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topless mahjong is gonna be the next big thing
Does anyone have this picture
But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title
I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it
This image?
YES
PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)
+ bonus italian navy vessel
You’re an organ in the working body of this world, Mallory Glass. No amount of scornful looks and sour remarks is going to change that.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbot Abbot, published in 1884, is public domain. That means it has no copyright, and belongs to everyone.
This post will have links to as many versions and adaptations of it as I can find, and will be updated whenver I find new links to add.
Feel free to copy and paste this whole entire post and make it a new post for your own blog too!
None of these links are piracy, because you literally cannot pirate what has no copyright. Anyone who tells you you must pay to read the original Flatland is scamming you.
The only time you should be spending money on Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, is if you find a cool physical copy that you want specifically.
Check the original post before reblogging to look for updates if you are seeing this post days, weeks, or months after I originally post it.
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Visual books:
Public domain:
The Original Novel:
Read online or ownload the original book in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg
Read or download from Standard Ebooks
Read and download from the Internet Archive. This also includes a computer-generated audiobook.
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The 2024 translation:
Read online or download the 2024 translation in multiple formats from the Internet Archive. This also includes a computer-voiced audiobook.
Read the 2024 translation here on tumblr @flatland-a-2024-translation
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The 2024 Summary:
You can read and download this from the Internet Archive in multiple formats, including editable documents. Or read here on tumblr.
You can also buy a physical copy here, or purchase the files from Itch.io.
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Audiobooks:
The original novel:
Listen to the original book on the Internet Archive, read by Ruth Golding
Listen to the original book on the Internet Archive read by David "Grizzly" Smith
The 2024 translation:
Listen and read-along with the lazy audiobook of the 2024 translation on Youtube
(no audiobook available for the summary....yet)
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Free visual media with full stories:
Here’s an animation from 1965. Contains some flashing lights.
Here’s a stop motion film from 1982 in Italian with English subtitles
Here’s an animation from 2006
The 2007 Flatland film by Ladd Ehlinger is free on youtube. Unfortunately Ladd Ehlinger is a virulently racist and misogynistic conservative who thinks feeding school kids is the same thing as slavery. His film is filled with almost constant flashing lights and spinning cameras that cause headaches, motion sickness, migraines, and seizures.
Here is a link to timestamps for these if you still choose to watch it.
The film ignores all of the politics from the original novel because the creator of the film agrees with the bigotry the novel condemned. You are much better off watching another visual adaption or reading the original or translated book.
Especially if you suffer from photosensitivity or motion-sickness, this film will make you want to throw up.
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Shorter visual media:
In-universe
Part 4 of a Korean animation. from 2010. Haven't found parts 1-3 yet.
A short animation from 2020 showing an Equilateral being taken away from his Isosceles parents
Flatland Heist from 2013, A short animation from 2013 where the Narrator and Sphere team up to rob a bank :)
Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions Alternate Timeline (without audio yet) 2024 Here's the version with audio
No Nonbinary Door 2024
A Visit to Lineland 2024
Up, Up, and Away 2024
Meta:
A short TED-Ed summarizing the math parts of Flatland from 2014
Another short animation explaining the math of Flatland from 2012
A long presentation (38 mins) about the math in Flatland. from 2017
Youtube Shorts:
A very short animation about the narrator meeting the Sphere
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Related books by other authors, in publishing order:
Public domain:
An Episode of Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension. With Which is Bound Up an Outline of the History of Unæa by Charles Howard Hinton. (1907) Public domain, unlimited reading and downloading. It's terrible. But you can rewrite it to make it not terrible.
The 4D Doodler, by Graph Waldeyer. Also on Youtube as an audiobook.
Other copyright:
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster (1963) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. A short....poem? Nothing to actually do with Flatland.
The Incredible Umbrella by Marvin Kaye (1980) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. I have not read it yet.
Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe, by Dionys Burger. (1983) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. It's racist. Was intended to be a sequel to Flatland, but the author's racist and failed every lesson Flatland tried to teach.
“Message Found in a Copy of Flatland” by Rudy Rucker (1983) free to read online from the author.
The Fourth Dimension, by Rudy Rucker (1984). Can be read for free online from the author. I have not read it yet.
The Planiverse: Computer Contact With a Two-dimensional World by Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (1984) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. Good 2D worldbuilding, nonexistant plot and boring abrupt ending.
Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart (2001) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. it's useless crap that unironically defends the bigotry against Irregulars from the original novel by pretending it's just natural selection that's totally natural and not at all artificialy and violently upheld to uphold the supremacy of the Circles.
Spaceland by Rudy Rucker (2002) Can be borrowed by 1 person at a time. I have not read it yet.
VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2002) by Steve Tomasula. no copies donated to the internet archive yet. I have not read it yet.
A 2024 Summary of Flatland. Buy a physical copy here. Buy a digital copy here.
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Neopronoun short stories:
The Breaking Point, a short story of a Line and Isosceles in another country of Flatland, attempting to deal with an abusive officer of the military who's invited himself into their home. Almost 4k words.
First Day of School, a young equilateral has zov first day at school, and discovers that the "specimen" they're supposed to be studying is someone zo knows.
Gaining a New Perspective, a short story of the Sphere contemplating everything that's happened after throwing the narrator of Flatland back down to his plane. Almost exactly 5k words.
Other short fiction:
[link me your stories and a short summary to go here!!]
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Please feel free to add more links and I'll add them to this original post.
Here's the first masterpost I made which has fewer links.
God I fucking love being a monk at the Monastery of Lindisfarne on this fine morning of June 8th, 793. I love looking at all the gold and silver objects and alive monks that live here.
getting warmed up for the zine :)
happy pride month
Use your PTO
i love how tumblr users will see a po[3pm 7th June]st with a date in and just black out and hit schedule
bobs floating head
in the comments he revealed that he replaced all his overheads with color changing smart bulbs too. and that he owns one (1) lamp. unclear if it changes colors or not
these are getting weird
Predictions for Dungeons & Dragons under Hasbro's management in the coming years:
Uma Musume style horsegirls introduced to the Forgotten Realms; setting's lore revised so that they've always been there.
Advancement rules now stipulate per-session XP bonus based on lifetime D&D Beyond purchase history.
Compendium of exclusive feat trees for specific gender and sexual identities. Bisexuality receives no feats of its own, being mechanically implemented as "half gay"; the resulting synergies are disgusting.
Editorial error in revised Dungeon Master's Guide accidentally refers to Dungeon Masters as Hasbro's employees.
"Noble savage" coding of barbarian class walked back, refocused on European folkloric touchstones such as the Ulster Cycle; all barbarian characters become Irish stereotypes.
AI-based DM service trained exclusively on work of Ed Greenwood launched; withdrawn a week later citing "guiderail issues".
Expanded discussion of navigating player expectations frames "not showing up at all" as a valid playstyle.
Dragon-blooded sorcerer subclass revised to state that one of the character's ancestors was "very good friends" with a dragon.
Never read Baldwin before?
Nonfiction
The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)
The Fire Next Time (pdf download)
Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)
Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)
The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)
Fiction
Giovanni's Room (pdf download)
If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)
BONUS
Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)
Another Country (pdf and epub download)
Sonny's Blues (pdf download)
Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)
My emperor told me he keeps losing his armies and their generals to the bandits of Liangshan marsh. I asked what he does about that and he said he just asks the court to recommend some new men of valor to order to suppress the rebels. I said it sounds like he's doing the bandits' recruitment for them and his prime minister sentenced me to the nine familial exterminations.