#Christy Lee Rogers

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Christy Lee Rogers

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Christy Lee Rogers   (US, 1972)

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Sirens (Water Fairies), 2021. Siren collection photography

Από τα βράχι’ ανάμεσα πετιέτ’ ενα κεφάλι και βλέμματα ολόγυρα σκορπάει φοβισμένα.  Εγώ, κρυμμένος κάπου κει στο έρημ’ ακρογιάλι, το βλέπω —σαν σε όνειρο— με μάτια λιγωμένα.

Ένα κορμί παρθενικό, γυμνό αργοπροβάλλει κι απλώνεται ηδονικά σε κύματ’ αφρισμένα...

Θεότρελος, ο δύστυχος, βουτιέμαι μες στο κύμα, τα μάτια της τα θεϊκά με φόβο με κοιτάζουν και χάνεται στη θάλασσα… Ήταν νεράιδα… Κρίμα!

Kostas Karyotakis - Κώστας Καρυωτάκης   (GR, 1896 - 1928)

Της θάλασσας νεράιδα

https://www.christyleerogers.com/siren/

https://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/literature/tools/concordance/browse.html?cnd_id=6&text_id=1116

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Zoe Saldana, Kate Winlset & Sigourney Weaver | Christy Lee Rogers | March 2024

Prints available for purchase, with profits going to The Nature Conservancy

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Christy Lee Rogers Captures the Power of Light in New Mesmerizing Underwater Photographs

Luminescence from the Luminescence collection shows how Christy Lee Rogers captures the power of light. Image: Sony World Open Award Winner Christy Lee Rogers captures the power of light in Luminescence, her new mesmerizing underwater photography series. BY KAZAEEM ADELEKE, ARTCENTRON Introduction Christy Lee Rogers Captures the Power of Light In a world consumed by darkness, Sony World Open…

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Des photos sous-marines ressemblant à des peintures baroques par Christy Lee Rogers

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/des-photos-sous-marines-ressemblant-a-des-peintures-baroques-par-christy-lee-rogers/

Des photos sous-marines ressemblant à des peintures baroques par Christy Lee Rogers

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THE KING OF IRON FIST TOURNAMENT PRELIMINARIES OUT NOW!

I figured to wait until the release day of Tekken 8 to start the The King of Iron Fist Tournament! Or the Tekken Tournament. I'll let you guys decide on the name but for now I will just say Tekken Preliminaries!

So who is fighting it out and who is currently in the 64 bracket? I did the same seeding I did for Mortal Kombat, where I based it off of playable appearances. The 8 mainline games and the Tekken Tag Tournament games, any other spinoff is not included.

Tekken Characters In the Bracket

10 playable appearances (all ten games!)

Nina Williams

Paul Phoenix

Yoshimitsu

9 playable appearances

Heihachi Mishima

Jack

Kazuya Mishima

Lee Chaolan

Marshall Law

8 playable appearances

King II

Kuma II

Anna Williams

Lei Wulong

Bryan Fury

Eddy Gordo

Hwoarang

Jin Kazama

Ling Xiaoyu

Panda

7 playable appearances

Ganryu

Julia Chang

6 playable appearances

Wang Jinrei

Steve Fox

5 playable appearances

Baek Doo San

Bruce Invin

Mokujin

Craig Marduk

Emilie De Rochefort

Sergei Dragunov

Asuka Kazama

Devil Jin

4 playable appearances

Armor King II

Kunimitsu I

Michelle Chang

Prototype Jack

Jun Kazama

Christie Monteiro

Raven

Alisa Bosconovitch

Lars Alexandersson

Leo Kliesen

Zafina

3 playable appearances

Armor King I

Alex

Angel

Ancient Ogre

Forest Law

Tiger Jackson

True Ogre

Roger Jr.

