#Published 2015

[fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics]

And the truth will set you free...

submitted by: anonymous

And the truth will set you free… (11787 words) by kellsbells / @ifourmindbeso Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Claudia Donovan, Artie Nielsen, Abigail Cho, Pete Lattimer Additional Tags: B&W Holiday Gift Exchange 2015 Summary: HG is on a retrieval with Myka when something goes wrong, and they are forced to spend Christmas together in a luxurious hotel. (The things I put these ladies through…) There may be, potentially, a few tropes here. This is for @escapism-artist on Tumblr as part of the B&W Holiday Gift Exchange 2015

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hahhahahha I can't stop chuckling, oh Myka. An artifact forcing them together, a classic warehouse move!

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[5and3nevermind]

Under the radar yoonmin

Source: Haru Hana vol. 28, March 2015. scan: @/EHEHug_

This is 27/? in the series. You can see the rest of the series here.

[lunaticbookblog]

Mistborn: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn era 2 book 2. THIS is THE Mistborn book (so far). It’s MeLaan, darling ❤️. If anything happens to Wayne, I’ll riot. Steris is wonderful. Old favorite TenSoon is back and still kicking. I apologize for ever making fun of Lessie for just being Mare/plot device 2.0.

Good pacing and reasonably interesting buildup. But what a twist! Holy shit. Worthy of one of the better Fringe episodes. Found myself psychoanalyzing BrandoSando for a moment there thinking there was no way he was that evil only to realize that it’s ALL evidence to the contrary based on every Cosmere book I’ve ever read. Which is a lot at this point. Clearly I have a problem. Maybe one day I’ll read other books, but he writes so fast.

Overall, excellent. So good it almost made me forget how much I didn’t vibe with era 1. Excited for the rest of era 2. Seems like there’s potential for a big Cosmere lore drop.

“The etched letters over the top proclaimed, in High Imperial, WASING THE ALWAYS OF WANTING OF KNOWING. […] He’d heard them interpreted as, “The eternal desire of a hungry soul is knowledge.””

[annabelle--cane]

I'm in the literary studies section of my university library, reading vampire books you've never heard of

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow what actually the fandom does not talk nearly enough about how Percy is technically canonically black. in Demigods & Magicians he says Sadie Kane is exactly how he imagines Annabeth and his future kids to be like, both personality-wise and in terms of physical appearance. Sadie Kane is biracial, which very overtly implies Percy is black. Demigods & Magicians is not ghostwritten so it's not even like this is a different author continuity thing. This is just a fact about Percy that he just indirectly drops and nobody ever talks about it.

[armandofnowhere]

IWTV HEADCANON: Arun’s journey from Delhi to Venice

Captured in DELHI, shackled on a ship across the YAMUNA RIVER, forced to march through the HINDU KUSH, sold in the slave markets of BUKHARA and CAFFA, and utimately brought to his final destination in VENICE.

↳ Based on Warily He Repeated, an upcoming fic by composission

[haveyoureadthisdcfic]

Nature and Nurture

Authour: @lurkinglurkerwholurks

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Bruce Wayne-centric)

Year: 2018

Summary:

It was a no good, very bad night all around, and it kept getting worse. In which the writer explores some classic tropes, indulges in some BatFam feels, and explores the effects of nature and nurture on the psyche of one Bruce Thomas Wayne.

Submitted by @Sanetona

Originally was intrigued at the 'de-aging but not the cutesy kind' tags, this fic was a really cool exploration of Bruce Wayne's character over time, how who he was leads us to who he is. Different batkids bonding with different versions of Bruce, different facets of who he was once, made for a super interesting read. This fic also tackles some of the mis-steps of one Alfred Pennyworth, trying his best but not some magically all knowing grandfatherly figure, and that really let him be a character instead of a caricature. Extremely enjoyable read that lives somewhere under my collarbone and has for over a year now

[purplehalnw]

Its insane to me how The Lightning Thief was published two years before I was born. I didn't get into this series until 2020, a decade after The Lost Hero came out.

But despite that I somehow feel like I was a part of the og fandom? Idk I guess I became so obsessed with the series that time just bent to my will or something.

[youremyonlyhope]

Wow, Eloise is so ahead of her time that she's reading Emma at least 6 months before it was even published.

[thedickcavettshow]

“All the references you cite in this paper need to be recent, meaning published within the past 10 years”. Ok, I can agree with that. As long as you agree that 10 years ago was the year 2000

[fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics]

The Mere Sight of Her Lifts the Heart and Sets it Soaring

submitted by: anonymous

The Mere Sight of Her Lifts the Heart and Sets it Soaring (5861 words) by @jdaydreamer3 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Pete Lattimer Additional Tags: holiday au Summary: A sort of holiday fic with Myka, Helena and an elevator.

