KAZ PhD

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Space engineer/consultant, Twitch streamer/YouTuber focused on community building, lore, and helping people. He/him

Book cover of "The Search for Richard III: The King's Grave" by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones
Book cover for Men in Black, a film directed by Ed Solomon, novelized and translated to French by Steve Perry. The cover features the silhouette of two men with white light behind them, standing in the door of the letter I in MIB.
The Playstation 5 plastic box for the game, "Ghost of Yotei" featuring (presumably) a samurai seated on a field, surrounded by leaves and weapons.
Book cover for "Bird Box" by Josh Malerman, featuring a blindfolded woman in a dark, static-filled background.
Book cover for "Gallant" by V.E. Schwab, featuring a mansion in black and white in front of a gate on the top, mirrored by a similar mansion on the bottom in red. The scene is surrounded by vines and roses.
A picture of Moraine lake with text overlaid. The title text at the top says, "Reading/book club stream!", the bottom text says, "Today's topic: Getting started..."
Book cover for Le crime de l'Orient Express by Agatha Christie, featuring people climbing aboard a turn-of-the-century train.
Picture of someone (me) holding a book. Denise Hamilton's "The Jasmine Trade" featuring the LA skyline, obscured by pink clouds
Book cover for David Mealing's "Blood of the Gods" featuring a lone figure on a small hill with a single tree in a green field. There is a single large lightning strike.
Book cover of "Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade" by Oliver Bowden, featuring a cowl-wearing warrior with a blade up his sleeve, standing in front of a shaded battleground
Book cover for "Super Star Trek: Les Vengeurs" by William Shatner, featuring Captains Picard and Kirk
Cover of the video game "Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown" featuring a two-blade-wielding warrior leaping through the air with blue energy trailing behind him
Picture of the trilogy box set of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, featuring the books, The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Sky Stone.
Michael Scott with tears in his eyes
Book cover for "Dr. Gully's Story" by Elizabeth Jenkins, featuring a young woman seated with an older man behind her. The setting is a Victorian salon, featuring a fireplace, paintings, curtains, a nice suit and flowing dress.
Book cover for Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, but in French! "Calvin et Hobbes: Adieu, monde cruel!" featuring the plushie tiger leaping onto the scared youth.
Book cover for N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season", featuring a wall, green in colour with a kind of old, decorated architecture.
Book cover for Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea: The first four books" featuring the silhouette of a figure standing on a cliff overlooking the sea. The figure is holding a quarter staff, wearing a billowing cloak, and the image colours are black and orange.
Book cover for "The Tombs of Atuan" by Ursula K. Le Guin, featuring a cloaked girl in a cave under a pile of pillared stones.
Book cover for "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin, featuring a lone, cloaked silhouette, standing in a field overlooking the sea.
A picture of a man (me!) sitting in front of a cake, his hands spread wide. It is a 3-layered cake, made to resemble books. The top layer is red, featuring the number 39 in typical and Roman numerals, the middle layer is tan saying Rothfuss III (a joke about an unfinished fantasy series), the bottom layer is green, saying "yet another Sanderson, (a joke about that author writing so many books). The man is smiling, it's his birthday! And beside him, sleeping under a blanket, unseen, is a Sphinx cat!
Book cover of "Elantris" by Brandon Sanderson, featuring grey city walls, an orange, wispy magical energy moving through them, on a white background.
Book cover for "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, featuring an astronaut in space, tethered to something unknown with a black and yellow background.
Book cover for V.E. Schwab's "A Darker Shade of Magic", featuring a silhouette of a man wearing a black and red cape, standing on a map of 4 London's, in different colours (red, white, grey, and black).
Book cover for V.E. Schwab's A Gathering of Shadows, featuring a silhouetted figure standing on overlapping circles of red, white, grey, and black. The figure is wearing a cloak and holding a knife in each of their outstretched hands.
Book cover for V.E. Schwab's "A Darker Shade of Magic", featuring a silhouette of a man wearing a black and red cape, standing on a map of 4 London's, in different colours (red, white, grey, and black).
Book cover for S.A. Chakraborty's The Kingdom of Copper, featuring a green door surrounded by metal copper leaves.
Book cover for S.A. Chakraborty's "The City of Brass", featuring an ornate door surrounded by the metal.
Picture of 3 cartoon skeletons drinking milk, with the caption "Les produits laitiers nos amis pour la vie"
Picture of the book cover for "Tress of the Emerald Sea" by Brandon Sanderson. The artwork features a silhouetted young woman standing on an island, holding a cup in her hand, with a bright moon in the background.
A picture of the cover of Brandon Sanderson's book, Tress of the Emerald Sea, featuring a silhouette of a woman standing with a bright moon/sun behind her.
Someone holding a book in their lap. The book is entitled, "Eden Fluide" by Alexis Flamand, featuring a pirate/space ship in a whirling sea.
Picture of the cover of the book "Destination: Void" by Frank Herbert. Cover art features a kind of zombie with two angry technological faces behind it.
