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You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love–I love–I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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This may seem like an exaggeration, the idea that one can learn how to properly think like a criminal by learning how crime stories work. On a personal note, let me tell a story from the Leverage writer’s room.

Apollo Robbins (http://www.istealstuff.com/) runs a crew of professional thieves who consult for law enforcement. He was also our criminal consultant on Leverage. Every few weeks he would visit the writer’s room to advise on the scripts and keep us up to date about new cons and the latest in criminal technology.

One day during the third season he sat in with the writers while we broke a story. We posted the details of a real-life white collar criminal up on the room’s whiteboard, using him as the basis for our Mark. We looked at his weaknesses, how he moved his money, what his hobbies were. Once we were happy with that element of the story we added a Vault to the mix, one that used an interesting new alarm technology we’d researched. We then spent about an hour figuring out how to circumvent that alarm. We even sketched out a map of the imaginary building so we could keep track of our Crew’s movements during the Job.

“Well, I’m done here,” Apollo muttered. Noting our confusion, he pointed at the board and index cards cluttering the wall. ��This is exactly how real Crews plan these things. This writer’s room is now a fully functioning criminal gang. You could be thieves.”

Of course writing television pays better than crime (usually), with far less chance of being arrested (usually), so we all managed to resist the temptation. But aside from the day a US Attorney asked us to change a plot because we’d created a scam that was a little too foolproof, or when a Homeland Security Agent admitted they were spooked by a security hole we’d exploited in our season finale, it was certainly one of the proudest moments I had on the show.

Source: "CrimeWorld" by John Rogers in Fate Worlds Volume Two: Worlds in Shadow. Evil Hat Productions, 2013: 20.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn in 1933. She meets Steve Rogers pre- or post-freezing.

OR BOTH!

1942: 

It was nice to be back in New York, Steve thought, after touring the whole country with the Star Spangled Show. Even better, once the show was done here, they were going overseas – not into combat, but at least it was a start. It made him cheer up just to think about it, and he maybe threw a little extra flair into the show every night, took a little extra time at the stage door.

“What’s your name?” he asked, crouching to get on eye-level with the little girl who had been patiently waiting behind several taller, pushier people. 

“Ruth,” she said shyly, offering him her autograph book.

“Lovely name,” he replied. “Did you like the show?”

She nodded. “I liked the dancing.” 

“You gonna be a dancer when you grow up?”

“Nuh uh,” she said. 

“What’re you gonna be?”

“A judge,” she said. 

“Yeah? You gonna make sure justice is done?”

She nodded soberly.

“Well, Ruth, you gotta study hard, you know that, right?” he asked, as he signed her book. “I expect to see you on the bench someday.”

“Thank you,” she murmured, stepping back, and another handful of kids surged around her. Cute kid. 

2012: 

Steve had always liked Civics in school, but when you had to catch up on seventy years between your last history class and the present, it could get a little overwhelming. On the other hand, celebrity was good for something; when he’d been working on memorizing the names and major cases of the Supreme Court justices, Tony had said, “Well, do you want to meet them?”

A couple of long phone calls and a few weeks later, Steve passed through a LOT of security, down a hallway, and into a courtroom; it was early in the morning, ahead of the open public hours, and the room smelled like coffee. A tiny bird of a woman in a black gown was standing in front of the seating box. 

“Captain,” she said, as he shook her hand. 

“Justice Ginsburg, right?” he asked. “It’s an honor, ma’am.”

“I feel the same,” she said, and there was something very familiar about her smile. “I wanted to get here a little earlier than everyone else, to speak to you in private.” 

He was opening his mouth, about to ask why, when she reached into a pocket of the robe and took out a battered leather book, the kind kids used to collect autographs in.

“I don’t suppose you remember, you must have signed a lot of autographs,” she said. “But back in the war, just before you left for overseas, I went to see your bond show.” 

Steve looked down. Scrawled on the page was his clumsy signature and, in slightly better lettering, To Judge Ruth. Study Hard!

He looked up at her, eyes wide. “No, I remember – I asked if you wanted to be a dancer and you said no, you were going to be a judge.”

“You were the first adult outside of my family who didn’t sneer at a girl wanting to be a judge,” she said. 

“Well,” Steve said faintly. “Guess you must have studied.”

“Captain America said he wanted to see me on the bench. Couldn’t very well let him down,” she replied, and Steve laughed. 

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Canon: [breaks my heart]

Me: [angry] Fine, I’ll go to fanfiction! They never let me down.

Fanfiction: [breaks my heart but with more precision and accuracy]

Me: [sobs] Much better!

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This was fate. Yes, it was.

→ happy birthday @julesblackthorns

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3 years and I still can't hear a 21 gun salute without tearing up thinking of you.

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#gilmore girls but make it 2020 (part 2)

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It’s been 2 months since Tommy disappeared just days after his father destroyed downtown Starling City with the Markov device.  Two months of Felicity and Oliver not knowing where their best friend has been, or what has become of him since being healed by water from the Lazarus Pit.  After everything they’ve been through together, are they strong enough to survive what comes next?

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It’s been 2 months since Tommy disappeared just days after his father destroyed downtown Starling City with the Markov device.  Two months of Felicity and Oliver not knowing where their best friend has been, or what has become of him since being healed by water from the Lazarus Pit.  After everything they’ve been through together, are they strong enough to survive what comes next?

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#get wrekt

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It’s been 2 months since Tommy disappeared just days after his father destroyed downtown Starling City with the Markov device.  Two months of Felicity and Oliver not knowing where their best friend has been, or what has become of him since being healed by water from the Lazarus Pit.  After everything they’ve been through together, are they strong enough to survive what comes next?

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It’s been 2 months since Tommy disappeared just days after his father destroyed downtown Starling City with the Markov device.  Two months of Felicity and Oliver not knowing where their best friend has been, or what has become of him since being healed by water from the Lazarus Pit.  After everything they’ve been through together, are they strong enough to survive what comes next?

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It’s been 2 months since Tommy disappeared just days after his father destroyed downtown Starling City with the Markov device.  Two months of Felicity and Oliver not knowing where their best friend has been, or what has become of him since being healed by water from the Lazarus Pit.  After everything they’ve been through together, are they strong enough to survive what comes next?

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@geniewithwifi, @jaspertown, @tdgal1, @thebookjumper, @omglovechrissie, @cndyprfumegirl, @ranaahh95, @bettybee26 miriam1779 @sweetlysue​  @memcjo​