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I love the setting of the elevator as one "box"/four walls within this plays out. And it plays out so well! All that is needed is Myka, Helena and a tiny space that they can meet in, and it's amazing!

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[arathejedi394]

i cracked this morning and read the first like 200 words of my og novel that i wrote when i was 13/self-published at 14

and like

why did hank green post it on his instagram with praise?? like i think of it and i cringe. today i re-read the first 200 words and i wanted to stop existing?? why did my mom give him a copy of it i did not ask her to do that??? i just went to one of his concerts in 2014 and my mom just gave the book to somebody and for some reason that somebody gave it to hank green and then suddenly im in the crowd 15yo new best friend bc nerdfighteria and hank green is like "oh somebody gave one of the guys this book just before the show and i took a look at it and i kinda like it it's pretty good" and up he holds none other than my og novel he goes "a 14yo wrote this and it's pretty good this affirms my faith in humanity or something like a very young not-adult did this whole novel and it's not bad that's cool" idk what he said it was 10 years ago. and there's me in the crowd freaking the fuck out i say to my new bff who i had just met at the beginning of the concert bc we were standing next to each other like "BRO THAT'S MY BOOK" new bff is like "BRO THAT'S YOUR BOOK???" and starts jumping up and down for attention like "YO THAT'S THIS GUY'S BOOK" hank green hears points at me and goes "HEY HE'S RIGHT THERE YOUR BOOK'S PRETTY COOL KID" AND THEN!!! HE FUCKING PUT IT ON HIS INSTA??? AND PRAISED IT??? THE STICKY NOTE MY MOM LEFT ON IT WITH LIKE 10 WORDS OF SYNOPSIS STILL ON THE COVER??? ALL OF HIS INSTA FOLLOWER'S SAW MY MOM'S HANDWRITING??? AND MY WHOLE ASS INITIALS + LAST NAME??? A COMPLIMENTARY REVIEW BY HANK GREEN HIMSELF??? WHY?? WHY WAS MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME THAT CRINGE ASS Y/A NOVEL???

nobody go looking back at hank green's 2015 insta. do not confirm this is true. let this be a totally unverifiable claim of some rando fandom blogger.

listen. i was 13 when i wrote that book. i was so full of brand new baby teen angst. i do not understand why hank green did not open the book flip through a couple pages go "oof this kid needs a therapist and a writing coach" and never mention it again. i do not understand why he mentioned it on stage, i don't know why he put it on his instagram, it was so bad. ohmygod. i wish i could forget it ever happened

eXCEPT I CAN'T

bc iT wAs SuPpOsEd TO BE A TRIOLOGY. aNd I ONLY WROTE ONE. AND MY PARENTS ARE STILL ASKING ME WHEN BOOK TWO IS COMING.

IT'S BEEN TEN YEARS.

[lunaticbookblog]

The Dark Forest by CinXin Liu translated by Joel Martinsen

Excellent sequel to the first book, The Three-Body Problem. Slower at the start than the first book, but once it picks up speed it keeps going with consistently interesting ideas. This novel feels like a complete and satisfying wrap up to a series, which makes me curious what a third might contain.

The lack of chapters is a huge adjustment. Still loved the book.

[fatehbaz]

Because tuatara are very long lived - between 100 and 200 years by most estimates […] - the founding of Aotearoa/New Zealand as a modern nation and the unfolding of settler-wrought changes to its environment have transpired over the course of the lives of perhaps just two tuatara [...].

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[T]he tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) [...] [is] the sole surviving representative of an order of reptiles that pre-dates the dinosaurs. [...] [T]he tuatara is of immense global and local significance and its story is pre-eminently one of deep timescales, of life-in-place [...]. Epithets abound for the unique and ancient biodiversity found in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Prized as “Ghosts of Gondwana” (Gibbs 2008), or as denizens of “Moa’s Ark” (Bellamy et al. 1990) or “The Southern Ark” (Andrews 1986), the country’s faunal species invoke fascination and inspire strong language [...]. In rounded terms, it [has been] [...] just 250 years since James Cook made landfall; just 200 years since the founding of the handful of [...] settlements that instigated agricultural transformation of the land [...]. European newcomers [...] were disconcerted by the biota [...]: the country was seen to “lack” terrestrial mammals; many of its birds were flightless and/or songless; its bats crawled through leaf-litter; its penguins inhabited forests; its parrots were mountain-dwellers; its frogs laid eggs that hatched miniature frogs rather than tadpoles [...].

