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Lately I spend more time watching Youtube than regular television. There wasnt much quality content on Youtube at first, but over the past few years some very experienced preppers have started some fantastic channels.

Since a lot of people I talk to arent aware of this, I decided to compile a list of the 100 best prepper and survivalist Youtube channels (in my opinion). It would take days, maybe even weeks to check all these out, so I encourage you to bookmark this page.

I could have included over 100, but I decided to exclude channels that havent been adding new videos lately (as of this writing). That means I had to leave out great channels such as Analytical Survival, P.A.W. Productions, and The Survival Doctor, to name a few. But if I had included every good survival channel the list would have been ridiculously long.

If youre a prepper and theres nothing on TV, subscribe to these channels and your Youtube feed will fill up with hours of great content everyday!

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Now on to 100 best channels (in alphabetical order):

1. Armoured Cockroach A former soldier and paramedic who makes videos about wilderness and urban survival.

2. Babee Blue on the Town One of my favorites. Guns, knives, hunting, fishing, and shooting by a very attractive woman.

3. Bexar Prepper A homesteader with videos on canning, cooking, and general food storage.

4. Big Family Homestead Brad has a large homestead where he lives with his wife and 7 kids. He shares tips on all aspects of homesteading and is a very charismatic guy.

5. Black Scout Survival Another favorite of mine. This guy makes some high-quality tutorials on all sorts of survival skills along with some helpful reviews of survival gear.

6. Bland County Survivorman Videos on hunting, fishing, fire making, and other bushcraft skills.

7. Bohemian Hunting Club Tips on hunting, shooting, scopes, knives, gun maintenance, and more.

8. Bright Agrotech This is a businesses that focuses on vertical farming and gardening. If youre interested in aquaponics, you could learn a lot here.

9. Budget Bugout If you plan on bugging out after a disaster, this is the channel for you. It has gear reviews and tips on how to make the ultimate bug out bag.

10. Bushcraft Bartons An associate pastor teaching bushcraft skills in the Canadian wilderness.

11. Camping Survival The official channel of CampingSurvival.com which sells all types of camping gear. Videos on survival food, wild edibles, water purification, and more.

12. Canadian Prepper This one updates frequently and has a lot of general survival videos, often with an emphasis on health.

13. City Prepping Preparedness and survival for people living in the city. High quality videos on a number of different topics.

14. Commsprepper Probably the best channel for emergency communications. Hes also working on a rainwater collection system.

15. Cr0cket20 Another personal favorite. Learn about backpacking, climbing, guns, knives, and even a little MMA.

16. Cutlery Lover If youre into knives, youll love this guy. He reviews all sorts of knives and also likes to talk about beer.

17. DEMCAD DEMCAD is a libertarian who adds several videos a week on everything from survivalism to politics.

18. Demolition Ranch As he says, this is not your average gun channel. Bullets, body armor, and all sorts of badass contraptions.

19. DrBones NurseAmy Survival medicine and gardening from a medical doctor and a registered nurse. Great advice from people who know what theyre talking about.

20. EconoChallenge How to hike and camp in the wilderness without leaving a trace. This man reveres nature and it shows.

21. Equip 2 Endure Survival gear reviews and podcasts covering a wide range of topics, and the occasional giveaway.

22. Everyday Tactical Vids Mostly videos on plants and knives, but he also talks about health and survival psychology.

23. Far North Bushcraft and Survival The name of the channel says it all. Lonnie lives in Alaska and builds shelters, eats wild edibles, and more.

24. Fun in the Woods Videos on how to building your own shelter, making your own survival tools, cooking food in the wilderness, etc.

25. Funky Prepper Bugging out, food storage, bushcraft, and more. This guy is quite a character.

26. Growing Your Greens The most watched gardening channel on Youtube. Learn how to grow food in your front or backyard.

27. Hickok45 Excellent channel on guns and gun safety. There are new videos several times a week.

28. Idaho Hillbilly A homesteader who is an expert at finding hidden treasures at flea markets and other places. Watch as he turns his property into a self-sufficient permaculture farm.

29. Im Still Workin A lot of videos on gardening, canning, cooking, and baking.

30. InnerBark Outdoors Not only does Andy have years of experience in outdoor living, he is also a cinematographer so his videos are very high quality.

31. IraqVeteran8888 One of the best gun channels on Youtube. Learn about shooting, gunsmithing, handloading, and more.

32. ITS Tactical Imminent Threat Solutions covers a wide range of topics, some of which Id never even considered.

33. Jack Spirko The official channel for Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast. Learn all about his homestead.

34. James Yeager Discussion about guns and shooting from the guy behind TacticalResponse.com.

35. Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. James loves to talk about life in the 18th century and he dresses the part. Lots of educational videos here, mostly about cooking.

36. Jnull0 Day to day life on a large homestead. Learn about butchering animals, cooking, canning, and more.

37. KGB Survivalist This guy covers all areas of prepping and reviews guns, knives, and survival gear.

38. Kirsten Dirksen Videos about self sufficiency, simple living, backyard gardening, and craftsmanship.

39. L.D.S. Prepper One of the older channels on this list. Hes a very experience survivalist, especially when it comes to gardening.

40. Lindas Pantry Linda makes high-quality videos that teach you about gardening, canning, and survival cooking.

41. Living Survival All things survival. Ben talks about bushcraft, camping, fishing, and hunting, and he regularly reviews survival gear.

42. MD Prepper This channel is mostly short reviews of survival food, gear, and guns.

43. Michigan Snow Pony Farming, gardening, simple living, and discussion videos about life on a homestead.

44. Millers Guns and Gear Lots of videos about bullets, guns, safety, maintenance, and proper shooting techniques.

45. Mind Wise Man This guy covers all aspects of outdoor living and he loves to go canoeing.

46. Moscow Prepper Bushcraft, preparedness, and self-reliance videos by a Dane living in Russia.

47. North Carolina Prepper Lots of miscellaneous videos on emergency preparedness.

48. Nutnfancy A very popular survival channel about backpacks, flashlights, guns, knives, multi-tools, tactical gear, and more.

49. Off the Grid News Weekly videos about all sorts of disaster preps and important survival skills.

50. One Woman And Two Acres This woman is fun to watch. She teaches all sorts of homesteading skills from her land in Northeast Georgia.

51. Our Half Acre Homestead Back to basics living with some experienced homesteaders. Gardening, cooking, food storage, recipes, and more.

52. Patriot 36 Survivalism, outdoor living, and reviews of firearms, flashlights, and survival tools.

53. Prepared Mind 101 Another one of my favorite channels. He covers all the major areasbushcraft, urban survival, wilderness survivaland he does a lot of reviews.

54. Reality Survival Excellent channel that covers a wide rage of topics including bushcraft and urban survival along with reviews of gear, kits, knives, and tools.

55. Safe Arms Review Some awesome videos on guns, prepping, survival gear, tactics, and more.

56. School of Self Reliance This channel will teach you everything you need to know to be self reliant in the wilderness.

57. Sensible Prepper Here youll learn all sorts of creative prepping ideas using common household items.

58. Sigma 3 Survival School Huge collection of instructional videos on all aspects of survivalism, especially bushcraft.

59. Skinny Medic The official channel of Medical Gear Outfitters. Here youll find a mix of medical and general prepping videos.

60. Snare Man High quality reviews of guns, knives, backpacks, and other types of survival gear.

61. Solar Cabin If youve ever dreamed of building a cabin and becoming completely self-sufficient, this guy will teach you how.

62. Sootch00 A very popular channel with fun and detailed reviews of guns and accessories.

63. Soul Survivor X2 This is also one of my favorites. Really cool videos about prepping, shooting, backpacking, guns, motorcycles, etc.

