Link to the book's amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BK2B91S/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521502114&sr=1-1&keywords=last+week+tonight
Seriously, children need early exposure to homosexual love.
I enjoyed <em>Wearing the Cape</em>, which feels like it does a realistic job of integrating heroes into modern society. Prior to reading Worm I'd have put this forward as the most realistic superpowered media I'd read/watched.
Some minor examples:
All the costumes (other than PR-appearance only costumes) include body armor, and even though she's a classic "flying brick" the protagonist has a costume with heavy defensive plates.
Planes have clearly marked points to indicate where someone with superflight should lift them, should the need arise.
heroes have no special legal powers, but will regularly assist police. No-knock warrants against supervillains are raising legal concerns, and the "I was mind controlled by the real villian" defense is causing chaos in the legal system.
One of the more important things a superhero team does is remain visible and build positive press to prevent public opinion turning on supers when villains cause problems. Rescuing cats stuck in trees is actually a pretty important duty, and having someone with excellent PR skills (either superpowered or otherwise) is essential to every team.
Superstrong is good. Superstrong with an oversized tungsten maul is better.
It's basically Genesis for LotR. It describes how the world came to be, how the different races came to be, etc.
My username is actually derived from a character in The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Gil-Galad. When I started playing online games, I modified it to Gilgilad and I've been using the username ever since.
Yeah not as simplified as if they simply Transfigured themself into an animal. In that case they wouldn't even keep their human mind. The book said:
>While in their animal form, they retain most of their ability to think as a human, their own sense of identity and their memories. [...] However, feelings and emotions are simplified and they will have many animal desires
Buy a good book (Amazon will get one to you delivered tomorrow) and spend a week going through all the examples chapter by chapter. Then think of a small but meaningful project of your own and spend a few days coding it - submit the code to this subreddit for general comments, and then spend the final of the three weeks writing a new project for a few days and going through the submission to this subreddit for more comments. You can't become an 'expert' in three weeks but you can learn most by going through a cycle of reading/doing/reviewing a couple of times.
That's what I'd do anyway but we all learn in different ways.
https://www.amazon.com/Python-Crash-Course-Eric-Matthes-ebook/dp/B07J4521M3
Hands down the best book I have read on python when I was first starting out, you must practice all concepts in the book and trust me you will start to understand it.
I have read a lot of beginner python books and this one helped me a lot more than others because of how concise it is.
If you prefer videos, I recommend Corey Schafer on youtube, his python playlists helped a lot of people I know, after I recommended it to them.
I recommend a good book (especially from No Starch Press) such as this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Python-Crash-Course-Eric-Matthes-ebook/dp/B07J4521M3
Personally, I've never been able to stick with MOOCs or code camps, and for my learning style they never really explain the concepts in enough depth.
A word you might want to look for is "magitech" (sometimes written "magitek"). Sometimes you see "magepunk" used, too.
My own <strong>Arcane Ascension</strong> books, John Bierce's Mage Errant books, and Domagoj Kurmaic's Mother of Learning are all examples of magical school stories in magitech settings.
Sarah Lin's Street Cultivation is an urban fantasy novel in a world where magical energy is used to power certain items and magical abilities. It's closer to ordinary earth than the other settings I mentioned, but it may still scratch the same itch.
You may want to look at some cultivation/xianxia novels in general. Forty Millenniums of Cultivation is another pretty good example; it's a futuristic sci-fi setting, but with much of the technology of the setting built around interaction with qi, the magic source. (FWIW, I haven't actually read a ton of this one myself yet, so I can't comment on how much the tech is a focus.)
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Yeah...it's real...and I'm probably on a list for researching this.
In addition to the quote the other commenter shared, here's one from the letter to Milton Waldman at the start of The Silmarillion (I'm not sure which editions it's in, but it's in the Amazon preview of the Kindle version if yours doesn't have it):
>He repents in fear when the First Enemy is utterly defeated, but in the end does not do as was commanded, return to the judgement of the gods. He lingers in Middle-earth. Very slowly, beginning with fair motives: the reorganising and rehabilitation of the ruin of Middle-earth, ‘neglected by the gods’, he becomes a re-incarnation of Evil, and a thing lusting for Complete Power – and so consumed ever more fiercely with hate (especially of gods and Elves).
Combined with the other one, seems like while he was too ashamed to return to Valinor, his repentance and an attempt to do good nonetheless did last a little while before he fell heavily back into darkness again.
