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comradelup · 4 years

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Julia would never describe death as enlightening. Quite the opposite, actually. Maybe… endarkening…. Point is, she never knew death until she died.

She opens her eyes on the shore of the astral sea. She feels bruised all over, and half her mind is still fast asleep. Groggy. That’s the word for it.

The sunless grey sky is above her, and the sound of lapping waves fill her ears. Sand surrounds her on the ground, and it’s almost comfortable, even if it may be getting in her hair. She doesn’t want to move, so she doesn’t.

A weird sense of familiarity washes over her as lazy as the waves. She’s been here before, right? Or perhaps she’s seen one too many friends and comrades die for death to be confusing and scary. Her most likely theory is that The Raven Queen does this to people to ease them into death after trauma.

She recalls the events before her death. Kalen returned with vengeance to blow up Raven’s Roost. She bets he was bitter about his loss and decided to erase any memory of his weakness. Well, he got his revenge. Julia tried to get as many people as she could out, but a whole building fell on her as a result. One of the two leaders of the revolution is dead. She’s only happy he didn’t get Magnus.

Magnus… she remembers him. A cheerful carpenter, a loving husband, a great crewmate.

Wait. What?

The memories trickle into her mind like a summer creek. The two of them in flowing red robes, standing somewhere up high. On the deck of some ship, but on land. Above land.

The Starblaster.

There were others too. Beautiful twin elves, a plain-looking human, a crunchy dwarf, a wallflower of a human, and a gnome captain. Their names hit her like arrows to the chest.

Taako. Lup. Barry. Merle. Lucretia. Davenport.

It comes back faster now. The flow quickens. The eight of them, on the Starblaster, on an endless mission. Images flash in her mind. Good times, bad times, laughter, love, screaming, crying. Life and death alike.

They were running from something, running to something else. But… what?

At least she knows why death is familiar. She’s died before. An explosion, an accidental poisoning, turning to a statue… death is an old friend in a way. She remembers her friends dying too. The four judges killing everyone but Lucretia. That time everyone but her, Lup, and Lucretia died so it was months of girls’ nights. One year the twins died and everyone else tried to cook like them but couldn’t, because who can cook like the twins?

These memories don’t quite feel like her own. She’s missing something. Lup and Barry trying to understand the chemical makeup of the Light of Creation. Merle dying so many times talking to John. Magnus died in the first cycle at the hands of The Hunger.

A weak groan escapes her and she closes her eyes. This is giving her a headache, trying to think through the static. Static… static…

Fischer! Her eyes snap open, arm frozen halfway to rubbing her temple. Death really is enlightening, the voidfish’s power doesn’t work on the dead. Somehow she forgot everything, or at least everything in Lucretia’s journals.

Oh, poor Lucretia. Now that it’s coming back to her, she remembers Lucretia bringing her and Magnus to Raven’s Roost, trying to hide her tears. She told them, this is where you’ve lived your whole lives, it’s not much, but it’s home. Julia retroactively corrects that no, the Starblaster is home, Lucretia is home, along with the rest of the crew. Lucretia must have erased their memories of their mission, but Julia can’t quite remember why. She can’t bring herself to be truly angry though; she loves Lucretia too much to be.

She starts to remember more recent details too. Lup… Lup went missing. She’s nowhere to be found, even with Barry and Taako’s rigorous searching. She went missing after the eight of them made the… the… the Grand Relics.

The dam breaks, and she knows everything— the Light of Creation, The Hunger, oh stars.

She lets her arm fall and stares up, letting all the sadness show on her face. The world might end, and no one else but a dead woman will know how to stop it. Not even, right? All she knows how to do is run away. This plane will be consumed and feasted upon until there’s nothing left, and she’ll be destroyed right with everyone el—

“Um, Julia?”

Julia cranes her head back towards the sound of the voice. Upside down, she sees a pair of fancy shoes and the hem of fancy slacks. They step closer and Julia looks up at the sky again as a face comes into view.

“You’re Julia Burnsides, right? Are you okay?” the man asks, and he’s handsome. Not the same rustic and warm handsomeness of Magnus, but a sharp, well dressed handsome. It isn’t her thing, but it’s hard to not admit that this guy is a looker. His long dreadlocks are pulled back in a half up half down style, and some of them fall over his shoulder as he looks down at her.

“I’m Julia,” she says, and her voice is raw. She coughs into her hand and he looks sympathetic. “Who’re you?”

“I’m Kravitz. Let me help you up.” He holds out a hand, and she takes it. It’s cold as shit but she doesn’t comment on it as he helps her stand.

Her body doesn’t like being vertical apparently. She now knows her bruises are the incorporeal equal of the injuries sustained from her death, and they make all movement painful. She wobbles a bit when on two feet and balances herself on Kravitz’s steady hand.

“Thanks,” she mutters through the pain, because her parents didn’t raise a rude girl.

“Of course,” Kravitz says, taking his hand back and using both hands to hold onto a sharp scythe taller than him. It’s actually about Julia’s height, as she stands a good few inches above him.

“There’s a bit of… an issue here,” he continues, “When a person dies, they either go into the astral sea or the eternal stockade. Or, in special cases, to the Raven Queen herself to discuss joining her retinue. You shouldn’t have ended up here.”

He’s saying a lot of words at once. Her head’s still swimming. She feels dizzy. Remembering a century all at once after a falling building killed you is… tough to handle all at once. And it's not the position she should be in when discussing… what was it? Death crimes? He mentioned a stockade, right?

“I… I should…” She brings a hand to her head and rubs the part of her temple that isn’t super bruised.

“You don’t look good, here.” Julia’s staring at the ground, blinking and trying not to sway, so she doesn’t see what he does. She hears fabric ripping, and he puts a cold hand on her shoulder.

“Step right through here,” he says, voice quiet. He seems tuned in to her headache and is accommodating, for which she's thankful.

She follows his direction, through a portal of sorts. One second she’s on a beach, the next she’s in a throne room, four stories tall. The floors and walls are black marble with an iridescent sheen to them. The far left wall is floor to ceiling windows, showing off the astral sea. It's beautiful, swirling rainbow waters with millions of lights floating above the surface. The sky is grey, but not like it’s covered by clouds, it’s naturally grey. Not a sun or cloud to be seen. In the window sills are ravens, hopping around or snoozing or watching her. All of them are silent in the presence of their queen.

The Raven Queen is hard to perceive. She is in the back of the room, on a large throne. Shadows cover that end of the room, so she can’t see the queen’s face. She does know she’s huge, though. Tens of feet tall, Julia guesses she’d be almost as tall as the throne room if she wasn’t sitting. She’s wearing an impeccable dark suit glittering with gold accents and jewelry. There are rings on her gloved fingers and bracelets on her wrists, and her hands sit on the arms of the throne. One leg is crossed over the other, letting a dark flowing cape pool at one foot.

In her presence, Kravitz kneels. Following, Julia does the same. He says, “My Queen, I found Julia Burnsides on the shore of the astral sea, disoriented and in pain. I don’t know what her soul’s fate is, so I come to you for guidance.”

Julia stays quiet, looking at the floor. She can kind of see her reflection, and sees that her face isn’t as beat up as it feels. In fact, it’s completely free of injury. She’s also wearing her IPRE robe. Huh.

After a moment of silence, The Raven Queen speaks. “Julia Burnsides, you have died twenty-two times, including your most recent death.”

Julia looks up to the queen and sees Kravitz staring at her bewildered out of the corner of her eye. She can’t see the queen’s expression, but her voice makes her sound accusatory. So Julia nods, unsure of what else to say.

“Yet… you have entered the Astral Plane every time. You also never escaped the plane. That is an anomaly.”

“I can explain, your majesty.” Julia remembers other Astral Planes too, with the occasional alternate death deities. At least in this plane, it’s The Raven Queen and not that other one, The King of Death and Insects. She hates bugs.