64. Southern Prepper 1 These videos are short, to-the-point, and very educational. Hes been on Youtube for a while so he has a huge backlog of videos.

65. Stacy Lyn Harris On this channel Stacy teaches gardening, cooking, canning, and more.

66. Supergokue1 This guy makes a lot of short instructional videos about generating power, making hiding places, and building your own gear.

67. Survival Know How Survival hacks, tips, tricks, and more. Lots of great info, much of which is organized into top 10 lists.

68. Survival Life The official Youtube channel of the most popular survival site on the Internet. They have dozens of videos with survival tips, gear reviews, and other prepper-related topics.

69. Survival Lily A woman and her dog who spend time in the woods hunting, fire making, building shelters, and reviewing survival gear.

70. Survival Mike Mike is a certified trainer who knows all about surviving in the wilderness.

71. Survival Skills 101 This covers a lot of common survival skills, but unlike most similar channels he also talks about personal self defense.

72. Survivalist Boards Lots of random homesteading videos from the owner of SurvivalistBoards.com.

73. Survivalist Gardener Videos based on the book, Secret Garden of Survival. Learn how to grow a secret survival garden in your backyard.

74. Survivalist Prepper The official video channel of one of my favorite sites. Lots of great tips and advice, especially for beginners.

75. Texas Prepper 2 If youre into homesteading, this is the channel for you. It covers gardening, raising chickens, fish, livestock, bees, food storage, and so much more.

76. The Daily Prep Watch Dan as he goes from total noob to experienced prepper.

77. The Modern Survivalist One of my very favorites. Fernando lived through the hyperinflationary collapse in Argentina. Hes smart, experienced, and has a lot of wisdom to share.

78. The Patriot Nurse Another one of my very favorites. I have learned a lot about first aid and medical survival from her.

79. The Peaceful Prepper A single gal prepping to survive in an urban environment. She only has a few hundred subscribers so far but I expect this channel to become much more popular.

80. The Sgt Fruitcake Awesome prepper videos with an emphasis on camping and outdoor living.

81. The Survival Channel This mans goal is to be prepared for absolutely anything. He talks a lot about the latest survival gear.

82. The Urban Prepper My favorite channel, probably because he reminds me of me (no, hes not actually me). If you live in a city, you should definitely subscribe to this channel.

83. The Yankee Marshal David is the kind of guy I would love to have a beer with. Hes smart, funny, and hell tell you everything there is to know about guns.

84. TheALOWens Videos about guns, knives, EDC gear, bug out bags, bug out vehicles, and even a little politics.

85. TheHossUSMC Guns, gear, ammunition, home defense, and a little bit of politics.

86. Tiborasaurus Rex Ballistics, shooting, weapons, self defense, and a little bit of religion.

87. Tin Hat Ranch This channel covers all types of prepping and has some great reviews and cool survival hacks.

88. Ultimate Survival Tips Very high quality how-to videos and reviews of survival gear, especially knives.

89. Ultimate Survivalist Mostly backpack and camping videos along with a lot of knife reviews.

90. Utah Prepper 1 Food storage, general survival tips, and several videos about gardening and taking care of chickens.

91. Van Prepper Short, awesome videos about freedom and preparedness. Very entertaining guy.

92. We All Juggle Knives Reviews of knives, flashlights, survival kits, and all sorts of gear.

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While Ken Keseys Sometimes a Great Notion is regarded as perhaps the quintessential Oregon novel, its 1971 film adaptation is more like a forgotten little brother.

With One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (based on another Kesey novel, of course) ranking among the states most famous film productions, only devotees of Oregon film history or 70s cinema likely recall much about Notion the movie. That, or maybe Paul Newman bought your uncle a beer in Newport during the summer of 1970, per the myriad boozy stories surrounding the film shoot.

Fifty years old this month, this Paul Newman-directed drama unravels the pathological grit of the Stamper clan, a family of loggers in the fictional coastal enclave of Wakonda, Oregon. The Stampers have turned scab in the face of a timber strike, and one need only consult the family mottonever give a inchto understand why theyll keep on cutting, dammit.

The film opens as though washed landward by the Pacific, an aerial shot combing the Central Oregon coastline while country music groundbreaker Charley Pride croons the gospel sentiments of All His Children. As establishing shots go, they seldom get more stunning, but we immediately see the movie veer in its own tonal direction. In Keseys opus, both the setting and style are torrential. In the space of one page, the reader might plunge through three timelines of genealogy and perspective with unfilmable fluidity. Meanwhile, Kesey bestows Oregon nature with an almost alien power to inspire and madden the Stampers.

By comparison, much of the films ambience is almost jaunty, as though the production couldnt help but be impressed with its own riches of talent, source material and location. Nature is conventionally majestic. The Stamper house, built by Universal Studios on the Siletz River near Kernville, is more attractive than the novels half-drowned monument to stubbornness. Composer Henry Mancinis bluegrass score practically frolics, while Newmans irrepressible charms endow Hank Stamper with righteous irascibility, as he chainsaws union desks in half and essentially leaves Wakonda to rot while on strike. Whats more, one can sense from the classical, painterly filmmaking why Notion eluded lasting fame relative to other 1971 films, which saw The French Connection, Klute, Shaft and A Clockwork Orange help shape New Hollywood aesthetics with hip, provocative urban settings. (Granted, this didnt stop Notion from being the first film ever shown on HBO in 1972.)

Where Sometimes a Great Notion unequivocally thrives, though, is in enlivening Stamper family dynamics, drenched in Olympia lager and 4:30 am maple syrup. In a body cast that holds his busted arm 90 degrees off his body, Henry Fonda leers and jeers unforgettably as the influential family patriarch, Henry. Then, in an Oscar-nominated turn as cousin and family cheerleader Joe Ben, Richard Jaeckels sunny disposition perfectly masks the films shocking conclusion. Michael Sarrazin excels as black-sheep hippie brother Leland reentering his estranged familys orbit. And Lee Remick as Viv is stunningly wistful as Hanks wife realizing she is the crews actual outsider.

Through five stellar lead performances, Oregonian survivalism feels as spiritual as it does illogical. As Keseys novel puts it, these are the descendants of men with itchy feet, who migrated further and further into the Western wilderness, chasing a pasture some imperceptible shade greener. Even if the film portrays their antisocial tendencies more as a wellspring than a curse, the logging scenes testify to their work as a terrifying religion. We see trees the length of school buses felled by hand and yanked up mountainsides, and Quentin Tarantino has called the films climactic logging accident one of the best single movie scenes of the early 70s. Just beforehand, a pulsating montage of clear-cutting shows the Stampers partaking in an Olympic feat of tradition, defiance and gluttony.

No matter how handsome Paul Newman makes any of it look, one need only remember the origins of the book and film titleLead Bellys Goodnight, Ireneto recall the suicidal streak that deepens and damns every glorious sight the movie can muster.

Sometimes I live in the country/Sometimes I live in the town/Sometimes I get a great notion/to jump in the riverand drown.

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When the Grey Cup was held for the 100th time in Toronto, during late November, 2012 The Spectator marked the historic birthday with a three-part series by columnist Steve Milton which ran during Grey Cup week. The first instalment, an overview titled Grey Cup reflects Canadian self-identity and survivalism, theorized that the Grey Cup symbolizes Canada more than any other non-war event. There has been no other sporting hardware, not even the Stanley Cup, that so thoroughly represents everything that Canada is, has been and wants to be, Milton wrote. It dealt with several major national themes including: our love-hate relationship with inclement weather; western alienation; our collective inability to praise and mythologize ourselves; our conflicted attitudes toward the U.S; and how, although there was a new sports nationalism which went public and viral with the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, the Grey Cup has been openly cheering for Canada since 1948 when Calgary Stampeders supporters arrived en masse and on horse into grey, staid Toronto for the game and festival which changed everything.