Yeah, I second the Pottermore notes. They're a lot of fun and especially good for backstory on some of my favorite characters.
You can find them on Amazon too, here's one example - https://www.amazon.com/Hogwarts-Hardship-Dangerous-Pottermore-Presents-ebook/dp/B01JLXETNK/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1KYL3870UEPU6&keywords=pottermore&qid=1663022132&sprefix=pottermore%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1
Hmm AA has 3 books currently in the series, so I'm not sure if maybe something got miscommunicated along the way?
They're all available in ebook, paperback, and audio form!
https://www.amazon.com/Arcane-Ascension-3-book-series/dp/B07P6T5K3Y
None of the above. I'd recommend beginning systematically, with a good book. For example, Python Crash Course. https://www.amazon.com/Python-Crash-Course-Eric-Matthes-ebook/dp/B07J4521M3/. If after going through your first language step by step you're still into it, then poke around for other resources and perhaps consider a more formal program. Don't spend a lot of money without first digging in deeply to see how you like it.
someone actually took this meme as the premise of a book:
Mrs. Perivale and the Blue Fire Crystal
This is one of the ebooks Rowling published with the most important writings she did for the old Pottermore. I don't know if this is on the Wizarding World website nowadays. The new website sucks.
Not exactly clear, but in the description of how to become an Animagi which Rowling wrote in one of her E-Books it is noted that it's always the animal that becomes your patronus.
>The animal into which one turns, if an Animagus, seems always to be that which becomes the Patronus. There is no known instance of the Animagus form changing to match the Patronus if the latter changes, but the Animagus who can also produce a Patronus is highly unusual and no study has ever been done on sufficient numbers to draw firm conclusions.
So stuff like personality probably plays a role. Though names probably also affect things somewhat, as Sirius Black turned into a large Black Dog(Sirius himself being named after the Dog Star)
Never too late. My university is pretty competitive and I still see students aged in their 50-60s trying to earn their CS degree.
If want to try out a simple language and just “dip” into programming, I definitely recommend learning a higher level language (like Python) and see if you find it interesting.
As for how to learn it, you can try videos or books. This guy named Corey Schafer makes great python videos on youtube, there is also Python Crash Course 2nd Edition, which I used to taught a summer code camp at a high school.
This book series features an 80 something year old grandmother who is the chosen one and goes to a magical land with her devoted butler and her 7 cats to save the universe. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06XCV31H4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_BN86YATAFKG426KJYDTC
BTW, if you liked either of these and also like to read, I highly recommend Wearing the Cape. This genre is a little difficult to find decent writing for, and this is one of the better ones.
Short stories from hogwarts. They are digital releases from jkr! It’s great! I had a great time reading all 3 of them. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Kindle Single) (Pottermore Presents Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JLXETNK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_H.CaGb7GMHDNR
Someone already recommended my own <strong>Arcane Ascension</strong> books (thanks!), which involve characters that do this (they're inspired by Final Fantasy Summoners). You might enjoy that, but the main character isn't the Summoner - his sister is, and while she's one of the biggest characters in the story, she's not the viewpoint.
If you want the main character to be the Summoner/Pokemon Master, I'd recommend <strong>Mage Errant</strong> by John Bierce.
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Yes, but that is an advanced ability.
It's mentioned as part of the process of becoming an animagus in one of the E-books Rowling wrote.
> 10.To return to a human form, visualise your human self as clearly as you can. This should be sufficient, but do not panic if the transformation does not occur immediately. With practice, you will be able to slip in and out of your animal form at will, simply by visualising the creature. Advanced Animagi can transform without wands.
Give this one a shot: https://www.amazon.com/Steelheart-Reckoners-Book-Brandon-Sanderson-ebook/dp/B00ARHAAZ6
Doesn't have to be on Amazon, but Steelheart is a super easy and fun read.
Highly recommend Short stories written as a supplement to the books. Also if you're interested in some fan fiction I really enjoyed Herminone's POV
Mrs. Perial and hte blue fire crystal Its free on kindle unlimited. I haven't read it yet.
Its already revealed in the the E-Books Rowling wrote, Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies.
Someone posted the specific part about the process of becoming a Animagus here on Tumblr.
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I went to go buy it-but I already bought it back it 2016 it was on sale for $1.99 then