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And I am still buzzing and I am so so so proud of myself and I need to talk about it and I only know two people who know what it means.

If anyone has 80 seconds, I rec watching Symbalily's first encounter with Artorias the Abysswalker:

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Like O&S, this is one of the most iconic fights in the entire Dark Souls series. But I would say it's as much of a difficulty spike again relative to them as they are to the game before them.

Context: Artorias is the great legendary hero you've been hearing about all through the base game. But now he's been defeated by the Abyss, with his left arm shattered (his sword arm, so he's fighting you by swinging a sword with his off hand) and his mind mostly gone.

(There is meta to be meta-ed about FromSoft's long line of incredibly badass disabled characters; I don't know if it's necessarily #unproblematic #goodrepresentation, given that so many of them are trying to kill you and it's often being used to evoke ruin and tragedy, but it's not nothing either. Adaptive king Artorias.)

The way he howls and shakes reminds me of nothing so much as the Tumblr story about the rabid raccoon. It's eerie and wrong and awful.

He is incredibly aggressive and incredibly fast, and if you start chipping his health down he draws on the Abyss to power himself up further in a way that rapidly makes his hits unblockable (at least for most builds), so you can only try to dodge. And he can and will one-hit kill you, and then do front flips on your corpse.

I think I had to level my brain up to do this fight. Holy shit.

I have been IMMERSED over the last few days, learning his patterns and rhythms, and now I feel weirdly close to Artorias and emotional about it. I gave his soul to an old friend of his to take care of. Sleep well, dude.

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https://xkcd.com/3200/

Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.

https://xkcd.com/3200/

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Who was going to tell me that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie have an audio play about two feuding fae princes?

Honestly, "Fae Prince" is exactly the energy the two of them give off, separately or together.

Blurb:

Ember & Ice follows two fae princes, Dane and Finn, from rival kingdoms, Solari and Lunare. It becomes clear that the two are more than just adversaries, though, as listeners become “an intimate observer to every moment of tension, longing, and intimacy between Dane and Finn.”

Set in a richly imagined fantasy world shaped by history, duty, and forbidden desire, Ember & Ice follows Dane and Finn, two fae princes from the rival Solari and Lunare kingdoms. At its core, Ember & Ice is a story about choosing love in defiance of expectation.”

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Sequel to this post.

( Cut for US politics, violence )

https://www.standwithminnesota.com/

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So I'm trying to add the Previous/Next links to my Navlinks Module using a code that was previously posted here, but I'm having issues with the Previous link showing up regardless of whether or not there's previous entries (I'm testing on this journal with public entries for reference).

The code I'm using in my theme layer is this:

# code by ninetydegrees/foxfirefey
function print_module_navlinks() {
 
  var Page p = get_page();
  var string prev_link;
  var string next_link;
  
  if ( $p isa EntryPage ) {
      var EntryPage ep = get_page() as EntryPage;
      var Entry e = $ep.entry;
      var Link prev = $e->get_link("nav_prev");
      $prev_link = """<a href="$prev.url">$prev.caption</a>""";
      var Link next = $e->get_link("nav_next");
      $next_link = """<a href="$next.url">$next.caption</a>""";
  } elseif ( $p isa DayPage ) {
      var DayPage dp = get_page() as DayPage;
      $prev_link = """<a href="$dp.prev_url">$*text_day_prev</a>""";
      $next_link = """<a href="$dp.next_url">$*text_day_next</a>""";
  } elseif ( $p isa RecentPage ) {
      var RecentPage rp = get_page() as RecentPage;
      if ( $rp.nav.backward_count > 0 ) { 
          $prev_link = """<a href="$rp.nav.backward_url">""" + get_plural_phrase( $rp.nav.backward_count, "text_skiplinks_back" ) + "</a>"; 
      }
      if ( $rp.nav.forward_count > 0 ) { 
          $next_link = """<a href="$rp.nav.forward_url">""" + get_plural_phrase( $rp.nav.forward_count, "text_skiplinks_forward" ) + "</a>"; 
      }
  } elseif ( $p isa MonthPage ) {
      var MonthPage mp = get_page() as MonthPage;
  	if ($mp.prev_url != "") { $prev_link = "<a href='$mp.prev_url'>Previous</a>"; }
  	if ($mp.next_url != "") { $next_link = "<a href='$mp.next_url'>Next</a>"; }
  }

var string[] navlinks_order = [];
  var string{} navlinks_urls = {};
  var string{} navlinks_text = {};
 
  $navlinks_order =
    [
        "entries",
        "archive",
        "read",
        "profile",
    ];
 
 $navlinks_urls =
    {   "profile" => "$p.base_url/profile",
        "entries" => "$p.base_url",  
        "archive" => "$p.base_url/archive",
        "read" => "$p.base_url/read",

};
 
 $navlinks_text =
    {   "profile" => "Profile",
        "archive" => "Archive",        
        "read" => "Read",        
        "entries" => "Recent",      
        
    };

open_module("navlinks", "", "");
    var string[] links = [];
    
    if ( $prev_link ) {
        $links[size $links] = $prev_link;
    }    
    
    foreach var string k ($navlinks_order) {
        if ($navlinks_urls{$k} != "") {
            var string css = """ class="$k" """;
            if ($p.view == $k) { $css = """ class="current $k" """; }
            $links[size $links] = """<a href="$navlinks_urls{$k}"$css>$navlinks_text{$k}</a>""";
        }
    }
    
    if ( $next_link ) {
        $links[size $links] = $next_link;
    }
     
    
    print_module_list($links);
    close_module();
}

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https://xkcd.com/3199/

'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

https://xkcd.com/3199/

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I have been futzing with my new layout, which is 'Gibbous' by Phidari for Heads Up.

It's looking great, the only thing I am stuck on is that I am wanting the comment box background (#ffffff) to be the same colour as the post background (#c6b6b3). Unfortunately, I cannot find an option for this in the customizer:

I can toggle it on and off in the Firefox inspector, but my knowledge beyond that is limited:

Are there any options for using some custom css to change that colour, or hide it?

Any help or advice is much appreciated! <3

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Posted by Lori Alden Holuta

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/book-review-inspector-hobbes-and-the-gold-diggers/

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/?p=12396

A brilliant inspector and their clever sidekick is a commonly used trope. And that's fine, it's used often because it works - and I love that. But it's also fun to turn the trope on it's ear, so to speak. (I know walls have ears, but do tropes?)

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/book-review-inspector-hobbes-and-the-gold-diggers/

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/?p=12396

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Posted by Lori Alden Holuta

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/scam-alert-the-book-marketing-grifters-have-crossed-a-line/

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/?p=12392

If you're a writer with published books, you've likely heard of the book marketing grifters that are flooding email, setting up social media accounts to pitch their scams in private messages, and no doubt trying other methods.

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/scam-alert-the-book-marketing-grifters-have-crossed-a-line/

https://www.ceejaywriter.com/?p=12392

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