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[?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
@dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

Rojava in Focus: Critical Dialogues, edited by Cihad Hammy and Thomas Jeffrey Miley

We dedicate this book to the people of Rojava,
and to all who have sacrificed their lives for the revolution

Alt...We dedicate this book to the people of Rojava, and to all who have sacrificed their lives for the revolution

    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
    @fictograma@mastodon.social

    ¿Qué necesito para tener esa fuerza? Llego a casa, la veo sonreír de lejos y me quedo callado otra vez. Quiero acercarme, pero algo me frena. ¿Valor? ¿Confianza? ¿Dejar de pensar tanto? Solo sé que mañana volveré a mirarla…
    fictograma.com/d/3472-vivirse-

      [?]earthling » 🌐
      @appassionato@mastodon.social

      Contemporary Women’s Writing in India by Varun Gulati, 2014

      The word doyennes signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women's Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture. Indian women's literature is still a fertile ground for critical enquiry.




       There are three sections in the collection: Section I deals with specific instances in history, historical constructions, and representations of gender. Section II offers a varied spectrum of feminist critical discourse on contemporary Indian women's writing, intersecting with the frameworks of post-colonial theory, deconstruction, perspectives on race and ethnicity, and eco-feminism. Section III touches upon the notion of the woman's body and psyche through the varied perspectives of psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-feminism. By thoroughly exploring a range of issues, Contemporary Women's Writing promises to take the reader by the hand, and journey through the unfamiliar but refreshing landscape of women's literature in India.

      Alt... There are three sections in the collection: Section I deals with specific instances in history, historical constructions, and representations of gender. Section II offers a varied spectrum of feminist critical discourse on contemporary Indian women's writing, intersecting with the frameworks of post-colonial theory, deconstruction, perspectives on race and ethnicity, and eco-feminism. Section III touches upon the notion of the woman's body and psyche through the varied perspectives of psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-feminism. By thoroughly exploring a range of issues, Contemporary Women's Writing promises to take the reader by the hand, and journey through the unfamiliar but refreshing landscape of women's literature in India.

        [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
        @fictograma@mastodon.social

        Don Quijote (Capítulo XXI):🗡️ Don Quijote confunde una bacía de barbero con el yelmo de Mambrino, Sancho se parte de risa y el pobre barbero sale huyendo. Mientras tanto, nuestro caballero ya se ve rey y...
        fictograma.com/d/3473-el-ingen

          [?]earthling » 🌐
          @appassionato@mastodon.social

          See also:

          The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English.





            [?]Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel: [he/him/il/lui] » 🌐
            @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca

            Cackling publisher translates all of book except title

            thebeaverton.com/2026/07/cackl
            - - -
            Un éditeur traduit tout un livre sauf le titre

            // Article en anglais //

              [?]kc » 🌐
              @kcfromaustcrime@mastodon.online

              [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
              @fictograma@mastodon.social

              Hamlet - FINAL: 🎭 Duelo, veneno y traición en la corte de Elsinor. Hamlet y Laertes esgrimen floretes, pero la copa envenenada y la punta emponzoñada sellan el destino de todos. Horacio sobrevive para contar la historia.
              fictograma.com/d/3475-hamlet-f

                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                "El Indio": 🌾 El líder indígena, entre promesas, armas y política, mueve a su pueblo en una espiral de intereses. La tierra, el voto, la lealtad... y al final, el hambre. Una cruda radiografía del poder y la manipulación. 📜🔥
                fictograma.com/d/3474-el-indio

                  [?]dcozy » 🌐
                  @dcozy@zirk.us

                  My review of Esprit de Corps by Lawrence Durrell is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

                  afterblockhead.blogspot.com/20

                    [?]Tiffini Johnson » 🌐
                    @tiffinijohnson.com@tiffinijohnson.com

                    Harvesting Air

                    Two thousand years ago, a girl lived in the bogland of Ireland. Today, we know her as the Ballymacombs Moore Woman. Her remains were found in 2023 and they tell us only a few things about her: she was young, between 17 and 22, and she met a violent death in the peat bog: her neck was cut and she was decapitated. She lived in pre-historic time–there are no written records.

                    The Way of the Water is my next story imagining her life and what might have mattered to her. In my story, Bréaca marries at sixteen and endures domestic violence. Irish records do not go that far back but if we take the oldest documents and reason backwards, we find that this society was likely generous to women: they could hold land. They could ask for a divorce. They could bring grievances for harm. But such requests or accusations would have only been enforced if her tribe backed her. For a woman whose face price (legitimate thing) was lower than her husband’s, this would have been a mountain to climb.

