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phandomnews · 5 months

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@this-is-z-art-blog is hosting the 8 Ecto nights events, and you can find more information on their page!

@phandomholidaytruce - for anyone who wishes to help!

Shop links:

dansaiyanart shop

CopperLyrebird - Redbubble

StarStorm - Redbubble & Threadless

ArtisfingersStudio - Etsy

#gift guide #gift guide 2023 #phandom news #December 2023 #etsy #shop #redbubble #eight ecto nights #Newsletter #holiday season #phandom truce #green with envy #phandom events

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heinfienbrot · 5 months

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Hein Feinbrot's Christmas Gift Guide 2023

Ladage & Oelke Dufflecoat

Anton Meyer 'Romulus' Tweed jacket

Natalino Undyed Jumbo Herringbone Wool/Cashmere Jacket

Drake's Ecru Boucle Wool Zip Fleece Vest

Fabian Zug English Suede Chelsea boots

Anglo-Italian Company Mid Wash Denim

Drake's Pink Brushed Shetland Mock Neck Jumper

Horatio 'Beaufoy' Black Grain Horsebit Loafers

Appenzeller Gurt Classic Belt

Opinel No. 9 Oyster knife

#Menswear #Gift Guide #Gift Guide 2023 #Ladage & Oelke #Anton Meyer #Fabian Zug #Drake's #Drake's London #Natalino #Opinel #Anglo-Italian #Anglo-Italian Company #Horatio London #Appenzeller #Appenzeller Gurt #Appenzell Belt

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thegeekiary · 5 months

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Creative Beast Studio "Beasts of the Mesozoic" Figures Are Great Holiday Gifts For Dino Lovers - Holiday Gift Guide 2023

“Albertaceratops nesmoi” Collectible Action Figure from Creative Beast Studio Indie toymaker Creative Beast Studio has continued to expand the highly-detailed ‘Beast of the Mesozoic’ line of dinosaur action figures. From the deadly Tyrannosaurs to the nimble Velociraptors and the regal Ceratopsians, check out our 2023 holiday gift for the dinosaur lovers in your life. Continue reading Untitled

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#creative beast studio #dinosaur #gift guide #gift guide 2023 #holiday gift guide

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myobt · 6 months

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Gift Guide 2023

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#gift guide #gift guide 2023 #gift ideas #gifts #Postaday #presents #shopping

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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 months

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All the books I reviewed in 2023 (Graphic Novels)

Next Tuesday (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."

It's that time of year again, when I round up all the books I reviewed for my newsletter in the previous year. I posted 21 reviews last year, covering 31 books (there are two series in there!). I also published three books of my own last year (two novels and one nonfiction). A busy year in books!

Every year, these roundups remind me that I did actually manager to get a lot of reading done, even if the list of extremely good books that I didn't read is much longer than the list of books I did read. I read many of these books while doing physiotherapy for my chronic pain, specifically as audiobooks I listened to on my underwater MP3 player while doing my daily laps at the public pool across the street from my house.

After many years of using generic Chinese waterproof MP3s players – whose quality steadily declined over a decade – I gave up and bought a brand-name player, a Shokz Openswim. So far, I have no complaints. Thanks to reader Abbas Halai for recommending this!

https://shokz.com/products/openswim

I load up this gadget with audiobook MP3s bought from Libro.fm, a fantastic, DRM-free alternative to Audible, which is both a monopolist and a prolific wage-thief with a documented history of stealing from writers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

All right, enough with the process notes, on to the reviews!

