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[lostkitty420]

Some authors just know what their doing.

No notes.

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Traditional Clothing Hanfu in different periods of the Tang Dynasty BY Artist: @末春 & 左丘萌 in Book《 中国妆束-大唐女儿行 /China Fashion》 

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"中国妆束-大唐女儿行" attempts to re-interpret the real fashion of women's make-up at that time with the view of the Tang Dynasty people based on the Tang Dynasty cultural relics found in archaeological excavations and compared with the records in handed down historical materials or unearthed documents.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 清华大学出版社; 第1版 (July 1, 2020)

Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2020

Language ‏ : ‎ Chinese

Amazon: 中国妆束：大唐女儿行 (Chinese Edition) Kindle Edition

[winglesswriter]

Built on Ruins

Generations after The End, there are two ways of living — Gangs of scavengers roam the Wilds and hunt for relics of lost times, while the re-settlers spend their lives building a new civilization on the ruins of the old. Jan Xiaoli is the leader of Ryningare City — one of the largest and most prosperous settlements this side of the Rift. With the purist movement growing stronger, the scavengers getting more hostile, and the incurable disease spreading, ruling the city feels like sitting on a ticking time bomb.

When he meets Shi Saxe, the infamous Vulture, who lives alone in the Wilds, Jan Xiaoli feels as though the storm raging around him is sneaking its way into his heart as well.

Read the first two chapters for free!

[libercoven]

Smells Like Familiar Spirit(s)

Don’t worry, Liber Coven is still very queer, but we’re moving on to a new theme for July and August: haunted. With topics ranging from everyday ghost stories to spirit keeping, we landed on something a bit more active than sitting around the campfire.

In July and August, we are reading Spirit Conjuring for Witches: Magical Evocation Simplfied by Frater Barrabbas.

“The greatest Witches of folklore practiced their craft by conjuring spiirts and employing a familiar spirit.”

If spirits and working with them intrigue you, this might be your new summer adventure (ghosts and batteries not included).

Want to read Spirit Conjuring for Witches with us? Join the conversation here: https://discord.gg/3Vhz8DW

[one-person-reading-club]

Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti

"The mass media in the United States are privately-owned, profit-making corporations—like so many other institutions in our capitalist society.

To understand how the media function, we need to understand a few things about the capitalist system itself. Most of the land, labor, natural resources, and technology of this and other nations are controlled by a few giant corporations and banks for the purpose of making profits for their owners. This process of capital accumulation, the essence of the capitalist system, in turn, exerts a strong influence over our political and social institutions. The news media seldom talk about this (and we shall see why), but it is time we did." [p. 1]

[mehssyier]

INtro maybe

The time had come, the end was near, the world was on fire . The type of fire that consumed everything and everyone nearby, the type of fire that devastated generations in one sweeping blow , the type of fire that signaled the end of the world.

In their respective ancestral homes built to keep back their worst enemies, free from the ravenous fires raging everywhere else for only a few more precious moments, two families (one good one evil) who had been at war for more eons than one could possibly discern made a feeble attempt to prevent the end of their glorious lineage . A prophecy had been discovered a damming prophecy that foretold the end of their legacy , the end of  a story as old as time.

For a new one would begun.

With tearful  but composed farewells these two babies left their home planet in tiny little spaceships with their futures already written out in the stars. Both headed to planet Earth.

Each were found by different families and immediately adopted into their households for who could resist two tiny babies found with no guardians around.

[francisravel]

TWISTED ASH

Book 1 of NMDM

Available here.

Synopsis:

Before and After the mysterious events of a fateful winter evening, the Odison family must contend with the ancient forces which seem intent on dragging them into an ancestral fight.

Alder, stalked by a horror unseen.

Nadia, caught between what could have been, what is, and what could be.

Theo, struggling to maintain an illusion.

Logan, caught in the crossfire, watching hopelessly.

Knowing the truth does not always make you safe.

[emiko-matsui]

if you wanna listen to naddpod you should know this about the hosts: brian murphy is a straightman to his inner most core and he's the funniest person alive, these things exist simultaneously and would not exist without the other. emily axford is clinically insane to a point where it's easier to not try to follow her logic when she says things. jake hurwitz is a certified cool guy but he's the biggest loser in a room of nerds playing dungeons and dragons. caldwell tanner can only be described as exactly what a 1930's cartoon describes as a rascal. three of them are a throuple and the fourth is their boss.

[purplepiratefaerywitchthing]

Once,

There were three queens

Who ruled

Side by side

Arm in arm

Hand in hand

Facing uncertain sunsets

With love and

Determination

In their hearts

With the cheers of the people ringing

In their ears

But it was not always like this.

First, they were:

The Thief

The Singer

And the Unwanted Princess.

"We Three Queens" by R. K. Fisher, copyright 2022

Authors note: We Three Queens is a book idea I've had floating around in my head for years now. Perhaps, this is finally when I begin to write it....