Miguel Caballero Rojo

Robert "Bob" Richards

Tekken Characters in the Preliminaries

2 playable appearances

King I

Kuma I

Devil Kazuya

Roger

Dr. Bosconovitch

Unknown

Combot

Miharu Hirano

Jinpachi Mishima

Claudio Serafino

Shaheen

Leroy Smith

1 playable appearance

Violet

Tetsuji

Jaycee

Sebastian

Slim Bob

Master Raven

Fahkumram

Gigas

Josie Rizal

Katarina Alves

Kazumi Mishima

Lucky Chloe

Kunimitsu II

Lidia Sobieska

Azucena Milagros Ortiz Castillo

Reina

Victor Chevalier

Eliza (gonna appear in Last Chance as I forgot)

Just like last time, four groups to decide who will get the open spots. However there is a odd number so we might do a Last Chance Preliminary poll once again. The top 3 of each group will move on to the bracket. Number 4 will go to Last Chance. The rest are banished to catering forever.

The preliminaries themselves will be out soon hopefully in the next hour or so are out now. Thank you for the support and here's to another fighting game tournament.

Also been dead for a month so tagging for visibility, however you are not obligated to. If you do, then thank you very much.

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Just some general stuff about Dame Agatha Christie's books. Writing this as helpful info for my friend @cinphenheadspace but also for anyone potentially interested!

So of course the most famous cycles of her stories are the Poirot cycle (33 novels plus some short stories and novellas) and the Miss Marple cycle (12 novels plus also some short stories). There are also smaller cycles and stand-alone novels (well, the small cycle novels are also kind of stand-alone, pretty different from each other).

The earliest novels (written in 20s) are some early Poirot ones (not great if you ask me, except for the great Murder of Roger Ackroyd) and some fun adventure mysteries about young people (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, The Seven Dials Mystery, and some more) In a number of these there's a cute couple of energetic girl and calm boy who participate in adventures together, as well as charming villains.

A lot of the most famous titles were written in the 1930s, it's mostly Poirot novels. They have brilliant puzzle/mystery and at least one or several memorable characters, but mostly the emphasis is on the investigation. Some of the best of these are The Murder on the Orient Express (it also raises an interesting serious theme and potential for drama), Death on the Nile (also good drama/psychology behind the central conflict), The ABC Murders (very good for the mystery itself, but has a good lesson too), Evil Under the Sun. Out of novels about Miss Marple, the earlier ones such as Murder at the Vicarage also are like this (but set in countryside, while Poirot novels are more often the city or vacations/travels).

Two other very notable novels of the pre-war Christie are The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (written in the 20s, a Poirot novel, it's a genial one and I cannot tell why exactly without spoilers, but it is powerful both as mystery and as drama, while also very enjoyable to read) and And Then There Was None, a stand-alone novel that basically was the birth of its genre.

The novels written during and after WWII are however more appealing to me in general. They have much more psychology, importance of the characters and their life and feelings, as well as social themes. It's the majority of Miss Marple novels, starting with A Murder Is Announced (in-depth depiction of post-war countryside, as well as good mystery and interesting antagonist drama), then including novels such as 4:50 from Paddington (a family-centered mystery, characters and atmosphere are cool, characters have interesting dynamics/development, also shipping potential if you like it 🙂), The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side (centered around cinema people), A Pocket Full of Rye (another family one). In Poirot cycle there's Hercule Poirot's Christmas (written a bit earlier but also everything is centered on the characters, the members of the Lee family are the prototypes of the Crackenthorpe family from 4:50 from Paddington in many ways), Five Little Pigs (an investigation of a mystery that happened years ago, so there are accounts of very different people involved who also changed across the years, so... very characters-centric), Taken at the Flood (lots on post-war society), After the Funeral, and The Hollow (this one is even barely a mystery, almost just a psychological novel). Ah, in the Marple cycle there's also Sleeping Murder, which like Five Little Pigs is an investigation of events of years ago, atmospheric and all.

Out of the cycles, this kind of novels are Sparkling Cyanide (another mystery-in-the-past), Towards Zero, Crooked House (a family mystery, warning, this one's ending is very dark) and Ordeal by Innocence (another family one, centered on how suspicion affects people's lives).

Latest novels vary in quality really, but include some great atmospheric stuff, especially Dead Man's Folly and The Halloween Party (from Poirot cycle), At Bertram's Hotel and Nemesis (from Miss Marple cycle).

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books of 2023

this is a list of all the books I read in 2023! my goal this year was 36 (an average of 3 per month) but I finished grad school this year so ended up reading a lot more than I thought I'd be able to. the goal for next year is just as many as I can!

