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Weekly Copyright Reminder

2023.06.05 01:01 AutoModerator Weekly Copyright Reminder

This is a weekly reminder post of this sub's stance on potential copyright infringement. This is a serious issue that needs to be kept in mind when creating and listing NFTs.
Original post by u/HurleyBird1
Quick disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER. THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE - THIS IS SIMPLY INFORMATION WITH WHICH TO EDUCATE YOURSELVES AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR LEGAL ADVICE FROM A LICENSED SOURCE.
Now that that's out of the way. My credentials are: MBA, with a bit of business law classes under my belt.
I want to give a quick explanation of how copyright works - and I'll do so through quick blurbs n some myth/reality bullets.
Source: copyright.gov (US)
  1. Subject matter of copyright: In general28(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:(1) literary works;(2) musical works, including any accompanying words;(3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music;(4) pantomimes and choreographic works;(5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;(6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works;(7) sound recordings; and(8) architectural works.(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
- Myth: I can use any image/song/video/writing I want.
- Reality: No. Not true at all.
- Myth: Well they never said it's copyrighted.
- Reality: Upon publication (and even while a work in progress) a work is automatically protected via copyright under US Law.
- Myth: Well they never sold it.
- Reality: It doesn't have to be commercialized to be protected.
- Myth: Well it was a long time ago
- Reality: Possibly true...as long as the creator is deceased (or if multiple creators, the last living one is deceased) and the required time has passed...although this gets tricky with "estates."
(d) Duration of Rights.—(1) With respect to works of visual art created on or after the effective date set forth in section 610(a) of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, the rights conferred by subsection (a) shall endure for a term consisting of the life of the author.
So what's this thing I hear called "Fair Use?"
Straight from the source:
  1. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use41Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
Uhh...help me translate that please... (here's a decent official translation: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html)
  1. above...if it's non-profit educational use, you're usually good to go...if it's for money or trade (commercial nature) then you're usually NOT...unless YOUR piece is "transformative"
Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.
- Myth: Well this is paid for in Algos, not USD so it's not "commercial"
- Reality: IT IS commercial. You could even barter for bacon and it'd be commercial. It's an exchange of one good/service for another good/service.
- Myth: My piece with Batman inside a card is "transformative"
- Reality: No, unfortunately, more-than-likely the courts would say it's not. A good litmus test is..."If Warner Bros Entertainment (owner of Batman) wanted to make an NFT/ASA "Batman card" would yours compete with it or be possibly mistaken (by a reasonable person - so in America think 8th grade education) for real merchandise? Probably...thus it's not transformative enough.
"nature" gets a little tougher. This looks at protecting the "creative process." Thus, using other works of art is less-likely to be protected than using factual sources - like historical photographs since it's easier to "create art" and thus "transform" factual pieces than other art pieces. This is also talking to things like "parody." Satire is NOT protected. "Parody" is. What's the difference? LegalZoomputs it well: While a parody targets and mimics the original work to make a point, a satire uses the original work to criticize something else entirely. Another way to look at it is that satire uses another work as a way to comment on something happening in the world that has nothing to do with the original work.
- Myth: I added a different border, extra planets, and some blur effect to MTZ's World of Light - it's a new piece of art.
- Reality: Not likely the courts will see it that way.
- Myth: This guy added a filter, some burn effects, and collaged a bunch of newspaper headlines together - isn't that a violation!
- Reality: Probably not...the courts would probably see this as a creation of art out of factual sources.
amount/substantiality in relation to the whole...this is where using clips of songs that are only like 5 seconds long works! But using more than that...runs into problems. This is tough to decipher too...as some songs are EASILY identifiable from just 5 seconds (Ice, ice, baby) - and thus NOT fair use. But some aren't. Usually you're safe using a very small clip of a song or video - especially if you're adding more to it. But this is a dangerous game to play - and there's places to get free audio (some sources below)
effect of the use - this is probably the biggest one. Courts will look at simply...does YOUR work affect the sales or potential for sales of the copyright owner. Of note...this is looked at at the time of the issue being brought to the court, not at the time of sale. For example, let's say my batman card sells for 10 Algos today, but Algorand BLOWS UP and soon every NFT is on Algorand. And now my OG Batman NFT is seen as one of the first Batman ones and official. Warner Bros gonna sue the shit outta whoever owns it at the time they sue to get the rights to all sales of that NFT. So that person is left holding an empty bag when Warner Bros wins in court.
- Myth: Well they're not commercializing it NOW so I'm safe.
- Reality: Technically, yea Warner Bros probably won't spend the money to go after the OG artist and the hands the asset passed through...HOWEVER, they may. That's their right. Who knows - the Napster days showed us the lengths companies will go to. EVEN BIGGER HOWEVER, the last person holding it when Warner Bros DOES decide to go after that Batman NFT...uh oh for them - they just lost their asset.
- Myth: Well it's been like a year, and no one has brought up copyright. So I'm good.
- Reality: If this was in a normal market...maybe this argument would work. If McDonald's let you sell a Ronald McDonald poster for like a year on Amazon with no issues, some court may say "bro, you took too long to bring this to us." HOWEVER, with cryptocurrency being so new (and Algorand being so little known/discussed), most courts would see it as "reasonable" that a copyright owner failed to exercise their rights within a year - possibly even a decade. (Updated because I realized last example dealt with trademark not copyright :o)
So what am I safe to use?
US Government works (mostly)...any deemed free to use by creator...and any a copyright lawyer says they have your backs on (cuz now they're liable).
Here's some great sources for free use items (please add to this list below if you know of some!!!):
Pictures: https://buffer.com/library/free-images/ (Unsplash is one of my faves)
Music: https://www.wix.com/blog/photography/2019/11/27/free-music-for-videos/
Video: https://blog.hootsuite.com/free-stock-videos-sites/
You'll notice there's a lot of "shoulds" "coulds" "probably" etc. This is because copyright cases are all unique and go to the courts. The best bet is to go with stuff you KNOW is free and fair-use. If not, I'd look up copyright law, consult supreme court cases concerning copyright, and ultimately, talk to a lawyer.
AGAIN: I AM NOT A LAWYER. I AM NOT PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE. I AM SIMPLY PROVIDING INFORMATION. THERE MAY BE ERRORS ABOVE THAT COULD CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES - CONSULT A COPYRIGHT ATTORNEY IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE.
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2023.06.04 13:31 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - June 4th, 2023

BEVERLY HILLS
ATLANTA
NEW JERSEY
ORANGE COUNTY
NEW YORK
BRAVO
SYDNEY
WYNLANDE
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2023.06.03 15:41 Environmental-Wish53 Mr. Barrett

