love will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Seriously, the easiest way for a time-traveler to make present-day money completely untraceably would be comicbooks.
Go buy yourself a US 10c coin from 1935, which will apparently set you back around $8.50; set your time machine for New York, April 18th 1938; walk up to a newsstand and buy a copy of Action Comics #1 with your dime.
Come back to the present, send the comic off to be professionally graded, tell everyone you found it in a yard sale, sell it at auction, and congratulations: your $8.50 is now $3.25 million.
Repeat with Detective Comics #27, Amazing Fantasy #15, etc.
Hell, if you don't wanna draw attention to yourself, just pick less expensive comics! Need $600 quick? Go to February 1991, pick up New Mutants #98 for a dollar, and a Deadpool fan will take that off your hands really quick.
Comics are mass-produced, so history won't miss a copy or two going missing; basically untraceable once sold; and can easily be claimed as something you found in a yard sale or charity shop.
Make sure to stick it in an archival lockbox and then pick it up later, especially if it’s something that was made before the Trinity test; if it doesn’t have the right nuclear isotopes, you might be SOL.
adhd tip you can replace a “meal” with up to 3 hours of “the app” but watch out
okay done 👍 why am i hurts
Because of this post whenever I notice I’m mindlessly scrollling through social media instead of important things like eating I think the words “The App” repeatedly untill I close it
Reblog to save a neurodivergent life
all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.
And getting attacked by moths since your phone is the only light source in the room
are we all lost stars? trying to light up the dark.
-unknown
(daisy johnson + stars for @loved-the-stars-too-fondly)
Simon: I know who posted the video
Linda: oh?
Simon: it was August
Linda: I have no idea who that is
Jokes aside I do wonder. She reacted as if she kinda did have an idea who that is and I’m always wondering how much Simon is actually telling her. Like at casual dinner conversation or when they’re going grocery shopping together. Like, obviously he keeps most (troublesome) things to himself but they must talk about some stuff at least on the surface like ‘god, this August guy, mamma, he’s my rowing team captain and you have no idea how annoying he is’ or something? Maybe?
She also met August at the Parents Day lunch in 1.03. When August first said there was no room at the inn, and then oh so magnanimously included Linda and her kids in an act of charity. He was very noblesse oblige about it and Simon was furious, wanted all 3 of them to leave. Linda probably figured out from that encounter that there was no love lost between Simon and this rich third year.
And even though in 1.03 Linda was trying to calm Simon down and saying it was a misunderstanding, I’m sure the incident stuck in her mind. She’s just twenty or more years older than her son, and has probably learned from bitter experience that sometimes it’s better to bite your tongue and act grateful than tell people how you really feel. Particularly rich white people, when you’re a working class woman of colour, and an immigrant single mom who speaks Swedish with a strong accent.
I always wondered if August set up that situation deliberately. It seems highly unlikely that, if indeed the luncheon was ONLY for the parents of boarders, the administration wouldn’t have made sure all the non-boarding kids knew that beforehand. To avoid precisely the kind of embarrassing situation that happened for Linda and her kids. And if the parents of non-boarding students are indeed supposed to be included in the lunch, then August could’ve used his position as a prefect to get all 3 Erikssons “accidentally” removed from the list of people attending.
Plus, just on a practical note, the school would’ve asked the students several weeks beforehand how many people were coming from their family. So they’d have a head count for the caterer. I would think that if August’s claim was legit, the administration would’ve caught it when Simon and Sara handed in their forms saying they had 1 guest coming. And the administration would’ve probably caught it earlier than the day of, and informed them actually, they shouldn’t have filled out the form in the first place.
Caterers don’t like guessing on the number of people they have to feed and the number of tables and chairs to set up. Especially when it’s a sit down meal rather than a buffet. Yeah, they would’ve brought a few extra servings of food, and chairs and place settings to the venue just in case. But they still would’ve wanted a head count from the school. I have worked for a catering company in the past. I doubt Swedish caterers are all that different from Canadian ones in that respect.
Re: head count, yeah, some students would have 2 parents visiting and that’s it. But some might have only 1 parent coming, or 2 parents and 2 siblings, or 2 parents and also a grandparent and/or other relatives. There could also be blended family situations where a student’s 2 divorced parents attend, each with their new spouse, for a total of 4 guests to feed, as well as the student.
It just seems fairly impractical that this “error” would’ve happened. And very convenient for August that it did happen. So yeah, I think Linda would remember August. 2.05 is only a few months after Parents Day lunch in 1.03, after all, in canon. Also, I doubt Simon would’ve brought it up to his mom spontaneously that the prefect and rowing team captain was an asshole. He wouldn’t want her to worry.
But if she’d already had her own encounter with August being gracious to the poors at Parents Day, Simon might have felt more comfortable complaining to her about the guy. At least if Linda had actively asked him how rowing practice was going, etc. I highly doubt Simon would’ve revealed the full extent of August’s bullying, but Linda would’ve known they disliked each other.
