#DR Class 175

[tovarishfungus]

Well... there was Neptun. The Berlin Ost - København H/Copenhagen Line. With a cool railway ferry between Warnem��nde and Gedser. From there you could easily travel to Stockholm.

Here's a brochure from the late 1960s, going into a bit more detail and also listing the ticket prices.

Sometime in the late 1960s: the Stockholm–Berlin express train is rerouted via Rosa-Luxemburg-Stadt due to trackworks. A local rail enthusiast is out with their camera and uses expensive colour film to document the unusual sight. On different days the train is hauled by a new V180-class diesel and a class 01.5 steam locomotive.

In other words: I was playing with my model trains again, and decided to take the Swedish coaches out for a spin for a change. I'm not sure if there was a Stockholm–Berlin express in the late 1960s... but in this universe there was.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

Too greedy, too dear

140 quid for shoes and 175 quid for boots is a right royal piss take

I wouldn't mind if they didn't give it loads about the brands working class subcultural heritage

Cheeky cs

[vickozone]

The Magnus Archives

-S5 Notes-

<- previous notes

Handwriting translated below:

#161 old memories, tape that Gertrude should have gave them, Jon says “I love you”, they don’t need to eat to live

#162 Gertrude and Gerry bonding, Tim and Sasha talking about a very relevant subject and Jon and Martin are leaving the safe house.

#163 [VIETNAM FLASHBACKS] [BAGPIPES INTENSIFY]

#164 Gross statement about an infection in a town and Helen talking to Jon and Martin like a proud aunt is beautiful. “I knew you crazy kids would make it work!”

#165 “Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing.” The Stranger statement. Not!Sasha messed up!!

#166 Martin suddenly is on a murder episode and a dude turned into a worm. Helen says “Slay!”

#167 “Yes, Martin, you are my reason.” Sweet bonding and why Gertrude didn’t have anymore assists.

#168 “I’m not going to kill a man just because you’re jealous!” “Why not?” Oh, Martin. Oliver Banks shall live another day and we are crossing The End domain

#169 Let’s willingly run into a burning building, disregarding your boyfriend and getting revenge together! Jude is now dead and Martin was just struggling in the background. He chose revenge over his boyfriend. Interesting. “We’re burning!”

#170 “I’m Martin Blackwood, and I am not lonely anymore!” “Oh… Hello!”

#171 No way I just spent 23 minutes listening to Jon talk about skin flowers in a botanical garden. “That your boyfriend?” “It is, actually.” “Oh.”

#172 Creepy theatre show that made me genuinely uncomfortable with The Web

#173 Where do you think all of the children went? That’s right! The Dark with Callum! Yay!

#174 Simon calling Jon killing him “rude” is hilarious and immediately dipping is iconic. Weird Vast domain with big explosions. Helen loves some good gossip.

#175 The Extinction items, hate for umbrellas, and Martin’s squelchy couch. We’re going to The Hunt next. Oh no.

#176 Adoptive uncle Trevor and Julia are dead. AWESOME HUNT STATEMENT! And we got Basira! :D

#177 ‘Dr. David’ Jon is so hot. This episode has so many trigger warnings. Helen is so silly. Basira is rad, staying with her boys. Won’t let them have a moment tho

#178 More Flesh. Gross processing line and Jon admits that the thing that traumatized him the most was Daisy going to kill him in the woods. Poor babies.

#179 Daisy is shot and killed. Basira is on her own and I have a reason to give Jon a cane.

#180 I have never felt more serene in my life. I can’t even describe it. I was smiling, giggling, and everything feels okay. Salesa and Annabelle are here and I love Salesa’s voice and HE CAN PLAY THE PIANO! Teaholding fluff, om nom nom, this episode is one of my favorites. The I-Spy game <3

#181 They decide to stay at Upton House for a bit longer before leaving. Jon feels his powers again and forgets the whole experience of ignorance. Pity. Seemed like a nice place. I like Salesa.

#182 Anatomy Class student hospital and Breekon asks Jon to kill him. I feel bad for him. :(

#183 “I’m sure I love you.” “I love you too.” THEY SAID IT!! Helen was concerned for them. She’s like a wine aunt who acts motherly to them. Also, Martin’s domain…

#184 Jon made Jordan an entity. That’s a lotta ants! Jon is just… so complicated.

#185 Ouch. Police brutality and wrongful imprisonment are rough subjects. That guy pleading out to Martin HURT. Martin is… somewhere at the end. Alone again, oh, Jonny, I feel horrible.

#186 Martin went from being a joke in Jon’s anger to being one of the most well-developed characters. He is either going to kill himself of Jon. Martin legit talks to himself. Statement made me cry. This better end with them being happy together.

#187 HELEN! D: Aw, man… I liked her. That poor woman. Calm down, Jon! Helen was their friend till the end. Dang it, that was a nail-biter.

#188 We’re in London now! Eyes, man. They’re everywhere. We grieve for Helen a bit. Did I mention EYES?

#189 MEL AND GEORGIE! OMG! They… made a cult and can hide from The Eye. Great.

#190 Fresh take on modern dating! Antichrist plus one! Archivist mocks poems, beloved pet turned monster, and a blind prophet

#191 Jon sleeps with his eyes open. Georgie wants to avenge her cat (I think I’ve seen this film before), mystery can, and Jon and Martin discuss death. Sobbing atm.

#192 Rosie is literally just going with the flow. It’s weird to see someone else’s perspective on things. Jonah’s incantation is awesome and gosh, I love Martin

#193 Elias 'high as a kite' Bouchard’s origins. Jonah’s distorted voice is hot.

#194 THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT D: After a gruesome metamorphosis statement, Jon tried to find Martin to apologize only to find he was taken to HILL TOP FREAKIN ROAD

#195 Just Basira and Jon, catching up and trudging through water. Omg. The Mr. Spider tape.

#196 Earth shattering rip-in-space time crap. Annabelle is wicked cool. Martin keeps getting sucked into things AND THE TAPES!! ASDFEKGLZMV

#197 MARTIN! ANNABELLE! TAPES! THE LIGHTER! INTER-DIMENSIONAL PIT! WE NEED TO DESTROY JONAH AND THE EYE SIMULTANEOUSLY! LES GO!

#198 If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you too? Ew, bones reforming. Chill ep. Silly.

#199 Group agrees on plan after ten minute discussion. Martin consulting Jon while he cries in his arms HURT!! Also, Mel thanks Jon. This is going to end horribly, isn’t it?

#200 Statement ends.

Crying tally: |||| |||| (I cried ten [10] times listening to this stupid podcast)

[casp1an-sea]

Somercrest Academy

Somercrest Academy is basically the reject version of NRC and RSA. It’s the magic school you go to if you can’t get into the good ones. It’s kind of delaptited in the middle of nowhere in kind of an overgrown jungly swampy area. They have a one sided rivalry with NRC and RSA because they consider them to be their rivals but NRC and RSA never take them seriously. They got last place in VDC 😬

Anyone is welcoming to make OCs who are students or Faculty of this school :))))) ————————————————————

Even though the school is advertised as a magic school, non mages are allowed to take normal classes if they are locals, as schools on Sage’s island are limited. Because of this a large portion of their student body is made of locals so they don’t have the need for multiple dorms like NRC and instead have one communal dorm. It’s a Co Ed school.

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Faculty:

Mistress Uritu (based on Yzma)

she’s The headmage she really wants to be rid of Somercrest academy and take Crowley’s Job

Mr. Khuno (based on Kronk)

he’s the vice headmage. Everyone adores him. He also runs the Sage’s Island cub scouts

Serina del la Vega (based on Marina del Ray)

used to teach elementary school in the Coralsea. Taught the Octatrio when they were children and was not nice to them at all. She came to land wanting something bigger, she wanted to be a famous show girl. But things didn’t go to plan and she ended up as Somercrest’s disciplinarian and a teacher. She wants Khuno’s job.