Just a little something I cooked up this morning. Plan on writing another stupid one-shot based in magic later on today while the idea is still fresh in my mind. Then probably jump over to the other story based in a different universe (not the Dino Mommies one...yet) since it's been a hot minute from when I last touched that one.
So yeah; got a pretty busy day/weekend planned. Hope you enjoy this little blurb though. Somewhat along the lines of Mr. Mauser story.
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Mr. Barrett
Magic. The newest discovery. The reality-bending, mind altering, physics defying energy driving the rapid changes, advancements, and developments of humanity for the past 100 years.
As I lay here in the mountains, surrounded by flora and fauna both native and foreign, my mind wanders back to the early days of magic. Yes, I was there all those years ago. In fact, I was in the prime of my youth fighting an enemy in a faraway land when I felt…well, all of us felt the change.
It was indescribable; my body felt light, my mind sharp, all of my senses felt like they were beyond peak performance. The rest of my team went through similar changes, yet different ones at the same time.
Jim’s muscle mass nearly doubled, as well as his height.
Ngo’s slender build filled out slightly, but his movements were faster. Almost blindingly so.
Our scout, Brody, found his eyes shift and change into a more animal-like design. Similar to a hawk’s, but still maintaining a semblance of humanity within.
This put a slight damper on our mission at the time while we worked to adapt to these sudden changes, but in the end, we still achieved success. It was when we returned that we found out our changes weren’t relegated to us.
In the following years, story after story came out of regular people performing a great many deeds; walking through fire, wading through alligator infested waters, lifting overturned vehicles as if they weighed no more than a couple hundred pounds.
All of it to save lives.
But, with good comes evil. For every great deed there was always, always, some asshole who used their newfound abilities for selfish or terrible means. This led to a restructuring of society. New laws were put in place, as well as agencies and departments with the specific purpose of preventing and punishing those abusing their gifts.
This now balance worked for a while, but it only took twenty years post-discovery for one of humanity’s worst to nearly destroy everything.
Ichimura was his name. A man beaten down by this new society simply because he couldn’t measure up to its expectations. Or so the dossier at the time said.
Truth was; he never liked being shackled to this reality. All its laws, and requirements, expectations, duties, and responsibilities were, in his eyes, unnecessary.
“Why should those with great power be constrained by those with lesser?”
Those were the first words he said to me when I faced him that fateful day. His actions up to that point would make the worst criminals in history look normal in comparison. Swaths of towns and villages laid bare by his magical machinations. Formulas taken from current and former magical and alchemical research, combined with the discoveries of science led down terrifying paths.
Before he drew his final breath through blood-stained lips, he smiled one final time.
“This world is ending, and a new one will take its place. Good luck, American. You do not know the horrors you have unleashed.”
With his dying breath the world around us shuddered. Tears in the fabric of reality appeared all across the globe. Hordes of creatures poured through the gaping wounds. His death was the trigger, and I was the one that pulled it.
Even though no one could have predicted this, I was still discharged from the service and treated as a pariah. Regardless of the fact that the temporary tears were repaired, the monsters that came through eradicated, and the truth of the matter brought to light, I was looked upon as the great calamity.
Whatever. I was close to 45 at the time with a distinguished career and enough money set aside for early retirement. Plus, I still had those physical changes that have yet to fade thanks to the breakthroughs in anti-aging. Enhancements that were needed once more as a new threat arose.
This time it came from beyond the stars. A race of creatures so imbued and saturated with magic that it physically hurt to look at them without magic reduction lenses. A fact they were well aware of and used to their advantage.
They nearly wiped us out after first contact, thinking that lesser creatures like us weren’t worthy of wielding magic. Our early, and somewhat still, reliance on technology for even the most mundane of tasks was anathema to them. Why should you use physical effort or machines when magic can do it easier?
A bunch of lazy fucks is what I think.
Well, we refused to capitulate of course, and they attacked. Their mastery over magic clearly millennia beyond our own; lightning, fire, telekinesis, gravity and more. These Iluthar stymied our attempts to fight back at every turn.
Armor? Like paper. Stealth? Might as well have had strobe lights attached to your body. Magic? Like expecting one drop of water to erode a mountain. Which they did when our landmasses got in their way.
The more we fought, though, the more we learned and adapted. Their senses have limited ranges, there are certain materials they can’t see through. And physics - virtually pointless against magic - still reigns supreme when said magic fails.
Which is something my target is about to realize as soon as she steps out onto the balcony.
I’ve been watching her for a week now, barely moving an inch for fear of being spotted. Dried piss and shit filled my pants and constantly assaulted my nose, but that comes with the job.
My target was an Iluthar known for being exceptionally cruel to not only her human slaves, but also “lesser” Iluthar servants. Not that those worthless bastards mattered since they still treated the slaves like garbage.
Too many times did I bear witness to horrendous acts committed against my fellow humans. Seeing what this bitch was doing though…staying still and waiting was the last thing I wanted to do.
But the mission comes first.
I waited and watched her mansion come alive. According to intel, she should be receiving a new shipment of human slaves today. One of the rare times she steps outside to view the “merchandise.”
I watched as the magic craft floating effortlessly above the ground silently made its way to the gates. After a few moments it was allowed in and continued on the slightly glowing path leading to the front doors. Once there, two Iluthar jumped out and drug the humans out of the back and lined them up for inspection.
Another Iluthar came from inside the mansion, appeared to speak a few words to the driver, and disappeared once more, only to return with the mistress in tow. Perfect.
Calming my breath, I began the cycle to find the natural rest.
Breath in, and out. I pulled lightly on the trigger.
In, and out. The pressure increased.
In…and out. I felt the trigger hit the wall.
In……...BOOM.
The sound rattled throughout the mountains. My ears rang for a split-second until they healed themselves. The recoil, that oh-so-heavenly “punch” to the face of a 624-plus grain hunk of death being shot out the end of a precision machined barrel, felt good. The smell of chemicals that overwhelmed the piss and shit coating my lower half brought a slight smile to my face.
But the best part of it all, was watching that cunt’s chest cave in.
“Mr. Barrett sends his regards.”
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2023.06.03 13:30 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - June 3rd, 2023

NEW JERSEY
ATLANTA
ORANGE COUNTY
NEW YORK
BEVERLY HILLS
MIAMI
DUBAI
BRAVO
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2023.06.02 18:02 Pure_funnyk Amazing utility on these NFTs at only around $55 each. It's worth that just for the books!

The story is great for this NFT collection, and I really like what I know about them.
https://www.wagmicollection.com/post/we-ve-been-to-the-future-with-the-wagmi-collection-here-s-what-we-found
They published an article today which I have which is intriguing but the whole ethos behind the NFTs is amazing, here is a blurb from the website:
"In the grand tapestry of human endeavor, every thread counts. Our mission at with the WAGMI Collection is to recognize the extraordinary potential within the ordinary and help it to thrive.
We are well aware that success isn't reserved for a select few. It lies within every person who dreams big, works hard, and seeks opportunities to grow.
Our goal is to bridge the gap between the ordinary and the extraordinary, providing a platform where anyone can flourish.
In a world where financial prosperity often seems elusive, we believe in the democratization of wealth. We will make the concept of passive income not just a luxury for the few but an achievable reality for the many.
This is why we built our unique collection. This isn't just a digital art portfolio; it's a tool for empowerment, a vehicle for financial freedom, and a means for individual expression.
We want to elevate the idea of ownership, moving beyond the physical and the tangible into a realm where owning an NFT means you're part of a community, a shared vision, a collective effort towards growth.
With each NFT you own, you become a stakeholder in a thriving ecosystem spanning e-commerce, online education, content creation, and more. You share in the success of the collective, seeing tangible returns in the form of tokenized gold and silver.
This isn't a get-rich-quick scheme; it's a vision for sustainable prosperity, where success is not just about financial gain but about personal growth, about learning and being a part of something bigger.
Our journey is about rewriting narratives, breaking the norms, and enabling ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Because we believe that every person has a unique story to tell, a unique contribution to make, and a unique path to prosperity.
This is our mission: to help the ordinary thrive in extraordinary ways. It's more than a business model - it's a vision of a world where opportunity and prosperity are accessible to all."
It's admirable and for $55 an NFT it's actually amazing.
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2023.06.02 12:57 milly_toons Nightshade Revenge released in the USA on January 16, 2024

Finally some info: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593691393
(The US cover has not been revealed yet.)
But this US release date is more than FOUR months after the UK release date of September 7, 2023! Looks like those of us eagerly waiting in the US are going to have to order the UK edition and get it shipped internationally if we want to read the story ASAP and not worry about seeing spoilers online. Also, the same UK edition will be released in Canada on September 26, so that's still much earlier than the US release in January, and perhaps ordering from Canada will be less of a hassle than ordering from the UK.
The US edition description doesn't really add much info beyond what the UK description already said, except that Alex is going to California specifically. Here's the full US edition blurb:
From internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes the fourteenth thrilling installment of the Alex Rider series! Follow the world's greatest teen spy as he sets off to California to battle Nightshade once again--this time, for good.
When Alex Rider thwarted the plans of the criminal organization Nightshade, he knew he'd made a new, blatantly evil enemy. But he hadn't expected to get sucked back into the spy game so quickly--that is, until the Nightshade masterminds kidnap his best friend and force him to do their bidding if he wants to see his pal alive again.
As Alex dives deep into this latest mission, his friend isn't the only one whose life is on the line. Nightshade has entered the world of virtual reality gaming, and the lines between what's real and what's digital are being blurred everywhere. With a ruthless enemy fighting dirty and not caring who gets hurt along the way, the stakes have never been higher--and this time, it's personal.
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2023.06.02 04:22 DOGEtoAdollar Upcoming Gamestop Barcade chain BAXY ready to launch whenever RC and Co decide

One of the UX designers for the guests' tablet at the future barcade chain BAXY has this up on his website. At the end of the initial blurb it says: "Although the architectural planning and technology solutions were fully realized, the buildout has remained on hold."
Another UX designers website says "Due to unforeseen circumstances, the BAXY project was indefinitely shelved and hasn’t become a reality."
I think they're waiting for web3 gaming to be closer to reality because they made it an integral part of the BAXY experience. That's just my tinfoil theory though, for all we know they permanently ditched the idea.
Apologies if this isn't new info. I gave a search for BAXY and didn't see much especially recently so I don't think it's been taped about much.
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2023.06.01 22:49 kjmichaels Bingo by the Numbers: The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan

Bingo by the Numbers: The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
Welcome to Bingo by the Numbers, my review series for 2023 Bingo. I decided there's not enough pure chaos in my life and a Random Number Generator tells me which square it's time to complete. I regenerate the number as needed if the square has already been completed. You can read my most recent review here for square 17, the novella square. My current number is: 1, the title with a title square.
Title with a Title: Read a book in which the novel title contains a job title, military title, or title of nobility such as locksmith, lieutenant, or lord. This title can be something that is bestowed upon a character (such as "hero") and it can include fictional titles that are only in the setting, such as Legendborn by Tracy Deonn*.* HARD MODE: Not a title of royalty.
For this square, I read The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard. But wait, that's not what I'm reviewing today. What happened? Well Hands of the Emperor turned out to be an enormous slog and after 800 pages, I could no longer will myself to keep reading. I tried to convince myself that the 200 remaining pages would be shorter than starting a new book from scratch but I couldn't make myself believe the objective truth of that statement. That's part of the reason why this review took so long. I slogged through a book I simply did not enjoy for two weeks before realizing I could give up and read something I actually liked. Luckily, the GR BotM club picked title w/ a title for their monthly theme and since I have to lead that club this month anyway, it was an easy switch to land on The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan as my replacement book.
The Blurb
Sir Konrad Vonvalt is a Justice, a traveling warrior judge who can magically compel people to speak the truth. He is empowered to carry out the will of the Emperor in legal matters as he roams the Empire of the Wolf. When he and his retinue happen upon a town where the lord's wife has been murdered, they are quickly caught in an escalating conspiracy against the Empire itself.
Squares this book counts for: Title w/ a Title, Book Club Book
The Review
Honestly, this one didn't look all that exciting at first. "The Justice of Kings" felt like it could have been pulled directly from a fantasy title generator and the blurb sounded quite generic. Thankfully the actual book is far better than its title and blurb led me to believe. Justice of Kings is a fast paced but thoughtful meditation on the nature of justice and how to balance the needs of the law with mercy all while dealing with the political reality that some people in power will want to avoid doing what is right because it is easier or because breaking the law makes it easier to attain power. That sounds extremely high minded (and at times it very much is as high minded and dry as that description sounds) but the story is very grounded by its nuanced characters.
Konrad could easily come off as a Mary Sue of some sort with his incredible fighting prowess, keen mind, devotion to justice, and interesting magical powers if it weren't for one key flaw: he is naive about power. Early on in the book, he and his clerk, Helena, have a fight about how racism can taint the justice system with Helena pointing out that powerful men abuse their positions to get the end results they want and Konrad refusing to believe law enforcement wouldn't follow the law and uphold it. Konrad is not quite blind to systemic injustice but struggles to accept that it is both real and pernicious because he himself is such a fair-minded, just person whose position of power has always afforded him the respect that he believes everyone is due. This isn't a book where one character is always right though as Helena herself shows blindspots with men due to her age and the insecurity that came from being an orphan that leads her to try to start a family as quickly as possible even though Konrad warns her that the men she is attracted to will not treat her as an equal. I think Helena's flaw is less interesting than Konrad's but it does at least go a long way towards showing that this is a book full of complex characters who have their own strengths and weaknesses.
The world is rather interesting. The Empire of the Wolf is something like a Germanic version of the Roman Empire as it is ever expanding and folding new territories and nationalities into its borders. This little bit of flavor helps the book stand out a bit from other more generic fantasies because the regional texture of German inspiration is so strong though, much like To Shape a Dragon's Breath a few weeks ago, I do get annoyed at how often the fantasy words are just real world German things with one letter change like how Konrad speaks Saxan (you know, Saxon but with an A). However, the real neat stuff comes later in the book as Swan slowly reveals that there are other dimensions with eldritch creatures that are worshiped as gods who want to find a way into the dimension Konrad lives in. Though they don't play a large role in the main plot of this book, there's a sinister Lovecraftian quality to these later sections that remind of things like Berserk and it seems like the sequel will double down on this aspect even more.
The pacing is a real strength of this book and helps the novel zip on by. Swan has devoted a great deal of thought to cutting out as much of the typical slow sections of fantasy books as possible. Traveling scenes are largely skipped by Helena relating that nothing of note happened on the journey from Town A to City B. In one section of the murder mystery plot where it seems as though our heroes are about to get sucked into a tedious session of searching through all of the town's records, Konrad is called away to investigate a nearby mass murder and when he returns from that, his assistant who was left behind has completed the bookkeeping and has been anxiously awaiting Konrad's return to explain what he found and how it helps with the mystery. While I'm sure some people may bemoan the loss of traveling scenes and how certain parts of the investigation are done off page, I can't help but admire the clever ways Swan finds to naturally avoid the parts of the story that most people complain about anyway.
One thing I didn't really like about this book is that Swan has a tendency to fall back on bickering to generate conflict between his main leads. It's not the worst thing in the world but it is annoying how many times Helena and Konrad nearly have a falling out because their arguments keep getting heated all while the book implies that they're very close and haven't really fought that much in the past. Some of this is motivated by Helena's aforementioned desire to leave imperial service to start a family but I feel like it's rather limiting that there aren't a wider array of emotional ranges for them to explore. If your leads can only argue and investigate, sooner or later it starts to feel a bit samey. Swan's authorial voice is strong enough that these sections can still be interesting and even gripping as you read them but I just wished for more variety out of these scenes. Other than that, my only other complaint is that this book gets pretty dark at times which I wasn't totally in the mood for but it was good enough that I was able to look past that.
So, I guess this is an important lesson in how sometimes a title and blurb can really undersell the quality of a book. I went in expecting something generic but wound up with a pretty great if dark read. I'm definitely intrigued to see where this series goes. 4.5/5 stars
The Card In Progress
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Next Time
My next number is: 20, the myths and retellings square. See you all once I finish it.
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2023.05.31 22:46 TheOtherEvelyn I'm looking for advice on finding a therapist.

Apologies in advance for the wall of text
I've been struggling to find a therapist that is a good fit for me for years now. I'm unsure if I am unlucky, expecting the wrong things out of therapy, or what. I was hoping this community could give me some feedback.
I've been in and out of therapy for almost 20 years now, My recent stretch started back in 2016. Since then I've seen 6 different psychologists. One barely counts cause I only saw him 3 times before deciding the fit wasn't right. One I liked a lot but he was just a student doing an internship and moved on afterwards. I stopped seeing my last therapist near the end of last year. My insurance is currently Kaiser through Medi-Cal if that is helpful information.
Some of the problems I've consistently encountered with the therapists I've seen include, -Feeling like I am talking to a brick wall, where I either don't get much feedback or a simple “That sucks.” Like, yes I know it sucks, but now what do I do about it? -They’ve felt disingenuous. That monotone voice and generic responses. -When they don't lead the conversation at all and I end up rambling about my week and we make no progress on the overarching issue at hand. -Or they zero in on a random thing that I said, “I have so many chores this week…” “Are you overwhelmed? Could you get a day planner? A task app? Who can help you to complete this?” -Often the responses I get seem like a weird mad-lib, “if I say this does it make you happy? Or this? What about this?” Which also comes off as disingenuous. -The thing that irks me the most is the forced silence. Where they expect me to feel awkward about long silences and to keep talking so maybe I will have some insight, but it only infuriates me and makes me ramble and waste a whole appt.
I have had trouble getting a slot on anyone’s calendar. Each appointment was always searching for another slot for the next appointment as opposed to, say, every Tuesday at 3. And they had me at every other week or longer between appointments, despite my requesting a set weekly slot.
What I am looking for in a psychologist is advice really. -A neutral third party who can recognize patterns, bad habits, how things relate, or whatever it may be and help me to see that to make changes. -I'm looking for more realistic opinions, validation is great and all, but reality is good too. “It's ok to experience all of what you're feeling, but that was also an objectively crummy thing that person did to you” -To point out that for example “you seem to have such and such attachment style.” “you're experiencing this type of response to that type of situation” (say, just recently I had a friend tell me I'm pretty blunt, which I confirmed with a few more friends, but I never noticed, like, you'd think with decades of therapy, this might be something I'd have known about myself?) -I need someone who can keep me on track, bring our conversations back to the main goal, and not get sidetracked by unrelated topics. -I need to be held accountable, I’ve been assigned homework before but they never follow up. I'm given some meditation guides to listen to but they never ask how it went, or whether or not I'm keeping up with it, or if it helped, or that I should try it for however long before deciding it really doesn’t work. -Problem-solving is a big one, I want to do things, change things, recognize where I get tripped up, how to avoid that, etc. Having someone to vent to is great but it feels pointless if I don't have feedback.
I have explained to multiple therapists my desires and peeves, I mentioned the brick wall, the silence, and the keeping focus, but they all seem to fall into the same pattern. Is there a certain way to explain this to a new therapist?
I'm wondering, what exactly do therapists do? Am I expecting too much from therapy? Is my view of expectations clouded by pop culture and the media? I've only ever seen CBT therapists, do I need someone versed in DBT, or something else? I've requested DBT but got dismissed for whatever reason. I’ve been offered group but I definitely do not want that. Do I need a life coach instead? Have I just been working with the wrong therapists? Is it because I've been at Kaiser and they secretly have bad therapists or too many rules about what to say to patients, or rules about not giving out weekly appointments?
And even if I figure out all of this, what are good resources to find a therapist? I’m not sure if there is a Yelp of psychologists. Where they give a blurb about them, what their specialty is, maybe some reviews, what insurance they take, etc. I mean, I know there are sites like that but I don't know how accurate they are. I’ve been told I can have Kaiser cover a private practice therapist but I have zero idea where to even look and I don't want to feel like I'm guessing, spend 2 months with them and realize it’s not a good fit, again.
I know this was a wall of text and I greatly appreciate anyone who read it all, I wanted to try to explain it as thoroughly as I could. I’m hoping to get some insight on how to tackle this. Any advice is welcome but I would like (as well) a psychologist's perspective on how to navigate this and find a good one.
tl;dr I’m not sure my expectations for therapy are realistic and I need to figure out what is.
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2023.05.31 18:58 LadyElfriede LadyElfriede's Reviewless Review Recs of May!

