#book: the proclamation

[anotherpapercut]

at the library the removal of old and damaged books is called "weeding" which means we sometimes have to do something called a weed hold and there are signs that just say weed in big letters above our weed carts and all of this is incredible except for the fact that admin has 0 sense of humor and thus I cannot write 420 in my item notes to indicate something needs to be weeded

[patriotismforstetriol]

Hai it’s been a while

Anyway, I was just thinking about the possibility of the Great Beasts outliving their human partners and eventually regaining their former size + ability to speak.

We don't know why those heroes from the third arc left behind ghosts. Maybe that's just a result of forming a bond token? (Maybe you'll have huge regrown talking Beasts and their friends/ex-partners who are ghosts. Maybe they're carrying around those bond tokens (and the associated ghosts) like their new Talismans.)

[scentedsstuff]

'She didn’t dream. She didn’t believe in wishes. She was no romantic like Yasmine, but somewhere along the way, she’d grown partial to another soul.'

We Free the Stars, Hafsah Faizal

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Next day messengers (who were chiefly squirrels and birds) were sent all over the country with a proclamation to the scattered Telmarines – including, of course, the prisoners in Beruna.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - C. S. Lewis

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty

1 “When I hear the thunder, my heart pounds.    It beats faster inside me. 2 Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice!    Listen to the thunder that comes from him! 3 He sends his lightning across the sky.    It reaches from one end of the earth to the other. 4 Next comes the sound of his roaring thunder.    He thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice fills the air,    he doesn’t hold anything back. 5 God’s voice thunders in wonderful ways.    We’ll never understand the great things he does. 6 He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth.’    He tells the rain, ‘Pour down your mighty waters.’ 7 He stops everyone from working.    He wants them to see his work. 8 The animals go inside.    They remain in their dens. 9 The storm comes out of its storeroom in the heavens.    The cold comes from the driving winds. 10 The breath of God produces ice.    The shallow water freezes over. 11 He loads the clouds with moisture.    He scatters his lightning through them. 12 He directs the clouds to circle    above the surface of the whole earth.    They do everything he commands them to do. 13 He tells the clouds to punish people.    Or he brings them to water his earth and show his love.

14 “Job, listen to me.    Stop and think about the wonderful things God does. 15 Do you know how he controls the clouds?    Do you understand how he makes his lightning flash? 16 Do you know how the clouds stay up in the sky?    Do you understand the wonders of the God who has perfect knowledge? 17 Even your clothes are too hot for you    when the land lies quiet under the south wind. 18 Can you help God spread out the skies?    They are as hard as a mirror    that’s made out of bronze.

19 “Job, tell us what we should say to God.    We can’t prepare our case    because our minds are dark. 20 Should he be told that I want to speak?    Would anyone ask to be destroyed by him? 21 No one can look at the sun.    It’s too bright after the wind has swept the skies clean. 22 Out of the north, God comes in his shining glory.    He comes in all his wonderful majesty. 23 We can’t reach up to the Mighty One.    He is lifted high because of his power. Everything he does is fair and right.    So he doesn’t crush people. 24 That’s why they have respect for him.    He cares about all those who are wise.” — Job 37 | New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Holy Bible, New International Reader’s Version® Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Exodus 9:18; Deuteronomy 33:22; 2 Samuel 22:14; Job 5:9-10; Job 9:8-9; Job 12:14; Job 26:8; Job 26:14; Job 28:24; Job 36:4; Job 38:29; Psalm 104:21-22; Psalm 147:15; Romans 8:26; Romans 11:33; 1 Timothy 6:16

[whatdoyoudoieat]

‘Good grief, man,’ the gentleman announced. ‘Is no one in this entire city capable of walking in a straight line?’ The man drew himself up to his full, rather impressive height and glared at the Doctor. ‘I wouldn't have thought I was exactly hard to miss.’ He was right - dressed like that in a ruffled shirt, purple velvet smoking jacket, and scarlet-lined cape. He stood with his hands on his hips regarding the Doctor from beneath an impressive bouffant of white hair.