Jimothy (based on Benjamin)

a manatee merman that came to land as Serina’s assistant now works as the school’s secretary.

Professor Miles (Based on Milo)

he teaches ancient history and marine science at the school he’s fascinated by magic and non humans especially the Coralsea. He loves learning foreign languages. He is not a mage himself but he loves studying magic. He is fascinated by Yuu

Dr. Adagio used to teach math and enchantments here but he left when offered a job at NRC because it payed better and the school had a better rep

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Students:

Aria (scroll down to the bottom of the linked post)

Jay Hawks

Caiman Neverest: (based on Tick Tock Croc)

Male, He/him

Species: Crocodile beastman

Height: 5’9”/175 cm

Birthday: June 15 (Gemini)

Grade: Freshman

Age: 16

He has a croc tail, green tinted skin, and sharp teeth. His eyes seem to resemble clocks. He’s very friendly and curious but he can bite if he gets mad. He has ADHD. He carries a vintage alarm clock around with him but it’s unclear if the ticking is coming from the clock or from him. He often relaxes in the lagoon in the front of the school even though it’s technically off limits. He doesn’t have a UM yet.

Quill Nevermore: Based on the magic book from the Beauty and the Beast Live Action

Picrew is not mine: 五百式全身メーカー (The similar last names was just an accident lol here’s the long hair @edith-is-a-cat :)

Agender (AMAB), They/Them

Species: Fae but hides it

Grade: Sophomore

Age: 17

They actually got into NRC but due to circonstances out of their control they could not attend the first few months of school. Once they were ready to come back they found out that their spot had been given away to a student who Joined the school late (cough Kalim). They don’t know why this happened or who the student was but needless to say they aren’t a fan of Crowley and is quite bitter to the school. It was too late to apply To RSA so they ended up at Somercrest. They’re student body president and friends with Caiman.

Signature Spell:

basically, they can teleport people or themself. They can only go to places that they can picture in accurately in their head. The more people they take the more the spill takes out of them.

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It doesn’t matter your gender you can pic whichever one you want

(Picrew’s do not actually represent the characters this is just an example of the uniform. The hat is not uniform that’s just Quill’s thing)

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@xen-blank @thehollowwriter @ferris-the-wheel @fizzydreamz @hyperfixation-or-death

@ravenwing0110 @keii-starz @distant-velleity

@krenenbaker @elenauaurs @the-banana-0verlord @edith-is-a-cat @dove-da-birb

@cimonim-crunch

Xen this is where I headcanon all you know who’s OCs go lol

[applesauce365]

한국 드라마 시청 기록

1. 닥터 이방인 (Doctor Stranger)

2. 피노키오 (Pinocchio)

3. 의사 요한 (Dr. John)

4. 닥터스 (Doctors)

5. 키미 힐미 (Kill Me, Heal Me)

6. 하이드 지킬, 나 (Hyde Jekyll, Me)

7. 변혁의사랑 (Revolutionary Love)

8. 내 아이디는 강남미인 (My ID is Gangnam Beauty)

9. 훈남정음 (The Undateables)

10. 국민 여러분 (My Fellow Citizens!)

11. 이번 생은 처음이라 (Because This is My First Life)

12. 청춘시��� (Age of Youth)

13. 제3병원 (The 3rd Hospital)

14. 서른이지만 열일곱입니다 (Still 17)

15. 응급남녀 (Emergency Couple)

16. 시크릿가든 (Secret Garden)

17. 사랑의 불시착 (Crash Landing on You)

18. 김비서가 왜 그럴까 (What's Wrong with Secretary Kim)

19. 괜찮아, 사랑이야 (It's Okay, That's Love)

20. 꽃할배 수사대 (Flower Grandpa Investigation Unit)

21. 너의 목소리가 들려 (I Can Hear Your Voice)

22. 하백의 신부 (Bride of Habaek)

23. 청춘시대 2 (Age of Youth Season 2)

24. 여우각시별 (Where Stars Land)

25. 이판사판 (Judge vs Judge)

26. 신의 선물: 14일 (God's Gift : 14 Days)

27. 미녀 공심이 (Beautiful Gong Shim)

28. 그녀는 예뻤다 (She Was Pretty)

29. 닥터 프리즈너 (Doctor Prisoner)

30. 실업급여 로맨스 (Unemployed Romance)

31. 보스를 지켜라 (Protect The Boss)

32. 죽어도 좋아 (Happy If You Died)

33. 이혼변호사는 연애중 (Divorce Lawyer in Love)

34. 너희들은 포위됐다 (You're All Surrounded)

35. 친애하는 판사님께 (Dear Judge)

36. 귓속말 (Whisper)

37. 초면에 사랑합니다 (Secret Life of My Secretary)

38. 피고인 (Defendant)

39. 힐러 (Healer)

40. 열혈사제 (Fiery Priest)

41. 반의반 (A Piece of Your Mind)

42. 터널 (Tunnel)

43. 태양의 후예 (Master's Sun)

44. 상속자들 (The Heirs)

45. 화유기 (The Korean Odyssey)

46. 으라차차 와이키키 (Welcome to Waikiki)

47. 유령 (Phantom)

48. 아버지가 이상해 (My Father is Strange)

49. 그녀에 사생활 (Her Private Life)

50. 낭만닥터 김사부 (Dr. Romantic)

51. 돌아와요 아저씨 (Come Back Mister)

52. 1%의 어떤 것 (Something About 1%)

53. 슬기로운 의사생활 (Hospital Playlist)

54. 응답하라 1997 (Reply 1997)

55. 어쩌다 발견한 하루 (Extraordinary You)

56. 이태원 클라쓰 (Itaewon Class)

57. 쌈 마이 웨이 (Fight My Way)

58. 시그널 (Signal)

59. 검법남녀 (Partners for Justice)

60. 동백 꽃 필 무렵 (When The Camellia Blooms)

61. 우리 집에 사는 남자 (Sweet Stranger and Me)

62. 혼술남녀 (Drinking Solo)

63. 고백부부 (Go Back Couple)

64. 내 뒤에 테리우스 (My Secret Terius)

65. 베가본드 (Vagabond)

66. 오 마이 베이비 (Oh My Baby)

67. 구름이 그린 달빛 (Love in The Moonlight)

68. 편의점 샛별이 (Backstreet Rookie)

69. 사이코지만 괜찮아 (It's Okay to Not Be Okay)

70. 로봇이 아니야 (I'm not a Robot)

71. 응답하라 1988 (Reply 1988)

72. 마음의소리 (The Sound of Your Heart)

73. 마음의소리 리부트 (The Sound of Your Heart Reboot)

74. 일단 뜨겁게 청소하라 (Clean with Passion For Now)

75. 모던파마 (Modern Farmer)

76. 수상한 파트너 (Suspicious Partner)

77. 아무도 모른다 (Nobody Knows)

78. 화랑 (Hwarang)

79. 도도솔솔라라솔 (Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol)

80. 힘쎈 여자 도봉순 (Strong Woman Do Bong Soon)

81. 바람피면 죽는다 (Cheat On Me If You Can)

82. W

83. 비밀의 숲 (Stranger)

84. 산후조리원 (Birthcare Centre)

85. 디어 마이 프렌즈

86. 여신강림

87. 지붕 뚫고 하이킥

88. 스위트 홈

89. 나빌레라

90. 보이스

91. 악의 꽃

92. 달의 연인 - 보보경심 려

93. 크리미널마인드

94. 구가의 서

95. 김과장

96. 하이바이 마마!