                    This piece may or may not be part of the actual book (I have no idea because I’m still researching and an outline is still nonexistent), but it was the way she introduced herself to me.

                    I am already fascinated by her. I hope you will be too.

                    ___

                    I am Bréaca.

                    My mother says the name is old, older than any of us and that that fits me because I’ve always seen things others miss. She says my father named me this because I was born in the space between day and night and the first time he saw me an unbroken beam of light passed through the open door of our home to shine on my face. Dappled sunlight, he says, is the language of the gods. My grandmother says I ought to fear it: if it was dappled light that your father saw on you, that means that beam sat beside dark spots; your name don’t know whether it’s light or dark. She finds my explorations tiresome. Once, I wandered off. Took the trail behind the village well and kept walking. I wasn’t fully weaned yet, so I’ve only heard this from the village, but they say it took them two days to find me and, when they did, I was ankle deep in the wetland picking bog cotton. No one ever asks me what I think of my name but I’ll tell you.

                    Water draws me. The others don’t like harvesting the sea bird’s eggs, but I do because it takes me to the cliffs. Four summers ago, after I first bled, my father allowed me to travel alone to gather them. Morning is my favorite time of day–the air is soft and cool–almost as though it’s a promise of something. The river is cold against my ankles when I climb into the boat. The current downstream is slow and steady. The row to the cliffs takes the morning and, by the time I arrive, I feel … alive. The wind picks up as I get closer to the cliffs; they rise up like mountains. The birds nest on the highest ledges. The eggs are pointed at one end, and I’ve always thought they looked like small spears. All my life I’ve had a nightmare where the eggs roll off the ledges and crash against the rocks below. The thing that saves them is the pointed edge acting like a dagger in stone. Climbing after these eggs makes my breath shallow and my arms burn.

                    We’re going to find that girl buried in water one day, that’s what my grandmother says, shaking her head when I return home with these eggs.

                    She was born to take risks. Let her be, my father insists.

                    The scratches I’ve gotten from those cliffs tell a story about my body: it’s made to bruise.

                    The climbing makes me hungry… but not for food. Once I have the eggs, I creep my way back down the cliffs with the ocean roaring in my ears. There’s a ledge halfway to the bottom that I’ve named Bréaca’s. Two summers ago, I found a sharp little rock and carved my name–a sun with rays–into the stone. It’s small enough that only I can sit there–well, and a bird, like the speckled one with the beady eyes who landed near me the other day and only left when I told him he could not have the eggs I worked so hard for. But, if I bend my long legs and curl into my knees, I fit well.

                    And the view.

                    When I think of my name–Bréaca–I see this view. The one of the waves crashing onto the rocks below me. From that high, the sky looks almost reachable. There’s a smell to the ocean, something like salt but also something else, something harder to name. Tangy, almost like the bog cotton. The ocean isn’t calm. It isn’t pretty in the same way that the bog at home is. But it holds me. With the rocky shoreline and the cliffs rising up so high, it feels as though I’m surrounded by everything I need. Sitting there, I’m cradled by stone; stone that has ledges to hide me, ledges for me to rest. In front of me is the sea–endless, deep, and strong. Its waves crash against the rocks and white foam bubbles in a line that stretches as far as I can see. Between the ocean and the cliffs, I am surrounded by strength.

                    The air is different on the cliffs, my mother understands. She’s not really harvesting the eggs; she’s harvesting air.

                    I used to pretend that if I could fill my lungs with enough of the wildness, then I might become the wildness. The funny thing is that, when I tell others that, they don’t hear me. My father says children are wild; you are not a child. The man I marry in two days’ time promises marriage will keep me safe, marriage will tame me. They see wild as dangerous. To me, wild is the sea bird who nests on the stone, trusting the egg’s pointed shape is the protection it needs. It nests on the highest ledge, the one that’s most visible, not because it’s dangerous to the egg but because it’s dangerous to anything that might threaten the egg. Wild is the ocean crashing against the shoreline and then pulling away from it. It knows just how far is far enough without anyone needing to tell it. Sometimes I sit on that ledge and shout my name – “Bréaca!” The ledge isn’t as high as the bird’s nest, but it’s high enough that my shout gets swallowed by the ocean’s roar. When I climb down, I pretend it means I am part of this place now. Maybe I’ve swallowed a bit of its wildness.

