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Early-Career SFF Writer. Conlanger. Linguistics and Ancient History Enjoyer. Posts about LotR. She/Her. Header by beloved.moe.
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Abby
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Sorry this is a noob question but if a lit mag publishes a story that’s similar to one you’ve written does that mean you should submit there or do they have their fill of that type of story
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Kelly Turnbull
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The “can’t build proper nests because we bred their instinct out of them” thing is kind of an urban legend, even wild, undomesticated, ancestral Rock doves in their native habitat just throw in a couple sticks and call it a day, it’s just that in their natural habitat they nest in holes like this
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Abby
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Guess what guys! They found evidence for trade connections between India and Roman Egypt! A cemetery for pets! A statue of the Buddha!
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Abby
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Apparently “The Stars” is based on a dream too Is this just a thing that happens. People have dreams about giant waves.
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Abby
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“The Stars” by Jukebox the Ghost is actually about the Alkalabeth.
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Clarkesworld
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We appreciate the support we're getting here. Today, it's down to 326.
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Doug!
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Local politics is the most important for people on a day to day basis Unfortunately it’s also the most ignored
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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This is almost word for word what I tell students. Even if you’ve been disillusioned by what’s happening at the state and federal level, you need to get out and shore up your local politics.
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adam
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Old Growth.
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Ennius
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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Korach (קֹרַח) with a centaur holding a shield and club. #ParashahPictures
Bodl. Libr. MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.86v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵
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Ennius
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Initial 'L'(ocutusque) at the beginning of Numbers depicting Moses speaking with God in the tent of meeting & Dathan & Abiram with their households being swallowed up by the earth. BnF MS Latin 6 (1); Biblia Sancti Petri Rodensis; 10th-11th century; f.56r @GallicaBnF
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Katharine Hayhoe
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There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Normalized responses -- the total number of likes and shares, divided by number of followers -- were highest here (yay!) and lowest on X.
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Kate Montgomery
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Topics you could ask me about: The Crusader states, their literature & laws Medieval manuscript production Areoarchaeology & other unconventional means of learning about the past What The Victorians Got Wrong (& why we forgive some of the scholar-vicars anyway) How DID they make that? …etc
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John Scalzi
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Also, there is no fucking shame in things saved in the edit; that's what the editing is for.
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Abby
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Wait there’s also dog poop disposal company here called Call of Doody. To be clear tho it’s only the waste/trash/poop disposal companies with names like this. Other businesses have normal names.
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Pavel
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I'm a worker, I do hard cognitive labor (pondering where to use the 1 allowed exclamation mark per email)
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Abby
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I mean in my old neighborhood there was a garbage collection business called Patriot. Working in DC makes folks in the waste disposal business particularly nationalist I guess.
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Abby
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Yeah that’s a good point
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Abby
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It’s not too late!
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Abby
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JRRT could be concise when he needed to be.
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Abby
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Also Imrahil is a relatively minor character but if you subscribe to the interpretation that LotR-the-book is an in-world historical text he would be the sort of person you’d want to be sure you wouldn’t overlook.
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Abby
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Recruiting Imrahil to his side is also one of the first things Aragorn does after arriving in Gondor, which is smart.
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Abby
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Ok for being such a minor part of the books it’s impressive how much sense Dol Amroth makes. It’s the richest region of Gondor, probably because it’s costal and has access to a harbor. So everyone works hard to keep the prince on their side. Princesses marry the sons of stewards, etc.
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Abby
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The Normalest Guy Ever
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Abby
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I think being based on a port gives them benefits of trade that aren’t available to more inland communities. Kind of like NYC/LA vs North Dakota. So economic development is uneven and some regions feel the pinch sooner and harder.
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Abby
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Rebuilding infrastructure in Arnor after a 1000 year interregnum would also take a lot of resources.
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Abby
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Maybe a tighter ship? Gondor seems to be on a downturn when we see it in the books. Aragorn eventually rebuilds that wealth, the appendices say, but it would take a long time.
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Abby
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Like, because this is a society that doesn’t have computers and literacy is probably restricted to a minority of the population, I’d expect that Aragorn and Faramir would have their hands full with the doing all the basic government things, and especially rebuilding them after the war.
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Materialist Gnostic
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People today don't really understand how insanely resource-intensive meat is to produce. You take calories people could eat and turn them into less calories (or use farmland for pasture instead).
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Abby
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Ok that’s clever.
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Abby
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I would think that would depend more on the limits of Gondor’s bureaucracy and of their communications and recordkeeping technology? I mean, later Roman emperors’ abilities to intervene in the lives of most people were limited, even when they wanted to intervene.
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Abby
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So there’s a port-a-potty company called G.I. Johns active in the DC area.
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Hillary Monahan
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Me, this summer and every summer.
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Abby
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Tbh tho all the major livestock animals aside from maybe pigs were more valuable alive than dead, as they could keep producing milk, wool, and so on, and were only slaughtered for special occasions. So pre-modern folks ate way less meat than we’re used to.
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Abby
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Like, folks generally raise/d pigs, goats, sheep, and cattle for the purposes of eating them (and/or raising them for dairy and wool, etc). But dogs and horses are/were generally valued more for things other than as sources of food.
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Abby
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Yeah European cultures have had a major aversion to eating dogs and horses going back to ancient times, which probably isn’t totally unrelated to these animals’ roles and hunting companions and, generally, as things you don’t want to eat.
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Faine Greenwood
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Every single time American’s very negative reaction to eating dogs and cats comes up, someone has to show up to explain that it’s a cultural thing, as if the vast majority of reasonably-sentient people were not already aware of this.
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Faine Greenwood
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I think some anti-meat activists really gloss over how humanity spent 1000s of years molding dogs + cats into companions and co-workers who pretty intuitively understand our emotions- we haven’t done this with pigs and cows. It’s not exactly shocking that many people thus don’t want to eat pets.
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Abby
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One of these days I’m gonna have to actually figure out what Aragorn’s tax policy could’ve plausibly been (ie, how did later Roman emperors go about taxation?)
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum
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Hipster Viking Amy
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Your honor, with all due respect, EVERYBODY was kung fu fighting.
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Abby
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These folks remind me of the ones who think they can start a general worker’s strike in the U.S. with no planning (or acknowledgment that the laws here mean a lot of people would lose their jobs), only vibes. They’re probably some of the same folks, actually.
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☀️ Starshine
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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
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ACAB includes all hate followers. I said what I said.
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Lee Madgwick
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New painting. Escape (oil/acrylic on canvas)
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Will Quinn
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Daily bunny no.2538 is fixing up a snack
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Dave, not a bad guy at all
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Today, my dog Bolt, a little friend who saved my life many times, is 10 years old. We had a fine party. The cake was raw stew beef. Nola (our rat terrier) attended and had a piece of cake, too. We (Deanna and I) sang happy birthday and a good time was had by all. I love that dog. Many more, Bolt!!
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John Wiswell
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Me: In this house we salute the flag. The flag:
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