#countrymeal

[toadleeah]

per reddit user @CanadaCalamity (click, linked to reddit post in reference)

"CONTEXT: This was not at the ongoing 2024 Paris Olympics, rather this took place at a 2024 World Cup event in Azerbaijan earlier this year, where she won the Gold Medal. These world cup events serve as Olympic Qualifiers under the ISSF (International Sport Shooting Federation).

Kim actually just won the Silver medal in the 10 metre air pistol at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Her countrymate, Oh Ye-jin, won gold in the same competition.

Whenever an Olympics is ongoing, people always tend to post clips from various other competitions in similar events (World Championships, European Championships, Asian Games, etc), and many public viewers just assume they're from the Olympics. It's actually very easy to discern whether or not video you see is taking place at the Olympics, based on cues in the background... If there is any advertising at all inside the venue, it's not the Olympics. Also, AZERBAIJAN in big letters gives it away in this video clip that this was not Paris."

[thecurioustale]

You Should Read Shirley Estar Goes to Heaven!

Friends, tumblrs, countrymates, it is my rare pleasure to make a book recommendation that I've been looking forward all year to making. Winston Rowntree, of Subnormality fame, has just published his first novel—or, rather, his first conventional, text-only novel: Shirley Estar Goes to Heaven.

That link will take you to the landing page where you can learn about the book, watch the trailer, and purchase the paper and/or e-book editions. I recommend it very highly!

I realize that my excitement is not something that will automatically carry over to you, and that I have to sell it a little bit. So, in a SPOILER-FREE way, here is why I am recommending this book:

To get the selfish part out of the way first: Last winter I was fortunate enough to be a very early reader for this work, months before the main beta reading phase. A genuine delight, to put it simply. I haven't gotten my physical copy of the book yet (it just published, after all, and is in transit), so I don't know yet what changes may have resulted from my feedback; but, regardless, it's not every day that I get to have involvement with another artist's work before its publication—so I am very excited on those grounds.

More importantly, however, this book is painfully personal for me. It is a book about a person who can't. You would think they can. They are able-bodied, intelligent, and self-aware. But they can't. In cold clinical terms it is a mental impairment. Qualitatively, it is as though a watery pane of glass separates you from the rest of the world. You can see everything beyond it, but you can't go there. I have struggled with this since I was a small child, much more severely than I have ever fully explained, and I will never not struggle with it. It is the central dominating force in my life. This book is a book about that, except with dramatic elongations of the terrible shadows it casts. Anyone who has struggled with this illness or perhaps let us call it a fault is likely to be able to relate to this story in some way, and it is also a recommended read for those who don't suffer from this condition themselves but want to learn more about it. I particularly like one of the other early readers' pithy assessments: "Characters that you'll love but one of them will always do the thing you don't want her to."

Shirley Estar Goes to Heaven is a reimagining of Winston Rowntree's graphic novel from about fifteen years ago called Captain Estar Goes to Heaven, which old-timers may recall was (and is) also very dear to me. But this novel is a completely different work. It's uncanny, actually, because the characters and the flow of events are very similar, yet the story and the mood and the tonality are all different. Even the core themes have shifted somewhat. The artist has had fifteen years to grow in power and change in perspective, and the new novel makes full use of that transformation. It is a mature and intellectually challenging read. Not so much as in "the sentences are really difficult"; it's actually quite easy to read in that sense. But more like "you don't know where it's going but you're bleeding and you desperately need a band-aid so you hope really hard that there'll be a drugstore somewhere along the route." So, if you like that kind of thing, I can definitely recommend this book.

It's a sci-fi story, so if you like sci-fi then you have another reason to read it. And this book lives up to the name of "science fiction"; it's not just contemporary drama in spaaaaace! It makes creative use of the sci-fi canvas. There are some wonderful settings, futuristic conventions, and technological conceits. The sci-fi on display here is in many ways similar to and in many ways different from my own work. When I read it I saw that there are definitely similarities between Shirley Estar and my own Cherry from Galaxy Federal. But I think the most important comparison to make is that Winston Rowntree has his own pair of eyes and his own point of view, and approaches these issues in different ways and from different directions than I do. Shirley Estar Goes to Heaven says some things that I've been trying to say in my own work for ages, but it does so in ways that I never would or could.

Lastly, this book is also quite creative with its use of the medium, with decisions about the book's narrative structure and even its physical formatting serving to facilitate uncertainty and questions.

Anyway! I think I've said enough. Less is more, here. I don't want to tell you what to think about this story or even what to expect from it. But I do want to tell you what to do: Go read it!

[yuriplisetsky-rp]

Leroy Wins Ninth National Title in Dominating Fashion

Leroy brothers go 1-2 for fourth straight year

January 14, 2024

CALGARY, AB – Jean-Jacques Leroy won his ninth straight national title by a dominating almost twenty-eight points. The reigning Olympic Champion scored 112.72 for his short program and 225.38 for his free skate for an overall score of 338.00, the highest score of the season by any skater so far. “I’m so happy to be able to do this kind of skate at home,” said the 26-year-old. “I know I can go and win Worlds, and it’s at home in Canada this year. I’m going to do everything I can to make my country proud of me.”

