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Arotrios

@Arotrios@kbin.social

For Amusement Purposes Only.

Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.

Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.

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Bastet - Ancient Egyptian Goddess of Cats and the slayer of Apophis, serpent of chaos (www.youtube.com)

Bastet is the Egyptian goddess of the home, domesticity, women's secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children. As with many deities in Egyptian religion, she also played a role in the afterlife....

[News] Republicans nominate Steve Scalise to be House speaker and will try to unite before a floor vote (apnews.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Wednesday nominated Rep. Steve Scalise to be the next House speaker and will now try to unite around the conservative in a floor vote to elect him after ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the post....

How to build a heat-resilient city (grist.org)

Cities are hot. When you cover the ground with asphalt and concrete, jam millions of cars together on congested streets, and erect thousands of buildings that leak their own heat, you create what experts call an “urban heat island.” Daytime temperatures in these places can be as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than...

Arotrios, to poetry
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The world has enough warrior poets. What it really needs are more barbarian poets.

[News & Opinion] "Already an embarrassment": Legal experts shred Judge Aileen Cannon for granting Trump "delay" (www.salon.com)

The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents case on Friday temporarily paused a series of significant pre-trial deadlines pertaining to prosecutors' sharing of sensitive materials that the former president is entitled to while building his defense, The Messenger reports....

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - 4th Annual Collection - 1991 - featuring the work of Joyce Carol Oates, Haruki Murakami, John Crowley, Karl Capek and Ian Fraizer (pdfhost.io)

Opening Statement of Mr. Harold Schoff, attorney for Mr. Coyote: My client, Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona and contiguous states, does hereby bring suit for damages against the Acme Company, manufacturer and retail distributor of assorted merchandise, incorporated in Delaware and doing business in every state,...

The Year's Best Science Fiction - Fourth Annual Collection - 1988 - featuring Robert Silverberg, Orson Scott Card, Bruce Sterling, and William Gibson (www.mediafire.com)

It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterminate gray. But then there are days when it’s like they whip aside a curtain to flash you three minutes of sunlit, suspended mountain, the trademark at the start of God’s own movie. It was like that the day her...

Arotrios, to random
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"Fuck it" is the most powerful and subsequently destructive phrase in the English language, allowing one to ignore consequence in favor of pure action, with the tactic acceptance that you've likely released forces far beyond your control.

For a phrase with so much destructive potential, it's interesting to note that the root of the phrase goes back to sex, the act of creation, and even possibly love. Sex is the effort to produce a child, a force which will, whether you like it or not, grow beyond your control.

"Kill it" doesn't have the oomph. Why not, when it essentially speaks to the same destructive dynamic and disregard of consequence?

Because "kill it" invokes death, which is to put to rest. "Fuck it" invokes life, which is to spark chaos.

Arotrios, to 13thFloor
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Mom: "You're my changeling child."

Me as a kid: "Cool! Maybe I'm magic!"

Me as an adult after learning what people usually do with changelings: "Wtf Mom???"

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction - Anne Charters - 2nd Edition - Compact Version (866 pages) (pdfhost.io)

During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction....

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