Part two of the series, which digs more deeply into Canada-U.S. relationships as exemplified by the Grey Cup, is reprinted here. Some things have changed since then, of course. The instalment acknowledges racism but, as a country we have since become far more aware of its depth and breadth in Canada and in Canadian institutions.

Canadas bipolar attitude toward the behemoth to the south what Hamilton author Stephen Brunt succinctly refers to as a push-pull relationship with the United States was reflected first in, and is still symbolized most graphically by, Canadian football.

So, it is no surprise the history of the Grey Cup also reflects Canadians historically organic, overshadowed, adore-abhor and sometimes uneasy attitude toward the USA.

Until the past half-decade, Canada usually defined itself less by what it was than by what it was not. We are not the Brits or the French, who colonized this country, and we are not the Americans, whose proximity could easily have overwhelmed us in all aspects of cultural and economic life.

Canadian football has always echoed that definition. The game diverged quickly and widely from its roots in British rugby and differs in so many significant ways number of downs and players, kicking rules, field size and economies of scale from the American game, which has the same origins. It is the only major sport shared by the two countries that is considerably different on each side of the border.

Sometimes, what you are not is the main component of what you are. And, although since 1996, 14 years before the Olympics-generated new nationalism, the CFL has promoted Canadian football for what it is (Radically Canadian etc.), so much of Canadian football history has been highlighted by what it was not.

And one of the things it was not, at least in its public actions, was overtly and institutionally racist.

So, Black quarterbacks and skilled position players got a chance here long before they did in the U.S. pro leagues, where the unspoken, but very real, prejudice was that they didnt have the required cultural background or, frankly, mental tool set.

The Grey Cup crystallizes trends in Canadian football, providing their historical benchmarks.

When Chuck Ealey became the first Black quarterback to win a professional football championship, leading the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to the 1972 Grey Cup title at Ivor Wynne Stadium 16 years before Doug Williams became the first African-American to start at quarterback in the Super Bowl it was merely the final step in a logical progression.

Long before, in 1951, Bernie Custis of those same Tiger-Cats became the first Black quarterback to win steady employment as a professional quarterback. Anywhere.

Herb Trawick was the first Black Canadian pro player, hired by Lew Hayman to play for the Montreal Alouettes in their founding season of 1946 after Hayman saw how Jackie Robinson was accepted earlier that year with the Montreal Royals.

Trawick, a lineman, recovered a fumble for a touchdown in the 1949 Grey Cup game and played against the Eskimos running back Johnny Bright, a brilliant American who had been the victim of a racial incident playing college ball in 1951 and the No. 1 draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles, whom he rejected in favour of Edmonton, because he would have been their first Negro player and I didnt know what kind of treatment I would receive with all those southern players coming into that league.

It was not altruism that put the Grey Cup so far ahead of American championship games in sociological advances. The Canadian game needed players and the U.S. had some good ones they would not use because of prejudicial attitudes.

It would also be impossible and a bald lie to even hint that there is, and has been, no prejudice in Canada.

Trawick, for instance, could find no employment other than hotel doorman in his post-Als career, Custis was the target of vicious verbal abuse by players on Trawicks very own team and 1957 Grey Cup star Cookie Gilchrist always claimed the CFL was racist.

But, in Canadas postwar public institutions and rites, of which the Grey Cup is among the oldest, acceptance tends to be based on, in Ealeys terms, who you are, not the colour of your skin. It became evident as soon as I came to Canada, walking down the streets, just the culture.

Forty years later, Ealey hits the philosophical nail on the head as squarely as he hit Tony Gabriel with those three passes to set up the Grey Cups winning field goal.

Canada doesnt have to be boisterous about it, they just live it every day, he told The Spectator. My skin colour never became an issue when I came here. Nobody ever even talked about it. I was never looking for the other shoe to drop.

By the time Williams made Super Bowl history in 1988, Black stars such as Ealey, Roy Dewalt, Warren Moon, Danny Barrett, J.C. Watts and Condredge Holloway had already pivoted teams in Canadas national championship.

And, in 1982, six years before Williams made his singular Super Bowl start, both quarterbacks in the Grey Cup, Moon and Holloway, were African-American. And, if it was noted, it was noted only in passing, so to speak. No big deal, Grey Cup business as usual.

Race may be the most prominent, but it is just one of the issues in which the Grey Cup has embodied Canadas relationship to its large, friendly neighbour.

Stretching a theme, Canada, an exporter of natural resources, ships hockey players to the States but imports football players, who are generally nearly-finished products.

And we are a nation of immigrants who came here for the opportunities denied elsewhere.

In football, and in the Grey Cup, those opportunities involved not only race, but body types. The Canadian game requires a different skill set in many positions defensive halfbacks, rush ends, quarterback among them than the U.S. game does, so Doug Flutie, Joe Montford, Damon Allen, Ron Lancaster and dozens of others became Grey Cup champions and Hall of Famers here when they were pretty well rejected in the U.S. because of their physical dimensions. That doesnt make the Canadian game necessarily smaller, or poorer, only different.

Football was among the first industries in Canada to deal directly with heavy, and expanding, American influence. And that stemmed exclusively from the Grey Cup.

The nine Western teams that came east for the Grey Cup had all lost, and usually humiliatingly so, until the Winnipeg Pegs brought the legendary Fritzie Hanson and eight other Americans into the Hamilton AAA grounds and beat the Tigers for the 1935 Grey Cup title.

In ensuing years, ad hoc rules and petty eastern jealousies barred many American players from competing for the Grey Cup with their western-based teams but, by 1946, the Canadian Rugby Union, the precursor of the CFL, addressed the problem by capping American participation in the Grey Cup to five players per team. You could easily argue that concept was the thin edge of the wedge for legislated protectionism in other Canadian cultural spheres: music, publishing and electronic media. By 1952, the Grey Cup ceiling was eight Americans and, by 1958, as Canadas economy and culture had become far more influenced by the U.S. than the U.K, it was a dozen. Now, 17 of the 24 starters can be Americans, but the quota system still exists.

The 1945 Grey Cup was the last to be played without Americans on either team. The irony is that the game featured Winnipeg, which had started the whole import controversy because of a Grey Cup 10 years earlier, and Toronto, which would become known in the 1960s and most of the 50s and 70s, too, as the home of the highest-priced, most-hyped and least effective Americans at least as far as Grey Cup success was concerned.

Federal cabinet minister Marc Lalondes Canadian Football Act of 1974, which never became actual law, scared the American-based World Football League out of this country before it could set up shop, came just four months after the team representing Canadas capital won the Grey Cup and was a rare flexing of nationalistic muscle by the government.

The shifting nature of Canadas currency and national ethos, relative to the U.S., is also obvious in Grey Cup history. When our dollar was pegged much higher in the 1950s, the CFL regularly outbid the NFL for top U.S. college talent, including many enduring Grey Cup greats such as Jackie Parker, Bernie Faloney and Hal Patterson.

But, by the early 1990s, the Canadian league couldnt compete financially because of the plunging dollar and a collapsing CFL economy related partly to the classically Canadian inferiority complex that anything that doesnt make it in the U.S. isnt worth supporting in Canada.

To buy time and capital and, even if they will never admit it, some legitimacy the league expanded into the U.S. It was a disaster, overall, but may have averted the folding of the CFL. The American experiment lasted only three years in total, but resulted in the worst blight in Grey Cup history when the Baltimore Stallions won the 1995 title, using all American players.

