Curie Author Showcase (December 12, 2022)

In the spirit of Curie's mission to promote undiscovered and exceptional content, we wish to use this ongoing section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in the past week. Selected posts are nominated by curators for inclusion in this showcase.

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Featured Author: @trave160
I Hope Things Really Do Get Better Next Year

I've had a great start early this year in Hive. I was finally becoming much more active and involved with my posts and the community itself. But things have taken a slow downturn till now. There's also the matter of my health problems (chronic IBS) that keeps putting me in an enfeebled position in life. Migraines, stomach problems, debilitating health, and so on. I can't hold much of an actual job, so I rely on my family's help to get by. But I haven't been able to spend much on the hobby I grew up with, either.

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Featured Author: @inksurgeon
SUB ZERO | Cinematic FPV - Winnats Pass, Peak District 4K

These conditions just blew my mind!! God tier weather, just so stunning. Been after flying Winnats Pass in the snow for some time now but to get it with a cloud inversion is just insane, total jackpot! Ive never even heard of an inversion with snow, never mind seen or flown one, today was defo my lucky day and I am forever grateful to the drone gods! I very nearly did blow it though, like a zombie at 5 in the morning I forgot to pack my batteries, luckily I had a fully charged one on the big bird already so had to make the most with this one pack. Absolute epicness, my favourite flight to date.

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Featured Author: @nidabyzt
How did you wake up to the weekend?

You wake up in the morning and you have a strange feeling. What could have happened in your sleep that you're feeling this way right now? It's very strange. It foretells that today is going to be a bad day. I close my eyes again, maybe it will get better, I make an effort not to open them so that my weekend shouldn't be like this.

I have to get myself together because I know that the negative feeling inside me will affect my weekend. Because I encounter this feeling from time to time. I've been working hard all week. I have to get rid of this tiredness. I have to start the new week more dynamically. This will affect both my home and my work life.

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Featured Author: @lukasbachofner
A GOOD PLACE FOR A GOD IN SEVILLA (D/ENG/ESP) - A new entry for historic architecture and photography lovers

We did it again during our stay in Seville (Spain). We really don't do it very often. And if we do, we do it very inconspicuously. But sometimes desire and curiosity win out. The desire to look at an incredible and old building. And so we joined hundreds of other tourists and visited Seville's Santa María de la Sede Cathedral. And it was really very impressive.

The largest Gothic building and third largest house of worship in the world sits proudly in the middle of Seville and was built in the 15th century on the walls of an old Moorish mosque.

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Featured Author: @xanreo
Xiaomi Mi Pen: A not-so-late review

This is my second time publishing a blog here in this community. The first time that I published a blog here, I wrote a review about my Xiaomi Pad 5 and now we will review again another thing that I am using for 2 weeks now and I think, I am late to write a blog about this because I decided to write a review about it after 1 week but I didn't have a chance to write because I don't know how to start so this is just the time that I can write this.

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Featured Author: @vindiesel1980
Van life and how to fully experience the culture...get a LOCAL travel buddy

I’ve been traveling around Portugal for quite a few months now. Without speaking the local language, my social life here is mostly the one with other estrangeiros (this is how the Portuguese call foreigners here). Last week I tried something new, letting a local join me in the van for a week.

Some of you know my experiences with the local garages here. I even worked on my own van in one of them for 3.5 months. Communicating with the owner was easy and in English. With the mechanic it was different and difficult...in every way. I am happy I already know quite a few Portuguese, that speak good English. Because of them I learned something about the culture and lifestyle here, all in a more superficial way. Now I am ready for the next level.

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Featured Author: @buffalobison
REVIEW: This is Gwar (2021): That's a cuttlefish if you were wondering.

Gwar doesn't actually mean anything from what the band members have stated. I see that certain people have tried to make sense of the name by thinking it was an acronym for something. God what an awful racket, took some thinking and might just be a good way of describing their music.

In all truth there is a lot more going on behind the mask of this iconic band. The band portion is only a subset of what Gwar could be considered. This is more of an ever growing and mutating collective of people brought together by their life travels.

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Posts for this author showcase were selected by Curie curator @alcibiades. All images and quoted texts are the copyright of their respective authors.