97. 슬기로운 감빵생활

98. 쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비

99. 커피프린스 1호점

100. 당신이 잠든 사이에

101. 나의 아저씨

102. 영혼수선공

103. 오징어 게임

104. 더 케이투

105. 호텔 델루나

106. 철인왕후

107. 18 어게인

108. 푸른바다의 전설

109. 최고의 한방

110. 시카고 타자기

111. 운명처럼 널 사랑해

112. 미스터 션샤인

113. 붉은 달 푸른 해

114. 각시탈

115. 타인은 지옥이다

116. 주군의 태양

117. 마우스

118. 본대로 말하라

119. 구해줘

120. 괴물

121. 무브투헤븐

122. 하늘에서 내리는 일억 개의 별

123. 미생

124. 쇼핑왕 루이

125. 빈센조

126. 역도요정 김복주

127. 종이의 집: 공동경제구역

128. 나의 해방일지

129. 치즈인더트랩

130. 멜로가 ���질

131. 디피

132. 악의 마음을 읽는 자들

133. Doom at your Service

134. 오월의 청춘

135. 라이브

136. 지금부터 쇼타임

137. 살인자의 쇼핑목록

138. 눈이 부시게

139. 이상한 변호사 우영우

140. 소년심판

141. 수리남

142. 보이스 2

143. 보이스 3

144. 사내맞선

145. 빅마우스

146. 신의퀴즈

147. 파칭코

148. 아는 와이프

149. 펜트하우스

150. 블랙독

151. 우월한 하루

152. 지금 우리 학교는

153. 가우스전자

154. 월수금화목토

155. 천원짜리 변호사

156. 백일의 낭군님

157. 내일 지구가 망해버렸으면 좋겠어

158. 더 글로리

159. 진검승부

160. 얼어죽을 연애따위

161. 술꾼도시여자들

162. 커넥트

163. 일타 스캔들

164. 나쁜 엄마

165. 패밀리

166. 스물다섯 스물하나

167. 옷소매 붉은 끝동

168. 마스크걸

169. 라켓소년단

170. 마당이 있는 집

171. 이 구역의 미친X

172. 반짝이는 워터멜론

173. 설강화

174. 스타트업

175. 경성크리처

176. 최악의 악

177. 이제 곧 죽습니다

178. 마이데몬

179. LNTS

180. 라이프 온 마스

181. 내 남편과 결혼해줘

182. 검색어를 입력하세요 : WWW

183. 보라! 데보라

184. 아무것도 하고싶지않아

185. 눈물의 여왕

186. 정신병동에도 아침이 와요

187. 닥터슬럼프

188. 선재 업고 튀어

189. 더 8 쇼

190. 남이 될수 있을까

191. 7일의 왕비

192. 연애 말고 결혼

193. 슈룹

194. 연인

195. 크래시

196. 비밀은 없어

197. 아무도 없는 숲 속에서

[wot-tidbits]

TIDBITS AND FUN № 343

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ROBERT JORDAN c\o Tor Books 175 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y., 10010 March 1, 1994

Miss Carolyn Fusinato Editor, The Chronicles 1203 Timber Valley Dr. Flower Mound TX 75028 Dear Carolyn:

Thanks for your letter of February 6.

I've had requests for info about starting clubs from three or four people, and have given them the address of The Chronicles. In addition, there was/is a club in Columbia S.C., but I've lost their address. In Scotland I was given a seventy-page printout of "facts deduced" about the books by a Jordan discussion group on Internet, which I am told has broken away from the main SF/Fantasy group. A fan wrote giving me the "address " of this group, but I would have to go through all the filed letters to find it; as I am not on any of the nets, I did not make a note of it. Otherwise, it's hearsay, that the clubs exist on the nets. If I find any addresses, I will send them on to you.

Does evil need to be effective to be evil? And how do you define effectiveness? Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge managed to murder about 25-30% of Cambodia's population, destroy the country's agricultural and industrial base, fairly well wipe out the educated class inside the country (defined as anyone with an education beyond the ability to read; a good many of those went too, of course), and in general became so rabid that only China was willing to maintain any sort of contact with them, and that at arm's length. Their rabidity was the prime reason that they ended up losing the country. (though they are still around and still causing trouble.) In other words, they were extremely ineffective in attaining their goal, which was to seize Cambodia, remake it in the way Pol Pot wished (and still wishes), and export their brand of revolution abroad. Looking at the death toll, the cities emptied out (hospital patients were told they had one hour to leave or die; post-op patients, those still in the operating room, everybody), the murders of entire families down to infants because one member of the family was suspected of "counter-revolutionary" crimes, the mass executions (one method was for hundreds of people to be bound hand and foot, then bulldozed into graves alive; the bulldozers drove back and forth over these mass graves until attempts to dig out stopped) -- given all of that, can you say that Khmer Roughe's ineffectiveness made them less evil? Irrationality is more fearful than rationality (if we can use that

To Carolyn Fusinato, page 2

term in this regard) because if you have brown hair and know that the serial killer out there is only killing blondes, you are safe, but if he is one of those following no easily discernible pattern, if every murder seems truly random, then it could be you who will be next. But "rationality" can have its terrors. What if that killer is only after brunettes named Carolyn? Stalin had the very rational goal (according to Communist dogma) of forcibly collectivizing all farmland in the Soviet Union. He was effective -- all the land was collectivized -- and to do it he murdered some thirty million small farmers who did not want to go along.

But are the Forsaken ineffective or irrational? Are they any more divided than any other group plotting got take over a country, a world, IBM? True, they plot to secure power for themselves. But I give you Stalin v. Trotsky and the entire history of the Soviet Union. I give you Thomas Jefferson v. Alexander Hamilton v. John Adams, and we will ignore such thins as Jefferson's hounding of Aaron Burr (he tore up the Constitution to do it; double jeopardy, habeas corpus, the whole nine yards), or Horatio Gates' attempted military coup against Washington, with the support of a fair amount of the Continental Congress. We can also ignore Secretary of War Stanton's attempts to undermine Lincoln throughout the Civil War, the New England states' attempt to make a separate peace with England during the Revolution and their continued trading with the enemy (the British again) during the War of 1812, and… The list could go on forever, frankly, and take in every country. Human nature is to seize personal advantage, and when the situation is the one the Forsaken face (namely that one of them will be given the rule of the entire earth while the others are forever subordinate), they are going to maneuver and backstab like crazy. You yourself say "If ever there was the possibility that some alien force was going to invade this planet, half the countries would refuse to admit the problem, the other half would be fighting each other to figure out who will lead the countries into battle, etc." Even events like Rahvin or Sammael or Be'lal seizing a nation have a basis. What better way to hand over large chunks of land and people to the Dark One than to be ruler of those elands and people? The thing is that they are human. But aside from that, are you sure that you know what they are up to? All of them? Are you sure you know what the Dark One's own plans are? Now let's see about Ran and his dangers and his allies. Have you been skimming, my dear? What makes you think the Tairens, Cairhienin and Andorans are solidly behind him? They're plotting and scheming as hard as the Forsaken. Rand is the Dragon Reborn, but this is my country, and we don't need anybody, and so on. And then there are those who don't think he is the DR at all, just a puppet of Tar Valon. Most of the Aiel may be behind him, but the Shaido are still around, and the bleackness is still taking its toll, since not all Aiel can face up to what Rand has told them about themselves. What makes you think the Seanchan will fall in behind rand? Have you seen any Seanchan volunteers showing up? Carolyn, half

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of these people are denying there is a problem, and half are trying to be big honcho themselves. Read again, Carolyn. The world Rand lives in is getting more frenzied and turbulent. Damned few are saying, "Lead, because you know best." A good many who are following are saying "Lead, because I'd rather follow you than have you call down lightning and burn me to a crisp!"

As for lack of challenge, I refer you again to the question about whether you really think you know what all the Forsaken are planning. Or what Padan Fain is up to. There is a flaw inherent in fiction, one that is overcome by suspension of disbelief. We do always know, somewhere in the back of our heads, that the hero is going to make it through as far as he needs to. After all, if Frodo buys the farm, the story is over, kids. The excitement comes in trying to figure out how he can possibly wiggle out, how he can possibly triumph.

