Blue Shiera Targaryen

books2read.com/DesperateHope In 1814, a spy falls in love in the middle of a dangerous mission, but finds the chance to heal his broken heart. If Ravenscroft can prevent her from shooting him before he explains what's going on... #RegencyRomance #Romancelandia #HistoricalRomance

Shakespeare mind cloud created by Allysa Gray.

Orcas have brain structures you don't have. Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex. Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds. When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you. Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back. Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to. Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food. That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

"Every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods toss a coi-"

"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them." - Ursula K. Le Guin 🎨 Annie Stegg

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Does she know that she will be called every targaryen women under the sun

Hey babe wake up they found a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside the gut of a 1,600 year of Egyptian mummy.

happy world book day to all readers 🫂

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts.  My short story “Ender's Game” was rejected by Ben Bova at Analog back when that was the top market for a sci-fi story. Ben gave me feedback. He thought the title should be “Professional Soldier” and he said to “cut it in half.” But I knew he was wrong on both points and submitted it to Jim Baen at Galaxy. He sat on it for a year, and responded to my query with a rejection. There was some kind of explanation, but I don't remember what it was. I concluded at the time that Baen's comments showed that he had barely glanced at the story. So … I got feedback both times, but it was not helpful. I looked at Ben's rejection again. What was it about the story that made him think it should, let alone COULD, be cut in half? Apparently it FELT long. What made it feel long? Now, post-Harry Potter, I would call it the quidditch problem. I had too many battles in which the details became tedious. So I cut two battles entirely, merely reporting the outcomes, and shortened another. In retyping the whole manuscript (pre-word-processor, that was the only way to get a clean manuscript), I added new point-of-view material to the point that I had cut only one page in length. So much for “in half.” But I already knew that my manuscripts did not need cutting — if it wasn't needed, it wouldn't be there in the first place. Even the battles were still there, but instead of showing them, I merely told what happened (so much for the usually asinine advice “show don't tell”), which kept the pace going. Those changes made, I sent it to Ben again. I did not remind him of what he had advised me to do. I merely told him I liked my title, and said, “I have addressed your other concerns,” which was true. I figured he wouldn't remember what his exact words had been. My answer was a check. That revised story was the basis for my winning the Campbell Award for best new writer. Did Ben's feedback help? Yes — but his specific advice was not right, and I knew it. On my next two submissions, Ben hated my endings, and I revised as suggested. The fourth submission he rejected outright, and the fifth, and I thought, Am I a one-story writer? I went back to Ender's Game and tried to analyze why it worked. Then, deliberately imitating myself, I wrote “Mikal's Songbird.” Ben bought it, and it received favorable mentions. I was afraid then that I had consigned myself to writing stories about children in jeopardy. But in fact I was writing character stories rather than idea stories. And THAT was how I built a career, not by self-imitation, and not by following editorial suggestions. I did get wise counsel from David Hartwell on my novel Wyrms, but that was on a book that was already under contract, and it was story feedback, not style. I got wise counsel from Beth Meacham, too, on various books over the years — but again, only on books that were under contract. I also received appallingly stupid advice from the editor of my novel Saints, which temporarily destroyed the book's marketability; after that, I was allowed to go back to my original structure and save the book — now it's one of my best. Editors don't know more than you about your story. They especially don't know why they decide to accept or reject stories. YOU have to know what your story needs to be, and take only advice that you believe in. Your best counselor on a story nobody bought is TIME. Let some time pass and then reread the story. Don't even think about why it Didn't Work. Instead, think about what DOES work, and then write it again, a complete rewrite, keeping nothing from the previous draft. Find the right protagonist and begin at the beginning — the point where the protagonist first gets involved with the events of the story. Be inventive — the failed first draft no longer exists, so you're not bound by any of your earlier decisions. THAT is how you resurrect a good idea you did not succeed with on your first try.

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Get some magic. 🔮 Practical Magic 2. In theaters September. @warnerbros

This G.K. Chesterton quote I return to weekly

@TheReal_ACaesar @farigued_zoro @luvblessingz Huh. I didnt know J Edgar Hoover had social media. H3ll is really opening the gates lately.

@farigued_zoro @luvblessingz Rosa Parks literally had her own car 🙄 that was a stunt to promote Communism, MLK was a Adulterous Communist

i think the generation who had picnics while they lynched people were worse than the midly cringy teenagers

They HAVE just changed this and it goes into effect this summer. But don't google Missouri's rankings on pregnancy-related homicide. 💜💜

@Joannelindner @AzPetrich They JUST changed it to 18+ only. Before that the minimum age was 16 (as of 2018) with parental consent... though theyd added that the other spouse couldnt be more than 21. B4 2018 it was 15. if you had a judge's permission it could be younger 🤮 kansascity.com/news/state/mis…

@AzPetrich At what age is marriage allowed in Missouri? Probably 15...

Did you know that Iran's law prevents pregnant women from divorcing their husband's? Oh wait. My bad! It's Missouri. Missouri law. As in America, the land of the fucking free.

The dress was originally created by Sylvia Pedlar as a response to the fabric shortage in the 1940s, drawing from the empire silhouette and regency nightgown. The initial came later after the film Baby Doll (1956) which she hated and refused to use it.

@swanmaidens I think your point would be better illustrated with actual regency fashion plates, not with those inaccurate AI monstrosities on the right.

Don Bluth, creator of The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven, famously said that kids can handle anything in a film so long as you put a happy ending on it and he was and always has been completely right.