But, by the following season, all of the American franchises folded, and the Stallions had been forced to move to Montreal. The league and the Grey Cup, were forced to retrench and, with no other options, stumbled upon what has clearly been its long-term saviour (besides TSN money): its unique Canadiana. The barrage of nationalistic slogans Radically Canadian, Our Balls Are Bigger, Its Our Game, et al has not stopped since then.

And, while mining that lode in the late 1990s, the CFL made a startling discovery. While a generation-plus of Canadians loved to dis the CFL in public, especially compared to the NFL, in the privacy of their own homes, they cherished the Grey Cup, the very symbol of the league they said they had no taste for. Television audiences for the Cup were inexplicably massive.

Thats when the CFL knew they had seriously undervalued the Grey Cup and its relevance to Canadas identity, and began promoting the heck out of it, essentially leading us to what (was) a spectacular week in previously resistant Toronto for the 100th Grey Cup.

It is blatant parallelism, but also a historical accident, that the 100th Grey Cup should be played in southern Ontario, the site of so many 1812 battles, during the 200th anniversary of the last armed conflict between the U.S. and Canada. But the most enduring symbolism is never intentional.

And as Gov. General David Johnston cracked at a CFL Congress in Toronto, not long after the 99th Grey Cup: Had we lost that war, wed all be watching four-down football.

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In 1986 the New York Times review of Robert Blys Selected Poems was headlined Minnesota Transcendentalist. It was perceptive to note his link with the New England poets of the 19th century, which was strong, but within a few years it would look absolutely prescient. For although he was one of the outstanding poets of his generation, Bly, who has died aged 94, may be remembered, like the two most enduring of the original Transcendentalists, for facets of his work other than poetry.

Just as Ralph Waldo Emersons legacy is as an essayist, the influence of Blys essays on poetic theory and his many translations have resonated with readers and his fellow poets. But Bly is more likely to be seen as a 20th-century parallel to Henry David Thoreau. Like Thoreau, he made his mark with civil disobedience, and later with a hugely popular prose work concerned with the denaturing effects of civilisation.

Blys early poetry in the 60s was his best, although its quality was often subsumed by controversy surrounding his anti-war positions. In 1966, he co-founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War. The following year, when he won the National Book award for The Light Around the Body, he donated the prize money to draft resistance. But his entire poetic career was thrown into the shadows by the remarkable success of Iron John: A Book About Men (1990).

A meditation on his vision of American manhood being torn from its natural roots because fathers fail to initiate their sons properly into masculinity, Iron John spawned a movement combining encounter-group sensitivity with primal tree-hugging survivalism. Yet with his imagistic, often spiritual, poetry, his deep interests in mysticism, his rustic dress and his nasal, high-pitched voice, Bly often seemed an unlikely prophet of masculinity.

Bly called his poetic technique deep image, and his highly visual, quietly surreal poems, often in rural settings, reflected his upbringing in Scandinavian-settled Minnesota. He was born in Lac qui Parle county, where his parents, Alice (nee Aws) and Jacob Bly, Norwegian immigrants, were farmers. At 18, after graduating from high school in Madison, he enlisted in the US navy.

Discharged in 1946, he enrolled at St Olafs College in Northfield, Minnesota, but after a year transferred to Harvard, where he joined a precocious group of undergraduate writers, including John Ashbery, Richard Wilbur, John Hawkes, George Plimpton and, at Radcliffe, Adrienne Rich. It was at Harvard that he read a poem by WB Yeats, and resolved to be a poet for the rest of my life.

After graduation in 1950, he moved to New York, writing and struggling to support himself with a succession of menial jobs and meagre disability payments for the rheumatic fever he contracted while in the navy.

In 1954, he returned to the midwest, as a graduate student in the University of Iowas writers programme, teaching to pay his way. Again he found himself in a writers hothouse; his fellow students included Philip Levine, Donald Justice and WD Snodgrass, with Robert Lowell and John Berryman on the faculty. The proliferation of creative writing programmes on American campuses today owes much to the collective success of this group, the level of which, it could be argued, has never been repeated.

He married the writer Carol McLean in 1955, and returned to Minnesota. The next year, he received a Fulbright grant to travel to Norway to translate poetry. There he discovered not only such Swedish poets as Tomas Transtrmer, Gunnar Ekelf and Harry Martinson, but also, in translation, other writers relatively unknown in English: Georg Trakl, Pablo Neruda and Csar Vallejo. His translations of Transtrmer continued throughout both their careers, and the affinity between their poetry makes these some of the most effective ever done.

On his return to America, Bly started a magazine to publish such writers. The Fifties, co-edited with William Duffy, would change its name decade by decade, and had an immense effect on American poetry, defining the deep image style. Through the magazine, Bly became close to a similarly inclined poet, James Wright, and with him translated Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl (1961). He also translated Knut Hamsuns novel Hunger from the Norwegian in 1967.

Deep image arose from the way the poets Bly admired drew on almost subconscious imagery, yet used it in a very deliberate way. He called it leaping poetry, once describing it as surrealism with a centre holding it all together. Out of these influences, in 1962, came Blys first book of poems, Silence in the Snowy Fields, whose bonding with the countryside would be echoed by later generations of creative writing professors in poems about chopping wood in denim shirts. But in Blys hands, the quiet of the northern landscape provided a deep, personal beauty. It was an immediate success, and led to a Guggenheim fellowship.

Those poems gave no hint of the despair that became evident in The Light Around the Body, which not only reflected his feelings about the Vietnam war, but also his years of struggle in New York. They drew on the same imagery as his first book, but used it in a far more ferocious way. Studying Jungs theories of mythic archetypes led to Blys mixing them into his politics in Sleepers Joining Hands (1973), whose long poem, The Teeth Mother Naked at Last is a powerful condemnation of war as an affront to the Great Mother Culture. He placed a long essay, I Came Out of the Mother Naked at the centre of this book, and prose poems would soon become an integral part of his poetics, culminating in This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopher Wood (1977).

After a divorce from Carol in 1979, in 1980 he married Ruth Ray, a Jungian psychologist, and moved to Moose Lake, Minnesota. He began working with mens and womens groups, producing books of poetry that reflected the transactional experience, most notably the love poems in Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1985).

After PBS Televisions Bill Moyers produced a documentary, A Gathering of Men, about those mens groups, Iron John became an immediate bestseller. It was followed by The Sibling Society (1996), which lamented the perpetual adolescence of modern American men, and The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (with Marion Woodman, 1998). At the same time his translations expanded to include the 15th-century Sufi mystic Kabir and the Urdu poet Ghalib. Bly encapsulated his poetic career in the moving Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (1994) and Morning Poems (1997), and published his second selected poems collection, Eating the Honey of Words, in 1999. The US invasion of Iraq inspired the collection The Insanity of Empire (2004).

In 2013 Airmail, selections from Blys decades of correspondence with Transtrmer, was published in English. It revealed both a deep friendship and a contrast in the way the poetry of this homespun American mystic and the Swedish psychologist made its leaps. Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected and New Poems was published in the same year, and a last Collected Poems appeared in 2018.

Bly is survived by Ruth, by four children, Mary, Bridget, Micah and Noah, from his first marriage, and by nine grandchildren.

Robert Elwood Bly, poet and writer, born 23 December 1926; died 21 November 2021

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Where should I move to in order to best survive the climate crisis (thinking within the UK, but open to other suggestions)? Pamela Gray-Jones, London

Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.

