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You know what... imagine being a servant at the Red Keep. There are places you just don't go because there's a creepy feeling about that part of the castle.

That great black tom cat who haunts the corridors and yards scratches anyone in Lannister gold and red, so when you feed him scraps you remove any tabards with those colours.

Most of the kitchen staff adore him, he lets you pet his belly if you feed him long enough.

You're fairly certain there's ghosts in the keep.

Maegor's Holdfast is the worst.

You hear the sound of children's laughter in the distance. One maid swears she saw a pair of silver haired children, a boy and a girl, running through the corridors. Sometimes you find the old tom under a particular bed and you swear you hear a little voice shush you.

There's a part of the training yard you hear the sound of a child crying as he's being beaten.

Some of the servants leave toys and offerings for the young ghosts. The sacrificial children of the dragon kings.

You hope they find their peace.

tinagodiva

Oban, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

christiangittingsblog

Cool interesting picture of Oban Scotland, Oban is cool place to visit if you are ever in Scotland

woodelf68

#for the curious#the big colleseum inspired thing at the top of the hill was a sponsored project#as both a monument *and* to give masons work during the winter months#McCaig didn't do things by halves XD#as per the rule of Scots building fancy mock-Greco-Roman-things on hills#it was never completed

ilions-end

reading about the great panathenaea and desperately yearning for a huge festival every four years were we'd get the greatest storytellers of our time to tell the entirety of the iliad and the odyssey with the audience weeping and cheering and hanging onto every word

sweaterface

same but different

thegaylibertarian

liminalweirdo

I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.

ryttu3k

How to remove DRM from Kindle with Calibre.

I use Kobo, which uses a slightly different method. Some publishers already don't use DRM. Great! You're good to go. Most others will be listed as using Adobe DRM. For that, you'll need Adobe Digital Editions.

Download the DRM file. This will be an ASCM file (Adobe Content Server Message) called 'URLLink.ascm'. This isn't an ebook, it's basically just a link.

Open in Adobe Digital Editions. It should automatically download the ebook.

Locate the actual file location. By default, this is Documents > My Digital Editions. This will give you the epub file, with DRM.

Follow the above instructions to install DeDRM in Calibre.

Drag the epub file into Calibre. If you've installed DeDRM correctly, there'll be a button up the top labelled 'Convert books'.

Up the top of the window, there'll be 'Input format' on the left, and 'Output format' on the right. Input will default to EPUB, select whatever you like (including EPUB again) for output. Select 'OK' (bottom right).

Locate your Calibre file. For me, this was Documents > Calibre. By default, books are listed in subfolders by author, then title. Open the folder for the book you converted, and you should have four files - a cover, an OPF file with metadata, your new EPUB file, and an old version with the file extension of .original_epub.

Not necessary, but I prefer to do this for organisation - you can now place the DRM-free EPUB file wherever you like. I have folders for my own library that I can back up as I wish.

You may want an ereader not tied to a particular platform. I use one for my phone called Moon+ Reader. It has a free option with unobtrusive ads (which only show when you close a book). Otherwise, using Calibre on my PC has its own epub reader.

Anyway. Not hyperbole. Microsoft closed its ebook platform in 2019 and people lost their entire libraries. Back your books up.

sandmandaddy69

harzilla

Reblog to cast healing for your homies.

modern-politics111

“But my senator is a Republican”

Gamergate was like 200 people. And now look where we are. “A lot of emails” on a topic to congressional staffers is like, 20. Are politicians spineless idiots? Yes. Use that to your advantage! Is this the only thing you can be doing? No! But it can be the first.

The internet has completely short circuited our sense of scale. The number of people required to move almost any needle is remarkably low. Your involvement in local causes, political pressure WILL have an impact.

Ok, get out there.

Activists and lawmakers say a phone call can have more weight and be harder to ignore than an email or social media post.

theprofessional-amateur

Need some help/inspiration calling your republican reps? Check out Red State Scripts

The fascists will fash, but I can’t let them believe they’re doing it with my implied consent.

lyricwritesprose

Also, while calling may have more of an effect than emailing, email doesn't have zero effect, so if that's all you can do, do that. Every bit helps.

felassan

happy Valentine's day everyone (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡~~

Which BioWare romances are your favs? Which ones are your canon worldstates?

You know what is a really weird thing? ADHD fatigue in undergrad compared to Master's level.

Like at least I had multiple classes in a day to keep me active, and yeah I trudged through the school work but it was manageable.

