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Brienne of Tarth by Helen Sloan

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In the name of the warrior,

I charge you to be brave.

In the name of the father,

I charge you to be just.

In the name of the mother,

I charge you to defend the innocent.

Arise, Brienne of Tarth,

A knight of the seven kingdoms.

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Asuka furoku up for grabs

I recently came across my old collection of Asuka furoku and thought it was high time it goes to a good home.

IIRC this all dates from 2002-2004 -- it's mostly CLAMP, Sugisaki Yukiru, and Yura Kairi, with a little bit of Morinaga Ai and Onodera Akira thrown in. (And possibly others?) In total I believe there's 2 notebooks, 2 pencil boards, 2 clear files, 4 mini comic books, 1 photo album, 1 calendar, 1 postcard book, 1 poster, 1 paper shopping bag, and assorted cards. All in excellent condition except the bag which is a bit worn from storage.

Anyway I know there are various furoku collectors and enthusiasts out there so I would be more than happy to send it along to anyone who wouldn't mind covering the shipping -- just DM me and we can work something out. I'll update this post if they're claimed. :)

edit: claimed! that was super quick. #sasugaclampfandom :)

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63.087353°N, 141.433863°W Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, USA

photo by Ralph Troutman

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reupping this in light of the weekend's events - not because one more news story in an endless 20-month parade of news stories on this topic is going to be what changes millions of voters' minds, but because volunteering is a better way to spend the next nine days than hyperventilating on the internet, amirite? and if you have questions, dm me! happy to help anyone and everyone get plugged in.

Register: turbovote.org Check your registration: headcount.org/verify-voter-registration/ More info: usa.gov/voting

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It's not time to panic! But it is time to get involved.

Register to vote --> iwillvote.com

Sign up to volunteer --> hillaryclinton.com/volunteer

Make calls from anywhere in the country --> hillaryclinton.com/calls

Travel to another state to help --> hillaryclinton.com/travel

If you live in:

Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin: Your state needs you! VOLUNTEER to register voters, make phone calls, knock on doors, input data, deliver supplies, drive voters to the polls, house an out-of-state volunteer, or even drop off a pizza for your local field organizer working 12 hours a day 7 days a week. Whether you have the time to help a couple hours a week, all day Saturday, or even just the weekend before Election Day, they can and will use your help.

Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachussetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (again), Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming: A state nearby needs you! Can you use your day off to drive next door and register voters for an afternoon? Or can you call in from across the border? SIGN UP HERE (or see battleground-state specific forms below) and your neighbors in need will reach out to figure out how you can help.

Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Washington: The campaign still need your help! You can use this helpful online tool to make calls to battleground states from anywhere in the country -- or, if you have the time and money, you can travel to a battleground state to help out for a day, a weekend, a week, or even a month. Sign up to volunteer in: Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, all others

Register: turbovote.org Check your registration: headcount.org/verify-voter-registration/ More info: usa.gov/voting

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it took me YEARS beyond the standard four to graduate. i transferred schools (twice), i changed majors, and then with just one required course and a couple of transfer credit petitions left i took a full-time job, and then another job, and just... didn't go back. it was three years before i took care of that one last course. so technically, i started college in september of 2004 and received my degree in august of 2013. almost ten years.

i was so down on myself for so long. it felt mortifying. i never lied or misrepresented my educational history to an employer, but i went to extreme lengths to keep from admitting it to my friends and family. i felt like a failure and a quitter and an anxious wreck, just because i couldn't bring myself to log in to my state university website and sign up for a measly entry-level three-credit online course. the anxiety was real. the failure was not.

now that it's been three years since i graduated, it seems so weird and arbitrary and unnecessarily hard on myself. during those nine years, i took classes, but i also studied in japan, moved across the country to brand-new unknowns three times, worked for a political campaign, worked for a social good non-profit, traveled around the world, and wrote tens of thousands of words of fiction.

and after i did get my degree, i got into the graduate program of my dreams at a very prestigious school, and right now i'm working a pretty significant job (if i do say so myself) in electoral politics.

so. if you're still stuck in that long interminable spiral of shame-anxiety-avoidance-shame, and you don't know when it's going to end, and you don't know who you can talk to -- don't give up. and try, try, try not to get so down on yourself. i know that's hard to internalize. but trust me: you can make it, you will make it, and when you do you'll find out no one will give a shit how long it took.

and if you're a four year graduate and you're talking about the "college experience", take that extra moment to think about what you say, and how you say it. your experience probably isn't as common as you think it is, and how you talk about that can make a world of difference to the people around you.

and if a college degree took you more than four years, if you got started later, if you left school and then came back, if you studied part-time and worked the rest, if you changed schools or majors or degrees or went back and redid classes, sometimes more than once, and you still saw it through -- you've demonstrated more commitment and hard work and grit than many of your peers. you shouldn't be ashamed, you should be proud.