There isnt any escape; all the good places will be popular. The rest need not actually turn to desert or be under water, but just wont be able to sustain the people stuck there. It will be very, very ugly. So lets try to prevent it happening. CanalChris

The effects are very unpredictable and often downright perverse. If (for example) the Gulf Stream gets turned off by polar meltwater, one likely effect is that the north-west coast of Europe will become icebound every winter, Britain being on the same latitude as Labrador. Some regions will become disastrously dry, while others will become disastrously wet. AnChiarogEile

Some friends did this exercise some years ago and apparently Winchester is at a good height to avoid rising waters. I would avoid anywhere in the Netherlands for this reason. Cider_Woman

James Lovelock suggested in 2008 that Britain would be an oasis compared to some other places (the rest of Europe). So select somewhere well above sea level (not Winchester; Winchester is already full). Whatever you do, avoid Winchester MeinHerr

The Winchester, till it all blows over, surely? GrannyBev

You should stay where you are, change your lifestyle and help those around you to also change theirs. There is only this one planet and there is no away to go to. Face the problem and do something that will help to create a viable future. Reterritorialisation

The romantic in me would like to think that moving to the isolation of the Scottish Highlands is the answer; sadly, its not. London thats where the finances are, thats where the politics is. Its the place least likely to be affected by shortages and the first place that will attract protective measures (theres a reason London had a technologically advanced flood barrier built in the 80s and not the other UK port cities). honeytree

What struck me was the profound selfishness of this question. It reflects the cult of individualism that has partly created the problems we are facing. We have a collective responsibility to deal with the crisis of planet heating. The questions you should be asking are: What can I do to be part of the solution and what can I stop doing thats making me part of the problem? Maggie Wicks, Wakefield

You will have to think upper northern hemisphere, which rules out most of the UK, with the possible exception of northern mainland Scotland, Shetland and Orkney (the only issue being accessible potable water in sufficient quantities). Outside the UK, think polar and subpolar regions such as northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, Alaska, China and Russia. As the climate warms, these regions will transform to become much more habitable; they will also have access to significant amounts of fresh water. ArcticIslander

Habitable, yes, yet still without much sunlight in winter and agriculture will be difficult. Mnemon

I would have said northern Canada, Patagonia, Siberia; well above sea level. But the recent extreme weather in north-west Canada 49C! has made me think again. The problem is not just everywhere becoming hotter than at present, but the disruption of climate as masses of air (and water) change their patterns, initially chaotically, possibly in the fullness of time (decades? centuries?) establishing moderately stable new patterns. Conceivably, Britain may be relatively well placed, depending on what happens with the Gulf Stream and jet stream. pol098

Admit that asking this question, 40 years after the global south asked this question, means you are already in the safest place. Enjoy. zahera

Russia. Climate change will make Russia the No 1 winner. The steppes and tundras will become arable again, as they were in the time of the Golden Horde. GardChr

So far, it appears that the North American midwest, where I live, has less climate change than other areas. LONAHANSEN

Michigan. A geopolitics and globalisation expert, Parag Khanna, says in a newly published book, Move: The Forces Uprooting Us, that the Great Lakes region and specifically Michigan may become the best place on the planet to live by 2050 because of climate change. TimInMichigan

I cant think of a better place than Mwanza, Tanzania. On the shores of Lake Victoria, so abundant fresh water. An equable climate, 1,000 metres above sea level. And a stable government that is not corrupt. JimToddMwanz

The question aptly demonstrates the reason why climate change is being addressed so ineffectually. Some people, even nations, believe that they can escape unscathed Legomania

Even if we think a location might be good, there are possible negative and positive feedback mechanisms that are yet to kick in or might accelerate in ways we had not imagined. Perhaps a better question is which location has the best options for adapting to any potential impacts? Plato301

Were betting on Galicia in Spain. Were 5km from the Atlantic, so, by definition, a maritime climate with few spikes in temperature and blissfully cool summer nights compared with the Languedoc. Rainfall is spread throughout the year, although autumn is usually the wettest season. True, the largest cities are at sea level, but its plenty hilly enough that you can move up our house is at 100 metres. The only risk from climate change I can foresee is if summers get dryer (which they already are, to a lesser extent) the risk of forest fires. There are a lot of eucalyptus trees here, although its forbidden to plant new ones now. Oh, and our wines here are 11-12.5%. winebore

Top of the priority list is water. If you dont have a secure source of water, move immediately. sonicuniverse

Not near a nuclear power station. Dirkum

Climate-change effects, if not controlled now, will be incremental and knock on in a variety of ways its not simply a matter of finding the Garden of Eden and planting potatoes. There will be unrest like youve never known. Undesirables roaming the countryside. Sickness. Lack of services. Probably war. Nowhere will be safe. All Id suggest for now is you move to a more remote region to a house with a large garden and a spring, preferably within a friendly farming community. If you really want some idea, try to imagine what the world will be without electricity. SawdustCaesar

This ideal, tiny, perfect place will quickly be filled with a couple of million others, who will quickly go at each others throats because theres not enough space and resources at this best place MichaelHoe

When I saw the effects of the recent heatwave in Canada in an area that normally has a temperate climate, I realised that it is impossible to predict exactly what is going to happen and that nowhere is predictably, reliably safe. The only thing is to try to build a resilient community where you are. Take steps now to reduce your carbon footprint and start building a resilient local community. mrsdoom

I wish to nominate Upper Edinbane on the truly magnificent and wondrous Isle of Skye. The reasons being: the wind sweeps in mainly from the west, clearing the air of pollution. It is not over-inhabited. It is located on a hilly incline, so no danger whatsoever of flooding. There are beautiful views, including those of the village of Edinbane below. There is a true community spirit. One day, I intend to retire there and write poetry to inspire others. John Osborn

You need to move the opinion of everyone you come into contact with, so they become activists and destroy the power of the inactivists. Mark Hayden

You shouldnt and such an attitude is akin to rich guys rushing to the lifeboats on a sinking ship. Instead, you should support effective climate action by contributing time, money and effort, then changing your lifestyle accordingly. If you must move, buy an intensive farm and switch it to regenerative methods and/or silviculture, but stop trying to avoid the problem when you should be trying to help solve it. Iain Climie

This has already been well documented. May I suggest the book Six Degrees by Mark Lynas and maybe How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. The only places people will be able to live: the south coast of Alaska; the coast/west side of the Rockies, from British Columbia up and down into Oregon; the south-west region of Chilean Patagonia and Fireland; the Antarctic peninsula; the central ridge of New Guinea; the Himalaya foothills in east India; western parts of China and maybe the Tibetan plateau; parts of Scandinavia; small enclaves in the Pyrenees, Alps and British mountains; and the coastal regions of Greenland. MV Italiaander, the Netherlands (yes, still, haha)

I chose to move to an abandoned farm in the barely inhabited woods of inland Sweden and based my decisions on these guidelines:

far away from large population centres

far away from places that are strategically desirable (ports, military bases, fertile land, minerals, power plants)

a society with high levels of trust in government and neighbours and with little or no pre-existing conditions such as unresolved internal conflicts from the past

As land is cheap here, I was able to buy a lot of land around the house, so Im in control. Im not the only anticipated climate refugee in this area, so others have come to similar conclusions. Arne Perschel

May I suggest Antarctica. Temperature has already reached 18.3C (64.9F) in summer and it has the worlds fastest increasing temperatures. In the past 50 years, the peninsula warmed almost 3C (5.4F), significantly higher than the global average of 0.9C (1.6F). Its getting greener, too, and it will soon be possible to keep cattle and grow food. Fresh water will probably be in good supply thanks to all the melted glaciers. Sadly, there will no penguins. Anders Jalakas, Uddevalla