In Rand's case, let's see what he still has stacked against him. The Cairhienin and Tairens are for the most part reluctant allies, and in many cases not even that. At the end of FIRES, he has Caemlyn, but I don't see any Andoran nobles crowding around to hail him. Illian still belongs to Sammael. Pedron Niall is working to convince people Rand is a false Dragon, and the Prophet is alienating ten people for every one he convinces. Tarabon and Arad Doman are unholy messes; even if Rand manages to get in touch with all of the Dragonsworn -- who are not organized beyond individual bands -- he has two humongous civil wars to deal with. True, he can use the Aiel to suppress those, but he has to avoid men killing men too much; there are Trollocs waiting to spill out of the Blight eventually. We must always remember the Trollocs, Myrddraal etc; the last time they came out in force, it took over 300 years to beat them back, and the Last Battle doesn't give Rand anywhere near that. Altara and Murandy are so divided in any case that simply getting the king or queen on his side isn't going to work; remember that most people in those two countries give loyalty to a city or a local lord and only toss in their country as an afterthought. Davram Bashere thinks Tenobia will bring Saldaea to Rand, and that is possible since the Borderlands would be one place where everyone is aware of the Last Battle and the Prophecies, but even Bashere isn't willing to make any promises, not even for Saldaea much less the other Borderlands, and I haven't seen any Borderland rulers showing up to hand Rand the keys to the kingdom. Padan Fain is out there, able to feel Rand, and hating him because of what was done to him, Fain, to make him able to find Rand. The surviving Forsaken are out there and except for Sammael, nobody knows what they are up to or where they can be found. For that matter, who knows everything that Sammael is up to? Elaida, in the White Tower, thinks Rand has to be tightly controlled. The Salidar Aes Sedai are not simply ready to fall in and kiss his boots, either. Aes Sedai have been manipulating the world for more than three thousand years, guiding it, making sure it remembers the Dark One and Tarmon Gai'don as real threats, doing their best, as they see it, to prepare the world for the Dark One breaking free. Are they likely to

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simply step aside and hand over control to a farmboy, even if he is the Dragon Reborn? Even after Moiraine decided he had to be given his head, Siuan was reluctant, and Siuan was in Moiraine's little conspiracy from the beginning. And the Seanchan…The last we saw of their forces, they were commanded by a Darkfriend. As for the Sea Folk, do you know what their prophecy says about the Coramoor? Do you think working with them it will be any simpler than dealing with the Aiel, say?

Now, what and who does Rand have solidly in his camp? Perrin knows what is needed, but he's hardly happy about it. What he really wants is to settle down with Faile and be a blacksmith; everything else is a reluctant duty. Mat blew the Horn of Valere, but it's hidden in the Tower, and frankly, if he could figure some way to go away and spend the rest of his life carousing and chasing women, he would. He'll do what he has to do, but Light he doesn't want to. The Aiel are for Rand (less the Shaido, still a formidable force), but the Dragon Reborn and the Last Battle are no part of the Prophecy of Rhuidean. That is all wetlander stuff. Besides which, they are still suffering losses from bleakness, people throwing down their spears and leaving, people defecting to the Shaido or drifting back to the Waste because what Rand told them of their origins can't possibly be true and if it isn't then he can't be the car'a'carn. Rand has declared an amnesty for men who can channel and is trying to gather them in; they, at least, should give their loyalty to him. But how many can he find? How much can he teach them in the time he has? How many will go mad before the Last Battle? There is still the taint on saidin, remember. For that matter, can Rand hang onto his own sanity? What effect will having a madman inside his head have? Can he stop Lews Therin from taking him over?

I know that was supposed to be a listing of what Rand has in his favor, but the fact is that he is walking the razor's edge, barely hanging onto his sanity and growing more paranoid all the time, barely hanging onto putative allies, most of whom would just as soon see him go away in the hope that then everything would be the way it was before he showed up, confronted by enemies on every side. In short he has challenges enough for ten men. I've had people writ to say they can't see how Rand is going to untangle all of this and get humanity ready to face the Last Battle. What I say is, what you believe to be true is not always true. What you think is going to happen is not always going to happen. That has been demonstrated time and again in THE WHEEL OF TIME. You could call those two statements one of the themes of the books.

Hey, don't publish the picture Gerard gave you. Our house has no wrought-iron gates. Also, no renovation has been done here since the fix-up after Hurricane Hugo several years ago. I kid you not. Poor Gerard go the wrong house. I'm glad you don't intend to publish any address, whether or not it is mine. There are

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fans who write letters, and then there are fans who show up at the front door unannounced. I hate to be rude to people, but with the time I spend writing, I barely have time for a social life with my friends, and frankly, someone who has managed to track you down is going to think you have cheated them if you scribble your name in their book and say, "Now go away. I'm busy." Believe me.

Well, again, thanks for the letter, Carolyn. Do keep me abreast of what's happening with The Chronicles. I really would like to see copies, if it is possible for you to send them to me care of Tor Books.

With best wishes, I remain,

Sincerely, Robert Jordan

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Adam Watson, the Scottish biologist, ecologist and mountaineer was born on April 14th 1930 in Turriff, Aberdeenshire.

From an early age, Watson showed considerable academic prowess. He was Dux of Turriff Primary School and of Turriff Senior Secondary School in Latin, English, Higher Latin, English, French, Science, lower History and Mathematics.

His education continued at the University of Aberdeen in the 1950s, gaining a first class honours in zoology and also the department of natural history's MacGillivray Prize. He gained his PhD in 1956 for his thesis on the Annual Cycle of Rock Ptarmigan, and a second doctorate in 1967 for scientific papers on populations and behaviour of northern animals.

The scientist studied and wrote extensively about plants and animal life in the Cairngorms. RSPB Scotland described Dr Watson, who research included studies of various upland birds, as "arguably the most knowledgeable Scottish naturalist and ornithologist of the last century".

Dr Watson was a well-known figure in Scotland's climbing and hillwalking community. He climbed extensively in the Cairngorms and in Scotland's other mountain ranges. He also climbed and skied abroad, including in Norway, Lapland, Canada and Alaska.

A John Muir Trust Lifetime Achievement Award was among other honours given to Dr Watson. The man dubbed Mr Cairngorms also received the Fort William Mountain Festival's Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture.

Watson’s research centred on grouse, his magnum opus on the subject, co-written with Robert Moss called Grouse, was a runaway bestseller.

A dam, a natural communicator in speech or the written word also appeared extensively on TV and radio in Scotland, his first broadcast was back in 1948 – Dr Watson’s enthusiasm for the sciences was never less than infectious, and he described his work in simple terms without resorting either to jargon or dumbing down. What made him loved by editors was his ability to read standard situations from a different viewpoint.

Watson’s literary output from the age of 14 runs to an astonishing 475 items including 22 books, hundreds of scientific papers and reviews and 175 unpublished technical reports.

In 1971 he was called to represent the Crown as expert witness at the fatal accident enquiry following the Cairngorm disaster in which six schoolchildren died. His quiet evidence drew not only on law, but on science backed by practical experience of the very worst of mountain weather. He surprised the Forestry Commission when he successfully opposed a particular development not merely on the expected ecological argument, but by astute demolition of the business case.

Doctor Adam Watson died after a short illness on January 23rd 2019, aged 88.

There's a great article taken from his journal that you can read at the link here https://www.ibsc.org.uk/thirty-miles-on-ski-adam-watson-april-1951/#

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Achilles Castle part 77

Lemonade and lies PART 20

Liv: pov I wake up and jump in the shower, my peach body wash and shampoo smells amazing. Brian is already up and making breakfast, which is so sweet. Noah is now up and dressed, we eat breakfast and head out the door, Brian is off to work and I drop Noah off at school on the way to work. He packed his overnight bag last night since he is spending the nights at Fin’s the McCanns are out of town this week. It's the reason he is staying with Fin tonight. Once in my office I text Amanda and ask her how the girls are doing. It's so sad that they are going to miss Taylor swift tonight because they are sick.