Note: I make fun of books and authors, so if you really can’t take being poked at, Spindle Manor will do the poking for you with their long, sexy legs.
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Updates: #
Stats: ^
Recs: *
Conclusion: @
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Welcome back to Reviewless Review Recs of May!
A short introduction to this post: Every book is recommended, regardless of how bad it is or not. You have the brain capacity to decide if you like it or not, don’t let a stranger make a decision for you.
I speak in the second POV and describe what the book is actually about, and not the false advertising of publishing companies. I do this with shitty jokes and satire and try to convince you to pick up the book, regardless of how I feel about it.
Unlike Hoover, all books deserve a chance….Sigh, OK, fine, fine, Barbara. Even….Even...Eleventh Cycle.
ARE YOU HAPPY, NOW, B-
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May:
May was filled with disappointment that a jury vote existed and the king of Finland didn’t win Eurovision. The world unanimously cried, but couldn’t be that mad that Loreen won.
Except this bitch.
I fucking wanted Alika to win so badly. I even voted and paid for the first time to give all my votes to her. Her song spoke to me and touched me that it’s never too late to go back to my work.
If Bomanz from Black Company can become a famous sorcerer at his rickety age, maybe we can too!
My favorites of Eurovision (from music videos only, I feel like every one of my favs bombed someway except Finland, France, and Norway):
Estonia
France
Austria
Czechia (wtf was that live performance...)
Finland
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In ACTUAL book news, I’ve been waiting patiently for the library to hand me the newest Mark Lawrence book that I’ve been waiting literally 3 and a half weeks now, but I still get bumped down on Libby...for some reason. Eh.
Also since I managed to finish “She Who Rides the Storm”, I finally started “Elantris”. Was a long time coming but was saving it for a while and thought it was finally time to tackle Sanderson. I started Way of Kings with the paperback version and boy, that was a mistake for my ADHD…
And, that’s why I got a Kindle last year.
Anywho, let’s get started!
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Stats: ^
Books read this month: 10 (+3)
Books I started: 13 (=)
Total amount of words I read (approx): 1,050,508 (-414,261,565) according to last month...I read way more. Not sure why the numbers are this drastic
Books published 2010+ : 8 (N/A)
Mary Sues & John Smiths: 11, give or take (7+)
YA books: 5 (+4)
Good smut scenes: 1 (+1?) I think it was in the Witcher, say what you will about the series, the man knows how to write smut
Light Novels read: 0 (-2)
Books that felt Souls-like: 6 (+2)
Audiobooks: 4 (N/A)
How many brain cells I lost: 529 (+500)
Brain cells gain: 175 (N/A)
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What other stats do you guys want to see?
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Guessing Game:
Want to know the real rating I gave each of these books anyway, even though the true spirit of this post is to decide for yourself anyway? I know there’s one of you fuckers in here, but here, guess the ratings and the answers are revealed at the end. You anarchist, you.
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Seven Faceless Saints by M.K. Lobb: Read if you're in the ages 14-18, as this is possibly the most edgiest thing you might read about fictional Italy. Two teens are trying to solve a murder mystery in an alternate universe where Catholicism reigns supreme. Wait.
As an adult, this is a living personification of that one prozd video.
If you ever played Phoenix Wright, you’ll figure out the murderer in 5 seconds. If you haven’t, then maybe this would come as a surprise.
Atheism is talked about on the nose, you can't stop thinking about “Friends” because of "Roz" being mentioned every other second, and our intrepid MC goes to horny jail every other second when she's literally fighting for her life and not focusing on a gun that could disembowel her.
PTSD of war is represented by the male MC who probably once could have been the trope of the “nice guy” in school that you never had interest in, but 3 years later, because he sported 5 o’ clock shadow and has a baritone voice, he’s automatically hot.
Oh, and there are token bi, POC, and elderly people, but they’re only mentioned for a few pages, so don’t expect that much diversity. You think Archer, Maas, and Lobb could actually be friends with each other given how they write their books. A secret society. cough
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Ö Theme: Heat Waves – Lime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOokFwrmri4
Ö Runner up clip: Moist maker (this sandwich is actually GOAT, made it several times): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9FG4kg8HNU
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Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman :
Read if Percy Jackson wasn’t edgy and dark enough for you and need something similar. Uniorinically, this is actually not satire but an actual (sorta) rec. Structure is similar to Jackson but with none of the jovial themes and tropes. Think “Lightning Thief”, only dark and edgy with grotesque monsters and, not urbanite Greek deities, but evil people from the Crusades era.
You keep thinking you’ll meet the 4th character in the Sanderson reunion tour, but there’s actually only 3 characters that are on this journey, not 4. So that Italian will actually not join us even though you liked his character a ton and curse at yourself at a potential LGBT partner dude. One day.
You will also find yourself crying, not because of how the story ended, but how the epilogue ended and boot up AO3 to fix everything.
You probably should(n’t) give this book to your aunt for reasons you know in the back of your mind but your evil AF. Maybe offer this to at Christmas and explain that it’s a book about a pilgrimage...(which isn’t totally wrong) but you’re a little bastard that is gonna get an ass whopping next Christmas, but it’ll be worth it.
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Ö Theme: Alika- Bridges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO9g5t3VSuw
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Time of Contempt (Volume (???)) by Andrzej Sapkowski (Witcher)
Read if you want to see Geralt turn into a woke ally Boomer, Yennefer going to relationship counseling, and Ciri gets her wish in more ways than one. If you’re comparing Witcher books with each other, quality has gone up since Blood of Elves if that’s what you’re concerned about. We also see the Abyss Watchers making an appearance and then you think of Jerma’s Rat song in your head for inexplicable reasons.
This book is mostly about Yennefer trying to employ questionable (albeit understandable) parenting tactics on Ciri and being caught up in the after math.
As usual, book is dated towards rape, but the only saving grace is it’s “off screen” and not in your face, “Eleventh Cycle”, knock that shit off
Let’s be real, you can’t treat this series as a separate unique book to it’s own, it’s more of a long ass story that Sapkowski decided for marketing reasons to space it out in 300+ page books.
If you ask me what makes this more interesting than the previous books, it will be like asking me which regional orange looks different and bitch, I don’t got energy for that shit.
Ö Theme: Rats Birthday Mixtape
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The Curse of the Spectre Queen / The Rise of the Snake Goddess by Jenny Moke
Read if you like to imagine Indiana Jones as a teenage girl, but loves books. Instead of meeting hot girls, we meet hot 1920s men, which you get to decide how good or bad that is.
The BAMF slays and you wish we had her as our Jones instead of our shy book loving MC, but hey, at least this MC has at least one quality to her that has way more personality that anything Shannon can hope to write in her stories. (Yes I know she writes her books as if they were history books, that’s not the point, Meredith)
Spectre Queen’s plot is literally about another book that will make you hug trees and will lead our characters across to Ireland. The next book is about a girdle, that you literally had to Google wtf a girdle was. You first thought it was a grill.
You wonder if the publishing agency struck a deal with the Irish and Crete travel agencies.
You also make a startling discovery that these characters are your OC from high school and middle school and your love interest OC from college mashed up into an adventure book that is oddly less erotic than anything Maas could create. You get to decide how good or bad that is.
