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in minecraft, wherever you set up your mineshaft immediately becomes your home base. you can go off and build another base somewhere, or take over a nearby village, but as soon as that staircase or shaft reaches diamond level and starts to branch out, that is your HOME and you do NOT move your main resource supplies from that area. you expand, sure, and go on adventures for rare resources, but you always, ALWAYS return to your first mineshaft location.
i've played this game for a decade and this is, without fail, the most consistent part of everyone's play style. the only time people ever move from their mineshaft is either because their base was griefed on a server, or they had another plan they made beforehand... but that's it. first mineshaft = home, without fail.
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Y'know, Ruan Mei is mildly interesting because we don't actually know if she is or isn't a Xianzhou native.
On one hand, the interest in biological research would add up if she was, especially since she's looking into creating new lifeforms and replicas of older ones- heck, her status as a Genius Society member might even give her some leeway into more taboo studies centered around the Abundance.
On the other hand, she isn't mentioned even once by the Alchemy Commission members we've met (whom I'd assume she has ties to, were she from the Xianzhou), and the biology focus could just be a coincidence. In that case, I'd love to get a name for wherever she's from, because we still don't have any named planets with chinese inspiration, despite knowing of people who hail from such planets (the most prominent example of whom was Yingxing).
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i think that a lot of the overworld is simply gone in the aftermath. miles and miles of bedrock, exposed lava veins, hundreds of unprocessed chunks that leave veins of ore hanging unmoving in the sky
but not everything. kristin was quite clearly very familiar with the parts of c!phil's life that were the most important to him, even if her knowledge abt the server as a whole was limited ('niki! im a big fan!' vs 'is the portal near here?') - knew to guide phil's friends + family to safety before c!phil even had a moment to ask.
and phil promised he'd take care of the wolves. the wolves, the polar bears, the foxes, the cows...
so i don't think all of the overworld gets wiped away in the calamity. she's been growing her forest around phil's home for over a year, letting her magic steep in its soil. so it doesn't take much to let the foliage grow up and across, joining hands with itself and covering the arctic sky in a goddesses' silent, loving embrace.
the fungi spore and the flowers bloom - the wolves pile into their shelter together, steve curls up by the fire, the foxes lie down on phil's bed. their heart rates slow, and the noise from the outside world fades as through a dream. the arctic sleeps, and it survives.
niki's city is trickier - kristin had never wanted to impose on what was clearly a such a personal shrine to life, and all of one woman's reasons to keep living. but just like phil's presence is felt there in every block he lent, every enchantment he helped inscribe, every recipe he passed on, so too is kristin's magic felt through phil. it is not the perfect coverage of the arctic, but its something. the city will change, but it will survive.
after all, its not like nothing's happened. the fallout from the nuke will leave scars on the earth for a long, long time, and it will be longer still before the life that used to thrive on its surface will be able to breath its air once more without consequence. the arctic and the city and all of their stories will have to hibernate for a long, long time.
but one day, it will be safe to return. it's not goodbye. it's 'till we meet again.'
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[CW racism, violence, genocide]
Conrad stayed true to life when creating the charismatic, murderous figure at the center of his novel, perhaps the twentieth century's most famous literary villain. Mr. Kurtz was clearly inspired by several real people, among them Georges Antoine Klein, a French agent for an ivory-gathering firm at Stanley Falls. Klein, mortally ill, died on shipboard, as Kurtz does in the novel, while Conrad was piloting the Roi des Belges down the river. Another model closer to Kurtz in character was Major Edmund Barttelot, the man whom Stanley left in charge of the rear column on the Emin Pasha expedition. It was Barttelot, remember, who went mad, began biting, whipping, and killing people, and was finally murdered. Yet another Kurtz prototype was a Belgian, Arthur Hodister, famed for his harem of African women and for gathering huge amounts of ivory. Hodister eventually muscled in too aggressively on the territory of local Afro-Arab warlords and ivory-traders, who captured and beheaded him.
However, Conrad's legion of biographers and critics have almost entirely ignored the man who resembles Kurtz most closely of all. And he is someone we have already met, the swashbuckling Captain Léon Rom of the Force Publique. It is from Rom that Conrad may have taken the signal feature of his villain: the collection of African heads surrounding Kurtz's house.
The "Inner Station" of Heart of Darkness, the place Marlow looks at through his binoculars only to find Kurtz's collection of the shrunken heads of African "rebels," is loosely based on Stanley Falls. In 1895, five years after Conrad visited this post, Léon Rom was station chief there. A British explorer-journalist who passed through Stanley Falls that year described the aftermath of a punitive military expedition against some African rebels: "Many women and children were taken, and twenty-one heads were brought to the falls, and have been used by Captain Rom as a decoration round a flower-bed in front of his house!" If Conrad missed this account, which appeared in the widely read Century Magazine, he almost certainly noticed when The Saturday Review, a magazine he admired and read faithfully, repeated the story in its issue of December 17, 1898. That date was within a few days of when Conrad began writing Heart of Darkness.
--Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
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do u have a favorite historic location?
finding it hard to think of a good, solid answer for this one although donner lake has been on my bucket list for forever, partially because i could take this a million different directions. so i'm going to pick a very generic type of place and say cemeteries
because i spend so much time researching death, they feel very familiar to me because i speak their language and can teach us sooo much about a place, time, and group of people. but i also feel very close to history in cemeteries. like it's a weird sensation to know i'm standing over, i don't know, john hancock's remains, but it's also crazy to know that people (for generations, in most cases) have gathered, celebrated, and cried there. i will always go all in for places and things that remind me that people are the same across time and space!!
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Ohmygodddd I’m thinking of this oldddd Peter Parker x reader fic published circa July 2019 right after far from home came out. And it was a stark!reader i think where reader was real sad after her dad literally died and pushed Peter completely away, but happy convinces her to go on the Far From Home abroad trip and basically the events of FFH take place… AND HARRISON OSBORNE WAS IN IT AND THERE WAS A SORTA LOVE TRIANGLE WITH HARRISON AND PETER AND OH MY GODD IT WAS SO GOOD I NEED TO FIND IT NEOW
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