“Please do.” The queen waves a hand, and two armchairs appear, with a coffee table in front of them. Julia takes the silent invitation and moves to sit down in one. Two mugs of tea appear and she takes one. What's most strange is Kravitz seems more confused than her as he does the same. Julia must be a real edge case.

She takes a sip of tea and feels the warmth travel down her throat into her stomach, then spread to her whole body. It seeps away the pain and clears her head, making her sigh in relief and relax into her seat.

“Now,” The Raven Queen says, “explain your deaths.” She holds up a palm in her direction and pushes it towards her. Julia feels a breeze blow past her as a Zone of Truth appears around her. Admittedly, she’s developed a familiarity with it thanks to Merle, but she lets the spell affect her this time. She has no reason to lie to a queen.

“I… I don’t know where to start,” Julia says. If only she had Lucretia’s journals and could read them to the queen. “Do you know about the multiverse theory?”

She goes on to explain everything from the beginning. Where she's really from, the Light of Creation landing on her home plane, and the original mission of the IPRE. The Hunger and how it interrupted this mission, the cycles that brought her and her family from the dead. She even explains that this is the first death where she wasn’t put into the astral sea. (Except for that one time she and Barry ended up in that plane’s stockade, though. It was only an experiment gone wrong, after all, so why include it?)

All of this is new information for The Raven Queen and Kravitz, but it feels new to Julia too. For some of the details she says them without thinking and then reflects on them. Taako made a fake Light of Creation? Oh right, he did!

After she’s done explaining, she sits back, taking a big sip of her tea. Her cup never seems to empty and for that, she’s glad, because every sip brings back that warm feeling in this cold, dead plane.

Kravitz looks bewildered and intrigued by the story, but also says nothing. The Raven Queen is quietly contemplative for a moment, then says, “Those relics are causing a lot of death. You created them?”

Julia flushes. “Yes, your majesty, but we didn’t mean to cause wars. The Light of Creation needs to be needed, so we tried to make intriguing objects. They ended up using the people wielding them instead of the other way around.” She looks down into her lap, staring at the tea swirling in the mug. Voice low, she adds, “We would never do that to so many innocent people.”

She can tell she brought down the mood of the room, evidenced by Kravitz’s kind of awkward look as he clearly doesn’t know how to make her feel better. She can’t bring herself to care though. Maybe ignorance really is blissful, she was happiest she’s been in decades when all she knew was Raven’s Roost.

“Things like this are rarely intentional,” The Raven Queen says, her tone somber. “These objects, they are an affront to the nature of life and death. They are an insult to my domain.”

“You’re really good at cheering people up, you know that?” Julia deadpans, apathetically staring at her drink. Kravitz stares at her with wide eyes.

“I am saying this to ask: can you stop these objects from killing people?” The Raven Queen asks.

“I… imagine that we could. We’ve handled the Light so much that we are more or less immune to it’s craveability.”

“I’m sorry, ‘craveability?’” Kravtiz interjects. Julia nods, sipping her tea.

“So your living crewmates could put an end to these wars?” The Raven Queen asks.

“They’re the only ones who can,” Julia says.

The Raven Queen is silent for another moment. Then, “Until all Grand Relics are collected and disposed of, your family’s bounties will be called off.”

Julia sighs, relieved, and sags into her seat. Then sits back up. “But what will happen to me?”

“You cannot influence the Prime Material Plane anymore. You have the option of joining the astral sea, or lessening your family’s sentence by serving time yourself.”

“But their deaths are like mine. They didn’t escape the Astral Planes willingly and you technically can’t punish them.”

Kravitz looks at her like she’s walking into a volcano and expecting to live. She gets it, she knows she’s talking back to a goddess, but she doesn’t care.

“Lup Hallwinter and Sildar Hallwinter are liches, and they will be punished accordingly.”

“Just call them— ugh—” Julia huffs a sigh and sags into her chair in frustration. She puts her cup down and says, “They did it ethically, for the greater good. Lup and Barry were able to do so much good without death to stop them!”

“There is a reason death stops them. Everyone thinks they have a good reason to cross me.”

“You wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for them!” Julia shouts, standing. Kravitz stands too, scythe at the ready. Julia pays him no mind, pointing a finger at the queen. “You OWE them!”

The air is still. Kravitz is ready to strike at the queen’s order. Julia doesn’t give a shit. Goddess or not, she can’t act like she knows Barry and Lup enough to just declare their fates. Other liches? Yeah, they’re almost always corrupt and selfish, but what Lup and Barry did is selfless if anything.

“There is no point in arguing. Make your choice.”

Julia raises her chin defiantly. The same look she’s given corrupt warlords and wealthy industrialists, the look she’d give John if she met him rather than Merle. The queen is unmoving and Julia knows her effort is futile, at least now. She crosses her arms. “I’ll serve their sentence.”

“It’s decided then. Julia Burnsides, you will begin training as a Reaper, serving the sentences of Lup and Sildar Hallwinter. Reaper Kravitz, you will train her."

#REBLOGS > LIKES lol #taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #taz julia #balance #julia #txt #writing #8th bird julia #is my fave #i love her so much #and reaper julia!! the potential is delicious #life after death

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praesaepe · 4 years

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im just saying julia survives + kidfic would make for an excellent alternate balance plot

#rk.txt #just like... a series of one-shots maybe #not 8th bird julia tho 8th bird julia is good #its funny i didnt read taz fic while i was listening to taz/balance as it came out #but now im like. slurp.

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gladiates · 4 years

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175+ non-Western literature recommendations to diversify your academia, organized by continent + country

I love world literature, and I’ve been frustrated by the lack of representation of it in literature + academia communities on tumblr, so here are some recommendations. I haven’t read all of these myself yet, but the ones I have are excellent and the ones I haven’t come highly recommended from Goodreads and are on my to-read list!

With the exception of anthologies of older works, all of these books were written before 2000 (some literally thousands of years earlier), since I’m less familiar with super contemporary literature. Also, I only included each writer once, though many of them have multiple amazing books. I’m sure there are plenty of incredible books I’m missing, so please feel free to add on to this list! And countries that aren’t included absolutely have a lot to offer as well--usually, it was just hard to find books available in English translation (which all of the ones below are.)

List below the cut (it’s my first post with a cut so let’s hope I do it right... and also warning that it’s super long)

ASIA:

Bangladesh:

Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1929)

China:

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (6th century BCE)

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (5th century BCE)

The Analects by Confucius (circa 5th-4th century BCE?)

The Book of Chuang Tzu by Zhuangzi (4th century BCE)

Mencius by Mencius (3rd century BCE)

The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets (2nd century AD)

Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Po and Tu Fu (written 8th century AD)

Poems of Wang Wei (8th century AD)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (14th century AD)

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling (1740)

Dream of the Red Chamber by Xueqin Cao (1791)

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu (1809)

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun (1918)

Mr Ma and Son by Lao She (1929)

Family by Ba Jin (1933)

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (1943)

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-Tsit Chan (1963)

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan (1987)

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (1989)

The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature edited by Yunte Huang (anthology, 2016)

India:

The Rig Vega (1500-1200 BCE)

The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita (around 400 BCE but not known exactly. The Gita is part of the Mahabharata)

The Upanishads (REALLY wide date range)

The Dhammapada (3rd century BCE)

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nāgārjuna (2nd century AD)

The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kālidāsa (4th century AD)

The Way of the Bodhisattva by Santideva (700 AD)

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore (1910)

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar (1936)

The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru (1946)

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (1956)

A Source Book in Indian Philosophy by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Charles Alexander Moore (1957)

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1993)

Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present V: The Twentieth Century by Susie J. Tharu and K. Lalita (1993)

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1995)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1996)

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)

Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence (anthology, 2011)

Indonesia:

The Weaverbirds by Y.B. Mangunwijaya (1981)

Iran:

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (11th century AD)

The Essential Rumi by Rumi (13th century AD)

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (1936)

Savushun by Simin Daneshvar (1969)

