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>>46712
fixed hairline

>>46071
The UN sometimes does good things. Not everything about it is the security council. They probably are taking advantage of the situation somehow but it's still good to slow down desertification.

>>46171
Thank you for writing it. Good luck on turning it into a remote job and getting the field.

>>46071
>there anything sketchy about the UN doing all this? seems too good to be true
there's nothing sus about it, they're just forced to respond to China's publicized success in reversing desertification. Some Western countries were forced to give their populations some succdem healthcare during the cold war because the USSR was doing it. Now China's advances in greening deserts is forcing the UN to finally follow some good policies.

>Ripe guaraná fruits resemble human eyes
incredible plant, possibly divine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarana

Press release
http://english.issas.cas.cn/news/rf/202508/t20250811_1050011.html
Study
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2509237122

>>46210
Not anything wrong with what you posted but it's important to remind people on this point:
They are REVERSING desertification, not erasing desert environments. I have seen a lot of gigabrain professional contrarians arguing that it's bad because it's an ecocide against desert biomes but it's literally trying to hold back ongoing ecological catastrophes.

Summer season ended, meaning I am back to having nothing good to wear. I literally struggle to find no print sweaters/tshirts in nice colour.

Also I want to bitch about how short the sleeves on short sleeve tshirts are these days, I can either buy oversized tshirt with decent length sleeves or fitting tshirt which doesnt even cover half the biceps.

Anyone else notice how shit the quality of store bought clothes are now (at least in the uk)? Like i used to buy tshirts and collared shirts from places like m&s and next but after a few wash cycles they go to shit (for collared shirts the fabric goes loose and starts leaving hug gaps around the neckline and tshirt collars become crumpled and warped).

Feels like you have to shell out shitloads of money just to get anything that'll last more than 6 months

these jean paul gaultier shirts look like how a twitter fanartist draws top surgery scars

>>46629
I can't tell if this is the TLDR, or you're saying that about me.

>>46630
sad.

Season 2 Trailer real, bois and girls.

>>46707
Mite b cool
Generic as hell trailer though

>>46672
>shitty pacing is just like tiktok shorts!!
you are retarded lmao

<then current internet culture
except the adaptation is all still the same as it was a decade ago

>>46673
You should have tried harder in school.

why the fuck does almost all indie shit look the same now jfc

>>46704
that's furry porn anon

>>46641
Out of curiosity, how did they find out that Serpent's Walk was authored by MAR Barker?

>>46690
this page talks about it:
>The Tékumel Foundation, who has controlled the Tékmuel IP rights since Barker's death in 2012, has known about the novel since July 2012, after an archivist turned up "the manuscript, the original cover art, the publishing contract, the photocopy of the payment check, and the proof copies of the book" amidst Barker's papers, according to the archivist; the archivist further says that two of the Foundation members knew about it previously.
>The first public hints of the novel appeared in 2018 when independent researcher Amina Inloes wrote an academic paper for The Islamic College of London, later published in The Muslim World (1911-Present) titled "Muhammad Abd al-Rahman (Phillip) Barker: Bridging Cultural Divides through Fantasy/Science-Fiction Role-Playing Games and Fictional Religion". In that article, the author referenced a "pseudonymous novel" written by Barker, refused to name it, and instead offered the following footnote: "Discussing this novel posed an ethical dilemma. The work is clearly Barker's — not only does his share his writing style and interests, but it is published in the name of one of his ancestors. … However, the novel explores potentially inflammatory political viewpoints, and it was impressed upon me that it was best to preserve the facade of anonymity. I thus will leave it to the interested reader to dig it up …". Discussion of this article seems to be what eventually revealed it to the wider public this year.
https://www.rpg.net/columns/advanced-designers-and-dragons/advanced-designers-and-dragons63.phtml
the tékumel foundation later put out a statement confirming his authorship
https://www.tekumelfoundation.org/post/the-tekumel-foundations-board-of-directors-statement-on-serpents-walk

>>46174
I think you can have both. The nature elves are the "wood elves," while the advanced, magical elves are "high elves."

>>46689
its funny that you mention the Covenant since I always thought they were one of better written default horde factions of p much any big video game franchise or at least the writers actually tried to develop the Covenant into an actual living breathing society with culture and history and motivations instead of just being mindless drones.

>>46698
Is the Covenant a "horde" though?

>>46686
>turned into pure fetishistic agp gender bender bullshi

lol bro when was it not that

>>46686
Is there specifically blanchardism in it or is there just genderswap / forcefem-forcemasc stuff in it and that's the framework you have to parse it?

