#not to get too english class on main but i think it really sort of...succinctly explains how i imagine jack vs the hacketts themselves

[queenofbaws]

oh god. oh no. oh god oh no oh god i found the soapbox again. oh good heavens i'm climbing up onto it. oh NO someone left me a megaphone again. i can't stop myself......i can't.....fight it.........i just......

SOMETHING I REALLY LOVE ABOUT TQ IS THE LODGE

lmfao but fr tho, from the moment you step foot into hackett lodge, it feels warm, and it feels homey, and it feels lived in - a stark contrast to blackwood lodge, which is, from the prologue, cold and austere and menacing. in ud, you know the lodge isn't safe from the get-go. you hold your breath when you're exploring it, jumping at every creak of the floorboards. hackett lodge, on the other hand, just.......it's wood paneled and cozy. when the golden hour light comes in through the slats of the blinds, it feels nostalgic. safe. the creaks and sighs of it settling on its bones are expected and almost welcome. it is comfortable, it is maybe a little warmer than you want it to be, it smells faintly of sap and someone else's laundry detergent.

and it is a death trap.

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Backpacking Information and facts on Sri Lanka

koneshwaran

SRI LANKA

Population: 19.four million (UN, 2005) Funds: Colombo (professional), Sri Jayawardenepura (administrative) Area: sixty five,610 sq km (25,332 sq miles) Significant languages: Sinhala, Tamil, English Important religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity Life expectancy: seventy one yrs (males), 77 decades (gals) (UN) Financial device: Sri Lankan rupee

The teardrop-shaped island of Sri Lanka is oddly labelled because of the Chinese as being the "land with out sorrow". The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is actually a little nation is one of one of the most ideal countries for travel from the South Asia region. And though the fright on the civil war or perhaps the 2004 tsunami is not great publicity with the tourism market, Serendib, as Persians named it and whence English will take "serendipity" from, is severely serene and serene in more techniques than 1, inland and around the seas.

After the disastrous and destructive Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 where 31,229 fatalities ended up reported and all-around one million still left homeless, Sri Lanka's sweet and gradual recovery accolades it since the "small wonder." Europeans while in the early times of environment exploration thought they had discovered the "Garden of Eden", but what is becoming of this Pearl with the Indian Ocean will be the crown jewel on the spice trade. Over the within, the once-called Ceylon is peaceful and care-free, but close to it, wars ended up waged by terrific empires inside of a quest to covet the loaded island.

GEOGRAPHY & CLIMATE

Sri Lanka is usually a sixty five,610 km2 territory of mainly flat and rolling plains even though mountainous while in the central part to the south. Quite low that the island wonder has a highest altitude, the Pidurutalagala of 2,524 metres above the Indian Ocean, its lowest point, and as such, located at 7 00 N, 81 00 E and south of India, the country basks inside a warm tropical monsoon climate moderated by ocean winds and moisture. The three corresponding seasons are southwest monsoons from June to October, wet northeast monsoon from December through March, and hot season from April to May. January has the coldest of days in the year, though April is extremely unbearable as the Sri Lankan sun glares like no other. There is no ideal time to be in Sri Lanka. It is all about the place you are when you're there. If a person finds the urban jungle too hot to the liking and the air too dim and thin for breathing, heed the call of the countryside for better climate and air.

PEOPLE & CULTURE

In all methods, these factors work for that good of local and vacation existence, for the people in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankans, are a peaceful and simple unit of people, unit while in the sense of being a nation amidst ethnic and religious disparity. Sri Lanka is constituted by a majority of Sinhalese, from Ceylonese of almost three-quarters in the inhabitants, followed by Sri Lankan Moors, Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil consecutively, and other immigrants.

The constitution of Sri Lanka attests to freedom of religion, but, while in the main, the republic is usually a Buddhist country with almost 70% from the inhabitants following, mainly Sinhalese, but with a wonderful proportion of Hindus (mostly Tamils), Muslims, and Christians. The language in the state is SINHALA used for that most part by all with the Sinhalese populace and far more, that is 75% with the Sri Lanka, although TAMIL is also a national language. ENGLISH is definitely the de facto language for government and business affairs, and is spoken competently by a sizable 10% of Sri Lanka.

FOOD & ATTRACTION

Nowhere else can a traveller see great ethnic and religious proportion than from the cash itself, Colombo basically because it's got anything and everything. Although Colombo is the biggest and the busiest place 1 can go to in their island adventure, there are other relaxing options like a lazy trek to the ancient cities, a cool surf while in the heat in the sun, a scuba dive, a snorkel, or a serene waterfront show with the sunset, all at the moment if preferred, in which it is truly tranquil and no cost to explore. It will be the ideal place to start and end a traveller's Sri Lankan journey.