1. The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson

2. S by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst

3. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

4. Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk

5. The World We Make by NK Jemisin 

6. Doctor Who: Genocide by Paul Leonard 

7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

8. My Remarkable Journey by Katherine Johnson 

9. The Case of the Dragon-Bone Engine by Galadriel Coffeen

10. Words Without Borders edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman 

11. Doctor Who: A Day in the Life edited by Ian Farrington 

12. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (reread) 

13. Lost Mountain by Erik Reece 

14. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin 

15. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie 

16. Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler

17. Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler 

18. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 

19. The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (reread) 

20. Walden and On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 

21. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 

22. Star Trek Voyager: Pathways by Jeri Taylor

23. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick House 

24. The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

25. Doctor Who: War of the Daleks by John Peel 

26. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 

27. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (reread) 

28. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 

29. Doctor Who: Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles 

30. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott 

31. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 

32. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate 

33. Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott 

34. The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole 

35. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik 

36. Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood 

37. Doctor Who: Kursaal by Peter Anghelides 

38. The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 

39. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 

40. Doctor Who: Option Lock by Justin Richards

41. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 

42. Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh 

43. Doctor Who: Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell 

44. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 

45. Lost Time by Józef Czapski

46. The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

47. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie 

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2023 Goodreads Reading Challenge Tier List!!!

Got The Hardback Special Edition - I don't like these books, I love them. It's not that I need the hardbacks, I need to devour the pages, so I can consume every bit of canon and then go diving into the fandom just to get my next fix (The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth)

Place of Honour on my bookshelf - I like these books and feel the need to display the paperbacks on my bookshelf, so guests know I have good taste :3 (Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart, Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd & The Thirteen Problems, China Mieville - The Scar, Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!)

Worth the E-Book - I'm happy I read these books, even though they were not necessarily in my top 10 this year. I will probably read them again in the future, so I'm happy to own them on my e-reader.

Borrow from your local library - I neither like nor dislike these books, they are perfectly serviceable, but I wouldn't spend money just to own then. (Yoon Ha Lee - Phoenix Extravagant, Frank Herbert - Dune, Dune Messiah & Children of Dune, Final Fantasy - On The Way To A Smile & Traces of Two Pasts, Clive Barker - The Damnation Game & The Coldheart Canyon, Stina Leicht - Persephone Station, Robert Jordan - The Eye of The World, Lily Mayne - Soul Eater, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side, Terry Pratchett - Sourcery)

Burn for warmth - I actively disliked these books, or they were just so boring I had to take frequent breaks just to get through them (William Joyce - Jack Frost: The End Becomes The Beginning, Greg Weisman - The War of The Spark: Forsaken, Chuck Wendig - Double Dead, Diana Wynee Jones - House of Many Ways, Clive Barker - Weaveworld)

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Christy Lee Rogers

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My media this week (18-24 Dec 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍ Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Lucy Worsley, author & narrator) - an excellent biography

😍 All That You Are to Me series (2bestfriends) - 87K, shrunkyclunks - holiday reread, 'the lumberjack steve/twink bucky fic of our hearts' - main fic 67K, sequel fic 20K

😍 It's the Best Time of the Year (chicklette) - 40K, shrunkyclunks, holiday time fic - reread of a fave with baker!Bucky & Cap!Steve - perfect blend of angst, fluff and action

😍 (if only in my dreams) (jehans) - 45K, stucky no powers AU - reread of holiday season friends2lovers/2nd chance with some QUALITY pining

💖💖 +323K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

SHOCKING! Spiderman's Alien Baby: Friendly Neighborhood Hero and His Hanukkah Blessing (AggressiveWhenStartled) - MCU: Peter Parker v the Geriatric Supersoldier Husbands, 4.8K - no one writes the adventures of a hapless Peter tangled up with the Geriatric Supersolider Husbands like AggressiveWhenStartled - pure hilarity throughout (and ZERO alien babies despite the title)

One Does Not Simply Walk Into JoAnn Fabrics (And other millennial lessons from The Winter Soldier) (attackofthezee (noxlunate)) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 11.9K - forever fave; holiday reread of a recovering WS who gets a job working at JoAnn's and falls hard for a customer

