#compendium ss

[thewanderinggraveyard]

Here is a quick guide to our Multiplex. I'm not convinced anyone but us will actually refer to this, but I think its fun to show how insanely huge our system truly is, plus its helpful to have a chart of some kind that we can easily edit if the need arises :]

CW: unreality and references to potentially psychosis–triggering topics.

➷. dray <3

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KEY:

★ : Main System

☆ : Sidesystem

↳ : Sparsystem

✦ : Subsystem

⌃ : Subsystem within a Subsystem

↪︎ : Subsystem in a Subsystem in a Subsystem

↯ : Attached System (Attasystem)

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THE MANY GATES MULTIPLEX

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★ ｟The Wandering Graveyard｠

↳ The Outside

↳ The Mansion

✦ The Unknown

✦ Laptopia

⌃ the amanda cybratien

☆ The Singularity Complex

☆ The Side Ways System

☆ ｟DEADCRIME｠

✦ The Haunted House

✦ F.E.A.R. of P.I.E.

✦ Nullspace

↯ ｟THE ULTIMATE MEGA-SYSTEM｠

↳ Too_Many_Files

✦ The Flashlight System

✦ No-Name

✦ The Mario Party

✦ ｟The One of Many Autocosm｠

⌃ The Compendium/The Library (sentispace)

⌃ The Bone Orchard

⌃ Venfinite

⌃ spacetime

↪︎ Switchblade

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NARRATIVISTIC REALITY

(currently known layers)

– See this SCP presentation transcript and this SCP anomoly entry for more information on "Narrativistics"

KEY:

— : Denotes a Layer in Which Realities Reside

⇆ : Equal Level, but Separate Reality

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�� The Narrative ⏌

｟The Tapestry of Reality｠

— The Realities Above (see: Narrativistics, cw: unreality), i.e. The Author & The Streamers

— The Mindscape

— The Upper Echelon ⇆ M'Olympus

— Baseline Reality ⇆ Alternate Realities/Timelines ⇆ The Void (also a sentient blankspace)

— Non-Existence (see: Dept. of Unreality, cw: literal unreality)

— Hell

— The Subconcious

— The Fray

— The Realities Below ("fictional" realities/worlds)

[disastrid]

Coffman navigates over to the Wikipedia article about one of the conspirators—Arthur Nebe, a high-ranking member of the SS. Apart from his role in the plot, Nebe’s main claim to notability is that he came up with the idea of turning vans into mobile gas chambers by piping in exhaust fumes. The article acknowledges both of these facts, along with the detail that Nebe tested his system on the mentally ill. But it also says that he worked to “reduce the atrocities committed,” going so far as to give his bloodthirsty superiors inflated death totals. Coffman will recall that she feels “totally disoriented.” She cannot believe that an innovator in mass murder would have tried to protect the Jews and other supposed subhumans his troops rounded up. She checks the footnotes. The claim is attributed to War of Extermination, a compendium of academic essays originally published in 1995. Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: “This is, of course, nonsense.” The level of bad faith is eye-opening for Coffman. She is “very appalled.” She sees that her confidence in Wikipedia was “very much misplaced.” All it takes to warp historical memory, she realizes, is something this small, achievable for almost anyone with a keyboard. “So few people can have so much impact, it’s a little scary,” she says. She begins to turn a more critical eye to what she sees on Wikipedia. Especially the footnotes.

Emphasis is my own, because it's just so important.

Exercise a healthy skepticism for everything you read.

This goes for any kind of research, not just in Wikipedia. This happens in all kinds of contexts, purposeful or not.

Look at works cited, look at the original source. Make sure you understand the context of whatever you're looking at, be it a photo, a quote, or excerpt.

It may sound laborious, but honestly like anything else, the more you practice the easier it gets. For places like wikipedia with links in citations, it's even easier to track things down.

A works cited section in a wiki article is a great place to start your research, but your research should never end there.

[sickosdotjpg]

sdjdfhaha yep, that's it, that's the SSeas experience 😔✌️ my condolences. (there are ship upgrades that can stop boat going boom later on, i promise!)

also the romance storylines aren't huge in SSeas but i have to give a shout out to my ship's surgeon and wife of all time, the Cladery Heir, whose storyline is very cool and whose romance scene is. aha. well. lemme just drop this here- (mild medical kink under the cut)

CRAWLING INTO YOUR ASK BOX. FELLOW FBG GUY 🤝🤝🤝🤝 I have admittedly only played like 20 minutes of SSea (and none of SSkies) but Fallen London my beloved. I love you, the Neath. The setting...the lore...cannibalism...[chef's kiss]

yoooo fellow excellent taste haver!! longtime FL fan who just got back into it last year, it's so good. 🤝 loveee the gothic/cosmic horror victoriana combo and the writing is PEAK.

i love SSea but holy hell it does have a bit of a steep learning curve (granted i simply refuse to not sail my boat at maximum speed all of the time always. please don't ask me how many boats i've exploded to death now).

shout out to this one specific piece of sidebar text from FL also because um haha wow. 🥵

[gooperblooper]

anyway i checked my completion stuff

21/23 main quests. i will forever be annoyed that you can't ~actually~ finish destroy gan/find zeld quests

49/60 side adventures

30/31 shrine quests, also i checked and 20 of the shrine quests i did were the stupid fucking crystal ones. literally 2/3s of the quests are the exact same shit. how people shit on ss for making you fight a boss three times but accept this lazy fucking garbage makes me sjfhdh

98/139 side quests, and i think some of these might be misko's treasures stuff that i ended up finding on my own without activating the quest. unless those are marked in side adventures, i forgor

144/152 shrines, 120/120 lightroots, the remaining 8 shrines are all on the surface and i know where they are because of the lightroots i just didn't finish them because i wanted to leave a few extra to do post final boss. also i'm so annoyed that they once again made it so you can either complete your hearts or stamina but not both

62.56% complete according to the map, so i'm guessing they again decided to weight korok completion as if its equal to the other shit which makes it seem fucked. i've done like 110 or smth idk i didn't think to check. i don't even know how many korok seeds are in this game come to think of it??? actually i just googled it and apparently there's 1000 lmao fuck off

also idk how many bubbul gems there are overall either but last time i talked to koltin i had like 90 something more to go and now i have like 62, so 30~ left to go of that. and didn't think to check the wells either but i think i've got like 20 left of those

i found/bought all the clothes also but the only thing i upgraded the whole way was the fierce deity outfit cuz it's the best and i love him. i haven't found the sword of the six sages or just sword yet as far as previously amiiboexclusive stuff goes, but i'm pretty sure i've found all the other weapons n stuff

also still got some compendium left to complete

as disappointed as the ending made me about everything, i still really enjoy the game and plan to go back to it to finish shit up (well. besides the koroks and fully upgrading all armor bc i can't be assed). bubbul gem lover 4 lyfe

