Alexander Wolf

Never ask a Nord about the race of his girlfriend.

I take a breath—
the mountain
keeps it
#haiku #poetry

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The Train Departs for München - Alexander Wolf Writings For a moment I dozed off while my eyes focused on the finer details of the chair that rested in front of me. The background quickly blurred and the great mass of colourful scenery fused and mixed toge...

More than a year ago I wrote a #shortstory about being the citizen of two worlds. As someone coming from Eastern Europe, I kinda feel lost at times when I am among my Western European peers. For a time, I struggled to put this feeling into words.
#literature
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Eldritch Christmas - Alexander Wolf Writings And on the Day of the Longest Dark -- the Eternal Void -- the Lord thus cometh through the cracks under the streams of blood from the Unknown Valley...

An Eldritch Christmas snippet:
And on the Day of the Longest Dark — the Eternal Void — the Lord thus cometh through the cracks under the streams of blood from the Unknown Valley…
#darkfantasy #eldritch #sketch
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Sleepy tired white cat

Stayed up way past my bedtime

Fog over the Horizon,
Silence in Shaded Forest.
Reflection in Footsteps.
#haiku
#poetry

#Avatar From the Ashes, is a great expansion with a super narrative that takes a brave take on Pandora. I had a very enjoyable experience with it, and I could say it was miles better than the base game.
Here is a mostly spoiler-free review:
alexanderwolfwritings.com/the-triumph-...

📝Last week was intensive and inspiring for our #AVOBMAT project: three events showcased its potential for #DigitalHumanities research & teaching! AVOBMAT is already used in 40 countries.
#TextMining #NLP #MultilingualResearch #ResearchTools #TextPlus #DigHum

YouTube video by Kazuliski Divinity - Larian Studios Evolved

Divinity - Larian Studios Evolved - Some thoughts on the recent reveal ⚔️ youtu.be/XJY9em-KAkc

Did You Know: The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages is three decades old? We have been able to keep doing this thanks to you all.

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Did You Know: Hist trees are believed to very rarely use the ability known as "kuhupwo" [mouth-talk]? Although Hist usually choose to communicate through different means, seemingly exclusively if possible, through kuhupwo they are able to directly speak as people can.

Cover page of The history of Emily Montague by Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789; Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. NcD Publication date 1777 Topics Québec (Québec) -- History -- Fiction Publisher London : Printed for J. Dodsley https://archive.org/details/historyofemilymo01broo/page/n7/mode/1up

The First Canadian Novel

Often considered the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague revealed its author’s true feelings about colonial Quebec.

By: Emily Zarevich

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Frances Brooke at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature

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"Agea haelia ne jorane emero laloria."

"Wisdom learned by pain is a reliable guide in dark times." [literally, "Terrible wisdom never betrayed the loremasters."]

--An Ayleid inscription

The Ruin of Immersion and the Effects of Consumerization and Commercialization - Alexander Wolf Writings Lately I have been playing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (2023), and I have to say that gameplay-wise, regarding the mechanisms, systems and player experience, the game totally delivers a complex and e...

Lately, I have been playing some Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. An incredible and beautiful game by Ubisoft. While the gameplay is captivating, the narrative leaves some space for fair criticism.

Here is my in-depth review and analysis:
alexanderwolfwritings.com/the-ruin-of-...
#AVATAR #VideoGames

🚀AVOBMAT beta is out: a user-friendly platform for scalable, #multilingual #textmining and #metadata analysis for teaching and research—hosted by the #GWDG infrastructure. Unlock new possibilities! Start here 👉 avobmat.hu
#DigitalHumanities #Libraries #NLP #ResearchTools #DARIAH #ADHO

First galley proof of A la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann with handwritten revision notes by Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922). Auctioned by Christie's in July 2000 for £663,750 — a world record for a French literary manuscript. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_recherche_du_temps_perdu#/media/Fichier:MS_A_la_recherche_du_temps_perdu.jpg

Practical Translation: Proust

A panel discussion moderated by Merve Emre

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Marcel Proust (as an author and translator) at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature #Translation

Willows' Tears - Alexander Wolf Writings A haiku of the life giving late summer rain.

A haiku of the life giving late summer rain:

Rainfall upon the forest.
Willows weep and defy the sky.
Roots strengthen by the water.

alexanderwolfwritings.com/willows-tears/
#poetry #haiku

Yearning for Moonshadow - Alexander Wolf Writings A Haiku – albiet riddled with a tidbit of philosophy.

A Haiku – albeit riddled with a tidbit of philosophy:

Wolves’ howl at the night!
Rocks crack to bleed streams.
Yearning for Moonshadow.

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That one commission where I nailed Eyvind Earle’s art style

black and white pen and ink style drawing of a bird and raccoon skull with some flowers

i mostly prefer to work in color, but sometimes going ham on black and white line work just hits

#art

Learn to juggle, friends! 😂

Speak Friend and Enter

#LOTR #MiddleEarth #Hobbiton #FellowshipOfTheRing #TolkienFans

“From the depths” by William Balfour-Ker. A lavish party of the wealth is interrupted by an upraised fist breaking through their dance floor; underneath we can see the entire party venue is built on the shoulders of the marginalized and lower classes.

“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker

Dive Rock. Adoring Fan will suffer.

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books

Manwë and Varda 🦅

Art by Firinaira