My Uncle Napoleon by Iran Pezeshkzad (1973)

Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1979)

Iraq:

Fifteen Iraqi Poets edited by Dunya Mikhail (published 2013 but the poems are 20th century)

Japan:

The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (9th-10th century AD)

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (1002 AD)

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1008 AD)

The Tale of the Heike, unknown (12th century AD)

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse (not sure of year)

Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō (1332)

Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (1914)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (1948)

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1948)

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1948)

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima (1949)

Masks by Fumiko Enchi (1958)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (1962)

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe (1964)

Silence by Shūsaku Endō (1966)

Korea (written before the division into North/South):

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (written 1795-1805)

Lebanon:

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf (1988)

Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury (1998)

Pakistan:

We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry (1991)

The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1991)

The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry edited by Raza Mir (2014)

Palestine:

Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani (1963)

Orientalism by Edward Said (1978)

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (1997)

Mural by Mahmoud Darwish (2000, which technically breaks my rule by a year but it’s great)

Philippines:

Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal (1887)

Saudi Arabia:

Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif (1984)

Sri Lanka:

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai (1994)

Syria:

Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami (1989)

Taiwan:

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin (1996)

Turkey:

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (1998)

Vietnam:

Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong by Hô Xuân Huong (1801)

The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du (1820)

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (1988)

Miscellaneous Asia (country unclear or multiple current day countries):

The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 1800 BCE)

Myths from Mesopotamia translated by Stephanie Dailey

The Arabian Nights (as early as the 9th century AD, lots of changes over the years)

The Qur’an

AFRICA:

Algeria:

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar (1985)

The Bridges of Constantine by Ahlam Mosteghanemi (1993)

Cameroon:

Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono (1956)

Egypt:

The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940 - 1640 B.C. translated by R.B. Parkinson

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (1956)

The Sinners by Yusuf Idris (1959)

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (1975)

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (1999)

Ghana:

Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo (1977)

Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah (1979)

In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (1992)

Guinea:

The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye (1954)

Kenya:

A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thing'o (1994)

The River and the Source by Margaret A. Ogola (1995)

Libya:

The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni (1990)

Mali:

The Fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1973)

Nigeria:

The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola (1952)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

Efuru by Flora Nwapa (1966)

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (1979)

Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka (1981)

Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa (1985)

The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991)

Senegal:

God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène (1960)

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (1981)

Somalia:

Maps by Nuruddin Farah (1986)

South Africa:

When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head (1969)

Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele (1986)

Sudan:

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (1966)

Tunisia:

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi (1957)

Zimbabwe:

The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1978)

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)

Miscellaneous Africa:

The Granta Book of the African Short Story edited by Helon Habila (2011)

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier (1963)

AMERICAS:

Antigua and Barbuda:

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)

Argentina:

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (1944)

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (1963)

The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández (1967)

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (1976)

The Sixty-Five Years of Washington by Juan José Saer (1985)

How I Became a Nun by César Aira (1993)

Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo (2015 but written earlier)

Brazil:

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis (1900)

Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso (1959)

Dona Flor and her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado (1966)

Pedagagy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (1968)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977)

Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts by Rubem Fonseca (1988)

Chile:

The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso (1970)

Emergency Poems by Nicanor Parra (1972)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982)

Colombia:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

Cuba:

The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier (1949)

Cold Tales by Virgilio Piñera (1958)

Dominican Republic:

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1994)

Guatemala:

Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias (1949)

I, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú (1985)

Guadalupe (part of France but overseas):

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (1986)

Haiti:

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwige Danticat (1994)

Jamaica:

No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff (1987)

The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (1999)

Martinique (part of France but overseas):

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (1950)

Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961)

Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant (1997)

Mexico:

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (1955)

Aura by Carlos Fuentes (1962)

The Hole by José Revueltas (1969)

Underground River and Other Stories by Inés Arredondo (1979)

The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 by Octavio Paz (1987)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)

Nicaragua:

Azul by Rubén Darío (1888)

Peru:

The Cardboard House by Martín Adán (1928)

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (1962)

The Complete Poems by César Vallejo (1968)

St. Lucia:

Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)

Trinidad and Tobago:

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James (1938)

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (1961)

Uruguay:

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

Venezuela:

Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos (1929)

Indigenous Writers from Canada and the United States:

American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá (Dakota) (1921)

Winter in the Blood by James Welch (Blackfeet and A’aninin) (1974)

Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes (Chumash) (1982)

She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) (1982)

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (1984)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) (1986)

Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. (Dakota) (1988)

The Grass Dancer by Susan Power (Dakota) (1997)

Miscellaneous Americas:

And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America edited by Rosario Santos (1988)

Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real edited by Celia Correas de Zapata (2003)

Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature edited by Cristina García (2006)

#dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #academic #academia #academics #studyblr #litblr #reading #books #booklr #literature #world literature #poc literature #writers of color #bookworm #bookaddict

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ceilingfan5 · 3 years

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au: NPC from Farün as the 8th bird but it can't be the typical Angus or Kravitz, it's gotta be someone else. Julia, or Carey or Killian, or Johan, maybe Edward and Lydia?

what! about! avi!

credentials: i love him

1) davenport teaches him how to fly the starblaster and he's a pro even if he does scream way too often to instill confidence in his passengers

2) he never gets good at cooking anything but like. pub snacks. his cocktails are off tha chain tho

3) it would be mad fucking funny

4) i wanna see more of his soul

5) imagine the consequences. lucretia whatchu doin

#haha

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britishchick09 · 3 years

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the best and worst books i read in school!

ever since 5th grade, i’ve been reading novels in school. with the end of high school looming (and today being the last day of classes), i’ve decided to list the ultimate show stoppers and the bird droppers. let’s begin! :D

the best of 5th grade- maniac magee! i don’t remember much about it besides the twinkie things (which actually exist at walmart!) and shipping maniac and the girl character. my 5th grade teacher reading it made it so much better :D we also read ‘chains’, which is about a slave girl names isabel going to freedom. it’s a very powerful book and the sequel, ‘forge’, which is about a freed soldier boy named curzon, is just as amazing! ‘esperanza rising’, the story of a girl named esperanza who moves from mexico to california during the great depression, is pretty great too from what i remember!

the worst of 5th grade- idk what else we read in 5th grade besides those three (technically four) books. it could’ve been an iconic book year! (it was already an iconic school year)

the best of 6th grade- drums, girls and dangerous pies! it’s an interesting story of a high schooler named steve dealing with a crush and his little brother’s cancer, yet there’s actually a happy ending! the end is really iconic since steve says ‘i-’ to his brother jeff and it’s clearly ‘i love you’ but it cuts off! bonus points to ‘the cay’, a story of a boy named phillip who ends up on a raft with a man named timothy and a cat named stew cat. it’s a neat adventure and timothy saying ‘malar!’ is an earworm of a phrase

the worst of 6th grade- HOLY FRICK ‘THE HATCHET’ IS THE MOST BORING BOOK EVER WRITTEN!!! it’s about this kid who gets stranded in the forest and there’s this skunk pal, so you’d think it would be like ‘the cay’ BUT IT’S NOT IT’S SO FREAKING DULL OMG!!!! bonus points to ‘the gadget’ which starts out cool BUT THEN THE MAIN CHARACTER(also called steve!)’S FRIEND ALEXI TURNS OUT TO BE A SPY AND TRIES STABBING HIM LIKE WOAH THESE KIDS ARE ELEVEN YEARS OLD STOP DOING THAT WTF!!!! if you thought the double digit chapter was bad... oh boy! also ‘boy in the striped pajamas’ was good but very depressing! :(

the best of 7th grade- tom sawyer! this is about a boy and his southern adventures. it was a great story, but the movie is one of my fave live action movies ever!! they say the book is better than the movie but the movie is miles better and it’s so cute!!! bonus points to ‘the giver’, which is about a boy named jonas who meets an old man who shows him life in a better world (and there’s a baby). jonas and the giver were very sweet together and i love how jonas and the baby escape their dystopian society at the end!