[triste-guillotine]

YSENGRIN “Réincrudation”, Compilation CD 2019 (A compendium of French Hermetic Dark Metal mysticism)

“Under the guidance of French guitarist/singer Guido Saint Roch, YSENGRIN play what they call 'Hermetic Dark Metal' : esoteric, occult music that reminds of an era with no boundaries between the Metal sub-genres, and when spontaneity and attitude were the most important values. With their primitive style YSENGRIN capture the essence of early 90s Hellenic Black Metal as well as MORTUARY DRAPE's morbidity and death fascination, dipping everything into the doomy, 70s-tinged Heavy Metal of DEATH SS and MERCYFUL FATE. For the first time ever, both YSENGRIN's demos from 2010, “Archivum MMV-MMX” and “Alchimëte”, have been totally remastered at Bell Collars Bizarre (HOWLS OF EBB) and collected on a single CD under the title of “Réincrudation”. The album program includes a very personal rendition of a DARKTHRONE's classic, “As Flittermice As Satans Spys”, as well as an exclusive bonus track featuring Costas “Dead” (OBSECRATION) and the German purveyor of dirt known as Blacksnake Nadasdy.” (from I, Voidhanger bandcamp)

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/r-incrudation

[the-starryknight]

Ahh, where to begin with this fic! I know how much of your heart went into telling this story, SS, and it shows in all the beautiful details on the page. You've crafted a love story, and also a creature compendium of so many amazing animals big and small, each more magical than the last. And all of the side characters here bring this story to life brilliantly -- amazing work on this fic!

E | 76.8k | magizoology assistant Draco | Harry is mostly unemployed and quite depressed | stay-at-home dad of twins Ron | small-time Muggle politicial candidate Lucius | supporting cast of many creatures including a very rude ferret | dancing with mooncalves | fixing broken things | flying in Kenya | falling in love

Deep in the heart of the Ministry lies the Beast Division: a hidden room where ancient beasts roam, and winged creatures soar, and grumpy giant ferrets eat all your biscuits unless you keep them well hidden. Draco Malfoy would know – he’s been working there for five years now, after all.

Meanwhile, on Level One, ex-Golden Boy Harry Potter is stuck in another interminable policy meeting, completely unaware of the mysterious comings and goings just three floors below. But when a giant snake emergency requires the assistance of a Parselmouth, Harry finds himself thrust, unprepared, into Draco’s weird and wonderful world – and naturally, he can’t keep away…

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Read Kept in Cages, featuring sixteen incredible pieces of art by @ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm, here on AO3!

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My thanks and stuff :)

So the concept for this fic first came to me about 0.5 milliseconds after finishing my last longfic and swearing never again, which basically tells you all you need to know about me as a person. I think I'd been reading a lot of fics by khalulu, and somehow the Beast Division just popped into my brain. Wherever it came from, I'm incredibly grateful, because it gave me the opportunity to collaborate with the incomparable @ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm, who threw himself into this with such incredible enthusiasm, going along with every crazy idea I had and adding a few of his own. His hard work and insane talent really turned my weird and wonderful creature story into something special, and I feel so incredibly lucky <3

There are lots of other gorgeous gorgeous people I have to thank too: @onbeinganangel, especially for reading the first few chapters when I was in panic mode and talking me down, @the-starryknight, who was involved at various stages and who named the twins, @getawayfox who helped make this banner, and finally my three INCREDIBLE betas - my super cool fandom sibling @tackytigerfic who always bears the brunt of my complaints with far more patience and kindness than I deserve, the wonderful InnerLilith whose comments are always so gentle and thoughtful, and my amazing last minute sex-beta @oknowkiss who joined the crew when my brain was going a bit fuzzy to pat me on the head and reassure me that yes, that does indeed go there. I hope all of you know how much I admire you as writers, and I am so privileged to have had your help with this fic.

I also want to thank you, all the readers, writers, artists and reccers of Drarry fandom, which has become such a huge part of my life over the past 18 months. I deliberately slipped in references to some fics and authors I love in hope that someone else might discover a new favourite, so you can look out for those as you read if you like!

[dustedmagazine]

Dust, Volume 3, Number 7

The Jerry Cans

Whether they come from Ladakh, Nunavut, or Detroit, the albums featured in this instalment of our bite-sized review column managed to catch our ears. Whether jazz, techno, or just plain unclassifiable, maybe they'll catch yours too. Contributions from Bill Meyer, Ian Mathers, Olivia Bradley-Skill, Justin Cober-Lake, and Eric McDowell.

Aaron Dilloway — The Gag File (Dais)

The Gag File by Aaron Dilloway

Is The Gag File a compilation of jokes or a compendium of emetic influences? The album cover’s image of a ventriloquist’s dummy may suggest the former, but this is show business of a particularly queasy bent. Slowed-down vocal and rhythm loops mix with a chorus of whistles to distinctly uneasy effect. A narcotized narrator assures the listener that “It’s alright” over and over, sinking into a miasma of sci-fi synths that give way to a party where everyone sounds too wasted to perform the sexual act prescribed by the Little Feat song on the hi-fi. Paradoxically the passages where Dilloway gets his noise ya-yas out are the moments of relief, since they invite you to bang your head in time to the locked grooves and spliced tapes rather than think about what’s really going on.

Bill Meyer

Kelly Lee Owens - s/t (Smalltown Supersound)

There are plenty of wonderful first albums out there, and also plenty of wonderful, let’s say, fifth albums; what’s significantly rarer than either of those on their own is a debut that has the quiet self-assurance and comfort in its own skin that’s much more typical of those great fifth albums. All of which is to say that Kelly Lee Owens is the kind of great first album that’s seemingly leapfrogged over the typical stumbling blocks you often get with early work. Owens uses deceptively simple elements as a producer, and manages to range all over the place stylistically and structurally (even in terms of the genres she evokes; while this is pretty much all electronic, even dance music, at times she brings to mind the gentler end of shoegaze or twee pop or any number of other things) while still feeling like a coherent emotional and sonic statement. She’s no more sui generis than any artist, moments here strike sparks off the likes of anyone from the Field to Glasser or the namechecked-here Arthur Russell, but she always has her own distinct voice. For someone who’s just getting started, it’s an incredibly accomplished and captivating one.