Kate: pov I wake up and realize Castle isn't in the bed, no wonder it's 9 am he must be already up. I head towards his office to see if he is in there. Which he is, I lean over and kiss him on the lips. Castle wants to know what I want for breakfast, he says he needs a break from writing anyway. Well I'm going to take a shower after I take my meds I grab a water bottle and take my pills. I grab a gray t-shirt and black leggings before heading into the bathroom. I turn on the water, undress and hop in the shower. The water feels good, I rub my strawberry scented shampoo in my hair and put my strawberry body wash on my body. Once I'm done I dry off and get dressed while I'm in the bathroom I brush my teeth.

Castle: pov I got up early and started writing I didn't want to wake Kate up. She needs her sleep. Once Kate is out of the shower she starts on breakfast which is pancakes. Using my crutches I made it to the bar and sat down. Kate is stirring her special pancake mix while I make the regular one. Mother had an early acting class and Alexis is at school. Her and Page are going to Taylor Swift tonight. I bought her tickets a while ago. Kate almost burned the first few pancakes. I heard her talking on the phone earlier after her shower trying to convince someone, most likely her Dr, to let her go to work today. He agreed on a few hours and that is all.

Kate: pov the food was amazing, I head to the bedroom to get some work done Castle is in his office getting some writing done. I'm doing mostly paperwork trying to help the boys out so far I found nothing.

Jenny: pov me and my mother are out shopping for the baby, since it's a boy we need to buy a few things for him. She is also talking me to the spa and nail salon after lunch. I hope today is going to be great. I’m at that stage in pregnancy where I'm constantly uncomfortable.

Esposito: pov I might have just found a huge piece of evidence: an accident report from a car accident Blair was in, her passenger a male around her age named Shane, died in the accident. This might be the motive for murder.

Ryan: pov i 100 percent agree it could be the motive, we are on the phone with Kate who says to look more into see if this has anything to do with our case because it might just be a coincidence.

Esposito: pov Kate says she may have found something Blair had been visiting a certain part of woods lately and her finances shows she bought a shovel, a storage container and a few other odd things recently.

Ryan: pov Kate says Blair might have been hiding something in the woods. She mentions she is going to question the original detectives who investigated the car accident Blair was in. Me and Esposito are going for a walk in the woods to see if we can find anything. Kate would have gone looking in the woods but she is still not 100 percent in my opinion and is only cleared to work a few hours at home. Castle is in his office writing a few pages since Gina is mad at him.

Esposito: pov I park in a parking spot and me and Ryan head into the woods. I'm glad we are both wearing sneakers. There are a lot of people walking today. Once in the woods we start looking around for disturbed dirt. Let's hope we find what we're looking for. Good thing me and Ryan brought shovels, this is going to take a while trying to find some disturbed dirt in the woods this is going to be very hard.

Alexis: pov my professor at school told my class that we are having a fundraiser day coming up. We each get to pick a charity and have a table/booth to raise money for. We have until tomorrow to decide on the charity, if we want to pair up or share a table/booth that is also fine. I think I know what charity I want, Dave says so many people are injured or die from gun violence it's insane and schools have to be evacuated constantly for it since shootings are on the rise. He asks if Kate would be willing to appear because she is a cop, you sure it's not because Kate survived a bullet Dave. He mentions that too. Me and Dave decided to head over to the loft on our lunch break and ask my Dad and Kate.

Castle: pov Alexis and Dave appear in my office saying they want to talk. They just found out their school is having a charity day where the students fundraise for charity. Dave wants to pick a charity that ends gun violence and Alexis wants to pick a heart charity. How sweet is that but I doubt you came in here to tell me that, so what do you want or need, a few signed books.

Alexis: pov well that would be nice but that's not it, dad we were wondering if Kate would be willing to appear. You know, since she was shot and has a heart condition. He says Kate isn't home right now. She went to interview someone the boys caught a murder and she is helping them with it from home. We will have to wait till Kate gets home to talk to her. To be continued. ………..

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We have never had a lower supply of water in cancer causing plastic bottles available at the Barn. If you wish to be included in Timmy's pending Class Action suit, please bring a case at your earliest convenience.

Two (2) cases of water arrived this morning, but most of it was gone or in the ice chest by the end of the workouts. We still need some....

Saturday morning at 0730 and at 0930. The weather forecast is for perfection. It was 59 degrees when I arrived at the Barn this morning at 0645.

The much loved, much missed, Admiral Armando returned from Bogota (that's in Colombia, South America Alicia) just in time to lead our warmup.

Warmup

Tabata's

4 Rounds

Flutter Kicks

V-Ups

Plank Shoulder Taps

Cat-Cow's

Strength

Power Cleans: 2 Reps EMOM for 12 Minutes

Touch & Go

Begin Light and quickly progress to 70-80% 1 Rep Max

Last 3 Sets same weight.

Larry/Armando=175 Nathan=155 Dana=145 LSU=95 Linda/Coach/Kayla*/Sue=85 Tom=75

There was a lot of suspicious laying about: Lew=Rehab (excused), Warren A.=PJ (no excuse), Rodney (bloody knee on Stairway to Heaven this AM, excused), Timmy=(early football game), S.C.=no excuse, Paul="mobility" No excuse, Alicia & Angel no post due to gossiping, Shannon=Excused on account of Armando.

WOD

21 / 18 / 15 / 12 / 9 / 6 / 3

Dumb Bell Alternating Snatch's (Games 75 / 50 / 35 / 20)

Toe's 2 Bars

Back Raises

Calories Any ERG

Kayla=17:11 Dana=18:57 LSU=19:44 Nathan=20:37 Sue=20:41 Timmy=21:02 Linda=21:12 Larry=21:14 Tom=22:05 Armando=23:20 SC=23:45 Coach=26:20 Paul=26:25 Warren A=PJ Lew=Rehab ("Dr says I'm 80%) Rodney=Hurt Knee, did stuff. Alicia/Angel/Shannon=did stuff

Cool-Down

Run/Jog/Walk 800m with something Heavy.

( Dumb Bell / Med-Ball / Bumper Plate / Wreck Bag )

A few did this. Notables were LSU and Armando.

Notes:

After much coaching and encouragement, Miss Kayla ripped a new PR Power Clean off the floor. She got to ring the bell to adoring applause. She had to leave early...(hence no iced coffee today)...because Wall-Greens pharmacy called saying her prescription of little blue pills was ready for pickup (??)

Kayla's sponsored friend S.C. returned after a very long absence. We love S.C., but I hope that any further sponsoring efforts are met with a more dependable attendance. The future looks bleak.

Many regulars are out of town. It's a good weekend to bring a friend if you have one.

Sunday at 0730 and at 1 PM. Bring a case of bottled water.

[joannaceja]

Essay 2

Joanna Ceja 

Dr. McCoy 

MCJ 175 

May 19, 2022 

Stereotypes: Black Buck and Asexual Asian 

In today’s society, a vast majority of people use stereotypes, a widely held but fixed generalization of a particular type of person or thing. There are many kinds of stereotypes for race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, age etc. The categorization of such groups makes it easier for society to predict norms in our day to day lives. It is often used to quickly identify and generalize people we see every day, having acquired these views from multiple institutions. It is prominently vivid in institutions like schools, churches, childhood upbring, and social media. The homogenization of these characteristics deprive individuality within a person, operating with certain notions and mental schemas that have been consistently shaping our view over time. Stereotyping has long history with creating barriers that prevent a nuanced way of thinking, the cultural fixations that were meant to be placed on a certain group considered to be “universally valid”.  

Stereotyping, as previously stated, is consistently used to marginalize a specific group of people as means to justify certain preconceived notions. In the 19th century, the stereotyping of Blacks and women were used to “[bolster] the sense of superiority [, validating] an existing social order or cultural hierarchy” made specifically for the white man (Pickering 7).  Race, gender, and sexuality are generally the types of stereotypes that are most accentuated when it comes to categorizing someone; paired along with the consideration of when and where to apply this stereotype at a particular setting. This is especially true when accessing the history of racism and sexism in the last centuries and how it is currently playing a huge role in deciding the way American society and hierarchy is functioning now.  

