#extensive

[en-wheelz-me]

#techart #porsche #tuning #extensive #linup #supercar #supercars #porsche 911 #porsche cars #german performance #car #cars #bangkok #bangkok motorshow #fast #fast cars

[itchy-ears]

the closest bar to the church (that isn't crawling with parishioners lol) is an irish soccer pub and i've come here to write a farewell letter to sean, which i have to stop every few sentences because i keep crying lol

one of the bartenders saw me wiping my eyes and asked if i was a fan of the team that was losing which 1) LOL because that's really the only reason irish people will let you cry 2) i literally do cry when my team loses but im not bournemouth fan like please be serious!!!

#if you're a bournemouth fan and you're crying over loses #you need therapy #extensive

[joshisurcrush]

'The Host' by Stephanie Meyer

🌑

Dawg I'm gonna be really honest, I hated the novel for the first 200 pages. It was so edgy for no reason, the author was so mysterious and cryptic with it, but not in an appealing way; more in an edgy 13-year-old's angst fanfiction. I read this book because it was literally the only English book left in the school library that I hadn't read yet, and I didn't want to sit around bored at break. I'm gonna cover a lot of stuff in the book, that isn't mentioned on the cover or in most reviews, so here's a fat spoiler warning, since I'll be discussing things even more thoroughly than I would in other reviews.

First off, I wanna make it very clear to fellow aromantic individuals that this book is going to be either a) very funny, b) a case study, or c) hard to read. For me it was all three of those things. See, Stephenie Meyer, author of The Host, also wrote "Twilight" which y'all may have heard of. I saw "written by Stephenie Meyer, author of the *twilight saga*" on the cover of the book and gagged. Well, she's good at what she does, I'm gonna say, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I like it. Some parts of the book just had me frowning at the words on the page, the parts where one of the two main characters makes out with her partner (Melanie and Jared), for example. That part had me sitting in my chair thinking "Are people actually like this?" and "What the fu(dge), this is so cheesy." Right? But then there were other parts, (Wanda and Ian), where I found the romantic moments cute/funny. I think it’s mainly because the Wanda-Ian bond is more of the lighthearted cutesy friends-to-lovers bond, and not the “rah hot sexy ownership mmm sex” bond the way that Melanie and Jarend’s is written.

I digress, well, I think I should get to explaining. I'm not going to explain exactly why everything happens, but I'm going to list facts that you just have to believe me. Wanda is an alien parasite in Melanie's body, who controls Melanie's body entirely, but they're friends and can hear each other's thoughts. Jared is in love with Melanie, Jeb is Melanie's uncle and owns a secret underground base where most of the story takes place, and Jamie is Melanie's little (teenage) brother. Then there's super-sexy Ian who's in love with Wanda (the parasite) and somewhat-sexy Kyle, twin brother of Ian, who happens to be really violent and tried to kill Wanda (in Melanie's body) twice. Oh, and there's Doc, the kind surgeon. There's other characters but I don't think they'll be all that relevant to my review. 

Well, I like Wanda, the main character. Ironically, it's in her parasite species' nature to attempt to please everyone, be nice and always keep everyone's best interest in mind, even at her own expense. Also, unrelated, but this is one of the stories with female characters that I thoroughly enjoy. As a guy I prefer stories with strong male leads, it's just my personal preference, and stories with female leads tend to feel flat and weak, or "forced-strong", or stereotypical in some way. Mosquitoland had a good female lead, along with Falling Into Place, and The Host. These are some good female leads/characters that I can thoroughly enjoy because there's inner conflict, backstory dimension and history, more than just a single objective or focus (a lot of love-stories tend to make the female character into this caricature of what a girl is, and I hate it because women have vivid internal lives and a boiled-down simplification simply doesn’t do it justice imo). Back to Wanda, though. 

She becomes more and more human throughout the book (which is supposed to be like, a big thing. I bet Meyer was proud of that one.) It's underlined as the story goes on; Wanda compares herself and her emotions to the human ones and talks about how Earth is so unique and different from the other planets she's lived on, etc. You definitely feel an interesting but slight shift in her narration as the novel progresses, evolving with the number of connections she makes with the people around her. 