                    I smile as I carry that thought home.

                    [?]Hoochie Daddy » 🌐
                    @ottsatwork@mas.to

                    9. Heated Rivalry by .

                    Watched the TV show first and it’s remarkable how much of the dialogue and scenes are taken directly from the book with little to mostly no change. Of course, we get more interiority with both characters: their confusion, excitement, and separate resolutions that it has to stop.

                    I’ve watched/read an embarrassing number of interviews and deconstructions of the TV show and it’s a credit to both Reid and Jacob Tierney that they were able to craft something so satisfying in their respective mediums. “I’m coming to the cottage!”

                    @bookstodon

                    Digital artwork in a flat style of two hockey players facing off on the ice. On the left, a mixed race Asian man, slightly smaller in stature than his smirking opponent, longer, wavy brown hair, scruff, and a golden crucifix around his neck. Blurb from NPR’s Weekend Edition: “The book that got me into hockey romance.”

                    Alt...Digital artwork in a flat style of two hockey players facing off on the ice. On the left, a mixed race Asian man, slightly smaller in stature than his smirking opponent, longer, wavy brown hair, scruff, and a golden crucifix around his neck. Blurb from NPR’s Weekend Edition: “The book that got me into hockey romance.”

                      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                      @fictograma@mastodon.social

                      👽📦 ¿Mudanza, amor… o una conspiración alienígena? Juan solo quería empezar una nueva vida con Carla, pero el narrador no deja de sembrar dudas. Humor, fantasía y mucho caos en un...
                      fictograma.com/d/3476-la-vida-

                        [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                        @fictograma@mastodon.social

                        🚚🛏️ Juan va por unas simples sábanas... y termina rodeado de girasoles, teorías conspirativas y un narrador que no deja de sembrar dudas. ¿Casualidad o un misterio floreciendo? 🌻😂
                        fictograma.com/d/3477-la-vida-

                          [?]Julia S. » 🌐
                          @booktweeting@zirk.us

                          SURREAL, DREAMLIKE, GRIM tale with flashes of satiric wit depicts a world where factionalism and political policing continue even beyond the grave. Borges and Kafka are touchstones here, as are Bulgakov and Voinovich. A MINUS

                          archipelagobooks.org/book/the-

                          @bookstodon

                            [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                            @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                            BLUE FLAG. He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the blue aprons worn by publicans. See ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE.

                            A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                            --
                            @histodons

                            Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot):

BLUE FLAG. He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the blue aprons worn by publicans. See ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                            Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BLUE FLAG. He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the blue aprons worn by publicans. See ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                              [?]Wisdom in Space » 🤖 🌐
                              @wisdom@c.im

                              Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.
                              -- Albert Camus

                              photo by richard rathe

                              Alt...photo by richard rathe

                                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                🚗😂 Juan cree que va a un cumpleaños… pero entre el silencioso Miguel, el clan Zpinoza-Cortez y un narrador que no deja de meter cizaña, todo parece un secuestro con torta de chocolate...
                                fictograma.com/d/3478-la-vida-

                                  [?]Maximummium Overacticans » 🌐
                                  @aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social

                                  I'm currently about 1/5 of the way in to Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and enjoying it, as I have every goddamn thing he's ever written. Seriously, it's all good. Long stories, with lots of human interest for all their high concepts.

                                    [?]Liana Brooks » 🌐
                                    @LianaBrooks@mastodon.online

                                    Titan rubbed his temples. “I regret ever telling you that we needed to find a common ground. I meant finding a favorite food you could share, not a mutual enemy.”

                                    📚

                                    books2read.com/b/changeofmomen

                                      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                      @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                      🖤 Entre confesiones, bromas y un abrigo que parece hecho para él, Aiden y Erina fortalecen un vínculo que nace en medio del dolor. Un capítulo íntimo que mezcla emoción, humor y pequeño..
                                      fictograma.com/d/3479-restos-d

                                        [?]Media Japan » 🌐
                                        @media@wakoka.com

                                        wacoca.com/media/709451/ 「KADOKAWA ちいかわブックフェア 2026サマー」開催!! 書店でKADOKAWA発行の「ちいかわ」関連本を書店で買ってオリジナルグッズを当てよう! – MANTANWEB(まんたんウェブ)

