It turns out they're all on shelves.
Haha jk u r gay. Suck my fucking balls, I won the national book award. U r a worm.
I'm sure the 4 wheeler is responsible for most of my scares, but the map is so huge I'd have to walk for hours to complete missions. How close can I drive before I need to get out and walk to avoid scaring them? From reading here, SRP seems to be the best place to find herds, and I'll put some time into that tonight. I've watched some YouTube videos, and it's like they're playing a totally different game. These guys have animals spawn right at the lodge where they're starting and I see like one an hour! I'm walking around and using binoculars but just rarely see anything and even more rarely can get close enough to take a shot with starter weapons/scopes. Any advice appreciated. It's a rewarding game when you get a kill, but slow going for me just leveling up perks and skills thus far. Thanks, and happy new year!
I mean, seriously. That book (short story? novella?) was GREAT! A story of man confronted with his death, his life, his regrets, and the culture around death that he lives in, the Death of Ivan Ilyich is genius. I’m more than happy to discuss it with anyone who wants to in the replies or DMs. This story has shaken me and made me so uncomfortable in an incredible way. However, however great the shaken-ness is, I am still shaken which is… fun? This was my first work of Tolstoy and you can bet not my last.
I wanted to keep a record for myself of the species, weapons, magic/spells, gods, history, locations of the stuff that appears on my story. For now, I have a Bestiary and a Grimoire for Beasts and Magic/Spells respectively. But I wanted to do a few more, but I don't know if a book for those categories has a specific name? Could anybody help me out?
What would be the name for books that talk about these topics:
- For Artifacts/Weapons/Tools?
- For Curses?
- For Blessings? (I have the gods giving out powers every now and then. Like curses but generally good for the afflicted.)
- For Local History of a specific Continent or Country?
- For all the Gods?
Edit: Woah. I'm having trouble keeping up with replying but I'm reading all of them. Definitely, you all helped me out a lot. Thanks for everything, really.
(Mention of SA, no detail).
I have so many mixed feelings about this. Like of course, good for her! Young author with heaps of fans yay!! But at the same time, she wrote a book about college rape and virtue signalling when myself and a few of my other friends in the same year were dismissed from College because of almost the exact same plot. I was told I was starting drama, I was told I wasn't resilient enough, I was told that I wasn't trying hard enough to fit in to these elite circles that operated on networking and millions upon millions of dollars in donations.
She was head girl at one of the most exclusive schools in my city. Her parents are extremely wealthy. She had tutors and peer support and wasn't kicked out of college after a year of battling the worst mental health crisis of her life.
I'm bitter and I'm hurt and it's really painful seeing peers read her book and celebrate it, when her "writing what she knows" is literally a privelaged person writing about the awful awful things that happened to HER peers at the same time she was flourishing. It's very hard to celebrate what is obviously a well written book when it is taking advantage of the stories of survivors who weren't given the same grace.
I remember sitting across from her in an english lit class, and being almost paralysed by anxiety, yet she was speaking to the tutor like an old friend. Why? Because he had literally taught at her school. He was gushing over germanic influence in the development of the english language, and in a class of 20, and I felt so alienated by the assumed knowledge that just seemed almost impossible to teach myself in the space of 8 weeks. She had been given the heads up. She scored the highest in the cohort. I absent failed because of my SA case being dismissed and told by college administrators that I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway, so may as well move on.
Not at all bitter that my childhood dream of being a published author (which was quashed several times when I couldn't afford the publishers fee as a kid, then my manuscript was accidentally permanently lost) feels like it will now forever be compared to the "new voice of a generation", knowing that I've had almost a decade of my life wasted because of what happened in that first year of university.
Two characters are named Arthur and Clarke!
maybe like a story told from the POV of a cat or a bird would be cool but anything will do. I’m interested in the concept :)
edit: THANK YOUUU so much for all the comments!! I see so many that seem super interesting :)) Hopefully others can find some good recs here too
I’m looking for recommendations that don’t include animal abuse. I know it’s hard to find these books because a lot of horror + cult books use this for thrill factor. I just truly don’t want to read about animals being hurt for the sake of a gasp. Any help is appreciated!
Hint: checking backgrounds are your friend
He even called eating animals “unprovoked murder." https://www.vrg.org/history/benjamin_franklin.htm
The book that changed his mind was called "Wisdom's Dictates" by Thomas Tryon. It had this on its title page:
Seventyfive Noble dishes of Excellent Food, far exceeding those made of fish or flesh, which banquet I present to the sons of wisdom, on such as shall decline that depraved custom of eating flesh and blood.
The book also advocates what is ostensibly veganism, albeit with a religious context:
*"*Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression*. For know, that all the inferior creatures when hurt do cry and fend forth their complaints to their maker...Be not insensible that every creature doth bear the image of the great creator according to the nature of each, and that he is the vital power in all things. Therefore, let none take pleasure to offer violence to that life, lest he awaken the fierce wrath, and bring danger to his own soul. But let mercy and compassion dwell plentifully in your hearts, that you may be comprehended in the friendly principle of God's love and holy light. Be a friend to everything that's good, and then everything will be a friend to thee, and cooperate for thy good and welfare."
I am doing this because I didn’t get a superpower in a thread yesterday.
Since her rise from single mother to literary superstar, J.K. Rowling has used her talents and stature as a writer to fight inequality on both a local and global level. Herself the frequent object of censorship in schools and libraries across the globe, as well as online targeting, Rowling has emerged as a vocal proponent of free expression and access to literature and ideas for children, as well as incarcerated people, the learning disabled, and women and girls worldwide. -- PEN AMERICA
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