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The One Book I’ve Read More Than Any Other: Why Americanah Never Gets Old
Americanah is a powerful and thought-provoking novel that explores identity, race, immigration, love, and the meaning of home through the unforgettable journey of Ifemelu and Obinze. With rich storytelling and sharp social commentary, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie invites readers to reflect on belonging, cultural identity, and the realities of living between two worlds. It is a moving novel that stays with you long after the final page. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Which book have you read more than any other?
This was the copy I got
When it comes to a book that I have read more than others, or should I say more than once, or rather multiple times, then it would be Americana by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I got this book back then at Uni in 2014, and I read it every year because I love it so much. To me, it’s not just any book; it reminds me of who I am, even when others don’t accept me or recognize me.
Americanah is a 2013 novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It follows two young lovers, Ifemelu and Obinze, who leave military-ruled Nigeria. Ifemelu moves to America, where she grapples with race and identity, while Obinze faces an undocumented life in London before they reunite in Lagos.
The awareness of one’s race is a central theme in Americanah, particularly how it differs between Nigeria and America. In her original home, Ifemelu doesn’t recognize her Black identity. The U.S. exposes her to discrimination.
This book opens my eyes to a whole lot of things. It is about love, race, independence, and identity.
But despite their separation, the challenges Ifemelu faced in America, trying so hard to belong in a country that sees only her skin color, coupled with the identity struggles, and Obinze, on the other hand, working really hard to establish himself, they were finally united in love.
This book reminds me that love always conquers, even when it seems or looks impossible, even when others believe it won’t happen, or when it feels like it’s not possible, love always wins, and I believe so much in love.
Even if you are separated from someone you love, and they love you back by seen or unforeseen circumstances, the universe has a way of bringing you both back to each other, and when that happens, nothing else matters.
Truth be told, I love this book and every other book by the author, and I still do. I can go to the moon and back for her books 😄😊
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The One Book I’ve Read More Than Any Other: Why Americanah Never Gets Old
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Rojava in Focus: Critical Dialogues, edited by Cihad Hammy and Thomas Jeffrey Miley #books #literature #dedication
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We dedicate this book to the people of Rojava,
and to all who have sacrificed their lives for the revolution
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“She Said Yes, He Said Nah… Then Karma Said Watch This!” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
(T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of All’s Well That End’s Well by William Shakespeare Helen was the kind of girl people underestimated way too fast. She was smart, loyal, and had a heart big enough to make up for all the nonsense around her. The problem was, she was also poor and low-key treated like she didn’t matter just because she wasn’t born into some fancy life. Still, she had one thing going for her: she was deeply in love with Bertram, a handsome young nobleman […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
(T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of All’s Well That End’s Well by William Shakespeare
Helen was the kind of girl people underestimated way too fast. She was smart, loyal, and had a heart big enough to make up for all the nonsense around her. The problem was, she was also poor and low-key treated like she didn’t matter just because she wasn’t born into some fancy life. Still, she had one thing going for her: she was deeply in love with Bertram, a handsome young nobleman who absolutely did not deserve the level of devotion she gave him.
Bertram’s mother, the Countess of Roussillon, loved Helen like a daughter. She could see Helen’s worth instantly, unlike Bertram, who acted like he was too cool to notice anything that didn’t come with a title. When the Countess became ill, Helen stepped in and basically saved the day by using her knowledge of medicine. She cured her, and everyone was impressed. So impressed, in fact, that the King himself took notice.
Now, the King was seriously unwell too, and no one could fix him. Helen came forward and said she might have a way. She proposed a wild deal: if she cured him, she would get to choose a husband from among the kingdom’s noble young men. The King agreed, because honestly, at that point, he had nothing to lose. Helen healed him, and just like that, she earned her reward.
And who did she choose? Bertram, of course. Massive mistake? Maybe. Romantic? In her mind, yes. Bertram was not having it. He felt forced into the marriage and made it very clear he thought Helen was beneath him. He married her because he had to, but the second he could, he bailed. He ran off to war in Italy, leaving Helen behind with barely a goodbye and a ton of disrespect.
Before leaving, Bertram sent Helen a letter saying he would never truly accept her as his wife unless she did two impossible things: get his family ring from his finger and have his child. In other words, he was basically saying, “Sure, I’ll be your husband when pigs fly.” Most people would have been crushed. Helen, though? She was not the one to quit.
So she put together a plan. She followed Bertram to Italy, where he was busy trying to act like a smooth, high-status heartthrob. There, he started chasing Diana, a clever young woman who was not interested in his fake charm. Diana saw straight through him. She and her mother helped Helen set a trap that was honestly genius-level. Helen disguised herself and arranged for Bertram to think he was seducing Diana, when really he was sleeping with his own wife. Plot twist: he gave Helen the ring, unknowingly keeping her half of the bargain.
Helen also made sure she had proof of the encounter. So now Bertram had, without realizing it, done exactly what he claimed he would never do. He had given up the ring and slept with the woman who was actually his wife. It was messy, sneaky, and absolutely Shakespearean in the most chaotic way.