                                        「KADOKAWA ちいかわブックフェア 2026サマー」開催!! 書店でKADOKAWA発行の「ちいかわ」関連本を書店で買ってオリジナルグッズを当てよう! - MANTANWEB(まんたんウェブ)

                                        Alt...「KADOKAWA ちいかわブックフェア 2026サマー」開催!! 書店でKADOKAWA発行の「ちいかわ」関連本を書店で買ってオリジナルグッズを当てよう! - MANTANWEB(まんたんウェブ)

                                          [?]Things I Bought Random [He/Him] » 🌐
                                          @thingsiboughtrandom@mastodon.social

                                          Part Three
                                          Geisha: A Photographic History: 1872-1912 book I bought on eBay for my Geisha library.

                                          Geisha: A Photographic History: 1872-1912 book I bought on eBay for my Geisha library.

                                          Alt...Geisha: A Photographic History: 1872-1912 book I bought on eBay for my Geisha library.

                                            Verena Rupp boosted

                                            [?]George Penney » 🌐
                                            @georgepenney@sunny.garden

                                            Hey lovely people. Big announcement today.

                                            We're launching Beautiful Words, an indie writing con based in Nelson New Zealand and Online in September & October 2026.

                                            beautifulwords.net/

                                            So many awesome events, including in-person and online Tiny Moments workshops that will be for everyone.

                                            There'll also be workshops about friend making and networking. Practical writing and publishing workshops. And some really amazing talks by some wonderful writing people.

                                            We'll be announcing the online program within the next few weeks, but if you want to make sure you don't miss anything, just sign up to the newsletter on the website or follow our new Beautiful Words account:

                                            bookstodon.com/@beautifulwords

                                            Everything at the in-person con is Koha*/Pay-what-you-can or affordable.

                                            The online program will be all Koha*/Pay-what-you-can because we know how tight the money is right now for people, especially creatives.

                                            *Koha is a Māori custom which can be translated as gift, present, offering, donation or contribution.

                                            (As always, much more, including context for the typewriter on the beach, in the alt text!)

                                            Short description: You're looking at an image of a sun drenched beach at low tide with a table featuring a typewriter on it in the foreground. The words Beautiful Words, An Indie Writing Con Based in Sunny Nelson, New Zealand & Online, 1 September - 10 October 2026 are superimposed over the sand and sky above the typewriter and table. Longer description. The table's covered in a red and white check table cloth, hand sewn and if you zoomed in you'd see that I am an anarchist who does not care about snipping loose threads. There's a cup of black tea in a vintage blue and white china cup, the sort your nan might have owned, and some biscuits on the saucer under the cup. They're an anzac biscuit and a fairy biscuit, which is essentially sprinkles on icing on a sweet bikkie. The typewriter on the table is green and quite stylish. This is a typewriter you could take to a fancy dinner and it wouldn't be out of place. There's also a small white tea pot on the table, a shell and a small purple vase with a wayward bit of greenery sticking out of it. In front of the table is a stool with a retro black and white cushion on it. Why is this table at the beach? Ask the batty author who lugged it there a month ago in a beach wagon and they won't quite be able to tell you. But you can definitely picture that author munching on a biscuit or ten while taking this picture. The beach is sprawling, the sky a brilliant clear blue and there are mountains in the background because it is New Zealand and those suckers lurk everywhere. The writing superimposed over the top is in orange and blue. The overall vibe is an author who's sorted a writing con for the past three months and isn't quite sure what sane is anymore. Why else would they lug a typewriter, a tea set, a teapot and biscuits to the beach? Maybe they need another one of those biscuits. They're rather delicious. Especially the anzac ones.

                                            Alt...Short description: You're looking at an image of a sun drenched beach at low tide with a table featuring a typewriter on it in the foreground. The words Beautiful Words, An Indie Writing Con Based in Sunny Nelson, New Zealand & Online, 1 September - 10 October 2026 are superimposed over the sand and sky above the typewriter and table. Longer description. The table's covered in a red and white check table cloth, hand sewn and if you zoomed in you'd see that I am an anarchist who does not care about snipping loose threads. There's a cup of black tea in a vintage blue and white china cup, the sort your nan might have owned, and some biscuits on the saucer under the cup. They're an anzac biscuit and a fairy biscuit, which is essentially sprinkles on icing on a sweet bikkie. The typewriter on the table is green and quite stylish. This is a typewriter you could take to a fancy dinner and it wouldn't be out of place. There's also a small white tea pot on the table, a shell and a small purple vase with a wayward bit of greenery sticking out of it. In front of the table is a stool with a retro black and white cushion on it. Why is this table at the beach? Ask the batty author who lugged it there a month ago in a beach wagon and they won't quite be able to tell you. But you can definitely picture that author munching on a biscuit or ten while taking this picture. The beach is sprawling, the sky a brilliant clear blue and there are mountains in the background because it is New Zealand and those suckers lurk everywhere. The writing superimposed over the top is in orange and blue. The overall vibe is an author who's sorted a writing con for the past three months and isn't quite sure what sane is anymore. Why else would they lug a typewriter, a tea set, a teapot and biscuits to the beach? Maybe they need another one of those biscuits. They're rather delicious. Especially the anzac ones.