Ian Mathers

Various Artists — Where the Mountains Meet the Sky: Folk Music Of Ladakh (Sublime Frequencies)

Where the Mountains Meet the Sky: Folk Music of Ladakh by [see album description]

You can’t head much farther north than Ladakh and still be in in India. In times past the Himalayan region was on the Silk Road trade route, but now it has been isolated by the closure of the border between India and China. Folk culture is languishing, and this LP fits into the lifelong effort of one man, Morup Namgyal, to document it before it passes. Five of the record’s tracks come from his collection, the rest from more recent recordings made to accompany a film about him called The Sound Collector. Where the Mountains Meet the Sky could fairly have been put out under Namgyal’s name, since he sings on eight out of nine vocal selections. But even though his throaty voice puts the songs across quite effectively, focusing on him misses the point; it’s the survival of the songs that matters, not the identity of the singer. The instrumental accompaniment (tablas, drums, flutes and a double reed instrument called a surna) is sparse, and hard to fix to a single tradition, with droning timbres and irregular beats that sound fairly Indian coexisting with melodies and rhythms that feel closer to Tuvan folk music.

Bill Meyer

Tiny Vipers — Laughter (Ba Da Bing)

After two albums of hauntingly spare and direct folk-adjacent music as Tiny Vipers, the last in 2009, Jesy Fortino took a break to get a civil engineering degree. Now she’s back, but in a form significantly altered enough to match the magnitude of the change in her life; where once Fortino’s voice and acoustic guitar were foregrounded, here there’s none of the latter and precious little of the former. Instead Laughter features synthesizers and tape hiss, arpeggios and loops. The result is just as captivating as those older Tiny Vipers records, but in an entirely new sense, where the songs are as dense as “The Summer of Moments” or as tentatively beautiful as “Crossing the River of Yourself”. “K.I.S.S.” indicates that Fortino can make these kinds of songs work with her lyrics and vocals just as well as with her old setup, so the real question this fascinating, exploratory effort leaves the listener with is whether she will wind up following its lead and integrating these sounds and structures with the strong lyrical viewpoint of past work, or if the more abstract and experimental likes of the 14-minute title track are a more accurate indicator of where she’s going.

Ian Mathers

ADULT. — Detroit House Guests (Mute)

ADULT.’s music summons nocturne sleeplessness, paranoia, and meditation. In Detroit House Guests, the hyperactive and anxious dance music of their last album, The Way Things Fall (2013), has given way to a more trance-like, hazy sway. Wide-awake restlessness and solitude permeate through its emphasis on repetition, reverb and echo. Yet despite the album’s circular and looping approach to melody, the album isn’t stuck in any one direction. The duo worked with a number of collaborators, who include Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens), Michael Gira (Swans), Lun_na Menoh, Douglas J McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb), Dorit Chrysler (NY Theremin Society), and Shannon Funchess (Light Asylum). Their added presence is felt, in a good way, through the album’s wider sound and scope. ADULT. feels less insular than it has in the past, and reminds us of the various textures the nighttime can hold. By not restricting itself to the headspace of the club, ADULT. experiments with a myriad of energies that span from jittery insomnia to fertile dreams, between dusk, twilight and pitch black skies. Favorite tracks: “P rts M ss ng”, “Uncomfortable Positions”, “As You Dream”.

Olivia Bradley-Skill

The Jerry Cans — Inuusiq (Aakuluk)

The Jerry Cans would appear to be a highly localized act. They come from Nunavut in northern Canada, sing mostly in the Inuit language Inuktitut, utilize local throat singing, and even started the first record label in their territory. Far from being a “welcome to global cultures” lesson, the band demonstrates how to skillfully build a world of sounds. The music on their latest album Inuusiq centers on traditional folk and roots-rock sounds, almost always maintaining a high level of energy (the album’s English title is Life, after all). Their Celtic influence comes through with both the fiddle and rollicking approach to performance. “Maikliqta” brings a personalized element of reggae, but it doesn’t sound out of place next to the hoedown of “Paniarjuk.” With touches of pop around the edges of its songs, the band just sounds full of gas and ready to go. The language might not always translate easily, but good roots is good roots.

Justin Cober-Lake

Bottle Tree — s/t (International Anthem)

Bottle Tree by Bottle Tree

Keeping up its reputation as a champion of local talent, International Anthem presents the self-titled debut album by the Windy City trio Bottle Tree, featuring Ben Lamar Gay, A.M. Frison and Italian transplant Tmmaso Moretti. As the 7” single “Open Secret” first attested, this isn’t quite the Ben Lamar Gay we sampled on the 2015 compilation Nine/Two at Constellation, nor the one in assistance on Jaimie Branch’s recent standout debut, also on International Anthem. For Bottle Tree’s spare and funky soul persona, he trades cornet for keys and compositional duties, keeping his presence largely behind the scenes or else in the middle ground, as a buffer of sorts between Frison’s fluid vocals and Moretti’s clattering, twitchy beats. Over the cassette’s 30 minutes, the trio gets significant mileage out of contrasted layers, deft structural pivots and sudden harmonic cadences. While fans of Frison’s Coultrain project will find lots to like on this nimble, grooving and mellow gem, Bottle Tree is the perfect opportunity for everyone else to get to know these three important and too far under-the-radar Chicagoans, too.