[worldwide-blackfolk]

[canyourlawnmowerdothis]

"im so addicted to buying books ill never read lol" im fighting for my life not to scoop up every rick riordan book at the free library at the park which i will read seven times each we are NOT the same

[lightdancer1]

Hannah-Nikole Jones and Gerald Horne may not be aware of this but:

One of the bigger whoppers in Gerald Horne's Counterrevolution of 1776, and the 1619 Project essay that takes it as anything but a work of hackery, is treating this as a cause of the Revolution. In reality it was the opening salvo of the war spreading to the South from New England. A deed taken after a war began does not, Hannah Nikole Jones and Gerald Horne's selective understanding of chronology and reality aside, cause the event it reacts to.

All the same Dunmore did hit the Southern colonies where it hurt and the result was that the Continental Army wound up the most integrated US force of arms until the Truman era.

[ogrebelle]

Tag Dump 1 (Verses and Gen. Tags)

[tenth-sentence]

Its proclamation in 1829 came with no guarantees for the Aboriginal people beyond.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

[beelikesbookss]

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love by Jared Reck - 7/10

ok so i'm gonna say upfront that this book wasn't what i was expecting. i mean, it's called Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love, and it's got the same little cartoon cover as all other YA romcoms rn. i feel justified in expecting a silly little romcom. i decidedly wasn't expecting a family book about a guy and his grandpa and their food truck. not that i'm complaining! i'm fully down for that, i just...didn't think that's what i was getting into at first. and maybe to others, it reads more romance, but i very much got family story (almost coming of age even) vibes

summary time! oscar is a senior in high school, but all he wants to do is help his grandfather (farfar) run his food truck. farfar, however, isn't so keen on that idea and is insisting that he at least finish high school with all in-person classes. oscar also gets a wrench thrown into his plans when he realizes he's not as sure about his future as he thought. doomed to only work the food truck on weekends, oscar ends up being roped into a project to eliminate food waste at the school started by one lou messinger. he hates her until he doesn't.

now onto my thoughts. first off, oscar and lou didn't get, in my mind at least, nearly enough development. there was a lot of "we don't like each other" at the beginning, then they were sort of friends, then they were suddenly dating. and everyone in the book was like "ugh FINALLY" as if they just sat through a 500k slow burn when they got together too!! calm down you're being dramatic guys.

i did like this book, though! i think oscar and farfar’s relationship is really sweet. they’re in it together!

now, i'm gonna get into Spoiler Town below the cut, so beware, i suppose.

i saw something happening to farfar coming from a million miles away. there are almost never Beloved Old People in media if they don't die/have a near death experience. i did think it was interesting to see how all of the characters would cope with the grief though. the epilogue perspective change was...weird to me, but whatever. the fact that farfar lived, though? WILD. will never not be wild. you're tellin me this man made it back from being hit full force by a car? at 70 something?? and then being comatose??? and he's gonna make a full recovery???? goddamn, good for him ig.

[patriotismforstetriol]

i don't think the spirit animal tattoos are just black bc i swear to god in one of the first books it said that uraza became a flash of gold just below abekes elbow or smth. i can't be bothered looking for the actual quote sorry. and also in the first book it's says khi became a black and white design on her hand. and for lisa hay she has one faded white tiger tattoo and one black tiger tattoo. so in the very least they're black and white

In relation to this discussion.

I do have the books on hand. Trawled through the first four, to get the first description of each of the Four's marks, plus looked for any description of their adult companions.

"Abeke held out her arm. With a searing pain and a brief flash, Uraza leaped to become a blaze of black just below her elbow." (p 67, Wild Born) (I believe this is the quote you're thinking of - "flash/blaze just below the elbow")

"[Meilin] held out her arm and in a flash Jhi became a design on the back of her hand." (p 75, Wild Born) (This is the Meilin quote with the "back of her hand" wording)

"Meilin focused her attention on the simple tattoo on the back of her hand." (p 85, Wild Born) ("simple" tattoo is more information than we usually get, but I don't know what exactly it means)

"With a flash, Briggan became a tattoo on the back of [Conor's] forearm." (p 197, Wild Born) (Most descriptions of spirit animal tattoos follow this format, using the word "tattoo" and mentioning body placement, then nothing else).