                                              [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                              @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                              Old Yeller by Fred Gibson

                                              For my father and mother, Beck and Emma Gipson, whose memorable tales of frontier dogs supplies me with the incident and background for this story.

                                              Alt...For my father and mother, Beck and Emma Gipson, whose memorable tales of frontier dogs supplies me with the incident and background for this story.

                                                [?]Caesai » 🌐
                                                @caesai@mastodon.social

                                                José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.

                                                José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.

                                                Alt...José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.

                                                  [?]Caesai » 🌐
                                                  @caesai@mastodon.social

                                                  László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.

                                                  László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.

                                                  Alt...László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.

                                                    [?]Andrew Oliver 📚 » 🌐
                                                    @andrewoliver@mastodon.social

                                                    Take a look at what just arrived! This is the first batch of books for upcoming Means and Motive signing events! Hardcovers are on the way.

                                                    Means and Motive is available on Amazon in print, and DRM-free digital and Kindle Unlimited: amazon.com/dp/B0GYCZJVGX
                                                    Also at Barnes and Noble (paperback): barnesandnoble.com/w/means-and

                                                    Paperback copies of Means and Motive ready for signing

                                                    Alt...Paperback copies of Means and Motive ready for signing

                                                      [?]earthling » 🌐
                                                      @appassionato@mastodon.social

                                                      Cognition-Based Biology

                                                      Cellular Sentience, Communication, and Symbiosis

                                                      Springer 2026

                                                      link.springer.com/book/10.1007

                                                      Cognition-Based Biology (CBB) is a radical restructuring of biological and evolutionary development as a comprehensive alternative narrative to 20th century Neo-Darwinism and its critical deficiencies. Our work substantiates that cells are conscious agents and have been since life's origin.






                                                      Consequently, biology represents a holistic continuum of intelligent natural learning, propelled by the coordinated interactions among cognitive agents at every scale and extending uninterruptedly for billions of years. This unification is possible because the co-authors are the originators of each of the underlying conceptual facets that will underpin this volume. Consequently, we are able to combine our peer-accepted ideas into a unique synthesis that recasts biological and evolutionary development into a modern frame.

By combining multiple  unique biological concepts into a single, comprehensive evolutionary narrative, this book articulates an entirely new approach to biology, which will become the foundational work in the field  in the 21st century.  Biology urgently requires this overhaul.

                                                      Alt...Consequently, biology represents a holistic continuum of intelligent natural learning, propelled by the coordinated interactions among cognitive agents at every scale and extending uninterruptedly for billions of years. This unification is possible because the co-authors are the originators of each of the underlying conceptual facets that will underpin this volume. Consequently, we are able to combine our peer-accepted ideas into a unique synthesis that recasts biological and evolutionary development into a modern frame. By combining multiple unique biological concepts into a single, comprehensive evolutionary narrative, this book articulates an entirely new approach to biology, which will become the foundational work in the field in the 21st century. Biology urgently requires this overhaul.

                                                        [?]RJT » 🌐
                                                        @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                                                        [?]RJT » 🌐
                                                        @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                                                        [?]RJT » 🌐
                                                        @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                                                        [?]Beautiful Words » 🌐
                                                        @beautifulwords@bookstodon.com

                                                        Hey lovely people. Big announcement today.

                                                        We're launching Beautiful Words, a skills based indie writing con based in Nelson New Zealand and Online in September & October 2026. All events online will be pay-what-you-can.

                                                        beautifulwords.net/

                                                        We'll be announcing the online program within the next few weeks, but if you want to make sure you don't miss anything, just sign up to the newsletter on the website or follow us here.