But should the equatorial sun, add the smothering diesel fogged air of Colombo slowly deteriorate your vacation zest, delve into the world-class attractions countryside like rice valleys, mountain springs, forever falls, tea terraces, virgin rain forests, golden coastlines, the Elephant Rock, the Sigiriya Rock Fortress (Lion's Rock), lost cities, stone temples, forest monasteries, and, really, the list goes on. These are but revelations to what the "small island, big trip" this enigmatic place is.

Then again, no journey can be perfection with no a taste on the Sri Lankan cuisine. In these parts on the globe, food is so fantastic everything stops as if nothing bad can happen. Sri Lankan cuisine- and people think Indian cuisine. The food here is like the motherland itself in variety and heat. In truth, Sri Lankan food has an identity of its own, exceptionally magnificent visually and all otherwise, bar none. Rice, the staple, is the blank canvas to the art of colours and flavours effervescent on your typical Sri Lankan plate. Although spices used here are similar to south Indian cuisine, spices are used in whole and are turned to paste, instead of ground spices, that gives it that distinctive velvety marriage of spices to the food.

Rice with curry is most common dish which can be in vegetable or meat sorts served with scores of sides that create varieties of flavours in every bite. This modern Sri Lankan personality in food is among tradition and fusion from the West (British, Dutch, and Portuguese) and the East (Moors, Malays, Arabs and Indians). Desserts here range from native cakes of coconut to a class that exudes western influences like creme caramel. I say desserts lay the sturdy groundwork for a fantastic Sri Lankan food adventure. Sri Lankan gastronome is just so different from India, so different from what 1 expects.

To see Sri Lanka is to be in Sri Lanka even if it means riding along the same tracks the 2004 tsunami devoured. But given that the train cuts right along the sea past areas and villages, montages flash like in an old 50's film creating some distance from the everyday everyday living that you see for a moment and is gone. Until you get off the train, then you would realise the reality in the previous scenes. Succinctly put, Sri Lanka's main attraction will be the people, the ones you meet here picking tea within the rain, fishing on poles Sri Lankan style, or cooking curry crab.

References World Heritage Site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site

[ecotone99]

[SP] When you Know he's not Serious (the Psychic Wars)

We'd already started to fight. Last time it went down I got into an argument with a beer pong table in Polish. Devil Springs Vodka.

It was surprising to some people that I was fairly familiar with some of the Russian Gangs- for an American anyways. I didn't know who I'd marry into, Vegas odds had them bouncing before the contract closed. They weren't exactly Space Nerds. And like I said, we fight. We're competitive in the most fucked up ways because we can't really communicate. I move arms, they move coke, I harass the English, they harass the English. It's all very complicated.

Either way, I was having my fun with my dear sweet Canadian relatives (mostly presumed dead by now according to all), by being loudly engaged (to the psychic community). They really did have horrid habits, as a culture. Like inviting themselves to your wedding (wonder of wonders I did *not* get married to him). I had about twenty years of horror and mistreatment to extract from them from far, far away in the lovely Virginia. They'd tried to ride my coattails into England and the Upper Class.

And I was very quietly making time with Domhnal. He was a twitchy guy, with his hat set wrong and no sense of humor. But he could find a story in the dark, and had extremely good taste in jewelry, jobs, and vices. And I needed the work and the armor. Most of my Army contacts were dead or we were politely pretending we'd never met. The only one I missed was Jed, and he'd tried to do me more than once or twice. Rumor had him drowning while he tried to swim to Canada to off the evil Canucks once and for all. I had nothing to do with that watery epitaph.

So I hid under his quirky charm, his odd habits, and his rakish demeanor, and healed. I'd starting charting out Quantum Theory on the far wall again, but he didn't mind, just asked the occasional question, clever, but not intelligent. It happens. And it helps. It lets me think outside and gives me someone normalish to sound some of the weirder parts of Plank's Constant off of. It does funny things during Quantum Travel, they were having a hell of a time getting it to create a consistent pattern so they could use it for messaging. You could bolster it with story tropes, and anchor with consensual reality, but that seemed like a hell of a lot of risk for a message. I mean, we had email.

There was no way they were going to jump the deformities that would arise if they moved beyond the planned Space Station with a Heisenburg Drive. Still, the excitement was driving funding, and giving us something to think about besides carnage and mass burials. Disappearances and threats. Danger that you could feel on your skin. Dove ran his hand up the back of my neck and I leaned back. I spaced out sometimes, thinking and processing, but I was staring at a massive series of concept diagrams strung together with the cliched threads and pushpins, so I never looked that abnormal. Just exhausted. He wrapped his arms around me and I could cry.

I love sleeping alone. I use the whole bed. But I'm little, and I get cold easy. He made a great heat sink. I was staring at the upper left section of my main diagram and he made a small inquiring noise that you only make when you're completely comfortable around a person you care for. Or if you're a whore. I had to remind myself sometimes.