GOD i hate this idea that not graduating when anticipated is considered “late” or “not on time” because it only just reinforces the stigma of being behind, not being as good as your peers, etc and it’s garbage! if you graduate at a time later than you had anticipated, youre still worthy of respect and you still graduated, whether it was a semester, a year, or thirty years down the line

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Could Have

It could have happened. It had to happen. It happened earlier. Later. Nearer. Farther off. It happened, but not to you.

You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last. Alone. With others. On the right. The left. Because it was raining. Because of the shade. Because the day was sunny.

You were in luck – there was a forest. You were in luck – there were no trees. You were in luck – a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake, A jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant…

So you’re still here? Still dizzy from another dodge, close shave, reprieve? One hole in the net and you slipped through? I couldn’t more shocked or speechless. Listen, how your heart pounds inside me.

– Wisława Szymborska

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Summer's End Moriyama Naotarou

On the paths between the rice fields, where the water lilies sway Side by side we spun our dreams Floating a little boat of bamboo leaves on the current of time A love song in the ashes of summer; a person unforgettable, evanescent Twilight in the sky.

Bewildered, amidst the unceasing rain I waited for you at the station, not a shadow in sight...

Summer's end -- at summer's end, I just want to see you Because the same wind blows that once did.

Recollections sink deep into the heart's wounds Summer grass grows thick in the misty fields How much time has trickled by since then, I wonder, like a little stream...

Even if someone gathers up the words one tried to say, everyone will forget Those summer days won't come again.

Summer's prayer -- a summer's prayer in the ethereal melody of the fireflies' light, The echo of wind chimes rippling in the breeze.

Summer's end -- at summer's end, I just want to see you Because the same wind blows that once did.

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New Spitz album cover. I... I..........

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2002 --> 2016.

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insta-reblog, insta-rec.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hikaru no Go Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Shindou Hikaru/Touya Akira Characters: Waya Yoshitaka, Tsutsui Kimihiro, Touya Akiko, Ashiwara Hiroyuki, Fujisaki Akari, Original Character Additional Tags: Science Fiction, Community: blind_go Summary:

“Miguchi-san,” she says, “I cannot pretend to understand the technicalities of what my son has achieved, or brought upon the world. So you must excuse my ideas if they seem foolish to you. You are conversant with all the particulars; I can only speak of what I know. Akira was never ‘Sai’, and he did not create ‘Sai’. ‘Sai’ existed, and Akira found him – it. He accomplished what his father could not.

“Perhaps he believed that if he succeeded, he would be able to meet Shindou-san again.”

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Obviously I should have done this earlier, if I were going to do it at all, but I wanted to repost this fic in honour of AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol. XD I can’t believe I wrote a SFF short story that has been deprecated by real life advances in artificial intelligence! What am I, Bradbury? OR JUST GETTING OLD???

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I had no idea this even existed, but it’s quite fantastic! It’s a segment from the NHK series Shojo comic o kaku about drawing shojo manga, where they visit a new manga artist in every episode and film them drawing. These 12 segments are up on youtube:

Hagio Moto (above)

Takemiya Keiko

Ichijo Yukari

Miuchi Suzue

Ikeda Riyoko

Yamato Waki

Morita Jun

Shoji Yoko

Takaguchi Satosumi

Yoshida Mayumi

Asagiri Yu

Yachi Emiko and Tominaga Hiromi

The commentator is Satonaka Machiko, herself a legendary manga artist.

eta: This is also quite funny because a lot of the artists are drawing manga while dressed in pretty dresses and wearing perfect makeup, lol. They would never unless there was a camera there.

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Note: I am aware of a separate manuscript tradition wherein Hani throws his axe only after Gríðó throws his, but this appears to be a clumsy later emendation made by medieval editors who wished to present Hólmgǫngu-Hani in a more chivalric light. That same manuscript tradition has a scene where King Jabbi confronts Hani in Mósæsli. Modern scholars disagree about whether this was a part of the written saga as originally composed, but I have chosen to excise it from this presentation since I regard it as probably excrescent; it is rather difficult to understand what the narrative justification is supposed to be for the King of Denmark himself to travel all the way to Iceland to confront (very briefly) someone who owes him some back taxes. Especially so soon after one of his own agents has already done so.

Tattúínárdǿla saga (via fuckyeahrichardiii)

oh my GOD

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Robert Henri, Isolina Maldonado - Spanish Dancer (1921)

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my favorite thing about this is that s/he's got that dashing ace grin

Star Wars Corgi! (Source: http://ift.tt/1Nya4pp)

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I don’t give two shits about kylo ren or his getting a redemption arc but if it will make general leia “didn’t deserve this” organa-solo happy I will drag his twenty-whine year old greasy pool noodle ass back into the light myself