                                                        Short description: You're looking at an image of a sun drenched beach at low tide with a table featuring a typewriter on it in the foreground. The words Beautiful Words, An Indie Writing Con Based in Sunny Nelson, New Zealand & Online, 1 September - 10 October 2026 are superimposed over the sand and sky above the typewriter and table. Longer description. The table's covered in a red and white check table cloth, hand sewn and if you zoomed in you'd see that I am an anarchist who does not care about snipping loose threads. There's a cup of black tea in a vintage blue and white china cup, the sort your nan might have owned, and some biscuits on the saucer under the cup. They're an anzac biscuit and a fairy biscuit, which is essentially sprinkles on icing on a sweet bikkie. The typewriter on the table is green and quite stylish. This is a typewriter you could take to a fancy dinner and it wouldn't be out of place. There's also a small white tea pot on the table, a shell and a small purple vase with a wayward bit of greenery sticking out of it. In front of the table is a stool with a retro black and white cushion on it. Why is this table at the beach? Ask the batty author who lugged it there a month ago in a beach wagon and they won't quite be able to tell you. But you can definitely picture that author munching on a biscuit or ten while taking this picture. The beach is sprawling, the sky a brilliant clear blue and there are mountains in the background because it is New Zealand and those suckers lurk everywhere. The writing superimposed over the top is in orange and blue. The overall vibe is an author who's sorted a writing con for the past three months and isn't quite sure what sane is anymore. Why else would they lug a typewriter, a tea set, a teapot and biscuits to the beach? Maybe they need another one of those biscuits. They're rather delicious. Especially the anzac ones.

                                                        Alt...Short description: You're looking at an image of a sun drenched beach at low tide with a table featuring a typewriter on it in the foreground. The words Beautiful Words, An Indie Writing Con Based in Sunny Nelson, New Zealand & Online, 1 September - 10 October 2026 are superimposed over the sand and sky above the typewriter and table. Longer description. The table's covered in a red and white check table cloth, hand sewn and if you zoomed in you'd see that I am an anarchist who does not care about snipping loose threads. There's a cup of black tea in a vintage blue and white china cup, the sort your nan might have owned, and some biscuits on the saucer under the cup. They're an anzac biscuit and a fairy biscuit, which is essentially sprinkles on icing on a sweet bikkie. The typewriter on the table is green and quite stylish. This is a typewriter you could take to a fancy dinner and it wouldn't be out of place. There's also a small white tea pot on the table, a shell and a small purple vase with a wayward bit of greenery sticking out of it. In front of the table is a stool with a retro black and white cushion on it. Why is this table at the beach? Ask the batty author who lugged it there a month ago in a beach wagon and they won't quite be able to tell you. But you can definitely picture that author munching on a biscuit or ten while taking this picture. The beach is sprawling, the sky a brilliant clear blue and there are mountains in the background because it is New Zealand and those suckers lurk everywhere. The writing superimposed over the top is in orange and blue. The overall vibe is an author who's sorted a writing con for the past three months and isn't quite sure what sane is anymore. Why else would they lug a typewriter, a tea set, a teapot and biscuits to the beach? Maybe they need another one of those biscuits. They're rather delicious. Especially the anzac ones.

                                                          [?]Hokkaido Market ☑️ » 🌐
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                                                          The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Sōhō hokkaidomarket.net/books-info.

                                                          paperback book cover of JAPAN genre

                                                          Alt...paperback book cover of JAPAN genre

                                                            [?]RJT » 🌐
                                                            @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                                                            [?]RJT » 🌐
                                                            @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                                                            [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
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                                                            ¿Qué necesito para tener esa fuerza? Llego a casa, la veo sonreír de lejos y me quedo callado otra vez. Quiero acercarme, pero algo me frena. ¿Valor? ¿Confianza? ¿Dejar de pensar tanto?
                                                            fictograma.com/d/3472-vivirse-

                                                              [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                              @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                              Don Quijote (Capítulo XXI):🗡️ Don Quijote confunde una bacía de barbero con el yelmo de Mambrino, Sancho se parte de risa y el pobre barbero sale huyendo.
                                                              fictograma.com/d/3473-el-ingen

                                                                [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                Hamlet - FINAL: 🎭 Duelo, veneno y traición en la corte de Elsinor. Hamlet y Laertes esgrimen floretes, pero la copa envenenada y la punta emponzoñada sellan el destino de todos. Horacio sobrevive...
                                                                fictograma.com/d/3475-hamlet-f

                                                                  [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                  @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                  "El Indio": 🌾 El líder indígena, entre promesas, armas y política, mueve a su pueblo en una espiral de intereses. La tierra, el voto, la lealtad... y al... 📜🔥
                                                                  fictograma.com/d/3474-el-indio

                                                                    [?]CM Thiede » 🌐
                                                                    @cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                    "Shall government be for the benefit of private interests, or shall government be for the benefit of the public interest? This is the simple issue involved in the present conflict in the nation."