Eric McDowell

[dougfillamen]

Breath of the Wild

So I beat the game yesterday and I just really feel like voicing my complaints with the game. If you haven't beat it yet, scroll past this all. •Korok Seeds. Getting them lets you trade certain amount of them in to increase the size of your weapon, shield and bow inventory. Everything else is infinite. Each exchange nets you ONE extra slot to the inventory you chose to upgrade. And to the amount required keeps getting higher. 900 of them are in the whole game, but you only need about 441 for a maxed out inventory. The reward is a golden shit that makes Hestu dance whenever. Nothing I said about this pleases me. It's a ton of busy work for very little reward in return and it only keeps getting worse the more you find. •The Master Sword. Earning it is optional, but to do it (cuz why would you not want it?), You gotta find 13 unmarked locations around the world, and your only hints are the pics Zelda left for you on the Shiekah Slate and this Pikango dude who can point you in the right direction. That doesn't bother me so much as each memory recovered is a nice cutscene of Link and Zelda's time together before Link got wiped out. You also need about 13 Hearts so that Fi doesn't kill you while you rip her out of the ground. I'm under the impression that the memories make it easier to accomplish somehow. Once you have the Master Sword, it does 30 Damage, glows blue when fighting very specific enemies tainted by Ganon for double damage, but if used on things that don't make it glow, it eventually wears out and you have to wait 10 minutes for it to be usable again. This sword has been on countless adventures with a ton of Links across time, and it had no problem cutting through countless Octoroks and Moblins. If it was super overpowered, I would understand needing a recharge to not break the game, but I find countless weapons that are stronger than it, no prob. I just wanna walk around Hyrule being the dude on the box, but I rarely get a chance to pull it out without it needing to charge. •The Ending. I showed up in maxed out Hylian Trousers, Champion Tunic, and Hylian Hood. Master Sword and Hylian Shield in hand, 27 Hearts and plenty of back up ammo and weaponry. The trek through Hyrule Castle was perfect. It was challenging, set the mood, the music was great, I have no complaints except for the dang Guardian turrets juggling me across the floor. I get to Ganon, and the cutscenes during boss phases of the fight were hype af, and Ganon was so perfectly creepy and unsettling and he looked like some kind of rotting demonic mashup of Ganondorf, Guardians, that red and black goo and some kind of twisted insect. I was genuinely intimidated by the guy all the way up to here. Given how difficult it was in the beginning of the game, I was expecting a real struggle. I wiped the floor with him. I don't think I even needed to heal at any point. It was a joke. Phase 2 was basically just "walk in circles and shoot giant targets while Dark Beast Ganon acts tough" and then we get the most basic ending ever. Zelda shows up in a ray of light and banishes Ganon, thanks us for saving her and Hyrule, they look at the castle just after the Champions and the King fade away, roll credits. Wasn't even good credits music, it was a calm medley of songs like Karariko Village and the Shrine music. After that we do get one scene of Zelda and Link as they set out to do more exploring and eventually rebuild Hyrule, but it barely felt like an ending. Zelda doesn't say anything about how she's been fricken locked up in a big gooey Ganon heart cage for 100 years. Nothing about how she stayed young the whole time, nothing about the Champions or her dad, all we get about her past with Link is "Do you remember me?" and there could have been so much more. Look at OoT, where we seal Ganondorf in an amazing boss fight, get some closure from the princess, go back in time and prevent Ganondorf from doing anything, the Sages look out upon the land they helped save, big party in Hyrule Field, big hype cover of the main theme of the franchise, good times! I finished this game barely feeling like I accomplished anything. Hyrule Castle is still covered in the Ganon goo, nothing changes except the menus showing how much you have left to do, but it's not a reliable percentage cuz 70% of it is based on the 900 Korok Seeds. I'm left with those, the Compendium, side quests and upgrading my armor as all I can really do and it feels pointless. I hope the DLC packs add enough for me to do and see that they can improve upon what I got here. •Costumes. In total, this Link can acquire the blue outfit we see in all the art, and the clothing of NES Link, OoT Link, WW Link, TP Link, Dark Link, Shiek, and with unreleased amiibo we can get Fierce Diety Armor and SS Link. He also gets his own green tunic very much based on NES Link if you do all 120 Shrines. I kinda wish the outfits of the other Links could be earned outside of the Amiibo, even if it's something challenging like, say, a dungeon based off the puzzle mechanics of the game of the Link you get the outfit of. An OoT dungeon to get OoT outfit, for example. Not the biggest complaint, but yeah, I just really wanna be OoT Link in HD without buying the Amiibo for this one use. •RAIN. Can't climb, can't stay at a campfire to progress time, and it can easily become a waiting game. What fun. •this is more about like, the reviews and opinions of others that can apply to other games too, but I don't think "breaking the tradition" and "going retro" automatically mean "better." I'm fine with Link having this new blue tunic design, it looks great, that's a GOOD example of breaking tradition. A bad example of breaking tradition is, say, my complaint about the Master Sword becoming rarely usable. Dropping us in a world where we can go in any direction we want right off the bat? Good retro. Ganon having no dialogue on top of a lackluster ending that doesn't give us much? Bad retro. I also don't see how we can praise a game for doing away with traditions while also praising it for bringing back old things. That just seems like "yay, we got rid of the old things. Yay, we brought back the old things" and that kind of contradicts itself. Not a fault of the game, just the mindset I tend to see around when people critically look at the game. Think that about covers it. Other than all this stuff, I really enjoyed it. Personally I prefer the MiphaXLink ship over the SidonXLink ship cuz Mipha actually loved him and made him a Zora tunic to basically propose to him with before she died, and Sidon just kinda showed up and gave the whole "I believe in you! Look at my pose!" Without Link doing much to earn it or Sidon even knowing who he was talking to. Sidon's a cool dude, don't get me wrong, but Mipha earned it.

[alcowarlock]

Fallout 4 Modlist

Just wanna remind, all mods I use are here! ヾ(*´∀｀*)ﾉ So many ppl askin’ me ‘bout what am I using for something, so I’ve decided to copy it as a post for your comfort and try to keep it updated! I won’t delete disabled mods, if anyone can find ‘em interesting!

updated: 01/17/18

Face, body:

CBBE (wonderful Arideya's Athletic preset)

Athletic Girl

Unique Player for CBBE

BodySlide and Outfit Studio

Eye normal Maps

The Eyes Of Beauty

Immersive Mouth and Teeth

deLuxe Makeup

Appealing Moles

Wasteland Salon - Hair Textures

Enhanced Vanilla Bodies (male meshes)

Natural Male Textures for EVB for NPCs

For Danse (Unique Followers): own mix of textures, based on RM Real Male

For m!SS - unique player and own mix of textures, based on RM Real Male and Wasteland Lumberjack for EVB

Azar’s Ponytails

Commonwealth Cuts

Wasteland Fashion - hair

Kat’s Hairstyles

Lots More Facial Hair

Lots More Hairstyles

LooksMenu

Looks Menu Customization Compendium

M-face (character creation extender)

Female Neck Tweaks

HN66s and XAZOMNs Distinctive Teeth for FO4

Other:

Dialogue Camera Sensitivity

Power Armor Animation Changes

Lowered Weapons

One handed revolver

Weapon Equip Animations

Toggle Revolver Fanning

Simple Intersection

Wait anywhere

Take cover

Visual Reload

Bullet Time!