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Despite having met a reassuringly temperate climate [mild, oceanic, comparable to western Europe], too, the newcomers nevertheless sought to make adjustments to that climate, and it was clear to them that profits beckoned. Surveying the towering lowland forests from the deck of HMS Endeavour in 1769, and perceiving scope for expansion of the fenland drainage schemes being undertaken at that time in England and across swathes of Europe, Joseph Banks [botanist on Cook's voyage] reported on “swamps which might doubtless Easily be drained” [...]. Almost a century later, in New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South, [...] Hursthouse offered a fuller explication of this ethos: The cultivation of a new country materially improves its climate. Damp and dripping forests, exhaling pestilent vapours from rank and rotten vegetation, fall before the axe [...]. Fen and march and swamp, the bittern’s dank domain, fertile only in miasma, are drained; and the plough converts them into wholesome plains of fruit, and grain, and grass. [...]

[The British administrators] duly set about felling the ancient forests of Aotearoa/New Zealand, draining the country’s swamps [...]. They also began importing and acclimatising a vast array of exotic (predominantly northern-world) species [sheep, cattle, rodents, weasels, cats, crops, English pasture grasses, etc.] [...]. [T]hey constructed the seemingly ordinary agronomic patchwork of Aotearoa/New Zealand's productive, workaday landscapes [...]. This is effected through and/or accompanied by drastic deforestation, alteration of the water table and the flow of waterways, displacement and decline of endemic species, re-organisation of predation chains and pollination sequences and so on [...]. Aotearoa/New Zealand was founded in and through climate crisis [...]. Climate crisis is not a disastrous event waiting to happen in the future in this part of the world; rather, it has been with us for two centuries already [...].

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[T]he crest formed by the twinned themes of absence and exceptionalism [...] has shaped this creature's niche in the western imagination. As one of the very oldest species on earth, tuatara have come to be recognised [in Euro-American scientific schemas] [...] as an evolutionary and biodiversity treasure [...]. In 1867, [...] Gunther [...] pronounced that it was not a lizard at all [...] [and] placed the tuatara [...] in a new order, Rhynchocephalia, [...] igniting a frenzy of scientific interest worldwide. Specifically, the tuatara was seen to afford opportunities for "astonished witnessing" [...], for "the excitement of having the chance to see, to study, to observe a true saurian of Mesozoic times in the flesh, still living, but only on this tiny speck of the earth [...], while all its ancestors [...] died about one hundred and thirty-five million years ago" [...]. Tuatara have, however, long held special status as a taonga or treasured species in Māori epistemologies, featuring in a range of [...] stories where [...] [they] are described by different climates and archaeologies of knowledge [...] (see Waitangi Tribunal 2011, p. 134). [...]

While unconfirmed sightings in the Wellington district were reported in the nineteenth century, tuatara currently survive only in actively managed - that is, monitored and pest-controlled - areas on scattered offshore islands, as well as in mainland zoo and sanctuary populations. As this confinement suggests, tuatara are functionally “extinct” in almost all of their former wild ranges. [...] [Italicized text in the heading of this post originally situated here in Boswell's article.] [...] In the remaining areas of Aotearoa/New Zealand where this species does now live [...], tuatara may in some cases be the oldest living inhabitants. Yet [...] if the tuatara is a creature of long memory, this memory is at risk of elimination or erasure. [...] [T]uatara expose and complicate the [...] machineries of public memory [...] and attendant environmental ideologies and management paradigms [...].

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All text above by: Anna Boswell. "Climates of Change: A Tuatara's-Eye View". Humanities, 2020, Volume 9, Issue 2, 38. Published 1 May 2020. This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. The first paragraph/heading in this post, with text in italics, are also the words of Boswell from this same article. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[phoenixcatch7]

I'm sorry, I can't deal with the svsss anime 3d style, I can't take it even slightly seriously lmaoooo. It looks so hideous next to the gorgeous 2d mdzs and tgcf, with their flowing robes and ribbons and exquisite lighting and stunning effects. I just, I know it's a parody comedy that isn't as polished as her next two books, but mxtx please, you're letting your first born down ToT.

The fact that this fandom is going strong even on the other side of the world nearly a decade later, too. Like. Bingqiu deserves to look slightly decent compared to the other two but if we can't have that could we at least have that second season :'). I'm sure people would be more drawn to it if it didn't look so much like boneless plastic dolls in cosplay.

[thus-spoke-lo]

catching up on years of time lost not playing video games by playing 10+ year old titles that do not need nearly the compute power my laptop is capable of.