[cuddledot]

Paper Mario Fans how we doing

[fleshadept]

part of the reason the locked tomb characters are so memorable and complex is because they are very, very weird in the way only writers who understand that every human being is a little freak in their own way. harrow is the standout example of this—she is unnerringly pious to the rites of her religion in a way that to others comes across as zealotry but once we get into her point of view is revealed to be both, yes, because she is a zealot and also because the rituals and safety of painting her face, praying, etc calm her down. she eats penitently because she actually hates strong tastes. she is both schizophrenic and quite literally haunted, facts that recontextualize her behavior in gtn in an important way.

gideon is a butch and this universe’s version of a jock, and the first thing we see her do is try to escape harrow and the ninth and join the army (something that’s forgotten a little too often when people talk about her being “out of character” in ntn) because she wants to have a purpose, but we also come to learn that despite being raised in the literal dreariest place in the solar system she’s funny, sometimes even on purpose. she doesn’t know what a salad is. she reads sleazy porn magazines. she’s a talented swordswoman but is head over heels for every pretty woman she meets, to her own detriment at times.

every character is like this! they feel so real and complex because they have contradictions and weaknesses and opinions and incorrect beliefs and correct ones that are hard to tell the difference between.

[ash-and-starlight]

Every Day i think about the official radiant emperor Fuck Tier List

[mewtwo365]

Heres some more Persona 5 Drawings!

Hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!

[libercoven]

Making The Last Months Magical

The final book of the year is here! After a fiction read, we’re returning to witchcraft. We dove back into our long list of “Lost” books (books that have been suggested but didn’t win our book club vote) to find this book. We hope our November/December read will keep things practical.

In November and December, we are reading The Little Work: Magic to Transform Your Everyday Life by Durgadas Allon Duriel

“Make your day-to-day life as fulfilling and rewarding as your magical practice by turning everything you do into an extension of that practice.”

According to this book, nothing is mundane. Let’s hope that true for the last two months of 2022.

Want to read The Little Work with us? Join the conversation here: https://discord.gg/3Vhz8DW

[transmutationisms]

i think you do a really impressive job balancing comprehensive/concise while referencing a lot of complex frameworks(contexts? schools of thought? lol idk what to call that. big brain ideas) but if you have any readings specifically on the institution of psychiatry topic that you would recommend/think are relevant, I'd be interested. it's absolutely not a conversation that's being had enough and I want to be able to articulate myself around it

yes i have readings >:)

first of all, the anti-psychiatry bibliography and resource guide is a great place to start getting oriented in this literature. it's split by sub-topic, and there are paragraphs interspersed throughout that give summaries of major thinkers' positions and short intros to key texts.

it's from 1979, though, so here are some recs from the last 4 decades:

overview critiques

mind fixers: psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness, by anne harrington

psychiatric hegemony: a marxist theory of mental illness, by bruce m z cohen

desperate remedies: psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness, by andrew scull

psychiatry and its discontents, by andrew scull

madness is civilization: when the diagnosis was social, 1948–1980, by michael e staub

contesting psychiatry: social movements in mental health, by nick crossley

the dsm & pharmacy

dsm: a history of psychiatry's bible, by allan v horwitz

the dsm-5 in perspective: philosophical reflections on the psychiatric babel, by steeves demazeux & patrick singy

pharmageddon, by david healy

pillaged: psychiatric medications and suicide risk, by ronald w maris

the making of dsm-iii: a diagnostic manual's conquest of american psychiatry, by hannah s decker

the myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment, by joanna moncrieff

the book of woe: the dsm and the unmaking of psychiatry, by gary greenberg

prozac on the couch: prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs, by jonathan metzl

the creation of psychopharmacology, by david healy

the bitterest pills: the troubling story of antipsychotic drugs, by joanna moncrieff

psychiatry & race

the protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease, by jonathan metzl

administrations of lunacy: racism and the haunting of american psychiatry at the milledgeville asylum, by mab segrest

the peculiar institution and the making of modern psychiatry, 1840–1880, by wendy gonaver

what's wrong with the poor? psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty, by mical raz

national and cross-national contexts

mad by the millions: mental disorders and the early years of the world health organization, by harry yi-jui wu

psychiatry and empire, by sloan mahone & megan vaughan

ʿaṣfūriyyeh: a history of madness, modernity, and war in the middle east, by joelle m abi-rached

surfacing up: psychiatry and social order in colonial zimbabwe, 1908–1968, by lynette jackson

the british anti-psychiatrists: from institutional psychiatry to the counter-culture, 1960–1971, by oisín wall

crime, madness, and politics in modern france: the medical concept of national decline, by robert a nye

reasoning against madness: psychiatry and the state in rio de janeiro, 1830–1944, by manuella meyer

colonial madness: psychiatry in french north africa, by richard keller

madhouse: psychiatry and politics in cuban history, by jennifer lynn lambe

depression in japan: psychiatric cures for a society in distress, by junko kitanaka

inheriting madness: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in 19th century france, by ian r dowbiggin

mad in america: bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill, by robert whitaker

[sincerethoughtsblog]

He is so yummy 😋