Ending Epilogue Restored

Console in Survival (cause of screenshots! How could I play without it)

Natural Expression Fix (NOMORE CARTOON FACE)

Dave’s Poses + Index for use

NPCs:

Danse GTFO PA

Danse BOS fix

Mama Murphy tweak

Maxson + as follower

Unique Followers

Dogmeat + companion at same time

Protectron Retexture

Eyes for Mr. Handy

Platinum Curie

Sexy Hancock

Wasteland Creatures Redone - Retexture Compilation

Environment:

Fallout Texture Overhaul Stars

Enhanced Blood Textures

Gore Overhaul

Better Fake Reflections

Red Rocket’s Glare Redone

Bus Stop Lighting

HD Flag Replacers Redux

Realistic World Map

Boston Ivy

NG - Fallen Leaves and Dried Grass

Lush Landscapes

HD Safes

Commonwealth Conifers Redux

Vivid Fallout — Landscapes

Vivid Fallout — Waters

Vivid Fallout — Roads and Bridges

Vivid Fallout — Trees

Vivid Fallout — Rocks

Enhanced Lights and FX

ENB Lights Overhaul - ELFX (Enhanced Lights and FX) COMPATIBILITY PATCH

Radiant Clouds and Fogs

True Shadows

Pilgrim - Radiant Clouds and Fogs Patch

PipBoyShadows

Building, crafting, misc:

Bottle labels overhaul

Grey Tortoise Cigarettes Redux

PipBoy Texture Overhaul UHD 4K

Eli’s Craftable Flower Pots

Cozy Beds

Connectable Electricpoles

Transparent glass

Crafting Fury 9000 GTX

Just curtains

New Perk Magazines

Basement Living

Rebuilt Kingspot Lighthouse

Dimmer Lights

Craftable BOS Barricades

Place Everywhere

Femshepping’s mini plants

Steamer Trunks Retextured

Weapon Rack Bracket

Potted trees

Campsites

Old World Holotapes

Usable cigarettes

Fixed Alpha Maps

AS Institute Workstations

Clothes, Weapons, Armor:

vanilla clothes and armor:

Coldchylde’s Powerarmor Shop

Minuteman General Replacer

Kellogg’s Metal Armor arm piece - Standalone

4K HD Cleaner Kellogg’s Armour Retexture

4K Silver Shroud outfit retexure

Vanilla Clothes for CBBE

More armor slots

Concealed Armor

Piper’s Outfit HR

AWKCR

BOS Kit (Uniform + armor)

Clear Hazmat Helmet

Hazmat suit for CBBE

Elder Maxson coat recolour

FOX Coat - Standalone

USAF Bomber Jacket - Standalone

2K-4K HD Bomber Jacket Retexture

4k Black Suit and Tuxedo

PowerArmor HD R

FTO PowerArmor

Spec Ops Paints for PA

Proto Vault Suit

Unzipped Vault Suit

MacCready Armor Retexture

PipBoy

Nomex Fight Gloves Retexture (Coyote)

Revealing Combat Armor

X-01 Enclave Overhaul (w\o emblem)

Dark Synth Uniform

standalone clothes and armor:

Gloves of the Commonwealth

Commonwealth Shorts

Elianora’s Junk Yard

Femshepping Wanderer Fashion Collection

Femshepping Autumn Fashion

Femshepping’s Summer Shorts

Rad-Ban Eyewear Inc.

Bandolier Standalone Craftable

Mercenary pack

Wasteland Girl + Recolor

Wasteland Fashion

JC - Jeans and Shirts

Scavenged NCR Armor

Beautiful Dresses

Troublemaker Outfit Collection

Casual Wanderer

Danbrother’s Military Outfits

GITS Outfit

Dogmeat’s backpack

Wearable backpacks and pouches + Retexture

Survivalist Bags

Rogue Outfit

ZGS Shadow Scarf

Gunslinger Outfit

K-Girl outfits

Tough Traveller Outfit version 2.0

CROSS_Courser Strigidae

Guidethisonekalahira's The Wandering Scavver Clothing

Crimsomrider's Accessories

weapons:

M2216 Assault Rifle

MK14 EBR

More realistic Pipe Weapon

Just holstered weapons + Visible weapons

Holstered Weapons by Azar

Colt Python

The Widow Shotgun

ScratchMade - New Combat Shotgun and Rifle textures

ScratchMade - New Double Barrel Shotgun textures

DKS-501 Sniper Rifle + VW patch

Dark Institute Weapons

ENB+ReShades I use:

VOGUE ENB

Borealis Cinematic Preset

PRC

CFL

XCinema

PILGRIM - Dread the Commonwealth

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Yen Press Announces Sword Art Online Alicization Manga, Goblin Slayer Side Story II Light Novel

  Yen Press is gearing up for a big weekend, particularly with its upcoming Anime Expo Lite panel on July 3 at 1:20pm Pacific Time. Ahead of that, the publisher announced six new titles, including the Sword Art Online Project Alicization manga, the Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana, and more.

  Here's a closer look at everything that was revealed: 

  MANGA

  The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap

Story: Kureha

Art: Yamigo

    Synopsis:

My life was pretty ordinary. Go to college, live in an apartment, hang out with people. But because of that pompous, irritating girl I grew up with, I got dragged into a huge mess. As usual. Now I’m in another world where she’s a well-respected shrine maiden…and I got turned into a cat. How did it come to this?!

  Wolf & Parchment

Story: Isuna Hasekura

Art: Hidori

    Synopsis:  

When Col leaves the cozy mountain village of Nyohhira aspiring to become a full-fledged member of the clergy, a certain impetuous wolf can't help stowing away aboard his ship to follow him for a chance to have a grand adventure of her own!

  Sword Art Online Project Alicization

Story: Reki Kawahara

Art: Koutarou Yamada

Original illustrations: abec

    Synopsis:

Deep in an unfamiliar forest, Kirito awakens with sensations far too convincing for a virtual world… With memories of a life he doesn’t remember living. A boy and a girl…and a name that sticks in his mind: Alice.