Ö Theme: Indiana Jones Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bTpp8PQSog
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Mordew by Alex Pheby
Read if you want to read an MC bland as hard tack inherit powers that don’t make sense till past the 70% mark. You want to read a dark YOUTH ADULT novel. Can’t find anything that’s edgy and dark enough for you? Well, here it is!
Dark mansion with Igor from the Velvet Room with an obvious villain being obvious, befriending a young boy that supposedly wants the best for him.
What can go wrong?
There are Souls-like elements weaved in, but you’re not going to see much of it. It’s mostly a vibe/fart than a plot or atmosphere.
What this book is pretty much: boy wants to help dad, there are weird monsters living in the mud, and a mansion that totally wants to abduct/help kids. Totally. Oh, and be aware, animals die in this book. A lot. An entire species is pretty much annihilated for teenage hormonal reasons that won’t make sense even if you’re still a teen. (Yes, I was one too and I also didn’t go on genocides. Thanks, Dad, you are a gem.). Oh, and someone fucked an anthropomorphized hedgehog along the way. Yeah. That happened.
If you go into this book, DO NOT READ THE BLURB! It ruins the whole plot of the entire book. If you buy/rent it, don’t you dare flip to the back side. Just open to the first chapter and start reading. You’re welcome, Matt.
Ö Theme: La Zarra – Evidemment Unironically, I think this song fits rather well with Mordew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWfbEFH9NvQ
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Ö Runner up clip: Running in the 90s: You know why... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0xBCwkg3E
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She Who Rides the Storm by Catelin Sangster
Read if you like Sanderson and wished he focused more on the characters rather than the world building. You also like the ooey gooey feeling of finding a red/blue ship that you wished was the main pairing, but you’ll have to settle them being the side ship. Oh god, why, every single time?!
While it does have a romance tilt to it, this book focuses more on finding a cure for a mysterious illness and two of the characters are refugees from a religious cult that loves sunshine and that one weird horse mount from the Empire Strikes Back that you couldn’t take the auroshees seriously because of that.
Imagine that desert bar scene in A New Hope, but make it a whole book. But make it about a heist as a side plot that is barely touched on until the last 20% of the novel.
You also love doing puzzles in your spare time as you’ll be doing a lot of piecing together of the plot and world building from chapter to chapter. Unlike my problems, this one is pieceable and the last remaining piece is dangled over your head until the next book.
...Sangster is probably going to make you pay $20 for this singular piece, ain’t she?
Ö Theme: First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqS1MV_xA_I
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Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Read if you want to have a blunt conversation with Bourdain about food, the faults of the kitchens, what not to do if you want to be a chef, and to be transported to the deepest, darkest alley where you might be knifed, but goddamn, the best chicken heart can be found here.
If you’re a bitch that’s easily spooked by curse words, then this probably isn’t for you. Though...you can sneak this to your cook boyfriend if you want to break up, because he already read the fucking book, Berta, I thought you knew him better by now!...Now you can finally segway to break up. Congratulations!
You’ll see the workings of a mind that was suffering. That was the reflection of this entire autobiography. Suffering and food. That’s life in reality, ain’t it?
Don’t expect cohesion or a semblance of logical flow of pacing. This book, like Mr. Bourdain’s mind, was a cluster fuck of erotically describing food, the dark corners and reality of the cooking world, and shitting on people because they were dicks.
He is sorely missed, and this isn’t a bit, but I still mourn his loss to the world. The world needs him again.
RIP to the GOAT.
Ö Theme: Okami – Sei-an (Aristocratic Quarter II) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxXsEqNBTYE (Because he’s timeless and immortal even beyond death)
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Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Read if you got tired of everything happy and sunshine in Percy Jackson and wanted blood, death, knives, SKELETONS, AND 12 year olds that are surprisingly self aware of the fact that they’re a teenager. You want less consumerism and capitalism than what Percy Jackson pushed down your throat. Finally, no mentions of those fucking gold arches, Riordan.
Oddly, no parents are dead in this book. In every YA book you read, there is at least one parent dead, gone to get milk, or playing Tears of the Kingdom. Pleasant surprise for this narrator.
You are also a person that hates world building that lastS for pages and pages. There’s none of that in this book. Expect pages of dialogue like it’s a transcript of my parent’s arguments.
Mom, I don’t agree with you. No, I don’t agree with you either, Dad. You fucking little….Just plant the damn fig tree, for fuck’s sake.
From other sources, apparently the book series gets darker as books go on, so take that as you will. Listening to Eminem and Linken Park between books may increase levels of angst in the subsequent books.
Side effects include: angst, a potentially bi-found family that lasts 10 seconds, fear of skeletons, mourning for fictional characters, and teenagers being oddly logical.
Post script: This would actually make an excellent autumnal book cause of spoopy skeletons.
Ö Theme: Lose Yourself – Eminem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuAzR2XVAM (I was yesterday old when I realized “Mom’s spaghetti” lyrics was this song)
Ö Runner up clip: Spooky scary skeletons
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The White Rose (Volume 3 of the Black Company) by Glen Cook
Read if you liked having Charm flashbacks of Volume 1, but want a great dopamine rush in Volume 3.
Night Circus got nothing on this book for reasons you’ll figure out later. Expect a lot of weird crack shenanigans such as talking rocks just to name an example. The Lady’s character is fleshed out a lot more than previous volumes. Twists and turns are aplenty and Croacker complaining he’s too old like an old grandpa shopping 10 AM at a Walmart.
Funny enough, Morgenstern is a lot related to this book in more ways than one. Move over, lady, Cook was the original writer of Night Circus, caramel popcorn and candy apples be damned! We’re eating crusty bread and thickened stew, bitch!
You’re not going to be at the edge of your seat until the last percentage of the book, but it’s worth the dopamine rush and emotions that are given in the end, long after you put the book down. You will find yourself wandering around the library wondering how you returned from a reality of flying manta rays and talking rocks...to old ass Swedes loitering in the lobby, discussing where to fika next.
You’ll need a lot of Monsters to process your emotions tonight.
You also finally figure out where Miyazaki got the inspiration for the Storm King in Demon Souls. All this time, you got mad at Miyazaki for inserting a giant manta ray for disappointing climax reasons. No. He may have understood Black Company more than we thought.
Coleydoesthings is also screaming at the top of her lungs by the end of the book, crying into her body pillow.
Ö Theme: MSR – Lord of the Wolves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFwwGx-wmo (Someone help me on the EX Stages omfg)
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I’ll be traveling soon, so the books might be on the short side, but my dumbass quality will remain. Just sprinkled with a lot of curry, chapati, and a big helping of obesity.
God, my thighs can’t take anymore of America.
I think I’ll have fun reading Elantris cause it’s literally a love letter to Soulsbourne and I might learn a bit from it! Can’t wait for it!
I know it’s not book related too much, but what were y’alls favorite in Eurovision?
(Did anyone feel like Armenia just spent money to send that girl an expensive Tinder profile?)
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Seven Faceless: 2/5
Between Two Fires: 3/5
Time of Contempt: 4/5
Curse and Snake: 3.95/5 & 4/5
Mordew: 1.5/5
She Who Rides the Storm: 3.9/5
Skullduggery: 3/5
Medium Raw: 4/5
White Rose: 4.5/5
If you have any constructive feedback, I’m open to them! Hope you enjoyed this month’s Recs!
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2023.05.31 13:30 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - May 31st, 2023