Bucky Barnes Has His Shit Together (and Other Lies He Tells Himself) (betts) - MCU: stucky no-powers AU, 14K - holiday reread of recovering vet Bucky & single dad baker Steve

Here Comes Santa Claus (AidaRonan) - MCU: stucky, 6.7K - holiday reread - hilarious and hot - Bucky meets Santa!Steve and this santa definitely fucks

then a small thing happened (BeaArthurPendragon) - MCU: stucky no-powers AU, 35K - new holiday fave about recovering photojournalist Bucky and astronaut Steve - LOVED LOVED LOVED

rockin' around (wearing_tearing) - Stranger Things: Steddie/Ronance/Fruity Four, 13K - an absolutely DELIGHTFUL advent collection of ficlets - every day was a pop of pure joy to read

Knit One, Purl Two (mollus) - MCU: stucky, 32K - holiday reread, forever fave - recovering WS/Cap with healing via crafting with a delightful knitting group

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Taskmaster - s14, e1-10

Glass Onion

Single All The Way

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Decoder Ring Plus - Encore: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong

Switched on Pop - Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tumbleweed Christmas Tree

99% Invisible #519 - Balikbayan Boxes

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Priscilla’s Homecoming

It's Been a Minute - (Almost) 20 years of 'Love Actually'

Off Menu - Ep 41: Joe Lycett (Christmas Special)

Into It - Matt Rogers Has Heard of Christmas, But 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'

Off Menu - Ep 175: Alex Horne (Christmas Special)

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Simply Christmas (Deluxe Edition) [Leslie Odom Jr]

Merry Christmas…Have A Nice Life [Cyndi Lauper]

Trans Siberian Orchestra playlist

Classical Christmas

A Sunny Brazilian Christmas

A Merry Little Christmas [Linda Ronstadt]

A Legendary Christmas [John Legend]

Jingle Bell Swing

It's a Holiday Soul Party [Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings]

Twelve Songs Of Christmas [Etta James]

Home for Christmas [Daryl Hall & John Oates]

A Very Too Many Zooz Xmas [Too Many Zooz]

A Heavy Metal Christmas [Christopher Lee]

A Heavy Metal Christmas Too [Christopher Lee]

Merry Flippin' Christmas Vol. 1 and 2 [Bowling For Soup]

Punk Rock Christmas

Classic Soul Christmas

my rockabilly christmas playlist

my xmas playlist

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100 Songs in English from the 70s