Help me ob-gyn kenobi, you’re my only hope.
She needed more midwife-clorians.
I really hope everyone reblogging this followed the link and read the article, because it’s larger point is really good “Reproductive health and childbirth is a crutch, and Lucas gets away with it because his audience accepts that these things are mysterious and cannot be intervened with the way that that the loss of limbs can be remedied with robot prosthetics, or the way Luke can be rescued from near-death on Hoth by being submerged in a bacta tank. Having babies is worse than being mauled by a wampa ice creature or being chopped up by lightsabers and falling into a river of lava. Lucas can write a world like that, and worse, the audience will accept it. But uteruses aren’t made of malignant magic. Women’s bodies are real physical things that can be studied and understood and when necessary, cured. ”
IDK about everyone else, but I’ve actually been certified as a doula and childbirth educator and worked in women’s health media for most of a decade. All points valid, but “Help me OB-GYN Kenobi” broke me.
milf (myself i’d like to forgive) and dilf (despair i’d like to forget)
Level Up Your Descriptions
I learnt a tip for resume writing that I find applies pretty well to novel writing too. Essentially, you shouldn’t write on your resume that you took orders and handled cash at the till at your restaurant job because people already know what a server does. You should write the unexpected or unique things you bring to the job.
Same with writing descriptions in fiction. There are certain things that people are going to automatically assume about others, about a place, about a thing. For example, you wouldn’t say, “she grabbed out brown coffee” or “the car drove on four wheels.” Because when we think coffee, we already think brown/beans, and when we think car, we already think four wheels.
This seems obvious, until you consider that mentioning that the café is warmly decorated, cozy, and is full of writers working on manuscripts and people catching up over coffee is… exactly that. While maybe a baseline of information like this is appropriate, all you needed to say was ‘café’ and we’re already in this image. For a setting or person that doesn’t mean much to the story, this could suffice.
However, for an important element in the narrative, you’re going to want to bring your descriptions beyond that assumed/obvious baseline.
We know an elderly person is going to have grey hair, shuffle slowly, and speak in a creaky voice. We might not know that their purse seems far too heavy for them, and they have a distinct smell of gunpowder that follows them into rooms.
I’m reading a book right now by Jasper FForde called ‘Jack Spratt Investigates The Big Over Easy’ and it’s full of interesting and unexpected descriptions. Here is one of my favourites:
“The years had been charitable to Mrs. Spratt, and despite her age she was as bright as a button and had certainly not lost any of her youthful zest. Jack put it down to quantity of children. It had either made her tough in old age or worn her out—if the latter, then without Jack and his nine elder siblings, she might have lived to one hundred ninety-six. She painted people’s pets in oils because ‘someone has to,’ collected small pottery animals, Blue Baboon LPs and Jellyman commemorative plates. She had been widowed seventeen years.”
Think of what things make a person or space you know well unique, and try to imbue those details into your work. What makes a place look lived in? What sort of objects or feel or smell does it have? What distinguishes your best friend from others in a crowd?
Feel free to share a description that's really stuck with you!
Daisy Johnson in Agents Of Shield, 5x03 A Life Spent
from sitting on the floor of a quinjet with an old laptop, battered and bruised and telling may through numb tears that she’s abandoning shield… to sitting on that same floor with mack, reflecting on years together as a team and all but giggling over the prospect of creating a new team with the man she’s already falling in love with. it’s poetry, I tell you. poetry
"Most of the intelligence communities doesn't believe he exist, the ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He is credited with over two dozens assassinations in the last 50 years."
SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES/THE WINTER SOLDIER CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014) • dir. The Russo Bros
Which path should he choose?
The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?
he should wander away and have a picnic while he thinks about what path to choose
Great idea! But where should he have the picnic?
Under the tree, or under the old fort?
By the sea, so he can enjoy the sound of the waves
A lovely choice!
Should he build a sandcastle to pass the time? Or perhaps go fishing?
Perhaps he could collect shells he finds interesting
Sounds fun!
Which shell should he pick up?
This one
That's not a shell, it's a tiny earpiece.
Should he listen to music? Or to the mysterious pre-recorded message?
He should give it back to the crab in the largest shell, they thought they had lost their wave-pod and are grateful he found it!
The crab wants to give a gift in return.
Should he accept the gift of power, or the gift of knowledge?
the gift of friendship :)
Friendship acquired!
Should they celebrate with pizza or ice cream?
The crab friend cannot eat either of those! Let's split a nice seaweed salad instead. :)
So many options!
Should they get tossed salad, wiggly salad, or spiky salad?
Seasar salad
Nothing beats getting it straight from the source
Should they use scissors or claws to cut the seaweed?
What about that sword in the first panel?
The circle is complete.
Through choices, friendship, and salad, he found his way to the path of the warrior. But he won't walk it alone.
Their path is just beginning, but this story is over.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
#Barbie (2023) is gonna be the movie of the century (real)