A photo of a grey, hairless Sphinx cat, lying on a red plaid blanket, wearing a red Santa hat, with the text: Happy holidays!
Etymology of pernicious, from Latin nec meaning death, to Latin pernicies meaning ruin, to Latin perniciosus meaning destructive to late Middle English pernicious meaning harmful in a gradual way
Picture of The Belgariad series (5 books) by David Eddings
Alternate version of the Muppet Christmas Carol cover but with a man replacing Gonzo in the image. Image consists of muppets Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and Robin the Frog wearing Dickensian fashion in front of a blue, snowy background, featuring a man with Christmas shirt, long hair, big smile, and black Christmas hat behind them.
Book cover for Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings, featuring a sword with a blue gem at the pommel against a purple background
Book cover of Pawn of Prophecy, by David Eddings, featuring a sword in front of a purple background.
A collection of Infinity Stones (gems) sitting in a box, seemingly ignored or forgotten.
Book cover for Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, featuring multicoloured spotlights all originating from a centre point.
Picture of a man with long hair and beard, smiling as he wears silly glasses that make it look like his eyes are popping out
A picture of a waterfall
A woman about to cry
Book cover for the Forgotten Realms Heroes of Faerûn book, featuring fantasy heroes fighting
Book cover for Terry Pratchett's book, Pyramids, featuring a black-clothed assassin and veiled handmaiden riding a camel, while all sorts of crazy things happen in the background (turtle shot at by arrow, camel spitting on seagull, statues coming to life, etc.)
A man with skeleton-like (black and white) makeup, top hat with roses, a shirt with bones on it, and a red, velvet jacket
The cover to Terry Pratchett's book, Wyrd Sisters, featuring a cartoon style rendition of witches in a forest, with magic energy pooling over a floating dagger. Numerous busy details on the image including bats, a king, mice, and forest.
A picture of a grey, hairless cat, peeing in a toilet.
A list of French words with their English translations: ailleurs - elsewhere Amertume = bitterness amadouer = to coax un amarrage - a mooring asticot = larva asticoter = to tease une bagarre = a fight Un béguin = a crush bouleversé - distraught/shocked-sad une broutille = a trifle un casse-pieds = a "pain in the neck" le cercueil = the coffin C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron = practice makes perfect La cible = the target Ciller = to blink une civière = a stretcher Un brancard = a stretcher un brancard de fortune = a makeshift stretcher ___ de fortune = a makeshift ___ Se cogner = to bump into à contrecoeur = reluctantly Un clin d'œil = a blink Côtoyer = to run along with/to rub shoulders Coulisser - slide débrouille = resourcefulness débrouiller = to sort out/manage Une ecchymose - a bruise Emparer = to seize Empêcher/s'empêcher = to prevent / oneself Un empressement = an eagerness un enchevêtrement - a tangle étouffer - to suffocate/stifle évanouissement = fainting/disappearing Se figer = to freeze Franchir = to cross Au gré = at will Au guard-à-vous - at attention guère = no/not Haine = hatred hoqueter = to hiccup un lâche = a coward une lueur = a glimmer Mûre = ripe, trop mûre = overripe Nette = clear Un ouragan = a hurricane La patrouille = the patrol À peine = barely plutôt = instead la poitrine = the chest La pommette - a cheekbone Le pouls = the pulse une poutrelle = a beam Le pré = the meadow un raseur = a bore la reddition = the surrender redresser = to sort out se redresser = to straighten oneself up renfrogné = scowling Repérer = to spot Le sas - the airlock Un serment = an oath Le seuil = the threshold La soute = the hold/cargo bay tant bien que mal = somehow tracasser = to bother Trancher = to cut Le verrou = the lock (la serrure) Voûté = vaulted, but also hunched (shoulders) Un voyou = a thug
Book cover for La colère de Khan (The Wrath of Khan), featuring characters standing in front of a desert, with a starship in the background.
A picture of the cover of the video game, Hollow Knight, featuring a character with a white face/mask, black holes for eyes, slight ears/antlers, wearing black with a black, flowing shawl, and holding a nail as a sword. The prominent colours are white, black, and some blue.
A photo of the book cover of La colère de Khan, featuring some of the crew of the starship Enterprise, Khan in the background, and a swirling cloud of orange in the mid-ground.
A picture of the cover of Brandon Sanderson's book, Oathbringer. The cover features a person with flowing hair and clothes, looking forward, holding a sword on a barren field. The person and field are coloured black and white, but the name of the book and the Sun behind the person are red.
Captain Kirk saying "I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!"
Movie cover for My Cousin Vinny, featuring two people leaning against a barrier in a courtroom.
Point of view of holding a book open in one's left hand
Book cover of Oathbringer, book 3 of The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
Book cover to "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie, featuring a dagger plunged intro fabric (presumably the posthumous), showing some blood and a housefly.
Picture of Grandpa Simpson from The Simpsons, but with the text, "It'll be a cold day in hell before I recognize AI."