"Canadians were traders before we got them into the Program." Domhnal laughed softly and I smiled. They'd never thank us for it. There was a ridiculous amount of in fighting as people all over the world made a power grab. The BRIC countries were emerging just as the Papacy changed hands, and it was too much of a strain on the world, with the amount of civil unrest in the Middle East. The whole thing went.

"Now they know when we fight, even against each other, it's to learn," I pulled away and traced the storylines with one finger, illustrating as I spoke. It's the reason I used diagrams. A picture might be worth a thousand words, a diagram was worth even more. I was able to speak to people, and in moments when I might otherwise not, because I used charts. It was unprecedented for a woman, the closest we had was Angela Merkel's democratic rule of Germany, and she tended to use body language. Not that I didn't, in between shoving my soap box behind the pulpit. I just note when I'm that different. There was a lot of identity theft during the Psychic Wars. (Seriously, you hadn't thought of that?)

"But this whole bit-" I gestured against my notes on Canadian Quantum Theory, which involved a LOT on consensual reality and far less on cost benefit analyses on sink holes at formulae crossovers (except to note them as attack points) "- is mucking up the works. They're slowing down the ability to create a Heisenberg drive, and Lord knows we don't need anyone screwing with that right now, but they're causing more casualties than they're saving by turning data waystations into launching points."

Dove made a non-committal grunt. His Da was Air Force, mind was Army, so we rarely agreed, but he understood basic combat theories. One of the reasons military brats never get along in school. I smiled at him and he pulled me back in.

"What's America's stance on that?" He asked.

"America doesn't have one," I replied succinctly, "They don't see the problems in terms of social implications, even with physical manifestations, or fiscal ones. Which is weird for us, but not so weird. Getting John to Jericho has always been a bitch for us."

Dom nodded, and I sighed. I'd mixed metaphors, as I often do when speaking about my own country. I didn't want people to be able to explain what I'd just said, they tended to spend days whittling down a negative mould to cast it in before sending out some fairly nasty rumours. I was independent for a reason, I didn't have to agree with my country, and I was more powerful than the vast majority of her men. It was a strangely tenuous position, socially. It's why I focused on England, they found that sort of thing so normal it was referred to as entertainment.

To set his understanding I wrote 'English Interchange' on a slip of paper and pushpinned it into the wall on the right side of the main storyline nexus, past all of the agreement and so on. He frowned, but I don't think he realized he was doing it. Technically the British weren't sovereign to Canadians, their country was, but they were technically all citizens under a monarchy. Functionally they had a 52 country empire and they were more than just its flagship. They knew trouble when they saw it. I had to get the rest of the package and get it to the Nobles.

They might seem like a satellite power to most of the world, but they functioned socially, in a remarkably similar manner to the Upper Class in any large alliance or empire. Someday they'd get around to noticing that we had 52 countries as well and listen a little more. Until then well, we were Americans, we'd hold and just keep sending. It wasn't as though we couldn't take care of ourselves, we just hated when we got hit with the spray from other people's chamberpots.

I sighed, memories flashing along the crosspoints of the threads connecting the pushpins on the wall. It was the downside to remembering things socially, and thinking of them in terms of stories, and public opinion. You remembered. Screaming fury as I laid out marks past the line of bodies that would become my family. Singing pride as I finally marked the man who had been shutting down Army girls through the books we read for 16 years, a whole generation lost. Regret, loss, betrayal, pain.

Pain. I stretched my hand back over my shoulder and rubbed Dove's neck. He didn't think about things the way I did- his body asked a question and mine apparently gave him a definitive answer. He just held me as I pieced it all together so that it could be memorized and recited, in empath, an almost untrackable communication. Humming softly, he rocked me back and forth as I prepped everything a committed it for recall.

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Previously in the Psychic Wars...

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Backpacking Info on Sri Lanka

koneshwaran

SRI LANKA

Populace: 19.four million (UN, 2005) Funds: Colombo (business), Sri Jayawardenepura (administrative) Region: sixty five,610 sq km (25,332 sq miles) Important languages: Sinhala, Tamil, English Major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity Life expectancy: seventy one years (men), seventy seven years (gals) (UN) Financial device: Sri Lankan rupee

The teardrop-shaped island of Sri Lanka is oddly labelled because of the Chinese since the “land without the need of sorrow”. The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is really a little country is among quite possibly the most sought after nations for travel while in the South Asia area. And whilst the fright on the civil war or even the 2004 tsunami is not really fantastic publicity for that tourism marketplace, Serendib, as Persians identified as it and whence English usually takes “serendipity” from, is seriously relaxed and serene in more methods than one, inland and to the seas.