Also, I like how Stephenie Meyer managed to separate Mel and Wanda from each other so distinctly. You get a feeling for how different the two of them are from each other, and how they each have their own principles and ideas, and they're like night and day, even though their actions are the same throughout the story. Talking about characters also, I like the way that all characters a) serve a purpose/role, and b) they're fleshed out well enough for me and c) they're not all written the same way, which is a fat pet peeve of mine. I hate when a story has three sarcastic characters, four strong men, and three quirky girls. They're all characterized differently, which makes Stephanie Meyer better at writing than whoever was behind the new arrangement of Marvel movies. Do not crucify me in the notes for having said that, I’ll get very sad. 

LMAO Imagine being a Marvel superfan and trying to read a normal thriller or something, I feel like a Marvel superfan would gasp and flail on the floor like a fish on land if the murderer doesn’t go “erm.. Well that just happened 🤓” after brutally snuffing the lives out of his victim(s).

Plus, the story had the first good love triangle (tm) consisting of one body shared by Mel and Wanda, Jared and Ian. And the thing that makes it interesting to me is the fact that it's two couples (Wanda + Ian, and Jared + Melanie) who sort of have to work around the fact that both of the girls share the same body, which leads to jealousy between the two guys and Melanie and things like that. I found it interesting, it's so much better than the usual, and wildly annoying trope of "who will they pick! woo! two choices!" type of love triangle that I couldn't give two sharts about. 

The one thing, though, that bumps this story up to its rating, from a six, is the ending. The ending is genuinely the happiest ending I've ever read. Nobody dies. Everyone wins. Everyone is happy and complete; nobody is left alone or heartbroken, and it ends on a good note (since this book doesn't and will not have a sequel.) It just wraps everything up really nicely, it actually had me grinning and screaming "Good for them!" internally. It's the best ending to a book I've gotten to read in a really, really long time.

#books #review #bookreview #book reviews #booklr #reader #writer #writerblr #reading #writing #discourse #genre #coming of age #fiction #rant #long review #extensive #discussion #medium #vaguepost #joshposting #gnome-review #mini-review #opinions #story #novelist #novel #photo #photography #pictures

[allelitesmut]

Finalizing the warnings list for Part 3 and boy, it’s a long one.

#this has got to be the most warnings I’ve ever needed for a fic #EXTENSIVE

[thiccmok]

#just my oc #and hwang simok #i have #extensive #headfic #they are cute and soft #my happy place #stranger #tvn stranger #hwang si mok #fanart #my art

[xtremeservers]

A game where dying can be your best all... https://www.xtremeservers.com/blog/innovative-action-strategy-top-down-shooter-die-again-launches-april-11/?feed_id=138594&_unique_id=662919c765568&Innovative%20Action%20Strategy%20Top-Down%20Shooter%20Die%20Again%20Launches%20April%2011

#Featured #Xbox #allyHeartpounding #Dying #extensive #Game #landscapeInnovative #narrative #shooter #topdown #wartorn #where

[acarelogistics]

Bussiness to Bussiness Logistics Services - Acare Logistics

Acare Logistics is a logistics company that can help businesses reach every pin code every day. With our extensive network, we can assist in scaling your business and expanding your reach. It's a great opportunity to overcome delivery limitations and take your business to new heights!

#acarelogistics #logistics #bussinesstobussinesslogisticsservices #logisticscompany #logisticssolutions #bussinessgrowth #Extensive #ScalingYourBusiness #scalingbusiness #expandingreach #greatopportunity #OvercomeLimitations #freight #airfreight #reacheverypincode

[wordofthehour]

Word of The Hour: extensive

English: extensive 1. expanded; large; broad; wide 2. having wide extent 3. of much superficial extent ------------ - Chinese: 很多的、大量的 - French: étendu - Italian: esteso - Portuguese: extenso - Spanish: extenso ------------ Report an incorrect translation @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

#wordofthehour #extensive

[hepalien]

Hey rarepair shippers, I'm about to change your lives.

The AO3 Primary Ship Search add-on for Firefox (it's called AO3 First Tag Search for Chrome) adds this little checkbox to the AO3 advanced search page

And if you check the box, the search only returns fics where the pairing you entered is the first one tagged. This is better than the otp:true operator imo because it will show fics with secondary/background pairings too as long as your preferred ship is the main one.

You can even use the add-on in Firefox or Kiwi browser on Android mobile.