Younger brother Louis Leroy won his fourth straight silver medal. The 22-year-old scored personal best scores of 102.87 and 207.37 for the free skate and an overall score of 310.24. “I’m just looking for great performances at Four Continents and Worlds,” said the former Junior World silver medalist. “I’m thrilled with how I’ve performed here, and have been working very hard with my coaches.” Leroy is coached in Japan by Olympic Gold Medalists Yuuri Katsuki and Viktor Nikiforov.

Teenager Justin Hwang captured a surprise bronze medal here at the event, though well below his countrymates. His scored personal best scores in all three events – 88.98, 143.17 (only fourth in the free skate), and 232.15 overall. “I am so happy for this medal,” said the 18-year-old. “I knew I could, but to actually win a bronze medal at Nationals, to be a National medalist, is amazing.” Hwang will be looking to have two more good performances at Four Continents to secure a first-time time trip to his home Worlds.

[trademarkstraggler]

Love how in ep 3 zuko refers to his countrymates as firemen

[beautifuljellyfishnightmare]

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[aladaylessecondblog]

Faal Hah Wuld future plot workings

Me reading the Five Songs of King Wulfharth in TES and suddenly thinking

Then in walked the Devil of Dagoth, who swore he came in peace.

When the next big clash against the Thalmor comes Voryn "comes out" and makes mention of Sigurd (nord nerevarine) saving his life and his mind and that he comes in peace to this war talk.

Moreover, he told the Nords a wondrous thing: he knew where the Heart of Shor was! 

"Shor walks among you once again."

The Nords asked the Devil of Dagoth why he might betray his countrymer so, and he said that the Devils have betrayed each other since the beginning of time, and this was so, and so the Nords believed him. 

Ulfric & co ask him this and Voryn says it hardly believing that they believe his bullshit. He's not an Altmer but they see him as an elf which is nearly the same. Also he would probably add in something about his devotion to Nerevar's cause of defending his people (despite not much caring for the nords he doesn't care for the Thalmor more)

The Tongues sung Shor's ghost into the world again. Shor gathered an army as he did of old

Something something the Greybeards help the dragonborn to recall the "ghost" of Shor/Lorkhan.

and then he sucked in the long-strewn ashes of King Wulfharth and remade him,

Lorkhan is broken/the dragonborn is the vessel of Shor/is Shor/I am and we are we/etc. 'You are my last chance and the Thalmor are not all that lies ahead.'

[...]

So Shor had two generals, the Ash King and the Devil of Dagoth, and he marched on the eastern kingdoms Summerset Isles with all the sons of Skyrim

Lorkhan hanging around in dragonborn's head like JARVIS for Tony Stark lol

Now pardon me while I figure out how the unused tools of Kagrenac could "wake up" the Heart again while it's beating in someone's chest

[rebeleden]

Two Of Loretta Lynn's Children Died #shortsfeed #outlawcountry #countrym...

[theechudar]

Sam Curran could rake in record-breaking moolah in IPL auction, says Chris Gayle | Cricket News

Sam Curran could rake in record-breaking moolah in IPL auction, says Chris Gayle | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: West Indian T20 legend Chris Gayle has put his money on Englishman Sam Curran ahead of his countrymate Ben Stokes, Australia’s Cameron Green and India’s Mayank Agarwal in the Friday’s IPL mini-auction in Kochi.Gayle backed England all-rounder to be the most expensive player in the history of IPL auction since he is young and IPL franchises tend to look to the future in addition to the…

[monalisakundu]

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[marianaxdxb]

Countryballs AU: countrymals.

Desde hace no mucho tiempo he estado pensando en hacer esto, espero que les guste.

Esté AU trata de que los países son animales, algunos serán animales que representan su país y otros talvez no.

El primero que dibujé fue a Perú, mi país :v.

(No tengo que explicar que animal es XD)

Hay una cosa que he creado para este AU y son las:

“ancient forms”

O formas antiguas en inglés.

Ésto lo explicaré en mi siguiente publicación.

PD 1: sí hay una falta de ortografía me lo dicen pls.

PD 2: cada país tiene su versión macho y hembra ;).

[beautifuljellyfishnightmare]

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     The Impetus of your Brain function and prime source of all your motivation is to EVOLVE!

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[uesp]

"The Nords asked the Devil of Dagoth why he might betray his countrymer so, and he said that the Devils have betrayed each other since the beginning of time, and this was so, and so the Nords believed him."

--Excerpt from Five Songs of King Wulfharth

[olincino]

Imagine this huge poster is hanging on the wall in your bedroom.

[zuesesbeardandsuch]

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