100 Songs in English from the 70s 100 Songs in English from the 70s, including: Black Sabbath – Paranoid, Christie - Yellow River, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door, George Harrison - My Sweet Lord, James Brown - Sex Machine, Lee Marvin - Wand'rin Star, Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water and many more!!! Subscribe to our channel to see more of our content! 1. 1970 Black Sabbath - Paranoid 2. 1970 Christie - Yellow River 3. 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door 4. 1970 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord 5. 1970 James Brown - Sex Machine 6. 1970 Lee Marvin - Wand'rin Star 7. 1970 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 8. 1970 The Beatles - Let It Be 9. 1970 The Guess Who - American Woman 10. 1970 The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back 11. 1971 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain 12. 1971 Don McLean - American Pie 13. 1971 Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 14. 1971 John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads 15. 1971 John Lennon - Imagine 16. 1971 Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven 17. 1971 Middle Of The Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep 18. 1971 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 19. 1971 T. Rex - Get It On 20. 1971 Tom Jones - She's A Lady 21. 1972 Alice Cooper - School's Out 22. 1972 Chicago - Saturday In The Park 23. 1972 Chicory Tip - Son Of My Father 24. 1972 Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water 25. 1972 Elton John - Crocodile Rock 26. 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) 27. 1972 Harry Nilsson - Without You 28. 1972 Neil Diamond - Song Sung Blue 29. 1972 T. Rex - Telegram Sam 30. 1972 The Osmonds - Crazy Horses 31. 1973 Billy Joel - Piano Man 32. 1973 Demis Roussos - Goodbye My Love Goodbye 33. 1973 Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band 34. 1973 Paul McCartney & Wings - Hi Hi Hi 35. 1973 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song 36. 1973 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 37. 1973 Suzi Quatro - Can The Can 38. 1973 Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz 39. 1973 The Rolling Stones - Angie 40. 1973 Tony Orlando & Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree 41. 1974 ABBA - Waterloo 42. 1974 Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling (Uga Chaka Uga) 43. 1974 Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry 44. 1974 Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye 45. 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama 46. 1974 Morris Albert - Feelings 47. 1974 Nazareth - Love Hurts 48. 1974 Redbone - Come And Get Your Love 49. 1974 Slade - Far Far Away 50. 1974 The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love 51. 1975 Aerosmith - Walk This Way 52. 1975 America - Sister Golden Hair 53. 1975 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 54. 1975 David Bowie - Fame 55. 1975 KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) 56. 1975 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 57. 1975 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 58. 1975 Rod Stewart - Sailing 59. 1975 Sweet - Fox On The Run 60. 1975 The Carpenters - Please Mr. Postman 61. 1976 ABBA - Dancing Queen 62. 1976 Bay City Rollers - I Only Wanna Be With You 63. 1976 Boston - More Than A Feeling 64. 1976 Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart 65. 1976 Kc & The Sunshine Band - Shake Your Booty 66. 1976 Paul McCartney & Wings - Silly Love Songs 67. 1976 Queen - Somebody To Love 68. 1976 Smokie - Living Next Door to Alice 69. 1976 Steve Miller Band - Rock'n Me 70. 1976 Tina Charles - I Love To Love 71. 1977 Bee Gees - Night Fever 72. 1977 Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive 73. 1977 Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache 74. 1977 Eagles - Hotel California 75. 1977 Kansas - Dust In The Wind 76. 1977 Kenny Rogers - Lucille 77. 1977 Paul McCartney & Wings - Mull Of Kintyre 78. 1977 Queen - We Are The Champions 79. 1977 Queen - We Will Rock You 80. 1977 Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World 81. 1978 Blondie - Heart Of Glass 82. 1978 Bob Seger - Old Time Rock And Roll 83. 1978 Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon 84. 1978 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 85. 1978 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 86. 1978 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want 87. 1978 Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? 88. 1978 The Jacksons - Blame It On the Boogie 89. 1978 Van Halen - You Really Got Me 90. 1978 Village People - YMCA 91. 1979 AC/DC - Highway To Hell 92. 1979 Donna Summer - On The Radio 93. 1979 Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down 94. 1979 Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You 95. 1979 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall 96. 1979 Supertramp - The Logical Song 97. 1979 The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 98. 1979 The Clash - London Calling 99. 1979 The Knack - My Sharona 100. 1979 The Police - Message In A Bottle Related Hashtags #hitsof1970 #hitsof1970to1971 #hitsof1970s #hitsof1970songs #hitsof1970uk #hitsof1970australia #hitsofthe1970sand1970s #kannadahitsof1970 #bollywoodhitsof1970 #hitsof1969and1970 #tophitsofthe1970sbillboard #pophitsofthe1970s #hitsof1970sinmusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPNehxTU2Ys

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Books read in 2022!!

rereads are italicized, favorites are bolded

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

2. Boxers by Gene Luen Yang

3. Saints by Gene Luen Yang

4. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

6. Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

7. Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway

8. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

9. Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix by JK Rowling

10. The Dead by James Joyce

11. Soldiers Three by Richard Kipling

12. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

13. Richard iii by William Shakespeare

14. Balcony of Fog by Rich Shapiro

15. All Systems Red by Martha Wells

16. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

17. I have no mouth and I must scream by Harlan Ellison

18. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

19. The moment before the gun went off by Nadine Gordimer

20. The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde

21. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

22. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

23. Rules for a knight by Ethan Hawke

24. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling

25. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

27. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins

28. Highly Irregular by Arika Okrent

29. The Green Mile by Stephen King

30. The Swan Riders by Erin Bow

31. The King’s English by Henry Watson Fowler

32. The Truelove by Patrick O’Brian

33. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

34. The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian

35. The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian

36. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

37. Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

38. The Disaster Area by JG Ballard

39. The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi

40. Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan

41. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

42. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

43. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

44. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

45. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

46. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

47. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner

48. Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner

49. Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

50. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

51. Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo

52. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

53. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O’Brian

54. Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

55. The Russian Assassin by Jack Arbor

56. The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

57. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

58. The Iliad by Homer

59. The Treadstone Transgression by Joshua Hood

60. The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian

61. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard

62. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

63. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

64. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (unknown)