Have fun 😘

(more ao3 tips here)

#ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 tips #rarepair #rare pair #rare pairing #femslash #rarepairs #rarepair shipping #ao3 extensions

[jonsrolling]

i have about 10 missing assignments i need to do bc my procrastination is kicking my ass rn and i don’t ever reflect on that fact until past 11pm but also the melatonin is calling for me and i love to sleep‼️

#help #helpppp #i cant do this #istg #seriously like i know i can do the assignments but the minute i put it off for a second it’s suddenly a week late and i haven’t done shit #i’ve got C’s??? in my four core classes???? i’m gonna cry?? #which my best friend keeps telling me that it’s not that bad but also #my parents yell at me when i have a B because they ‘know i can do better’ #so ofc they don’t know #they haven’t checked my grades so i’m waiting for that to happen #honestly i just want the ball to drop already so i can stop being anxious of when it’ll happen #hurrah😺 #omg wait #what’s it called #the word #the word of words #existential something #no #hold up #it’s a thing #OH FUCK NO I JUST HAD IT #EXTENSIVE #EPEDERMAL #UHH #EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION #THATS THE BITCH #!!!! #okay that’s all folks #i’m out of brain power #gn

[en-wheelz-me]

#techart #porsche #tuning #extensive #linup #supercar #supercars #porsche 911 #porsche cars #german performance #car #cars #bangkok #bangkok motorshow #fast #fast cars

[lutzlig]

i think it's time to migrate

#if ANYBODY knows which xkit extension will fix this Please tell me #or else im hopping off to cohost

[joshisurcrush]

"IT" by Stephen King

To preface this, the book is nothing like the movie. It's absolutely nothing like the movie. They took the characters' names and three isolated events from the book that were roughly three pages long each, and then made a movie out of that. If you watched the movie, don't associate it with my following review.

Heads up, I ABUSE brackets (constantly), and another FYI: There’ll be a level of abuse/sex/gore talk, so it might be in your best interest to skip this review if you’re sensitive to that.

IT (by Stephen King) was super crazy, I loved it, and my overactive imagination did too. The characters are pretty good (I'd kiss Richie Tozier on the lips in a mildly homoerotic way), the story is laid out so nicely and the word choice is insane. Even as someone who’s not a native speaker but started English along with basic multiplication, I’ve had to search up some words. Sure, the book might have given me nightmares about flying leeches biting dime-sized holes into my arms and flying into my mouth to then blow up to the size of a balloon as they fill with my blood, but it was fun to read. Wild ride. I also liked the perspective switch, graphic detailing, and the way that the horrible events described were used as a vessel to talk about bigger things. This book basically scratched all of my itches. A need for gore, a need for emotional depth, a need for comedic relief, a need for poetry, a need for murder and for horrors beyond my comprehension.

Ok, I'm gonna elaborate a bit further to do the story justice. I drip-fed the book to myself slowly, reading a bit every day, five days a week, and it took me... weeks. Well, currently it's one of my favorite books and there's good reason for it. First off, the perspective switches were awesome. Point, end of the story, I don’t care how you stand to Stephen King himself, the plot or anything else relating the book. Incredible. I like how you were able to see everything from everyone's perspective, how there were subjective and objective accounts of things, diary entries, news articles, etc. Had me cumming and nutting I swear to god and little baby jesus, it's so good.

Second, the family dynamics were well-written. I'm a cause-and-effect type of guy, and I like when characters are fleshed out, and there's a rhyme and reason as to why they're the way they are. King (Stephen King, the author) executes this fantastically by letting you meet the families of most of the losers (that's what they call the main characters if you were unaware.) 

For example, we're introduced to Bill's post-Georgie apathetic, cold family (giving him a motive to kill IT, since he thinks it'll make his family care about him again). We meet Eddie Kaspbrak’s mother, a fat and overly emotional lady that sort of abused him (I'm sure that the way she treated him was abusive actually) and she ended up really shaping his character from a young age.

Mike Hanlon's family was awesome and supportive though, real model family, but he got crap for being african american (the story’s set in 1958, it was really bad for Mike). Richie Tozier also had a good family (probably the most normal), and Stan Uris did as well (he went birdwatching a lot with his dad.) Bev's family, I think, was the worst of all because her dad physically and emotionally abused her, and well as attempting to sexually abuse her. This is later reflected in the man she marries, Tom, who physically, emotionally, and sexually abuses her. It was very hard to read, I'm gonna be honest. I didn't know what it feels like to read something with a lump in your throat until I read the parts about Tom and Beverly. Plus, it's like... ultra-triggering for survivors of abuse, it was pretty triggering to me, so I'd discourage anyone who went through that kind of stuff from reading. If you really wanna read IT though, as a sexual assault survivor or someone who’s easily triggered by stuff related to SA, you should skip over the Beverly POVs because frankly, they're just brutal.