  LIGHT NOVELS

  A Certain Magical Index SS

Story: Kazuma Kamachi

Art: Kiyotaka Haimura

    Synopsis:

Kamijou Touma faces his roughest challenge yet-a classroom hot pot party! Meanwhile in London, the women's dorm in a base of magicians may never see another day as wild as this one. And in the underbelly of Academy City, Accelerator stumbles upon someone who has been waiting for him all this time...? Here begins the supplementary SS series of A Certain Magical Index!

  Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana 

Story: Kumo Kagyu

Art: lack

    Synopsis:

Not a soul knows how the death and destruction started. Only one thing is certain—it came from the north. Deep within the Dungeon of the Dead is where the the Demon King resides and the only hope humanity has of defeating this great evil rests on the shoulders of a handful of adventurers. This tale of Sword Maiden's past smells of ash and sounds like the ringing of bare steel.

  ART BOOKS

  Keito Koume Illustrations: Spice & Wolf — The Tenth Year Calvados

Art: Keito Koume

    Synopsis:

Never before has the stunning color art of the manga adaption of Spice and Wolf been seen like this! As a compendium of the illustrations delivering a story that ran strong for ten years, this is a must-have for any fan of everyone's favorite apple-loving wolf!

    -------

Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox. 

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Wild Guide reveals the stunning secret beauty spots in London and the South East

London and the South East are often associated with congestion and urban sprawl – but if you know where to look, wild adventures are available.

Wild Guide London & South East (www.wildthingspublishing.com), written by Daniel Start, Lucy Grewcock and Elsa Hammond, is an intriguing and highly useful compendium of thousands of them.

It lists secret beaches, rivers and lakes that are perfect for swimming, ancient and enchanting woods filled with gnarled trees (even one with a door), strange ruins and follies and hillsides where you can catch magical sunrises and sunsets.

The authors say: ‘The Wild Guide is a celebration of the most beautiful places that lie hidden, just off the beaten path. It’s your guide to a lifetime of joyful exploration and simple pleasures.

‘We wanted to show how many simple and amazing adventures can be found close to big cities. [The book] is packed full with memories of wild campsites, night-walks, foraging missions, sunset hilltop hikes, canoe trips at dawn and countless dips into chalky streams and still lakes. We hope this book inspires many more wild and wonderful escapades.’

Scroll down for MailOnline Travel’s selection of top spots listed in the tome. 

WADENHOE, RIVER NENE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: Wild Guide says that this idyllic spot is ‘a wonderful place for messing about in the water’. For bonus points, there’s a ‘lovely riverside pub’ – the Kings Head – and a ‘pretty church’

GREAT OUSE RIVER AT OLNEY, BOROUGH OF MILTON KEYNES: At this point in the river, says Wild Guide, there’s a shingle beach and ‘beautiful views back to Olney’. The beach is just five minutes by foot from St Peter and Paul church

SEGENHOE RUINED CHURCH, BEDFORDSHIRE: Enter through the north porch, says the book, to appreciate the elaborate columns and arches. It adds that there are lots of nooks and crannies to explore

WINDSOR GREAT PARK: This 4,800-acre park is home to Europe’s largest collection of ancient oaks, the book reveals – and several of them are over 1,000 years old

DONNINGTON CASTLE, NEWBURY: This twin-towered gatehouse, Wild Guide says, was once part of a medieval castle. But it was demolished in 1646 after a Civil War siege

WIMPOLE FOLLY AT WIMPOLE HALL, CAMBRIDGESHIRE: Wimpole Folly is, bizarrely, designed to resemble the ruins of a medieval castle. Wild Guide says that the 18th-century sham structure is set in ‘beautiful parkland’ with a lake that’s great for a dip

THE ORCHARD TEA GARDEN, GRANTCHESTER, CAMBRIDGESHIRE: A truly lovely spot for tea and scones. And river swimming is available nearby

KINGSGATE BAY, EAST KENT: This beach with ‘perfect sand, caves and even a sea arch’ can be found just below the Captain Digby pub, between Joss and Botany

FREDVILLE PARK, EAST KENT: Some say this tree – the ginormous Majesty Oak – is England’s most beautiful tree, according to the book. It sits in parkland peppered with several ancient gnarled chestnuts and oaks

FIRLE BEACON, EAST SUSSEX DOWNS: Wild Guide recommends coming here to ‘watch the sunset over the distant sea’. And walking to The Ram Inn, three miles away

ULTING CHURCH BY THE RIVER CHELMER, ESSEX COAST: ‘Lovely clean swimming and canoeing’ is possible at this beauty spot, but watch out for boats

LAKE WOOD AND GROTTO, UCKFIELD, EAST SUSSEX: A great swimming spot, says Wild Guide, with rocky crags and an ‘amazing carved out cave and grotto complex’

HALNAKER WINDMILL AND ‘TUNNEL’, WEST SUSSEX: This landmark, says Wild Guide, is reached through a ‘magical tree tunnel along a section of the ancient Roman Stane Street’

SS VINA, BRANCASTER, NORTH NORFOLK: This former merchant-navy vessel became stranded on a sandbank in 1944, explains Wild Guide, and is now visible at low tide. The wreck can be reached, but fast tides mean extreme care must be taken, the book warns

THE THICKS, STAVERTON PARK, SUFFOLK COAST: Behold a beguiling slice of primaeval woodland, populated with ‘gnarled, twisted and ivy-clad trees’. The book reveals that the park is home ‘to more than 4,000 pollarded oaks, some of Britain’s largest holly trees and the oldest oaks in East Anglia’

THOMAS A BECKET CHURCH, FAIRFIELD, ROMNEY MARSH: Come here for a tranquil fairy-tale landscape – a little 13th-century church, a river, meadows and grazing sheep. ‘Only the sound of the wind across the marches disturbs the peace,’ the book says

FRITHSDEN BEECHES, ASHRIDGE, NORTH CHILTERNS: Magical, eh? It’s little wonder that scenes for Harry Potter and Sleepy Hollow were shot here

IVINGHOE BEACON, NORTH CHILTERNS: Come here for ‘panoramic views over the Vale of Aylesbury and Ashridge Estate’

EDBURTON HILL, MID SUSSEX DOWNS: Make your way to this spot for ‘striking views as the sun dips below the horizon’, suggests the book. Reach it by way of a ‘beautiful two-mile ridge walk from Devil’s Dyke’