For this essay, I will be talking about two predominately old-age racial stereotypes: Black Buck, or more nuanced “Black Rapist”, and the Asexual Asian male. The Black Rapist was used to categorized black men as primitive savages that had “the urge to rape white women” to enlist “the great white fear that every black man longs for a white woman” (Morse 68). The Asexual Asian man stereotype desexualizes Asian male and deems them undesirable even to Asian women; despite being the “model minority”, they are more than often compared to eunuchs, castrated males. Black buck is a sex-crazed, dangerous male while the asexual Asian is desexualized and undesired; Asian male actors were rarely considered sex icons (McCoy Lecture 11, 2). I considered these terms to suit well in comparing and contrasting minorities who were and still are being categorized by modernized, age-old stereotypes. The intersection in racial, sexual, and gender is “conditioned by sociological, biological, and anthropological sciences by the dominance of liberal ideology” (Morse 69).  

The Black Buck (Rapist) stereotype, a “violent, black sexual predator” that is “sexual, dangerous, and impulsive” came to fruition and was introduced in Birth of a Nation, a film that narrated an American Society ran by black men; they played on fears of the white audiences to serialize the idea that American society is in danger if black men came to power (McCoy Lecture 9, slide 20). This reinforcement of the white American world view provided rationale for the enslavement of blacks, not to mention segregation and other inequalities in education, employment, and housing (McCoy Lecture 9, Slide 5). The rationale behind the creation of the Black Buck (Rapist) is what I assumed to be another way to legitimize the lynching of the Black man; in congruence with establishing another means to keep up the racial status quo. Forged from racial, gendered, and sexualized social structures, black stereotypes paved way into discourse every time a white supremacist racial order is threatened (Morse 74). As outdated as it is, the concept of Black Buck, a black man who yearns for white women, is still prevalent in today’s time.  

However, the primordial reasoning behind the use of Black Buck isn’t held true in modern society in terms of being used to justify lynching. It is, however, used for a certain quota in a dominate part of media: the Porn Industry. Interracial porn intertwines sexism and racism, a controversial yet popular viewership in the industry.  The fetishization of interracial porn and the racist nature of the overall subgenre is concerning, especially with the previous mentioned Black Buck term; it is almost like we have modernized the term in ways that “suits” our current society. More often than not, porn companies are very selective on the number of times their white actresses are allowed, if any at all, to star with black porn actors and often are paid more in commission fee because of it; it does not help the fact that black actors/actresses can rarely find roles/gigs that are not racially targeted, such as aggressive behavior and/or dominance over white women/black actresses being overpowered by white men.  

The Asexual Asian Male stereotype has been historically depicted as being smaller in stature and having more “feminine/delicate” nature as opposed to Western men, as well as being less desirable and unable to have romantic/sexual relations (McCoy Lecture 11, Slide 12). This stereotype was mainly expressed in secondary Asian actor roles, either for comic relief or a side kick (The Take 1:01-1:20).  Hollywood has history in underrepresenting all Asian people as multifaceted. Popular tropes were often falling into “yellowface”, white men dressed as Asian men, to which mocks Asians with broken English and their inability to assimilate into American culture (The Take 1:40-1:59). Another ideology they fall behind in the model minority: competitive but lacking creativity, goal-oriented but lacking in charm/humor, hardworking but lacking in sex appeal; they were never established a romantic interest (Johnson 32). The desexualization of Asian men is still present to this day, often times reverting back to old tropes even with actual Asian actors playing their respective role.  

There has been effort to represent Asians in media accordingly in media, but the realistic view here is that it has become such a paradox movement that it has become normal for Asian men to degrade themselves due to the stereotypes held on them. An example being the ideal “Asian” type that western woman seem to prefer, such as K-pop idols; this makes it especially hard when the “competitive market” in dating for within their race seems to be against said idol standards as well. Social media tends to favor baby-faced Asian men/women, pretty boys and girls, etc. The favorability of Asian women and the fetishizations made outside of their race increases “competition”. Pairing this much and the asexual Asian male stereotype, the modern Asian male is generally more likely to feel emasculated and pressured; this concedes with the trope that Asian men being seen as “feminine”, being “undesired” by women because of the multitude of categories they consistently go against.  

There are certain times where my faith in humanity being able to progress far beyond the scope of race, gender, and sexuality is slowly recuperating and progressing. But when things like lifting the abortion law and the recent terrorism that is constantly plaguing easily accessible media, it gets harder and harder to envision such an idealized society. From the amount of research, I have gathered about stereotypes within the minority groups, and the sheer amount of influence certain industries and platforms carry, I do not feel hopeful that we will ever reach a place as a society where we are no longer bound by them. So many cases based on stereotypes alone, along with the volume of how media plays a role in educating, there’s only so much one can do in becoming a progressive society. Maybe over the course of a millennium, but I feel as though it is beyond our nature to really consider unifying one singular ideology together as humans. There will always be something to fix with the “more progressive” we strive to be. Educating the younger generation could suffice, but the gradual breakage away from these stereotypes is a long procedural process that requires systemic change.  

​​Works Cited​ 

 McCoy, Kelly. Lecture 9 & 11. Fresno State: Canvas & IT 288, 2022. Web. 

Morse, Jason H. Promiscuous Contextualities: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Problem of the Stereotype in the Politics of Representation. University of Washington: Department of English, 2013. Web. 

Johnson, Laura Renee. Asian and Asian American Representations in American Film, Washington University: Western CEDAR, 2004. Web.  

The Take, “The Asexual Asian Man”. YouTube, uploaded by The Take, 12 Aug. 2021, https://youtu.be/2k82hlqd1Os  

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[kinsey3furry300]

So how the heck do the Avengers pay for stuff, and how rich are they?

So, in the wake of “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” There’s a lot of debate about why Sam didn’t seem to get paid well for his work in the Avengers (at least in the MCU continuity), and this has got me thinking: we’ve got no evidence that the Avengers are, financially, anything but a hot mess. So lets break it down, Avenger by Avenger, using real-world pay scales for the ones who have jobs.

Tony: a billionaire, so clearly he’s a financial genius, right? Well….. his actions say otherwise. He’s shown to be wildly irresponsible with his money. He inherited a lot of wealth form his parents which was managed by the first Jarvis, Obadiah, and Pepper for him, he buys and then gives away not just woks of art, but entire collections by major 20th century artists on a whim, destroyed his own cars and home without concern, he tanks the value of his own company in the first Iron Man with a bad press interview, gets kicked of his own bord of directors, and ultimately, in Iron Man 2, gives control of his company to Pepper. He’s insanely rich, and insanely smart, but man, he’s not smart with his money. So all the cool stuff, his suits, the Avengers tower, the facility up-state: that’s all paid for by him, but Pepper is holding the purse-stings.  So, does he pay the others? We have no evidence for most of them… but we do with Spidey. Peter Parker is in the Stark Internship Program a euphemism to hide the fact he’s training and mentoring him as a super-hero, but I find the wording interesting: he refers to Spidey, his surrogate son and chosen heir, as an intern. I.E., Unpaid.  I’m guessing this is Howard’s influence over him, some sort of ‘make you own way in the world, son’ attitude, but  if he’s not paying Spidey, is he paying anyone else? He certainly pays for stuff super heroes suits and things, equipment, fuel, the base, but does he pay anyone a wage? No one ever mentions it. You think it would come up.

So, if he’s not paying them a wage, where do Avengers  (and thier allies) get their day-to-day money from, and are they rich? Using google and https://www.federalpay.org, lets find out.