65. Persuasion by Jane Austen

66. The Outsiders by SE Hinton

67. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

68. The Odyssey by Homer

69. Dead Cert by Dick Francis

70. The Oresteia by Aeschylus

71. The Network Effect by Martha Wells

72. All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell

73. This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar

74. The Epic of Gilgamesh (unknown author)

75. The Republic by Plato

76. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

77. On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

78. Ere the Cock Crows by Jens Bjornboe

79. Mid-Bloom by Katie Budris

80. Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O’Brian

81. 21 by Patrick O’Brian

82. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

83. Battle Cry by Leon Uris

84. Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky

85. The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud

86. The Door in the Wall by HG Wells

87. Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad by MR James

88. The Birds and Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier

89. The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher

90. Blackout by Simon Scarrow

91. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

92. No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

93. The Open Society and its Enemies volume one by Karl Popper

94. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

95. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

96. The Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease

97. The things they carried by Tim O’Brien

98. A very very very dark matter by Martin McDonagh

99. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek

100. The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh

101. A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh

102. The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

103. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

104. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

105. The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth

106. Things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes by Eric LaRocca

107. Each thing I show you is a piece of my death by Gemma Files

108. Different Seasons by Stephen King

109. Dracula by Bram Stoker

110. Inker and Crown by Megan O’Russell

111. Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis

112. Killers by Patrick Hodges

113. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

114. The Rise and Reign of Mammals by Stephen Brusatte

115. Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars

116. The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

117. In A Glass Darkly by J Sheridan le Fanu

118. Collected Poems by Edward Thomas

119. The Longer Poems by TS Eliot

120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

121. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

122. The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

123. Choice of George Herbert’s verse by George Herbert

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Tekken 8 Wishlist

So I’ve been all up the Tekken 8 hype train ever since that teaser trailer dropped and I’ve been playing a lot of Tekken 7, I even played some Dark Resurrection, Tag 2 and Tekken 6, and I decided I’d share with you some of the features I’d hope to see in Tekken 8.

Characters

I tried my best to come up with a balanced set of characters that best represent the series (with #1 being the most iconic / representative) and not necessarily who I like so I did my best to set my bias aside lol.