Personally, I think there are too many unknowns and that survivalism requires too much personal investment to stand even a small chance of success. In my opinion, the climate crisis is first and before all a food crisis in disguise. So my best bet is to find a place in a village with a strong sense of community, with a tradition for growing their own food locally, wherever that may be. Far from the maritime coasts, obviously, and preferably in or near mountains, but not too close to forests, to avoid the risk of uncontrollable fires. Based on the assumption that we expect more warming than cooling, a land that is not necessarily facing south all day. I chose a village in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia. Yannick Cornet

In the late 60s, an anarchist magazine in Germany or the Netherlands published a map of Europe post-nuclear war. The only parts of Europe to avoid fallout were the peninsulas in south-west Ireland. As a result, these places filled up with hippies. As long as you weave your own yoghurt sandals, you couldnt put a foot wrong in Castletownbere or Ballydehob. Pascal Desmond

I am in the process of moving to Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands. A land of near permanent sunshine and solar power. A land of almost limitless wind for wind power. We dont waste precious water washing cars, flushing the toilets etc, as all supplied water is desalinated sea water. Drinking water is bottled (yes, I wish it wasnt plastic bottles). If only other countries harnessed wind and solar in the same way and used desalinated water for most everyday jobs the world would be a better and safer place. Malcolm Weston

Llandrindod Wells! Here in mid-Wales, we are elevated at 212 metres, so no flooding, plenty of trees in and around the town, more than a metre of rainfall every year. A beautiful town with venues waiting for top class acts to discover, restaurants waiting for top-class chefs in short, waiting for urban climate refugees. OK, your children will learn Welsh, but hey, dim problem. Keith Brelstaff

Hexham, Northumberland. Its so beautiful, peaceful, acres and acres of beautiful country. Steven Smith

Oklahoma:

Already has storm shelters

Centrally located

Plenty of weed to get you through a hard time

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. Katie S

Not Yuma, Arizona its hot as hell here now. Todd Fredette

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Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Showtimes The Yellowjackets isnt exactly a new story. It features elements of Lord of the Flies, The Wilds, Lost, and Alive (1993), among various other pop culture influences. Likewise, it has historical precedent in any number of catastrophes in which an unsuspecting group has found itself lost in the snowy woods, desperately fighting to survive, possibly even resorting to devouring human flesh to do so. The series makes no bones about it, and even gets the implied devouring of a fellow traveler out of the way in the first episode to let viewers know that it will definitely be a thing.

Instead, the storys uniqueness comes from the volatile interpersonal relationships that have developed over decades, and how they have changed, or how theyve stayed the same. Tapping an all-star cast that delivers killer performances every step of the way under the direction of Karyn Kusama, the pilot gives a promising glance at whats to come for the series by taking us deep into the past.

Ostensibly set in the present day, Yellowjackets spends equal time in flashbacks that take us all the way back to 1996 with a soundtrack to match. The series premise is that teen soccer stars The Yellowjackets are taking a private plane to the state championship, at which time they crash in the wilderness and find themselves forced to resort to survivalism in order to make it back home. Though they told the world that they starved and prayed their way back to civilization, there was obviously something more to the story that has gone untold. In the present day, we meet these women, all now in their early forties, as they work to keep the past hidden.

Jessica Roberts (Rekha Sharma) portrays a reporter trying to get to the bottom of things, showing up to ask suburban housewife Shauna (Sophie Nelisse/Melanie Lynskey) What really happened out there? Shauna is absolutely not having it and demands that she leave with a definite threat in her voice. We see various other signs of her ruthlessness throughout the episode, including when she and her shovel come face-to-face with a very cute garden-nibbling rabbit. In her teen years, she is just as secretive and mercurial, occasionally boiling over into outright aggression, and it draws a clear throughline from past to present. This establishes a major theme in which each character is very much their own worst enemy, and each character has ample cause to fear her closest friends.

The immediate cause and effect of the bad choices that characters make in their youth is evident through the time jump. Shaunas husband is implied to be avoiding her and she takes it personally that her teenage daughter isnt staying home to have dinner with her on a Friday night. Teenage rebel Natalie (Sophie Thatcher/Juliette Lewis) struggles with life-long addiction issues that begin early on, stemming from deep sensitivity that seems out-of-place in the group. Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown/Tawny Cypress) will do anything to win, which can mean cutting off her emotions and putting herself and others at risk, then is later shoehorned as a queer Kamala in her political career. Misty (Sammi Hanratty/Christina Ricci) is a wild card who goes from being a passionate superfan of the team to threatening an elderly woman in her day job. And Jackie, who worked to bring the team together and brought out the best in everyonewell, Jackie doesnt seem to have an older counterpart.

As pilots go, this one is exceptional, with a willingness to push central characters into difficult spaces right off the bat. Whether the series sustains this or not, its a Hell of an opener, tapping into pacing that will draw to mind any number of instant classics over the last few years, from Nine Perfect Strangers to The Americans. Everyone brought their A-game to this one, and watching these actors and their younger counterparts mirror one another is an unexpected delight.

Yet, perhaps the greatest success of the series so far is the way it exemplifies the regret that can come with age, as the end results of the choices these characters made as teenagers have had time to play out before their very eyes over the course of decades. Desperate to keep the past hidden in hopes of preserving the sparse peace of mind theyve carved out for themselves, each of them watches helplessly as everything comes apart at the seams, and this is just evidence of the shaky foundation they each built their lives on. With each character at a crossroads, their inner worlds unfold, and thats where Yellowjackets unquestionably succeeds.

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There are so many table-top RPGs out there, and they all have something to offer. Something special. Something unique. Even the D&D retro clones all have something different and unique to offer that official versions of D&D dont have.

So what has MYFAROG to offer that other games dont? Or what is it MYFAROG does better than other games? Let me list what I deem to be the selling points of MYFAROG:

Variable Degree of Success & Failure

Instead of just fail or success you can have variable degree of success and failure, and also a risk of critical failure. You can also semi-succeed.

Modular

The game is very modular, meaning that you can leave out things you dont like without ruining the other aspects of the game. You dont like e. g. Cut/Shock effects? Or those detailed modifications for Stealth? Fine! Just dont use it. It wont break the game if you dont. You can use only parts of the rules, and then when you know them by heart, include more and more to finally get the full MYFAROG experience!

Believability & Logic

Everything in the game is believable and it makes sense, so there is nothing in the rules themselves that is breaking immersion. You will e. g. never think that: The Orc points a crossbow at me, and tells me to drop my weapons, or else he shoots, but why should I care? The crossbow does D8 damage and I have 34 HP Every mechanic, every modifier, makes sense, is well-researched and when it is relatable it does compute with what you know about the real world. E.g. gravity works like gravity would. When it is not relatable (sorcery) it is explained from the perspective of a world where sorcery is real.

Combat

Combat too makes sense and is believable. No, its not realistic, but it does make sense. A sword has a bigger chance to leave a bleeding wound than a club does. A club is more likely to knock you down or even knock you out than a sword is. An experienced fighter will be able to take a bit more damage before he dies, but he too can be killed by a single well-aimed blow. There is no hand-holding in the combat system. The risk of dying is at all times real, and players will always think twice before they enter combat. Oh, and some creatures will be very tough to defeat, even for a party of experienced characters. You will at least some times need to use your head.