"Essix leaned in and became a mark over [Rollan's] heart." (p 185, Fire and Ice)

Tarik, Finn, MacDonnell, Xue and Maya's marks don't get any description of their colour or lack thereof.

Lishay: "Lishay slowly pushed up her rights sleeve and then her left, staring at the attoos of leaping tigers, one one each forearm. The left one was a white tiger, but it was faded, as if made by a ghost. The other, vibrant and new, showed a tiger as black as a starless night." (p186, Blood Ties)

Part of the discussion we had on that tattoo post was about whether this meant the tattoo of Zhosur was white- as in, white ink- or was just a tattoo of a white tiger, as opposed to a tattoo of a black tiger, which could have more of the body filled-in.

[kryptonitejelly]

draco malfoy x reader (female)

the one where Blaise notices the Malfoy signet ring on your finger.

send draco requests.

-

The air smells like a combination of Draco and yourself, but mostly Draco - notes of citrus overlaid with the scent of tea and smoky wood. His sheets are cool against the surface of your skin, a sensation which lends a sharp contrast to the warmth of his bare chest against your cheek. You can feel one of his hands tracing patterns onto the skin of your back, as he other hand fiddles absently with your fingers which you have splayed out across his chest, a lazy post-coital haze surrounding you both.

“Who knew the Draco Malfoy would be one for cuddling,” you say teasingly your fingers tugging lightly on the long slender digits which are still tangled with yours. This isn’t the first time you’ve been here, your naked form flush against Draco’s in the same bed in which he had you legs hooked over his shoulder, his name a litany on your lips just mere moments ago.

“I’m not,” he scoffs with a roll of his eyes, as he manages to squeeze your fingers in his, a subtle battle for dominance among you both.

“Alright then,” you say both suddenly and with a calculated carelessness as you push your hands, fingers still tangled in his against his chest as you make a move to sit up. The covers slip easily down your skin with no clothes to act as friction. It exposes you, your nipples hardening upon contact with the cool air. You’e barely managed to get up when you feel the arm wrapped around you shift, fingers pressing more firmly into your hip to pull you back down.

“Where do you think you’re going,” Draco questions. He keeps his tone indifferent but the arm which has tightened around your body tells a different story.

“I’m sure Theo likes to cuddle,” you express matter of factly, keeping your expression innocent and it earns you an icy gaze from the blonde, cool grey boring in you. Draco observes you for almost a full minute before speaking.

“I’m sure he does not,” is what he finally says as a retort, his tone more disgruntled this time.

You open your mouth to disagree only to feel your back pressed flat into the mattress, Draco’s body now covering yours, his movements swift. You see the glint in his eyes as he lowers his head towards yours.

“Draco,” you breathe his name out. He doesn’t respond but presses his lips to yours. His hands find yours, fingers tangling together, pinning your hands above your head. You kiss him back, teeth nipping his lip lightly which earns your a low growl from the back of his throat. You can feel Draco hardening, his length pressed against your stomach. Your almost miss it with the competing sensations overtaking your body - lips, hands, skin, but your brain manages to register the feeling of Draco slipping cool metal from the signet ring on his last finger onto your index.

-

“Well, well, well - look who decided to join us,” Blaise calls out too cheerily, taking in the sight of you and Draco walking into the small sitting room in what had come to be Draco’s side of the Malfoy manor.

“It is surprising that I’m joining you in the sitting room of the Malfoy manor,” comes Draco’s reply which earns a good natured chortle from Theo and an eye roll from Pansy.

“Well, you can’t blame us for thinking that you two would be,” Blaise pauses for dramatic effect, “…otherwise occupied.” His unsaid words clear.