NEW YORK
NEW JERSEY
ATLANTA
ORANGE COUNTY
BEVERLY HILLS
SALT LAKE CITY
BRAVO
Links to this week's episode discussion posts:
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2023.05.31 02:12 tarvolon Coming-of-age in an Unfamiliar World (and Bingo Heroics?): An ARC Review of The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das

This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review and can also be found on my blog. The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar will be released on June 1, 2023.
I’ve been hearing about Indra Das for a while, but not enough to push him to the top of a crowded TBR. But when a new release novella (not from Tordotcom!) started getting acclaim from bloggers I follow, I figured The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar would be the perfect opportunity to give his writing a try.
The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar follows the son of dragon-riding nomads from another world, growing up in Calcutta with little knowledge of his family’s homeland. There are hints and fragmented memories, but not enough for him to be confident in their reality, let alone make rejoinder to the boys at school who mock him for being “the snake from nowhere.” He has no grand quest, simply a desire to understand his heritage and build relationships with friends and family, despite being hampered on both sides by his awkward position between two worlds.
When I see a secret world of dragon-riders in the blurb, I expect a fantasy adventure. This is not that. Instead, it’s a touching coming-of-age novella in a setting suffused with magic, but where the magic is decidedly not the point. There are oblique references to war, danger, dragon-riding empires and interdimensional travel, but it’s all backstory. The point is the lead struggling to live as a second-generation immigrant, disconnected both from the world of his family and the world he lives in.
It’s a short novella, and the length is appropriate for the small-scale of the story, which moves through the lead’s adolescence and into adulthood without a driving plot, dwelling here on memories of his family’s magic and a house full of relics, there on a fumbling romance with another neighborhood immigrant and the clash between gender expectations in his ancestral land and his current one. There is certainly character growth, and too satisfying of an ending for me to call this a “no plot, just vibes” tale. But the vibes are undoubtedly a big part of the draw. The prose is excellent, and mostly invites the reader to sit with the lead in his discomfort and uncertainty.
But for all the discomfort, it’s not a story without hope. As the lead grows up, he learns more about his family and their reasons for secrecy, and a strong friendship outside his household both succors and sharpens him. It’s not that it erases the sense of dislocation so much as allows him to understand it and choose how to respond—a more grounded story than the magical setting suggests. His family's flight across dimensions may be unique, but the challenges he faces are more those of the second-generation immigrant than the dragon-riding fantasy hero.
On the whole, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar is slow-paced but beautifully written, eschewing an adventure plot for an intense character focus. Those who enjoy coming-of-age stories and characters trying to reconcile the differences between the world of their family and the world of their peers are in for a treat.
Recommended if you like: magical realism, coming-of-age, immigrant stories.
Can I use it for Bingo? Shoot, this may be my MVP through the first two months of Bingo. It’s hard mode for Novella, Indie Published, Literary SFF/Magical Realism, Title With a Title, and Multiverses, and it’s also a 2023 Release by a POC Author featuring Mythic Beasts.
Overall rating: 17 of Tar Vol’s 20. Five stars on Goodreads.
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2023.05.30 16:26 bigdaddycruiser "Convergence" - Adult Post-Apocalyptical Horror Fiction - 135k words

LINK TO COVER
Hello everyone!
My name is Jesse and I published my first post-apocalyptic horror novel last week titled “Convergence.” I still have ARCs available for the next 3 months on BookSirens and BookSprout.
Pitch:
Jay only has a week to travel across Michigan before the world ends to fulfill his promise to his late wife to bury her ashes in her hometown of Escanaba.
Blurb:
In bright, bold, red letters the words "TOTAL CONVERGENCE" flash on Jay's TV reminding him that the end of the world is only a week away.
Seven years ago, The Anomaly appeared high in the sky and marked the beginning of the world's end. The great black diamond continues to tear the earth asunder and twist the very fabric of reality as it devours what remains. With only a week remaining before the end of the world, Jay must travel from Detroit to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to fulfill the promise he made to his late wife: to bury her ashes in her childhood home of Escanaba. Using his ability to manifest and control fire and flame, he will face monstrous demons wrought by The Anomaly as well as the ones that lurk within his mind.
Convergence tells an exciting, action-filled tale of survival in a dangerous and horror-infested world. Jay's journey across Michigan is one full of struggle, learning, and comradery that all culminates in him discovering what it truly means to mourn and find closure within himself.
Triggers:
-violence
-blood and gore
-suicide
Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C59TGKJH/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I have both a BookSirens and BookSprout signup link:
BookSirens: https://booksirens.com/book/RJB8TCA/UFQPPR4
BookSprout: https://booksprout.co/reviewereview-copy/view/118241/convergence
I'd prefer reviews on Amazon and would like reviews completed by the beginning of July please.
I appreciate your time for taking a look. Happy reading and thank you!
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2023.05.30 05:26 bigdaddycruiser “Convergence” - Adult post-apocalyptic horror fiction - 135k words

LINK TO COVER
Hello everyone!
My name is Jesse and I published my first post-apocalyptic horror novel last week titled “Convergence.”
Pitch:
Jay only has a week to travel across Michigan before the world ends to fulfill his promise to his late wife to bury her ashes in her hometown of Escanaba.
Blurb:
In bright, bold, red letters the words "TOTAL CONVERGENCE" flash on Jay's TV reminding him that the end of the world is only a week away.
Seven years ago, The Anomaly appeared high in the sky and marked the beginning of the world's end. The great black diamond continues to tear the earth asunder and twist the very fabric of reality as it devours what remains. With only a week remaining before the end of the world, Jay must travel from Detroit to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to fulfill the promise he made to his late wife: to bury her ashes in her childhood home of Escanaba. Using his ability to manifest and control fire and flame, he will face monstrous demons wrought by The Anomaly as well as the ones that lurk within his mind.
Convergence tells an exciting, action-filled tale of survival in a dangerous and horror-infested world. Jay's journey across Michigan is one full of struggle, learning, and comradery that all culminates in him discovering what it truly means to mourn and find closure within himself.
Triggers: -violence -blood and gore -suicide
Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C59TGKJH/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
It’s also available everywhere books are sold.
I appreciate your time for taking a look. Happy reading and writing everyone!
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2023.05.30 05:20 bigdaddycruiser “Convergence” - Adult post-apocalyptic horror fiction

LINK TO COVER
Hello everyone!
My name is Jesse and I published my first post-apocalyptic horror novel last week titled “Convergence.”
Pitch:
Jay only has a week to travel across Michigan before the world ends to fulfill his promise to his late wife to bury her ashes in her hometown of Escanaba.
Blurb:
In bright, bold, red letters the words "TOTAL CONVERGENCE" flash on Jay's TV reminding him that the end of the world is only a week away.
Seven years ago, The Anomaly appeared high in the sky and marked the beginning of the world's end. The great black diamond continues to tear the earth asunder and twist the very fabric of reality as it devours what remains. With only a week remaining before the end of the world, Jay must travel from Detroit to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to fulfill the promise he made to his late wife: to bury her ashes in her childhood home of Escanaba. Using his ability to manifest and control fire and flame, he will face monstrous demons wrought by The Anomaly as well as the ones that lurk within his mind.
Convergence tells an exciting, action-filled tale of survival in a dangerous and horror-infested world. Jay's journey across Michigan is one full of struggle, learning, and comradery that all culminates in him discovering what it truly means to mourn and find closure within himself.
Triggers: -violence -blood and gore -suicide
Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C59TGKJH/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
It’s also available everywhere books are sold.
I appreciate your time for taking a look. Happy reading and writing everyone!
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2023.05.29 17:57 Oh_ItsYou Why do modern fantasy books (for adults) all contain romance?

I used to love fantasy books as a kid, but when I became a teen all the books at my reading level started to become filled with romance. I mean books that on the blurb mention a fantasy story, when in reality the plot is replaced by romantic pursuits halfway through..
It's probably why after a while I switched to sci fi, which seemed to have less of this problem, but I just got bored of it eventually.
Now I want to get back into reading fantasy but face the same issue.
Has anyone else noticed this? Or maybe other people don't mind, that could be why it's so prevelant.
Edit: not all. I have not read every book to exist. Most I've seen are like this tho.
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2023.05.29 13:31 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - May 29th, 2023

BEVERLY HILLS
ATLANTA
NEW JERSEY
ORANGE COUNTY
NEW YORK
BRAVO
MELBOURNE
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2023.05.29 01:01 AutoModerator Weekly Copyright Reminder