Cap: Well, before Civil war, he’s a shield operative, and he presumably still holds his military rank: he’s a US Army captain, with (well) over 40 years service, so USD$88,142.40 per year, with $237.71  drill pay (pay per drill you have to do on weekends, on leave or outside of normal service) and $175.00 per month hazard pay (which I bet is interesting) on top of that. As a WW2 veteran, he’d be eligible for a war pension if he:

Was not discharged for dishonorable reasons; and,

Served 90 days of active military duty; and,

Served at least one day during wartime ("wartime" as determined by the VA); and,

Had  countable family income below a certain yearly limit; and,

Is  age 65 years or older; or

Regardless of age is permanently disabled, not due to wilful misconduct.

As he’s still receiving 90k per year, he’s ineligible for a pension as his countable yearly income is above the limit.  So if shield pays him in accordance with his rank and years of service, about $90, 600 per year incuding hazard pay.

After civil war, he’s a fugitive on the run, so presumably flat broke. I’d asume he gets his pension returened to him after the snap.

He’s also just gone from the 40’s to the present day, so 70 years of inflation probably makes buying things very confusing for him: everything would seem insanely expensive at first. He’d also not know what the correct prices are for anything invented after 45. You might get used to how much more expensive food and coffee is, but how much is a smart-phone worth? $200? $2000 $20000? Who knows? I bet the others have to facepalm a lot when he either refuses to pay for what he sees as clear price-gouging, and at the same time regularly pays insane amounts of money for goods and services because he doesn’t know better. He also has no known assets other than his pay: he rents an apartment making him one of the few American males in his age-group who isn’t a home-owner

Thor: Does Asgard even have currency? It’s depicted like a “Crystal spires and toga” type utopia with no poverty: even working class Asgardian’s like Scourge seem to be pretty well-off and want for nothing, so he’s from a post-scarcity society where actual magic is a thing. His “Another” coffee cup smashing and the fact he doesn’t have a computer of phone in Ragnarök might indicate that, no, he just doesn’t have, need or understand money. Splitting a bar tab with him must be a nightmare. His breakdown post snap indicates he’s got some cash, but not a huge amount, and is probably skiving of Valkyrie and the other Asgardians.

Banner: Okay, so a PhD could make you a lot of money from patents… in pharmacology or engineering. Theoretical physics? Not so good. And if Banner did have any patents, they’ve probably been seized under eminent domain by the US military.  At the start of The Hulk film, he’s working a entry-level factory job at a botteling plant in Brazil. The minimum wage in Brazil is 1069.62 Real per month, that’s 12,835.44 Real per year, or around $2437.79 US per year, before everything goes wrong for him! He then runs off to India, works for Tony for a bit and then gets shot into space. Spidey may actually make more in allowance than Banner does, and Banner is a gown ass man with bills to pay: I’d imagine he loses a lot in ripped clothing.

Natasha and Barton: Pre Civil-war, both are government spooks, so how well does that pay? The salaries of CIA Intelligence Analysts based in the US range from $25,838 to $685,701 , with a median salary of $125,340, so let’s assume that Shield pays in a similar range: $685,701 per year for Director Fury, around 125,000 for Natasha and Cliff, which explains Cliff’s nice, middle-class mid-western home. Post civil war, presumably not great: we know that Natasha spends a lot of her savings running and hiding all across the world, and Cliff takes a deal and presumably lives of his savings, pension and his wife’s income.

Rhodes: Full USAF colonel with over 10 years service? $105,562.80 per year, plus $293.23 drill pay per drill and $175 per month hazard pay, and because he’s team Stark and not Team Cap in Civil War, he’d not lose any of that. He presumably also gets an injury pay-out after his accident. After T’challa and Stark, he might be the best paid avenger.

Dr Strange: spends all his money he made as a surgeon on trying to cure his hands: spends literally his last dollars heading to Nepal to train. Wong even jokes with him about their lack of worldly money when asking for a tuna-melt. But, can use illusion to make people think he has money, and his home and clothes etc. come with the job, so in the same boat as Thor in that he has no money, but needs none AKA, he’s a bastard to try and split a restaurant bill with.

Wanda and Vision: No know source of income, just sort of live in Tony’s hose and eat his food, and on top of that Wanda goes on the run after civil war… yet they can stay in fancy hotels in Edinburgh, a relatively expensive city, and Vison apparently bought them a house to retire in, so one of them has some source of money. Maybe Tony gave Vision years of back-pay form when he was still Jarvis, or maybe the vison has a day job, which is, frankly, hilarious. Could you imagine him as a barista? I can, and it makes me very happy.

Scott Lang: I’d assumed he’d be super, super broke, but apparently the average pay for a private security consultant in the Bay area is $85,430 per year. Not bad. Pity he gets sucked into the quantum realm just as his business is taking off, so presumably, flat broke again.

Bucky: no known income, and I doubt Hydra paid him for being the Winter Soldier so he probably has no savings, but he should, technically, qualify for a military pension. As a single veteran, he’d be  eligible for federal tax-free pension of up to $1732 per month, or $20,784 tax free per year. Not much for someone who lives in NYC. He may also be eligible for medical benefits over the loss of his arm. Whether or not he got to see any of that money given how confused his life has been over the past 10 years is unclear, but on paper he’s eligible.

T’challa: He is, quite possibly, richer than Stark, and as an absolute monarch pays no tax and has access to his Nation’s vast wealth in vibanium. It’s good to be the king!

Captain Marvel: USAF captain, and a test pilot; the test pilot school only accepts applicants with a service length of less than 9 years 6 months (10 years six moths of helicopters) as they don’t want older applicants. With 8 years service, $79,538.40, plus drill pay and hazard.  However, no know (human) pay since 1990. Flat broke.

Guardians of the Galaxy: no data, but I’m assuming “Cowboy Bebop” levels of perpetual never-ending poverty given the way they choose to live. I’d also assume Rocket has taken all their cash into some sort of Ponzi scheme of his own creation, because just look at him, of course he has.

Spidey: he’s got about $10 of his aunts’ money at any given time, so he can buy lunch… which may in fact be more than Banner or Lang, and we know it’s more that Strange or Thor.

 So, here the big one: how rich or how broke is Sam?

Sam Wilson: annoyingly, we’re not directly told what rank Sam held in any MCU film. USAF pararescue “Maroon berets” are generally NCO’s (but there’ are officer-ranked pararescue) , and he’s seen working on his wings at one point, where as officers don’t generally work on or maintain airframes. He’s shown wearing a Nation Air guard grey while jogging at one point to confuse the matter further. The general consensus on redit is he’s a former USAF tech sergeant (E-6). But how long was he in the air force? With six years service (the minimum sensible time he could have served to work in pararescue based on his age), that would be $41,464.80 per year, plus drill pay and hazard. As Anthony Mackie, the actor that plays him, was 36 as of Civil War, and assuming the character is the same age, and assuming he retired from the air force that year, and he joined the USAF at 17, the youngest you can join, he’d have served 19 years, giving him a pay of $51,566.40, the maximum pay you can get at this rank before promotion to Master Sergent,  but meaning he left just before he’d qualify for the 50% final salary pension you’d qualify for after 20 years. Which seems weird. So let’s assume the character is one year older than the actor that plays him and served 20 years (ages 17-37), that means Sam has a military pension of $25,783.20 per year (20,784 of it tax-free), plus any injury benefits. He councils other veterans, but doesn’t get paid for that. He also chooses Team Cap in Civil War, so would become a wanted criminal, and so lose his income between 2016 and 2018, and then gets snapped and has no income for 5 years, which would destroy his credit rating. Like the rest of Team Cap, he presumably gets his post snap pardon, and goes to work for the US government at his former pay and rank. However, given how Captain John Walker treats him as an equal, it’s possible he’s been promoted to a captain when the  hired back, giving him a pay of between $54,176.40 to $88,142.40 (with 20 years experience, depending on if they take into account his prior service or not, and how much prior service he has), but either way, he’s just starting this as a new job after being legally dead for 5 years: no savings, and no credit.

Commercial fishing vessels cost about 10% of their total value per year in maintenance alone. I can’t identify what sort of boat the Wilson’s have, but some quick googling indicates that the cheapest  15m long wooden in-shore shrimp trawler costs around $140,000, so that’s $14,000 per year in maintenance costs alone, minimum. And that’s a lower estimate, assuming the rest of the business is sound, which we know it isn’t.