SISLAND CARR, NORFOLK BROADS: If you want to see one of the UK’s most magnificent bluebell displays, this is the place to visit, says the book

DEVIL’S KNEADING TROUGH, KENT DOWNS: This ‘dramatic valley’ affords walkers views across Romney Marsh and out to the Channel

MOOR WOOD SUNKEN LANE, HIGH WEALD: A wonderful ancient holloway with walls formed from rocks and roots

THE CROWHURST YEW, HIGH WEALD: Ever seen a tree with a door? Now you have. This ancient yew has a ‘mysterious’ history, the book says, and is reputed to be 4,000 years old

OLD KNOBBLEY, FURZE HILL WOOD, ESSEX: Behold one of England’s oldest oaks. In the past, according to the book, hunted witches used to hide inside. Today excited children clamber over the 800-year-old tree’s contorted limbs

ST MARY’S CHURCH, EASTWELL, KENT: This intriguing ruined church is home to the tombstone of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York. The inventory also includes an ivy-clad tower, a lake and an ancient yew tree

HAMPSTEAD PONDS, THE HEATH, LONDON: These superb woodland swimming lakes are easily reached by public transport – and are watched over by lifeguards

WAXHAM AND SEA PALLING, NORFOLK BROADS: There’s an amazing beach near these two villages, as this image shows. Keep your eyes peeled for seals

ST BENET’S ABBEY, RIVER BURE, NORFOLK BROADS: Wild Guide says that this ‘impressive ruin’ – an abandoned 16th-century monastery – is ‘hidden away in the depths of Broadland, away from roads, towns and phone reception’

ST CROSS WINCHESTER, RIVER ITCHEN: This image shows the water meadows and ‘deepish pools’ behind the ‘wonderful and ancient’ Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty

PRIORY BAY, ST HELENS, ISLE OF WIGHT: These ‘quiet, golden sands’ are set beneath woods and can be accessed directly from the Priory Bay Hotel restaurant

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Red Dead Redemption 2: Fishing Guide

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Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 Western set action-adventure RPG title has a large compendium. The compendium in Red Dead Redemption 2 allows players to track Animals, Cigarette Cards, Equipment, Fish, Gangs, Horses, Plants, and Weapons. In this Fishing Guide, I’ll give you tips and locations to quickly complete the fish section of the compendium.

Red Dead Redemption 2: Fishing Guide

Below you will find a list of fish according to their name, location as well as useful information including lure type needed, and helpful tips to get your catch of the day.

Fish

Location

Lure/extra tips

Normal Fish

Bluegill

Chain Pickerel

Can be found in most bodies of water.

Can be found North East of Brandywine Drop

Use Corn as bait.

Redfin Pickerel

Can be found in the Kamassa River to the East of Maclean’s House. Fish at night to avoid the owners being aggressive or just hogtie them before fishing.

Use bread as bait.

Rock Bass

Can be found to the West of Fort Brennand in the Kamassa River.

Use bread or cheese bait. (I like using bread)

Smallmouth Bass

Can be found in the body of water South of Clemen’s Point.

Use Crickets as bait.

Bullhead Catfish

In the town of Lagras, head to the Western part near the shore and fish off the coastline.

Use corn as bait.

Perch

Can be found in the Kamassa River West of Beaver Hollow.

Use bread as a bait.

Lake Sturgeon

Located in Lagras Lake of the Lakay peninsula.

Use Swamp Lure

Largemouth Bass

Can be found in the body of water West of Clemen’s Point.

Use Crayfish as bait.

Steelhead Trout

Can be found in the Kamassa River South of the “E” in Kamassa River.

Use worms as bait.

Channel Catfish

Can be found in the Swamp region body of water

Can be found by fishing from both shores near the “SS” in Kamassa River.

Use Swamp Lure

Longnose Gar

Can be found in any swamp region’s body of water.

Use Swamp Lure

Muskie

Located near lighthouse in Van Horn Trading Post. Fish at the east side of it to find Muskie.

Use River Lure.

Northern Pike

Found in the Kamassa River South West of the Roanoke Valley.

Use River Lure

Sockeye Salmon

Found in the Kamassa River North of Fort Brennand but South of the Railway that crosses the river.

Use River Lures

Legendary Fish

Legendary Bluegill

Located at the Flat Iron Lake, between the shore and and small island south of Clemens Point.

Use Special Lake Lure.

Legendary Chain Pickerel

Located northwest of Flatneck Station, in Dakota River.

Use Special River Lure.

Legendary Bullhead Catfish

Located on Sisika Island, to the west of penitentiary.

Use Special River Lure.

Legendary Redfin Pickerel

Located in Stillwater Creek to the east of MacFarlane’s Ranch.

Use Special Lake Lure.

Legendary Rock Bass

Located in Aurora Basin north of Lower Montana River.

Use Special Lake Lure.

Legendary Smallmouth Bass

Located in Owanjila Lake to the west of Strawberry.

Use Special Lake Lure. (I like casting off from the East coast of the lake near the portrait of fish’s mouth)

Legendary Perch

Located in Elysian Pool in southwest Annesburg.

Use Special Lake Lure.

Legendary Lake Sturgeon

Located below the southern railroad bridge leading to Saint Denis. Stand on the edge of the bridge to avoid being hit by trains.

Use Special River Lure.

Legendary Largemouth Bass

Legendary Steelhead Trout

Located next to the waterfall north of Annesburg, northeast part of the world map. Near Willard’s Rest point of interest.

Use Special River Lure.

Legendary Longnose Gar

Located in Lagras Lake. Head to northwest tip of Lakay peninsula and fish there.

Use Special Swamp Lure.

This is the only legendary fish that requires Special Swamp Lure, you can use any other special lure and save $20, but it will be harder to catch it.

Legendary Muskie

Located near lighthouse in Van Horn Trading Post. Fish at the east side of it to find Muskie.

Use Special River Lure for Legendary Muskie.

Legendary Sockeye Salmon

Found in Lake Isabella.

Use Special Lake Lure.

Red Dead Redemption 2 launched on Playstation 4 and Xbox One on October 26th.

Be sure to check out more Red Dead Redemption 2 in Red Dead Redemption 2 Update 1.04 and Red Dead Redemption 2 Online: Exclusive Item Locations. You can also get all your outlaw needs with our Red Dead Redemption 2 wiki.