the worst of 7th grade- call of the wild! it’s about a sled dog named buck who goes on a wild adventure in the arctic. it’s not a bad book, but the movie was so cheesy and it focused on the humans WHY THO???

the best of 8th grade- the outsiders! it’s about a greaser named ponyboy who runs away with his friend johnny after johnnycake kills a soc named bob. pb and the other greasers were such great characters and the story was so interesting! i also liked how the story is set in tulsa, where my grandpa lived. the outsiders fandom is a lot of fun and i’m so glad the story became one of my faves! :D bonus points go to ‘the diary of anne frank’, which we only read the play, so i sought out the whole book and wow anne’s story is so tragic and inspiring! more bonus points to ‘the good earth’, which is about a man in china and has an awesome movie to it (despite having white actors) and ‘twelfth night’, which is a funny shakespeare play about a girl named viola who disguses herself as a man named cesario. it’s full of romance, laughter and a hot feste singing voice (in the 1987 audiobook at least). and olivia is definitely bi ;)

the worst of 8th grade- animal farm! it’s about an orwell dystopian society (hmm...) but in a barn with animals. it’s not bad, but many of the animals were jerks except old major and the 1999 movie we watched was so cringy! (and the beasts of england song was changed which wasn’t cool)

the best of 9th grade- the odyssey! it’s the ancient greek story of odysseus, a soldier who goes on an epic adventure to get home. the book was alright, but the movie was awesome and the movie ‘o brother where art thou’ (which is based on the story) is really great too! harrison burgeron, a dystopian society with a bad boi, was awesome too because i remember seeing the short film of it in 7th grade. ‘to kill a mockingbird’, which is about a girl named scout living in the segregated south, is really great as well! i loved how it was set in the 30s and scout was so much fun! (i’m a bit bummed at how we didn’t get to see the movie tho). ‘romeo and juliet’ is shakespeare’s most iconic work, being a tale of two star crossed lovers in fair verona. i really enjoyed the story(not the d jokes tho) and it inspired me to write a story set in 1596 (when the play was made)! i take back what i said about 5th grade being iconic 9TH GRADE WAS SO ICONIC YAS!!!!!

the worst of 9th grade- the scarlet ibis! it’s about a boy who takes care of his sick brother named doobie and tries to make him ‘normal’. it’s sweet how the iris symbolizes the brother, but how they die at the end is so sad! ‘the sniper’ wasn’t that good but the plot twist of the sniper guy shooting his brother was neat (also the ‘romeo + juliet’ movie wasn’t that good besides mercutio)

the best of 10th grade- a thousand splendid suns! the most recent book i’ve read, it’s about two women named mariam and laila who live in the afghanistan as the taliban take over. their story is so inspiring and i love how laila was able to be happy after all the horrifying things she went through with rasheed. mariam sacrificing herself for laila by killing rasheed was very powerful and i wish the stage version had her in it. bonus points go to ‘lord of the flies’! a group of boys are stranded on an island and there’s much boy chaos involved. it’s a great story and the fandom was too!

the worst of 10th grade- where are you going where have you been! this is about a girl named colleen who meets a guy named arnold friend. he’s very creepy and it’s an uncomfortable story to read (even more than rasheed!). equal bonus points to ‘the red bow’, a confusing story of a dead girl, a dog and red bows that i still don’t understand!

the best of 11th grade- the crucible! it’s about a girl named abigail who gets swept up in the salam witch trials. it’s a fascinating story with real life elements (rip giles) and the movie was pretty good. ‘the great gatsby’ was also a great story about how the roaring 20s wasn’t as fun as it seemed through the story of gatsby, all told through the eyes of nick

the worst of 11th grade- into the wild! this is a study sync thing, but we did a lot of those compared to novels. it’s about chris mccandles, a guy who tried surviving in a van in alaska and died, making a terribly tragic tale. ‘an incident at owl creek’ was ok but the best part was the plot twist of the guy running to his wife and being hung right before he can touch her (we saw the twilight zone ep instead of reading it and the twist was *chef’s kiss*)

the best of 12th grade- 1984!!! it’s the story of a dreamer named winston, who lives in the dystopian world of oceania. he meets a girl named julia and the two have a secret love affair, but they soon find out that no one is safe under the eye of bb. it’s terrifying tale that’s a bit depressing, but there are so many little moments that make me smile and the movie is even better. winston is relatable in some ways, julia is awesome and julston is a pretty great ship! it’s a big improvement over animal farm and it’s definitely my favorite adult story. bonus points go to ‘rime of the ancient mariner’, which is about an old sailor recounting his unfortunate journey at sea. the mariner telling his story to a random wedding guest was funny and it was an adventure like the odyssey! another round of bonus points to ‘beowulf’, an ancient norse tale of a warrior who fights a monster named grendel. the parts of the 2007 movie we saw sucked, but the story was really cool! wiglaf gets a shout out because he’s the best warrior :) another half bonus point to ‘hunger games’, which we saw the movie of. it’s about a girl named katniss who competes in a competition called the hunger games, which makes for a thrilling adventure!

the worst of 12th grade- hamlet! all of what we read this year was really good, but someone had to be last. this shakespearean tale is of hamlet, a prince who seeks revenge >:) it’s an ok story and i like the ghost dad!

now for my all time favorites! (and least faves)

the worst of the worst- the hatchet, the red bow, where are you going where have you been and the gadget

the best of the best!- 1984, the outsiders, a thousand splendid suns, the diary of anne frank, the odyssey, romeo and juliet, to kill a mockingbird, twelfth night, harrison burgeron, rime of the ancient mariner and the good earth (along with the tom sawyer/1984 movies and hunger games)

good or bad, the books i read throughout school were amazing and i can’t wait to see what college brings! :D

#what a trip down memory lane this was!#so many great stories! :D

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umbraastaff · 5 years

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I’ve just been thinking--it’s about time I make a proper index for my TAZ fics, huh? Also contains: mini-series, ficlets, goof posts, and lyric comics.

(All of the fics are rated G, or T at most for McElroy-appropriate language.)

FICS

I Saw Seven Bounties | Canon Compliant, Enemies to Friends, Complete | Mostly lighthearted, episodic recounting of Kravitz and Barry’s rivalry throughout those first twelve years on Faerun. 24K. -->Extras: Lich Eyes, Fantasy Starbucks, Alt POV for Chapter 1 & Chapter 5, Sorry

They Say Fire Took Phandalin | Small-town supernatural/sorta-haunted-house AU | Fresh out of grad school, Barry Bluejeans takes a job and a house in the rural nowhere-town of Phandalin. And it’s not like he thought fitting in would be a walk in the park, but the people there all act really weird, and it’s almost like they’re expecting something of him, too. 11K/~20K.

What Can’t Be Done Alone (Detective Squad) | Canon Divergent, Found Family, Fluff | AU where the voidfish works a little better, and Angus never finds the Bureau. Instead, he finds a strange lich in a cave, and he most certainly continues to work this case and not gradually get adopted instead. 18K/~22K. -->Extras: Drangus AU Oneshot

If I Wanted to be Funny I’d Name This Fic “The Time Belt” | Futuristic sci-fi AU feat. time travel | Taako meets the only people in years who recognize the Institute’s name. Known time criminal Barry Bluejeans continues to evade law enforcement. 2K/??.

Overgrowth / Undercurrent | Roleswap AU, Johnchurch, Pining, Twoshot, Happy ending optional | Overgrowth is a oneshot that follows John, the Starblaster’s chief diplomat, through a series of parleys with Merle, the center of the plane-consuming mass of plants that’s been chasing his crew. Undercurrent is a sequel about their post-canon reunion. 4K + 6K. --> Extras: PLAYLIST by @merle-casts-zone-of-truth

Davenport Remembers | Post-canon, Oneshot | Davenport meets with his crew members to try to reconcile his anger with Lucretia, or to decide whether he should. 1.5K.