GRAPHIC NOVELS

I. Shubiek Lubiek by Deena Mohamed

An intricate alternate history in which wishes are real, and must be refined from a kind of raw wish-stuff that has to be dug out of the earth. Naturally, this has been an important element of geopolitics and colonization, especially since the wish-stuff is concentrated in the global south, particularly Egypt, the setting for our tale. The framing device for the trilogy is the tale of three "first class" wishes: these are the most powerful wishes that civilians are allowed to use, the kind of thing you might use to cure cancer or reverse a crop-failure.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/11/your-wish/#is-my-command

II. Ducks by Kate Beaton

In 2005, Beaton was a newly minted art-school grad facing a crushing load of student debt, a debt she would never be able to manage in the crumbling, post-boom economy of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Like so many Maritimers, she left the home that meant everything for her to travel to Alberta, where the tar sands oil boom promised unmatched riches for anyone willing to take them. Beaton's memoir describes the following four years, as she works her way into a series of oil industry jobs in isolated company towns where men outnumber women 50:1 and where whole communities marinate in a literally toxic brew of carcinogens, misogyny, economic desperation and environmental degradation. The story that follows is – naturally – wrenching, but it is also subtle and ambivalent. Beaton finds camaraderie with – and empathy for – the people she works alongside, even amidst unimaginable, grinding workplace harassment that manifests in both obvious and glancing ways.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/14/hark-an-oilpatch/#kate-beaton

III. Justice Warriors by Matt Bors

Justice Warriors is what you'd get if you put Judge Dredd in a blender with Transmetropolitan and set it to chunky. The setup: the elites of a wasted, tormented world have retreated into Bubble City, beneath a hermetically sealed zone. Within Bubble City, everything is run according to the priorities of the descendants of the most internet-poisoned freaks of the modern internet, click- and clout-chasing mushminds full of corporate-washed platitudes about self-care, diversity and equity, wrapped around come-ons for sugary drinks and dubious dropshipper crapola. It's a cop buddy-story dreamed up by Very Online, very angry creators who live in a present-day world where reality is consistently stupider than satire.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/22/libras-assemble/#the-uz

IV. Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

The story of three young Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to New York City. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven't seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani's art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication. It's a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/11/as-canadian-as/#possible-under-the-circumstances

Like I said, this has been a good year in books for me, and it included three books of my own:

I. Red Team Blues (novel, Tor Books US, Head of Zeus UK)

Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. Martin is a—contain your excitement—self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He’s as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he’s a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before—and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/red-team-blues

II. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (nonfiction, Verso)

We can – we must – dismantle the tech platforms. We must to seize the means of computation by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users to leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission. Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

III. The Lost Cause (novel, Tor Books US, Head of Zeus UK)

For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.

But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger. To their "alternative" news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that "climate change" is just a giant scam. And they're your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt. And they're not going anywhere. And they’re armed to the teeth. The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they're often the elders that we love?

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/the-lost-cause

I wrote nine books during lockdown, and there's plenty more to come. The next one is The Bezzle, a followup to Red Team Blues, which comes out in February:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

While you're waiting for that one, I hope the reviews above will help you connect with some excellent books. If you want more of my reviews, here's my annual roundup from 2022:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/01/bookishness/#2022-in-review

Here's my book reviews from 2021:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/required-ish-reading/#bibliography

And here's my book reviews from 2020:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/08/required-reading/#recommended-reading

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https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/01/bookmaker/#2023-in-review

#pluralistic #books #reviews #science fiction #gift guide #graphic novels #2023 in review #novels

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artowenii · 4 months

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Catching up with family over drinks

This year I had @rimanne for the @h2g2-gift-exchange! So excited to do this for the first time!

#h2g2 gift exchange 2023 #my art #h2g2 #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

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beachyserasims · 6 months

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I know that the holidays are coming up, and so with that I wanted to share this little gift guide I made a few years ago when I was still in business with my online jewelry (I have since quit).

These businesses are all amazing as I have personally shopped from many of them and have spoken with all of them as well to make sure it was ok to share their beautiful work! Shopping small during the holiday season is SO IMPORTANT to so many small businesses. I know we are all broke af this year, but for those of us who have a little bit to spare for gifts, please consider checking out these artists and other small businesses like them!!