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Speech by Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth on the presentation of the 14th volume of the book project “The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945 – Occupied southeast Europe and Italy”

Speech by Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth on the presentation of the 14th volume of the book project “The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945 – Occupied southeast Europe and Italy”

-- Translation of advance text --

Prof. Wolfgang Schieder, Dr Susanne Heim, Esteemed guests,

“He who would write poetry must write poetry entire. He who would write history must have the courage to show the truth in all its nakedness.” This quote by Johann Gottfried von Herder could be a mission statement for the book that we are presenting here at the Federal Foreign Office today.

The fourteenth volume of the book project “The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945 – Occupied southeast Europe and Italy” appears, at first sight, to be quite matter‑of‑fact and dry with its 812 pages in a mint-green jacket cover.

And yet this project, which began in 2003 with a new volume added to the compendium each year since then, is nothing less than a written memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe. The objective of the project is the comprehensive academic publication of central sources and documents on the history of the persecution and murder of the Jewish population on the basis of archive material from around the world.

Volume 14 contains 312 sources and documents detailing the persecution and murder of Jews in Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania. The fact that this volume on occupied southeast Europe and Italy is being presented here at the Federal Foreign Office shows that we are not shying away here at this Ministry from (self-)critical engagement with the darkest chapter of German history.

At the end of the day, the Federal Foreign Office also shared responsibility for the expulsion, oppression and murder of Jews in the National Socialist era. This is also reflected by documents in this volume.

Allow me to take a closer look at an example from the region, one that is particularly important to me, namely the situation of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki, which I have visited on a number of occasions in the past few years. This Jewish community, which was once so great and proud, suffered in an especially tragic way under the Nazi occupation.

Thessaloniki had been a city with an unmistakable Jewish identity for many centuries. The Holocaust almost completely destroyed this proud tradition and left deep wounds and scars in the metropolis. The city lost almost 50,000 citizens of Jewish faith in 1943.

Not only that, but its unique Jewish life – its culture, its academic heritage, its economy – was almost completely eradicated. This loss pains all of us, Jews and non‑Jews alike. This volume traces the fate of the Jews in Greece over 150 pages and with more than one hundred documents. Instructions, communications from authorities, private letters and diary entries, as well as newspaper articles and reports by foreign observers are referenced in the process and provide an unfiltered record.

For example, in document 235 you can read the long letter by Nehama Kazes from Thessaloniki to her sons in Athens, in which she uses haunting language to describe the dramatic situation in Thessaloniki:

“Everyone is selling their things on the street so as to have something to eat. People are wasting money as if it were water. They are throwing money out of the window and letting anyone who wants to have all of their property. […] It’s like we’re in a bad dream day and night and we’re living in indescribable fear. Everyone’s packed their handcarts and put them outside their front doors.” That’s what Nehama Kazes writes in her letter.

The German Consulate General’s secret report of 15 March 1943 is also included in the volume. In this document, the then Consul General Dr Fritz Schönberg uses unsettling and bureaucratic language to describe the beginning of the deportations to Berlin:

 “The resettlement of the 56,000 Jews with Greek nationality living in the locality began today with the deportation of 2600 persons from Saloniki to the General Government. It is planned to conduct four transports each week in order to complete the entire process in around six weeks.”

I have enjoyed a close dialogue with the Jewish community in Thessaloniki for almost four years now. In January 2014, I was invited to give an address on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day as a member of the Federal Government – at the place from where the Jews of Thessaloniki were deported. This powerful gesture of reconciliation, the outstretched hand of friendship, moved me greatly.

I have been back to Thessaloniki time and again since then. I am particularly delighted that the Jewish community in Thessaloniki is prepared, with the support of the Federal Government, to implement projects to continue to strengthen Jewish life in the city.

We have, for instance, supported the efforts to renovate the Monasteriotes synagogue. We are also fostering a Jewish education centre and summer gatherings of young people from Greece, Israel, Germany and other countries. And now a Greek Holocaust museum is being set up in Thessaloniki, which the Federal Government is lending its active support. This is more than a museum. It can restore some of the city’s Jewish identity and serve as a meeting place for future generations. The future always requires us to remember the past!

In Thessaloniki, I’ve often made a point of meeting up with Heinz Kunio, who is celebrating his 90th birthday this week. He and his closest family survived the Holocaust. The circumstances were terrible. Since he spoke German, Heinz Kunio was ordered to translate the commands of the SS from German into Greek on the ramp at Auschwitz – which meant that he saw countless members of his community pass by him on the way to a cruel death in the gas chambers of the extermination camp.

In 1945, he was one of the few survivors to come back to Thessaloniki, returning to a city whose Jewish identity had been almost entirely erased by the Nazis. And he studied the past there and gave the victims back their names. He wrote an impressive book about his time in Auschwitz entitled “A litre of soup and 60 grams of bread – diary of prisoner no. 109565”.

And, first and foremost, Heinz Kunio has told countless school classes about his experiences and continues to meet young people to this day. It is important to Mr Kunio to pass these experiences on to the younger generation – to call these memories to mind, despite the pain. These encounters with eyewitnesses, their personal memories, are irreplaceable. And yet there are fewer and fewer of these eyewitnesses in our midst today.

This is why this publishing project, which sheds light on many original documents, the overwhelming majority of which are being published for the first time, is so important. This volume is the product of a great deal of work – conducting source research, reaching decisions on selections and editing. The authors are making the voices of eyewitnesses – both victims and perpetrators – heard with these original documents. It is up to the reader to draw their own conclusions. Access to original documents with commentaries by researchers is so important especially in times of increasing radicalisation and the rapid dissemination of so‑called “fake news” and “alternative facts”.

It is important that we engage in scholarly treatment of the Holocaust also from a foreign and European policy perspective. This is not just a question of shedding light on Germany’s chequered history, but above all of remembering the tragic history of Greece, Italy, Albania and the successor states of the former Yugoslavia. Without an awareness of this history, we Germans – despite all our best efforts to promote understanding and reconciliation – will never be able to do justice to these countries and the role that we play there. All of the trips that I have been on in this region have reminded me about this fact.

We cannot undo the past. But we can help ensure that the injustice that was perpetrated is never repeated. This, the darkest chapter in the history of humanity, must never be forgotten. This book project is committed to this aim. Allow me to thank all those who have played an active part in making it a reality.

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