop batteries went from being annoying e-waste that most retailers and collection centers had trouble dealing with to a commodity that was being sold off by the pound.

Unlike most DIY electric bicycle batteries that are spot welded together like professionally produced battery packs, DIY powerwall builders needed a way to economically join thousands of cells quickly, cheaply and in a way that would allow them to remove cells that went bad over time. Thus, the DIY powerwall community adopted the sometimes controversial method of soldering battery cells together into their massive battery packs. This soldering process had the benefit of allowing builders to add in cell-level fuses like Tesla includes in their packs, but the jury remains out on exactly how large of an effect the heat of a soldering iron can have on the longevity of Li-ion battery cells.As battery pack building started becoming more accessible, I began committing to paper all of the knowledge and experience in DIY lithium-ion battery pack building I had collected over the years. This effort to create a single source of high quality educational content on DIY batteries eventually turned into the Amazon bestselling book DIY Lithium Batteries.

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Between writing the book and running a YouTube channel that teaches people the art of battery building, I’ve interacted with countless makers and hobbyists that wanted to join the DIY lithium battery craze. One of the most common desires I saw was for a modular battery pack building system. Instead of using welding and soldering to create permanent battery packs, DIYers wanted to be able to swap out lithium batteries the same way you swap out AA’s in your TV remote. Nothing like this existed on a scale and power level appropriate for powering large energy storage installations or electric vehicles. So I got to work with a team of bright, enthusiastic young engineers and designers and we created a solution.Last summer we debuted the first version of our idea, called the Vruzend battery building kit. It incorporated press-fit battery caps that fit on the end of common lithium-ion battery cells, using spring-loaded terminals and threaded terminal posts. The caps lock together, allowing the battery builder to create the exact size, shape, voltage and capacity of battery needed for any project.

Our latest version just announced today on Kickstarter is designed for higher power applications, such as high power electric skateboards, ebikes, racing karts and e-motorcycles or high power energy storage banks.I believe the future of DIY lithium battery building is incredibly bright for hobbyists and makers in the green energy field. Whether you’re building a solar-powered toy or an electric race car, a growing DIY battery building industry is waiting at your fingertips.[Editor’s note: A few commenters have noted concern that this is an ad or sponsored post. The circumstances are that we’ve known Micah for awhile and were excited about the product that launched this week. Rather than write about it, we thought it would best to hear directly from the horse’s mouth. We didn’t receive any money or benefits from this post. . -Seth Weintraub]

So you’re using your laptop and, all of the sudden, it dies. There was no battery warning from Windows—in fact, you recently checked and Windows said you had 30% battery power left. What’s going on?Even if you treat your laptop’s battery properly, its capacity will decrease over time. Its built-in power meter estimates how much juice available and how much time on battery you have left—but it can sometimes give you incorrect estimates.This basic technique will work in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista. Really, it will work for any device with a battery, including older MacBooks. It may not be necessary on some newer devices, however.If you’re taking proper care of your laptop’s battery, you should be allowing it to discharge somewhat before plugging it back in and topping it off. You shouldn’t be allowing your laptop’s battery to die completely each time you use it, or even get extremely low. Performing regular top-ups will extend your battery’s life.

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However, this sort of behavior can confuse the laptop’s battery meter. No matter how well you take care of the battery, its capacity will still decrease as a result of unavoidable factors like typical usage, age, and heat. If the battery isn’t allowed to run from 100% down to 0% occasionally, the battery’s power meter won’t know how much juice is actually in the battery. That means your laptop may think it’s at 30% capacity when it’s really at 1%—and then it shuts down unexpectedly.Calibrating the battery won’t give you longer battery life, but it will give you more accurate estimates of how much battery power your device has left.Manufacturers that do recommend calibration often calibrating the battery every two to three months. This helps keep your battery readings accurate.

In reality, you likely don’t have to do this that often if you’re not too worried about your laptop’s battery readings being completely precise. However, if you don’t calibrate your battery regularly, you may eventually find your laptop suddenly dying on you when you’re using it—without any prior warnings. When this happens, it’s definitely time to calibrate the battery.Some modern devices may not require battery calibration at all. For example, Apple recommends battery calibration for older Macs with user-replaceable batteries, but says it’s not required for modern portable Macs with built-in batteries. Check your device manufacturer’s documentation to learn whether battery calibration is necessary on your device or not.Recalibrating your battery is simple: just let the battery run from 100% capacity straight down to almost dead, and then charging it back to full. The battery’s power meter will see how long the battery actually lasts and get a much more accurate idea of how much capacity the battery has left.