As with the rest, you and Draco had been childhood friends. However, years of tension that neither of you had acted upon had only cumulated more recently, and with Pansy’s blessing, into this, whatever it was. You both hadn’t yet spoken about it, the touching, sleepovers, sex, and there had been no outward proclamations to the world at large that either of you was anything other than single, and yet - it was no secret among anyone who knew either of you that you were both very unavailable.

“You mean book club?” You managed to keep a straight face as you question Blaise too innocently. It earns you a smirk from Draco and an amused chuckle from Pansy, your joke clear as you stop by the table facing the floor to ceiling windows which they are sitting by.

You reach across the table for a handful of blueberries from a bowl beside Theo’s elbow when you feel Blaise grab your wrist lightly, his fingers curling around, as he holds your wrist up in triumph, brandishing it around. You place your free hand flat down on the surface of the table, stabilising yourself as you lean forward into Blaise’s pull.

“I didn’t know book club members were all given the Malfoy signet ring,” he grins wildly at the discovery. The group’s gaze flickers to Draco’s hand, noticing the lack of the ring, usually a mainstay, on his the last finger of his left hand.

“If I join book club could I get one too?” Theo quips cheekily as you feel your cheeks start to heat both at your current plight as well as with recollection of what had been a subtle act of possessive on Draco’s part earlier.

“Zabini,” Draco says, tone still even as he reaches over, his hand curling around your forearm, tugging you out of Blaise’s grip, while ignoring Theo, “if she’s wearing the Malfoy signet ring don’t you think you should think twice before manhandling her?”

“Is she yours Draco,” Pansy adds to the chaos, an equally wide smirk on her face as Blaise lets your wrist slip out from his hold with ease while throwing you a wink.

“If you thought otherwise then you lot must be more dim than I thought ,” is all Draco says as he sits down. He lets you drop onto the chair beside him before reaching over to pull the piece of furniture and you closer to his side, the drag of it on the floor audible.

It earns him a whoop from Blaise, two hands throw up in the air from Theo as he yells “finally”, and a laugh from Pansy who blows a kiss at you.

Draco slides his arm across the back of the chair, before looking at you brows lifted slightly, but his question is clear, you’ve never spoke about this and Draco wants to know - are you okay with this?

“I am,” you say as you lean forward to press your lips briefly against his. It only causes a louder ruckus at the table.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

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[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return

1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he issued a proclamation through all his kingdom, and that in writing, saying,

2 Thus said Cyrus king of the Persians, The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has given me a charge to build him a house in Jerusalem that is in Judea. 3 Who is there among you of all his people? for his God shall be with him, and he shall go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and let him build the house of the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem. 4 And let every Jew that is left go from every place where he sojourns, and the men of his place shall help him with silver, and gold, and goods, and cattle, together with the voluntary offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

5 Then the chiefs of the families of Juda and Benjamin arose, and the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit the Lord stirred up to go up to build the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem. 6 And all that were round about strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with cattle, and with presents, besides the voluntary offerings.

Cyrus Restores the Holy Vessels

7 And king Cyrus brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had brought from Jerusalem, and put in the house of his god. 8 And Cyrus king of the Persians brought them out by the hand of Mithradates the treasurer, and he numbered them to Sasabasar, the chief man of Juda. 9 And this is their number: thirty gold basons, and a thousand silver basons, nine and twenty changes, thirty golden goblets, 10 and four hundred and ten double silver vessels, and a thousand other vessels. 11 All the gold and silver vessels were five thousand four hundred, even all that went up with Sasabasar from the place of transportation, from Babylon to Jerusalem. — Ezra 1 | Brenton's Septuagint Translation (BST) Brenton’s Septuagint Translation of the Holy Bible, 1884. Cross References: Exodus 35:29; Numbers 7:79; 1 Kings 8:23; 1 Kings 18:39; 2 kings 24:13; 2 Chronicles 36:7; 2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Ezra 3:7; Ezra 4:3; Ezra 5:14; Ezra 6:19; Ezra 7:16; Ezra 8:26-27; Nehemiah 6:9; Psalm 85:1; Psalm 136:26; Isaiah 35:3; Jeremiah 51:44