#non sim #non sims #holidays 2023 #christmas #christmas 2023 #support small artists #support small business #2023 gift guide #2023 gift ideas #support small #holiday gift guide #holiday gift guide 2023

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dokuzdiyebiri · 3 months

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This book offers a comprehensive guide for content creators who want to keep up with the rise of the digital world and create a successful YouTube channel. Considering the changing dynamics on the YouTube platform, he shares practical strategies for building an audience, understanding the intricacies of content production, generating additional income, and overcoming challenges on the path to success. This book appeals to a wide audience, from beginners to experienced YouTubers. This guide, which focuses on many topics from audience interaction to content planning, branding, and YouTube SEO, emphasizes the importance of establishing a deep connection not only with numerical success but also with the audience.

Each chapter is supported by real examples from evolution on YouTube. This book is an inspiring guide for those who want to succeed in the YouTube world, encouraging passion for content creation, creativity and learning.

"Becoming a YouTuber" sheds light on the journey of getting one step ahead on YouTube by presenting all the necessary tools for creators to build their own brands and make their voices heard to the world, in a descriptive and understandable way.

I wish you pleasant reading and success..

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/dokuzdiyebiri_Being_a_YouTubeR?id=Ef7TEAAAQBAJ

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loll3 · 1 year

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✧ 2023 Oracle Calendar ~ 10 copies available on my shop 🌝 || 👉🏻 tap to shop 🌙✨

👉🏻 each calendar includes 12 tarot inspired ink illustrations, one for each month of the year, digitally printed (ink-jet) on high quality 200gr rough paper 👌🏻 ⚔️✨ - - - • #lolletarots ©Lolle (2022) || pilot g-tec 0.4 and pilot hi-tecpoint 0.5 on light sketchbook paper ♡ ♡ ♡

#calendar #2023 #2023 calendar #art calendar #oracle calendar #oracle #lOll3 #lOll3SHOP #tarot #major arcana #ink illustration #ink on paper #illustration #original art #gift guide #xmas gift #etsy #etsy finds

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kimludcom · 7 months

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vivivougewrites · 5 months

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Inexpensive Gift Ideas For Friends, Partners, and Family!

For Christmas, birthdays, or just in general. None of these are super expensive and overall are pretty easy to get!

Pins (For jackets, etc. Points if it's something they really love!)

Bracelets

Headphones (Earbuds and also larger headphones. If you have any lying around, they look very if you paint the exterior)

Keychains

Food/Candy (Guaranteed last minute failsave)

Earrings

Books!!!

AirPods Case (The little rubber/Latex ones. Good for friends who are constantly loosing them!)

Bowls/Mugs/Spatulas

Card Games

Posters

CDs/Records

Candles

Coasters

Little Dishes/Trays to put stuff in

Stuffed Animals!

Bookmarks (You can also make these yourself)

Notebook

Tea bags/Hot chocolate packets

Water bottle

Phone Case

Little statues/figurines

Portable chargers

Funny/Silly Socks

Scrunchies/Hair-ties

Colored Pencils or Pens

Coloring Paper

May make a part two!

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thesonicstadium · 5 months

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Looking for the PERFECT gift for that certain #Sonic someone? Well look no further than The Sonic Stadium's ULTIMATE Sonic Gift Guide 2023.

We pored through the world's Sonic merch for good ideas, so you don't have to! #GiftGuide #SonicGiftGuide2023 #SonicTheHedgehog

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic news #sonic #sega #gift guides #sonic gift guide 2023

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kabukirune · 4 months

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Last Last Minute Cruelty Free Beauty Christmas Gift Guide

This post contains gifted products and affiliates links. These help support my blog and content. evolve organic beauty the super treats I absolutely love Evolve Organic Beauty ~ they have some of my favourite skincare products and this super treats gift set is so beautiful. It contains three of their best selling facemasks including on of my favourites ~ the Bio-Retinol Gold Mask, which is…