Well, on a lighter note, I like how Stephen King wrote sex in this book (it's a continuous theme.) And before you judge me, I'm praising him for being thorough enough, but also vague enough. The story is not an erotica, it's not meant to be hot. Sex is mentioned as a form of bond, as a form of abuse (holy shit there's so much abuse in this book, it's absolutely packed with it), and also mentioned in the "losing your childhood / growing old" sort of way which becomes VERY important later in the story. Sex is only insinuated in the story, it's not graphic, you don't get any action out of it and it's only for the plot which I find awesome. Even in the part where adult Bill cheats on his wife with also-adult Beverly (lol), sex is only insinuated, even though it's the only actual erotic scene in the book. Felt like mentioning it on the side, but I *do* think that the way that King wrote about ten-year-old Beverly Marsh’s body way very, very weird; but I was able to let it slide because it wasn’t too frequent and medium in severity. Still think King is kinda messed for describing a kid’s body that way.

Lastly, the poetry is crazy good, and the way he strings together the literal dozens of characters with their own individual stories and experiences is so well-executed. King unironically sat down, created a masterpiece, and dipped. Everything fits into place, all the experiences come together to form this... beautiful picture with no loose threads. Everything ties off together, there are no plotholes and the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. I'm getting goosebumps and a boner thinking about this (I'm a writer, how could you tell?), but the only thing I didn't like about the book is how it ends. I’m gonna ruin Christmas, but essentially IT ends with all of them moving to different states/places and forgetting each other, like, a full memory wipe, and just going back to their lives before that. They're slightly improved though, because Bev leaves her abusive husband and Ben gets a promotion, along with Bill's depression lightening up.

Now comes something that really ruffles my feathers. I hate Ben's and Beverly's relationship toward the end. I hate, hate, hate it. If the word HATE was printed tiny, 10 times onto every square inch of the 1184 pages of the IT paperback, it wouldn't be able to touch the amount of HATE HATE HATE that I feel for the relationship between the two. Bev could have ended up with anyone else. Richie would’ve been ideal, maybe Eddie, hell, Bill would have even been fine if his wife had died. But Ben? Ben the weirdo who's fantasized about touching her breasts starting in fourth grade? Ben who never got over her, even as she was married? Ben who couldn't back the heck off? Ben, the lonely pig who I wished had died instead of Eddie in the finale of the book? I guess he's not as bad as Tom, but holy, I was dreading the Bev&Ben arc, and it ended up being confirmed at the end of the book. Screw that, bro. 

Still doesn't take away from how good the book was. I'd rate it a solid ten.

#books #review #bookreview #book reviews #booklr #reader #writer #writerblr #reading #writing #discourse #genre #coming of age #fiction #rant #long review #extensive #discussion #medium #vaguepost #joshposting #gnome-review #mini-review #opinions #story #novelist #novel #photo #photography #pictures

[digitalcreationsllc]

Linux Version of Qilin Ransomware Focuses on VMware ESXi

The Linux encryptor includes extensive command-line options for customization, allowing threat actors to specify exclusion and encryption criteria, as well as configure virtual machines that should not be encrypted.

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#actors’ #allowing #commandline #customization #encryptor #extensive #includes #Linux #options #threat

[liimonadas]

randomly rememebered a very silly maya content creator AU i came up with like 2 years ago. its just dumb fun haha

#this is kind of an extension of my hc/au of having the aa cast be people who grew up in the early 2010s (social media users) #in this au maya is a prolific steel samurai extended universe fandom member and starts making videos in like 2018-2019 #edgeworth also posts online anonymously but it takes him yearsss to show his face online #getting a segment in her massive video essay compels him tho #yea im just rambling abt my goofy ideas atp if you wanna know more i can share #maya fey #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #ace attorney #fanart #art

[xtremeservers]

Even in its early alpha state, my extens... https://www.xtremeservers.com/blog/eternal-strands-shadow-of-the-colossus-meets-tears-of-the-kingdom-in-this-promising-action-adventure-ign-first/?feed_id=138345&_unique_id=662814763cc85&Eternal%20Strands%3A%20Shadow%20of%20the%20Colossus%20Meets%20Tears%20of%20the%20Kingdom%20in%20this%20Promising%20Action-Adventure%20%E2%80%93%20IGN%20First

#PC #alpha #early #eternal #even #excited #extensive #gave #handson #state #Strands