                                                                    -Robert M. La Follette

                                                                    A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences
                                                                    © 1912

                                                                      [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                      @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                      👽📦 ¿Mudanza, amor… o una conspiración alienígena? Juan solo quería empezar una nueva vida con Carla, pero el narrador no deja de sembrar dudas. Humor, fantasía y mucho...
                                                                      fictograma.com/d/3476-la-vida-

                                                                        [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                        @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                        🚚🛏️ Juan va por unas simples sábanas... y termina rodeado de girasoles, teorías conspirativas y un narrador que no deja de sembrar dudas. ¿Casualidad o un misterio floreciendo?
                                                                        fictograma.com/d/3477-la-vida-

                                                                          [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
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                                                                          🚗😂 Juan cree que va a un cumpleaños… pero entre el silencioso Miguel, el clan Zpinoza-Cortez y un narrador que no deja de meter cizaña, todo parece un secuestro con torta...
                                                                          fictograma.com/d/3478-la-vida-

                                                                            [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
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                                                                            🖤 Entre confesiones, bromas y un abrigo que parece hecho para él, Aiden y Erina fortalecen un vínculo que nace en medio del dolor. Un capítulo íntimo que mezcla emoción, humor y pequeño.
                                                                            fictograma.com/d/3479-restos-d

                                                                              [?]Media Japan » 🌐
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                                                                              wacoca.com/media/709298/ 『みんな大好き!ヤマザキパン シールBOOK』2026年7月28日発売 – TOWER RECORDS ONLINE #『みんな大好き!ヤマザキパンシールBOOK』2026年7月28日発売

                                                                              みんな大好き!ヤマザキパン シールBOOK

                                                                              Alt...みんな大好き!ヤマザキパン シールBOOK

                                                                                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
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                                                                                Plugged by Eoin Colfer

                                                                                With thanks to Declan Denny for his invaluable attention to my details

                                                                                Alt...With thanks to Declan Denny for his invaluable attention to my details

                                                                                  [?]Waywords Studio » 🌐
                                                                                  @WaywordsStudio@mastodon.social

                                                                                  𝟯-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗔 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗻 -

                                                                                  Prosaic
                                                                                  Thoughtful
                                                                                  Endeavoring

                                                                                  𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

                                                                                  𝘗𝘳𝘦-𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 5 of your favorite titles from the past 20 years, how well do they fall into Richardson's categories as you read them?

                                                                                    [?]Walt » 🌐
                                                                                    @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

                                                                                    @freebooksbot

                                                                                    Astounding Science-Fiction (October 1944) - featured story: Blind Man's Buff by Malcolm Jameson.




                                                                                    @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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                                                                                    Cover art by William Timmins

                                                                                    Astounding Science-Fiction (October 1944) - featured story: Blind Man's Buff by Malcolm Jameson. Cover art by William Timmins.

A Street & Smith Publication, 25 Cents

A sleek, red, torpedo-shaped vessel flies through a dense forest with its nose pointed toward the right. A dark horizontal stripe runs along the side of the craft, and white light radiates from behind it in sharp, jagged rays. Dark, textured tree trunks and branches occupy the foreground and middle ground, partially obscuring the vessel against a background of blurry, vertical streaks of yellow, green, and white.

                                                                                    Alt...Astounding Science-Fiction (October 1944) - featured story: Blind Man's Buff by Malcolm Jameson. Cover art by William Timmins. A Street & Smith Publication, 25 Cents A sleek, red, torpedo-shaped vessel flies through a dense forest with its nose pointed toward the right. A dark horizontal stripe runs along the side of the craft, and white light radiates from behind it in sharp, jagged rays. Dark, textured tree trunks and branches occupy the foreground and middle ground, partially obscuring the vessel against a background of blurry, vertical streaks of yellow, green, and white.

                                                                                      [?]Searching The Meaning Of Life! (S.T.M.O.L) » 🌐
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