Thoroughly-researched armour, shields & weapons

Instead of just copying the stats from other games, the armour, shields and weapons have been thoroughly researched. I have tried armours, climbing with them, fighting with shields, shooting arrows, throwing light javelins with spear slings, etc. etc. etc. MYFAROG is not based on theoretical knowledge only. The advantages and disadvantages of all weapons have been taken into account, and pretty much all weapons have unique advantages and disadvantages. Long weapons e. g. are harder to use in confined space, so in a narrow tunnel the short sword might well be better to use than a normal sword and much better than a spear. Outside, when fighting under the wide sky, on the other hand, its the other way around. A flail is good against opponents with a shield, a dagger is easier to draw quickly from the belt, a lead-weighted dart cannot be thrown very far unless you can throw it high, a battle axe is more likely to do damage to a shield, an Angon (similar to the Roman Pilum) can penetrate your shield and do you damage anyhow, and get stuck and leave the shield useless for some time, etc. A small shield is good for carrying javelins in the shield hand, a large shield less so and it cannot be used on horseback either, but it is better for mle, and a medium shield is a compromise between the two.

Armour, shields and weapons are not designed to be balanced but to represent actual armour, shields and weapons with their real qualities. And yes, they are all good for something, and have an edge on the others in some way or the other if nothing else for being less expensive than other armours.

Stamina & Survivalism

There is a system for fatigue, from fighting, from travelling and from lack of food, rest and drink. This means that you have to take into account e. g. that travelling from A to B might actually leave you exhausted, unless you e. g. leave behind that heavy armour or large shield, or simply rest before you enter the dungeon or castle or whatever there. But if you rest, then you might encounter something. whilst still weary.

You also have to take this into consideration when you fight. E. g. fighting offensively might well wear you out too soon, and leave you exhausted. What if you dont have the willpower to keep on fighting, and you have to lower your guard?

Or simple leave Stamina out. Unless you fight Wraiths and Ghosts and such, you can.

There are rules for freezing, starvation and finding shelters, and you can easily see MYFAROG as some sort of survivalism game. Because survival alone can be a challenge in Thul, even when not attacked by all sorts of creatures.

Morale

Because horror and fear is so much a part of MYFAROG there is a morale system, where characters can become afraid and even can lose their minds and go insane. The level of fear influences the characters performance. Characters can even panic and run away in fear. They are not totally under your control just like you are not really in total control of yourself, in real life.

This makes the characters more alive, and gives them a stronger sense of preservation. You can push them into situations they would not appreciate to be in, but if you do they might well perform worse than you would want them to or even run away and thus refuse to do it.

Also, courage equals fortitude, in the sense that if you have much courage, you are also spiritually strong, so courage is needed for sorcery

Yes, because sorcery is linked to the studies of the mind and spirit, the unknown and often death. It is scary!

Certain races, like halflings, are small and physically weak, but they have more courage than anybody else, and thus are more resistance to sorcery.

Sorcery

Sorcery (magic) in MYFAROG is based on mythology, fairy tales and real world beliefs. It is weak (compared to magic in e. g. D&D), but can be used for great effect. The sorcerer is not a fire-ball slinging piece of artillery, but one that can influence the weather and the people you meet, one that is better at healing and one that can enchant items, light up a dark dungeon or make a fire in an instant, etc.

There are human (and half-elven) spells, but also dwarven, elven, gnomish and orcish, and although often overlapping on certain points, they are unique for all races.

System built for Setting

The MYFAROG system (using mainly a D20 to resolve skill checks and combat) is designed for the setting, the world of Thul, and covers every thinkable and even unthinkable situation that can occur there. There is a skill that covers what you want to do and everything you can do.

Also, the system is built for the setting, but is still perfectly compatible with classical fantasy settings (not least Tolkiens Middle-earth). You can easily modify and use adventures made for other systems and use them with MYFAROG.

An accurate presentation of the pre-Christian Native European heritage

You actually learn a lot from reading the core rule book. Information about our own pre-Christian heritage is all over the book, intertwined with the system itself and seeping into every part of the game. You will learn what our high festivals were all about, originally. Why do we celebrate Yule (Christmas)? What is Easter all about? What is the meaning of the Equinoxes and the Solstices? What is Beltane? Etc. etc. etc. Its all explained in detail in MYFAROG. With little exaggeration, MYFAROG will probably be the best book you will ever have about European Paganism, our traditions and our heritage.

Hamingja

The unique Hamingja mechanics have been introduced to MYFAROG to inspire players to do good and to cultivate the noble hero in themselves, both when they take the role of a character in Thul and hopefully also in real life. There is a Native European Traditional aspect to it, as it is very much what our forebears believed; that your Hamingja was linked to you, and that it followed you through the ages. That is what it means in the first place; Hamingja from hamr-gengja: To Walk in Shapes. You walk in different shapes, in different bodies, and change body when it dies, to be reincarnated in a new one. Your luck remains. Your Honour remains.

Hamingja is your characters accumulated Honour, abstracted with a number for game purposes. As a concept it is very similar to Karma, but it is not exactly the same. Your character can gain Hamingja when you play, from good deeds and heroic acts, and from acting in a just way.

Hamingja can be used for having good luck, but if you have Bad Hamingja, it gives you bad luck

The Myth Master gives players Hamingja points when they perform acts that are significant, heroic and honourable and especially when their acts come at a cost for themselves. When they make a sacrifice for others! He likewise takes away Hamingja points from them, and give them bad Hamingja, when they perform acts that are coward, unjust, criminal or dishonourable and especially when done solely for their own benefit.

Mythology

European mythology is used to create the deities in Thul, and they are common to all of Europe, so you learn about the different names used for the same deities all over Europe. E. g. Baldr. Yes, its the Norse name for Appollon, whom the Celts call Belenus and the Slavs Jarilo or Belebog. These are all the same deity though.

Setting

The setting, Thul, is unique and based on a myth about a part of Norway, said to have been ice-free during the Ice Age even. So people might have lived there during the Ice Age, isolated from the rest of the world.

The area, Lofoten and Vesterlen in Norway, is further easy to find maps for, even digital and highly detailed maps, that you can use when you create your own myths (adventures) for MYFAROG. Only the scale is different, as explained in the rule book. Real world towns and villages are there, in the game, with translated names most of them pretty cool names too, I may add. Like Densewood, Dwarfmount, Ettinisland Harbour, Lynxfoot Island, Riverwall, Rottenwood Bay, Spell Lake Forest, Wardenholm and Weather Island, to name a few of them.

Name lists

Speaking of names, you also have long lists of appropriate names for your characters, of both sexes, including a separate list for dark elves (dwarves) -made up of all the dwarf names from Norse mythology. Yes, every single one of them.

Ettins

Ettins are known from other games too, but the ettins in MYFAROG are unique and different from them all. They are based on fairy tales and mythology, and you have stone ettins, fire ettins, frost ettins and giant worms, and they are all special in some way and highly dangerous. And horrible! They also have stone hearts, with numerous special abilities, that can be used by skilled craftsmen to make amulets with sorcerous powers. Giant worms (dragons) also have scales that can be used to craft dragon scale armour, the overall probably best armour in Thul.

Ettin Phenomena

Then you have the ettin phenomena found in the world of the ettins. They cause all sorts of strange and dangerous effects for those who dare venture into that part of Thul, and most of all resemble the anomalities of Roadside Picnic (the book).

Price

The core rule book has everything you need to play the game indefinitely. The 3.3 edition includes the supplements released for 2nd edition, with some things not fitting into the concept or setting left out, and all of this cost less than 10 bucks.

I keep the price so low because I can, and because MYFAROG is a game that more than other games (in % of the total buyers) introduce new players to the hobby. Men and women who have never played a TTRPG before. I know that because many in the RPG community boycott MYFAROG, because its not politically correct, and because most get to know about the game via Burzum (my band) and other non-game related sources. So with a low price tag, it becomes easier for them to take the chance and give it a try.

