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The #Scholomance trilogy is @naominovik's take on a #SchoolForWizardry:
It.
Is.
*Superb*.
Novik takes a belt-sander to all the crumbling tropes left by lesser writers to reveal fresh wood beneath, fashioning something breathtakingly new:
naominovik.com/category/schol… 1/
The #Scholomance trilogy is @naominovik's take on a #SchoolForWizardry:
It.
Is.
*Superb*.
Novik takes a belt-sander to all the crumbling tropes left by lesser writers to reveal fresh wood beneath, fashioning something breathtakingly new:
naominovik.com/category/schol… 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2023/03/29/hob… 2/
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Here's the premise: the wizards of the world live in constant peril from malificaria - the magic monsters that prey on those born with magic, especially the children. In a state of nature, only one in ten wizard kids reaches adulthood. 3/
One of life's finest pleasures: discovering a complete series of novels as an adult, devouring them to the end, and discovering that, while you'd have happily inhabited the author's world for many more volumes, you are *eminently* satisfied with the conclusion. 1/
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I just had this experience and I am still basking in the warm glow of having had such a thoroughly fulfilling imaginary demi-life for half a year. 3/
⚔️ #TalDiaComoHoy en 1813, se libraba al sureste de Leipzig la mayor batalla de caballería de las Guerras Napoleónicas, el épico prólogo de la Batalla de las Naciones: #Liebertwolkwitz. Nos lo narra Javier Gómez Valero, coeditor de Desperta Ferro en este pedazo hilo⬇️
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Murat, rey de Nápoles y cuñado de Napoleón, tenía órdenes de mantener a raya al Ejército de Bohemia. Para ello se replegó hacia una favorable posición que permitía a la artillería francesa dominar el campo de batalla y además ocultar al enemigo el grueso de sus tropas.
Esto y lo embarrado del terreno debido a las recientes lluvias debería haber bastado para frenar el avance del precavido comandante aliado, el austriaco príncipe Schwarzenberg, pero el general Wittgenstein, se precipitó en persecución esperando encontrar una simple retaguardia.
Using a modern framework to examine #ViscountCastlereagh's exposure to #MentalHealth risks raises historiographical questions. The way we experience chronic stress may not be the same way that those in the 18th/19thC experienced it. 1/
#Castlereagh200 #twitterstorians #HistParl
#Castlereagh200 #twitterstorians #HistParl
We have to consider broader historical understandings of #stress. The idea of mental exhaustion has a long history. A writer in Aristotle’s circle in c. 350 B.C.E identified ‘melancholia’ as an affliction that was particularly tied to learned men, including statesmen. 2/
Analysis of stress in the #19thC has identified drivers that are, in fact, quite similar to those of our own era, namely: working hours that were growing longer and more intense; the growth of information and new technologies; and anxiousness about an uncertain environment. 3/
#OTD 29 August 1807 at the battle of Køge the Danish formation of Landeværn (militia) under command of Lt General Count Castenshiold was defeated and routed by the British Reserve under Major General Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) - long thread 1/15 #napoleonicwars
The British Army of 26,000 troops under Lt General Cathcart had landed at Vedbæk 16 August 1807 and reached Copenhagen outskirt during August in order to capture the main part of the Danish-Norwegian Navy to prevent it falling into Napoleon’s hands. 2/15
Ironically, the Danish main army corps was located in Holstein to protect Danish-Norwegian neutrality against France (!). A total of 25,000-28,000 regular troops were in Holstein and troops under General Ewald had even briefly engaged the French Army at Lübeck in 1806. 3/15