1. Paul Phoenix

2. Yoshimitsu

3. Marshall Law

4. Nina Williams

5. Kazuya Mishima (Confirmed)

6. Ling Xiaoyu

7. King

8. Hwoarang

9. Lei Wulong

10. Steve Fox

11. Jack

12. Jin Kazama (Confirmed)

13. Bryan Fury

14. Craig Marduk

15. Christie Monteiro

16. Asuka Kazama

17. Feng Wei

18. New Character #1

19. New Character #2

20. New Character #3

21. Lee Chaolan (Unlockable)

22. Julia Chang (Unlockable)

23. Lili (Unlockable)

24. Sergei Dragunov (Unlockable)

25. Leo Kliesen (Unlockable)

26. Anna Williams (Unlockable)

27. Ganryu (Unlockable)

28. Kuma (Unlockable)

29. Bruce Irvin (Unlockable)

30. Armor King (Unlockable)

31. Roger Jr. (Unlockable)

32. Miguel Caballero Rojo (Season 1 DLC)

33. Bob (Season 1 DLC)

34. Zafina (Season 1 DLC)

35. Lars Alexandersson (Season 2 DLC)

36. Alisa Bosconovitch (Season 2 DLC)

37. Katarina Alves (Season 2 DLC)

38. Claudio Serafino (Season 2 DLC)

39. Shaheen (Season 3 DLC)

40. Lucky Chloe (Season 3 DLC)

41. Josie Rizal (Season 3 DLC)

42. Gigas (Season 3 DLC)

43. Master Raven (Season 4 DLC)

44. Eliza (Season 4 DLC)

45. Leroy Smith (Season 4 DLC)

46. Fahkumram (Season 4 DLC)

47. Kunimitsu (Season 5 DLC)

48. Lidia Sobieska (Season 5 DLC)

Now, let me make some things clear. I don’t want characters to be DLC, but since it’s a very common practice for fighting games nowadays, I’ve come to expect them to happen, so if they absolutely have to have DLC, I’d rather legacy characters are part of the base game and DLC are newer characters than are not necessarily as closely-tied to the core Tekken experience yet. I also know fighting games don’t really do unlockable characters any more, but I think it would be fun to see this “lost” feature return. Gives you a motive to play through arcade mode with as many different characters as possible to see who you get next!

Outfits

Tekken had this “tradition” of sorts from the first game up until Tekken 6 were the 1P costume was the character’s “battle” costume and the 2P was a more “casul” outfit. For example, in Tekken 3 Jin’s 1P outfit is his trademark flame pants and his 2P was a leather “biker” sort of outfit. This was not explicitly true for everyone but it was the case for most of them and I think it’s much better than having a palette swap for 2P like we got in Tag 2 and Tekken 7. This is just lazy in my opinion.

Character customization is a cool way for player’s to express their individual tastes and style, but it has also gone v down hill in Tag 2 and 7. Too many generic and extremely fucking ugly items. Customization was at its best in Tekken 6 where each individual character had their own personal “wardrobe” of sorts with items that fit the style and characterization of each individual fighter. That was a much better execution and I hope we can return to that era of customization. At the same time I also desperately hope random ghost characters are left untouched like I’m so sick of fighting all these goofy weird creations of Bandai Namco. Just leave the customization up to each individual player to enage with.

I would also love to see character’s legacy / trademark outfits be included either as unlockable outfits or the customization system or, worst case scenario, DLC..

Stages

I loved it when Tekken based its stages on real-life places like in Tag 2 or Tekken 1. In Tekken 1′s case the stages were literal recreations of real-world locations while in Tag 2 they were just inspired by various countries and given a “title”, let’s say, describing which part of the world they take place in. I think either way it’s fine, a nice little touch to make people all around the world feel like they are part of Tekken. Completely unintrusive and harmless too, it didn’t feel forced.

I also think it’s very important that each character has their own stage. Now, obviously, making a personalised stage for each individual character would be madness. Wonderful, but still madness, because even if you don’t take my proposed 48-character roster into account, Tekken tends to have a lot of characters. So, characters that share a friendship or rivarly or are from the same region could share a stage and maybe a different BGM could play depending on which fighter you’re up against, like in Tekken 3. Stages being tied to the characters was a huge way of characterisation and storytelling in the past and I don’t see why this trend can’t continue, even in Tekken 7, during their character prologues each fighter was introduced in a specific stage that seemed to fit them so it’s not like the concept has been completely abandoned anyway.

Music

Having past BGMs selectable was a great idea in Tag 2 and 7 and I’d love to see it return. They could possibly even take is a step further and steal a page from DOA’s book and add the option for BGM to either be applied to each individual stage or each individual fighter instead. Unlike DOA though, Tekken not every character has at least one already established BGM, because they only did it for Tekken 3 and Tekken 2 so any characters added later to the series don’t really have one and, like with the stages, it would be too much trouble to create a theme for every single new character from the Tekken 4 era up until now.

Story Mode

Honestly I think they nailed it with Tekken 7 so I wouldn’t chang much EXCEPT those awful side hoe character chapters. That felt so forced for most of the characters. Like, they didn’t have to pair all of them up, they could just fight their rival character and if one character was rival to more than one characters then so be it. The fact that we also played the same battle with two different characters also made it pointless because we got no clear outcome for any of them.