Yes, I can sell it for less than 10 bucks, because I make a living from making music, so I dont need the money. MYFAROG is my hobby, what I love to do, and my main objective with it is not at all to make money from it. I want to spread the game to promote a hobby I love and to also promote our Native European heritage.

Versitility

Overall I would describe MYFAROG as a cross between AD&D, Rolemaster/MERP, STALKER the SciFi RPG, old RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu. If you like any of those games you should like MYFAROG. You can play a style that resembles any and all of these games, if you wish, with the MYFAROG core rule book.

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Alone is a thrilling survival reality TV show which pits seasoned survivalists against the extremities of nature. Contestants are abandoned in a remote location left to survive the dangers surrounding them. Ultimately, the last human standing in the wilderness is crowned the grand winner.

Clay Hayes battled against the dangers of nature and stood victorious in season 8. He was a fan favorite from the outset, showing skill and knowledge in his quest for survival.

But where is the survivalist now?

Clay Hayes fascination with the jungle and survivalism stemmed from childhood.

He grew up in rural Florida and was taught the basics of hunting, fishing, and trapping from a very young age.

Although he was employed as a wildlife biologist, Clay found himself bring drawn towards the art of making bows and primitive archery.

To follow his dream, he quit his job and dedicated his life to the study of archery, which has helped him to become an expert in archery and bow craft.

While on the shores of Chilko Lake in Alone season 8, Clay found a use for all of those expert skills he had honed since childhood and was quick to find water and shelter. He continued the journey, in the same way, staying strong and dedicated to his goal to survive.

Clay endured and overcame everything the wilderness threw at him. He overcame freezing temperatures, starvation and isolation, and was victorious in surviving for a total of 74 days and winning the massive $500,000 dollar prize. He said that he could have even survived weeks longer to outlast his final opponent!

Clay said that he hopes to teach his son and people watching at home through his performance, and he believes that the biggest obstacle that he conquered was his own mind.

Before his appearance on Alone, Clay was relatively well known for being an expert primitive bowmaker.

He even uploaded videos on YouTube and held classes to teach others about his knowledge. Since his journey on Alone, his fame has grown significantly, and he has also been featured in multiple prestigious publications.

Clay has also served as a guest on several podcasts, shows, and videos to speak about his experience on the show and his knowledge.

His YouTube channel has grown significantly with regular videos being posted about survival skills and bow-making activities to his 114k subscribers. He also continues to conduct his sought-after classes on bow-making and archery.

Currently, Clay, his wife Liz and their two sons reside in a homestead near Lewiston in North Idaho. His wife shares his love of nature, and all of the family practices sustainable living through hunting, fishing, foraging and gardening. Clay and Liz also try and instil their love of nature and bushcraft in their sons with them doing activities together!

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Clay Hayes is a seasoned survivalist who stood up to the challenge of surviving in the harsh wilderness all by himself. On the wilderness survival show, Clay braved 74 days on the shores of the Chilko Lake in British Columbia to emerge as the grand winner of Alone season 8. His survival, bushcraft, and hunting skills are exquisite, as seen on the show. However, his recent win has propelled Clay Hayes into the spotlight, and fans are now interested to know more about his personal life. Well, lets find out, shall we?

Clay Hayes grew up surrounded by nature in northwest Florida. His relationship with bushcraft and primitive living originated right from his childhood as he carefully practiced and honed his hunting, fishing, and trapping skills. Moreover, even as a young boy, Clay dreamt of living a primitive lifestyle, surviving off the land, and being at one with nature. Thus, with the foundation of a proper survivalist embossed deep inside him, Clay began perfecting every angle of sustainable living.

Although Clay found employment as a Wildlife Biologist at Idaho Fish and Game, he was always attracted towards primitive archery and bow making. Thus, he left his job to focus entirely on his passion. His dedication made him an expert bow crafter, and soon Clay became a professional hunter and bowyer. Doing what he loved and loving what he did, Clay was leading a dream life before being approached to be a contestant on Alone.

Clay Hayes is happily married to Liz Hayes. The two met each other when they were just 17-years-old and share a lovely relationship. Although their exact marriage date is unknown, Liz was Clays long-time girlfriend before the two decided to tie the knot and settle down. His wife means the world to Clay, and their love can often be witnessed through their posts about each other on social media.

Apart from that, the couples children stand as another testimony of their love and dedication towards each other. Like Clay, Liz, too, holds a fascination for the wilderness. She is an advocate for sustainable living and offers valuable assistance to her husband if needed. At present, the couple, along with their children, reside in a homestead in North Idaho. With fishing, hunting, and foraging being a part of daily life, Liz plays a critical role in the day-to-day activities in the homestead.

Clay and Liz are proud parents to two sons, Coye and Fen. Although the couple prefers privacy when it comes to their family, Clay has posted several pictures of their sons on social media showing how much they mean to him. Growing up on the homestead, the boys have been introduced to the basics of survivalism and sustainable living from a young age.

Clays social media account is packed with pictures of the young boys helping out around the homestead and even lending a hand to their father in bow-making. With Liz and Clay subscribing to the sustainable lifestyle, they have mentioned how important it is for them to sow the seeds of the same within their sons from a young age.

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History Channels Alone has received a significantly large fan-following ever since its premiere in 2015. The shows premise of dropping seasoned survivalists into the wilderness with just ten items of their choice is exciting in itself. Another aspect that adds to the thrill is how each survivalist strives to gather the basic necessities and fights against the wrath of treacherous nature to survive in the remote wilderness.

Theresa Emmerich Kamper was a contestant on season 8 of Alone. Since she was the only contestant in the season who hails from outside the United States, fans got curious to know more about her life. With the eighth season now behind us, lets find out where Theresa Kamper is at present, shall we?

Although Theresa Emmerich Kampers hometown is stated to be Exeter in the United Kindom, the expert survivalist and tanning specialist was born and brought up in Wyoming, in the Western United States. Her foray into bushcraft and tanning is the result of her parents fascination for the outdoors. As nature enthusiasts, Theresas family patiently taught her to live off the land and brain tan skins.

By the time she was 13, Theresa already knew how to tan skins properly, and her skills improved through practice and interacting with experienced people.What started as a passionate hobby soon engulfed Theresas whole life as she made it her career. In 2020, she wrote a book called Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies and even imparted her knowledge about tanning types to university students before appearing on the eighth season of the show.

In Alone, Theresa was quick to find shelter, food, and water for the initial days. She was determined in her will to survive, and her strategies seemed to work flawlessly against the unruly nature. Even as several contestants tapped out, Theresa went strong and soon passed the 60-day mark. However, things soon went awry in the wilderness, and Theresa found herself losing too much weight because of a frugal diet. Ultimately, she felt weak because of her low BMI and had to tap out on day 69. Theresa Emmerich Kamper was medically evacuated.

Even before appearing on Alone, Theresa had a highly successful career. She served as an Honorary Research Fellow in the Archeology Department of the University of Exeter from 2013-2020, and her published book made her reach new heights. Theresas expertise in tanning also earned her a place in numerous documentaries and TV shows where she shared her passion and knowledge with a broad audience.

Her appearance on Alone increased her fame and brought her into the limelight. Theresa found herself getting more opportunities to share her experiences on shows on publications. At present, she offers a limited number of classes while traveling around the world. Her classes, which get sold out pretty quickly, covers topics from survivalism and bushcraft to proper tanning methods. She even teaches the techniques of using hide to make valuable yet extraordinary items and clothing.

Interestingly, the tanning instructor made the gear that she was seen wearing on Alone season 8.Additionally, Theresa makes herself available globally for private lessons, lectures, museum tours, and much more. Her passion and dedication to her work are marvelous, and we hope she finds happiness and success every step of the way.

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