Sunday morning walk
Looks like spring is on its way... No guarantees about the birds, I'm not an expert.
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Buy Nothing Friday
Don't go to Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Bing, Google search (or other search engines with sponsors). Washington Post, Google News, or other billionaire owned sites get paid when you put eyes on their website. Are you using AI? This Friday don't if your work and life will allow it.
Admittedly, I think this rebellious act is equivalent to throwing toothpicks at titans. And those titans will probably find it more amusing damaging. But, hey, maybe they'll token-rage at us and it will make another nutcase go off on another CEO.
Severance and Slow Horses
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I’ve been enjoying Severance. Dylan being one of my favorite characters. Both who he is in the show, and how he looks. Great fun drawing this guy.
#severance #dylan #dylang #dylanseverance #drawing #sketchbook #ink #dippen #caricature
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Let's connect
I'm still looking for more people in the fediverse who write mostly about personal stuff and only occasionally post political things. Also, I encourage you to comment more, nobody wants to talk into a void...
Here's a list of my interests: Reading (mostly fantasy and general fiction like Naomi Novik, Haruki Murakami, Stephen King), photography, taking walks, urban gardening, animals, paper crafting, Cologne, traveling, music (Marillion, Riverside, Vanessa Carlton, Toto), the Netherlands, Spain, singing in a choir, going to museums, and lots of other things.
#museum #animal #choir #literature #Cologne #music #traveling #photography #marillion #hiking
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Good idea Petra!
I also notice a lot of posting about political issues. This makes sense, because there is so much going on in the world that is disturbing and even frightening.
But here too we can try to find some kind of balance. Life is (much) more than just politics and venting feelings of powerlessness and anger....
I like to participate in showing what is still beautiful, or sweet, or nice.
Thank you for your call in this Petra!
For you this poem I wrote a few years ago, it's a haiku. It says:
Look, a flying sheep
with glee in its head
It looks like spring
Enjoy your day to the most!
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I fully agree, interaction is what social media is about.
My interests are: philosophy, cycling, gardening, walking, music, Portugal, bike packing.
My music interest is very wide ranging from Bach to Kendrick Lamar. Incidentally, I used to have all the Marillion albums back in the day. That was before I got rid of my entire album collection (a move that I deeply regret now).
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From Bach I especially like chromatic fantasia and fugue and, after reading Godel, Escher Bach, Musical Offering. I think the context was important to learn to appreciate it. I'll have to check out the oratoria later. I'm also more into old rock, AC/DC, Beasty Boys, Scorpions to name a few although from time to time I get a tip from our boys which I like (Imagine Dragons).
Absolutely great that you go to Toto next week. I'm not all that excited about large crowds anymore. But the experience always exceeds listening at home. Please, tell us how it was.
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Caturday
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Cat promotion
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A walk in the sunshine
I love taking walks on graveyards. We've got a big one close to where we live. I really enjoy all the aspects, the quiet, the wreaths, some of the gravestones, the old trees, the squirrels and all the birds that live there, including some birds of prey.
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Fantasy books for "older" adults
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I figure they thought we would grow out of it. It seems to be what happened to most people I know. They got a job, got married, had children, and started chasing promotions, bigger houses, and washing machines, instead of dragons and dreams.
Mind you, I haven't read these yet, but they are on my wishlist:
“The Long Price Quartet” by Daniel Abraham
“The Blade Itself” by Joe Abercrombie
"Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands" by Heather Fawcett
“The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro
"City of Blades" by Robert Jackson Bennet.
Lastly, it might not quite fit the classical fantasy moniker but "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King is, to this day, one of my favourite reads. I might be biased though, I am a Constant Reader 😀
In the meantime I found a lot of threads on Reddit that deal with similar requests and they had quite a few suggestions.
My theory is that it is easier for publishing houses to simply classify fantasy as a YA genre. It's a nice categorization that works most of the time. I hope they don't turn down many good manuscripts that feature older female protagonists. In the fantasy novels that are popular with men there are many older male protagonists but that's something that is also a well known topic with movies. It has gotten better though, especially in tv series where there are many women 40 plus (mostly very slim and beautiful though). But I digress. 😉
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Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg would certainly qualify as older female protagonists, and heroes do not get much older and more decrepit than Cohen the Barbarian and The Silver Horde.
I'll have a look around my library and see if something else interesting falls off the shelves. It's mostly science fiction, but there are little pockets of fantasy hiding out.
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Apple just published a ‘meditative’ video tour of Silo’s massive sets - 9to5Mac
Silo recently finished its second season on Apple TV+, and now the Apple TV YouTube account has published a detailed set tour.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
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Find groups
Hi, is it possible to see which groups exist or at least search for them with a keyword? If I wanted to start a group how would I go about it?
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It's primarily German-speaking, but English posts are of course just as welcome!
Feel free to share event information, photos, tips, news, questions + other posts related to Cologne in the group! ❤️🤍
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Hi, I'm new
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I wanted to check out your profile but couldn't, maybe because you're on a different instance? I could look at your timeline, though. I really don't understand friendica. 😵💫
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