Arcade Mode

I wish to see a proper return of Arcade mode. Eight different stages, no goofy customized characters, seventh stage is each character’s Rival battle and each character gets a little prologue to explain why the fuck they decide to fight in this tournament and an ending. Ideally, I’d like to see a canon ending for each character. Not all of them can win the tournament (and come to think of it none of them did in either Tekken 6 or 7) so the ending could either showcase the aftermath of their rival battle or what they ended up doing after the tournament, depending on each fighter’s daily life / occupation / goals. Rival buttles should have little cutscenes before and after each fight (Like in Tekken 5 and Dark Resurrection) and each fighter you encounter should be fought in their “native” stage. I’m very insistent on the no customisation / yes native stage aspects because I think when you “meet” a character in battle, say for the first time, subtle things like what they (normally) wear, what they say in their intros or win poses and where they come from are very important details when getting to know a character. Maybe you actually end up liking them and even deciding to play as them! Finally, I really liked how after each Arcade run you got stats for character usage and Arcade scores. I’d like to see that return.

Survival Mode

No reason why it shouldn’t return or was cut from Tekken 7 in the first place.

Team Battle 

Another fun mode that was unfortunately cut. I have spend hours playing Team Battles with my friend. It must return!

Versus Mode

I mean, obviously, but what I also need is the ability to be able to fight against the CPU. Literally all the other fighters have it, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, even SoulCalibur which is also Bandai Namco’s, so I don’t see why Tekken never gives you that option. Most of my friends are not interested in Tekken or don’t always have the money to pay for an online subscription (which is also true for me) so being able to choose your own fighter, a rival character and have them fight in the stages you want with the costumes you want when you literally have no friends is a fun distraction lol.

Ghost Battle

Rising through the ranks can be great practice before taking your favourite fighter Online so that’s one thing they have been doing right, but were they screwed it up in Tekken 7 was by not letting you choose your next opponent yourself. That was dumb because the game likes to constantly match you up against higher or lower levelled opponents on purpose which I think was probably to make this mode artificially last longer since there was literally nothing else to do other than beat the story in the base game, but now that they made millions off of 7 they ought to have a bigger budget for a less empty base Tekken 8 game so they no longer have this excuse.

Tekken Force

A Tekken trademark. I understand that maybe having a cast of 40+ characters and a cinematic story mode are more of a priority than Tekken Force but maybe it can be included as part of the main story, like what Street Fighter 6 seems to be doing with World Tour or what Tekken itself did with 6 and Scenario Campaign. Again, only as a worst case scenario, have it as some sort of DLC.

Tekken Bowl

A very underutilised bonus mode that is also very unique and very fun. I’d more than love to see it return. This time however I want it as part of the base game.

I think that’s about it, if you made it this far down my post, what do you think?

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E per tutta la vita

Ho inondato d’amore

Sempre le persone sbagliate.

Marina Cvetaeva

Ph Christy Lee Rogers

[lioninsunheart]

At Low Tide fragments. broken this-es and thats. post coitus oceanic stillness. you look to shore for clues. lost things. broken shards of shell. stone. mussel pieces. crab armors. shells that look like boobies. unusual sea vegetable jellies that look like half eaten placenta. flies swarming. discarded shell homes. death. decay. twisted snaggles of slimy nourishment drying in sun. i was thinking about creativity. and place. and stories. i don't feel rooted to place here near ever changing edge of tides. i was thinking about the way creativity rises and falls and the way place names us. the way we surge and splay. low tide walkabout: death. dead fish. stinky death. can't find the words. bombarded with decay and fragments. but the nasturtiums pop in that orange way and there is the sound of water dripping in caves and i think about rain. and i am grateful. for trickling stream of fragmented thoughts among the dead stillness. creativity isn't always going to surge. place isn't always going to be neat and tidy. there are moments -- --days --when we need to walk among the dead and broken fragments for clues and reminders from our past of where we come from of what we were to help lead us where we are going. there is medicine in this. after the dead walkabout with edges my daughter and I see now the driftwood fairy village. and i am reminded of my childhood home. near edges. where i discovered, after returning for clues about my past, the tiny villages for the pukwudginees --ojibway fairy weefolk who wild and re-wild the forests and lake edges. grateful that edges have their familiarities. grateful to be home once again at the edge. mila and i make a doll out of seaweed. then we climb the stairs up. we pluck new shoots of portugese cabbage along the cliffs. we eat the spicy leaves and the liminal mist sprinkles our noses. Words: from the book ‘The Wild Matryoshka: Marrow Song’ By: Stasha Ginsburg Artwork by: Christy Lee Rogers