Just after the disastrous and destructive Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 in which 31,229 fatalities were being noted and close to one million still left homeless, Sri Lanka’s sweet and slow recovery accolades it as being the “small wonder.” Europeans within the early times of entire world exploration assumed they’d uncovered the “Garden of Eden”, but what has grown to be of this Pearl on the Indian Ocean is the crown jewel from the spice trade. Around the inside, the once-called Ceylon is tranquil and care-free, but all over it, wars were being waged by wonderful empires in a quest to covet the rich island.

GEOGRAPHY & CLIMATE

Sri Lanka is usually a sixty five,610 km2 territory of mainly flat and rolling plains though mountainous within the central part to the south. Quite low that the island wonder has a highest altitude, the Pidurutalagala of 2,524 metres above the Indian Ocean, its lowest point, and as such, located at 7 00 N, 81 00 E and south of India, the country basks in a warm tropical monsoon climate moderated by ocean winds and moisture. The three corresponding seasons are southwest monsoons from June to October, wet northeast monsoon from December through March, and hot season from April to May. January has the coldest of days while in the year, while April is extremely unbearable given that the Sri Lankan sun glares like no other. There is no ideal time to be in Sri Lanka. It is all about wherever you are when you’re there. If one finds the urban jungle too hot for that liking and the air too dim and thin for breathing, heed the call in the countryside for better climate and air.

PEOPLE & CULTURE

In all means, these factors work for that very good of local and vacation everyday living, for the people in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankans, are a peaceful and simple device of people, device inside the sense of being a nation amidst ethnic and religious disparity. Sri Lanka is constituted by a majority of Sinhalese, from Ceylonese of almost three-quarters from the population, followed by Sri Lankan Moors, Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil consecutively, and other immigrants.

The constitution of Sri Lanka attests to freedom of religion, but, within the main, the republic can be a Buddhist country with almost 70% of your populace following, mainly Sinhalese, but with a wonderful proportion of Hindus (mostly Tamils), Muslims, and Christians. The language of your state is SINHALA used with the most part by all of the Sinhalese populace and additional, that is 75% of your Sri Lanka, although TAMIL is also a national language. ENGLISH will be the de facto language for government and business affairs, and is spoken competently by a sizable 10% of Sri Lanka.

FOOD & ATTRACTION

Nowhere else can a traveller see fantastic ethnic and religious proportion than while in the funds itself, Colombo basically because it’s got anything and everything. Although Colombo is definitely the biggest and the busiest place a single can go to in their island adventure, there are other relaxing options like a lazy trek to the ancient cities, a cool surf from the heat on the sun, a scuba dive, a snorkel, or a serene waterfront show on the sunset, all at when if preferred, where by it is truly peaceful and free of charge to explore. It may be the ideal place to start and end a traveller’s Sri Lankan journey.

But should the equatorial sun, add the smothering diesel fogged air of Colombo slowly deteriorate your vacation zest, delve into the world-class attractions countryside like rice valleys, mountain springs, forever falls, tea terraces, virgin rain forests, golden coastlines, the Elephant Rock, the Sigiriya Rock Fortress (Lion’s Rock), lost cities, stone temples, forest monasteries, and, really, the list goes on. These are but revelations to what the “small island, big trip” this enigmatic place is.

Then again, no vacation can be perfection without a taste on the Sri Lankan cuisine. In these parts in the entire world, food is so very good everything stops as if nothing bad can happen. Sri Lankan cuisine- and people think Indian cuisine. The food here is like the motherland itself in variety and heat. In truth, Sri Lankan food has an identity of its own, exceptionally magnificent visually and all otherwise, bar none. Rice, the staple, could be the blank canvas to the art of colours and flavours effervescent on your typical Sri Lankan plate. Although spices used here are similar to south Indian cuisine, spices are used in whole and are turned to paste, instead of ground spices, that gives it that distinctive velvety marriage of spices to the food.

Rice with curry is most common dish which can be in vegetable or meat sorts served with scores of sides that create varieties of flavours in every bite. This modern Sri Lankan personality in food is one of tradition and fusion from the West (British, Dutch, and Portuguese) and the East (Moors, Malays, Arabs and Indians). Desserts here range from native cakes of coconut to a class that exudes western influences like creme caramel. I say desserts lay the sturdy groundwork for a fantastic Sri Lankan food adventure. Sri Lankan gastronome is just so different from India, so different from what one particular expects.

To see Sri Lanka is to be in Sri Lanka even if it means riding along the same tracks the 2004 tsunami devoured. But as being the train cuts right along the sea past areas and villages, montages flash like in an old 50’s film creating some distance from the everyday lifetime that you see for a moment and is gone. Until you get off the train, then you would realise the reality in the previous scenes. Succinctly put, Sri Lanka’s main attraction is definitely the people, the ones you meet here picking tea in the rain, fishing on poles Sri Lankan style, or cooking curry crab.

References World Heritage Site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site