Master's level: Yes I am in a new field than what I was in before(Classics and History to Archaeology), but only one class on certain days and sometimes it get moved to the next week last minute. The fact that I no longer want to get out of bed and just sleep as my alarm goes off every 5 minutes to get me up...

I think I understand the rouges more

#gotham university #only in gotham #gothamite #onlyingotham #gotham uni #college life #gotham city #batman #batfamily

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jinxfmrl

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.

republicansareahategroup

don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA

deadredactedwalking-deactivated

300,000 notes and i can’t find a transcript

sky-squido

Transcript: (sorry for the language!)

Speaker: “I see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! I’ll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what’s gonna become of us real Americans!”

Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: “I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”

Young man: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.“

Speaker: “What are us real Americans gonna do about it? You’ll find it right here in this little pamphlet—the truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! You’ll find…” [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]

Hungarian man: “You believe in that kind of talk?“

Young man: “I dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.“

Speaker: “And I tell you, friends, we’ll never be able to call this country our own until it’s a country without… without what?“

Other man: “Yeah? Without what?“

Speaker: “Without negroes, without alien foreigners,”—the young man is nodding, following along—“without Catholics, without Freemasons! You know these…“

Young man: “What’s wrong with the Masons, I’m a Mason.” Looks to European man worriedly, “hey, that fellow’s talking about me!“

Huungarian man: “And that makes a difference, doesn’t it.“

Speaker: “These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And it’s up to you and me to fight them!” A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like he’s crazy and turn away, “fight them and destroy them before they destroy us!”

Speaker: “Thank you.“

One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: “claps“

Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*

Hungarian man: “Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.”

Young man: “Well yes but, he was talking about… what about those other people?“ *the pair sit down on a park bench*

Hungarian man: “In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, of course.“

Young man: “What about you? You aren’t American, are you?“

Hungarian man: “I was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.”

Young man: “What were you doing there?“

Hungarian man: “I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.”

classicsingotham

This felt relevant to reblog

You'd think moving away to live in another country for a year or two would give you farther distance from teh rouges of gotham??

Nope, they keep popping gp every 2-3 weeks.

#gotham university #only in gotham #gothamite #onlyingotham #gotham uni #college life #gotham city #batfamily #batman

jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear

Living in Gotham Be Like

It’s considered a right of passage to encounter a rogue

You carry an N95 gas mask because of Joker Gas and Fear Toxin

You have adopted a cat from Selina Kyle or you know someone who has

You have autographs from every Robin, but not Batman

Everyone and their best friend has a Trophy Batarang, much like how teenagers in the city have a traffic cone in their bedroom.

Your car insurance does not protect you from Two-Face’s goons and their guns, but does protect against Grand Theft Auto

The ER is constantly full of people who are having panic attacks via Fear Toxin. The ER is also full of those with gunshot wounds.

You once had Poison Ivy as a roommate, she’s really nice.

You probably have Commissioner Gordon on speed dial.

Every Night the Bat-Signal can be seen from your apartment window.

You started the rumor that Bruce Wayne houses a Cow in his manor because you saw a farm trailer headed there one day

You love watching and listening to Vikki Vale and Jack Ryder

Batman always attends the annual Pride parade. One year, Joker crashed the parade and kissed him. People went wild over this.

Riddler has his own college scholarship for underprivileged kids

You once knew someone named Alice, and you couldn’t help but ask them if they had met Mad Hatter

You know a man who owes Penguin money. He is not in good health.

Harley Quinn regularly walks her Hyenas around town, and you once petted them. They are (mostly) friendly.

In grade school your class took a tour of Arkham Asylum. It has a nice gift shop where you can buy rogue merch, and the money goes to maintaining the asylum.

There are rumors that Professor Pyg has a human trafficking ring and that you should never use Uber, because his-goons drive for the company.

Your best friend once got a kiss from Nightwing

classicsingotham

You absolutely know not to go down dark alley ways unless there is a spray painted Red Bat

You know the rumors of Wayne children dying then showing up weeks later alive

The university keeps a close eye on all the master's and PhD students... especially those who specialize in really niche areas of study

Speaking of Master's and PhD students; there is a custom helpline for them in case there is a need/urge to become a rouge

Do not. Repeat. DO NOT! Drink the tap water, you filter it between three separate Britta's. Who know if Scarecrow put fear toxin in it, or joker spilled something, or poison ivy wants to turn everyone into plant. There was one time where all three happened in the span of one week and people have not recovered.

Yes certain artefacts in the museum are cursed, do not mess with the wards. Jason blood is annoyed when some one does

#gotham university #only in gotham #gothamite #onlyingotham #gotham uni #batfamily #gotham city #batman