So, in concussion, yes, Sam is in some serious financial trouble until he can re-build his savings and credit, but the scary bit is he’s not alone in that: he’s probably better off than Lang, Banner, Danvers, Strange, Thor, Bucky, Wanda and Parker. Only Clint (if he gets a full pardon and gets his full pension), Rhodes, Stark and T’challa aren’t in some sort of potential financial problems. That asshole bank teller was right: despite the fact it seems to pay well on paper, with a few exceptions, the Avengers financials are probibaly a mess. EDIT: Rocket is running the Ponzi scheme, if that’s not clear from context. The others know they have money somewhere, but not where it’s gone. And It’s been pointed out to me that as he’s technically a POW while he’s the Winter Soldier, Bucky is owed over 70 years back-pay, equal to over 3 million dollars, details in the notes.

[rhyselinn]

Gather round folks, it’s time to talk about Shovel Knight characters’ canon heights!

First things first, let’s talk about our friend Reize Seatlan.

His creator, Seizui, has been building canon around this character for years, and this link tells us that Reize’s canon height is 160 cm (5'3").

Let’s take a look at this boy’s sprite: (complete with blue Photoshop rulers in case you want to see where I measured from)

*caveat: Reize’s hair is extremely fluffy. It runs in the family, so I counted his height as being shorter than the height of his hair. It makes sense and it makes the math easier

Counting the pixels in Reize’s sprite, we can see that he is 32 pixels tall. So when we divide 160 cm by 32 pixels, we discover that each pixel in the Shovel Knight universe is 5 centimeters in real life.

So, what does this mean for the rest of the Shovel Knight cast?

Great question: I’ve got the rest of the math (with screenshot proof) under the cut:

Alright, in no particular order, let’s talk about Plague Knight next.

--Worth noting that I’m using playable/Showdown sprites as opposed to boss sprites when possible. This helps keep characters proportional to each other

--Plague Knight is 31 pixels tall = 155 cm tall = 5 foot 1. Tiny plague knight, but as we’ll see later, not the tiniest member of the cast

Tiniest member of the cast, you say? Could you mean... Tinker Knight?

--Tinker Knight slouches in almost all of his sprites, so I tried to find a sprite of him NOT slouching. That extra pixel makes a difference for this tiny character lol

--27 pixels tall = 135 cm tall = 4 foot 5. tiny tinker. But still not the tiniest member of the cast, believe it or not!

Shovel Knight:

--fairly straightforward. i did wonder if his victory pose was any taller than his regular pose, but it's not

24 pixels tall = 120 cm = 3 foot 11. tiny. tiny shovel. the average 9 year old child is between 120-145 centimeters. So not only is Shovel the size of a 9 year old, but he might actually be the shortest in the class...

Black Knight:

--there are interesting things i could say about the bird feather situation but eh. imma go with eh. bird feathers do not count as height, final answer --other than that, pretty easy here

24 pixels tall = 120 cm = 3 foot 11. same size as shovel, aka also the size of a 9 year old. adorable

Propeller Knight:

--slouches REALLY BAD. ALL THE TIME. --his least slouch-y sprite is his tuxedo sprite from the end of Plague of Shadows, so I used that initially... only to realize that he's the exact same height in his other sprites as well. How about that! Maybe he has some kind of a battery pack for his propeller hat in the back of his shirt. It would explain his terrible posture.

--39 pixels tall = 195 cm tall = 6 foot 4. Tall, but not unreasonable.

Mole Knight:

--has some fascinating squash and stretch in his sprite sheet --fabulous from an animation standpoint. difficult from a math standpoint --i refuse to count his fire-hair as height lol

Squash sprite: 32 pixels tall = 160 cm = 5 foot 2 Normal: 36 pixels tall = 180 cm = 5 foot 10 Stretch sprite: 46 pixels tall = 230 cm = 7 foot 6 (!!!)

I have no explanation for this other than artistic liberties lol

Specter Knight:

--i'm so glad player sprites exist lol. Specter's boss fight sprites are just piles of cloth with him slouching underneath. I will gleefully ignore them for this exercise --that said, even with player sprites, specter knight is HUNCHED OVER ALMOST ALL THE TIME. AUGH. --fortunately, cold shoulder sprites exist, and a few other action-y type poses. they’re pretty consistent with each other (within a pixel or so) --how much of Specter's hood is fluffy cloth vs actual height? good question. I compared to one of Donovan's sprites to give us a good estimate, give or take 1 pixel or so

37 pixels tall = 185 cm = 6 foot 0. Pretty average here.

Treasure Knight:

--also slouches in a lot of his sprites, but at least has a few non-slouchy sprites for us to examine. I chose the taller of the two for consistency (difference of 50 vs 51 pixels)

Treasure Height: 51 pixels = 255 cm = 8 foot 4 (!!!?!) This man is huge!

King Knight:

--his normal standing sprite met my requirements, so I used that --I included his boss sprite without the crown for comparison, because a crown does not actually make one taller lol (sorry not sorry, king) --this also shows the importance of using player sprites vs boss sprites. the difference between the two is pretty obvious here

32 pixels tall = 160 cm = 5 foot 2. tiny. tiny king

Polar Knight:

--hunched over. like, all the time. --there aren't really any sprites of him not hunched over, but the least hunched over is him doing his shovel up attack, so I'll use that, and his normal sprite for comparison

Normal sprite: 47 pixels tall = 235 cm = 7 foot 8 (!!!) Tall sprite: 58 pixels tall = 290 cm = 9 foot 6 (!!!?!?!?!) tl;dr polar knight is a beast of a man and we all knew that already hahaha. the tallest man on record in medical history was 8 ft 11. This is absolutely bonkers

Shield Knight:

--while she does have hunched over sprites, i simply avoided them lol. --how tall is her head inside her helmet? great question! the world may never know. Since our only reference for this is concept art (which does little more than tells us her head is shaped like a human’s and not, say, a squid’s), I kinda winged the exact pixel count. --also worth noting is that she grows a few inches when she sticks her leg out lol

Normal sprite: 35 pixels = 175 cm = 5 foot 8 (tall but normal height for an adult woman) Tall sprite: 40 pixels = 200 cm = 6 foot 6 (!!!!) (hOLY MAMA beautiful big buff lady)

And just for fun, I added a few other important characters from the main stories:

Mona:

--we know she is a tall lady, but exactly how tall? --all of her sprites seem pretty consistent in height, which makes my job easy!

48 pixels tall = 240 cm = 7 foot 10. (???????!!!?) She is the size of Shovel Knight and Black Knight stacked on top of each other. Amazing. I have nothing but awe and admiration for this incredibly tall lady

Luan:

--He has a bunch of funky tumbling/hunched over sprites and very fluffy hair. like father, like son. I did my best to pick the most reasonable sprites of the bunch --after that, I decided two pixels of hair is enough. voluminous hair is impressive but is not height --similar to Shield Knight, he grows a few inches when he sticks his leg out lol

Normal Sprite: 39 pixels = 195 cm = 6 foot 4 Tall Sprite: 43 pixels = 215 cm = 7 foot 0 (!!) All the better for reaching those hard-to-reach platforms in the Tower of Fate, I guess?

King Knight’s Mom:

--last but not least, the best character in king of cards (you know it's true lol) --she also has somewhat fluffy hair. i'm not counting her bun as height.

41 pixels = 205 cm = 6 foot 8 (!!!). It's not Mona tall, but it's still very tall. Tallness may run in the family, but King Knight seeems to have missed out on all of those genes hahaha.

Special thanks to https://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/shovelknight/ for having all the sprites in one easy place! Thanks for reading!

*disclaimer: I am only human and if I flubbed the math or measurements on any of this, I hope you’ll forgive me. I promise I didn’t mean to slight whichever character was affected