This is a weekly reminder post of this sub's stance on potential copyright infringement. This is a serious issue that needs to be kept in mind when creating and listing NFTs.
Original post by u/HurleyBird1
Quick disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER. THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE - THIS IS SIMPLY INFORMATION WITH WHICH TO EDUCATE YOURSELVES AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR LEGAL ADVICE FROM A LICENSED SOURCE.
Now that that's out of the way. My credentials are: MBA, with a bit of business law classes under my belt.
I want to give a quick explanation of how copyright works - and I'll do so through quick blurbs n some myth/reality bullets.
Source: copyright.gov (US)
  1. Subject matter of copyright: In general28(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:(1) literary works;(2) musical works, including any accompanying words;(3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music;(4) pantomimes and choreographic works;(5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;(6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works;(7) sound recordings; and(8) architectural works.(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
- Myth: I can use any image/song/video/writing I want.
- Reality: No. Not true at all.
- Myth: Well they never said it's copyrighted.
- Reality: Upon publication (and even while a work in progress) a work is automatically protected via copyright under US Law.
- Myth: Well they never sold it.
- Reality: It doesn't have to be commercialized to be protected.
- Myth: Well it was a long time ago
- Reality: Possibly true...as long as the creator is deceased (or if multiple creators, the last living one is deceased) and the required time has passed...although this gets tricky with "estates."
(d) Duration of Rights.—(1) With respect to works of visual art created on or after the effective date set forth in section 610(a) of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, the rights conferred by subsection (a) shall endure for a term consisting of the life of the author.
So what's this thing I hear called "Fair Use?"
Straight from the source:
  1. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use41Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
Uhh...help me translate that please... (here's a decent official translation: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html)
  1. above...if it's non-profit educational use, you're usually good to go...if it's for money or trade (commercial nature) then you're usually NOT...unless YOUR piece is "transformative"
Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.
- Myth: Well this is paid for in Algos, not USD so it's not "commercial"
- Reality: IT IS commercial. You could even barter for bacon and it'd be commercial. It's an exchange of one good/service for another good/service.
- Myth: My piece with Batman inside a card is "transformative"
- Reality: No, unfortunately, more-than-likely the courts would say it's not. A good litmus test is..."If Warner Bros Entertainment (owner of Batman) wanted to make an NFT/ASA "Batman card" would yours compete with it or be possibly mistaken (by a reasonable person - so in America think 8th grade education) for real merchandise? Probably...thus it's not transformative enough.
"nature" gets a little tougher. This looks at protecting the "creative process." Thus, using other works of art is less-likely to be protected than using factual sources - like historical photographs since it's easier to "create art" and thus "transform" factual pieces than other art pieces. This is also talking to things like "parody." Satire is NOT protected. "Parody" is. What's the difference? LegalZoomputs it well: While a parody targets and mimics the original work to make a point, a satire uses the original work to criticize something else entirely. Another way to look at it is that satire uses another work as a way to comment on something happening in the world that has nothing to do with the original work.
- Myth: I added a different border, extra planets, and some blur effect to MTZ's World of Light - it's a new piece of art.
- Reality: Not likely the courts will see it that way.
- Myth: This guy added a filter, some burn effects, and collaged a bunch of newspaper headlines together - isn't that a violation!
- Reality: Probably not...the courts would probably see this as a creation of art out of factual sources.
amount/substantiality in relation to the whole...this is where using clips of songs that are only like 5 seconds long works! But using more than that...runs into problems. This is tough to decipher too...as some songs are EASILY identifiable from just 5 seconds (Ice, ice, baby) - and thus NOT fair use. But some aren't. Usually you're safe using a very small clip of a song or video - especially if you're adding more to it. But this is a dangerous game to play - and there's places to get free audio (some sources below)
effect of the use - this is probably the biggest one. Courts will look at simply...does YOUR work affect the sales or potential for sales of the copyright owner. Of note...this is looked at at the time of the issue being brought to the court, not at the time of sale. For example, let's say my batman card sells for 10 Algos today, but Algorand BLOWS UP and soon every NFT is on Algorand. And now my OG Batman NFT is seen as one of the first Batman ones and official. Warner Bros gonna sue the shit outta whoever owns it at the time they sue to get the rights to all sales of that NFT. So that person is left holding an empty bag when Warner Bros wins in court.
- Myth: Well they're not commercializing it NOW so I'm safe.
- Reality: Technically, yea Warner Bros probably won't spend the money to go after the OG artist and the hands the asset passed through...HOWEVER, they may. That's their right. Who knows - the Napster days showed us the lengths companies will go to. EVEN BIGGER HOWEVER, the last person holding it when Warner Bros DOES decide to go after that Batman NFT...uh oh for them - they just lost their asset.
- Myth: Well it's been like a year, and no one has brought up copyright. So I'm good.
- Reality: If this was in a normal market...maybe this argument would work. If McDonald's let you sell a Ronald McDonald poster for like a year on Amazon with no issues, some court may say "bro, you took too long to bring this to us." HOWEVER, with cryptocurrency being so new (and Algorand being so little known/discussed), most courts would see it as "reasonable" that a copyright owner failed to exercise their rights within a year - possibly even a decade. (Updated because I realized last example dealt with trademark not copyright :o)
So what am I safe to use?
US Government works (mostly)...any deemed free to use by creator...and any a copyright lawyer says they have your backs on (cuz now they're liable).
Here's some great sources for free use items (please add to this list below if you know of some!!!):
Pictures: https://buffer.com/library/free-images/ (Unsplash is one of my faves)
Music: https://www.wix.com/blog/photography/2019/11/27/free-music-for-videos/
Video: https://blog.hootsuite.com/free-stock-videos-sites/
You'll notice there's a lot of "shoulds" "coulds" "probably" etc. This is because copyright cases are all unique and go to the courts. The best bet is to go with stuff you KNOW is free and fair-use. If not, I'd look up copyright law, consult supreme court cases concerning copyright, and ultimately, talk to a lawyer.
AGAIN: I AM NOT A LAWYER. I AM NOT PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE. I AM SIMPLY PROVIDING INFORMATION. THERE MAY BE ERRORS ABOVE THAT COULD CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES - CONSULT A COPYRIGHT ATTORNEY IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE.
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2023.05.28 19:33 Harri_Sombre_Tomato I know there's been a few similar posts but since season 4 has apparently officially wrapped filming what would you like to see and what are your predictions?

According to TUA updates on twitter season 4 has officially wrapped filming so thought I'd share my hopes and predictions.
I expect a time jump but am expecting one shorter than a lot of people are saying. I think the production blurb saying they come together after 9 years is just a copy paste of season 1's. I'd guess it'll be max a year or two. I'm really really hoping for an opening like season one's with Viktor playing over a montage of the siblings to catch us up on where they are and what they've been doing.
I think Viktor going back to music now he's lost his powers makes the most sense for him and with more confidence he could be more successful now. The only thing that makes me think he might not is Elliot hated trying to learn violin and as a result his miming/playing that was dubbed over apparently looked very bad to those who know about violin. That said actors badly miming playing an instrument is not uncommon so they might be happy to go with it. If they get their powers back I can see Viktor choosing not to have his. They've mostly just caused him pain, if he's a successful musician I can see him being happy to not have them
I really hope Klaus' addiction is dealt with properly. In season 3 none of his siblings seems to be bothered by him drinking but I think this is down to drinking being seen as more socially acceptable than other drugs and he's drinking mouthwash while cleaning rooms with Stan. Robert Sheehan made a comment after season 3 but before season 4 was even announced that he thinks Klaus would fall back into old habits as a reaction to having finally putting so much work into mastering his powers and then losing them almost straight away. Now, he's not a writer but he does seem to have a pretty big influence on Klaus (he's talked about certain changes to the character coming from conversations he had with Blackman after being cast, the biggest being Klaus falling in love with Dave rather than a Vietnamese woman). Also Klaus has never worked or held down a job and I feel would struggle to do so which them makes him being homeless again more likely meaning returning to drug use would be more likely. However with a shorter episode count and him saying he feels the best he's felt in years when coming from the elevator, suggesting his years of drug use have been erased I worry it may not be addressed at all which I think is a pity. It'll feel like a large part of his arc will be dropped if that's the case. I'd also like to see him get to have a romantic relationship not ending in tragedy but I imagine that would be tricky with only 6 episodes.
I'd like to see Five have some form of emotional release in a scene, be that screaming and raging or breaking down and crying. He needs it and I think his siblings need to realise how badly the apocalypse and the commission affected him. It feel unlikely though and I'd say it won't happen if it were t for the scene in season 3 where he asks Lila to give him tha room after his older self dies. He is clearly struggling to hold it together in that scene. At the start of the seadon I think he might be trying to live a normal life. He hates Reginald but he also has repeatedly made things worse in trying to stop the apocalypse and his older self told him not to save the world. The only issue with this is he's 13 and so should be in school but I can also imagine them ignoring this and have him working in a job where he's a presumed genius kid.
I really don't know what to expect with Sloane. I think Luther will find her but I don't know if she will be his Sloane. I think they'll end up together again but initially she won't know/remember him. I don't know why Reginald separated her from the others or if it was intentional.
Whether you think she redeemable or not I think Allison is getting a redemption arc and I think she'll be the one to give the other their powers back. We already know Reginald purposefully stopped the Umbrella's from reaching full potential (he says so in season 3 to Klaus) and we've seen her powers can reality warp like in comics because in the season 2 apocalypse Five witnesses she says 'I heard a rumour I blew your minds' and the soldiers head explode. She also now no longer needs to say I heard a rumour. As such I think she will use her powers to speak her siblings powers back into existence and I'm half expecting it to start with Klaus - I can imagine him dying and her giving him back his powers to revive him (possibly unintentionally but in doing so she realises she can do the same for her siblings). I also expect her, like Viktor, choosing to get rid of her own power, again by speaking into existence. We've seen her try to stop using it multiple times because of it backfiring or causing problems so I can see her giving it up. I also think her nononger needing to say I heard a rumour may lead to her accidentally using it at some point leading to hurting and/or scaring Claire and Ray. Whether she deserves a redemption I'm unsure personally but if she gets on I hope she ends up getting to keep her husband and child personally but then I'm more sympathetic to her than lost people here. She's awful in season 3 but she's undergone trauma and loss after having being able to get what she wants for most of her life, it's in character in my opinion and I feel like the fandom is harsher on Allison than other characters (the only thing I think is unforgivable and I wish the writers hadn't written was the sexual assault on Luther).
Lila and Diego will be doing their best to be a normal family and good parents. I'm not sure what Diego wil be doing for a job since he's not a vigilante. I can't see him going back to the police academy because I think he'd still find the beuarocracy as getting in the way. We know he boxed since that was his alibi in season 1 but he obviously won't have become a professional boxer, maybe a coach or something? Maybe him and Lila both teach self defence classes? I really don't know.
Steve Blackman had confirmed that the Ben on the subway is Sparrow Ben and we should be asking 'Why is he in Korea?' and not 'Which Ben is it?' I'd like this to be misdirect but I don't think it is, Steve Blackmam often says too much in my opinion. I have no idea what to expect or why Ben is in Korea. The fact he was born on a subway is hardly a coincidence I feel but outside of that, no clue. A version of the intended season 3 story of Luther in Japan and meeting a former associate of Reginald that had to be axed due to COVID maybe? I would love for Umbrella Ben to somehow return but I do think it will happen, especially as paradox psychosis would cause issues. Maybe there's a way for Ben to say in the Hargreeves verse and the Umbrellas to return to a timeline/universe similar to their original but Ben somehow is alive? Or Sparrow Ben dies/sacrifices himself somehow in whatever final battle/quest they have to do to restore the timeline?
I think the theories of another apocalypse and letting it happen and us then seeing Five in the apocalypse is possible but I really hate it and hope that's not the ending (also it's a bit of a retread of season 3). I feel the same about them getting back to a version of their original timeline but without an apocalypse and then all splitting off because they actually don't care about it like each other very much. This feels less likely since this is very much a retread of season 3's finale. So how will it end? I don't know but I hope happily with no (permanent) character deaths and the Hargreeves being a loving, if still somewhat dysfunctional family. If they've built lives in the new universe they'd lose them by restoring the original timeline so I do wonder if they stay in the current universe but somehow stop Reggie from having so much power. I've seen someone suggest Abigail would be apalled by all he's done and leave him which would then make him...not turn over a new leaf but his main goal was always resurrecting her so if in doing so he became someone she couldn't live I can see him giving up on any attempt to fight the Umbrella's. Will he even be the main antagonist in season 4 though? I don't know who could be if not him but I also feel like it will be more complex than the Umbrellas just fighting him.
Lastly - the post about it wrapping also said that it will air either later this year or early next. Based on the time between wrapping and release for seasons 1 and 2 it could air in January but I think it'll air in February since season 1 premiered in February 2019. Season 3 had a longer post production time but I think that was mostly due to COVID.
Thoughts? Your own predictions and hopes? I haven't even touched on certain things but this is already an overlong essay so...
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2023.05.28 14:42 Creyke Brainstorming a potential story, would be interested in feedback concerning settings/themes