>>46688
>Is there specifically blanchardism in it

Lol no

>>46688
it's agp in the sense that there's fetishistic narrative focus on the female body as something arousing to inhabit, and there are several characters that get sexually excited by inhabiting female bodies

>>46700
I mean that'd be like calling OniMai blanchardist.

>>46545
Tbh literature is extremely trend-based now, a single popular book about female cannibalism is enough to spawn two hundred imitators, it doesn't mean the idea is resonating across the public consciousness.

>>46592
Yeah, everbody chasin that algo

Getting close to wrapping up Zola's La Débâcle about the utter misery of the Franco Prussian war, from the peasantry, to the army rank and file, all the way up to Napoleon III himself. He's done a great job of building up a sense of scale for the sizes of the armies and the landscape of northeastern France, then painting a picture of a landscape peppered with the debris of battle and flooded with torrents of shattered men and the victorious Prussians. Also love the way that even the largely defeated men can turn on a dime when they have nothing left to lose.
I've previously read Zola's Germinal, about a coal mining village in France developing class consciousness but then being utterly defeated. I definitely recommend it if you're not interested in constant talk about army maneuvers.
Anyone recently read any interesting fiction that they would recommend me? I want to read several more fiction pieces before I dive back into historical literature, I find that fiction does a better job of improving my reading stamina. Even memoirs can do the trick tbh.

i read le rivage des syrtes last month
in it we become acquainted with the venerable and illustrious country of orsenna, a country somewhere in some mediterranean sea experiencing some hundreds of years of peace after an unfinished war, outwardly rich and peaceful, the people of orsenna have grown restless beneath the surface as society slowly decays and retreats from the borders to take refuge in the heartland.
in front of orsenna and across the sea lies the country of farghestan, a sleeping giant of an oriental amalgam and perennial foe. the people of orsenna have been forbidden contact with farghestan after the last war and contact on their end has also stopped after farghestan collapsed into petty feudal clan wars yet now strange and mysterious forces are at work in farghestan just as in orsenna the people cry out for change, for something that makes them step out of their monotony and allows them to feel something new, no matter if the cost is the likely self-immolation of orsenna.

the book makes an excellent work of creating an atmosphere of foreboding, that something ominous and ineluctable is on the horizon even as you scream at the characters to get a fucking grip on themselves! and think about the consequences but they can't stop and even if they know what might happen they care not for they're sick and tired of the never ending peace.

excellent book to read if you're an fsl (french as a second language), the writing is very beautiful but you do need a somewhat high vocabulary to enjoy it. lots of florid internal monologue and reminiscence. don't know how well translated the english version is.

>>46696
forgot to add that i can't help but being reminded of the current state of the world in some aspects or with regards to certain people when reading it which gives it a certain layer of grimness

Sorry if it's offtopic but the reactionary obsession with lotr is fascinating to me.

Why Is The Right Obsessed With Lord of The Rings?
by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
<Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy," Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.

>>46620
Not a bad video

<Original – The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarves, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King of Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
I wonder if this influenced the 9 rings for mortal men

>>46667
It's an interesting detail in that regard that they're all wearing riding boots.

>>46542
>52:44 minutes
Nostalgia Chad did it in 3 minutes

>>46553
>the Schwartz(tm)
Please say sike

>>46283
>>46294
Apparently they crammed like 4 seasons into one or something lol

>>46123
So I do this largely forum-based RP and one of the big things there is 'faction' RP, where there's a big emphasis put on geopolitical stuff. Since like 2019 I was doing RP partly as an exercise in social fiction. I also run a character who left the Jedi Order because it was full of idealist pussies and liberals. He has since become Mand'alor and rides a boomer-ass Basilisk droid into battle, it's kino shit.

The Solidarity started as a coalition of Outer Rim spacers, droids, and AGIs who rose out of a massive slave revolt during the Hutts’ collapse. By ~300 ABY, they’ve grown into a hyperstate of around 100,000 planets, running on a centrally planned economy and labor-credit system. Their alliance with the Republic is pragmatic: both need each other against the Sith, but the Republic also keeps ties with the Hutts, who are quietly reviving slavery as debt peonage.

Militarily, the Solidarity fields smaller but far higher-quality forces than their rivals, avoiding clone or droid armies out of principle; they uphold a “joint dictatorship of the organic and synthetic proletariats.” They’ve just finished a war that quadrupled their territory and can’t sustain more fighting, so their focus is political: undermining and delegitimizing the Hutts while preparing their own Force traditions alongside the Jedi.