Some laptop manufacturers include utilities that will calibrate the battery for you. These tools will usually just make sure your laptop has a full battery, disable power management settings, and allow the battery to run to empty so the battery’s internal circuitry can get an idea of how long the battery lasts. Check your laptop manufacturer’s website for information on using any utilities they provide.You should also look at your laptop’s manual or help files. Each manufacturer may recommend a slightly different calibration procedure or tool to ensure your laptop’s battery is properly calibrated. Some manufacturers may even say this isn’t necessary on their hardware (like Apple). However, there’s no harm to performing a calibration, even if the manufacturer says it isn’t necessary. It just takes some of your time. The calibration process essentially runs the battery through a full discharge and recharge cycle.

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Hellicious #2

Hellicious #2 SBI Press 2018 Alan C. Medina & Mina Elwell Illustrated by Kit Wallis Coloured by Jio Butler Lettered by Micah Myers     Well that was an awkward meeting but hey, Cherry scared BRIGGY BUNDY! Actually she may have killed him. There's no need to be mean about it, she just wanted to say hi! And to be the first to welcome Briggy to his new home, HELL! Just don't tell Sin he's here. Also where do these skeletons keep popping up from and why won't they leave Cherry and Briggy alone? Go away you creeps, don't you see Cherry and Briggy have tundras to explore and Hellbeasts to ride!     Well what do you do when your family is the royal family of Hell and you want to grow up faster than you should be? Cherry’s facing that very thing, though as all children she thinks she’s more ready than she is and with all the sneaking around trying to do her thing behind everyone’s (knowing) backs well it’s fun. Why because the family more or less hum our her and think it’s cute that she wants to do this, though truth be told there is no one close to her age to play with so it’s my opinion that this her trying to find something to with someone. She is lonely and they don’t always recognise that.     It’s lucky for us too because Cherry is all kinds of hysterical so desperate is she to find that someone to play with that she’s gone topside to see Briggy Bundy and well now it’s time to pick up from that moment and move forward. The way that Alan and Mina write this is pure genius to me it is so full of both black humour and an almost childlike naivete that you can’t help but laugh continuously. Opening this up and seeing the interaction between Cherry and Briggy well it sums perfectly everything that I feel about this book.     The way that it is structured is extremely well done and I like that as we traverse it’s pages and join the pair on a whirlwind tour of Hell. Part of what makes this work so well is that it’s equal parts roller coaster ride and demented theme park attraction who’s tour guide doesn’t know a single thing about being one. Skipping over all the introductions and instead focusing on what she wants to do with him leaves Briggy in the dark along with everyone else. That childlike quality to her where she’s so excited and has no real social skills all comes into play beautifully.     The interiors are like someone put a Dr. Seuss book and dipped in Wonderland and finished it off with a touch of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. The end result feels like it could easily fit into Sunday Newspaper strip or wildly beloved children’s novel. Forget Where the Wild Things Are because what we get to see here is some kind of twisted safari gone wild. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels shows a very good solid eye for storytelling. Because it has that all-ages style and appeal we don’t get backgrounds the way I would to see but hey it is what it is and the creativity and imagination on display make up for it. ​     I will say one of my favourite moments came outta gramps but i’m not quite sure why that had a bar through the word but hey it’s what happens there that reminds us she’s not really an average little girl. With some absolutely brilliant characterisation and dialogue and these bright bold interiors Hellicious more than makes the grade for you summer reading on the lounge chair by the pool!

[knightsims]

Week 15 in Rosedale is finally at an end! Let’s do a recap, shall we?

Births: 10 Deaths: 2

SOMERSET:

Victor wanted another baby but as Ceris was an elder and they couldn’t have another mutually, he spawned a plantbaby named Rose!

Ceris had a couple of shocks trying to fix the laptop.

She spent some time doing witchy things like using her cauldron and reading her spells.

The lot got a little glitched and two trees caught fire during a storm but never went out.

Ceris finished her novel!

Rose turned into an adult plantsim!

Grimmy and the Hula Zombies came for Ceris! Victor then went into aspiration failure.

EVANS:

Iola entered in a relationship with local delivery man Alan Mamuyac (because ROS said she had to fall pregnant)! Alan then moved in.

She and Marisha did some work at Evans’ Groceries.

Cleve spent all his time working and stargazing.

Iola gave birth to baby Sian on the street after coming home from her grocery store! Naturally as soon as Sian was out, ACR took over and she and Alan made another baby.