Hi all,
These days I'm generally writing academic papers and I've had a wearisome itch for some creative writing for quite a while. I've always had a soft spot for 40k and I have some ideas that I really want to flesh out, mainly stuff derived from some of the frustrations I've had with the genre, and some of my favourite stuff from 40k stories over the years. I'd be interested in discussing and fleshing out ideas related to setting and themes, as well as gauging the general level of interest in a story like this.
I have this huge problem with the sense of scale (or lack thereof) in 40k. I find much of Abnett's work very compelling as he often explores how "baseline" humanity interacts with the creatures and forces within the 41st millenium. However, I find most 40k fiction totally lacking a sense of vastness and I think this totally undermines an important grim-dark aspect of the setting that 40k is supposed to be famous for. I think there are some really compelling narratives and themes that emerge if the sense of vastness were better explored. Feeling insignificant is a very real, very scary thing and something most of us choose to ignore rather than face squarely. In fact, I would argue that it is actually impossible for us to really comprehend at all, our minds are simply not adequate to deal with the sized of things in the 41st millennium. I find it really interesting to think about how a baseline human would deal with the senseless and totally meaningless scale of a war in 40K, and it lends itself to themes from the existential, to the psychological, to the theological. I have in my mind a few themes I want to explore, and some of the characters and story beats. But I really want to dial in on a setting that makes the characters seem small and fragile, cast into an ancient, colossal and uncaring universe with nothing but their faith and a lasgun.
Here are some themes I am interested in exploring:
The Absurd/Existential
I have in my mind that the story will take place on a planet which has been at war for many decades. None of the characters were there to begin with, and none, (except for the youngest member - and even then, not for very long) expect that they'll see the end of it. I think it would be interesting to explore one might confront the pointlessness and triviality of their lives and actions. I think faith is often cited in 40k as the driving force of humanity in the face of it's powerlessness, but I don't think it is actually explored nearly enough...
Crisis of FaithThe emperor rotting on the golden throne reminds me of Holbein's Dead Christ, specifically, as it appears in Dostoevsky's The Idiot. In the book Rogozhin confesses to Myshkin that the painting is eroding his faith. In the same way, the emperors putrefying corpse represents the triumph of immutable forces over the original vision of immortality in that his appearance on terra once represented. Ippolit says of the painting, "It is as though this painting were the means by which this idea of a dark, brazen and senseless eternal force, to which everything is subordinate, is expressed."I have in my mind that the characters be expose to this image somehow, quite possibly shown to them as the planet their on becomes tainted by chaos. This will spur a crisis in the characters with many possible areas and arcs to explore.
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Here is a blurb or preface I wrote a while ago that has spurred much of my thinking around the ideas, themes, and general vibe of the story. I'm interested to see what people think, whether I am on to something with the very rough ideas and themes I've presented.
There is no room left to manoeuvre.
There is no room for heroics.
No room for grand strategy; for great men; for grand victories and war stories. All that matters is how many bullets and men, ships and tanks, megatons and gigawatts. This is the reality of war in the 41st Millennium. Wars fought by countless legions of accountants. Wars won by the lives of billions.
Supply lines stretched across lightyears. Each tank, each man, each lasgun, every bullet shipped between the vast distances between stars, through the incomprehensible and unpredictable immaterium. Reinforcements take decades to arrive - if they arrive at all - and the outcome of each engagement was predetermined years in advance. Probable victories or defeats decided decades and lightyears ago by cogitators, clerks and servitors carefully weighing the risk and return of each battle using arcane mechanisms lost to the millennia. Civilizations won or lost on the basis of whether losing a world could advantage the enemy more or less than the cost of keeping it. Each victory itself an opaque metric at the bottom of some bureaucrats' balance sheets.
Yet wars are still fought and won by ordinary men and women. Wars that are so vast they are incomprehensible to the human minds that fight them. Where decisive victories tip the scale by imperceptible millionths of a percent. Where losses are so massive they are rendered meaningless by their orders of magnitude. Where trillions of men and women are called to fight by the only thing left in the human mind capable of driving them forward - faith. This was the emperor's greatest work; a vast machine set in perpetual motion among the stars. A colossal engine with so many moving parts, with so many degrees of freedom that there are none left to give.
There is no room left to manoeuvre.
There is no room for heroics.
Because in the 41st millennium, there is only war.
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2023.05.28 13:53 leadchainsaw The Traitors We Are #spfbo entry is free till June 1st

The Traitors We Are #spfbo entry is free till June 1st
My SPFBO9 book, The Traitors We Are, is free until June 1st. Blurb below:
In a world where writing disappears when the author dies, 22-year-old Cael Oberlan watches the last gasping breaths of his best friend. He pulls a scrap of paper out of his pocket as his friend’s signature fades. Cael only wants vengeance for his friend and to create a reality where he no longer has to bow before any man. However, the nagging suspicion that his father, who started this war, hasn't given him the whole story about his role in this conflict threatens to unravel everything he ever thought he knew about himself and the people he is fighting to free.
As nephew of the King, 24-year-old Emil Trestinsen should be a hero. He should already hear his name echoing in celebration in the streets of the capital. In a young life already full of disappointment, the lack of recognition for ridding the kingdom of "Ruinous" Lorcen Oberlan may prove to be the final push he needs to seize his destiny. He will prove his worth to his family and his nation. He will end this rebellion and take his rightful place as the next governor of the rebels.
When 18-year-old Merily Oberlan receives letters from the frontlines, and the top one is blank, she is devastated to realize one of her loved ones has died in battle. She is determined to help bring an end to this bloody war and be strong for her people, a cultural and religious minority in the kingdom of Harfal.
What started as a simple rebellion transforms into a complicated web of lies, betrayal, and difficult decisions no one should have to make. It is a race against time and death as handwriting continues to disappear, erasing the contracts and historical records necessary for peaceful negotiations.
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2023.05.28 13:31 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - May 28th, 2023

MIAMI
NEW JERSEY
BEVERLY HILLS
BRAVO
LAGOS
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