MINI-SERIES

AU Where Taako is a Lich - Pretty much what it says on the tin here, folks!

Baritz (ask series) - A fusion of Barry and Kravitz, who took over my blog and answered asks for a while. (He originated in the Gallows/S&S lyric comic.)

Good Adventures (Good Omens crossover) - The Antichrist’s wishes summon the wrong boatful of aliens. Thankfully, it seems they’re apocalypse experts. [with plot-ideas help from @avijohann.]

Omen Zone (Good Omens crossover 2) - Barry is a demon. Kravitz is an angel. Kravitz probably won’t ever admit that they’re friends.

Pokémon: Century Version (Pokémon crossover) - Stolen Century AU where they’re all pokémon trainers. Faerun spin-off: Double Trouble

Till Death, Don’t Let’s Start - Barry fucks up. Kravitz is present.

Very Normal Blog Posts (ask series) - In which Garfield is not at all dangerous, and I am perfectly fine. <alt: chronological link - desktop only>

COMICS & ART

Gallows/Steady and Stronger (Double lyric comic) - Canon-divergent AU where, as the world is ending, Barry gives up to Kravitz. [Image description version]

[Lyric Comics] - Other, shorter lyric comics based on single verses of songs.

Dear Scientist’s Log (series) - Illustrated ship logs from Barry J. Bluejeans.

Movie Madness (Comic) - Barry obsesses over the unforgivable.

Palette Prompts (Arts) - Art from art meme prompts.

Pregananant (goof comic) - You know the one.

REAPER (Comic) - Baritz fuses with Lup.

These Jeans? (Animatic) - Barry advertises jeans.

They’re Both Tessa Thompson (Comic) - Lucretia has a nightmare. Barry reassures her.

War (Goof comic) - prompt: "taakitz with CAT”

What’s bigger than this? - The Red Robe.

FICLETS

Back Soon - Kravitz leaves a note with unfortunate wording.

Bodyswap: Barry & Davenport - During Wonderland.

Casual - AU where the red robe talks like a normal person.

Command - Barry misuses his magic.

Davenport - There’s something unsettling about that butler.

Hangin’ Out - Lup and Magnus.

Harvest - Roleswap AU: Barry is the Hunger.

Healing Necromancy - Merle tries to teach Barry some tricks.

Hope - Barry knows she’s still out there.

How Long? - Taako is frustrated.

In Pieces - The staff.

Liches Forget Too - AU.

Lucretia Forgets - In which there was a mistake with the voidfish ichor.

Lup’s Robe - Gifts from Taako.

Mourning Glories - The flowers in Merle’s beard.

New Years - Celebrations and fears.

Parole - Barry and Kravitz bonding hours.

Phone a Friend - Baritz (the fusion from Gallows/S&S) meets Angus.

Raising the Dead - Barry has to use his crew members’ corpses. [sequel]

Robbie...? - Magnus breaks into the brig immediately after Petals to the Metal.

Second Apocalypse - Based on that one party liveshow. What was the rest of the crew doing, again?

3 Sentence Fics - Pairing + AU prompts.

Smartstone - Lup gets stuck in a Stone of Far Speech, instead.

Stir Crazy - Barry waiting for a new body to grow. Thoughts of Lucretia.

Writing Things Down - In case you forget (again).

You Remember - Taako remembers.

PROMINENT GOOFS

Barry’s Dead - But he’s fine! Calm down!

Character Development - Joke’s on you, DM!

Crystal Kingdom - An absolutely bonkers arc.

Dealer - Merle pun.

Decapitate Me - for making this post

Don’t Care - Taako during the finale. [bonus]

Epilogue - Bracer struggles. [bonus: 1, 2]

Explain the Hunger (Good Omens crossover) - Magnus explains the hunger to Aziraphale and Crowley. They react in varying ways. [with cursed art contributions from @avijohann and @mspainttaz]

Fifteen Dollars - Plus interest. [Bonus]

Fullmetal Kingdom - They’re the same, right?

Gender - And lack of roles.

Gnomes Don’t Exist - They’re all aliens, actually.

Hot Diggity Shit - Been a while.

Icon Confusion - The saga of people thinking my icon is a carrot. [chrono link - desktop only]

Incomprehensible Denim - Jeff Angel’s illegal pants.

In Case it Changes Anything - Taako, Kravitz, and lies.

Irresponsible Teens - Magnus and Lucretia get into trouble.

I Saw Seven Nerds - That’s the post.

Gogurt - Taako’s crimes.

Learning to Drive - i.e. Barry & Davenport Bonding(?) Hours.

Live Shows - The general mood.

Lucretia’s Efforts - A proper meme? On my TAZ blog?

Lup Said No Thanks - That time Magnus was in a tree.

Magnus’ Death - So many close calls.

Nearest Middle-Aged Woman - Clint’s characters’ friends.

Necromancy? - You must be mistaken!

Ned’s Aliases - The Truth.

Pirate Debt - Davenport during that one liveshow.

Punch Squad - SQUAD!

Reaper Cloak - Thoughts.

Relic Names - She probably changed them.

Responsible Necromancy - Good and bad ideas.

Resume - It’s not like they thought it would be relevant.

Schools of Magic - And the Sash was what, again?

Self Care - Respect the dead, please.

Server Shenaniganry (art) - TAAKO THE CAT, NO!

Soulmate AU - Where your soulmate’s greatest enemy is on your wrist. [alt]

Stern’s Truth - You Know.

Taako’s Last Name - Taako’s last name.

Team Composition - The post where everyone wants to argue with me about what qualifies as a wizard.

Third Option - Taako saves the day.

You’re Laughing - End of Suffering Game.

THEORIES/MECHANICS/THOUGHTS

Aloof - Holes Taako refuses to fill.

Barry’s Lucky Possessee - Graphic novel theory hopes & dreams.

Catpiling - Stolen Century thought.

Davenport’s Deaths - Sucks when you always wake up driving.

Death Leaves a Mark - Stolen Century AU concept.

Everyone Else - Some people didn’t get perfect endings.

Fantasy Nonsense - lore about the word “fantasy,” as in “Jesus Fantasy Christ.”

Fragments - Magnus’ memory.

Forgiveness - Old post about the crew’s thoughts on Lucretia’s actions.

Forgot to Erase - Lucretia’s errors.

FULL TIMELINE POST - the Balance timeline.

Gauntlet - (disproven!) Theory about the final relic, from before it was confirmed in the show.

Gnome Nicknames - Thoughts on Cap’nport.

High School AU - Some old headcanons.

Home World Names - The pattern in surnames (or lack thereof) on the IPRE’s homeworld.

Hour - This isn’t a thought so much as an Actual Thing That Magnus Said before the time loops had started, which is absurd.

Idiots in Love - The IPRE’s collective braincell was lost for all of Legato. [2]

Liches, Alone - Being stuck as raw emotion for an awfully long time.

Losing Julia - And subsequent developments.

Love - What was remembered and forgotten.

Love Without Fear - Thoughts on bonds during the Stolen Century.

Memory - Barry actually shouldn’t have remembered anything.

Nickname - Memory of Lup.

Paladin Barry Theory - Converging evidence on Barry’s multiclassing.

Paradox AU - blueprint for 8th, 9th, 10th, etc. Bird AU of your choice(s). (Extra)

Phylactery Mechanics - How liches differ.

Produce Flame - Mechanics of John killing Merle.

Recklessness - THB’s actions recontextualized.

Relic Schools of Magic - They don’t have them!!!

Relicswap AU - Where all the birds get swapped out.

Seven Birds as Gods - Ask-prompt thoughts.

Staring at the Sun - The birds and their light sensitivity.

Story, Song, & Sorcery - Effects on the young population.

Sword Tornado - Magnus Mechanics. [bonus: Time Warlock]

The Good Place AU - A series of crossover thoughts.