RAY:

Sara turned into an adult! She then went on a rampage woohooing with sims left and right - including, but not limited to Joseph Villiers and local evil high warlock Trey Girdler!

Trey Girdler and Leena got into a good v evil witch/warlock fight!

Sara was abducted by aliens right at the end of the week! She’s just like her late mother Ella, I guess.

VILLIERS:

Socks and Sausage grew into adult cats!

Joseph spent most of the week trying to find a partner. Every male sim he met wasn’t interested, and every female was instead more interested in Patrick (and most, if not all, woohooed with him instead). It was a bit savage honestly.

Big siblings Grace and Frankie came over for a visit! Frankie took home Sausage.

The matchmaker was generous and left them a lamp! Patrick wished for a long life and the power to cheat death, and Joseph wished for money.

Patrick set the kitchen on fire.

COUDERC:

ROS was cruel and decided that Christa had to die!

Sawyer turned into a toddler, then a child!

Kelly got another genie lamp! This was the second in two weeks!

She went on a blind date with a townie named Jacob Bianchi! This began her woohooing rampage of: Gavin Nott and Grace Villiers, while also romancing Rose Green, townie Anya Colville, and Patrick Curtin.

Kelly threw a party and invited all her friends, and at the party Sawyer finally met his father Patrick!

ARBON:

Mae, Carlos and Vivienne moved into a new house!

Carlos quit his job in the Law Enforcement career and took up painting instead.

Mae started flirting with fellow-Romance aspiration townie Shaun Hunter.

Vivienne turned into a child! She then immediately got sprayed by the skunk.

Carlos got a job in the Journalism career but was fired on his first day due to a bad chance card.

Mae threw a party.

SWAFFORD:

Yanni and Ronica managed to autonomously repair their relationship!

Ronica sold her book! Also the new delivery man looks like a lima bean...

Roncia fell pregnant! She gave birth to a baby girl named Audrey later in the week!

Yanni and Lyndsay Browne got into a fight!

COUDERC II:

The family moved into a much larger lot but ran out of money while building, so the outside walls weren’t covered and they barely had any furnishings.

Nova found a treasure chest while digging!

Ethan and Nova woohooed six times in a row due to the ROS roll and naturally chimes were heard as a result. Nova later gave birth to another boy - this one named Micah. And she immediately fell pregnant again because ACR is savage to Family sims.

Costel turned into a teenager!

Nathaniel turned into a toddler and then a child later in the week!

The twins turned into children!

BREWSTER:

Kat turned into a toddler and then a child later in the week!

Leland spent most of the week gardening and toddler skilling.

Gwyneth had pregnancy munchies! She gave birth to baby Andy (who’s a little bit orange due to weird sim skin genetic values). And because Leland’s a family sim with the LTW to marry off 6 children, Gwyneth became pregnant again, and gave birth again to baby Hayley.

Both Leland and Gwyneth rolled wants to get married! They couldn’t afford a party, so they exchanged their vows on the lawn.

Andy turned into a toddler!

MAZZA:

ROS blessed them this week by making them win the lottery! With their new-found wealth, they moved out of the tiny 8x8 shoebox house and into one much much larger.

Bailey spent most of Monday hanging out with Absinthe Dirge and Sara Ray, the two sims who made up the welcome wagon.

Bailey fell pregnant from risky woohoo (for the second time). She gave birth to baby Emmett later in the week. She then fell pregnant again (although this one was planned) but didn’t give birth.

Toby turned into a toddler and then a child later in the week!

Daryl and Bailey threw a wedding party! All their family and friends were invited, and everyone enjoyed themselves.

BROWNE:

Renaud Downie started off the week by stealing the newspaper and kicking over the trash can.

Lyndsay fell pregnant and gave birth to their second daughter, Evelyn.

Gillian turned into a child!

LAUPER:

Valentina fell pregnant and gave birth to baby Gabriel later in the week.

Frankie woohooed with his teenage sweetheart Kelly Couderc!

Valentina did some more painting.

Kent Terranova the landlord froze on the footpath! Luckily Valentina was there to thaw him out.

Frankie proposed!

DIRGE:

Kit was demoted! 

Zephyr turned into a child!

Noah maxed the Creativity skill!

Bella turned into a toddler and then a child!

Sabastian Hunicke payed the family a visit before he was actually arrested by ‘worst cop ever’ Cale Despret! There’s a first time for everything apparently.

While the burglary was happening, Absinthe gave birth to Alexis in the bathroom. Poor girl’s very first memory was of being robbed.

Noah turned into a teenager!

Noah learnt the Couples Counseling skill.

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