Meanwhile, Bertram’s behaviour kept getting worse. He bragged, flirted, and acted like he was too good for everyone. But his lies started catching up with him. Helen, who had disappeared on purpose to keep the whole scheme going, returned at the right moment with the evidence needed to expose him. Suddenly, all the people who had doubted her had to face the fact that she had been the smartest person in the room the whole time.
Bertram was cornered. Helen had fulfilled the ridiculous conditions he set, and there was no way out. In front of everyone, the truth came out: she had cured the king, won the right to choose him, followed him across borders, outplayed his ego, and secured the ring. The king and the Countess recognized Helen for what she was: brave, clever, and way above Bertram’s childish attitude.
Bertram was finally forced to face himself. His arrogance got stripped away, and he had no more status tricks left to hide behind. Helen, on the other hand, had pulled off one of the most legendary makeovers of all time—not just in appearance, but in power. She proved that being underestimated can become a superpower when you stay sharp and keep moving.
In the end, the play gives us a victory that is not neat, but it is satisfying. Helen gets her place. Bertram gets exposed. The people who mattered learn to see beyond class and gossip and judge Helen by her actions, not her background. That is the real glow-up here: not just getting the guy, but proving your worth so completely that everyone has to admit they were wrong.
And honestly? All’s well that ends well. Especially when the underdog wins.
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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? Solo sé que mañana volveré a mirarla…
https://fictograma.com/d/3472-vivirse-parte-3-fuerza-borrador
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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.
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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.
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“The Tempest emerges five or six more times in different forms throughout the book.
“Even the end of the book in which, I hope this doesn't give anything away, but in which Caliban actually BECOMES Prospero.
“Which makes the reader realize that they've been reading a very different kind of book than they think they've been reading.”
From The Deerfield Public Library Podcast: 65: Richard Powers, author of Playground, Oct 10, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deerfield-public-library-podcast/id1190347296?i=1000672484715&r=2181
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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...
https://fictograma.com/d/3473-el-ingenioso-hidalgo-don-quijote-de-la-mancha-parte-i-capitulo-21
See also:
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English.
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#India
#literature
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.
https://fictograma.com/d/3475-hamlet-final
"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. 📜🔥
https://fictograma.com/d/3474-el-indio-tercera-parte-politica-gregorio-lopez-y-fuentes
👽📦 ¿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...
https://fictograma.com/d/3476-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-012-ahora-aliens
🚚🛏️ 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? 🌻😂
https://fictograma.com/d/3477-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-013-sabanas
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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)
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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)
🚗😂 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...
https://fictograma.com/d/3478-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-014-secuestro
🖤 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..
https://fictograma.com/d/3479-restos-de-almas-rotas-capitulo-26
Old Yeller by Fred Gibson #books #literature #dedication
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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.
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"Francis Quinn was a politician of the new school. That, of course, is a meaningless expression, as are all expressions of the sort. Most of the “new schools” we have were duplicated in the social life of ancient Greece, and perhaps, if we knew more about it, in the social life of ancient Sumeria and in the lake dwellings of prehistoric Switzerland as well."
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José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.
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José Lezama Lima, _Paradiso_.
László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.
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László Krasznahorkai, _Tango satánico_.
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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?
https://fictograma.com/d/3472-vivirse-parte-3-fuerza-borrador
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.
https://fictograma.com/d/3473-el-ingenioso-hidalgo-don-quijote-de-la-mancha-parte-i-capitulo-21
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...
https://fictograma.com/d/3475-hamlet-final
"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... 📜🔥
https://fictograma.com/d/3474-el-indio-tercera-parte-politica-gregorio-lopez-y-fuentes
👽📦 ¿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...
https://fictograma.com/d/3476-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-012-ahora-aliens
🚚🛏️ 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?
https://fictograma.com/d/3477-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-013-sabanas
🚗😂 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...
https://fictograma.com/d/3478-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-014-secuestro
🖤 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.
https://fictograma.com/d/3479-restos-de-almas-rotas-capitulo-26
Plugged by Eoin Colfer #books #literature #dedication
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Neil Young, the Capitalist
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Poetry is a Responsibility
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Adamant Curtain Wells
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Folding in several pieces
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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?
#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #3words #brianrichardson #nonfiction #narratology #literarycriticism #academics
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Astounding Science-Fiction (October 1944) - featured story: Blind Man's Buff by Malcolm Jameson.
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
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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.
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Automateed finds self-help dominates 77,000 AI-written books: Self-help titles top 77,636 books at 10.8 percent of Automateed's catalog across 216 countries, raising questions about how saturated that market has become. https://ppc.land/automateed-finds-self-help-dominates-77-000-ai-written-books/ #SelfHelp #AIWriting #Automation #BookMarket #Literature
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More collectible Ray Bradbury:
https://astralcomputing.com/books/the-martian-chronicles-bradbury-easton-press-signed
https://astralcomputing.com/books/dandelion-wine-bradbury-easton-press
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After craving some more Moby Dick I ended up reading a 2025 novel by E. Rutherford called "North Sun".
Very well written and definitely lots of connections to Melville's work (honestly if I hadn't read Moby Dick so recently I wouldn't get a lot North Sun's whaling lore), but in the end it didn't deliver to me.