Tree Climbing - Davenport shenanigans.

Unique Magic Types - [and combo styles]

What Killed Maureen - hint: it wasn’t Fisher.

#the adventure zone #taz balance #mine #index #there were a fair few in here that id forgotten about too!#god i hope i didnt mess up any of these links

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julwind-blog · 5 years

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can you believe?

yeet friends, it is i, bianca, the one and only mess behind julia choi !! it’s my first time in here and i’m very excited !! i have most of her needed pages up which is unusual of me so i hope you’re all proud. you can find her profile page here as well as a longer biography here !! if you’d like to find me somewhere else, though, you can contact me on twitter as @/luvseungjoon or on discord as ilovecheese#0028 !! i’ll give you some info about her below though so feel free to just click below on the read more to get to know her a bit better !! thank you for the attention !!

born as a muggle in liverpool, england, in 1999. currently an 8th-year gryffindor.

always loved to run and practice sports ( mostly soccer )

[ tw car accident / amputation ] got into an accident which resulted in her damaging her right leg severely, leading to it needing amputation up to above her knee. she uses a metal prosthesis.

got her dreams back after being invited to hogwarts in the form of quidditch !! big big fan honestly heart eyes mode.

is still a bit insecure about her leg so she’s always wearing pants, even when below skirts. close friends get to draw on it, though.

cries very easily but not only out of sadness. cute bird? good food? very bad movie? leave it to her.

very adventurous and impulsive. she also gets very excited very quickly and starts speaking quicker. overall just very energetic and rarely spends too much time in the same place.

smart without trying. studious people probably hate her for her good grades.

often acts offended over purebloods not understanding her muggle references.

very easily falls for pranks. pls. torture her.

PLOTS !!

marked with ** were taken from here (aka her plot page) so check it out for more info! there are also other ones there i didn’t bother adding here bc i’m mess!

**ex-boyfriend. started dating just because they were close friends and thought it’d be a good idea. broke up amicably and are still friends. the problem is julia still has feelings for him but will never say it.

**quidditch rivals. she’s gonna be the very best. except you want to be the very best as well.

anyone who catches her crying only to find out it was over something ridiculous.

friends who always fight over her not ever calming down.

friends who are always just as energetic as she is.

quidditch fans!!!!

people who have her as their favorite prank target.

anything!!!! come plot with me!

#. * ✧ out of me

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evoldir · 3 years

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Fwd: Graduate position: ImperialCollege_London.StressFitnessConsequences

Begin forwarded message: > From: [email protected] > Subject: Graduate position: ImperialCollege_London.StressFitnessConsequences > Date: 3 January 2016 at 06:32:33 GMT > To: [email protected] > > > > PhDStudentship advertised at Imperial College London, Silwood Park > campus, UK > > On:Trans-generational fitness consequences of chronic stress induced by > global change > > Supervisors:Dr Julia Schroeder (Imperial College London) and Prof Terry > Burke (University of Sheffield) > > Applicationdeadline: 10 January 2016 > . > > Projectdescription: > Human-inducedglobal changes impose chronic environmental stress on ever > more natural populations. The physiological symptoms of chronic stress are > changes in hormone levels that can lead to stunted growth and increased > risk of infection. Furthermore, the physiological mechanisms invoked > by stressed are similar to those in ageing individuals. Recent studies > suggest that chronic stress can lead to faster senescence (measured in > telomere shortening rates), not only in affected individuals but also in > their offspring. What are the trans-generational fitness consequences of a > chronic stress response, and how is it adaptive? Stress could "prime" > offspring to enable them to endure stressful conditions in the future, by > a "life-fast die-young" trade-off. This projects tests the hypothesis > that chronic stress primes the next generation. To test this, we make > opportunistic use of an exceptionally well suited long-term "natural > experiment" in wild passerines and supplement statistical analyses on > existing long-term data with focused experiments on captive birds. > > Theaim of this study is to quantify the fitness consequences of chronic > stress to gain a better understanding of the long-term fitness costs > and benefits of chronic stress in a wild population the consequences for > population viability. The student will utilise a unique long-term study > of a wild passerine population. The precise direction and emphasis of the > project will be determined by collaboration between the student and the > supervisors. Nextto the traditional academic skills, the student will > also learn and improve key skills such as state-of-the-art statistical > modelling, data management, experimental design and field work. The > student can expect to receive exceptional training in state-of-the-art > analytical methodology, as well as benefitting from a well established > and rewarding field project. > > ImperialCollege London is a world leading university; it has been > Ranked 3rd in Europe and 8th in the world by the Time Higher Education > Rankings 2015-16. The student will be based at the Silwood Park campus > which has a large > graduate student community, with internationally renowned researchers. > > Thefunding for this post is covered by an SSCP DTP-NERC studentship, > and covers home fees and a stipend for 3.5 years. Applicants, > who must be residents of the EU OR have been กordinarily > residentข in the UK for 3 years prior to the start of the > studentship, must have an outstanding honours degree, a masters > degree, or equivalent, in a relevant subject, should complete an > online application, upload a supporting statement explaining why they > want to pursue this PhD (maximum 1 page), their CV, and 2 references, at: > https://ift.tt/3E1yGcT > Anyenquiries about the project should be directed to: > > DrJulia Schroeder [email protected] > > > [email protected] > via IFTTT

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remainsingrey · 6 years

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Anyone have 8th bird Julia headcanons?

#julia burnsides #taz balance

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liltaz-asatreat · 1 year

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30?

ao3 wrapped questions here!! <- send some in? :D

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

I think it's a toss up between writing fewer fics overall in the entirety of this year than I did in the half of a year I wrote during last year and actually starting my long term wip Double Troubles lol

I got really disheartened by the fact that it looked like I was writing less this year, especially since I haven't really been doing anything else like I should have been doing, but then I remembered that for most of the year, I've been focusing on Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore and then also Double Troubles for a short stint when I decided to write down my thought and some scenes for that. I haven't actually checked to see how much I've written this year that I just haven't published, so it could very well be way more than last year, but I honestly have no idea yet lol

And as for starting Double Troubles, it was at first a not very well fleshed out daydream I had for a long a while that I kind of slowly put aside that I never thought was going to get written down, let alone seen by other people, because I didn't think there would be an audience for an OC 8th bird fic and the OC is a self insert and the whole mortifying ordeal of being known and whatever, but @institute-of-planar-shitposts is writing her self insert OC 8th bird fic and shared a lot of her ideas and stuff with me and on tumblr (which you can find under my "Sunshine tag! :D" and idr if Sunny tagged her Sunshine posts with a specific tag, but you can find more information about her in her pinned post) and I thought it was really fun and cool, and she seemed to be having a lot of fun with it, and I thought the whole concept of Meadow was a really cool idea that I didn't really want to just leave to oblivion, so I told Sunny about it, and she encouraged me to write it, so now it's a thing! lol

Oh! I should also just mention this here since I brought it up, and I think you probably don't know much about either, you can find more information and passages I've shared for Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore and Double Troubles under the tags "Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore" and "Double Troubles"

I need to update my pinned post promoting those tags and other frequently used tags that could be helpful for people looking for specific content lol

#Thank you for sending this in!! :D #ask game

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comradelup · 4 years

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julia Burnsides/Magnus Burnsides, Julia Burnsides & Kravitz Characters: Julia Burnsides, Kravitz (The Adventure Zone) Additional Tags: Reaper Julia Burnsides, Eighth Bird Julia Burnsides, Canonical Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-typical swearing, (how is that not a tag...), Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

Julia would never describe death as enlightening. Quite the opposite, actually. Maybe… endarkening…. Point is, she never knew death until she died.

In which Julia learns of where she really came from, and who her family really is. Now she's going to save them, and the rest of the multiverse.

