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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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[News Analysis] GOP waging a "coordinated national effort to undermine American elections," says leading official (www.salon.com)

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers....

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You've got a fresh cup of Camomile waiting at Anna's

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@some__guy aww, are you and your sock puppets are feeling lonely again? I think it's time to admit you're showing all the symptoms listed here. It's been three months and multiple accounts, bud - it's time to get help - this isn't a vendetta, this is a sad pathology.

Hrdza - Horela ľipka - The Linden Tree was Burning (Official Music Video) (www.youtube.com)

According to the greek legends, the linden tree, was a symbol of marital love and of the perfect wife, of simplicity, innocence and kindness. Due to the perfume of its flowers, linden tree became in the Greek mythology the sacred tree of Aphrodite....

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so zlibrary just isn't there anymore like that wasn't a bit

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@momo ...nonchalantly whistles a pirate jig...

The Year's Best Fantasy - Second Annual Collection -1989 - Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Editors) - featuring work by Joan Aiken, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint and Ian MacDonald (pdfhost.io)

The most fascinating, and daunting, aspect of selecting material for an anthology titled The Year's Best Fantasy is that the field of fantasy is as broad and transmutable as the whole field of literature. In American publishing today we have a genre called Adult Fantasy, which evolved after J. R. R. Tolkien’s...

Year's Best Science Fiction - Second Annual Collection - 1985 - Featuring the work of William Gibson, Octavia Butler, Robert Silverberg, Fredrick Pohl and Tanith Lee (pdfhost.io)

In spite of its ominous literary associations, 1984 proved to be a rather quiet year for SF. There were no major scandals like 1983’s infamous Great Timescape Fiasco, no SF lines driven into oblivion by corporate greed and shortsightedness, no major editorial shakeups … but if you looked closely enough, in the right places,...

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Ok, before anyone asks me, this was the Great Timescape Fiasco:

The most controversial event of the year was undoubtedly the Great Timescape Fiasco, a convoluted affair of almost Byzantine complexity. To simplify: David Hartwell, director of science fiction at Pocket Books’ Timescape line (and probably the premier SF book editor of the seventies), was terminated by Pocket Books in June. (Pocket Books president Ron Busch claimed that the Timescape line was failing to make money; Hartwell denied the charge, citing instead “creative methods of accounting,” according to Science Fiction Chronicle.) But instead of replacing Hartwell with another in-house SF editor, as expected, Pocket Books announced that editorial control of SF at Pocket would be turned over to the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, which would package a new SF line called Starscope Books for them. The reaction from the SF world—and the publishing industry in general—was immediate and almost universally negative; intensely negative, in fact. Phrases like “conflict of interest” and “in restraint of trade” were bandied about, lawsuits threatened by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and by several prominent literary agents, and articles discussing the controversy appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the plan failed, with the Scott Meredith Agency backing out of it in late June, although representatives of both Pocket Books and the Meredith Agency denied that the widespread protest and media pressure—primarily orchestrated by SFWA—had anything to do with the disintegration of the plan. Later in the year, Jim Baen left the editorship of Tor Books to form a company of his own, Baen Enterprises, Inc., and Pocket Books announced that Baen Enterprises would package a new SF line for them, tentatively named Baen Books. Later details showed that all editorial work would be done by Baen Enterprises, who would also control cover art, cover copy, advertising and promotion, limiting Pocket Books’ role to that of distributor. At year’s end, the contract for this deal had not yet been signed, but Baen Enterprises has announced plans to publish as Baen Books a total of 48 to 60 mass-market SF and fantasy titles per year, plus 20 trade paperback/hardcover SF and fantasy titles, and a line of computer book titles.

As an ironic coda, David Hartwell—in addition to Terry Carr and Ben Bova—has begun acting as a “freelance acquisitions editor” for Tor Books.

And that completely fills my scifi writer drama of yesteryear quota for the day. I have to admit, I was disappointed it didn't involve a time paradox, or at least some shenanigans in the Tardis...

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Kpop gets all the press. Meanwhile, Spop is all the rage in the Ukrainian underground...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALtzTmPz-E

@momo

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@Hanabie Slovakapop

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"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Spezymandias, Admin of Kings;
Look on my Reddit, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

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Great username. Worth a follow.

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It is on Kbin. Lemmy doesn't have that capacity yet as far as I know. It's one of the main reasons I recommend the former - Kbin bridges the gap between Mastodon and Lemmy, and includes functionality from both types of instances. Following users increases your feed content here exponentially.

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It's a good day

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@dwarf Yes, and if it isn't yet, it should be getting better.

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Annnnd this is why I find pdfs to be an unhelpful and unwanted reading format 🙄 illegible on an eReader because it was formated for two column reading and can't change the layout...

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@Crazypedia what's your preferred format? I ask as due to my volunteer work as a shadow librarian, I often post .pdfs thinking they're the most readable from desktop, but it's becoming clear that alternate formats are preferred for those with other devices... and I have access to a wide range of other file types depending on the book.

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The same - echoes many an internal conversation of mine.

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A lot of those single tracks you see up on Bandcamp are the musicians trying to raise enough money to finish production on work they play live.

It's much easier to play live than it is to record. Recording is a major financial stumbling block for a lot of new musicians, on top of the time and work that takes place inside the studio. Properly mixing a track requires a fine ear, advanced technical knowledge, usually takes at least as long to complete as it did to write and record the track. This gets expensive as well - there's a reason sound production engineers generally make more than musicians.

This is why signing with a label is such a big deal for most bands - having that money up front to complete an album, as well as the label's connections with recording studios and their engineers, removes the biggest obstacle they have for getting their music out there.

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Hi - got a note from a user that @13thFloor isn't federated over there any more as of yesterday. Looks like @scifi, modded by @inkican, was as well. Was there a reason these communities were defederated?

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Thanks for the update. I'm still getting the following error across multiple browsers when I hit https://lemmy.world/c/13thFloor@kbin.social:

Error!
There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

Hoping it gets resolved with the update - was worried we'd screwed something up and gotten on your removed list.

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Thanks much! That fixed it for the 13thFloor. FYI, looks like @scifi is still blocked, and they're generally pretty cool without spam issues.

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Awesome - thanks!

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