Longer review here: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/532caed4-43a7-4f7c-86a4-90d20dea0371
Died this day: 07/12/2010 (b. 06/27/1941) James P. Hogan was a British science fiction author. The Giants series, a quintet of science fiction novels by James P. Hogan, were published between 1977 and 2005. Locus Nominated "Inherit the Stars" (1977) was the first in the series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Hogan_%28writer%29
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The cover of James P. Hogan's "Inherit the Stars", illustrated by Darrell K. Sweet, depicts three astronauts on a desolate, rocky, moon-like landscape under a dark, star-studded sky. In the upper center, large, bold, yellow sans-serif text reads "INHERIT THE STARS," with "THE" smaller and positioned between the other two words. Above the title, a white quote reads, '"Pure science fiction...Arthur Clarke move over!"—ISAAC ASIMOV'. Below the title, the author's name, "James P. Hogan," is written in a white, stylized, cursive-like font.
In the foreground, an astronaut in a bright red spacesuit lies prone on the brown, rocky ground, facing the viewer; their visor reveals a skull-like face. To the left, a second astronaut in a grey, textured spacesuit uses a shovel to dig into the dirt, featuring a reflective blue and white visor. To the right, a third astronaut in a similar grey suit leans over a large, dark brown rock, looking toward the astronaut in red. All suits feature visible patches, straps, and life-support backpacks.
The background is a deep navy sky peppered with bright white stars and faint nebulous patches. The light brown, monochromatic ground is filled with uneven terrain and various rocks. Dramatic lighting casts deep shadows, suggesting a single, harsh light source from above. The top right features a white "SF" logo over "A DEL REY BOOK," and the top center reads "Ballantine/30107/$2.50".
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 12
Born on this day: Henry David Thoreau (1817)
Lived deliberately at Walden Pond. Still teaching us to simplify.
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Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire by Alev Scott #books #literature #dedication
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In memory of my Granny Şifa,
and other victims of nationalism.
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Before reading The Bride of Ashbyrn House, I had never read anything by Amy Cross. Not only did the novel impress me, but it quickly became one of my all-time favorites.
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the stroll of the gentlewoman becomes a
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march past the man who
sags outside the door against the wallhe with the eyes full of storm on the horizon
that measure the soil on the clothes and the wear
the number of teeth in the mouths of those who pass
the men who enter and the men who go outuntil the sight of one as poor as he causes
the dark clouds in his eyes to reverse themselvesuntil he asks friend can you spare a heller
that one for that one also leave
a place in the contract for his name
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"Fellow-men have turned out to be evil spirits, monstrous and weird." -- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Man is not Alone" (1951). #Books #Literature #Philosophy #Religion #Spirituality #Judaism
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Scan of a page from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's "Man is Not Alone". First two-and-a-half paragraphs read:
For us, contemporaries and survivors of history’s most terrible
horrors, it is impossible to meditate about the compassion of
God without asking: Where is God?
Emblazoned over the gates of the world in which we live js
the escutcheon of the demons. The mark of Cain * on the face
of man has come to overshadow the likeness of God. There
has never been so much distress, agony and terror. It is often
sinful for the sun to shine. At no time has the earth been so
soaked with blood. Fellow-men have turned out to be evil spirits, monstrous and weird. Does not history look like a stage
for the dance of might and evil—with man’s wits too feeble
to separate the two and God either directing the play or indif-
ferent to it?
The major folly of this view seems to lie in its shifting the
responsibility for man’s plight from man to God, in accusing
the Invisible though iniquity is ours. Rather than admit our
wn guilt, we seek, like Adam, to shift the blame upon some-
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#Introduction
How should I introduce us?
We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.
This is an unofficial profile.. we’re sort of on vacation here on #Mastodon. So, our interests are numerous and varied.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of keywords:
#art #culture #music
#literature #photography
#history #science
#earth #space
#sciencefiction
#reader #writer #blogger
#retro #vintage
Kind of #geek about:
#linux #opensource
#MSDOS #DOSGaming #CPM
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #BBS
#gaming #videogames
#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev
I mainly play:
#rpg #dnd #mmorpg #rogue #nethack #roguelike #tetris
Everyone is Welcome! 🖖😎
Friendly and respectful.
Feel free to spread the word by a retoot. Merci beaucoup! :0)
@solarphasing run this profile on #Mastodon #fediverse since 2017.
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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.
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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.
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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.
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"Nature does not need our letters, even if they are written with blood" - book "Over the wall of despair", Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian opposition figure, around 2010-s
#quote #literature #politics #Russia #opposition #history #pessimism
SHERIFF'S BALL. An execution. To dance at the sheriff's ball, and loll out one's tongue at the company; to be hanged, or go to rest in a horse's night-cap, i.e. a halter.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot):
SHERIFF'S BALL. An execution. To dance at the sheriff's ball, and loll out one's tongue at the company; to be hanged, or go to rest in a horse's night-cap, i.e. a halter.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher #books #literature #dedication
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To all the heroes in the group chats,
who save the world for one another
Early Morning Hunger
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