[💖 reblogs > likes 💖]

#new chapter!!!!! also i totally didnt repost this after the link messed up!#taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #balance #julia #8th bird julia #txt #writing #life after death

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amazingdancetalent · 6 years

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KAR Mesa, AZ Results (Nov. 2017)

Top Primary Solo 8 & Under

1st - Ellie Smith, “What Once Was”, Club Dance

4th - Makena Erickson, “Moon”, Club Dance

7th - Sydney Kelly, “Forever Young”, Club Dance

10th - Berkeley Haak, “Popular”, Club Dance

12th - Madyson Barney, “In Lights”, Club Dance

13th - Brinklee Grako, “What a Wonderful World”, Club Dance

Top Primary Solo 9-11

7th - Bella Fernandez, “Stargazing”, Club Dance

12th - Kanon Greer, “Rebuilding”, Club Dance

15th - Sayler Conover, “Imagination”, Club Dance

Top Primary Solo 12-14

4th - Kambria Greer, “Strange Birds”, Club Dance

Top Secondary Solo 9-11

2nd - Brooklynn Jones, “Meadow”, Club Dance

5th - Addison Jones, “Delicate”, Club Dance

7th - Brooke Washburn, “Slither”, Dance Republic

Top Intermediate Solo 9-11

2nd - Mariah Humphrey, “What the World Needs Now”, The Element Dance Center

3rd - Chloe Slone, “Nuvole”, Club Dance

Top Intermediate Solo 12-14

1st - Kaya Walsh, “Undertow”, Club Dance

11th - Julia Cooper, “Rejection”, Club Dance

15th - Mariah Porter, “Shallows”, Club Dance

Top Elite Solo 15-19

2nd - Kendall Wheeler, “Variation from Paquita”, Arizona School of Classical Ballet

5th - Lexee Crandall, “Affliction”, Club Dance

Miss Petite Dance

5th Runner-Up - Sydney Kelly, “Forever Young”, Club Dance

Miss Junior Dance

1st Runner-Up - Brooklynn Jones, “Meadow”, Club Dance

2nd Runner-Up - Mariah Humphrey, “What the World Needs Now”, The Element Dance Center

5th Runner-Up - Addison Jones, “Delicate”, Club Dance

7th Runner-Up - Brooke Washburn, “Slither”, Dance Republic

8th Runner-Up - Chloe Slone, “Nuvole”, Club Dance

Miss Dance

Winner - Lexee Crandall, “Affliction”, Club Dance

2nd Runner-Up - Greysenne Garrison, “Finding Strength”, Club Dance

NYC All Star Invitation

Primary Solo - Kanon Greer, “Rebuilding”, Club Dance

Intermediate Solo/Duet/Trio - Julia Cooper, “Rejection”, Club Dance

Australia All Star Invitation

Intermediate - Kaya Walsh, “Undertow”, Club Dance

HDI All Star Invitiation

Elite Solo - Lexee Crandall, “Affliction”, Club Dance

Scholarship - Berkeley Haak, “Popular”, Club Dance

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plvntstrong · 7 years

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03.08.17 since i'm boarding my last of nine flights in the past month, and i had this insanely beautiful sunset to watch on the 8th, i thought i'd write a nice lil' list of happy moments that i want to remember. one, because why not spread some love, and two, because i am kind of wishing i was just starting this trip and not ending it. anyways.. -listening to the beach boys while driving across the big island of hawaii...there's something unreal about it. it's like i never really heard/understood their music until i listened to it in this setting. i totally cried. -realizing that we could see an insane amount of stars and the friggin' milky way from our air bnb in sedona, then naturally making some tea and stargazing for a solid two hours in the backyard. -the freaky way julia and i say and think the exact same things 24/7 and how we only truly realized that in seattle. it feels nice to share the planet with someone you've known for so long and somehow still don't hate. -when cait, mackay and i cast a binding spell on donald trump while drinking wine my first night in hawaii. it was so ridiculously stupid and funny, yet completely normal. i love you cait. -speaking of hawaii, almost getting a federal citation for walking too close to a lava waterfall. then getting drunk after. and eating two pizzas. and talking about life with derek. -spending the afternoon at the laughing goat in boulder, writing and people watching and hitting strangers with my massive fuckin backpack. colorado was lonely and a major adjustment back to travel, but holy hell, did it wake me up. and i am so thankful for that. i'd been sleeping for way too long. -walking out of the mediterranean restaurant in seattle after watching a movie because we were tired and seeing a ray of sunlight hitting a building...then, naturally, following it all the way down to the pier and watching the sun set and taking dumb photos. -talking with laura in bird on a wire, drinking coffee, and feeling totally seen and loved. magic. -seeing the stars on my flight to hawaii. -learning to roller blade, then getting way too excited when a song from san junipero came on and trying to dance and inevitably falling and fracturing my elbow. painful experience, but remembered with love. i tapped into a feeling of simplicity and love that i thought i'd lost, and now that it's back...i don't ever want to be without it again. travel won't cure, but it will reveal. and sometimes that's all you need.

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doubleattitude · 3 years

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24/7 Dance Convention, Denver, CO: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

Sidekick Solo

1st: Sylvie Win Szyndlar-’Rainbow Connection’

2nd: Ellie Jo Sprague-’Dream A Little Dream’

3rd: Sawyer Pegram-’Born to Entertain’

4th: Emilyne Jordan-’I’m A Lady’

4th: Naomi Harper-’Speechless’

5th: Rilynn St. Clair-’In Love With A Monster’

6th: Hazel Bar-Av Farmer-’I’m A Lady’

7th: Emeri Oliverson-’Wake Me Up’

8th: Miyah Greenlaw-’Lips Are Movin’

Mini Solo

1st: Ellary Day Szyndlar-’Light Gathers’

2nd: Khloe Mroz-’Once Upon A December’

2nd: Ruby Arnold-’Winter’

3rd: Ashton Wullbrandt-’Risk’

4th: London Smith-’Feel My Love’

5th: Brooklyn Ward-’Here I Am’

5th: Raegan Grell-’Reflection’

6th: Breyer Perry-’Enchanted’

7th: Lulu Collaku-’Beautiful Thing’

7th: Kenadie Martin-’Burnin Up’

7th: Shaylynn Burke-’Lost Song’

7th: Julia Giullian-’Not About Angels’

7th: Cornelius Moffitt-’So Playa’

8th: Lauren Dieken-’Dare’

9th: Addison Pitt-’Expensive’

9th: Tryleigh Brendle-’Got It In’

9th: Grace Blakely-’Kick In The Head’

10th: Madelyn Klipfel-’Annie’

10th: Hadley Rathbun-’Edenweiss’

10th: Violet Benton-’Esmeralda’

10th: Kierrah Zander-’Gimmie That’

10th: Gloria Anderson-’Walk The Line’

Junior Solo

1st: Livia Bonnie-’The Absense of You’

2nd: Mariandrea Villegas-’Black Cat’

2nd: Hayley Marshall-’Ink’

3rd: Morgan Foged-’Rapture’

3rd: Tessa Marr-’Stuk’

3rd: Kylie Carter-’The LOOK’

4th: Evie Richard-’Symbol’

4th: Alegra Post-’What If Birds Are Screaming’

5th: Koa Zaugg-’Enter One’

5th: Hailey Jacobson-’Rosalyn’

6th: Gabrielle Elliott-’The Live Experience’

7th: Avery Cannon-’Just Breath’

7th: Brinklee Budge-’Rescue’

7th: Berkeley Bradford-’Sophisticated’

8th: Audrey Perkes-’Applause’

9th: Lexie Lueckeman-’Attitude’

9th: Marius Moffitt-’The Way You Make Me Feel’

10th: Addyson Stucki-’Automation’

10th: Robbie Lenz-’Piano Man’

10th: Berkley Pegram-’You Are The Reason’

Teen Solo

1st: Sofia Andrus-’Numb’

1st: Brielle McCoy-’Twist’

2nd: Lola Iglesias-’Letters from a Traveler’

3rd: Maya Howard-’Telehumo’

3rd: Grace Fry-’What Can I Do?’

4th: Macy Orvis-’Look At Me’

4th: Devon Stutz-’No End to New Memories’

4th: Faith Stoner-’Solids’

4th: Marissa Baker-’The Wheel’

5th: Sophie Tomes-’After He’s Gone’

5th: Phoenix Decker-’Runaround Sue’

5th: Ariana Cunningham-’Touch’

6th: Natalee Burbidge-’Broken Bird’

6th: Abbey Schmidt-’Letters Make No Meaning’

6th: Caitlin Colohan-’Samedi’

6th: Samantha Brock-’Shelter’

7th: Eliane Dean-’Both Sides of the Moon’

7th: Tabor Pegram-’Roll Back’

8th: Campbell Johnson-’Clockworks’

8th: Whitney Tomes-’Don’t You Hate It When’

8th: Taryn Harrah-’Journey of You’

9th: Mackenzie Edelstein-’Medora Variation from Le Corsaire’

9th: Avery Pratt-’Volcano’

10th: Emma Broome-’Death’

10th: Isabella Lopez-’Forever Lullaby’

10th: Baylee Robinson-’When I’m Alone’

Senior Solo

1st: Madi Autry-’A Face I Used to Know’

1st: Mia Maxwell-’Being Alive’

2nd: Brianna Haith-’Alarm’

2nd: Kamryn Funk-’Do Ya?’

2nd: Liesl Brauch-’Grower’

3rd: Maycee Budge-’Footprints’

3rd: Kelsey Keenan-’Hidden Myth’

3rd: Jonah Tran-’?’

4th: Charley Teltschik-’I’m The Bad Guy’

4th: Bronson Dahmer-’Now and Always Here’

4th: Erika Marshall-’Power Throw’

5th: Charlie Macdonald-’Change Gonna Come’

5th: Fatu Martin-’Eden’

5th: Quinn Davis-’Like’

5th: Chloe Terlingen-’No Drums’

5th: Josie Fillmore-’Snowing’

6th: Peyton Winsett-’Distortion’

6th: Joey Armijo-’I Can Mend Your Broken Heart’

6th: Maddie Jeffers-’Punished’

7th: Maggie Oulianova-’Past, Present & Future’

7th: Kendall Schmidt-’Take Me To The River’

8th: Harley Butler-’Defeated Clown’

8th: Dylan Johnston-’Heavenly Day’

9th: Amanda Draney-’Long Is The Day’

9th: Annie Cellar-’Psalm’

10th: Mia Ciotti-’Exile’

10th: Ellie Hoffman-’In The Life of A Rose’

10th: Taya Johnson-’Salem’

10th: Sophia Price-’Shahmaran’

10th: Trip Babcock-’Slip’

Sidekick Duo/Trio

1st: Empire Dance Academy-’Footprints’

2nd: Kemper Dance Academy-’Walking on Sunshine’

3rd: Kemper Dance Academy-’Rainbow’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: Kemper Dance Academy-’I Put A Spell On You’

1st: The PEAK School of Dance-’Kitri’s Friends’

1st: Kemper Dance Academy-’Move’

2nd: The PEAK School of Dance-’Spice Up Your Life’

3rd: Eagle Rock Dance-’Not About You’

3rd: Eagle Rock Dance-’Something New’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: True Dance and Company-’Starry Night’

2nd: Premier Dance-’Over The Rainbow’

3rd: Eagle Rock Dance-’Woman Be Wise’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: Kemper Dance Academy-’Sing’

2nd: True Dance and Company-’Human’

2nd: Kemper Dance Academy-’Plans We Made’

3rd: Kemper Dance Academy-’Where Were From’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: Studio 444 Performing Arts Academy-’Another Life’

2nd: Kemper Dance Academy-’Hangin’

Sidekick Group

1st: Eagle Rock Dance-’House of Holbein’

2nd: Eagle Rock Dance-’G Slide’

3rd: Eagle Rock Dance-’Prayer’

Mini Group

1st: True Dance and Company-’Doors Are Closing’

1st: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Juice’

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Rain’

2nd: True Dance and Company-’Fly’

3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Pretend’

Junior Group

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Ice Age’

2nd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Tambourine’

3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Blind Dance’

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Mini Line

1st: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Out of Bounds’

2nd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Keep Climbing’

2nd: True Dance and Company-’Mint Chocolate Chip’

3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Sandra Dee’

Junior Line

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Back For More’

1st: True Dance and Company-’Final Moments’

2nd: Sweatshop-’The Sun Will Rise’

3rd: Sweatshop-’Comin In Hot’

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Mini Extended Line

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Sleeping Beauty’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Divas, Queens and Bees’

2nd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Ooh Child’

3rd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Flood of Everything’

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Junior Production

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Step In Time’

2nd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Let’s Dance’

Teen Production

1st: Kemper Dance Academy-’Flawless’

High Scores by Performance Division:

Sidekick Hip-Hop

1st: Eagle Rock Dance-’G Slide’

Sidekick Lyrical

1st: Eagle Rock Dance-’Prayer’

Sidekick Musical Theatre

Eagle Rock Dance-’House of Holbein’

Mini Jazz

1st: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Juice’ 2nd: True Dance and Company-’Business of Love’ 3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Sandra Dee’

Mini Ballet

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Sleeping Beauty’ 2nd: The PEAK School of Dance-’Pizzicato’

Mini Hip-Hop

1st: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Out of Bounds’ 2nd: True Dance and Company-’Mint Chocolate Chip’ 3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Money’

Mini Tap

1st: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Whip My Hair’ 2nd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Just Got Paid’ 3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Werk’

Mini Contemporary

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Rain’ 1st: True Dance and Company-’Doors Are Closing’ 2nd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Pretend’ 3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Smile’

Mini Lyrical

1st: True Dance and Company-’Fly’ 2nd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Keep Climbing’ 3rd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’I’ll Keep You Safe’

Junior Jazz

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Tambourine’ 2nd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Attention’ 2nd: True Dance and Company-’Black & Gold’ 3rd: Sweatshop-’Rock It’

Junior Hip-Hop

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Divas, Queens and Bees’ 2nd: Sweatshop-’Comin In Hot’ 3rd: Kemper Dance Academy-’Toy Story’

Junior Tap

1st: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Funky Galileo’ 2nd: True Dance and Company-’Art Official’

Junior Contemporary

1st: True Dance and Company-’Final Moments’ 2nd: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Blind Dance’ 3rd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’an ending, a beginning’

Junior Lyrical

1st: Sweatshop-’The Sun Will Rise’ 2nd: True Dance and Company-’Another Time’ 2nd: True Dance and Company-’Almost Heaven’ 2nd: Sweatshop-’Glory’ 3rd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Give A Little’

Junior Musical Theatre

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Step In Time’ 2nd: Kemper Dance Academy-’Nicest Kids In Town’ 3rd: The PEAK School of Dance-’Day O’

Junior Ballroom

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Sweet Like Cola’

Junior Specialty

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Back For More’ 2nd: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Ice Age’ 3rd: Sweatshop-’Hermetico’

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Teen Acro

1st: Kemper Dance Academy-’Turn You to Stone’

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Senior Musical Theatre

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’A Wild, Wild Party’

Senior Ballroom

1st: Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Smooth’

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11 O’Clock:

Sidekick

Eagle Rock Dance-’House of Holbein’

Mini

Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Rain’

True Dance and Company-’Doors Are Closing’

Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Out of Bounds’

Junior

Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’Blind Dance’

Sweatshop-’The Sun Will Rise’

Studio 444 Performing Arts Academy-’Bye Bye Blackbird’

True Dance and Company-’Final Moments’

Michelle Latimer Dance Academy-’Back For More’

The PEAK School of Dance-’Be Humble’

Kemper Dance Academy-’Toy Story’

Eagle Rock Dance-’Wings’

Teen

Senior

Studio Showcase:

#24/7 #dance #2021 #denver #colorado

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